skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just that it's better to keep talking, regardless of the result.

Opposition and talking are mutually exclusive at times and then you have to choose. Trump is marching forward while people try to talk to him, using their credibility to bolster his attack. If he's ready to talk, he can always call a cease-fire and do so. These responses are very reminiscent to me of Chamberlain before WWII, who said the same about another madman, and ceded much ground and many lives of others, and then it was too late.

Talking with other Americans is an entirely different matter.
Because both are extremely emotionally-invested, which I think is a reasonable definition of hysteria. What do you disagree with?

Trump doesn't match the scholarly definition of fascism.[0] So from my point of view, it's emotional rhetoric, not serious discourse. He's more Sarah Palin than Mussolini.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Politics...
When you are just starting out with a website, what is the 20% of effort that leads to 80% of the results in regard to SEO?
They'll probably remove the headphone ports while they're at it.
> like the OP mentioned, it's a static site.

It's a RoR app. Content might not change but it's still an app with a database etc.
Net loss about 500 million at the end of 2016 which is about 100 million more than the year prior. Yikes. Still they'll likely make the case that they can turn a profit in the not-to-distant future.
I'll clarify. I mean that software that's dual-licenced, usually grants unlimited usage within the organization. Essentially you bought it, so it's yours to do with as you wish---though you can't duplicate it and give it to others on its own, you have to bundle it with your product.

If the licence is more restrictive than that, then it is likely the business will fail because if we have to jump through hoops, we might as well (a) use another product, cost isn't a factor or (b) use the copyleft licence and hire lawyers.
'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good'. Why does someone have to be a paragon to be considered better at the given task?

My friend is a foodie, but isn't a michelin-starred chef; does that mean that her cooking abilities and mine (= read instructions on packet) are equivalent?
That's certainly the contention of the authors of How to Design Programs.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/part_preface.htm...
I'm kind of sad about this because I found development for the OS to be better than for any other mobile OS, even though I've got no love for javascript. It also ran a lot smoother than android even on the potato quality phone it come on.

I hope in future they can leverage their rust knowledge and give us a platform that's open, easy to develop and fast.
I think their losses can be at least partly explained by their somewhat inexplicable number of employees, which happen to number 1859 at the end of 2016.

Don't understand why a company with a mobile app as their sole product need that many employees. I was expecting that number to be more like 100.
The point is that "I did X and I survived!" does not advance the conversation, regardless of which side is right.
What I'd like to see - is the employee breakdown.

How many are working on the acutal product/engineering?

I work for a startup (that was bootstrapped I believe) and our sales team is almost half the company (we are just under 100 people right now).

Point being, at Snap's scale - I have a feeling they'll have a lot of Business Development Reps trying to bring in contracts for adverts.
Why not both?

Imagine the insurance premiums on that much wealth, without any security.
Life is hard when you have 1.5 billion users, especially when a lot of them resist attempts to modernise or even update the system.

That's true, but it's probably a lot harder when you've proven to be untrustworthy in what you include under "modernisation" or "updates".

Plenty of techie people warned that user-hostile behaviour like the GWX campaign or including non-security things in updates advertised as security patches would damage that trust and come back to bite them later. I think a lot of people didn't really believe that would be the case at the time, but as the article here notes, the adoption rates suggest otherwise.
"by 2020 there will be $ 190 per kWh and $ 20 per kWh less than $ 100 per kWh."

Wat?

Anyway, we already know this. I'm hoping for third party battery packs by the time I need a fresh set for my 2011 Leaf. (Still years away)
Skype has my account balance as $42M.  I tried asking support for help
The parent comment creates the facts and therefore the conclusion.

Very few say he is the textbook definition of fascism; that's another created fact. Interestingly, if you watch clips of Mussolini's behavior, there is a strong resemblance ...
You guys mention < 25ms as the performance hit of having you guys in front of the client's application. Is there a more concrete SLA you guys provide? Do you have a sense of what that hit might cost in page rank (there's some theories out there that time to first byte is one of the features that search engines reward)?
Onsen UI for Vue 2 is released
On the contrary, I believe the left represents American values better than the right. Should I rephrase that it's good for the left in the short-run, bad for America in the short-run, and good for America in the long-run?
As the opioid epidemic rages, Ohio scrambling to handle flood of dead bodies
If I am the May 2016 investor, I'm thrilled that I got to see how the company grew for a year and a half, while still paying the same price as the Feb 2015 investor. Snap might have provided other incentives to investors early in the Series F round, or they were just happy to get invited to the party.
I once read this article: https://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-t...

which didn't make me feel that I was missing out on anything.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13555580
Is $150 that crazy? The original prices for 7 were:

Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade) $119.99

Windows 7 Home Premium (Full) $199.99

Windows 7 Family Pack (Upgrade, retail only)	$149.99

Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade) $199.99

Windows 7 Professional (Full) $299.99

Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade) $219.99

Windows 7 Ultimate (Full) $319.99

$150 seems completely in line with pricing of previous windows versions.
Is there any relevance to this taking place in Israel? Does it happen elsewhere?
Snapchat doesn't have earnings (they lost $514 million dollars in 2016) so they really need to demonstrate ongoing growth in either number of users or revenue per user.
Ask HN: What to do after installing windows
A while back, I noticed that there was a massive list of stuff to do after installing windows (here on HN) -

Everything from installing code editors, to privacy tools and the like.

I tried searching but I'm unable to find that list.
In the full McKinsey report they forecast less of a drop going forward, 16% over the next 3 years, 55% drop over the next 13 years. So 4-5% per year. That is a lot less then the depreciation of a new car. It's probably not going to be worth it to replace the battery.
John Carmack vents about $500M ZeniMax jury verdict
Fight back: call them "Sharp designators" (or if you're a splittist, "pound marker"
Thats an interesting point, however that may not be how it actually plays out, at least from my somewhat relevant experience.

I had the misfortune of having my Honda hybrid's battery die, and if it weren't for CARB's extended emissions warranty for all HV car batteries, I would have been SOL paying 3-4K (or 2-3K for a refurb) for a tiny ~1kWh battery.

The new battery in my hybrid didn't go down in price significantly despite ~9 years of battery advancement, nor is it more powerful than the one it replaced.

I understand I'm comparing NiMH to Li-ion, but perhaps 5-10 years from now Li-ion will be superseded by a another chemistry, leaving today's electric car buyers with a similar experience.
Well, they do have 1859 employees. If you say on average they're paid $50k each (totally made up estimate, would love for someone to give me a better one), that would be almost $100mil a year in base salary alone.
Can you ask for a refund? :)
Yes, there's a minimum karma necessary to flag submissions. I don't recall the threshold off the top of my head.

I think a lot of members are feeling some degree of politics exhaustion. There's still plenty of discussion going on.
Designated initializers aren’t “hidden” at all, just new (and not that new).
They just built a hardware product.
LSVP made 2000x on their Snap investment. Two Thousand Times
What a bunch of savages, destroying property and hurting others. These people are out of control.
While I can not claim to have made any imporant progress on the sorts of toy problems I like to work on (e.g. counting/bounding the number of strings two regular expressions both accept, counting the number of ways to represent integers using polynomials), I find the mere process of working on them, inventing new notation to succinctly express ideas and read relevant (and completely irrelevant) mathematical textbooks and articles a way to keep an "active brain" but relax: probably because nobody expects me to produce anything and my career doesn't depend on it.
/Off topic

IMHO, the thread's already self-policing (with a downvote mechanism).

Personally, I found your comment confusing. Currently, cr0sh's other comment has already been pushed down by sibling comments. Suggestion: add links to specific comments.
Not a CEO, but I knew one who did this...

The main benefit is that you can get many more contracts with the government. SBIR contracts are great for getting a startup going, and some of them will require a clearance.

The main cost is probably that the style of financial accounting required for government contractors is nearly incompatible with non-government business. If you want to do both, you almost need to have two divisions as separate companies owned by a holding company. Having separate divisions may also help you avoid making criminal mistakes with any overseas opportunities.

An interesting difference is your employees. This is both a benefit and a cost. Normal companies are prohibited from refusing to hire because of greencard status, but you would be required to do so. You will not face much cultural discord in your workforce. You can't get an H1B or do foreign outsourcing. You don't have to deal with background checks because the government handles that for you, and they do a better job than you could ever hope to do -- even if you grow to be a large employer, you'll see very very little misbehavior from your employees. Except as required by the federal security rules, you can do everything on the honor system.

Get the contract first, probably a SBIR. With that in hand, ask to get clearance stuff sponsored. (you must have a government sponser; they "hold" your clearance) At minimum you need people cleared, letting you visit the government site to talk about classified things. You might even choose to work at the government site; they can provide a space for you to work. If you want to do classified things at your own facility, you'll need to get your facility sponsored too.
> For the year ended December 31, 2016, we incurred a net loss of $514.6 million, as compared to a net loss of $372.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2015.
Some serious progress there. Great. Let's IPO O_o
Apple releases a major update to MacOS every year with new features. They're releasing a new filesystem this year, and do security updates regularly. The Mac hardware could be called neglected, but the OS is anything but.
Or perhaps I should say I know I'm missing out on something but I'm glad I'm missing out.
I disagree. Look at 'simple' problems like Fermat's last theorem.

