skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability.

Also having only 158 million daily active users up from 150 million in June is definitely interesting and a lot smaller growth jump than I had expected.

Revenue up from $58MM in 2015 to $405MM despite a loss of $515MM last year. Wishing them best of luck, but I wonder how much their competition is hurting their growth (Instagram stories for example)?

Also:
> We are not aware of any other company that has completed an initial public offering of non-voting stock on a U.S. stock exchange. We therefore cannot predict the impact our capital structure and the concentrated control by our founders may have on our stock price or our business.

Hmmm... will be interesting...
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> or at least a modern hard drive with SATA 3.0 instead of SATA 2.0 for the extra iops.

The interface is unrelated to the IOPS you get out of a hard drive. 3Gbps SATA II has no trouble delivering far more than the ~200 IOPS a 7200RPM hard drive is capable of.
a new coworker on our team got me a swell beverage bottle. Keeps hot liquids hot, and cold cold. I think this is a great option.

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The United States of America is not "any other piece of property".
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Snap runs on Google App Engine, not on GCE (or perhaps they use both).
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Well, I'll be darned. That wasn't in stock anywhere the last few times I looked. That's the model I had which previously failed. I guess I'll give it another try.
I think the filesystem is a fine place to do it, I just wish more filesystems would give us the option to do deduplication offline.

ZFS's dedup uses grotesque amounts of RAM since it insists on holding the dedup table in it and only doing dedup in realtime.

btrfs however allows you to scan the filesystem and do dedup of existing data later (even while it is mounted), using no RAM at all. This is one of a couple of places where I think btrfs is actually becoming a better-designed filesystem than ZFS.
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This is really unfortunate. If you're in the "Trump is a mad man" camp, don't you want voices of reason like Kalanack's to be in his ear? And if you're pro-Trump, this also is a good thing.

The underlying problem in the US is we've stopped talking to each other. We only hurl partsisan-charged invectives at each other. Kalanack's choice here is a visible example demonstrating that "not talking" is the solution. I am saddened by his choice and I am ashamed of my fellow Americans, from all walks of the political spectrum for their choices to sling mud instead of speaking to each other and finding ways to cooperate with each other.

I also highly doubt this move will have the intended effect of mitigating the #deleteuber campaign. Even considering the facts about some of Lyft's key investors being Trump supporters. Mostly because people as a whole can't hear reason any more. Sure, #deleteuber is hurting Raisier LLC, but you know who it's really hurting? The immigrant Uber drivers who are renting/leasing their vehicle through one of Uber's partners, and are contractually obliged to drive only for Uber. There's no reasoning there. No critical thought. Just "fuck you #deleteuber".
Hm, in a way, no one really makes "one size fits all" apps, because if everyone did that, there'd be no way to stand out in a sea of hundreds of basically identical apps.

So instead, these apps often follow the unix philosophy "do one thing and do it well". Unfortunately this means now there's a sea of hundreds of apps that do things in their own particular way, so as a user you also have to figure out not only which particular way you like best, but which ways you hate and can't use at all.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Quits Donald Trump’s Business Advisory Council
Ideal Customer Profile and Total Addressable Market = Sales Qualified Lead Machine
>What I think would really help America (and the world by proxy) is if for every immigrant a tech company imports, they must hire two rural American workers from a community that's average income is less than the national median.

There's a big problem with this idea: you seem to be assuming that rural Americans want to live in the international coastal cities. I'm quite sure this simply isn't the case for most of them (it is true for many young people, who do in fact move to the coastal cities on their own volition). So are you proposing requiring tech companies to open satellite offices in rural areas, where there's no concentration of workers at all? And what are these people going to do for the tech companies anyway? If they had relevant skills, they'd already be working in tech, not living in rural areas and working at Walmart.
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The actual deployment was my curiosity :)
Steve Bannon: 'We're Going to War in the South China Sea  No Doubt'
In step two both collections/tables are updated.
The backfilling routine is hopefully "smart" enough to leave stuff already in the new table alone.
The literal `"Ferris"` is a slice, i.e. a (const) pointer, which in this case will even point a part of to the data section of the binary. The String version is dynamically allocated and can be changed, can grow, etc.
We've banned this account for only posting just this sort of thing.
was a little disappointed with these guys. spent sometime doing their simple challenge and cleaned up the code to look nice only to get stubbed with no reply. thanks guys.
@sama

care to comment on this one?
Being the "right" gender (assume you mean female?) with a solid Computer Science degree wasn't enough to get my foot in the door to talk to anyone there either. They're picky, elitist, and unless someone already there recommends you they won't even talk to you.

