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Or, greater negative influence on humanity, if he gets there by exploitation.
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If this is really the case, then Medium will be illegal in Italy.
You have to be very very wary of how and what you write on your own, personal blog, here.
Thanks Silvio.
Going on a slight tangent off of jude-'s question, will there be any social or economic incentive for making one's bridge persistent, or capable of holding more data? Or will this rely on volunteer participation, like tor/freenet/etc?
I'm pretty excited about the parentheses-free chaining.
I'm a pretty introspective person, I recognize that when the context changes, my behaviour changes. I want to be dispassionate and logical, but I am human.

I know many people arn't introspective, they don't think their behaviour changes at all. How many people have you met that have honestly told you: "Well placebo's don't really effect me." "Commercials don't have an effect on me." "I don't see race when I'm interviewing someone." "I treated that person as I would anyone else."

I hear it often, I also hear about study after study debunking such beliefs.

I believe you are right, most of HN would definitely take #5. I'm convinced most of HN would be mistaken. I can't help be racist, I can't help be sexist, I can't help be misguided and mislead. What I can do is recognize that I am effected by such proclivities, and compensate for them.

That is truly the best I can do. I am jealous of the person who can justifiably say they are #5.
If it was just one server, that would be insignificant, but that could add 50% to your server costs (if you have a bunch of $10k servers, and you have to add a $5k support contract to each), that can end up being a significant increase in expense.
This is an actual recruiting message that I received today from one of the contractors that screwed up healthcare.gov.

My reply was, I am sure your organization is fully buzzword compliant. I have no interest in being part of it. Doubly so since that would mean moving to Maryland.

My favorite part is how they only want severity 1 issues dealt with...
It's a distribution / curation thing, like writing an Op-Ed for a magazine instead of publishing it on your blog. Either way you get the word out, but by ceding control to the magazine you gain access to a wider audience, unless you are in the 1% of bloggers who are a destination themselves (like daringfireball.com). Even Krugman "blogs" via the NYT instead of on his own domain.

Both ways are valuable, of course. Just providing the counter argument.
Most people care about getting readers, get there message out. This is mediums power.

Running your own blog and getting readers tend to be harder.
Why would the Oculus VR prevent face to face communication? If anything, it could enhance it. I believe it has serious potential.
There's quite a bit of difference between annonymous ramblings in some corner of the internet and long form journalism that took you serious amount of time and money to put together.
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I learned the "round .5s to the nearest even" in my first year of undergrad engineering. Don't remember seeing it in high-school.
open source != open platform.
Two Top level bankers ‘commit suicide’ on the same day
Funny enough, s/svbtle/medium and this is still true
> Y Combinator as a brand is likely hurt by HN comments anyways

Comments are the price some websites pay to encourage higher levels of engagement, and the high level of engagement here on HackerNews makes it a more valuable resource to its readers (more submissions, more voting, and sometimes informed comments from the community) and thus it has a halo effect on YCombinator. Thus the comments in the grand scheme of things are surely a net positive.

Reddit and YouTube are built in part on comment driven engagement even if a large majority of the comments are poor.
I think mediums UI is nice, but as far as i can tell, you cant include code snippets so its almost useless for blogging about programming - until the change that, I am going to continue to use jekyll.
Medium drive me nuts. Though its a good writing software, I can't follow people that I find interesting. Instead we are following vague "collections" from a group of random people I don't care about. Can someone show me how to better browse thru it? All I really want is a feed of articles from people I actually want to hear from and their recommended articles from others. Maybe that is too close to Twitter for EV.
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EDIT: Wrong sub-thread. moved above.
Also, did you really just index your citations by zero?

Doesn't everybody?
> Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control?

I've been using Svbtle for a while now, and for me, the killer is this, in order: On my own domain, looks great, and hosted by someone else.

I care that I'm not putting content I care about into a closed platform. I'd never post to Medium.

I'm a backend kind of developer, so knowing how to design something myself is awkward. I could pay someone to do it, but I'd still have to implement it.

While I am a backend developer, the last thing I want to do is deal with ANOTHER project to yak shave and suck up more of my time. Hosting it myself is a no-go.
Sorry, but this is such a vapid statement.

Yes, sometimes people ascribe things to culture which aren't due to culture, and sometimes the converse is true too.

It's one thing to say "No, actually you're ascribing something to culture which isn't part of Indian culture at all. This is just him being a tool" but you've made no effort to explain why you think his actions aren't in line with his cultural upbringing.

