skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Instagram was worth it Waze should cost 10x more at least.
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If you don't use the service, what will this expose?
Zuck did $1B for Instagram didn't he?
Why do you live life bullying those who are actually trying to accomplish something?
Growing public debt from one year to another. And quite fast, too.

"Canada’s federal debt grew steadily between 5% and 10% per year until 1975. For the next 12 years it grew on average over 20% per year. It surpassed $100 billion in 1981, $200 billion in 1985, $300 billion in 1988, $400 billion in 1992, and $500 billion in 1994. It peaked at $563 billion in 1997. The debt then declined to $458 billion by 2008. With the recession, the federal debt grew by $5.8 billion in 2008-09 and is expected to grow by $55.9 billion in 2009-10. November 2012 Canadian debt surpassed the $600 billion mark"

Canada certainly look like Maple Red in this map of worldwide public debt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dette_publique2011.jpg

You better check your sources before commenting. Or maybe you are one of those to think that federal debt is not an issue and that you never need to pay it back. You are in for a big surprise.
The article mentions National Information Technology Policy, 2012. I found the PDF [1]. Here's the text:

Objective III. 15: To adopt Open standards and promote open source and open technologies.

Bullet 6.6:
To promote open standards and open technologies.

Clearly, the Microsoft deal doesn't comply with these.

[1]: (PDF) http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/National_20...
This thing looks fun. It's like they took apart a Segway and put it back together "cool"!
There buying Waze for one whole Instagram? Ridiculous!
Agree. And let me point out another view on the "I cannot trust you" problem. iPhoto 11 allows me to publich photos on flickr. Fine. I could buy a pro account on flickr and publish all my photos there. But then who will ensure me that the publish-to-flickr option will stay there in the future?

I like iStuffs, and I buy them. But not being sure of how my personal data (and memories) will be handled in future, I'm more and more doubtful. Please Apple, go back to build things that just work fine as expected. And, by the way, I expect I can choose where backup my stuff without having to hack my computer.
Waze won the best overall app award at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This might have raised its valuation since the Apple talks were publicized - http://www.globalmobileawards.com/winners-2013/

If they are doing due diligence now, they would need to look into the GPL source code. Waze (at least in the past) was based in part on RoadMap which is GPL - https://github.com/mkoloberdin/waze/

That was version 2-2.4. Now they are at version 3.6, so maybe they rewrote the relevant code.

As far as the R&D centers, this can't be compared, because both those companies (Snaptu, Face.com) were much smaller than Waze. Facebook may be interested in an R&D center in Israel too, and is just looking for an appropriate base on which to build it.

I guess this seems to put Facebook more on a collision course with Google, after Facebook Home.
I realize that it doesn't compare to Java's GC (which is likely state-of-the-art) but is it really terrible?

Granted I haven't used Go myself (leaning towards Rust) but I've read that Go is already being employed in production scenarios with good results.
You can also whistle to your android
i.e. to wake up a Siri like assistant:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pannous.vo...
Look at how fast and wide the field of physics has grown in the past 70 years. The proliferation of new theories, discoveries, inventions, and solutions, across such vast practical and theoretical disciplines in physics, almost makes me think the "Einsteins" of our generation are not individuals, but groups of people working together. With the ability to share data quickly and effectively, we have become able to have multiple persons working on the same problems at the same time, which has allowed us to accomplish some unbelievable things. We've built particle detectors to observe elementary particles that are fundamental to the Standard Model. We've discovered carbon nanotubes and graphene. We've potentially discovered dark matter. We have our geniuses too, and some are famous (e.g., Hawking), but maybe they are not as famous as their predecessors because their contributions seem to blend with the overall march of science and our expectation of radical advance (jetpacks and all)?
The Loop magazine for iPhone and iPad released
Considering that one can buy three to five of these for the price of one N9, they’re really impressive.

Now I just have to wait for someone to steal the fast-lane idea and implement it for Harmattan :-)
I think that it was trying to prove that it was not an illusion or cheat. There's been a lot of debate about whether D-Wave is actually exploiting quantum phenomena or whether they're (knowingly or not) just faking it. The result of the 3600x speedup is pretty strong evidence to the former, however.

The thing with quantum PCs is that they'll be tuned to solve a certain style of problem - kinda like how a micro-controller will have certain hardware features built out of specific logic gates. It doesn't surprise me therefore that it struggles on more general stuff but that's beside the point.

By proving that they are indeed actually exploiting quantum computation, they validate their theories. This opens them to being able to adapt their hardware to suit particular problems - FFT [1], search [2], factorisation [3], etc. - and sell it as revolutionary hardware to complete that particular task. That's what the 3-letter-acronym government agencies will be after, after all.

