skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every kid I know agrees with your kids. The article seemed like sensationalist attempt at self-fulfilling prophecy. FWIW, I'm taking a hard look at buying Snap just after the locks expire. No reason to do it now and a lot to be gleaned by seeing how much insiders sell.
I've never thought of it that way before in terms of a contract. Very interesting.
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Even if they do know it they don't care.

Most drivers (as a generalization) have distain for pedestrians and expect them to get out of their way all the time because they are in an automobile, thus much more important. I've been cursed at and honked at many, many times for entering an intersection at the very beginning of the "walk" symbol because the driver wished to make a right hand turn. More than once! There's actually some intersections where it's actually very dangerous to cross at the "walk" symbol for that reason.

Then there's the drivers who believe they are more important than even other cars, they believe stop signs (and red lights to an extent) don't apply to them and just ignore them and go when they feel like it and expect other people to stop for them. I was hit by a car as a child pedestrian by a driver who didn't even slow down for a red light. Luckily they didn't do any damage as they slammed on the brakes last minute and only knocked me down. Just the other day I had a near miss, as a driver, with another car who ran a red light. That driver flipped me off because I was in their way and they believe themselves to be much more important than me. Last time I drove with my dad he yelled at me for not illegally cutting off the driver who had the right of way but was a little slow entering the intersection. My dad is a huge asshole in practically every other way possible.

It's gotten so much more hostile in the last decade. This is why self driving cars can't come soon enough.
I gave little more data in the other reply and I am happy to hear other experiences.

But as said the results are significantly worse than on FB. I experienced 10x.
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This might have something to do with their financial issues. You obviously don't need these kinds of amenities to learn how to code a SPA. I'd be put off by them and wonder where my money was going and why.
It is weird to compare Snapchat and Instagram, they have very few in common.

Instagram is for photos you want to have long term, and which are defining your social level. And it is not for communicating

Snapchat is for communicating.

But Snapchat is just overvalued has everyone wants to have share in the futur big name of the internet, but they are far from dying ...
Just how challenging it can be to switch gears between people management and development not just from minute to minute or hour to hour, but from day to day. It's very easy to get in a mindset where you spend weeks at a time thinking about people and process or weeks at a time thinking about code. And context switching between those mindsets is a process that's both jarring and slow.
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> maybe you can build some stripped-down version of electron that contains only the parts you need

if you're using electron in the first place, I think its safe to assume that re-inventing electron is not within your skillset.
Original hn thread (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8134182
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I get that little popup on this website saying "you agree to our use of cookies to give you the best possible experience".

Why do I need cookies to maximize my unix time experience, exactly?
If only our webpages were as awesome as Disneyland :)
I just found out recently FreeCiv is working on a WebGL implementation.
Getting home at 21:00 and he's up again at 05:00 so most of that time will be spent sleeping. What's the point?
I believe you're using biased sampling to value Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook. That's why you believe Instagram isn't valuable
One thing I don't understand about net neutrality. Say I'm a toll road. I built the road when cars were relatively small and light. Now, some cars are getting really heavy and big (think semi trucks) and are the majority of my traffic. Because of this, they beat up the road and cause more congestion. So I want to repair the road and/or add more lanes by increasing the toll on these trucks. But all the trucking companies are complaining and preventing me from doing it, thus ultimately hurting the small personal cars that want to zip through.

Obviously this is an analogy to net neutrality, so why is this reasonable situation fundamentally different? In a free market, shouldn't I be able to increase the tolls on my private infrastructure for those that put the most stress on it?

(Now I will say, the fact that there's only one toll road option for many people is anti-competitive and against the free market, but that's not this topic)
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> Most of the stereotypes of Chinese tourists equally apply to Americans.

I'm sorry this is simply not true and I'd argue this well meaning anti-racist-to-the-point-of-delusion attitude that has been drilled into the heads of Westerners is part of the problem of why China as a nation hasn't made more serious efforts to teach its citizenry the very basics of common courtesy.

I've been in airport immigration queues and watched numerous different Chinese people blatantly (there isn't a strong enough word to fully describe the magnitude) cut into every single line they could....if there was the slightest of gaps, a Chinese person would be jumping into it, completely oblivious (or not, I'm suspicious) to the rude stares of others who are politely queuing. And I won't even get into volume of speaking, driving habits, adherence to laws related to fraud, etc.

One would think their fellow countrymen who know better would say something (if I saw a Canadian pulling this stunt he'd get a severe public shaming from me), but once again most Westerners would probably disagree with this, as the very notion of groups having a social responsibility for "policing themselves" is also considered "racist", as is even noticing blatantly obvious patterns in objective reality.

