skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smart! That plus striking comment: "You can see the number of, and names of, the people who view/screenshot your Story."

That ocasional and random reward that make something addictive (like what keep you checking your email all the time, at last receiving that one useful/interesting email in the middle of several useless one). Contrasting to predictable Facebook likes that are measured solely by quantity.

I end with the impression that is a more genuine connection than the commoditized "FB like" and more personal than the "Retweet" and "FB share" that are performed by people you don't even know.
The problem I have with Snapchat is that there are many deliberate, counterintuitive UI/UX decisions which make the app hard to use.

This causes a lot of bad post-hoc rationalization from many startups that "Snapchat is a multibillion dollar startup, and they have these bad UX features, therefore if we have these X features we will be successful too!"

And thus the startup ecosystem as a whole gets dragged down.
Yet the post largely focuses on the money he's made?
Online complete version of Debian Administrator's Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/
Do companies in other areas typically report such accounts to the credit agencies?

Generally the companies themselves do not report to credit agencies. However, once the account is turned over to a collections company then that company will nearly always report the delinquency to the credit agencies. So from the consumer point of view, the statement "If I don't pay my bill, it will show up on my credit report" is true, but there is a middleman in the process.
True, and yet... it might be worth existencebox's while to be sure that he and his fiancee communicate. Make sure it's not going to become a landmine that blows up your marriage.

It doesn't mean don't marry her. It means make sure it's something you can both live with before you marry her.
What decisions specifically are you talking about?
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* High risks of data corruption - HDF is not a simple flat file. Its a complex file format with a lot of in memory structures. A crash may result in corruption but there is no high risk of corruption. More over, if your app crashed, what good is the data? How can you make sense of the partial file? if you just need a flat file which can be parsed and data recovered, then you didnt need HDF in the first place. So wrong motivation to pick HDF. On the other hand, one could do a new file for every checkpoint / iteration / step, which is what most people do. If app crashed, you just use the last checkpoint.

Bugs and crashes in the HDF5 library and in the wrappers - sure, every sw has bugs. But in over 15 years of using HDF, I have not seen a bug that stopped me from doing what I want. And the HDF team is very responsive in fixing / suggesting work arounds.

Poor performance in some situations - yes & no. A well built library with a well designed application should approach posix performance. But HDF is not a simple file format, so expect some overhead.

Limited support for parallel access - Parallel HDF is one of the most, if not the top most, popular library for parallel IO. Parallel HDF also uses MPI. If your app is not MPI, you cant use Parallel HDF. If the "parallel access" refers to threading, HDF has a thread safe feature that you need to enable when building the code. If "parallel access" refers to access from multiple processes, then HDF is not the right file format to use. you could do it for read-only purposes but not write. again, not the right motivation to pick HDF

Impossibility to explore datasets with standard Unix/Windows tools - again, HDF is not a flat file, so how can one expect standard tools to read it? its like saying I would like to use standard tools to explore a custom binary file format I came up with. wrong expectations.

Hard dependence on a single implementation of the library - afaik there is only one implementation of the spec. the author seems to know this before deciding on HDF. Why is this an issue if its already known?

High complexity of the specification and the implementation -

Opacity of the development and slow reactivity of the development team - slow reactivity to what? HDF source is available so one can go fix / modify whatever they want.

seems the author picked HDF with wrong assumptions.

HDF serves a huge community that has specific requirements, one of which is preserving precision, portability, parallel access, being able to read/write datasets, query the existing file for information of the data in the file, multi dimensional datasets, large amount of data to fit in a single file, etc.

https://www.hdfgroup.org/why_hdf/
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Yes. Or, very simply put, you need more long-term optimists than long-term pessimists. China is wealthy in many ways, but a wealth of optimism is not prevailing.
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A possible declining trend in worldwide innovation [pdf]
I had a similar revelation a while back with Snapchat. Users complain that you can't create groups to send to, you have to manually select each person. I like this - it means when you receive a snapchat, you know that person intentionally selected you to share a part of their life with. It adds a subtle but meaningful quality to a message that could be considered spammy and impersonal.
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The best evidence suggests that presenting information multiple times, multiple different ways benefits everyone because it creates a richer set of connections to those ideas and concepts.

It's not the case that one person learns through sights, another sounds, and yet another through movement (roll eyes)-- instead it's the case that doing things multiple ways and multiple times is better for memory.
Brain can be trained to regulate negative emotions
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I can pay off my mortgage in 5 years. After that, it's on! :)
The problem -- and I've been burned on both sides of this -- is that you need either a container file, or you need users to understand that a directory is essentially a file. Not only does this complicate users lives when they want to move what they, quite reasonably, view as a single file between different computers or back it up, but they can and will remove individual pieces. Or copy it around and have some of the pieces not show up and be very confused that copy/move operations -- particularly to/from a NAS -- are now nothing like atomic.