Frankly, I'm overjoyed that they have good evidence that there's something 'real' going on here. They already had the backing of Google and some 3-letter-acronym government agencies through the purchase of hardware so that was good circumstantial evidence that they knew something the public didn't. This simply goes to further support their success.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_Algorithm
Welcome to The Loop magazine
Canonical plans for Usable Ubuntu Phone by months end
That's why I called it a notional profit and repeatedly referred to his net worth as 'on-paper'. Was that not obvious?

It's clear he doesn't have an extra $500mm in a checking account.
I can't wait for the sequel; The Chinese Postman.
So basically a one-to-one copy of Arment's The Magazine? Am I missing something here?
How long before someone (a hacker no doubt) games the system to create a selling spiral, just waiting to take profit of the rebound.
If it´s well planned the one causing the dive is not going to be the one taking the profit (at least that it can be proved).
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Oculus Rift first impressions
Agreed. But still quite impressive considering that a single quantumn chip (?) can solve in 1 day what it would take a conventional PC 10 years to solve.
I hope you're not forgetting that 2 pounds 70 a week Class 2 NICS we self-employed get stung for. The horror!
> Researchers Thornhill and Palmer say rape is an evolved reproductive strategy and not a crime of violence

Can't it be both, by modern standards?
Now you can give out your phone number without giving up your privacy.
Looks like a great lineup of speakers! Great job, Dmitri!
Also eastern/southern Europe countries are not exactly welfare countries.
Short and to the point, but for the benefit of those of us that cannot mind-read, care to explain why "no"?
Ask HN: I'm going for a week to Silicon Valley, how to get most of it?
Hi! My name is Kamil, co-founder of TimeCamp, I'm from Poland, Europe. I'm planning to visit Silicon Valley for one week.

How to get most of my time there?

* What is best days to be there?
* Where can I find meet ups?
* How could I arrange meetings with interesting people? :)
The Successful and the Passionate: An Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones
If you read php internals newsletter there is a sense amongst some of PHP core devs that PHP is "good enough", and those devs are against most innovations, and the fact that nobody knows who can vote in RFC[1] gives them an incredible power.

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/79314
As an ops-guy (interestingly enough, at an HFT company), I used graphviz to draw out a diagram of all the network interfaces and routes that were being used when trading on a single exchange for one single instrument.

It was a huge, big, complex, ugly thing. We laughed. Good times.
You forgot the most important part, validating that the public key you've received is actually for that person. That may be as simple as automatically checking public servers for a match and providing some confidence percentage based on how many people signed it or better yet how many people signed based on whether you trust them or not.

Without that, it's not just useless, it's detrimental to the system, as there could be lots of bogus keys accepted by people (imagine a virus that automatically generates and adds a PGP key to mail clients before sending to everyone in the address book, just to make it more likely to pass spam filters). Bogus keys in the web of trust would be a big problem.

In fact, if PGP/GPG were more popular, I imagine there would be the accompanying glut of horrible passwords used (or duplication from easily gleaned passwords), and pretty soon some virus would start automatically signing things it shouldn't on infected systems, and then the web of trust that the system relies on for third party verification wouldn't be so trustworthy.
[pdf] Honeywords: Making Password-Cracking Detectable
What's in your responsive toolkit?
In practice, OTR is more useful than PGP and widely more deployed.

HTTPS is less secure in practice (due to just being transport security and lots of intermediaries to attack), but still decent, and fairly widely used.

SSH is still the only cryptographic system which was so well implemented (in all ways, not just the cryptography) that it ended up taking over the entire market, displacing the non-secure options.

People should be building the next ssh, not the next PGP.
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The reason that this is so is because of regulations.
I think we are missing the fundamental issue here.

What do "we the people" want? Do we want the government to seek out and exploit every possible loophole it can find and to make up excuses to eavesdrop on us?

Or do we want to make sure that gentlemen don't read each others letters?

I would very much prefer the latter. State the law as "if you are a public servant, don't listen to the conversation of people - don't even think about or try to listen - unless you have a very specific reason to do otherwise and then only if you must".

"They", the government, are the people having guns and the authority to lock you up. Once we get used to the idea that "they are listening" whenever they want ... we will start to self censor what we say and very shortly thereafter what we do and think. You don't want to be the one sticking out, you don't want to catch their attention.

And that is when we have killed creativity, stopped future development of society and made the entrepreneurs walk in the line at the same pace as everyone else.

The quest for privacy is not about protecting the fact that I like to watch videos of midgets dressed up in leather underwear or my protecting friend who is ordering weed online.

