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The engineering community is sleeping on Snapchat, but shouldn't be.

My life is AR. I'm the CEO for an AR company, I speak write and live and breathe all things AR.

Snapchat is poised to be the most important AR company around for several reasons. 1. They have a MASSIVE userbase that is comfortable with sharing their lives 2. That userbase has already shown an interest in AR - and yes whether you like it or not their filters are on the AR spectrum - the filters system maps, tracks (SLAM) and modifies in real time.

Their Spectacles release has the potential to build the largest real world image dataset on the planet - something needed (for reasons I won't go into) for AR everywhere. Think on the order of 1.8 Billion images per month with depth data from the stereo cameras (30FPS * 10 sec snap * estimated 20 snaps per day * estimate 100k spectacles users in first month).

Most people have no clue what is going on in the AR world, and I can tell you Snapchat is going to be formidable. If they can invest in a VRD, then they could win the whole AR market, but they need to raise more than 4BN to do that probably.
FYI: I thought this were about marijuana after reading the title not some herbicide stuff.
I've heard a lot of routers accidentally or negligently allow upnp on the WAN interface
Correct me if I'm wrong?
Wouldn't it have been easier to use the C# JSON parser, and then later walk the tree it creates and convert it into a more sane data structure that way?
I believe the comment I was replying to was saying one should not use Medium because it is an "over-engineered blogging platform." I was not arguing for creating or using theoretical swiss army knifes.
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The checks and recommendations aren't very sophisticated, though. E.G. the Low Utilization Amazon EC2 Instances check:

Checks the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances that were running at any time during the last 14 days and alerts you if the daily CPU utilization was 10% or less and network I/O was 5 MB or less on 4 or more days.
Mmmh, so I wonder why I know people with iMacs? This is precisely targeted at the cintiq + iMac market. The dGPU on this is roughly equivalent to the iMac.
Twitter is making many changes including adding a secondary provider - the work is ongoing but should be out soon.
So more ads?! That's what funding means, right?

Man, I just wanted to send dick pics...
Isnt there an associated penalty for consuming non-local resources first?
I had a Palm Treo - loved it but was happy the iPhone did everything my Treo did except (and I still miss this) the Palm feature of having a "home" area code - ie, when dialing, it tacked on my home area code on all 7-digit numbers (e.g. "415"). I even got bookworm game a year after I bought my iPhone.
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Open source is not free software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.....

Don't get me wrong, I think open source is great and far better than proprietary software, but we should use the correct terminology.
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Your understanding is the same as mine. I don't think that's necessarily malicious though. I also don't think it would have to be to 22/23 - do we know that SSH or Telnet were the attack vector? Thinking about general IOT devices, even if it were SSH this time it well be a web UI with RCE next time.
So wait, this seems awesome for a reason I can't quite put my finger on. Can anyone give an explanation as to how it's useful?
He didn't need to say it. It was obvious the hotel industry was going to react this way, due to there being less supply, and, presumably, approximately the same amount of demand for temporary lodging in NYC.
Higher hotel prices are not necessarily bad, especially for the local residents.

I had an Airbnb spawn across the mews behind my building they have a pretty large open balcony and there were parties literally every night during the summer here in London, they stopped only fairly recently when the season changed and I'm expecting the hell to resume when we get closer to the holiday season.

Across the street on the front of my building there is a pretty nice hotel (actually there are a few of them on the street and around it) and they are quiet because the hotel staff keeps the guests behaved.
After 10 PM you'll see the porter or the front desk telling guests to be quiet even if they are talking on their phone a tad too loud while having a smoke.

And as far as calling the cops goes, this doesn't work, noise complaints especially on the weekend are pretty low priority I'm hardly the only one bothered by it and it's pretty futile.

Before that there were about 3-4 weeks of an Airbnb in my actual building, it's a small mid 19th century building with only 6 flats and there were tons of complaints including loss of mail and packages so the trust that owns the building had a vote and banned short term rental.
I'm a professional photographer and even when I had a medium audience on Snapchat (1000-3000 views/snap), I switched to Instagram stories.
For content creators Snapchat is not good at all. The discoverability problem they have is a serious issue for me.
The numbers you posted suggest that they make a maximum of $5 billion off of glyphosate ("Agricultural productivity"). It doesn't show how much of that is actually glyphosate. You're free to assume it's 100%, but it may not be maximally wise to expect everyone else to make the same leap of logic.

I expect their ownership of the Climate Corporation, which is about climate and weather data, falls under "Agricultural productivity".
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Billions of humans have all of the hardware to become great artists and it's still extremely unusual.