At least that was the case before I got Amazon on my resume. Now it feels like every company on the planet wants to recruit me, including Google. I know a lot of people at Amazon who didn't have connections and didn't have a degree from an elite school (or a degree in CS at all in some cases) and they were still great. I'm sure google would never give them the time of day.

The one person I do know who works at Google is awful to be around (he is the "wrong" gender and race btw and went to the same school as me, but got referred). Google is all he talks about. I invited him to a party once and he actually started working on his laptop mid-party and snapped at me when I came over and asked him what he was up to ("It's confidential!" he said as he closed the screen and left).

So feeling rejected sucks, but maybe you dodged a bullet there.
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I'd lower that 5 watts estimate. RPi3 idles at around 1.25W and goes to 3.75W at full load.
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Yes but I don't want that. I want to be able to read who I voted for with my eyes. I want to be able to check that the ballot box is empty when it comes in and I want to be able to verify that every voter only got one printout that they could check with their eyes what they voted before sliding it in the ballot box.

I don't want anyone to be able to stuff a box with a bunch of votes I didn't see. And yes, voting by mail has some of these problems, but it makes up such a tiny fraction of the vote where I live I put up with it without complaining.

Voting needs to be so secure that when people like Trump call an election rigged we need to be able to laugh at him and show everyone how secure it is.
You could always write a script that walks the real commits of your repo and generates fake commits in a public repo with the same timestamps but no meaningful changes or commit messages.
Right. And Elixir may target Core Erlang one day, for a hypothetic 2.0
The problem is that it is an emotional topic for sellers. Most sellers think that their domain is worth 4 figures or more at the least while it may not be the case often.

I have found many squatted domains that I will happily pay say $200 give or take but I am shelling out $5000 for a domain name (unless I have free VC money to burn :))

Ultimately, I end up buying a domain that is not taken and live with that.
Is anyone else seeing these numbers? How are they pushing for such a high valuation with those kind of losses?

I suspect that Snap is merely capitalizing on traditional advertising metrics (engagement, CTR) which don't translate over on their app, and the advertisers just haven't caught on yet. People play with filters because they're funny/amusing, but those impressions don't convert into purchases in the same way other types of ads would.

Earlier last year Snapchat temporarily featured X-Men filters exclusively ahead of the movie release - I interacted with those for the novelty (and mainly because they disabled all the other filters so there were no other options) but I did not see the movie.

Again, I'm not sure if they follow something similar to a CPC model or what, but I bet it's expensive. If the advertisers decide it's ineffective their newfound revenue growth certainly won't be sustainable.
How does this differ from what Facebook and Google did? Did they offer stock that technically had voting power but in practice was massively outweighed by the founders' voting power? Whereas Snapchat is dispensing with such technicalities and just outright stating the founders control it?
andris9,
you mentioned that the EUPL was more European Union friendly, similar to how GPL is more USA friendly.

Do you mind elaborating what you mean by this?
Yeah you're right
$400 million annually represents a monthly cost per user of $0.21 at 158 million daily active users. Which seems high at scale when looking at storage + bandwidth alone, I would think, but I'm also not a big Snapchat user so I'm not sure what is going on in terms of long term storage of video on an account level.
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According to Wikipedia, he has $2b in wealth [0]. I have no idea whether $900,000 / year is high or low for someone of that net worth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel#Personal_life
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On https://thanks.rust-lang.org/rust/all-time

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That bors guy is such a monster! ;)
The problem with finding great marketing people is that there's no barrier to entry into the profession. Anyone can (and does) say that they're a 'marketing expert,' a 'growth hacker' or a 'marketing guru' [gag]. To be great at it, yes, people need to have technical ability. But they also need a sort of sixth-sense intuition (visual sensibility, language skills, an understanding of psychology) that can't be taught or bought.