PS: As a child of immigrants, I constantly see how culture is the root cause of a lot of my parent's "bad"/unacceptable-in-America behavior.
These things aren't really working out terribly well for the manipulators. There's not as much panic selling as their sub-market dump needs in order to turn a profit. (All they're really doing is relinquishing their market position.) It's pretty disorganized as well.
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you could also look at a multipool, like www.megamultipool.com.

You can point your miner at their pool, and an algorithm decides which coin you mine at any given moment based on profitablity.

They have a pool for scrypt & SHA256 miners.
Faire enough.

I do conceed that even though bashing C is a pasttime of mine, I would use it if it is the best option for a given project, depending on the set of factors to be considered for the said project.

In real life projects, there should be no place for tooling religion anyway,
You can get rid of the irrelevant white-space changes by adding ?w=1 to the URL:

https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/957775e52dad75012db...
They do support code blocks: https://medium.com/help-center/128f049a7ad (just search the page for "Code block")
Skeuomorphic or non-skeuomorphic design doesn't make for a good design.
Would you care to share the names of some of these games? I think people would check them out.
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What about your browser's "signature"? I know this tool's veracity has been debated, but your web browser is still very "leaky" even in incognito mode.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
It's a waste of time.

If you're doing something illegal that will attract serious attention from competent police, you are dumb for using electronic communication to do it. Smart mobsters did their business face to face in the 1950's. Smart street-level drug dealers use proxies (kids, grandparents, etc) to conduct transactions.

If it's just an exercise in screwing around looking for theoretical security, nobody cares. Best case, you're wasting time better spent elsewhere. Worst case, you're going to get in trouble for laundering money via bitcoin.

If you're a leaker, etc. You'd have better security printing and mailing cash to people. Mail content is protected legally and requires a warrant to open. If you insist in using technology, print a GPG-encrypted letter in an easily OCRable font.
I posted a comment on my blog with more information.
Yes, along with that Ebert quote, I'll add this link:

http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/why-3d-doesnt-work-...

Also, has no one considered the fact that part of what makes movies "work" is that people watch them TOGETHER, IN GROUPS?

Seriously, people/wired. I think what Wired was really thinking when they said this is "I would like to watch a movie made for Occulus Rift," however, since their job is to create sensationalist headlines, they translate the original thought into, "Occulus Rift is the future."
My belief in humanity is restored now.
I'm starting to think people like saying stuff far more than listening. Maybe we should stop encouraging products/software that promotes that attitude?
There's also a nice writeup of some of the more user-visible changes available here: https://gist.github.com/aseemk/8637896
And time consuming...
Yeah, Medium is tantamount to the blogging equivalent of an online petition in 2014.

Lots of Open Letters. :)

I wouldn't mind if they disrupted away the opinion columns and letters to the editor in newspapers, though. Better to fit it all in one place to ignore.
This is what I am most excited to try - the visual immersion that is possible with the rift, combined with the interactive programming style you get when working with tools like LightTable/Clojure... they can't make it fast enough!
What would be the advantages of using this over static site generators?
Looking for summer interns at Turn
When it comes to cloud computing, the problem is scale. Scale of request traffic, scale of storage demands, scale of big data transformations. These three determine the architecture of your system and decide whether your application is compatible with traditional databases or requires a custom-designed, partitioned, self-balancing, failure tolerant distributed system design.

At Turn, although we are a small company, we are very familiar with the challenges of designing distributed systems for large traffic demands. Most websites, from social networks to global email providers, have to deal with the traffic generated by their own users, at their own pace, browsing from page to page. However, in the online ad business, doing real-time bidding for ad impressions, we are part of a much larger share of traffic. We see the majority of bid requests for online ads generated globally and we have to respond to them within milliseconds. At peak times, our request rate is measured in millions of events per second. We store and synchronize our collected information globally within a fraction of a second. We process it using machine learning techniques to increase the accuracy of our bid decisions.

Our runtime group, responsible for developing software for our real-time bid response systems, is looking for talented undergraduate and graduate students willing to join us for summer projects. You will be working on distributed data storage in high-throughput key-value stores and on global information replication with low-latency constraints. If Java, Paxos, consistent hashing, Dynamo, Kafka or Spanner are familiar terms to you and if you are a great problem solver, we would love to hear from you! I am looking forward to receiving your resumes at vlad.balan@turn.com.
Ask HN: Charge at launch, or wait a few months to learn about our users?
At the launch of our project in a couple of months, should we charge from the get go, probably limiting the size of the community, or launch totally free to learn about our users and how much they use the site?
Any plans for an Android version? Disappointed that I can't check this app out. (Or at least an Android sign up page so I'm not missed when I forget about it in the next 20 minutes.)
> GTFO is crass and doesn't belong in internet standards.