Another thing that will happen is this: if you just use a directory full of files as a single logical file, you will end up writing code that does the equivalent of 'rm -rf ${somedir}' because when users choose to overwrite "files" (really, a directory), you need to clear out any previous data so experiment runs don't get mixed. You can easily see where this can go bad; you will have to take extraordinary care.
I'm conflicted on Axolotl. For every layer of security you add, you increase the odds of someone doing something careless (this[1] is way more common than you'd think).

Key-leak healing is an interesting function out-of-the-box, but if your priv key gets uploaded accidentally, odds are so did your DH Identity/Ratchet/Chain keys as well, effectively rendering you "fully compromised". It only offers protection in an instance where you keep your keys compartmentalized.

Is there a general consensus within the crypto community as to whether a) this is conceptually sound, and b) if there's an audited implementation? It's so so easy to mess up and have that error be overlooked (i.e. the OpenSSL debacle), which makes me want to just stick with the tried and true GPG DH/ELG setup with PKI and revocation. Definitely a real interesting project to watch and a real interesting take on perfect-forward secrecy though! Thanks for your feedback. If you see this, read my other post in this thread and e-mail me, I'd love your feedback.

[1]http://rdist.root.org/2008/02/05/tlsssl-predictable-iv-flaw/
You can still use binary formats without HDF5, just write the memory buffer of floats to disk directly skipping text format. Any save/load system that uses printf/scanf will be brutually slow (at least 10x slower than just writing/reading the memory buffers), as well as space inefficient.
> You can't use standard Unix/Windows tools like awk, wc, grep, Windows Explorer, text editors, and so on, because the structure of HDF5 files is hidden in a binary blob that only the standard libhdf5 understands.

HDF provides command-line tools like h5dump and h5diff, so you can dump HDF5 file to text and pipe it into standard and non-standard unix tools [1].

[1] https://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5_tools/index.html#h5di...
I think parent means ~3 million restaurants in China, not 3 million yum yum in the world.
> You might say that you've never had the above problems, and that's fine. You've been incredibly lucky.

Not only that, I never heard of such problems and pretty much everyone I know under 50 uses paypal.
That said, it's good to have you horizont broadened :)

But I don't have money on my paypal account anyway, whatever they need they just take directly from my checking account, when an order falls through, I deposit the money back to my account immediately.
Perhaps it has to do with someone's dominant behavior style? Someone who is naturally gregarious probably doesn't enjoy sitting still for an hour during a lecture, just like someone who is naturally analytical might not enjoy a lot of group work. If each person's brain learns the same way, but the effort required to cope with the format of delivery is different, it could lead to differences in the amount learned.
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Absolutely. I took a mindfulness class and the biggest takeaway for me was to take time between the event and the response whenever you feel an immediate emotional reaction.
Jaron Lanier on VR
Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness
Maybe someone replies. Maybe they don't. It's a low effort way of saying "Hey, I find this thing is worth 10 seconds of your time." My friend sent me a snap of her niece throwing a temper tantrum. It was funny. I chuckled. It disappeared. We got lunch weeks later, and I asked if her niece ever calmed down. She laughed, we moved on. She got to share a funny moment in her life with me (and presumably other people) because she thought I might be interested.

If she posted on facebook? You'd have people asking what was wrong, giving advice on how to calm a child, commenting about child abuse, and writing essays about the ethics of posting children to social media. Whatever.
Memory being faster-than-cpu does not mean faster-than-gpu or faster-than-asic.
As a former waiter who spent over a decade in the industry, working everything from casual to high dining, this comment irks me at a personal level. These examples are not directed at you but an explanation of how a waiter sees the situation.

1. Some Point of Sale systems have a limit on how to split a check. I physically cannot split a check more then 6 ways and the customer is asking or 7 ways, then what am I suppose to do? Be "nice" and promise the impossible? So now I pissed off a customer who's about to tip me because I cannot reprogram the POS.

2. The more likely scenario is when a table of 7, who just had pre-fix brunch is asking me to split a $70 check 7 ways which takes my time away from my couple who just dropped $70 by themselves.

What customers in restaurants don't understand is that tipping might be optional but my time is money. As a customer is tipping on service, I'm also providing service comparable to the tip I receive.

Waiters are really good at "guessing" how much a customer will tip and will act on that belief.

Disclaimer:
I worked with a ton of awful waiters who were straight up rude to good guests. No guest should ever be treated poorly.

Ive also served some awful customers:

Some of them tipped very, very well because they wanted to be awful. I loved those assholes and always welcomed them with open arms - money's green regardless.

