skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would investors pull out $3.4 billion of capital from other assets to invest in Snap if the issue was accurately priced?

As an investor I wouldn't pay 100 to buy something worth ...100. Price it below its fair value and we might talk.

When trying to mobilize capital on this scale and at this risk level (no revenue, stalled growth), the required undervaluation is significant.
Well to be fair, he named himself within his notes and did not object to the public nature of the disclosure. I agree with your sentiment though that names should not be included within postmortems in the general case.
Possibly a consensus algorithm that refuses writes when it detects itself in a minority, because it think it's in the smaller part of a split-brain scenario.

In this case, throwing away and then re-provisioning the split-off nodes is a viable approach.
Here's how Blackberry could beat Apple, along with why it won't happen. Blackberry could just take a look at what Apple is doing, and do all of the same things, then do certain key things better. From a sheer resources and capability standpoint, Blackberry could beat the pants off of Apple. I think Apple is counting on: 1) Blackberry and other big phone makers being too set in their ways and 2) GM and other big phone makers getting some key things very, very wrong. Security is probably a key example.
It's an oft-cited insurgency move to use the big power's culture against itself.
even a Volt that's not plugged in is going to be able to run its electronics for a long, long time on a single charge.

Wifi routers consume on average about 6 watts. The new Volt has an 18.4 kWh battery, which could run such a wifi router for about 4 months. Or, put another way, running a wifi router all day would use about 0.005% of the Volt's battery capacity.

Obviously a lot of other support systems would be powered on as well, but still, the point is, you're not really going to notice the battery drain from a little wifi transmitter relative to the battery capacity needed to move a 3500 lb automobile 50+ miles.
Just found this comment from years ago, I completely agree and cannot believe this system has been around for years! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5082918

PS. Great app, BTW!
"Installing software was a mess."

Of all the things to complain about in Linux, you choose the one thing that Mac OS and Windows still don't have right, and Linux had pretty good even back then?
And you owe taxes on it, regardless. I heard some sob stories from the brokers at Charles Schwab after Enron went under - energy traders who had borrowed heavily (on margin) against positions that were now worthless. Oy.
What I would ask my lawyers about the new GitHub TOS
There's lots of work that's being done related to program synthesis and inductive logic programming. You can even view the more sophisticated recurrent Neural nets, with more complex memory structures, as differentiable programs. Then you're searching the space of programs guided by gradients. SGD effectively acts as an additional prior (assumption) by the kind of solutions it tends towards.

The reason (the general) you don't hear much about them if you don't go looking is that the state of the art hasn't budged much for the past couple decades. It's the same graph algorithms, searching and sorting toy problems. The search space over programs is difficult to traverse and it remains to be seen what the added compute power + gradients gets us.

On a more practical level, the learning 2 search paradigm can be viewed as also searching for a particular program under certain strict constraints that make search tractable. Probabilistic programming where the priors and likelihoods are themselves complex programs instead of simple distributions from the exponential family are effectively also searching for programs.
Unix as we know it is almost 50 years of accretion - sh/bash is a great example of this. I think the Unix philosophy is still sound and alive, but the movement of technology means not everything that was universal before, is now.
Beyond networking, it's also been used for storage appliances: Isilon, FreeNAS, etc...
Google that ran on desktop computers isn't the same Google of today. Times change. Technology advances.

Glad to hear the vmware cluster is working out for you. Anecdotal but I've seen people having issues without touching vmware too. One personal experience doesn't diminish the cloud. Maybe different business needs? One sysadmin maintaining customer websites vs multi-person team managing a web app?

I'm not against running your own servers. Bare metal is fun, interesting, and possible. I'm just against blanket statements that "it's bare metal or nothing!".
Hmm. To me that just shifts the questions to the bankers.

If people (who don't know anything the bankers don't know) value the stock at $24, shouldn't there also be competing bankers willing to offer $20 a share for the whole lot, igniting a bidding war that converges roughly near the real price?

Obviously bankers need to make some money. But I don't see how this kind of deal has anywhere near a $1.4 billion dollar overhead, and I'm just boggled by the scale of the disparity.
Though a Unix Lover(tm), I enjoyed the UHH:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix-Haters_Handbook
There's a bit of a difference between a community of libertine/religious utopians to practice their ideals and ventures set up for (mostly) paid workers to operate trading outposts to yield sufficient profit to keep their wealthy and powerful investors satisfied...
Most people in the US do not have unlimited 4G. I went on a cross country trip recently and used my entire dataplan in 10 days.
Looks nice and minimal, but a bit too barebones, mouse seems neglected even for basic usage. I'm missing /.. to go up on the top of the folder, for example. Or even better, It'd be nice if I could click anywhere on the path to go there directly.

I'll keep an eye on the project as it is something I would gladly use.

