skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's indeed the myth, but even Evan disagrees with it or at least does no longer think that's for the best. From their Q3 earnings call (quoting Evan):

> The one thing that we have heard over the years is that Snapchat is difficult to understand or hard to use, and our team has been working on responding to this feedback. As a result, we are currently redesigning our application to make it easier to use. There is a strong likelihood that the redesign of our application will be disruptive to our business in the short term, and we don't yet know how the behavior of our community will change when they begin to use our updated application. We're willing to take that risk for what we believe are substantial long-term benefits to our business.
That's not a bad idea, although I don't think you could stop cross-pollination of platforms leading to redundancy and bloat.

Perhaps if there was a single (large, but well-organized) team responsible for all platforms, that could correctly identify which features were needed where.
There are options in macOS to automatically install various types of updates, labeled as 'app updates', 'macOS updates', 'system data files and security updates'. Maybe m6g6a has the last one checked.

I opened App Store and just had it waiting for me. Where the name would normally be in the Updates tab, it just reads "Install this update as soon as possible." [0]

[0] https://imgur.com/a/bMUKO

Edit: According to Apple's statement, they will automatically start installing the update on systems running 10.3.1 later today.
Not for me, it's waiting for me to click install in the App Store. Its pretty well highlighted though.
Serverless containers on AWS
Earlier today I set a root password. Can anyone confirm what the steps are to get back to the original state of a disabled root account with no password?
A currency is only useful to the extent that it can be traded. Something which is 1 dollar one day and 10000 the next is worthless as a trading medium. It's why we don't buy and sell things in gold any more. We just sort of sit on it uselessly.
You're right. I was being a bit hyperbolic.
Taking the easy route was OK when they were a scrappy startup, but now that they are a multi-billion public company, I honestly don't see why they can't hire a couple of qualified Android devs to fix this.
AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
Productivity and the crisis of attention [no paywall]
Hate to tell you, but time requirements only go up from newborn stage.

Personally, I'm glad fatherhood is evolving. I love spending time with my son. I just tell myself to try and enjoy what I can, because at somepoint, it'll be different, and I will miss it.

Congrats on being a dad, btw.
Spot on, but whoever is to blame the grad students shouldn't have to bear the burden unless we want a society of undereducated people.
You actually do. An employee of Motel 6 (the housekeeper) sweeps your Motel 6 room every single day, or at least between stays. Furthermore the onsite management is explicitly expected to enforce corporate regulations. Yet no ABNB employee comes anywhere near your 'rental', and there exists framework for enforcing ABNB policy beyond the good-will of the 'hosts'.
After spending 12 hours with my kids, they would spend about 6 of those fighting with each other and me pulling my hair out and wanting to bash their heads together because they can't see their way past their rage for the other's existence.

No matter what I try, they just cannot accept that each other have free will to do as they please and that isn't always going to coincide with what they want and they need to learn to be okay with that. 12 hours straight with them is like putting all of us in a torture chamber. They're angels when they're apart, but put them in the same room together for more than 20 minutes and it's like the Blair Witch Project.

By the end of the weekend, I find myself longing for Monday for them to go back to school and be separated from one another :D
Screws over! Oh no!

Good thing it still has the native app

Is Snap obligated to transport your high-res images via the agreement you have when using their software?

Sounds like a market opportunity for software that doesn’t screw you over
Also, the slack link at the end of your "request access" page is expired. :)
Well, there is no such problem that we are trying to solve, at this point I believe these technologies are going to be huge and they need individual status for content aggregation which I wish to start with listing their early stage products and subsequently generate content around it.

Since the point where the knowledge for such technologies will be needed has not come yet or as I said there is no such problem that we will solve not at least in phase 1

What I am proposing may not be better but it will be a targeted zone for people interest in all the technologies those have scope in future like the listed above

Incentives, this is a tricky one. In all honesty, we are still figuring that out. I agree with you on the fact user-generated content product is definitely not easy to build however we see potential here. Also, the topics are too wide to handle but initially since they haven't grown too much we may be able to cover it this point in time and scale them with product growth.
After all the recent high-profile cases the outcome is going to be brutal - zero trust between genders, open door policy for any 1:1 meetings, recorded if law allows; minimal and legally pre-approved communication, covering one's back in all cases, reduced VC spending in opposite gender-led companies, making work a hell where only lawyers would thrive.
Was this the same as Bill and Melinda? But isn't Andy Rubin married?