EDIT: Reminded me of this video:

Why BUY books in CHINA when you can read them for FREE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=950PYt9d1Po

I think this goes a long ways to explaining why they are the way they are, types of behavior that would be unthinkable anywhere else is absolutely normal in China.
QuillJS also does this, I believe
Indeed, I am always dumbfounded by the progressive, jet-set class that complain endlessly about CO2 emissions and then go fly across the world.

Eating and buying local is good for the environment, but so is staying local.

/off-topic-rant
Diamonds in the rough is exactly how I'd describe it. I've sifted through many resumes from DevMountain graduates (and not surprisingly their instructors). What it looked like was one big homogeny of "here's how you create a github account, here's how you commit and push the Angular exercises we've been working on". Almost all were identical resumes. Regardless, the ones that we've hired seemed to do fine.
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The downside of this is a treatment that you can get approved for something rare, but now it is on the market and they can tell doctors it has promise for some common X. Getting approval for treating X would be more expensive because you have to do a larger trial. (you should do a large trial for the rare thing, but since there are not enough people with the rare thing you cannot)
Is it just me that thinks these are two completely different products? It's like suggesting a few years back that FB will kill Flickr because people are uploading their photos to FB instead.

People use Snapchat to share candid photos to their friends. Instagram seems way more about creating a photo-based social feed where people upload a whole range of image-based content such as quotes they like, a meal they're having, and moments they want to remember and share.

I must admit, I don't use either, but they seem like different services with a few crossover features in a similar space.
a previous discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13270116
It must be nice to have a choice of ISPs. I have exactly one to "choose" from.
Would these panels capture energy from the signal being radiated by my mobile phone? What about gamma rays?

In other words, is a solar cell something that captures energy from photons and converts it into usable electricity? Or from some subset of photons?
Would enjoy hearing an update on Melanie Perkins of Canva > http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/14/canva-ceo-melani...
Snap is still losing money, so slowing growth could be a death sentence. Instagram also provides a viable alternative for people to move to if Snapchat ramps up advertising.

My own take is that they're both fads and we'll be talking about something else in 10 years either way.
"And, while von Badinski is aware that his flight comes with a significant carbon footprint, the Bay Area leg of his journey is more environmentally friendly. He keeps a plug-in hybrid vehicle at Oakland airport for the drive into San Francisco."

Could anyone do the math?
Also in NLP domain a precision reduction may be applied: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06363
That space might still have less competition and therefore lower marketing costs.
Zuck doesn't try to destroy Snapchat in my opinion, it just tries to re-use the features that made Snapchat successful
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The problem is why should you spend it if it's a good investment? And why is it a good investment if nobody wants to spend it? Seems like they've just kicked the "chicken and egg" can down the road. Don't get me wrong I own some coins and might invest in some more, because it might work.
I can't recall a single instance of an Indian person doing this anywhere in the world I've been to (I haven't been to India itself), leading me to believe they are conscious of their behavior, unlike Chinese mainlanders where it seems to be unconscious instinct.
Municipalities that run demand response bus services will be quick adopters.

One of their big costs is drivers, so they tend to use a few medium sized vehicles. No drivers, they move to smaller vehicles and deploy more of them (they probably even shift their level of service up, because why not).
From the younger demographic (22) most of the people in this area I know have simply growen up with ads on the internet and know to just ignore them even if they do not use a ad blocker that may be a issue for you. On Facebook at least from what I read there is a larger demographic to target (ala parents trying to keep track of their teenagers) who may not be used to filtering out ads so that may account for the better conversion rate.
I did a weekly commute BUR<->SJC for a year back in 2000-2001 (before 9/11). It was a PITA. Now I work from home. Life is too short.
>commuted in 45 minutes

I live in and work in Boston, and my commute is 45 minutes. I'm planning to move further out to buy a house, and my commute will probably still be roughly 45 minutes.

Unless you live within walking distance of your office or feel like you have a safe enough bike route to the office, 45 minutes is a fairly standard commute here.
I don't say this often, but this is straight up racism. You're painting an enormous group of people with a lazy and ignorant stereotype.
> “The way I justify a six-hour commute is having the ability to have all the things that I want," he explains.

I just don't see having the point in having "all the things that [you] want" if you don't have the time to enjoy them. Who has time to enjoy your money if you don't get home till 21:00?