My all time favourite nc clone is Altap Salamander, but sadly it's windows only. https://www.altap.cz
All the others I've tried, FAR, TC, etc. seemed too ugly or clunky.
>The people cannot blame the government...If the people are not willing to be part of that defense.

What about a person who would fight and not desert if conscripted, but would not volunteer?

Are they "willing to be part of that defense," or not?

I submit that most people fall in that category, and that conscription is aimed at them.
Because in that country, the pricetag is more important than health. I wonder if there will ever be a tipping point for this type of issues.
Having configured and used VMS, I feel I can conclusively say that the people in TUHH who preferred it to Unix were out of their goddamn minds.
The job I actually landed had the technical part of the job interview just like that - a laptop, a set of requirements (fixing an existing application), internet access, and some time.

I did a lot better than I do on whiteboard style interviews, so I'm definitely biased to preferring this :) .
BigData and ML Example and Library Weekly Roundup – Mar. 2, 2017
Because the best thing to do when you step into a legal shitstorm is to keep talking about it publicly.

I'm not denying her claims, but if what happened to her was true, she could have gotten a good bit of cash out of the deal if she had any evidence. If she doesn't have any evidence then the public smear campaign only opens her up to defamatory suits against herself.
> The cloud isn't a money-saving tactic.

If it requires no or a smaller ops team then it seems like it might be.
> Conscription is slavery

In much the same sense as jury duty is slavery.
You have pretty much agreed to my point. Its not a matter of running out of work, its a matter of reallocating the work.

However, I do not think we will have to force people to work less. If someone has hit the limit of what they want to consume, why are they still working? If there is really nothing more that money can buy, why would they be trying to earn more money?
I don't need a hotspot for my car, I have my phone already.
> I'm not sure why people continue to ask this question when the threat of massive global food web and ecosystem disruption caused by human-driven environmental damage is arguably far more imminent than job displacement.

Because it tickles your brain more to think about this. (No sarcasm or anything, just neutrally offering a hypothesis.)
I did not know about this!

http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

It even has an anti-foreword by Dennis Ritchie which kinda reminds me of the Metropolitan Police spokesman's blurb on the back of Banksy's book.

BTW, it starts off with an anonymous quote that I've never heard, Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. Unix is of course from Bell Labs. And anyone who knew anything would have said instead, Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and BSD which at least would have been funny if still inaccurate. Anyways, it seems like a fun rant of a book which I'd never heard of.

The above point about not getting it can be applied to Linux as well. Lessons learned elsewhere are stupid until Linus finally understands them and then they're obvious.
I'd like to posit that at least part of the problem is we're using a multi-user operating system on machines that are universally single-user. While it may be nice to have that option, is it realistic to think that many people are going to hand over their laptop/desktop machine to another person?

We're trying to use a server OS on a single-user machine, complete with all the management cruft that comes along with a server-based OS. Consequently, we don't bother re-thinking what the user needs vs. a sysop.
All Cars in Norway Will Be 100% Electric by 2025
It is a mistake to believe

- that there is anyone lurking on HN who is able to argue on this topic as authoritatively as James Hansen and

- that such a person would be willing to educate you here.

You might try

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+james+hansen+wrong%3F

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#Criticism
http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24
I'm notorious for leaving behind gems such as this. For example: https://twitter.com/noahlz/status/767851284930199557
Gigabyte mobos say you can use ecc memory but not run them in ecc mode.
"Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)"
Kickstarter's Annual Public Benefit Report
active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775624
The mystery of why some people hate raw tomatoes
It's still somewhat early days. There's a card [1] on the feature requests list for making ".." configurable. The reason it's not there by default is that I want to keep the UI as clean as possible. But if you vote on the card (like many others have), then the implementation of this feature will be moved up in priority.

[1]: https://trello.com/c/i3iA6BFZ/2-entry-in-folders
What is the theory which states that the relationship is the cover graph is linear? There must be one otherwise the fit does not make sense, it could have been ax^3 + e^9x, or heart shaped.

There should be a law punishing arbitrary linear fits and ridiculous claims which are concluded from their correlation.
They're now available for any member of the general public to go buy, no invite or celebrity status required.
Nothing is going to happen to the engineer that did this, other than embarrassment and probably a couple jokes once sufficient time has passed. Amazon has a strong culture around blaming the process, not the person. The failure here wasn't that the engineer ran the command, it was that the engineer was able to run the command.

Source: AWS employee
I like the idea of flat address spaces with memory protection only. There are a variety of ARM processors that are set up that way, like the ARM940T which has 16 regions that can be configured in size, position, priority, etc. Using a large background region with several smaller high-priority regions that overlap it, you can run several tasks with enforced private memory and shared memory spaces. That way you get some of the benefits of an MMU, but with fast context switches and deterministic timing.
Well, please, go ahead do some digging. Here, I'll get you started: https://www.google.com/#q=how+many+obama+voters+voted+for+tr...

