skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast vast vast majority of snaps are not nudes or drunken debauchery. Most of them are just mundane moments of life: I saw a building while walking down the street, or, here's my lunch.

Snapchat is useful and popular because it is a way for people to say hi to their friends without having anything to say. You just take a selfie with a filter, make a face, and you're done. This lets you feel close to your friends without having the pressure of actually having a conversation topic.

The genius of Snapchat is that because photos are ephemeral, the bar to create content is as low as it gets, which results in orders of magnitudes of more content creation and sharing compared to platforms like Instagram. On Instagram, you spend all of your time obsessing over the perfectly angled and filtered photo, hoping to get as many likes as possible. As a result, you'll post on Instagram once a week, but you'll post 5 times a day to snapchat. That's a two-orders magnitude of difference in usage, which is why Snapchat is so successful.
It's not just too harsh, it's not true. See the comments from those involved in the decision in this thread.
> and the costs of cloud service are zooming up, potentially leaving you without the margin to invest.

What do you mean by this, because it sounds like a straight up lie?

Amazon and Google are in an ongoing price war and cut costs regularly.
Just provide a range when candidates ask please. Its perfectly reasonable and the whole "we only want passionate rockstars that understand we are saving the world" farce is unprofessional.
DoubleCommamder is a really good clone of Total Commander.

Recommended!
According to the Steam hardware survey, only about half of PC gamers have four cores, with the other half having two cores. Granted, many of those two-core systems will be four-thread systems, but I don't think its fair to say that the market is dominated by 4+ core users today.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
More just posing the question of how Earth based life forms are dependent on a lot of variables that are interconnected to wavelengths of life that correspond to colors. Not drawing a conclusion on what this means for life elsewhere in the universe, but more documenting the interconnections between various parts of biology, chemistry, and astrophysics and how they relate to the colors we see.
Samsung Research America | Systems Research Engineer | Mountain View, CA | Onsite, Fulltime | http://www.sra.samsung.com/job/view/288901

We're a group of scientists and engineers who are building fault tolerant, distributed systems. Members of the group have published at top conferences such as OSDI, NSDI, FAST, MobiSys, Middleware, etc. We are currently hiring hands-on systems researchers as well as people with strong software development skills in Python, Java, C, or C++. If you are very comfy with coding for Android or Linux, do mention that. Also, if you have coded against a DB like MySQL, Riak, Cassandra, or a pub/sub system, bonus points! The right candidate must be comfy with concurrency primitives (have used locks, critical sections in practice and understand the implications thereof) and network programming. We don't carry pagers or have on-call - the work is more about coming up with compelling ideas and creating proof of concept demos/prototypes to illustrate them. This is a very unique opportunity for a serious developer who is interested in getting exposure to a research lab setting. The company offers lots of perks. Please mention you saw the post on HN.

P.S. My first "Who Is Hiring" post. Please be gentle :)
YC's Sam Altman Interviews Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook
Yowza. I don't see how all mfgrs don't move to Tesla's update model. Knowing how things go it'll probably be 10 years before we're there.
THAT is true. Kubernetes on its own is not a product, per se. There is no one company behind it. No legally binding support contract. etc.

It is the basis for many products (plural) and an ecosystem, which is really what we wanted to achieve.
Catching up with DuckDuckGo?
Theoretically, you can also keep allowing Push Notification permission every time you install and then delete. This will cause the number of push tokens (unique per device per install) they see to increase.
There are ways to overcome this of course - they might have a routine to send silent push notifications at regular intervals to test for this and purge inactive ones or retire extremely old tokens. Just a lot of housekeeping.
P.S: Not posting to incite any malicious behavior - just issues i've seen with trying to count "unique" installs for mobile apps.

Edit:typo
There is no "deep logistic regression" because such a construct is just called a "neural network". (It's not the only kind of neural network however.)
This is incredibly misguided.

> The cloud as a money saving venture is and always has been a damn lie.