In my decade in the field I've observed almost zero correlation between marketing-specific education and ability. Experience yes, but education no.

It's a frustrating profession to be in sometimes because often only great marketers can spot other great marketers. Meanwhile sh*tty ones ruin the field's rep for everyone else.
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Manalac could have said that Thiel is a part time partner.
"I want a country with law and order, where police officers listen to the courts, not to the president."

You should learn a bit more about how our legal system works. Separation of powers means the Judicial branch can't have control over an executive power like policing.
> The underlying problem in the US is we've stopped talking to each other.

I think the real underlying problem is that 45.9% of the voters decided to elect a fascist to be leader of the free world.
I somewhat agree. I have to use Windows from time to time and it's usually Windows 10. I disliked Windows 8 so much, but Windows 10 is overall good IMO.

But, honestly, comparing to something like Windows NT 4.0, I can't really say, why Windows 10 is better. There might be tiny things here and there, but overall experience is similar. The only Windows releases I remember were those particularly bad (Vista, 8) and those, which accumulated large userbase (XP, 7). Other than that, I don't see much progress. If Windows NT 4.0 would be supported today on current hardware and software, I'm not sure if I would use anything else. It was good enough.

May be those only my memories, I don't know.
Have had TWC now Spectrum. In two years the price has gone from $35 to $60. There is no cheaper tier, according to them. I use it over wifi so couldn't even use their supposed blazing speed (100mb) anyway.

What can I do? The only competitor, AT&T is not very cost effective either and I dread doing business with them---just paying the bill was an exercise in frustration due to their constantly broken website.
This is great data. I'm curious what will happen with all of the talent that recently left Google, including various startups for self-driving cars. That said, Google is doing better than I thought. Kudos to them.

Any idea how to benchmark this against humans quantitatively? Also, any idea how trivial or significant a disengagement is?

Google's "perfect" record on freeways lends credence to my theory that trucks are just a few years away from being fully automated. I actually suspect the laws will trail the technology there.
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What other side exactly?

This started because the Sean Spicer claimed the president had the largest inauguration attendance ever. This was proven false by multiple sources. There is no such thing as an alternate fact. It's either an exaggeration or a lie.
Came here to say this. Have the XPS 13, and have been very happy with it. However, wishing I would have go the 15 as a small footprint is less of a concern than I thought it would be, and I'd appreciate more screen RE.
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I would love to write my intended morning routine.

I don't have to write my actual morning routine because you captured its essence perfectly.
> but the alternative is not changing anything and waiting 5 years while everything gets rolle dup.

Windows 7 was released 7.5 years ago, and Windows 8 was released 4.5 years ago. Whether or not they make interim releases, Microsoft clearly cannot pull off a user interface overhaul in any reasonable span of time.
I think this is justified and expected. What proportion of Uber drivers are themselves first generation immigrants? In New York City anyway, it seems like > 90% of them are.

It seems untenable for the CEO of Uber to participate in a regime so with such a revanchist anti-immigration policy. Maybe Kalanick thought he could counterbalance that tendency, but he won't be able to do it. The anti-immigration fanaticism is the driving force behind Trumpism.
And this reeks of an unaccepting worldview to have of others.
What does that have to do with the post above?
He has the ear of the President of the United States. I don't know how to put a price on that, but I'm positive it's worth a lot.
Wake up, go downstairs, make coffee and toasts, play with my son for 20-30 minutes, shower, clothes, work.

That usually happens between 9am and 10.30am.

Lunch at 11.30am :-)
> We do know that the most provocative thing it has done so far was also called for by Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama.