It took mathematics much beyond what was known at the time to get anywhere close to a solution.
It was a bad decision to continue with Metal instead of updating OpenGL, but the operating system is not neglected. One example of a feature you personally want (that I do too) does not constitute neglect. It gets regular updates.
200 miles "only"?

How many days of the year do you actually drive more than 100 miles?

If it's many, then electric is not yet for you yet, unless your destinations are near the Supercharger network.
Oh Snap Releases IPO Filing
This makes C's approach sound worse than it really is: in practice you'll either get a compiler warning or a segfault, not the potential nose-demons typically associated with undefined behavior. C also gives you a type-level way to track static strings (the const qualifier) though it isn't as strictly enforced.
We priced our product appropriately for our customer base and the value offered by our product: which is to say, an order of magnitude more costly than a typical VC-subsidized, "make it up in volume" startup approach.

This certainly resulted in the opposite of growth, raw-customer-count-wise, but it's led to a legitimate, sustainable and growing business; streamlined our maintenance and support costs; and focused our product roadmap.
> Total cost of ownership per month of the lease is $136.

Wow, that is striking. In the UK you could easily spend £200 a month on petrol costs for commuting, and I think the electricity costs would be small in comparison. There are lease deals for £150-200 a month, you could be paying off a new car and still pay less than just the fuel costs for your old car. I wonder whether this could be crafted into a successful advertising campaign.
> It's in a corporation's best interest to give the customer exactly what he wants.

It's in a corporation's best interest to instil in the customer an idea of what he or she wants.

...and then yes, your version.
Steve Jobs didn't just stiff Apple devs, he stiffed Pixar VFXers too
I second your OOSU10 recommendation. In fact, it's the only icon other than the Recycle Bin on my desktop, and I must have a clean desktop!
Job Description

We are looking for a devops engineer at one of our engineering locations: Mountain View (California, US), Raleigh (North Carolina, US), Antwerp (Belgium), Bratislava (Slovakia).

As part of the infra team, you work in coordination with the main office in California to :

- maintain the build system of the Nuage Virtualized Services platform, ensuring quality and consistency of the builds generated by our continuous integration system

- manage source code repositories and continuous integration
overlook the test infrastructure, where we simulate most of the major cloud environments (VMware, KVM, Openstack, Cloudstack, Openshift, Kubernetes)

- maintain and develop the core infrastructure of Nuage engineering, provision and monitor servers, develop integration scripts written in Python and Bash, and keep the whole environment secure

- work with engineering leads to develop testing platforms and methodologies in new areas of the Nuage platform

Skills & Requirements

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- proficiency at Git and the Github pull request model

- experience in building software and continuous integration

- knowledge of network protocols, virtualization and virtual - packet switching is a plus

- good coding skills: Python, bash

- Ability to delve into pre-existing source code with little guidance and to switch context rapidly is paramount

- good communication skills, ability and willingness to assist people is key

Please e-mail: john.naulty at nuagenetworks.net
Any way to filter out all the extraneous tweets to see that information? I'd be interested in seeing a list, but not interested in signing up for Twitter and following someone with the volume of posts on that account.
He's your typical unfiltered founder, which inevitably gets on people's nerves:

http://i.imgur.com/4h2Y1Uv.png

http://i.imgur.com/LPtAqDW.png
Ahh, your point clearly is. Language understanding only required. Wrong-talking of words if sense making is acceptable.
Not sure if it makes a difference in this case either, however the method is being used successfully by projects like x264, x265, which distribute under GPL, but also offer commercial licenses allowing them to be incorporated into proprietary solutions.
You are thinking of pt-online-schema-change or Soundcloud's LHM. Those are tools to modify the schema.

Here they were modifying the data. But yes, it works the same way, and it's not really novel in any way.
Show HN: An opensource MMORPG as a Telegram bot
Could also be that he's married to Miranda Kerr, so they have to deal with paparazzi
Quite a chip on your shoulder there. And the irony is that you ping others for deciding who is the king of correct thought, while kingmaking yourself.
That's a classic apocryphal horror story in futures trading - though it's possible that it really happened to someone at some point
> I've noticed this issue where your anticipated difficulty of something ends up determining your experience of its difficulty.

That assessment didn't come from nowhere.

Given that there seem to be aptitude differences for most physical things, I would find it hard to believe that there are no aptitude differences for most mental things, especially for something so unnatural.

Not to mention that all the things you speak of are very real difficulties to many people that they're not going to get any visible pathway through.
"I'm guessing unsigned integer overflow. The range of an unsigned 32 bit number is 4,294,967,295. If their base unit is pennies, that's 42M."