There's two couples who are married (with children) at work and I think they met at work too. It's a nice dynamic... but only because it worked out :).
I think it's important to make the distinction between a successful idea and a good one. For example OO as a paradigm in mainstream languages (C++, Java) has been very successful, despite it being more often than not a bad idea (e.g. horrible inheritance hierarchies are still implemented in this day and age, with dire consequences on code quality).

In OP's article, OO is filed under "what works", which I strongly disagree with. If anything, software development works DESPITE OO, which in my experience constantly hinders progress because of rigid architectures.
I do think we should simplify, and correct, the way grad students are paid. But I think the tax bill, with few public markups and no informed witnesses, is an extremely scorched earth way of approaching this problem. Can America afford three years for the markets to adjust and for current grad students to drop out? Does anyone know what the fallout of this tax bill becoming law will be, and will we recover?
In other news there now is a great new way for the networks to keep you from recording their shows: just change it so Plex thinks it’s a commercial!
The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death
I've seen so much of this as a government contracting programmer for the last 10 years. There was only one time I was able to convince a group in a department to go with an existing tool. It was SSIS, and it made sense over creating some giant unmaintainable XML data interchange format between state and federal agencies.

The most common reasons are:

1) they are unaware of existing products or how to use them effectively. I remember one client who wanted me to implement a complicated feature to remember their position, sorting, and filtering options in a data table. The need was eliminated when I showed them how to middle click and open the record in a new window.

2) they won't, or can't adapt/slightly modify their internal procedures to fit an existing product.

3) they don't understand what they actually do. So they can't evaluate a COTS solution. (part of your job as a consultant is to figure out how things work and design a solution around it)

4) they have too much money. Rare but I've seen it, gotta drain the budget so nothing is left over.

5) they are doing something genuinely different.

6) policies dictate the technologies they are allowed to use

7) legacy databases and reports must persist into a more modern updated interface
Where does the money to pay students come from?

Often, schools receive grants designated to pay for teaching as well as a student’s stipend. It’s not clear that any granting organization will offer $1 million, though perhaps your wife’s institution is an outlier.
> A story about Syria might be filed under "America's foreign engagements" and a story about decaying highways could be filed under "Tracking America's infrastructure quality and infrastructure projects".

I'd like to point out that this is meant to be a global news source so the fact that America is involved would hardly be the most significant aspect of a story about Syria.
Most of the the the ads I see by Google or Facebook are the ones for purchases I already made. Few weeks ago I already booked a hotel on booking.com, and then searched about that hotel's official website and facebook page, and boy, for two weeks every google ad and facebook ad had that hotel name.
University accounting is like Hollywood accounting; mostly it is just a game that is played on paper to circumvent the spirit of various other rules. I seriously doubt the tax plan will collect anything from grad student tuition wavers, because universities have various alternatives to move the money around without forcing students to pay unaffordable taxes. The only real purpose of PhD tuition is to raid grants coming in to engineering and science departments to pay stipends for humanities students, and there is no shortage of creative ways to raid grants.
It's too bad that Ja Rule was unavailable for comment.
What are your favourite emojis?
In government? It's my impression that there is an awful lot of custom code everywhere. Is there anyone who is running SAP/PeopleSoft/Dynamics without a lot of tweaking?
Sometimes when I think if humanity met extremely advanced alien civilization - what kind of "stuff" could they use to trade? At one point I thought - it must be information, pieces of information are ultimately valuable. BTC might be something close to that. Foggy thoughts, but its a foggy concept.
Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
Under your theory, given a comparison between "not modern" and "modern", software and hardware that is not modern may be higher quality.

Should users always choose "modern" over "mot modern"?

Or does this choice require actually knowing all the changes from one version to the next?

Do macOS users diff the Darwin source trees against each other to follow changes?

Would that have revealed a "bug" like this one?

Would having macOS fully open source enable users to spot "bugs" like this one?

Should users that care about things like UNIX "security" switch to a fully open source UNIX-like OS instead of a corporate-controlled one?
Apple releases macOS High Sierra security fix for critical root vulnerability
This is a great way of explaining this. I've been without social media for about 1.5 months now. I've noticed the urge to capture an experience for social a few times, even though I've spoken against it in the past. I'm actually happier without it.
1. Get a programming job with decent salary.

2. Live far below your means, saving most of your salary.

If you can live with less than 80K you will (A) save faster (B) need to save less money.

See http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

Also, you're young, so you may find you have different life choices in the end. Saving money is always a good plan, but there's other paths to having a life and a job (I cover them all in my book: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/).
Open Directory Utility.app, click the lock to make changes, then Edit -> Disable Root User.
Have been avidly following both this and Common Voice over the last few months and it's a really exciting area for Mozilla to address.
My (limited) understanding is the claimed tuition compensation plays a big role in grant funding; universities couldn't alter the accounting to get around this new tax without messing up the same grants that pay these students.