I personally have conducted migration savings assessments for companies going from data centers (owned/lease hardware) to cloud services. I can tell you with 100% certainty that the savings are there and have seen financial proof of the savings.

It's either that, or I'm a liar.
Sure. I suspect the expense of new car batteries and the inconvenience of having them run down twice a day or so might make it a less optimal choice than just buying internet service.
Calendar: All Tech Conferences in 2017
Not the PM you're looking for, but: that feedback has definitely already been recorded.
I realize it's somewhat off-topic, but when on Android, I have found no better browser than Firefox because of extensions. uBlock Origin is indispensable if you don't want to root your device.
No it doesn't.

WP 8 and 8.1 use MDIL, Machine Dependent Intermediate Language, basically machine code with jump targets kept as symbolic links, replaced at installation time.

WP 10 uses .NET Native.

I can gladly point out the respective Microsoft documentation, BUILD and Channel 9 presentations.
Netflix has edge caching deployed at "thousands of ISPs worldwide."

https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...
LG VR Headset Specs and Info
> Hire a good ops team

I feel this is one of those "easier said than done" statements...
Does Apple own any factories?
Cute project. I really like keyboard-driven graphical applications, they have so much potential.

The licensing seems bit curious, whats the rationale in limiting the amount and time?
I also have cmake installed for Mac w/Homebrew and used a binary install of qt-5.8.

After adding the clang_64/bin dir on the $PATH I too am getting 'ld: framework not found QtCore'.

Anyone able to suggest where I'm going wrong?
High ambient humidity means no net evaporation of your sweat so no cooling effect of sweating. If the ambient temperature is above body temperature and humidity is high, you won't be able to cool yourself and will quickly overheat (keep in mind that you already generate 100 W resting). Your experience in the hot desert was different because it was very dry.
Until your company scales and you're trying to hire and no one wants to work for you.

Hire a talent specialist, don't think short term, and read Work Rules :)
Hey, you are a liar. He is very sure that the cloud saving money has always been a damn lie! To hell with your data.

/s
I thought this was an unusually good article. It covered the topic very clearly, with relevant code samples written with excellent and idiomatic style (and useful inline comments too), as well as covering the process of going from theory to implementation.

This is also a great reminder of how incredibly elegant and powerful the basic data structures (hashmaps and binary trees in this case) really are. It doesn't take a fancy implementation to make this stuff work. Just the basics gets it done.
Do their cars come with decent in-car entertainment that can actually use the Internet?

When I got my new 2016 Honda Accord I was looking forward to some good streaming music in the car. I read that the built-in stereo comes with Pandora. I also knew that the built-in stereo can also access the Internet. "Cool," I thought. "I can fire up the hotspot on my phone, connect the car to the Internet, then the Pandora will connect and do its thing."

Nope. Turns out that the stereo can connect to the Internet. It's got Android. But the most useful thing I can do is browse the Web on my car stereo screen. Something I have never, ever wanted to do. Apparently it also connects to some useless thing called Aha Radio, which hasn't been updated in years. The Pandora can't even use the Internet connection! It only works through Bluetooth or, apparently, though hooking up my phone via a cable.

So the stereo's Internet connection is practically useless, and my only streaming options work through the phone, which is generally a glitchy experience. Though I must say, the Pandora built in to the car is generally better than Apple CarPlay, which has been a huge disappointment.

So hopefully Chevy has something decent in their car other than an Android web browser on the car screen, and hopefully it's not just Apple CarPlay or Android Auto or anything like them, because in my experience the phone makers are all about stripping away hardware buttons. When I'm driving the hardware buttons are far superior to finicky on-screen buttons.
M1L: We Have One Life. What Is Your Mission?
I really feel for this person. I would feel extremely shitty.
1 year of support is better than 0 years of support.
Would this compromise any consumer routers?
The company might not be doing well but their product is solid. If they don't figure it out, GoPro is going to be acquired by someone, that's for certain.
Don't forget to take the tinfoil off when you're done ;-)