No, it wasn't. And I'm not even sure which of the many provocative things he's done you think is the most provocative, but it's not true of any of them, so...
It's like `const char[]` vs `std::string`.
After reading the actual complaint, it sounds like your problem is similar to some of the affected NY customers. Broadband demand is constantly increasing over time. Cable operators have to split service groups to keep providing higher tiers of service. If they do not, then congestion will reduce the speeds received by customers. Check out pgs 37-40 of the NY AG's complaint: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/summons_and_complaint....
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And, according to the New Zealand government, he's a part-time American citizen.
Your account was created 30 days ago. You've described yourself as a liberal just not a Dem apologist. Can you please keep your origin story straight for the next 30 days?
Look at how receptive you are being to other ideas.

Trolls like you are actually the cause for the new level of lows currently dominating the public discourse.

The poster listed a set of true facts detailing the problems they are encountering on a search for finding an accord with the "opposite side". You reply to nothing that was said and instead lump the poster into a category of people that use language completely different from the language used by the poster.

Based on your words, I don't think you are even responding to this thread. Did you reply with a copy-paste template that you insert into political charged discussion across the web?
How would that work? If you never do an explicit migration, you'll always have records on very old schema versions. Doesn't that force you to support every version forever in the code?
Lunr.js is designed for exactly that use-case and the example shows that workflow pumping a bunch of documents into an index and saving it as JSON which is loaded client-side:

https://github.com/olivernn/lunr.js
There's a longer answer here than I have time to compose, but the summary is simply that we long ago abandoned the idea that A Big Rewrite was a good idea. Instead, we've been making numerous small tweaks to how Area51 operates, adjusting based on outcome, for roughly the past 4 years.

As such, the core philosophy (and bulk of the code) behind it is still more or less the same, but how proposals actually behave has changed dramatically.

We've also made significant changes to the lifecycle of sites after they're created, which you can find discussed on Meta Stack Exchange:

- https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/260754/feedback-req...

- http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/283663/its-been-a-ye...
Because the word "tolerant" means something, and that something includes tolerating opinions you disagree with, otherwise the term is empty of meaning. The people who call for a boycott of Starbucks aren't tolerant, and people demanding Thiel be ostracised aren't either.

If you want to wear the label "tolerant" you have to tolerate. If you don't want to wear it, well, you still have to tolerate, because that's what civilised people do, but if you don't, at least you're not a hypocrite.
Sad that Katrina Manalac was wrong twitter about Peter Thiel.

He IS a YC partner, although part time. She tweeted: Thiel isn't a YC partner.
Mega-scale water desalination and treatment. Plus an actual renewable power source to run that (not "the power is renewable, but the power plant's carbon footprint is worse than 200 years' worth of burning coal").
I would think their bandwidth costs are astronomical. Since 19/3/16 Snapchat has used 14.8GB of mobile data on my iPhone alone - not including WiFi.
It is absolutely possible to build a stellar internal alternative to Google's offerings in 5 years with 2 billion dollars.

edit: I should point out that this doesn't account for ramp-up. It would obviously take awhile before things would be to a point where it would be even comparable.
"EDIT: The way math is currently taught really forces people to dislike math and think they suck at it. (in general)"

Starting in primary school with basic arithmetik.
(I help a young boy with his homework)
They don't really teach them Math, how to solve thing, they tech them to memorize different algorithms, which they can handle after a while, but don't know what they are doing at all ...

So the best mathematicians there are not the ones who can think best, but who can memorize and follow orders the best.
Or travel and meet face-to-face. Works just as well.
Could he? There's probably a very large intersection between the group of people who would be great start up founders and those who adamantly oppose the political views of the current administration.
This would be so much cooler if it was wall-mounted art and 365 LEDs.

I'm not big into electronics, but can't you adjust LED's brightness by changing what voltage is sent to them?
I didn't say it is, just that an analogous argument can be applied. First you postulate citizenship as membership in a private club. The club's bylaws determine who gets to be a member and how the club's property is to be managed and protected. The rest is trivial and I'm not actually a libertarian so I'm not going to bother working through it.
To be honest the rare and in-between in depth and/or insightful comments are the main reason I come to HN.