skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried some of the cases:

1. Re-install whatsapp on the same phone and same SIM : you have to go through the entire setup process again. You're asked for your phone number, whatsapp sends a sms to that number to confirm. If you had previous backup of chats, it restores that.

2. Insert SIM into a new phone, without whatsapp previously installed: Same as 1.

3. Change SIM in the same phone and whatsapp previously installed: Nothing changes. Whatsapp runs using your previous number and that is displayed to all the contacts. On re-installing, 1. is repeated.
I've just found Debian breaks too much and is mostly deprecated, e.g. Python 2.4?
Running those services themselves, such as Cloud Drive, the music store, etc. was never a good idea in the first place.

By trying to do too much too soon they were only ever going to produce second rate products compared to the competition (a company with the resources of Microsoft can barely win some of these verticals, let alone Canonical).

It was always going to end with them stripping out and shutting down their own solutions and integrating with the best possible partners with each service.
This kid is a thief, AOL should take him to court for equity in his company.
I'm interested in buying as well.

If you're selling in in the 3 to 4 figure range, then send me an email---its in my profile.

I'm most interested in apps that have some B2C component.
I like the use of the word "password". If they would at least implement a password, the whole thing would be a lot more secure.
"Continuous deployment, unit testing, debugging, basic programming knowledge, are timeless."

The first two are relative new, although they are likely to be seen as timeless after enough time has passed.

In fact in the early nineties I was chastised for practicing what has essentially become test driven development. I apparently didn't have enough confidence to write the whole thing at once and (maybe) test it later.
For the unfamiliar, Betteridge’s Law of Headlines[1]:

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Eh, Google is forcing this experience on Android users with their batallion of Play apps (Apps, Magazines, Books, Videos, Toilet Paper, etc) and people seem to tolerate it.
I'm not sure that would work. If that were the case, then anyone who did not login between when the decision to go 16 characters was made and today would have to login one time with their full password so that they could confirm that you know the true password and compute the new hash. Then all subsequent logins would be 16 characters long. But I don't think that this dialog is only being presented to people who have magically logged in in that time interval, it is being offered to everyone. So, unless there is some evidence that they are right now performing password swaps for people who haven't logged in in a while, the two hypotheses in the article and the only two that are possible.
About two years ago, I thought the iPod had peaked and couldn't go anywhere. Yet look at the new iPod Nano.
I agree. It's not trivial, and although very few people die from erectile dysfunction it was a bad example to use. My last paragraph talks about cough medicine.

Here's some information about medication costs in the NHS for 2011.

(http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/007_Primary_Care/...)

A search for viagra shows the page for ED meds. Sildenafil totals are 1,279,500 prescribed, at a cost of £40,872,800 (Check my decimal places!) and the total for all ED meds is £84,033,500.

That might not sound like much - the UK wants to spend something like £500m per year just on malaria.

But spending on ED targets a small number of mostly old people. The QALY cost is about $11,000. Spending on malaria targets a very large number of people, many young, but people of all ages.

If you want an actual trivial medication let's look at cough medicine; mostly sugary syrup with strong flavorings, sometimes with paracetamol and sometimes with other stuff. Most doctors say it's pointless and expensive and that people do just as well with hot lemon and honey and correctly taken paracetamol. We spend about £500m in the UK on cough mixtures. Americans spend about $2Billion. (That B isn't a typo.)

Malaria spending (http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/apr/25/wor...)

ED QALYs (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10858175)

Cough medicine spending (http://www.mintel.com/press-centre/press-releases/410/consum...)
> Items appear in a ‘More Suggestions’ strip underneath local search results.

So even if you are just searching for a local file or application, that search string is being sent to Amazon. Thus, an entire history of what you search for on your computer will be stored with Amazon.

This is no different to how adware functions. It opens up massive privacy implications that are not addressed or discussed in OP (or anywhere else that I have seen) but need to be before this feature is released in a stable version.

Edit: I have no problem with integrating Amazon for affiliate fees, just think it needs to be thought through a little more so that there are no surprises to users. Add to that the privacy implications needs to be disclosed to users frankly and upfront.
You tell me?

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL

There were plenty of disasters while Jobs was present... anyone remember the iPhone4 antenna disaster? Apple will reiterate and fix and all will be well again. I doubt they will ultimately lose many customers over this.
Use the Force: How Magicians Can Control Your Decisions
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate
The whole 1% of $100M versus 10% of $10M calculation vastly oversimplifies the outcome of these companies as binary. This is totally wrong.

In my experience in silicon valley, people start with building something small/simple (but in a big market), get little drips of funding from investors as they show progress. If they fail at any point along the way, there's value in what they've created, and they exit for whatever they get. The later you exit, typically the further along you get, and the bigger the exit. That's why the diversity of outcomes in the valley are everything from zero to billions, and companies raise anywhere from zero to a dozen rounds of funding.