Art comes from life. AIs won't experience life until they have bodies. Until then the best they can be is a psychotic imitation machine chained to a human-selected data point.

That can have quite a lot of value, when paired with humans who can select data points intelligently. But we still don't even have a whiff of an understanding of how to create autonomous intelligence.
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I suspect that this guy wants people to subscribe to his newsletter.
I agree: while I use the Chrome tools for resizing, this is a lovely interface you could use to impress a client.
SCTY acquisition is locked up.

EDIT: Elon just said on the investor call "Our current plan requires no capital raise whatsoever for the Model 3 production. Solar City will be neutral to cash contributor in Q4.
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I'm developing a pet project (essentially a wishlist) using Node and Express so I can learn how to develop full-stack web apps. I was thinking of using Mongo to store data for the backend, but I don't think it's the database I should use as a newbie to databases. What do you think?
Design standards can be great, especially as pushback against what you mentioned. But MD is a horrible standard for everyone to be following.
I'm pretty sure that they will write these off evetually. To me they feel very similar to Google glass insofar the customer bases being somewhat similar, maybe spectacles' being somewhat younger.
Rap Genius broke that line down a few years ago if anyone is curious.

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Facebook, for $3 bn; Google, for $4 bn. Both offers were declined.
Remember, it's PHP. Code will be running again on the next request. Only the process (or thread or whatever) handling the request with the invalid JSON crashes, and it only crashes after producing a persistent session; the next request, a different process/thread/whatever will run code, but the session from the previous request still exists.
>fivethirtyeight.com

Seriously, can we keep politics out of HN? Especially biased politics like fivethirtyeight?
As it stands now, you need to actively choose to play an ad, and that's how the impression is made. This is why Snapchat commands a higher CPM, because the user is actively in front of the screen.

However, I never look at the ads and instead stick to my friend's user generated content. Once ads are forced on users, they will jump ship.
Generally, I think this is true. If a manuscript goes to review before publishing, typically the reviewers are anonymous and the reviews are shared only with the authors of the submitted manuscript. This process is usually secret and does protect the ability to be candid in review. The final published manuscript stands on its own atop its data, cited sources, and arguments.

We could have a debate about whether this is a good way to do things, and surely it could be improved, but it has worked not too badly in the past.

I think this is a little different though. The IARC is publishing a review of the literature, but it is both the author and the publisher. As such there's no intermediate, outside and independent step, and they should be extremely transparent about how they came to their conclusions. They should have reams of studies cited, and they should detail exactly how they weigh contrary strands of evidence. Simply saying, "it was sponsored by industry" is an inappropriate reason to eliminate a study. Again, each study stands on its own data, cited sources, and arguments. Be more critical if you don't trust the source, but consider the data and arguments.

I'm struck by how the IPCC seems to operate by casting a wide net for experts and striving to build a consensus everyone can get behind, and sign their name to. Shouldn't the IARC work the same way?

If the reasoning process is not thoroughly detailed in the original monograph, they absolutely should release an anonymized version of the deliberations.
iMacs are half the price of this ? This costs the same as high end laptop and a high end monitor combined. For the pricing this would need to compete with Mac Pro not iMac
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SketchApp (https://www.sketchapp.com/) is being used a lot more than Photoshop / Illustrator for drafting wireframes and quick visual designs for web + mobile designs.

Not to say that Photoshop / Illustrator aren't being used. Sketch is also more beginner friendly.
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High hotel prices are a real downside to business in NYC.

In Los Angeles (and most other U.S. cities) you can find a place that is pretty nice around $120 a night. In NYC you are talking about at least twice that.
I run https://mapchart.net which is a map chart creation tool. You can quickly create a map chart of World, USA, UK, Europe and more with custom colors and descriptions.

It is completely free to use and my only source of income are Adsense ads on the homepage and some sparse donations. Since May, when the site was featured on the front page of Reddit, my audience has increased with a steady rate, along with my ad revenue (almost $500 last month).

I don't really do anything maintenance-wise, except for answering questions from my users. I work on it from time to time, mainly adding new features or new country/regions maps, and I still enjoy it, as it was my first real programming project (I actually submitted it as a final project for EdX's CS50x course!).
It lower surface attack. With companies like Dyn, they are affected even when someone is targeting other sites, while with internal DNS servers that are only used by themselves they will be down only if someone is attacking them directly.

If someone is targeting them directly it doesn't matter much that DNS is up and running, their site is still down.
I'm sure the hotels will charge as much as possible, but since they pay taxes that assumably (since it was illegal) AirBnB hosts didn't, sounds like a win for the City Government of NY.

