The wannaCry ones were. This is a new thing this week.

Curious about this.

What does Microsoft mean that Windows is currently partic vulnerable to 'government organizations' and anybody posing as same?

Does that mean that govt organizations have special access right now?

Good question about a good question

Is this 'learning' or just 'copying'?

It seems like learning is just generalized copying.

In this case, the arm still has to be shown the specific task, but is able to generalize across different block locations, textures, lighting etc.

I think saying 'just' copying really belies just how difficult and useful it is to be able to do

what is the difference?

And I was enlightened.

The numbers are there in the second paragraph.

> 21.1 million, compared to 25.2 million

Looks insignificant

Snapchat is currently losing 3 dollars a share per year.

That's about 1/7th of its value (value, not revenue) every year.

Their story is that they'll have such a huge amount of user growth and that they'll figure out some way to monentize that huge amount of users, because that's the easy part, right?

If their growth stalls somewhere before profitability, they're toast. Imagine an auto parts manufacturer posting those sorts of numbers - sales down YoY and no profits. They'd be worth about as much as their office furniture could fetch on the open market.

Considering an install valued at $.26 [1], 4.1 million installs (the difference) is worth a bit over a million dollars, in one month.

Either you make enough to make a million bucks a month insignificant, or you just have little sense of scale.

[1] - https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-benchmark-for-cost-per-ins...

>That puts the actual downloads for the month at 21.1 million, compared to 25.2 million for April 2016, back when the company was riding a user-growth hot streak.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the title is a bit misleading - these numbers are year-over-year, comparing April 2016 to April 2017. So it's not a loss of $1M in one month. It's more that this month last year, they had 4.1M more installs. Judging by the graph, it looks like they only dipped ~1M installs between March and April 2017.

That's not to say that this looks good, but it's not as disastrous as it seems.

It's not misleading, YoY is the standard way to do that comparison which is why it didn't need to be in the headline.

Hi, sorry I wanted to reply to your comment on "ffffound.com closing" but it's archived I think.

Do you know how ffffounds recommendation algorithm was working? Was it the most recent 10 people who liked it, or the first 10?

The the issue is that Windows leaves a port open which is accessible to anyone online? And the update closes it?

Same first impression. No subtlety there