I also suspect there's rules about charging students evenly for tuition; if they say it's now $100k/yr, that means non-funded students would have to actually be charged that amount.
Don't worry, hot metal will live on -- in boutique print shops in Portland, OR and the Allston neighborhood of Boston, staffed by hipsters with beards longer than your arm and earlobes stretched out of shape by embedded hoops, running off pamphlets about why socialist revolution is necessary now.
I get around this by taking pictures with my normal camera and sharing them on a site I control and only allowing certain people access

Then I don’t worry about being “screwed over” by a private company that can make its app however it wants

Welcome to HN, where the free market suddenly doesn’t exist, and you’re supposed do get what you want for free
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315

Fixed.
The title is nonsensical.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315

They've now released an update.
They do this all the time with invisible updates.

Click AppleMenu > About this mac > System Report, and scroll down to Software > Installations, and click on the "Install Date" column header twice to sort by install date descending, and you will discover apple pushing updates very frequently for things like "MRTConfigData", "XProtectPlistConfigData", "Voice Update - Samantha", "Gatekeeper Configuration Data", "Chinese word list update" etc etc.

It's not without flaws; at least once they slipped up and pushed a blacklist for their own ethernet adapter driver (cutting off their own patch life-line, I guess, for those affected) : https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mac-update-breaks-et...
The USA developed the way it has because there is tons of open space available and as shocking as it may be to some of the current generation, people like owning their own home and little plot of land and a car. FTA: Discover what consumers want to buy and give it to them with both barrels explains almost everything.

Note that "what they want to buy" isn't necessarily what they like the best or without influence. As you've noted, governments and other lobbyists can have an impact.

McDonalds used to fry their french fries in beef lard. It made for crispy fries and it tasted good. The government and their subsidized agitators such as the CSPI got involved and started telling everyone that animal fat was bad. McDonalds switched to a vegetable/seed oil blend that is actually worse for you to eat and also produces an inferior product -- but so strong was the "no saturated fat" activism that they gave consumers what they were asking for even when blind taste-tests showed that they liked something else better.
I am getting lost with all the ways to run containers on AWS. Is this the equivalent of google compute engines beta option to boot from a docker container?
Couple things.

1.) The face verification is automatic. It is among other processes that are automatic and some other processes that are manual.

2.) Lock out periods are to prevent repeated attempts.

3.) The face has to match the face of the account, so generating a new face won’t work.
Yes, I recently graduated from a PhD program and this is all absurd. Your cost as an employee is always more than your take home pay, this is overhead and is basically what the "tuition" of a graduate student is akin to. It pays for the operational expenses of the university, land, maintenance, taxes, etc. No company/government lab would claim that your overhead expenses are somehow something you've earned/been awarded/gifted for the opportunity to work there. These overhead expenses can often approach the cost of your salary, especially when you make less money.
Just so.

I don't lift (I can't get into anything related to strength training beyond push-ups) but I go running 5 days a week and I guard it jealously. My analogy for it is that every run is putting money into the bank. If I skip a day I can't help but think that I'm getting a little bit slower, a little bit out of shape for that. And that the next time I go for a run it'll be just a little bit harder and I'll be a little bit slower for the day off.

That's all crazy of course - I know that things like that don't happen at the margins; at least not at my level of running. It motivates me though and if it's not true for a day skipped it is true for a month. Maybe a week. Which is why I'm currently unhappy that I didn't go running once on my Thanksgiving break. :-(
Agreed. We need more organizations like PBS' Frontline.
They have already hired journalists. The readers and the staff journalists are supposed to work together; it's not just the readers doing the work.
Everyone at Zapier was hoping for AWS managed Kubernetes.

Edit: Maybe we'll get it! https://twitter.com/AWSreInvent/status/935909627224506368
Some quick tips:

If you use OpsWorks you can have time-based instances. We use this in our staging environment so it is only online when we're at work.

We used to overestimate how large instances we needed. Our servers usually run just fine on micro-instances.

We self host JIRA, Jenkins, our own backoffice and other stuff on a small instance. The memory is not enough out of the box so we use swap space instead which is fine for our own services.

Hosting static websites on S3 + CloudFront is really cheap.

Hope some of this applies to your situation.

EDIT: Guess I'm not a heavy AWS user :) Hope someone replies with more relevant comments.
maybe this is how skynet starts
AWS is incredibly complex. Are you complaining that their billing can get complex?
Waymo’s fleet reaches 4M self-driven miles
No I didn't miss it. That's what I'm saying -- there has to be something beyond "consensual relationship with subordinate" going on here. The fact that someone complained to HR supports that hypothesis.