What are some examples of companies that started in the cloud then switched to their own metal? Surely there are some blog posts about costs before & after?
Possibly outgoing bandwidth. These costs are directly proportional to traffic and regularly 20-30x the unmetered rate for a colocated box
There was a time when something else was even more valuable: tulips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Conscription is literally slavery. Taxation isn't slavery its an obligation to pay a fraction of what you earn ergo if you earn nothing you owe nothing and have no obligation.
Amiga Future issue 125 released – Computer magazine
Beer pong in Hong Kong has its own kooky rules – and purists hate them
It's an interesting project, clearly stemming from scratching one's personal itch. Congrats on the Show HN, always an exciting experience :)

A bit of a reality check though if you don't mind - I think you will have very hard time selling this.

Windows chunk of your target audience will undoubtedly be already using Far and its many plugins, and thus have very little reason for switching. Conversely, those not familiar with Far probably won't be that interested in fman either.

Mac - desktop Mac market is exactly 1/10 of that of Windows. Perhaps Mac people are more inclined to pay, but it will still be peanuts compared to what a Windows version could bring.

Linux - I am frankly not familiar with a single Linux user, developer or not, who ever bought anything except for games.

[1] http://www.farmanager.com
I'm talking about the monthly data, not the phone.
If your assertion was true, then I'd expect those areas to be so full of crime, misery and drug abuse, that it would make international news.

> It's quite a mystery as to why well-educated people persist in the mistaken belief that UBI will magically cause recipients to behave nobly.

I find the reverse to be the mystery - why some people persist in the belief that people on UBI will mostly turn to spending their days abusing drugs and cheap entertainment? Like if humans were zombies who need an employer to give their life a direction?
Werkzeug Easter egg
Data imported from:
https://github.com/TextCalHQ/Calendars/blob/master/Tech/Conf...
I can imagine being that guy in that exact moment. But I can't imagine being that guy after the event. There will be a constant fear and doubt in my mind. And a constant fear whether others trust me anymore. I couldn't quit because that might make me look bad and I couldn't continue because that might make me look bad.
It would be great if it could create automatically one container per domain: every site would be neatly separated from all the other ones. If you logged in Facebook the other tabs for other sites wouldn't know about it. Doing that manually every time is almost impossible.
I know of only one species that wears glasses.
Because there are limits to engineering resources even at Amazon.
Ryzen does support ECC. Confirmed by the CEO of AMD in the Reddit AMA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...
Back when high-end supercomputers used AMD Opterons, systems with a lot of memory would have had observable problems had ECC not worked pretty well.

Right now the #3 system in the world is a Cray system using Opterons.
If you're having trouble getting volunteers, the solution is simple. Pay them more.
GDAX sign-in inaccessible, Coinbase transactions disabled
Edgeless.io Launches Its ICO to Become the First Fully Transparent Casin
This isn't entirely true – Snapchat already has features that let you save content permanently.
Probably not, but don't worry. Our ability to destroy the world is greatly exagerated.

I don't think we will even manage to get ourselves extinct, though a great deal of needless suffering is pretty much innevitable at this point.
As Saudis prepare to sell shares in oil giant, some have misgivings
Sounds like AWS needs Spinnaker for easy rollbacks! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13776456
I like it at first glance, it is a lot more aesthetically pleasing than the other alternatives others have mentioned. I will try it out for a while and buy it if I like it enough.

Why is there a limited number of licenses available?
Because emergent systems respond to incentives fluidly without needing centralized coordination. They outperform designed systems.
It makes a pretty good layout even on screen:

http://jsbin.com/relaranujo/2
If they used their own hardware a good portion of their profit would go to maintain that very same hardware. And because they would build that infrastructure from scratch it would cost even more to set up.
The American Folklife Center blogged about this recently:

http://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/02/birth-of-blues-and-jaz...
So, AI brings massive productivity, which drops cost of living... and then what happens to the industries whose costs were reduced as part of that?