Just an observation, I don't really have much of an opinion either way. I currently live next to a couple resory rentals and depending on the people it can be between "not noticeable" and "Holy crap, I wish those drunk idiots would shut up and go to bed". Since there are multiple issues on all sides, they might need some zoning for "short-stay resort" dwellings, so people can choose to live in a possible party place or not. Might also give renters some piece of mind, ala the A ratings restaurants have to post.
SQL has standards, why don't we use those? SQL-99 is a perfectly reasonable basis for WebSQL.
And how will they make money? Selling ads in the AR world?
>Why would we expect public organizations to be any more efficient than private organizations?

We wouldn't expect that, of course, but there are a lot of people out there who do assume as an axiom that any publicly provided resource is going to be handled much more efficiently than the private sector could. It's worth emphasizing that's not usually the case.
They don't have to spend it. Just having that warchest is of great consequence.
No more dangerous than keeping your phone in your pocket or bag.
That headline is a piece of art. Quote:

>Peter Thiel, who gave $1.25m to Trump, has called date rape 'belated regret'

First off, there's the quick shout-out to Trump. Just so you know that you should hate Thiel, because he's associated with Trump, who is bad. Oh, and to implicitly associate Trump further with the rest of the hit piece. Two-for-one here.

And the meat of the issue - the entire point Thiel was trying to make was about how to classify "drunken sex that a woman later regrets". Should we call it rape or date rape? It has some of the characteristics we expect, but lacks many, and there's a thorough and nuanced discussion you could have about it. That discussion isn't going to be found here, though because it's a hit piece. We're just going to assume our categorization is correct, and then use our reader's assumptions to imply that Thiel was talking about a more central example of date rape.
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Not sure if this was a troll or a question. If it was a question, the 5k is not a touchscreen. The Microsoft Surface Studio is though.
it seems like i see this basic comment every time Tesla reports earnings. this specific credit might be a one-time thing, but they somehow find another one every quarter.
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I'm not really sure where the issue is?

I work in a noisy office. The only reason why my productivity goes down is because I'm nosy as shit and have all these opinions I want to share.
> "If managed carefully and actively, they can work -- it just takes an manager willing to correct bad behavior or send sick people home."

That's not a solution though, that just removes the entire benefit of the open office while also removing all the benefits of having individual offices. It's important to have places where people can socialize and collaborate, the major downside of open offices is that this has to happen in the same space where everyone else is trying to work, with obvious deleterious effects on productivity. The appropriate alternative is not to simply instill a library type atmosphere of deathly quiet, the alternative is to make it easier for people to choose whether they want to collaborate, socialize, or work, which is easiest when everyone has their own office.
oh good, someone else noticed... I thought it was just me.
I suppose so, I forgot western civ was one battle loss away from not existing as a continuous entity. So yeah, military only seems to be possible, even if the Mongols were not 100% faithful to this strategy, I think someone could have been successful.
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> expanding a short story about a collapsing universe, and expand it into a novel.

What story is this? When I google it I get non-fiction links.
Exactly!

This isn't a problem of one office design or another. It's a problem of misaligned incentives between individual workers and the people making these decisions.

I don't think there's a solution for that.
Forget about MongoDB, it's terrible choice for 99% of projects.

Use PostgreSQL.
One man's poster is another man's oil painting reproduction, eh?
This is my takeaway from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 2016 internet trends presentation. http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends
Some I agree with, some I think is hyperbole.

Snapchat's Ads are effective. More effective than anything else on the internet or other apps. They are authentic, entertaining, in-context and brief. They follow the 3Vs: Vertical (Made for Mobiles) / Video (Great Way to Tell Story) / Viewing (Always Full Screen).

Snapchat's average monthly use per visitor is way above other social networks for the younger generation. And it is growing incredibly fast.

Advertisers are able to integrate deeply into the app in various unique and interesting ways.

Snap chat is the leader a new wave of advertising, in the way Facebook did a few years ago, and google before that.
That's understandable. My apologies.
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"I wrote this blob of text because I naturally want to defend developers who expose details about their businesses to HN. I don't want stories of how they built their businesses to be suppressed or discouraged. Especially since I see nothing unethical in this product; on the contrary, Chris Chen is giving these artists opportunity. They don't have to spend unpaid hours on Etsy or eBay, they can just focus on their work. Customers also get the opportunity to get a hand-painted portrait."
$2/day on a simple ios/android app. Now I just need 1000 more apps.
I have a more general question, but is this what the "gig" economy looks like in China? Would Instapainting and the work it produces for the folks doing the paintings count as "gigs"?