My point was that sleeping with subordinates is not historically the kind of thing that gets people fired at Google. I make no claim about whether that's good or bad (whether or not that should ever be ok is a different discussion), just an observation that that's the way it has been, which (along with the HR complaint) indicates to me that this wasn't a simple case of Rubin sleeping with a subordinate.
Like any government program, or anything really, it could be operated well or poorly. We can examine what about the proposal might make it hard to implement properly, such as the wide variety of dietary restrictions as well as peoples' personal tastes and the fact that food for many people is a central part of their family and culture. Maybe that means such a program should focus more on the raw ingredients than delivering prepared food. I'm not sure because some soup kitchens are bad, we should discount all publicly funded food. For one, it does in fact feed lots of people today via free school lunch programs.
The best class I ever took was a computer architecture course where we built up an 8-bit minicomputer from individual gates onward in a logic simulator. It was based on the Tanenbaum Structured Computer Organization and the Patt and Patel "Introduction to Computing Systems* books. By the end we were programming it in a limited dialect of assembly and also with a minimal version of C that compiled down to that assembly dialect. Very cool, and I've never been mystified by pointers since then.
Oh no; downvotes!

Muh fake internet points!
This doesn’t seem too weird considering the service is called “face” book, and the point is to upload photos of your face. They have been using facial recognition for years now, this is a natural extension of that.

I am not a user, but I see the value. It’s creepy as hell, yes, but I see the value.
The problem is that it simplifies it abruptly, for no good reason and in a way that will be more directly problematic for students than for the giant institutions they work for.
Tell that to all the people who had cash confiscated at airports and on the road. Too bad their property can't defend itself in the court of its peers - maybe a washing machine and a night stand. NEVER trust any governments.
Oh there's magic monkeys too!: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/elastic-gpus/
I disagree. Some of my friend and me were able to implement by ourselves RB tree algorithms by the 18th day of our month-long formation, and only one of us knew how to write code before this (and we almost reached his level the day before, when we implemented linked list algorithms in C).

After this formation, we were able to write a hashmap algorithm that handled collision in less than a day and a half. I honestly don't think we would have been able to do the same if the tools we were given during our formation were python, php or javascript.
I don't think resolving the philosopher dinner problem in Go can teach you much. In C, it does. The biggest advantage C have is that you start from nothing, so you have to understand everything.
I would not understand BTrees this well if i did not first understand linked list. And i think the thing that taught me the most about OOP was writing a raytracer in C.
Apple's comment on High Sierra MacOS Vulnerability
Grad students have to be listed as paying tuition because that allows their tuition to be included in grant requests which is what pays their stipend. I suspect that the tuition is higher than the compensation because you have to pay overhead on grants.
Agreed that private universities should pay better, but like in any capitalist society they will only pay as much as they need to. In this case, and especially in the absence of graduate student unions (which the GOP also seem primed to do away with), not very much.

The GOP plan does away with the student tax deduction, not to simplify matters, but to punish intellectualism since they're not voting GOP anyway. You can tell, because if they actually wanted to help people, there would have to have been long discussions with heads of universities to come up with a plan to not harm grad students. Obviously, that didn't happen.

I'm not sure universities are to blame for fudging things to, say, get better tax treatment. That's just how the laws are set up. The new plan will do nothing but harm universities, their teachers, and their students. Everyone is still completely correct to blame the GOP for screwing them in this instance.
Ask HN: I'm at AWS Reinvent. Which booths do you recommend to check out?
That's kind of a cute idea, but again the overwhelming consensus between the friends I was talking to was "this app sucks". One said they use the app infrequently because of this, and I know personally I try to NEVER discover anything, because any time I do a different action I end up somewhere I didn't want to be, usually with an ad shoved in my face.

It just doesn't work the way you described. Frustration will never equal curiosity in users minds. Not saying Snapchat didn't try to get the curiosity angle, but that if they did they failed.
Yes, you right. I checked them.
They announced that too, "AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes", or EKS as they call it.

This is different, this is where your containers run, not for managing the containers.

You can use either ECS or EKS for scheduling containers on Fargate, the same as scheduling them on EC2 hardware.
Snapchat is to photography as passing notes in class is to literature
Fargate is complementary to the just-announced Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
Dunno if it's an option but the NVIDIA Shield TV can either direct play pretty much anything with Kodi or it can act as a low power Plex server with a hardware video encoder.