skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it will be neither? I could well see Snap sitting at roughly its IPO price or slightly below two years from now. That's the risk of a high-priced initial offering -- the success will need to be extraordinary to drive the stock still higher.
> bosses had to retire after run-ins with the crystal meth law they themselves passed...

Wait, what?
In our case, we don't need to ever revalidate. We store things forever since our file blobs are immutable.
I just deleted it from my phone. Only reason I installed it was because a girl I was seeing wanted me to.
Cloudflare mentioned they only went through about 2000 leaked responses out of over a million. That combined with random people on hackernews STILL finding private data after the purge points towards this leak being a lot worse than they're letting on.

Thankfully CloudFlare spent a week cleaning up the leak in search engines and caches before publicly announcing the issue, so a lot of the evidence is gone.
https://mic.com/articles/170019/leaked-snapchat-emails-anti-...
Trump+speech+was+'detached+from+reality'+say+Democrats+•+THE+WORLD+INFO
If you have a large amount of money you don't mind gambling with and can afford to stay solvent longer than the market can stay irrational, I feel like this is the best short ever.

My 5 year target on SNAP would be roughly one can of Pringles.
When the next market meltdown happens, Michael Lewis will write a great book about people buying non-voting shares of a fad company at a $24b valuation that says in its prospectus that it has no plans to make money and maybe never will.

Or I'm wrong and they won't be a fad and will figure out how to monetize, but I feel like the multiplied probabilities of both make it as clear a bet as you ever get.
Cellular automata is also the most natural fit for a huge bank of single bit processors connected in a hypercube topology. There's very little software you need to write to turn that particular hardware into a cellular automata simulator. It is a good first program for that machine.
Protecting your apps against the next AWS outage
In a mind-blowing revelation, I learned my university had a Hololens to try. Before trying it, I'd always believed that AR would be the future. After trying it, I believe that AR will be the future - the tech isn't quite there yet.

The finger clicks work like 60% of the time, and the windows seem to vary in opaqueness which really threw me off. (And yes, the FOV is pretty terrible right now). But for minutes at a time, I'd be fully immersed.

Mixed reality will be one of the biggest transformations, I think. The digital world used to be restrained to our desks. Right now, we carry it around with us in our pockets (and maybe even on our wrists). But with augmented reality, it's going to be joined with our real world - the two are finally going to truly merge. It's impossible to know what will develop from this.

We live in interesting times.
I added a few more missing dependencies I found when installing it on Debian.
FWIW, Latvian is also more related to Russian than most other non-Slavic European languages, since both languages belong to the same top-level subdivision within Indo-European (Balto-Slavic).
The git data itself was untouched, but in the eyes of the DB there was no project that got created due to the lost DB data, so the git repo isn't hooked up. If you can give me the username and project name I can have support fix it up for you.

If you don't want to do that in this thread, feel free to email me: connor at gitlab.com
You're welcome. This is what they presented last year: ftp://ftp-anon.dwd.de/pub/DWD/Forschung_und_Entwicklung/CUS2016_presentations_PDF/06_Dynamics_and_Numerics/01_Invited_Z%E4ngl/ICON_CUS_2016.pdf very nice stuff!
(there's a seminar at DWD next week where they probably will give an update). The ICON model is also interesting because they are able to interleave a local area model over Europe with their global model.

Well, actually it's actually mostly Jenkins that runs the code for us on Daint. ETH, which I'm also affiliated with, is starting to use the model in GPU mode for climate runs on Daint.

What are you working on at Cray?
Jekyll now prevents double forward slash errors. In this case Jekyll will not append a forward slash to url: because the baseurl: input already contains ‘/‘.

I'm pretty happy about that.
Windows Mixed Reality dev kits shipping this month
I never found Dmoz particularly helpful. The only thing I ever used it for was submitting my own websites many years ago. That being said, I'm surprised it is still around and I'm surprised that it's shutting down.

I wonder why they're shutting down. It would've been nice to hear the reason.
I think something needs to be said about context. Some ventures will be more successful by raising more / diluting more, while others the cash will just hurt. Some examples: hardware plays versus an AI startup.
This is exactly what I meant, thank you for putting it so eloquently.
"Russian", as in licensed from Imagination Technologies (UK) and manufactured in Taiwan.
I was speaking from the perspective of a bootstrapped startup founder. As I understood it, it can be quite hard to legally fire someone. This could easily be the end of an early stage company. Take my advice on this with a grain of salt as this was just what I heard from talking to people. I never hired anyone while I was there.
I was at a meeting a couple years ago that got a bit intense. It was being done mostly in Hungarian but I was really struggling to follow since my Hungarian is so poor so a guy switched to English for me for a bit. But he was swearing so much I could feel myself getting really tense. If he was a native speaker I would be getting ready for fists to fly. I had to keep reminding myself that to him these were just more English words.
The problem is really with how comments get ranked. Reddit comment threads annoy (some) people because "easy" jokes float to the top, when what (those) people really wanted to see is direct, charitable engagement with the parent post/comment.