Feel free to choose your sources. Now, that said, it would be somewhat disingenuous to quote many numbers about who switched from Obama to Trump, since we use an Australian ballot system, and exit polls can't track individual behaviour longitudinally. I'm sure some people switched sides.

Also, you're on an internet forum. It's not like you have some inalienable right to random people on the internet providing you a fully researched dossier on the 2016 election outcomes in the next hour. Professionals will spend years parsing the results. Take a deep breath.

Here's a fun exercise: who do you think I am?
Musk's got it in the bag anyways with his boring company.
Here's another article that provides a nice summary of what happened: http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OS...

It's kind of disheartening to read that the people behind this plot got off so easily (either being paroled early or getting a pardon).
It's called the "evolution of evolvability" in most bio literature.
Series of missteps leaves smart-toy brand database exposed
You might want to check that link again with a HN referer! Interesting results :)
Because in the real world we need robust classifiers not optimised ones.

Problem : robust && optimized are very vague terms in ML.
Snap Inc first rating: Sell ($10)
I think the biggest problem with flags like --emergency is if they end up in daily use, such as git --force. Then, they are both sudo-level AND used without a lot of though.
Will electric cars change the health issues related to living near freeways? I know we are a long way away from replacing most of the vehicles with electric.
Yes, there is variance of structure and character in the population of startups.
>So "how do you value"...

The same way you value anything. AR might be "new", but "new" things aren't new; they come out all the time, forever.

>It's hard to look at an early click-wheel, monochrome screen iPod and see a mobile phone ecosystem worth trillions of dollars

Which is why it would be incredibly naive to, in any way, predict Snapchat to have that sort of success, because it is so incredibly rare. It's like playing the lottery: yes there's a winner, but the odds of any individual company becoming "best ever" are incredibly slim. I have the same sentiment toward TSLA. I invest accordingly.

I think we are saying the same thing, I just lean cynical.
The author is in fact quoting from "Worse is Better". RTFA.
We must do away with the notion that everybody has to earn a living. (1970)
Words matter in a sensitive field like security
To park, not to drive. And the speed in this case is 2km/h instead of bicyclist doing 20 among pedestrians.
> If people (who don't know anything the bankers don't know) value the stock at $24, shouldn't there also be competing bankers willing to offer $20 a share for the whole lot, igniting a bidding war that converges roughly near the real price?

Yes, though with a discount factor applied due to the risk involved. And particularly for a high-profile IPO like $SNAP, and one in which a lot of the sellers on Day 1 will be casual retail investors placing market orders[0], it's hard to gauge exactly how much hype there will be.

[0] ie, as opposed to limit orders
Interesting, this sounds like a decent idea. Thanks.
Why not "Persona"? ;)

I kid, but it makes sense. Containers describes the implementation, not the user experience or benefit.

(Reusing the name "Persona" for any new project is a running joke at Mozilla. :)
"should" is the key word here.
Software Developer in Charlotte, NC [ON SITE ONLY]
Investor Management Services believes the best technology alone isn’t enough. That’s why everything we build and deliver begins with something else — the best people. Visit IMS careers page to begin the journey with us at https://www.investormanagementservices.com Why we would want You to join the team? •You have at least 1+ year of experience in a data engineering, development, or a similar position. •You understand best practices with SQL. You can thoughtfully design a database to enable performant queries and use advanced features to make those queries fast and clean. •You have experience with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, understand the strengths and weaknesses of them, and are curious to explore more. •You have some experience or a strong interest in continual learning and are always continuing to strive for personal development. Why You would want to join us? •We’re dedicated to finding the right fit with our people. We pick people and we are dedicated to the development of those people. We are willing to boosts your strengths, as long as you are looking to do that too. •Our team works on solving problems. We like to help other teams turn their needs into great technology, and we like developers to tackle the challenges. •We move fast, with many releases and an interactive approach to developing new features and measuring their success by client feedback. •We have a gym in the office; cater lunch to everyone, Monday through Friday; Also have 4 rotational beer kegs to celebrate our successes! •We offer very competitive salaries, excellent benefits (and perks), and a generous PTO plan
For a single host that you know you'll want in 3 years it probably isn't worth it. If demand grows 10x in the next year though, how does that look? What if the host has a sudden failure? What if the business dies and you want to get rid of the host?
Steps of Building a House Pictures
Propeller: Front-End Framework Based on Google's Material Design and Bootstrap
Looks like they are going to close with a market cap approximately three times that of Twitter...
> The cloud isn't a money-saving tactic.