Some were just awful and I tried to steer clear of them.

Now as an olive branch; all guests should be treated with outmost respect and all people in the service industry should be as well
If I wanted to take it super literally, I'd ask why Pink people aren't considered "People of Color." ;)
Often, when people are referring to racism, they're referring specifically to Institutional racism. As a general rule (because everything is naturally full of gray areas) it's considered to be impossible for whites to experience institutional racism in countries where we're the majority. So while a PoC could certainly be bigoted against whites, it wouldn't be accurate to say that they're inflicting institutional racism on them.
That's very cool! Will definitely have to have a play with this.
How so? Logical and irrational people just aren't that likely to get along that well, especially when it comes to things like finances. They might get along well just hanging around together perhaps, but marriage involves a lot of hard, real-world things besides just liking each other and liking to eat at the same restaurants together or whatever. My advice: have some really serious discussions about finances, spending, budgeting, how much you like to run the heat and A/C in your house, how much you like to save/invest, etc. with your prospective spouse long before getting engaged.
I totally understand avoiding companies like that, I just think discounting almost every state because of the possibility of a non-compete is way too extreme. I'm early in my career, but I've never had to deal with a non-compete even though they're legal, and I don't think the behavior you're describing is very common, especially for non-entry-level positions.
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I have no idea, but it's definitely your perogative to make sure it doesn't (even though many of us will not).

Also even if that stuff wasn't explicitly written into the agreement, as long as it wasn't excluded, that's kind of what you pay good lawyers for. I highly doubt a reasonable judge is going to rule on the side of the fraudsters without such a clause -- pretty sure it falls under the purview of "good faith".
I think the DJ Khaled's use of Snapchat in particular is genius. The popularity of his Story feed really struck me when I was talking to a couple high-school aged relatives earlier this week.

Me: "So do you have any New Years resolutions?"

Kid 1: "They don't want you to have resolutions."

Me: ??

Kid 2: "Resolutions are the key to success!"

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After that exchange, I think there are going to be a lot of musicians/actors/politicians making heavy use of Snapchat Stories in 2016.
I wish Snapchat wasn't actively hostile to the WP market. They have outright refused to make an app and when the third party app 6snap appeared (which was quite good), they fought and had it removed. Rudy Huyun, the developer, even offered Snapchat the source code for free. Evan Spiegel even went so far as to mock the platform.

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-you-cant-get-snapchat-wind...
You are just in the second month, this is totally normal. Till the 4rth month I couldn't understand when my colleagues asked me things and felt pretty stupid. Tree months and a few projects later the dust settles and the pieces bond together. Just stay hungry to learn. Nobody expects you to do anything that fast especially as an entry level, so take advantage of this time to learn as much as possible.
Monitor others and teach yourself on being clear when asking questions or directions. Master this art, trust me, helps like hell. Also try to understand even the basic office politics, where your responsibilities start and end.
It's an exciting world and getting started from a big firm is considered a "blessing". Try to think of it as "being paid to learn". Won't get much chances for that, believe me.
I think this is at least semi valid advice, at least its semi worthwhile anecdote.
Probably. But my hypothesis is funnier.
A common pattern (that my scientific software used) was this: an initial file is created from the raw data pulled from the sequencer. After sequencing, you could run all sorts of analyses. Sometimes the analyses themselves, and sometimes intermediate results, where very slow to compute and hence cached in the file.

I think it's reasonable to be very upset if you have a container file and adding new named chunks to the file has the possibility of causing the old data to become unreadable. It's fair in a crash before the file was saved that new chunks might be bad, but old chunks should be fine.
I can't be racist because my girlfriend is white. :P
Canada too. But Brazil's landing is/will be dramatically worse than Aus/Canada.
>> "If you want to resort to talking about contract law, then there's obviously no case at all, there's a contract on Stubhub and it's explicit that the buyer has no further recourse. End of discussion."

That's not the case. Buyers release and limit various remedies as against Stubhub in the user agreement but not against the seller. From the terms of service:

"Commitment to Supply.

By listing a ticket for sale, you are making a binding offer to sell that ticket to a Buyer who purchases the ticket for the price you have specified. When a Buyer accepts your offer by purchasing your ticket through our Site or Services, you are contractually bound to deliver that exact ticket for the specified price and within the required delivery timeframe. You are obligated to monitor your inventory and ensure all listings are accurate. Under no circumstances may Sellers cancel orders at one price and repost the same tickets for a higher price. Failure to fulfill your orders will lead to charges as stated in the Seller Policies.

...

Buying Tickets.