Also, a joke subthread can often have a sort of "gravitational force" that engages people in replying to it such that they never end up contributing to the "real" discussion happening below it, because they never make it there. This effect gets worse the earlier in the comments the joke appears. (This also happens with political tangent-subthreads, but nobody likes those.)

I think (these) people would not be made nearly as upset by jokes if they didn't "interrupt" the flow of conversation by appearing first in comment-subthread-ranking. I'm not sure how that could be done without manual moderation, though; people will always want to reward jokes with points, because jokes do have genuine utility to their consumers. They just can choke out the production of more serious worthwhile sibling contributions.
My biggest issue is that they didn't release their data-set. With something this major, it's standard to either have a third party investigate or publicly release your data so it can be validated.

For all we know they cherry picked the responses they tested from a single site that doesn't handle anything sensitive.
Scala already does that with scala.js (production-ready) and scala-native (don't know if production-ready, probably not since it's only at 0.1 and they want to implement a better GC instead of relying on boehm like now).

Just wanted to point that out in case you didn't know that already.
Looks like a completely standard chip based on open specs. What sort of "general competence" are they missing here?
There's 3 classes of information:

1. Information where improper disclosure is illegal. For example, health records. Or credit card details, which would presumably be a violation of PCI DSS.

2. Information that can be actively exploited, but can also be fixed so the previous disclosure is harmless. This means passwords, authentication tokens, etc.

3. Information that is merely private in nature.

Cloudflare is focusing on the first two items. The third one is hard to quantify; what one person may consider private, another person might not care about. And there's not much that can be done about this kind of disclosure (beyond scrubbing caches which they're doing anyway). Also, it's difficult to automatically identify this type of content (whereas cookies, passwords, credit card numbers, etc are pretty easy to detect) and Cloudflare probably doesn't want to have their employees spending their time reading through all of the cached data they can find looking to see if there's private info (both because it's a lot of work and a huge waste of time since it won't affect anything, and because it's private info; chances are nobody's going to see it normally, and having employees reading your private messages doesn't help anyone and is a violation of your privacy).
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Snapchat is Comcast for your face, without the need for pipes. They want to own the distribution of video content on mobile (and eventually AR), whether it comes from your friend or from NatGeo. Right now, it's hard to get started on Snapchat for small vendors. It makes a lot more sense for large companies. This differentiates its strategy from Google and Facebook in a big way -- it's more demand generation (which FB also serves) than end-of-pipeline marketing. I am not sure how this limitation affects its growth potential. Thoughts? Will they open it up to smaller clients? How will the limitations of the format affect ads?
Under Ajit Pai’s FCC, mobile ISPs can charge tolls to bypass data caps
Good. Builds character. Gun owners could learn from them.
I read Guardian from time to time and while there is some (renewed) distrust to democracy, not sure it really comes from leftists (I cannot track all journalist's political views). AFAICT the ones that I recognize as leftist (e.g. Monbiot) haven't changed their mind at all.

In my experience, distrust in democracy is pretty similar on left/right spectrum, mostly correlated with elitism. Many (although a minority) of university graduates are (ostensibly) leftist yet elitist.

It also has been shown that people who are in power (for example ruling party, members of parliament, etc.) are more likely to oppose (direct) democracy. That's probably the strongest predictor.

I don't believe that people who brought the Brexit referendum had democracy in their hearts, unfortunately. I have seen examples of politicians proposing a specific referendum because they thought the idea has majority support, and refusing referendum in other instances (for example, I doubt conservatives want referendum for Scottish secession in case of Brexit).

But regardless, I suggest you educate your friends. Democracy is the leftist idea (because it treats everybody as having equal power), this goes back to origin of the word left/right in the French parliament.
It's a bit illogical though. All of us owe our current prosperity and standard of living due to people in the past finding cheaper ways to do things.
We want to be the platform where everyone can contribute, and that necessarily includes having a great GitLab.com Our strategy [0] page goes into more details there, including our business goals sequence [1] to be the preferred platforms for private repos, then public repos within a few years.