Most tactics in business are money-saving tactics, and cloud is clearly one: dynamic scaling means only spending now for what you need now rather than spending now based on anticipated future need, and someone-else's-server means economies of scale in ops.
There are interesting parallels between operating systems and political parties here, and this is not a coincidence: both operating systems and political parties are infrastructure, and infrastructure is really hard both to build and to replace once it has become established. So in both cases you see a lot of rationalization about how the existing solutions are perfectly OK even though they are not simply because no one wants to do the heavy lifting (and in both cases it is very heavy lifting) required to actually come up with something better.
FCC Blocks Rules to Let You Control How ISPs Use Your Data
> despite being in quotes

Good point. That's bad. We removed the quotes above.
Obligatory: NOSA is not a free software license.

Details at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NASA
It isn't, and it's not even close. Unless you're running at less than 40% efficiency the cloud is more expensive for infrastructure running 24/7. If you're a shop with 1 server and no IT guy? Sure, probably makes sense to use the cloud - although I'd argue you'd be better off with managed hosting so you actually have a number to call if something breaks.

An organization of even medium size? Not a chance.
Established enterprise vendors are increasingly promoting cloud offerings, and their pricing reflects that.
It would be equally as hard through a good command line.

Why is good design only possible in GUIs?
And you're also stuck with a $200/month power bill and the full home heater....

Don't get me wrong, I have a bunch of rack pull servers and they're great for the price but I colo mine for less/server than the power bill/server would be at home and have them ona faster connection. I stick with low power options for light in-home usage
Installation on Windows was always much easier; all programs had a relatively consistent UI wizard that stepped you through the installation process. Installing software from disks on Windows was really convenient (and disks where the real deal back then).

The fact that Linux relied on people to install stuff with the command line was a massive oversight. UIs are just way more intuitive than shell commands.
This is actually true. When we took 100% of all able men in Norway, the got the top guys as well as the lump. Now, when it's gotten a lot easier to get out of conscription, a lot of the well people with other ambitions skip this.
They also probably have one or more test regions where they could perform a test like this. But it's presumably not at nearly the same scale as us-east-1, the region affected by this incident. And to a considerable extent the problem was one of scale. The writeup makes the recovery sound fairly straightforward; but due to the sheer size of S3 in this region, it took hours for the system to come back up, which was apparently unexpected.

(Nit: this incident affected a region, not a zone. us-east-1 is a region, which is divided into zones us-east-1a, us-east-1b, etc. S3 operates on regions.)
As a cyclist my primary concern is diesel trucks with scant emissions controls belching particulate and other combustion byproducts. I see little movement to get these off the road.
Netflix is a classic case of very bursty demand when they eg regularly re-encode all video, or even just see huge audience swings when people get home from work and turn the tv on.

Most companies at even 1k servers will get enormous cost savings from O&O.

A former employer, then in the 600-ish box range, costed out moving to ec2. Our ops actually brought up our internal hadoop cluster on ec2 as well as ran parallel workloads for a week. Amazon at the time offered price deals to attempt to get them as a marquee customer, as well as a bunch of engineering time. Even so, ec2 cost 3-4x as much for 1/3 the throughput. ec2's prices have since fallen, but so has the price of bare hardware.

People also overestimate the cost of hands-on; this company contracted for 4 hours / week with a local person. If you get serious about puppet/chef you can successfully run lots of servers in a remote datacenter.
There is a Contextual Identities API for WebExtensions shipping in Firefox 53:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
Actually it has been progressing nicely linearly so the original predictions were way too optimistic, but it is at break even now. In the meantime, there are major improvements to be made in fission.

Making it progress faster would take more genius scientists plus somewhat more funding. Not a lot more though. But where do you find and view do you cultivate such physicists and material scientists?
Crawling described here is very inefficient. For efficient and high performance crawling I recommend libcurl and curlmulti.
I just did a blind purchase. Partly because I hate osx finder that much, partly because I want to support people who ask the right price for their products, and partly because it was the right time;I like to get up early tomorrow and install something new.

And who knows, it might even replace my xplorer2 (http://zabkat.com/) on Windows..
I'm having difficulty reconciling this statement

> The goal is not to get invaded in the first place

with this one

> Afghanistan succeeded in getting the Soviets out in the end.
The author neglects to note the most famous, successful and longevitous example: Israel.

Millions of Jews followed Moses into the Sinai desert to build an intentional community over 3,000 year ago and the project is still going today. Even more remarkably, this community grew out of a single family. Most of the intentional community projects of the 19th Century are explicitly modeled on this.

I'm guessing this was an intentional omission.
Installing software from the distro is easy on Linux, but otherwise it's potentially a problem. Whereas Windows has no "distro" but the .msi system works quite well.
^^^ Open incognito if you don't want to see jwz's NSFW salutations to HN readers...