You are responsible for reading the complete listing before making a commitment to buy tickets. When placing an order, you are entering into a binding contract with the Seller to purchase those tickets. Payment is remitted to StubHub and disbursed to the seller according to our payment policy. All Sales are Final. Except for cancelled events, you will not receive a refund for completed purchases. You cannot change or cancel any orders after the sale is complete."

The Seller policy specifies a breaching seller's liability to Stubhub but it doesn't limit in any way a breaching seller's liability to the buyer.
In this case someone got a legitimate subdomain A record in DNS... your solution would not add much to the situation.
1. Some POS don't allow to split a check more then X ways

2. If a waiter spends 10 min at the POS splitting a check, other tables are being ignored and management might not like that.

Interestingly enough, a server works for three parties: guest, restaurant, and themselves.

Sucks but true. Gotta choose lesser of three evil sometimes.
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> ... put all their money into ETFs: you'd have no price discovery ...

I disagree. ETFs just track an index. If you buy the ETF, someone else is buying the index (individual components of that ETF) for you...
My understanding is there are epic regulatory and bureaucratic blocks involved in setting up international payment services - ironic given PP's reputation, but so it goes.
Stock market movements are heavily influenced by macroeconomic trends like inflation, GDP, unemployment etc., and the government is the organization tasked with collecting and disseminating that data. When you don't trust the numbers coming out of the central bank, you can't have much trust that the stock market is reflecting the true value of the securities.

With regards to the Indian governments' fudging of macroeconomic stats, this article may be helpful: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-14/india-now-...
Well, it can't simulate all effects from photography. Anything to do with diffraction can't be simulated by a ray, for that you need waves.
This basically has to do with how our brains work. We weigh negatives things in our mind much more than positive. Thats why even a good friendship built over many years with many positives can be ruined by a small mistake. Its core to survival to look out for negatives over positives, because it can avoid major trouble. Sympathy and compassion are things we need to work on to overcome our brains natural push.
If you're going to fake it, just buy a SoundRacer accessory.[1]

Lotus put in a sound generator as original equipment on their electric prototype supercar.[2] Not only did it make fake "vroom" sounds, the driver had to shift, with a momentary loss of power during shifting. There's no shiftable transmission on that car; it was all faked in software. Everyone laughed at Lotus, and that idea went away, not to be heard again.

The age of "vroom" is over, now that no production gas car other than a few limited production supercars can out-accelerate Tesla's family sedan.

Now this is a startup sound.[3] M1A2 Abrams tank, turbine engine.

[1] http://www.soundracer.se/?p=98
[2] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1081736_fake-shifting-fo...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXE4tMEYCoI
In my opinion, Sparkyfish has the better UI. I wasn't aware of iPerf when I wrote this but I can see that iPerf has more comprehensive testing. Perhaps a good future direction is to ditch the Sparkyfish protocol and use the iPerf protocol with my UI client. That could be neat.
I think the fact that they call it "basic" rather than "none" makes it abundantly clear that some basic data is still being collected, and you're not completely opting out. Surely there's a limit on how stupid a user can be before you're allowed to stop designing for them.
With cash I can buy happiness, if I get a Facebook Like, Twitter follow, snapchat view, I feel happy, therefore Social media validation is like cash.
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You don't need to find a trustworthy seller, just a trustworthy moderator. Like buying something on Amazon. You don't trust the seller, you trust Amazon.

This is similar to any real world transaction. I can buy directly from someone if I trust them, but if not we both need to agree to use the same third party to facilitate the transaction.
To clarify my point, my intent wasn't to assign value to thinking emotionally, but to suggest that being candid and open about differences such that they exist is an important step to working productively despite, or even because of them.

That being said though, you bring up an addendum I would counter that although you're right to say there is potential danger to emotional thinking, there's potential danger to purely logical thinking as well; to bring this back to my original statement in which avoiding confronting these differences in an "easy to work with" fashion reduces the chances of moving even a little towards a middle ground to 0.
As someone who works for a start-up and tries to hire in MA, our biggest issue for innovation is a lack of people. Hiring is extremely hard here due to lack of applicants. The cost of living in the area is relatively high (only about 20% less than SF) and the winter weather is too cold for most people. Thankfully, Boston isn't as opposed to building as SF, so lots of new apartments are coming on the market every year. Hopefully that will drive down rents, or at least justify the high rents with nicer apartments. I'm not sure what to tell people about the weather, though.
The problem with binary storage is endianess. If you want portable format, you either have to use text, specify endianess in the format specification or store endianess in the file. For highest speed you need to convert data to your endianess before first use, update information about endianess inside the file and then work with memory-mapped file.
I've been in rooms where someone's asked me "What year did you graduate Penn?" not because they were mistaken and thought I went there, but because the environment we were in was sufficiently high-class it didn't occur to them I might not have gone to an Ivy League school. It can get insane sometimes.