What if the impact of AI reducing costs looks like the impact of on textile industries in countries that receive mountains of donated clothes?

"The result of this harmful practice is increased dependency on foreign aid in countries like Kenya and Uganda. Local industry can't compete, so factories close down, taking priceless jobs with them. It's a huge problem."

[0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-intervie...
[1] http://blog.wovin.org/faq
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/23/lets-kill-the-aid-industry...
I didn't like poetry until I took a poetry class at uni, and a talented teacher opened my eyes.
I would think running on 'owned hardware' in rented colo space is very close to 'rented hardware' in the cloud.

The only clear differentiator then is actually owning a datacenter. And the Total Cost of Ownership of that isn't easy. For someone who doesn't want to be in the datacenter-ownership business, opting in to cloud would make sense. Concerns for privacy and government intervention are a valid concern though.
I'd also argue that "sufficient demand" is a threshold that's been rising very fast over the last couple of years and likely to continue doing so.

This also explains why older tech companies disproportionately use their own hardware, even those that aren't all that big. They all made that decision at a time when it made sense and the switching cost is sufficiently high to prevent them from turning back now.

I doubt there are many rational cases now for newer companies to use anything but the cloud. Even at the scale of Snapchat (>3B$ infrastructure spend over next 5 years) and Netflix, it appears the public cloud is still the rational choice.
The actual streaming video from Netflix does not come from Amazon's systems. From https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/netfl...,

"Netflix operates its own content delivery network (CDN) called Open Connect. Netflix manages Open Connect from Amazon, but the storage boxes holding videos that stream to your house or mobile device are all located in data centers within Internet service providers' networks or at Internet exchange points, facilities where major network operators exchange traffic. Netflix distributes traffic directly to Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and other big network operators at these exchange points."

Everything else - such as the Netflix UI, your account management, billing, etc - is on Amazon. But Netflix has an enormous amount of hardware distributed around the world. If you wanted to compete with Netflix, you would need to do a lot more than uses Amazon's cloud services.
I tried mc ftp client, and it was not a enjoyable experience.
Dropbox switched from S3 to their own in-house hardware:

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...
Precisely.

"we have changed the SHD administration console to run across multiple AWS regions."
Linear regression on top of linear regression with non-linearities in between is a neural network.
I am fascinated as the temporal gap between fireball Earth and living Earth keeps narrowing. The more this gap closes, the more it suggests that any planet with the right conditions will develop life. Exciting prospect for early Martian life!
Thanks for your sharing your story. I learned of Rumi through my exposure to non-violent communication (M. Rosenberg) and have already experienced many times a mystic, transcendent moment of empathic connection to others and myself. I find it is something that can be practiced, something you can have at any moment of your life. Rumi's poems come very close to this beauty I have experienced.
The Multi-Directional Developer
I think Snap has potential to be huge… anything that wins the race to replace TV is going to be big. Whether they can do it before FB clones them/leverages their network is a big open question.

That said, despite the fact that I love Twitter more than any other network, almost none of my friends use it maybe ~a dozen people I know closely in real life still post to it. Almost all of my friends use Snapchat and complain about my lack of engagement with it.

Anecdotal, but I don't think they are comparable… additionally if your (likely closer nit group of vs. FB's "everyone you know") friends aren't posting, brands are putting up a TON that people seem to really like.
Achieving Reproducibility with Conda and Domino Environments
Not even four 9's - they only trigger SLA credits when they dip below 3 9's.
I'm exited that competition returns, no more Intel's monopoly.
what are you looking to implement ?
PoisonTap – steal cookies, installs web backdoor on locked computers
SNAP's real value lies in its future as an augmented reality company. They've spent something close to $1B in R&D - likely going toward hardware or something...
Yes, cloud bandwidth is expensive. I don't disagree with that. But it's not increasing in price.