--rouverius
This is amazing. Is Rust the best developer team out there? They move quickly and release features with a cadence I have not seen in other languages. I would love to hear more about other languages release this way.
Good answer, but unless you mark the files read-only/immutable, this ought to have big red flags all over it. Userland just can't do this safely in the general case.
Ask HN: What does it mean to work in the 'Office of the CTO'?
I have been recently running into people that work in the 'Office of the CTO' at their respective companies. They tend to be engineers, sometimes with graduate degrees, that may be doing in research, integration, or advanced development. Is there a broader definition or guideline for understanding someone's role when I encounter this terminology?
I know it's counterfactual history... but what if his only advisers would have been fanatics? Seeing his rhetoric in the campaign, with a full radicalized Trump, I guess the ban would have been much larger, including many other countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Lebanon, etc).

And the same could be applied to other issues: e.g. exit NAFTA altogether overnight instead of renegotiating.
In CS, most authors host "preprint" copies of their papers on their own website, and most views are of those versions. So I wouldn't be surprised if Elsiver's defunct distribution system isn't getting used much (at least in this field).
Mercifully done after Christmas, but I guess the writing had been on the wall for some time.

Now let's see if Mozilla can break through the bubble and focus on what web developers really need, rather than blindly following "valleyist" fashions.
For comparison, Facebook had 3500 employees at the time of their IPO, and it's "just a website." Snapchat is many products: video ad platform, augmented reality selfie app, broadcast platform via sunglasses, photo uploading app, and messaging app.
as another non-snapchat user, i feel it's like the quote "The only winning move is not to play"
What I want other parents to know about women in tech
Very much pro-American workers, and anti-globalization. Rejection of TPP, increasing taxes on hedge funds by getting rid of carried interest, decreasing drug prices, full unequivocal support of LGBTQ,

If you were following the Republican nominations, the other Republicans were accusing him of being a Democrat.
Disable spyware and adware. I don't think you can really disable all the spyware though. We're talking about a company that participated in the NSA PRISM program. That means that Microsoft has an agency within it that works closely with the government. I like to think of MS as an extension or a branch of the NSA.
I'm still surprised Facebook still has Facebook.com/somescript.php style links unless it's not as simple as it looks in the url. I know there's about 4 layers of loadbalance/cache and layers of that in data centers but any idea about the framework or code design?
Didn't downvote, but Twitter stagnated and there isn't any reason to believe Snap will too.

Social Media is about adapting to the changing trends, and for a while Twitter's strategy was to stay as close to it's core product as possible. Periscope is great but it came a little too late.
>Very few say he is the textbook definition of fascism

Check the rest of the thread, and most of people tweeting about Kalanick a few days ago.

I'm sympathetic to the Resistance crowd, but here, what, practically, does Kalanick's move achieve? What bad Trump policies will be curtailed by this? How many percentage points will Trump's approval rating dip because of this?
Although I really wish there was a better alternative to the BS170 in the same TO package, because BS170, too, is old tech and has high Rdson.
Who will get rich from the Snap IPO
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://hardavenue.com/tesla-electric-battery-price-reduced-....
Maybe so. But there's also people's natural desire not to believe the worst will happen. I admit to being one of those people in 2007. Based on the last couple of weeks, I don't see good reason to believe that his (and Bannon's) recklessness will be brought under control.
Federal workers turn to encryption to thwart Trump
Option 3: Use an OS (or at least OS version) that offers better defaults, while still running the software that you need.
looks like custom tweening code they wrote for their blog

https://stripe.com/assets/blog/animate-svg-fe67ad3b4fe397689...
Amazing! I hope more of this kind of game comes to Telegram. And congratulations on making this open source.

I wonder if Whatsapp is going to invest in bots also.
Visual Logic Authoring vs. Code (2016)
Ask HN: Volunteers to Assist RE Immigration Ban
Hi All,

I am an attorney assisting with the volunteer effort surrounding the executive order on immigration. As you have heard in the news, this has caused a lot of panic, fear, and hardship for a lot of people.

One of the problems we as lawyers are facing is that we cannot accurately/easily track flights with immigrants on them that may be detained and/or require attorney assistance to enter or re-enter the country.We are also wanting to communicate important information as changes develop so that we can assist travelers.

To help solve this problem, we are looking for someone or a team of people to assist us in building a website/app that will allow us to assist people. We have come up with a base of about 10 requirements which I will be glad to discuss with anyone interested.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
Where, and what does he know that is less trendy than Java and PHP?

There are plenty of giant defense contractors that wouldn't blink an eye at his age, but they will be looking for things like real-time programming on a DSP. Assembly language is a plus.
Yeah, thats what Im interested in too. have to assume there is a significant sales force, especially with their expected sales growth