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[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#sequence
> Radical transparency, data-driven decisions for both people and company strategy, etc. are all ideals that I think ...

I'm skeptical about BA's rosy portrayal of "radical transparency," let alone RT as an ideal.

According to employee accounts, BA has plenty of skeletons and dirty laundry [0] These accounts talk to top secret areas, HR blow back, secret society themes, and selective use of "private" recordings to fit narratives. A good example's the recorded video of Dalio arguing with a female exec who resorts to crying, which would be selectively shown to demo BA's "direct confrontational culture" to new recruits. They stopped showing the surveillance--err, video.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/business/dealbook/bridgew...
In every VC pitch I've made in the past 5 years, they have all offered more money than needed/requested.

Maybe I over-corrected by choosing to bootstrap, but you can never own too much of your own company.

In the VC's defense, their funds are increasing at a rate disproportionate to the number of partners available to manage the investments.

VCs simply cannot focus on 100 $1M investments with 5 partners.
> They said they couldn't afford the $150k.

It's likely more accurate to say they didn't want to afford the $150k.
> For all we know they cherry picked the responses they tested from a single site that doesn't handle anything sensitive.

I don't think you understand how Cloudbleed works. It doesn't matter what site they picked; every single vulnerable site can leak the exact same info. It's literally impossible to cherry-pick that data.
Long-Haul Revolution of 2025 and the mass triumph of machine over man
UC Berkeley makes course video content unavailable to public
Get your content in line
Disagree - not saying that a failed startup is better than Google, but honestly there is a lot of appeal to hiring someone who took a shot on something less established. Both have their merits.
Thanks for that, I'll look into it. I wouldn't be surprised if I had something similar to that hernia. I thought I had pancreatitis for awhile, but that looks like it fits better.

I also just got an MRI and an ultrasound for a hard lump on my leg to make sure it wasn't a clot (they thought it was cellulitis but antibiotics didn't make it go away, now they think it was cellulitis and the remnants just might just stick around for awhile).

Honestly I'm just tired of getting all this checked out all the time. I max out my rather high deductible pretty quick these past couple of years, mostly to get tests taken that (so far) have been negative, so I don't really know what's actually wrong (although apparently the doctors don't ever think it's too serious, but I'm worried they make some assumptions because of my weight and something more serious might be hiding).

I agree, getting old sucks. And I'm still considered too 'young' for half the things they're testing on me, from what they keep telling me.
Any suggestions on how to best get started in AR?

What I have is an XPS 15 with a GTX 1050 with 4GB ram.
Damn that is a good point that I hadn't thought of.

This version of wikipedia puts a lot more faith in the editors because users can't check sources.
Does anyone else get a Fahrenheit 451 vibe from mixed reality? No doubt it is completely awesome and I'm very excited. I can't help but feel like we'll all end up like Millie Montag.
> Why would anyone see a doctor unless they had a health problem? (Or wanted health advice?)

Because "sedentary middle-aged American eating a typical American diet" (possibly including "fat" as well) might as well be considered a preexisting condition all by itself, and a simple checkup may catch something that can be addressed before it becomes a hospital visit. Most notable as things to watch out for are high blood pressure, high/poorly balanced cholesterol and diabetes or early signs of it. Two of those you can do some checking for at home fairly inexpensively, but cholesterol not so much.

Despite having health insurance (Thanks Obama! while it lasts) I haven't actually had a checkup in probably 5+ years, but after this I'm going to see about getting in and at the least getting bloodwork, etc. which I've been thinking about anyway. Clearly Jason Scott can't be called all that sedentary given all the walking he did during his heart attack, which is why this is a bit of a wakeup call.

Edit:

I'll throw in a surgeon's commentary from when my wife had her gallbladder out: "Men are stupid."

Context: He was noting that most gallbladder problems are in women, that 90% of gallbladders are removed laparoscopically as outpatient procedures, and that of the other 10% where people end up hospitalized most are men because "Men are stupid." Men will try to tough it out and won't go see a doctor until they're in so much pain that they end up in the ER, and the ER isn't going to dink around with a laparoscope for investigation - if things are that bad, they may well slice you open so they can see what's going on and yank it right then and there leaving a nice scar, at least one overnight in the hospital, and some significant movement restrictions while you're healing.
> “River” in Polish was a vital sound, energized with the essence of riverhood, of my rivers, of my being immersed in rivers. “River” in English is cold—a word without an aura. It has no accumulated associations for me, and it does not give off the radiating haze of connotation. It does not evoke.”