Obviously if you're growing your costs will grow, but that's basically a tautology. Bare metal costs also rise as you grow.
Hm, based on the description, I would be surprised if they could fat-finger that.
Yup, solid advice re: waiting. Generally, I've heard it as "don't do anything drastic with the money for a year". That gives enough time to let the emotions cool down.
The $SNAP price isn't being driven by index funds. Index funds also aren't about blindly investing ("we don't really care what...") - it's about delegating that trust. For example, SPY is delegating that to a trusted entity (you're trusting that the S&P 500 will remain a meaningful measure of the US stock market).
In a program I wrote I make the user manually type "I AGREE" (case-sensitive) in a prompt before continuing, just to avoid situations where people just tap "y" a bunch of times.
If those are your choices, then your choice makes absolutely the most sense!
I know it's a controversial opinion. And probably not even true in a lot of cases... but I'm glad it sounds like I'm out in left field.

The echo chamber needs a devil's advocate and sometimes the resulting discussion gets interesting enough that I question my original beliefs.

In this case I believe owning my hardware is cheaper for me because I already do. I might be a rarity though, or just old fashioned and wrong
Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now
I think they should have led with insensitivity about it and maybe a white lie. Such as... We took our main region us-east-1 down for X hours because we wanted to remind people they need to design for failure of a region :-)

Shameless plugs (authored months ago):
http://tuxlabs.com/?p=380 - How To: Maximize Availability Effeciently Using AWS Availability Zones ( note read it, its not just about AZ's it is very clear to state multi-regions and better yet multi-cloud segway...second article)
http://tuxlabs.com/?p=430 - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and the singularity of the future Internet
The Neglected Android Open Source Project
http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/ is the url to "Double Commander" for those that googled for "DoubleCommamder" and could only find "DoubleCommand".
I think they should have led with insensitivity about it and maybe a white lie. Such as... We took our main region us-east-1 down for X hours because we wanted to remind people they need to design for failure of a region :-)

Shameless plugs (authored months ago):
http://tuxlabs.com/?p=380 - How To: Maximize Availability Effeciently Using AWS Availability Zones ( note read it, its not just about AZ's it is very clear to state multi-regions and better yet multi-cloud segway...second article)

http://tuxlabs.com/?p=430 - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and the singularity of the future Internet
Sweden was bombed by USSR a few times in 1940 and 1944, though.
Anecdote, but I am a Linux user and have paid for animation software (the name escapes me, I didn't do much with it). That said I feel like if more quality software existed for Linux, I feel there would be more of a market for it. I would gladly pay for quality CAD software, as well as a decent graphical suite and video editor.
> So the board seems to accept ECC memory, hopefully that means the memory controller actually performs ECC? I found a reddit comment claiming that the boards accept ECC memory but don't perform error correction[1].

This is set up by the firmware (BIOS). Since we all already know that quite some of these still have issues (unsurprisingly, it's a new platform), it isn't far-fetched at all that current firmware doesn't quite do the right thing with certain memory sticks.

Note that this is unbuffered, unregistered ECC memory, which is usually more expensive and less available than the standard server memory (DDR3R / DDR4R), which is NOT compatible with any consumer CPUs.
I can tell this is inspired by Norton Commander.

My obvious question: Why use fman when I can use Midnight Commander (for Linux) and Far Manager for Windows? Both are very powerful and mature.

One reason I ask: fman requires a paid license for business use, whereas the other two do not.

(Wrote a Midnight Commander guide once: http://nawaz.org/media/docs/mc/mc.pdf )
I'm nearly sold out [1] so I don't see a problem selling this. Far manager is command-line only. 24% of my visitors are on Mac, Windows is 34% - hardly 1/10.

[1]: https://fman.io/buy
Reverse MX Lookup – Find all domains using a specified mail server
Actually they own a lot of very expensive equipment that their subcontractors operate for them. E.g. all those CNC milling machines for their phones/laptops/watches. These capital expenditures were a bit steep for their subcontractors, so this creates a kind of symbiotic relationship.