Agreed, although I got the impression the internet just stopped caring?
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And everybody's favorite new band: Chvrches (Seriously they are pretty great though, impossible not to smile for the whole album).
At first it's volunteer but we do realize that incentives are needed and we're working on different models. The long-term goal, which depends on WebRTC maturity, is to have no need for Bridges, because that code would be in the browser OS.
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I agree, but you'd be surprised. Trusting the wrong people to manage it for you is a great way to start. Getting a god complex and becoming involved in high cost ventures in business you don't understand is a great way to finish.
I'm surprised it took so long.
Some of my friends prefer FB message to SMS for some reason or another, and use it accordingly, so push is nice for that purpose.
I generally don't like seeing commented-out code in source control because you don't have any idea why it was commented out. Is it something that you added to debug while in the middle of a bug fix, and thus now useless? Is it a half-done refactoring that you ran out of time for or ended up not needing? Is it an attempt at a speedup or new feature that didn't work out? Did it have some tricky bug and get replaced by code that fixed it?

I can't think of any reason to do it that isn't a half-assed attempt at something a good source control system does much better. If you have lightweight branches, blame, and logs you can search and check by date, along with good changeset comments, then you already have everything your commented-out code can do, and all in the same place and system, instead of spread out into several different systems.
Because my brain doesn't necessarily work how your brain works. Saying they've figured out how the brain works is like saying they've figured out how fashion works or design works. Everyone does things differently, so their preferred method may not be the best for me.
In Danish 'w' is called double-v.
"Ideally, Williams envisions Medium much like a magazine creative director, inviting the types of items that may show up in a magazine, from features to top-ten lists to cartoons to even video."

Good. The internet needs more top 10 lists.
For values of "cool" meaning "undecipherable", sure.
So, performance will depend on where these bridges live, and how generously provisioned they are. Using the DHT for routing doesn't address this problem, though--requests for hot content will be routed to the same node, regardless of how well-positioned it is to serve requests. Also, what happens to the content when that node goes offline? I skimmed the R5N DHT whitepaper, and while it replicates keys, it's not clear that the bridges replicate chunks.

Do the authors have a plan to address data loss? Do they have a plan for caching/replicating data to alleviate hot spots? Will their replication strategies on read/write objects include a well-defined consistency model?
I did this for a long time. But the problems start right away when you want to add some navigation between pages. And then you want to have a chronological display of posts, or a master index, or tags. Then you want some consistent style, headers, menus. Then you figure you'd like comments. And search. And analytics. Then you realize you're half way to writing your own half assed blog engine and go check out Wordpress.
People are staring to really scrape the bottom of barrel of things to be upset about.
Should take a look at Ghost then, found it mentioned in another comment deep in the tree here: Open Source (MIT licensed), self hosted (or hosted for a small fee), non-profit setup and a core focus on blogging.
Link: https://ghost.org/
I'm having the same problem with Coinbase. And I'm not even under 21, like the author of the article. I'm 28 and have a credit history. But since my name is common enough, I get questions based on my own and others' histories. I even double checked my credit history to make sure there wasn't anything suspicious in there. Coinbase is simply pulling in other people's data.

I wonder if there's an identity theft vulnerability waiting to happen here. You're getting questions based on other people and you know one of the answers must be correct. I wonder if an automated system could use that to find the correct answers for a given name.
The main point I take away from your comment is that the fights against rape, murder and bank robberies are more mature than the fight against invasion of privacy.

A look back in time reveals that the deterrents against these violent crimes have been established gradually, through education, civil organizing and political lobbying. For example, contrast the perceived consequences of rape in the 1940s with those in 2014.

The United States has also made considerable strides toward the right to privacy. For example:

- Weeks vs. United States, establishing Americans' right against unreasonable search and seizure
- Lawrence vs. Virginia, which reinforced couples' rights to privacy concerning sexual conduct
- Griswold vs. Connecticut, which solidified the right to marital privacy.

I don't dispute that protecting personal privacy is hard. Nor do I dispute the fact that agencies such as the NSA have cast an ominous shadow on the United States' hard-won victories in the privacy arena.