At any inflection point in the business, you have lots of options: you can sell, raise more money, raise more and cash out some shares, you can quit, you can make yourself chairman and have your cofoudner run it, you can do nothing and grow it organically, etc., etc.

Each one of the choices above are part of your arsenal of options at almost any point. The people who choose to raise tons of money, not cash out at all, and then who fail- well, they made a series of active decisions to do all of that. They're big boys.

My point is, when you're building a company you can make a lot of choices along the way, and it's not just setting out for a suicide run of either 1% of $100M or 10% of $10M. Choosing to raise outside financing is sort of like deciding whether or not you want a cofounder (or 2, or 3) - it just another form of business partner. You get less %, but hopefully they add to the business in a meaningful way that leaves you better off.
If 99% of your friends keep their data in Facebook, you're still dependent on Facebook.
If Facebook charged for basic use, their user base would plummet quickly, which would make that use not very valuable.

If Facebook was smart enough to think of effective new ways to make money that we haven't thought of, they'd be doing them now.
By poor I mean the many people paid less than $3usd per day.
Customized how? I have never seen a customized Google search results page.

Are you referring to the default home page?
great question... I've never wondered about it. It's a matter of limited resources. If you spend 100% of your time procrastinating in reading/commenting in hacker news then you won't have time left for building startups. However, I participating in HN can inspire you in a great way
What's so hard about it is that few individual things feel like "something you don't want others to have access to", yet in aggregate the individual things and the connections between them can become such.

On top of that you are putting the responsibility on people to "think of every bad use of this information which could happen, and if you are still happy, then post it". Which is an impossible task. Much better to enumerate what can happen, what it will be used for, which can be made a limited set of things, and then if you are happy with that, post it.
I think it says something that one of the most critically acclaimed TV series in the US right now is premised on a middle-class high school teacher who turns to a life of crime when his state-provided health insurance is insufficient to cover his cancer treatment.
A look inside the A6 chip powering the iPhone 5
Stock price is a lagging indicator of stagnation, if it's even an indicator.
I wrote this after participating in StartupWeekend SanJose in January 2012
I remember doing something very similar (recognition of a short list of words) on a Sinclair Spectrum 30+ years ago. Fun to do.
Ubuntu is a Debian-based distribution, and receives many of its software updates from Debian.
Canonical once again surprises with how little they understand their customers.
Headline:

"Perhaps Betteridge's Law of Headlines is always true?"
Just for the sake of comparison, I ran your groovy code vs a similarly styled ruby version of fib.

Groovy 2.0.1 (simply ran with 'groovy fib.groovy')
JVM 1.7.0_06_64-b24
~520ms

Ruby 1.9.3p194
~475ms

Obviously this is well into micro-benchmark territory but it seems even worse case is on the order of ruby's performance which is perfectly acceptable for a large number of tasks.
Not a Fight Club fiend, eh?
Sad to hear Ubuntu's average user doesn't know the command line.
You can divide "Wall Street" into two camps, buy-side and sell-side. Sell-side makes its money on commissions on trades. They publish a lot of analysis as a loss-leader to attract new trading business. The buy-side makes its money by owning stuff that appreciates in value. When you hear any sort of stock advice, first figure out which side it's coming from, then you can put it in context.
Robotic fish to catch drug dealers
Every single time I see someone try to use an analogy lately I just stare in bewilderment.
Very good point.

FYI, it's whose.
relevant:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4554783
Java forces you to write code in a pretty readable/static manner. Of course you can write 'bad' Java, but the point is that Java limits expressiveness so that YOU are replaceable/won't introduce memory issues. That's the whole point of using Java in the enterprise.

To be clear, I'm not saying anything bad about the JVM.
That sounds like FUD. If you don't want it to break, use stable, which is currently at python 2.6.6:

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze&searchon...

If you want up-to-date, use testing, which is at python 2.7.3:

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&searchon=...

They both have python3 versions available, too (3.1.3 and 3.2.3 respectively). There are legitimate complaints about Debian, but being stuck on python 2.4 is not one of them.
Make sure the code (including any stored procedures or code that is otherwise stored in the database) is in a version control repository. Because any change in this code might have unexpected, subtle consequences (i.e. introduce more bugs). In which case you'd do better rolling back that particular change.

The next step would be to get a grip on deployment. Automate it, so you can roll out updates and roll back updates to all clients without breaking a sweat.

Then set up a proper backlog and bug tracking system, where you can prioritize bugs and work items. (And maybe open it up for bug reports by clients?)

Just like with a real debt, with a technical debt, seeing progress can help to keep you going. At this point, you should have a grip on it, it's just still going to be a lot of hard work. There's good advice on how to approach the refactoring.