Could this question (Are you really paying them enough or just exploiting them?) be asked of anything like Uber?
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How do facebook and Google make money? Selling ads in social network and search land.

Having an enormous, religiously active user base has proven time and time again to be a huge cash cow.
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Quartz watches can be just as beautifully executed as mechanical watches. Grand Sieko watches being the case in point: http://www.grand-seiko.com/movement/quartz.php
I also worked as a designer and with designers, and the ones shelling out 4k$ on a work machine definitely do care about the specs. Basically this is in Mac Pro territory, not iMac/MacBook territory.
I found this law problematic because it was written to make enforcement easy, not to address actual issues with serial short-term renting. The intent of the law was to bring serial short-term rented units back into the market for long-term renters. The intended outcome was to make more housing available for prospective renters and to reduce nuisances involved with serial short-term renters.

The outcome is to further sclerotize and limit the rental market. Now students cannot effectively sublet their apartments on Craigslist while out on summer break or study abroad, for a summer intern working at a company in the city. Now a couple can't rent out their apartment for the week while they go to Disneyworld.

To some degree I have fallen for the populist message in this article; the hoteliers are clearly reaping the most benefits from this legislation. However, in the long term, everyone in the city is harmed by unnecessarily restrictive laws.

The outcome is going to be a drive of this activity underground, as we have seen in alcohol prohibition and the formerly wild west of off-meter (or "gypsy") cabs in NYC. At least with Airbnb, there was a rating system and an escalation/authentication path.

Airbnb's failure was twofold: that of not spending as much capital and time as Uber/Lyft in changing the minds of lawmakers; and failing to address the targets of the legislation: serial short-term landlords. If Airbnb had addressed this issue, the hoteliers would not have had an argument for the public benefit.
Until they established city centers, trade routes, spread religious freedom to among their subjects, developed population centers and their agricultural output, standardized exchange rates and quality bars, created systems of news and material delivery, and all that other stuff.

Their empire was, of course, extremely short, as it collapsed with the death of their Great Kahn soon after it established itself and its following leaders abandoned the previous inroads in the West to focus on the prize of capturing China (that ultimately failed).

Our history tends to focus on the expansion of their empire rather than its subsequent administration, I think in part for that reason.
"The OP didn't say it was illegal, nor should that be the metric for deciding that such an idea is entirely distasteful and not something you want to associate yourself with."

So it's distasteful that I don't want to associate with people of my own free will? Are you serious?

"The fact that so many people on HN can't see the problems with mixing partisan politics with business in order to shame another persons views scares me."

What scares me if folks like you that want to use force of another kind to obligate me to associate with people I wouldn't urinate on if they were on fire. Seriously, I would never work for the likes of Peter Thiel under any circumstances. I have my standards, you should too.

"If this was any other forum such as a news site's comment section or one of those protests by inexperienced university kids then I would be more understanding. But I don't believe I can hold the people on HN or in the tech community to that low standard... they should really know better. Sadly the media feeds into this hysteria."

Sorry, but none of that gives a moral theory of obligation for me to work for or with people like Peter Thiel.

"This Less Wrong article has never been more relevant."

I don't give two craps about LessWrong pseudo-intellectualism. Either present a theory that I'm obligated to associate with the likes of Peter Thiel or admit you have no moral theory or basis from which to obligate me or others to associate with those we choose freely not to associate with.
While we're on the subject of realistic company valuations, what do you think of FB?
Please open macOS to non Apple hardware. I'd actually buy a license for that.
I bought some QC25s when I moved to a big open office. For me, they don't help -- what they do is they kill all the background noise, but then the individual voices still come through and they come through as the only thing I hear.

I could play music, but sometimes I like the roar of silence.
I'm surprised (rather, disappointed) that the article doesn't make any comparisons to Facebook's IPO. For today's 14-to-25-year-olds, Snapchat is the new Facebook, in terms of user engagement, market penetration, mindshare -- so it stands to reason in terms of valuation it would be too.

There are some important differences, of course. Facebook owns multiple properties that mount competition to Snap Inc: Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp, the original Facebook; Snapchat subsumes all these usecases in a single app that you'd be hard-pressed not to find on a teen's phone today. And it does so by making it optional to curate a permanent, indexable, discoverable, idealized public identity.

To many, that's strictly better than anything Facebook has put out -- a company that nonetheless commanded a high valuation, performed an IPO (albeit rocky), and now posts a strong profit.
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IG has this. I got a direct message from someone last week.