I've actually known some people who live in one city and work in another (between Dallas and Austin), but they did it by renting a second apartment in the city where they work and living there during the week, only commuting home on the weekends, which they always did by car.
So they can make a new account and get all of those features back. This lawsuit is a giant waste of resources.
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Also based on Lord Byron and (arguably) high functioning sociopaths. https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/16/the-poet-the-physi...
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My cousin has no Mandarin and has been travelling in China for the past month. I live here and have basic Mandarin. Get used to pointing at things and saying "Zhege" = this one. It's doable if you're willing to point at things and pantomime. It's not a lot worse than leaving tourist areas in Italy. Point, mime and grimace.
I think you're oversimplifying Russian Taxi market a great deal.

First of all, you're saying that mobile-first services were launched because cabs were crap. The market was good because the market was bad?

Medium-size cities had very cheap fixed-rate taxi-by-telephone services. Like, whole city flat rate for $3 in driver's own old beater.

Meanwhile Moscow had awful taxi services (very unreliable and expensive) and you had better luck just lifting your hand when near the road (yes, that's how it actually worked).

Then Yandex launched their Taxi and reliability of service rose very fast while prices fell. Then, GetTaxi and Uber also entered market, as well as some smaller players like Maxim and Saturn. Yandex is still heavily focused on Moscow with unreliable coverage everywhere.
Your observation is correct. As an ethnic Chinese I'm sorry and apologize for that. Many Chinese and government know that's true. As result, all Chinese mobile phone users will receive a text message from Chinese embassies when they are landed to foreign countries even inside airplane (at least US and Canada ) reminding them(mobile phone carrier) to respect local custom and culture, especially don't speak aloud in public areas.

There are many reasons for that. A obvious one is quick economic growth makes many less educated normal people can afford previously luxury tourism. But there are more profound reasons. Unfortunately, researches and studies of personality statistics of vary large group of people(for example, behavior of an ethnic group) are very difficult and most importantly: they are politically incorrect, considered harmful and forbidden, as well as the conclusions will not be accepted by public. So most people on the earth don't know the real reasons behind that but only have fake explanations that modern human mind can accept.

BTW off the topic. with same understanding, I predicted early in 2003 that Bush's goal of Iraq war would fail FOR SURE by observation of similarity of statistical (i.e. population) mindsets between middle east people and Chinese people.

The good news is things are changing slowly towards the good direction. The habit and behavior of Chinese people, especially young generation and educated people are more and more closer to that of Japanese, Hongkonger, Taiwan people. But it will take long long time, maybe generations.
All this going and Darpa wants to put ethernet jacks into our brains.
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The internet is not decentralized the way Bitcoin is. Actually I'd argue that the internet is more like the modern banking system: you have big corporations (ISPs, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon...) interconnecting to provide a service to users in exchange for money. They have a vested interest in making sure the network actually works, at least for them. If you want to use the Visa payment system you need a bank account, if you want an internet connection you need an ISP. Bitcoin has nothing like that.

What will be bitcoin's "ISPs"? Who makes sure the graph remains connected and usable? Who invests in the "infrastructure", making sure channels remain well balanced? Some say that Lightning will be self-balancing through a clever set of incentives, but that's again extremely experimental and untested.

Also note the big "net neutrality" thing going on in the US right now. What will prevent big players from teaming up and interconnecting with each other to facilitate transactions while leaving out the rest?

I don't have the answers to any of these questions, maybe it's just FUD. I'm just surprised that bitcoin is a couple of weeks from making such a huge jump into the unknown. It's extremely interesting to be sure, but I feel like some people are going to get severely hurt if this whole thing comes crashing down.
Personal animosity towards Zuckerberg and his monstrosity?
This. People don't understand the forces at work here. They think we can get a coalition of free software advocates to prevent the march of DRM, but they fail to realize that content rights-holders have market clout. Consumers will jump through whatever stupid hoops they put up. Meanwhile, free software advocates have no market clout, if they succeed in killing EME in a browser, then the general consumer perception will be that that browser is broken and will lose marketshare.

This situation sucks, and I fought against it professionally for almost a decade, but at the end of the day if there's a market need for something, tech will be built for it in a completely amoral fashion.
This article confuses me. Machine learning needs less precision (for some reason), but the workloads that CERN performs are scientific computing, not ML. Or, are they doing ML and so need less precision?
It doesn't actually delete the other chain, in all Wipeout scenarios, despite what everyone is saying

Nodes can continue to follow it if they feel like it, and change their code.

There is nothing that stops someone from saying "yes, this chain has less proof of work, but I don't care".