Finally, and this is not related to the code, educate stakeholders in your organization about the concept of technical debt. (Back it up by time tracking various work items from the bug tracker.) Somehow your organization got into this situation, so there may be a problem where new features or custom features for clients get priority before bugfixes, and are written without much guidance. Joel Spolsky has written on this subject, you may find his writings help explain the concept, as well as find a way out of this mess (like the '12 steps to better software').

Good luck!
Huh, didn't know that. For some reason I thought it compiled to JS.
Indeed; just wait for the iPhone Nano. If only that had been this year's one more thing...
But isn't this the way it is in tech? No one cares if you have a solid grasp of the fundamentals that rarely (if ever) change. Its all about knowing the trendy platform/language du jour. Which, I'd think, is a bad thing-it encourages people to hop onto fads to learn in order to get jobs, but I'm not sure if it really encourages people to learn fundamentals.
How Cubie got 3.5M users in 6 months by thinking 'market first, product second'
While I understand that its not like Groovy requires a large change to start using (unless your running Grails I guess). I just started using it a month ago when I ran into a hunk of JSF controller code that would be drastically simplified with the use of closures. It only took 1 dependency in the pom and a tweak to the maven compiler plugin and I was off and running. It integrates so easily with Java that no code changes anywhere but the controller I was writing were needed.
WRT this: "I have three answers." I would add a fourth answer: the stupendously rich have a lot of assets in stock and so on that's not really about the money, per se, but about control. It doesn't seem like Zuckerberg, or Gates before him, deeply cared about having 1x billion + z billion; they cared about having control over Facebook and Microsoft, which happens in the form of stock ownership.

However, I don't see this as the motivating factor for the person Stross mentions in his last paragraph, so, to the extent the post is mostly about that paragraph, I don't have a great answer.
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My mistake. I installed Debian stable about 3 months ago, but Numpy was ridiculously out of date. I falsely remembered it being Python itself. Mea culpa.
In general it's not good to use that command because it can leave your system in an inconsistent state -- when there are packages which depend on the package you just removed. apt-get works out the dependencies.
I bet changing your repositories to the next version and running the update manager will have that effect. It might break things a bit, but I've never seen an OS upgrade where that wasn't a risk.
If they are good guys then they are aware that 2 weeks would give them enough time to see if you can do the job or not - very fair and sensible.

If they are bad guys then they know that once you accept a 2 week contract then you will probably have to turn down any other offers you get in the next few days as a result of other interviews. They can then offer you (if you pan out) a contract renewal with a longer term at a lower rate.

Tricky...
I wouldn't mind paying for .iso files.
The unfamiliar? This article is referenced on HN at least once a week now
The original (2010)[1]

http://www.google.com/search?q=be+stupid+marketing+diesel...

[1] </irony>:// it is (was) a marketing campaign.
HBO.
They seem like OK guys. It's for a very early employee at a startup, though; Don't know if that's common.
The problem is not that apples new products aren't improving, but that they are no longer miles ahead of their smartphone competitors. Android is now a compelling alternative. Apple will eventually release a iPhone nano, but Samsung will release a galaxy micro before or soon after.

Has any company in history been so large and yet so reliant on a single product? Because of this I am fat to nervous to invest in apple, despite loving their products.
Are there any protections against spam? (unsolicited notifications)

Are there any authorization & authentication measures? (so you know a notification is really from whom it claims to be)

I see mention of HMAC in the overview, (how) does it solve those problems? I know basics of TLS, RSA - how is it related? I'd be grateful for hints. Also, I remember some alternative mentioned in old threads about Diaspora, which was reportedly devised by some security guys (?) and tried to have good security model - do you know the name of this project? Some GNU one?
pg, just out of curiosity what was the (approximate) weekly growth rate of Viaweb ? Did you focus on this metric when you were building Viaweb?

Just curious if you were aware of this factor when building Viaweb.
If it reshifted to data science from hardware, it has the most cash of any tech company and could grow even larger. Steve Wozniak recently talked about smartphones having AI so this might be already in the works (focus on improving siri rather than stylishness).
The two types are knowledge in depth vs. knowledge in breadth. The former grows slowly, the latter exponentially.
I'm neither an Apple fanboy nor a hater. I have an iPhone5, but I use a Windows 7 desktop PC. (I am, however, an Apple Maps hater after using it for a few days.)

The annoying thing about articles like this is that it's basically the professional journalist's version of trolling... making an outrageous statement in order to garner attention/clicks. He can come in and shit all over Apple, and suffer no consequences if he's wrong.