It is about the future of our society.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5677550

Hint: I'm the head of ops, the password matched what I had set (16 characters, mix of letters, numbers and symbols, not used anywhere else).
Couldn't some kind of PHP level sandboxing be used to isolate plugins and themes? So for example a theme would not be able to spawn OS processes, access DB connection or create a new one, read and modify HTTP headers.
That's what gets me worried about using these "proprietary" PaaS offerings.
$1B = iPhone-only apps Android users have heard of.
Well welfare has a threshold effect. Nordic countries have very small populations to take care of. You'll see that countries where welfare becomes an issue are usually larger ones in the dozens of millions.

But I wouldn't put all the nordic countries in the same basket. Last I know Sweden is not doing too well compared to Finland.
> Countries ridden with welfare are not doing TOO well currently. Most countries in Europe, US, Japan. All deep to their neck in public debt, always at the verge of bankruptcy. This can't be good for anyone in the end, poor included.

At least most of said countries have smaller debt-to-GDP ratio than US.
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CERN’s involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today
As the comment response goes -- the GP was a great troll. "a better car in every single regard (except for range)" is pure nerd bait.

I'm not denying the Model S is a great package. It clearly is. It scores high on a number of features. But like in any complex market with lots of variables -- there are other choices. Even to go through GP's list:
safer (Not sure what it has that is safer particularly?), faster (Not compared to M5, etc), roomier (My Navara carries more equipment, there are bigger sedans, tarrago, etc), more fun to drive (compared to a 911? Ferrari? ft86? LF-A? Lotus Elise?), has more storage (My Navara + Canopy wins here. Also Station Wagons etc), quieter (Nissan Leaf probably wins), more convenient (TO do what? Camping? Road Trip? Park overnight?), and less polluting (Nissan Leaf probably takes the cake here. Also - my Electricity comes from Brown Coal. It's about as polluting as Petrol/Diesel).

It's a bit like claiming the iPhone is better than every other phone in every way (except battery life). It's clearly not true. The Model S and the iPhone are great products - but "better in every single regard" is just pure nerd-bait.
In the Netherlands, there is a yearly list of the most rich people called "The Quote 500". Of those 500 richest dutch, I think about 15 are HFT owners and employees.

See: http://www.amsterdamtrader.com/2012/10/duyfken-sails-into-qu...
The Model S is much, much, much simpler than a gasoline car.

- No engine.
- No fuel system.
- No alternator, starter, or belts.
- No oil.
- Single speed transmission! No shifting,
no transmission fluid.
- No fuel system.
- Lower brake wear, thanks to regen braking.

The downside is that the battery costs ~$10,000 and has to be replaced every 8 years.
Google releases code open ios app links chrome not safari
Like others predict, I think this will get booted because of lack of standing. Interesting that Greenspan makes the broad First Amendment argument about being able to represent his corporation as legal counsel based on political speech rights found in Citizens United.. but that case is not on point and won't help here. The court is unlikely to explain why and probably will dismiss it for reasons Grellas notes in the first comment too. The complaint isn't as long as it looks for non-lawyers - just skim over the parts where he lists all the defendants. After page 37 it's just copies of the laws, regulations and screenshots.

Assuming he hired a lawyer to file his other case claiming arbitrary enforcement of the CA law against his company (discussed in paragraph 4 of the complaint linked to above), that one seems much more likely to go somewhere although relief at this point is pretty unclear.

Also the first time I've noticed someone use "pivot" in the Lean Startup sense in a legal complaint (fn. 3).
Employers already do - but they pay places like linkedin, craigslist, monster.com and every other job board out there instead of paying you. Listing a job can easily cost $400.
I once had an idea to try Objective-C, but it seems Objective-C is of absolutely no use to anyone not using Apple products.

It seems the only use of Objective-C outside Mac world is GNUstep, which seemed too buggy to use (though maybe I’ve missed something?..).
FB buying Waze for 1B?
"There are important exceptions for some sex crimes. If it's a crime in the US then it doesn't matter if a man commits that crime abroad, he'll be arrested and brought back to the US and tried as if he had committed that offence in the US."

Even if it happened in Sweden, between a Swedish citizen and an Australian, and it probably wasn't even a crime, and the "perpetrator" is in London.

Somehow out of the countries Sweden, The UK, The US, Australia, and Ecuador - only Ecuador seems to have a sane grasp on reality...
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Clojure as a PHP alternative
Karnataka state elections 2013 - Consolidated results in one csv
Karnataka state elections 2013 - Consolidated results in one csv (https://github.com/rghv/kar2013election-results/blob/master/Karnataka_2013_election_results.csv)

Wanted to go through the consolidated list of Karnataka (a state in India) 2013 legislative assembly election results, for a quick analysis of trends and patterns (number of votes, candidates etc). But could not find any such consolidated list. So wrote a small script to fetch the data from eciresults.ap.nic.in. Made it into a csv so that others could use too.