You could argue that this would cause the old chain the be less valuable, but the old chain doesn't literally get deleted from people's hard drives in all scenarios.

The Wipeout scenario is overhyped, because of how nodes can choose to follow the old chain if they feel like it.

IE, old nodes would effectively be soft forking by adding a check point onto the old chain.
WestJet here in Canada is currently running ads emphasizing that they never overbook their plans. The ads have been very effective and I suspect that the increased business has more than made up for any gain they could have made from overbooking.
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I can relate for Fashion and other industries as well. Instagram - even if it is performing well in regards of CTR on the platform it is an awful channel in regards to actual conversions.

Only in one case I remember Instagram totally blowing FB out of the water - and that was on a photography related campaign in the high end sector.
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A micro kernel runs drivers in userland and has a "micro" ring 0 footprint. A unikernal bundles only the necessary drivers into an OS which runs only one process and basically pushes multiprocess support into the hypervisor.

His idea isn't yet fully baked, but it's basically having a userland os provide scheduling and permissions management for other os's on the machine. Which is a little odd because the hypervisor needs its own scheduler to decide what vm to run next, and switching from a vm, to the hypervisor, to the scheduler vm, to the hypervisor, to another vm sounds really inefficient. Why not have the scheduler in the hypervisor? Having a dedicated vm for permissions management sounds suspect as well, as you have to perform that same series of switches to decide whether a user is authenticated. I think what he really wants is actually a hypervisor.

In a unikernel the hypervisor provides the memory isolation instead of the os. If we don't provide memory isolation at all it would basically transform remote code execution vulnerabilities into root privilege execution. If I can find a bug in your code or the cpython runtime I can own your machine. Memory safety is just the beginning of security, not a cure all.
Snapchat constantly surprises people with its updates. AR filters and the new map are really nice refinements to its product. Instagram hasn't show ANY innovation here, and they consistently get accused of copying. I think the net result of that is Snapchat seems cooler and fresher to the 18-24 segment which is exactly their metric for success. Instagram won't "lose" but neither will Snapchat
Whether or not an individual pays for it has nothing to do with the pricing the manufacturer sets. In fact, setting prices becomes even more of a concern when these things are being funded by tax dollars as the government is going to need a way of determining what's reasonable.
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Wojcicki was the first person to enter my mind as a candidate after Kalanick resigned. Mayer may have good management skills, but she does not have the leadership skills to be a good CEO.
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That Facebook is creepy, filled with adults, filled with ads they can't use (pretty much all online purchases) and that your messages (and thus wrongdoings) are permanent.
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Agree, he could just stay over near SF during weekdays and fly back home with family on weekend. Time better spent and more economical.
There's a reason we bought a house directly across the street from my parents (that reason was that my wife was pregnant with twins...)
You can do a 'point and click' destination spec with taxi drivers or just ask randoms with a map, or Baidu maps and a mobile phone ... you don't really need words to get around. A lot of people speak basic English these days, too.
Hum, no. If you you drink someone's blood it goes trough your digestive system and it's processed that way, it doesn't become your blood, just provides you some nutrients.

Besides you do that almost everyday, i.e. eat animals younger than you and in certain cuisines part of their blood.

This here is something very different, allowing the blood to be used as is from an young individual in an older one.
What part don't you understand. Client has a need, would like it to be solved for them. Consulting firm has seen multiple clients every year that have the same problem and the solution could be applied to each of them. Firm approaches Client about rights to the code and Client generally gets some consideration (usually in form of some free hours, as giving hours away is better than lowering your rate) and consulting firm gets to keep and resell the product or portions of the code. Support may be what is given away too, like 2 years free support or something rather than free hours. That is when it is done on the up and up.

In my own experience I also had taken a Client's idea and said I wouldn't charge them for the development because I wanted to own the product but that I would give them a discounted price, allow them to submit requirements and to be the early "beta" tester.

Sadly, what I have seen far more than the correct way is a Consulting firm develops a product for Client A and then keeps the code or some portion of it, and starts reselling it to other clients (or selling hours like they are developing it -- even worse). Which generally (unless contractually explicit as allowed) is a major violation and potentially illegal. But I had a lot of Clients come to me that had this happen to them, both by small boutique consulting firms and some of the largest firms. Sometimes I think it was sour grapes from the Client as it didn't really seem to have happened when we would look. But I lost track of how many times it had occurred in at least in some form. What was sad is firms wouldn't even try to cover their tracks, since we did a lot of ecommerce work we could see it literally in the javascript/html/css a lot of times, literally line for line.