This is how I feel about foreign languages as well. Things don't feel as "heavy" somehow. In my native language, official things sound very official, strict and serious, in English it's just the meaning, factually.

Or for example when I read English technical (CS, math) books it evokes the same feeling that I took from Numberphile, or online tutorials etc, while the equivalent book in my language would sound and smell like school and obligations instead of exciting and fun things.
That seems unbelievable. Do the doctors _never_ find a heart attack, or get a patient treated for high blood preassure or skin cancer?
By that standard, the ps4 and xbox one are also underpowered because some games on those platforms also run sub-1080p. Every game makes performance tradeoffs. Some games on Switch will support 1080p, others will opt for other visual bells and whistles.
Snap's data has real value, like Facebook's. For most of their users, they have a large portion of their phone's contacts (whether you opt in or not is irrelevant due to your contacts opting into this + a network effect.) They also have media preferences based on what articles you're watching/reading. They also know who you're most interested in (who's stories you're watching most, and who you send/receive snaps from the most) and what their interests are, so they can potentially infer interests from that too, even if you don't read articles. They have location data turned on for most of their users thanks to geo filters, and if they've been "good" data miners, they're sending your facial mapping home when you do a face filter effect. I'd be surprised if Snap doesn't have the most comprehensive faces database out there with all the angles they get from selfies (though they may not have the most unique faces.)

Oh yeah, and they also have the perceived privacy that Facebook doesn't have. Deleting messages doesn't actually delete them, but it just feels better when they're gone, so people are more candid on Snapchat.

Not to mention they've also done an excellent job monetizing their features thus far, with very little intrusion that I've noticed as a user. You get the occasional ad when you're looking through stories, but most of the money is coming from things like sponsored content and geo filters, which users don't complain about.
I'm currently writing a small converter utility to convert PLS/M3U/etc playlists to UPL and back, and to serve as a reference implementation/proof of concept. If you want to follow development, feel free to star this repo:

https://gitlab.com/universal-playlist/pls2upl

You can also star the repo of the spec website itself:

https://gitlab.com/universal-playlist/universal-playlist-spe...
GitLab's indemnification is mentioned in the article "Gitlab seems to not have such, but requires you to indemnify them… YMMV. I think I’ll self-host the removed content."

We want our terms to allow everyone to contribute. I've created an issue for us to look at making our indemnification more specific
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/1185
Ok, we replaced "charity" with "group" and "gun safety" with "anti-gun" (per the URL) in the title above.
They changed the colour of the license icon (yellow to red).
I can send 5+ gig files around with Google Drive/Dropbox/Box/oneDrive for free, or up to 100gig files for less than I pay for email already. So it's not the price of storage or bandwidth that's the problem.

And transferring files is definitely part of what email was built to do - attachments are part of the MIME spec, after all. Remember, we're talking about somebody trying to send a ~51MB powerpoint file. That's a far cry from petabytes.

What users who try to send very >50MB files via email are trying to do is reasonable given email's purpose and nature of the internet. It's just that email isn't well-designed enough to handle it.
Are these only used in supercomputers, or is it common for PC's and workstations in Russia?
It seems like the ideal system for me as well, as someone who uses the 3ds pretty heavily, let's hope there are enough of us to save this console.
It's definitely working -- in fact, the FireTV won't even display the "4K Ultra HD" categories unless it's connected correctly to a compatible TV[0]. I notice the difference if I actively try to, I just don't think it's as mind blowing as everyone is claiming it to be. It's certainly not something I couldn't live without.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
A theoretical question.

There seems to be some question about whether any passwords were actually leaked, but in principle some password data could have gotten out.

What would actually have been leaked, a cleartext password or the encrypted/hashed password stored on an affected server (or both)?

I have accounts on a number of sites that were affected by Cloudbleed, as indicated by http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/, and I've already changed my passwords on those sites. But the passwords I use are randomly generated and should be practically unguessable given a hashed version. Would I have been at risk if I had left my passwords alone?
I think we're talking about different things here. I mean to refer to an online identity, a way to talk to people about a certain topic. It can be professional, commercial, political, or personal. Many people have several online identities, to talk about different topics, and they're not attached to the personal side at all.

Of course, even if it's not a personal identity, that's not enough to stop certain people from attacking the Twitter user's personal life.

You seem to be arguing to not use Twitter, which is just fine, I don't think it's necessary at all in my life. But I think a lot of people find a lot of value in the platform, and when there's something of value, I can see why a lot of people would rather try to keep Twitter useful rather than just abandon it entirely.