Source: https://github.com/rghv/kar2013election-results

Written in Python hence anyone could use and extend/modify as required. Code isn't pretty but does the job.
I know what I'd do if I alone knew the solution to the TSP: I'd become a traveling salesman. Or, perhaps, I'd start a business that employs traveling salesmen and use the efficiency gains to amass dazzling wealth and power.
CSV: https://github.com/rghv/kar2013election-results/blob/master/...

Source: https://github.com/rghv/kar2013election-results

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I've made a point of never looking up what an "act of moral turpitude" is, which is something the US always asks me to attest that I've never committed every time I fill out their visa waiver form.
That is a frankly brilliant idea which I never would have thought of.

Probably very doable with smart birds like (but not limited to so, don't hate me) parrots.

On the other hand, some of those bird species can be quite mischievous, be very careful before giving it control over your house.
> OP doesn't owe you clean code. Don't like the code? Don't use it.

Or better yet, contribute a patch/PR. The OP's intention in sharing it was to get contributors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5678490
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Australia's new triangular 5$ coin.
Source: http://my.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1dz6s2/australias_new_5...
Firstly, I know my true market value, and have done for years - I always find a way to find out ;) and I haven't just got off the boat.

I also know what I can get away with making in this market, so what I'm making is not the issue per se, although this is below my normal rate, and I agreed to this on the grounds that were presented to me - which turned out to be completely false.

I work with many recruiters, not just this one. This one happened to have a job available at the time I was available...

Lastly, they point blank refused to negotiate, at all. Hence the need to fire them.
No, that's completely unrelated. In that case, the alleged crime took place in Sweden, so the Swedish courts are attempting to prosecute him. London's involvement is merely that countries have international extradition agreements, to prevent all criminals from being able to avoid the law by moving country. The US' involvement in purely speculation - maybe they're pulling the strings, but they're not officially involved.

So unless you think all extradition should be avoided (and whatever you think about the Assange case, would you be happy if somebody who lived near you murdered your family, moved to a neighboring country and you were told "well we can't do anything any more"?), the case has been handled perfectly from the point of view of which countries should do what.
This situation is multiplied further, many times over, in developing countries.
Also, in addition to confirming that our own hash was genuine, 9gag's password was very weak and their hash can be reversed with online rainbow tables.
No. Technically NZ company can not sell anything outside NZ. And company only operates in jurisdiction of his origin country. Technically "selling in the US" means that NZ company is exporting (and this is regulated by NZ laws) and those who buy that software are importing (which is regulated by US laws) said software into US and US patent holder(s) can try to prevent that import. But even then this means nothing to the NZ company in question. On the other hand if said NZ company has daughter company in US, then yes, that company can be sued.
How else would you connect the exchanges? Or you don't want major exchanges to be connected, and say, if you dump a lot of stock at one exchange you don't want that information to propagate to other exchanges?

Benefits of having HFT traders, is that at the cost of having them around you can have fair and level ground. So if you come to one exchange to do a transaction, you don't have to think much about exchange intrinsics, like liquidity available there, fee structure, etc. Because these differences are being arbitraged away by HFT traders.

And again, what is the alternative? Exchanges that are connected by human traders making phone calls?
Does copyright inheritance get taxed like money?
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Is this the end of e-mail clients hype?
>People should be building the next ssh, not the next PGP.

Yeah. I'd like something that simple and secure (where users can use the same private key across sites) for web browsers. X509 client authentication, as far as I can tell, doesn't cut the mustard. Among other problems, it requires trusted certificate authorities, which causes... problems.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/24/investing/netflix-stock/inde...
> Nook e-readers, meanwhile, do not appear to fall into the discontinuation pile immediately. Rather, they’re projected to have their own gradual, natural decline

How is this anything other than Embrace-Extend-Extinguish? And what does microsoft have to gain from paying $1bn for a company (that's running a loss), and then discontinuing their product?
This feels like The Clapper of the 21st century. That product is still bought and in the pop culture. Good luck to the developer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfgN5tUgjb8
It's nice that they resolved that mostly in-universe. They didn't go and ban everyone, but instead changed the gameplay to compensate.
Nokia Asha 501: Impressive Low-end Touchscreen Phone for $99
Small bit of syntax feedback - should be "the Facebook to LinkedIn's MySpace". Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine, since so many people word it like you in a way that is obvious to understand but doesn't technically make any sense.
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