But American history is full of victories concerning privacy, some of which seemed far-fetched in their times. The silver lining of the NSA scandal is that it made everyday Americans more aware of privacy issues. That awareness should be leveraged in a positive way, to demand accountability and build on deterrents against snooping.
I think (and the article also suggests) that it is especially hard to explain to people who come from a CS background. We often get too caught up in our own way of seeing the world that does not, for better or worse, correspond to how most people see it.
I'll try to make the parent's point a different way. This is about rounding. That's about the digits with the least significance. A good rounding scheme wants to see a uniform distribution there in the two least significant digits. Benford's law breaks down after four digits pretty much completely. That's the over-thinking it aspect.
You could launch it as "beta" to see what the initial users like/dislike. Ask what features they like or want or are willing to pay for. Improve your project based off user feedback. Charge when beta closes but provide some sort of timeboxed trial.
Dennis Ritchie: “So fsck was originally called something else”

Question: “What was it called?”

Dennis Ritchie: "Well, the second letter was different"
Early in the history of China, they didn't know they existed. It must have been confusing for them.
Nobody seems upset. This is about professionalism.
Thanks a lot for the comment! We are definitely considering and trying to create a unique position in the market.
Hi Ray - Best of luck with this pivot. Just wondering if you have any bandwidth nowadays to get in touch and help out a fellow startup guy (god I hate the word "entrepreneur"). I am setting out to build a mobile social network with some other partners. Would love to pick your brain on how to get things started. If you are still in the bay area I can buy you coffee =)
I have been using svtble for a few months now and when asked by a friend how it is different from Medium, I created an account on Medium to see for myself. I personally prefer svbtle's dashboard as I feel it's much smoother than Medium with the flow of: idea > draft > published. Svbtle is also less focused on images and commenting. These small details are preferable to me but to each his own.
I know you're being hyperbolic, but an economy where every transaction is public and searchable would be AMAZING.

You think a free market is efficient at allocating resources? what about a free market with perfect information for all players. It changes from poker to chess, deception is no longer a valid strategy.

I'm all for that.
The internet stopped caring when we stopped caring. We need to care.
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Give it a try following this story: http://hn.algolia.com/follow/7139223

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Forget Krav Maga, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Thanks a lot. We'll definitely fix it as soon as possible. I hope we will launch successfully enough to make you write another review like this!
http://www.darklogs.com which uses bitmessage may be a significantly safer anonymous blogging service.
Delaminated Dreamliner sounds like a maintenance person's worst nightmare. Wouldn't you have to replace the entire part? Where "part" is wing, rudder or fuselage.
Thanks for your contribution. We'll be in touch with you quite soon.
Why would a billionaire, proven operator and executor raise a round?
The difference between SIGKILL (is Android actually using SIGKILL?) and onPause() then SIGKILL is that the process still has time to save state (the most important part) and the code itself is not resumed until onResume() is called.

On standard UNIX there's no onPause() or anything similar, so the process cannot react to this in any way.
Charge before launch. Our first check was before the product was built. I don't think there is better validation that that. :)
time is money, regardless of how it's spent.
This is why I hated math until Calculus. I enjoyed my calculus class and Loved Linear algebra. The course work started to consist or more problems and less exercises.
Their current line is that, with increased WebRTC adoption, bridges will somehow become unnecessary? I'm not convinced, and agree with you that there may be some problems here that will lead to poor performance (which is critical).

According to someone (a developer?) further down this thread, they realize that incentives will be needed for things like this. It sounds sort of like the same problem that the bitcloud people are trying to solve, but to my knowledge nobody has any solid solutions.

Why pay more for a blind CDN when 99.9% of your customers use infrastructure that only require you to use unsecured ones? That shouldn't be a rhetorical question--this is an important issue that needs to be addressed if we want to make the Internet a better, freer, and more secure place to communicate. We'll see if these guys come forward with something that sounds like it can work, I guess.
I emailed Dustin about providing more emphasis on dates just yesterday and this was the response I got.

> We want to encourage people to write stuff that has lasting impact. I think dates can just add an extra piece of messy context for some articles. What kind of increased emphasis do you want to see?

The more I though about it, the more I realized my desire to see dates is because that is what I know. In retrospect, the best writings I've read didn't need date information to make them impactful and I admire Svbtle more for standing out this way.
Much better, it's also in line with the age old SSH error message: 'you don't exist. go away'
This is very cool. Can anyone point me in the general direction of how to implement this on my machine? I understand logging keystrokes in Vim, but I'm not sure how to use the source code given for the lexer, or that given for the Makefile.