I would be infinitely more interested in his opinion if he actually shorted the stock and put his money where his mouth is, journalistic rules against trading aside.
I guess this means I will not be upgrading from the last LTS :/
It would have been easier to just build an hospital in his town..
Unfortunately, that law doesn't stand up to scrutiny. I've read several stories today alone where the question in the headline cannot be answered accurately with a simple "no", not that this headline is one of them.
Uh, all the oil companies come to mind. As for tech; Microsoft? Actually, lots of companies are reliant on one of their products. Though I'm not sure Apple is. The iPad is selling at a pace higher than the iPhone did, for example.
I wonder how easy it is to convert to Linux Mint.
Well, at least it is in the "Opinion" section, and not filed under "News". I think the literature category is similar to say Paul Graham's essays. Which is not to say that the quality is comparable though.
What are you talking about? dpkg will not remove packages with dependencies unless you force it to:

root@fw:~# dpkg -P libssl1.0.0
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libssl1.0.0:amd64:
python-openssl depends on libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0).
openssh-client depends on libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1).
ntp depends on libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0).

...SNIP...

bind9-host depends on libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0).
tor depends on libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1).
tcpdump depends on libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0).
libruby1.8 depends on libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0).
postfix depends on libssl1.
dpkg: error processing libssl1.0.0:amd64 (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
libssl1.0.0:amd64

or

root@fw:~# dpkg -P coreutils
dpkg: error processing coreutils (--purge):
This is an essential package - it should not be removed.
Errors were encountered while processing:
coreutils

Take a look at --force-help for more info on forcing things.
> The many fallacies in organized religion (this one is highly regional)

-- Subheading a) android / ios comparisons for the Bay area
Communist Manifesto, 1848.

Take some time to read it - even if you don't agree with the ideas - and indulge in that 19th century prescience.
The problem with gittip is the size of tips developers are collecting. Most developers have high-end salaries, IMO. The top people on gittip are collecting around $150/week. For these people that's probably converts to an hour or two a week of paid equivalent work. Great, so these developers can handle a couple of merge requests a week, but it doesn't actually enable them to work on something. Gittip also lacks focus, it doesn't commit a developer to work on something, it's merely a thank you, a donation. Donation-ware conversions are super low, you can't expect it to supplement anything.

I think gittip is a neat idea, but I strongly feel that it is a doomed project unless something changes radically.
Show HN: Pipe, library to run ifttt-like alerts locally
It is nearly impossible to stay "the best" for a long time. Apple is going to be great and very profitable for many years to come. But the amazing run they've been on for the past decade will slowly start to fade as entrepreneurs around the world all try to take a piece of their billion dollar business.
Well apparently:

> Fray is a mobile-based buyer-powered commerce marketplace that connects offline businesses and individuals to global consumers. We revolutionize the supply chain into a peer-to-peer exchange and empower users to create micro enterprises.

But I'm still no more enlightened. And yeah, www & fray.it both redirect to blog.fray.it. So no idea where their actual app/product page is...
I had some time to kill so I downloaded Google Earth but still wasn't able to find the village "Gahlour". However, I was able to verify that the distance from the mentioned coordinate and "Wazirganj" is indeed ~8Km as stated by Wikipedia.

Google Earth screenshot for those obsessed by this story too:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg
Show HN: Python implementation of the Whatsapp protocol
They should have made the password random, it's saved anyways.
Is that the @compilestatic one with 520ms ?! I'd imagine not.

Certainly Ruby's acceptable for a large number of tasks, as is Groovy. I use it every day, and will enjoy the speed benefits of Groovy2 in Grails2.x in the coming months, but it's certainly production ready for a large number of tasks now.

As many people continue to point out, if Groovy's slow, write those portions in pure Java. But you can get a lot of the way there just by using explicit types when you know them. The @CompileStatic is yet another performance boost, but you can often get improved Groovy perf by typing if you want to.
One thing he correctly points out is how much better Apple Maps would have been if Mr. Jobs were around. Apple Maps is too big of a blunder for Apple to contain its criticism.
If every journalist/blogger who has been bearish on Apple (versus trolling for pagehits) actually shorted the stock, there would be no naysayers at this point :)
Or, presumably, use the Gnome Shell? I take it Canonical are not changing the search packages in GS.
What a bunch of baloney. The author is just rewriting history to be sensationalist. The maps have some problems, we all know it already (need one of those batman slapping robin pictures).

Apple has mis-steps just like any company. FCPX was very recent and was a total disaster at launch and Steve Jobs was very much there. Have we already forgotten "antenna-gate" with the iPhone 4? There's an expectation for Apple to be so perfect that if any problem happens the ship is going down. No company can break new ground year after year and not have some rough starts.
Fortunately, Steve Jobs had the idea for Apple TV (a real TV not the little box) that could give Apple another runaway success. With their designer Ive's and the UI designers still around, I see no reason why Apple TV won't propel Apple for many years to come.
My comment was about the content or lack thereof of your comment. It wasn't personal. So do down votes indicate people hate people on Hacker News? I don't hate anyone. Is it an attempt at humor to suggest I'm hated? If anyone hates I feel sorry for them, I hate no one.