skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Facebook is worth X, and there is a raising service which generates x/40 of social traffic, then it will make sense for Facebook to evaluate the new kid as Facebook/40, or to say the least, the owners of the raising service will expect the offer to be at that rate.

If there is a bubble, the bubble is at Facebook and Twitter, and not at Instagram or Snapchat or Pinterest or any of those zillion-terabytes-daily-uploads services.

There were several articles recently telling how teens are away of Facebook, and for them, it shall be rather natural to try to stay the ultimate social hub.
+1 for this point. In the end, you've only spent time if you learn a technology that you end up not using. Meteor.js might teach you lots about modern web apps. That knowledge will be transferrable, even if you don't end up working on web apps.
As far as I remember , similar permissions are required when you install app for "Uber" cabs.
Here is an interesting video where you can see how they are testing jet engines before they can be certified for flight - they chuck various stuff inside including dead birds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfXX7qppbc
BootGrad - GlassDoor for Technology Bootcamps
Like I replied to someone else, what do you do about all those innocents who get killed in a driving accident with someone who's not drunk?

That kind of ruins your simplistic little moral diorama, doesn't it?
Poll: How many debit/credit cards do you carry?
Pollify-ing an Ask HN [1] from sferik inspired by recent news about Coin.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745223

[2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57612054-94/inside-coins-techie-vision-for-the-all-in-one-credit-card/
Getting our attention is a world of spam requires crossing the creepy line. Unfortunate.
Supercell CEO interview about his successful company culture
I'm broadly against immigration to the EU, and 650k is a bit low, but in general, this is the best way to go about it. We're getting people who really want to get in, who demonstrably can contribute and won't be a burden on the system. Also, not too many.
The evidence from companies that have that many users certainly points towards high revenues, but not revenues commensurate with a $3billion valuation.

Facebook is a mature advertising platform with far more to offer advertisers than Snapchat is ever likely to, and earns revenues of less than $7 per active user per year. If Snapchat is as effective at monetising at Facebook, which sounds optimistic, it would take them 17 years to make $3billion in revenue off ~25million active users. I don't doubt that Snapchat's user base will continue to rise in the short term, but I also don't think it'll be around in 17 years...

If you compare Snapchat not with the internet's leading repository of user metadata, and more with similarly popular locations for ephemeral meme-sharing amongst teenagers, its current user base more closely resembles that of the Cheezburger Network, whose decision to lay off a third of their workforce earlier this year hardly points towards stratospheric advertising revenues from their own ~25 million users
The history of many of the languages has been the same in regards to generics. C++ didn't have them, then templates where added. C# 1 didn't have them, but were quickly added (correctly) in 2. D didn't have them, later they were added. It is very common for a new language to avoid generics in the beginning, but it seems most come to agree, it was a mistake.
For my laptop: I use backblaze for everything. I have timemachine setup on a small server (running zfs and snapshotting). I also use arq to backup more important stuff an extra time to S3.

For servers with data, which currently is just postgres - Heroku pg backups. We download, verify and archive them on S3 and to local server.
Zero. I still carry cash only.
I have a raspberry pi at home in which I backup to via sshfs (if I am away from home). It is connected to a usb driven external 2TB drive.

I backup this drive and keep a copy at my parent's house in their safe.
I don't disagree, but to me, $3 billion dollars is indeed a gold-mine.

I don't know what they're worth, what they will be worth, or whether or not it'll ever end up being super profitable. Apparently, the naysayers were wrong about Groupon, as they're now doing pretty well, and it seems that turning down the acquisition offer wasn't entirely stupid.

That said, $3 billion dollars is a lot of money, and I would pretty much always take it, and move on to executing the next idea.
By this argument I would have sold at 10 million.
Not sure I'd call Python "trendy". It has been around for a while, it's massively popular, and it's used at scale. Python is a very mature language.
Dear Googles: Stop asking
>Also, not too many.

I think it's already too late for that.
€30m at €650k a head = less than 50 people, no?

I guess the real problem is if this kicks off a "race to the bottom" among other cash-strapped EU members.
Don't let yourself go down that road of thinking. If you judge every happiness done for others based on how many other people it could have helped, you will eventually suck all the joy out of every endeavor of yourself and others. Weighing souls will weigh down yours.

On a purely money note, Make-a-wish got a lot of publicity and goodwill which will help in other fund raising efforts so they can help even more people. It was an extremely good (and common) trade for a NGO. For example, the cost of holding an art show generally pays dividends in getting money to teach more artists. The "show" pays for a lot of "nuts & bolts".
Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. My rules are simple:

1. Don't ever email me unless it's in response to a specific request initiated by me.
Is there a 'don't send me email about unread messages' option somewhere?
The square mile looks like that on a weekend.

The rest looks like that at 05:30. in summer.
Useless article. Don't waste your time. Should have stuck to my rule of avoiding blog posts which claim a certain thing is "the most powerful".
The VC industry is largely a scam. VC funds underperform passive investment in the S&P 500, and greatly underperform similar risk asset classes such as the Russel 2000.
Nice hyperbolic headline followed by generally known information that fails to prove your thesis; yeah for click bait! Did you consider defining 'powerful', or was it just a good word for a headline (the only place the word appears in the article)? I happen to really like Python; this doesn't do it justice, and ignores the value of the great Python community.
You can almost completely substitute "python" with "ruby" here. (not sure about the amiga part, though).

Or, how about Javascript? Every common desktop, smartphone, tablet and so on has at least one JS runtime preinstalled (the browser), node,js kicks ass on the server side, and even databases "speak" javascript, like MongoDB. Oh, and JS can be used through OOP and Functional Programming as Well, not to mention several meta-languages ontop of JS, like Coffeescript, Livescript, Typescript, ... .

No offense, but the "strong points" of python are pointless as of today's standards. Even the old "LAMP" Stack is fading away more and more.
Humanities or STEM? Students need both to succeed.
I use Meteor for a dashboard app and this seems to be the ideal use case for this stack: take JSON documents via third-party APIs, aggregate them (hence MongoDB is fine for the job) and push to clients.

Was it worth learning? I'd say yes, it has a low barrier to entry and is great for practicing front-end development.
Malta's GDP is only 8.7 billion USD. €30m isn't too shabby.
I love Python and would agree that it's been a boon to work with it for web stuff, but this type of articles, with their provoking titles are doing the language and the community a disservice.
Can you explain why you're against immigration to the EU? I've just arrived in Berlin, so it's relevant to me.
PL:AI http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/
It's really great technology and a lot of fun to program in! My only problem with it is its so closely tied to Mongo. There are ways around this already I believe. However official SQL support is coming soon, which I'm very excited about.

If real time collaboration is at the core of your web app, then you'll love Meteor.js.
I have a huge number of names in my hosts file. I use the MVPS hosts file but there are at least a few available along those lines. I also have facebook in it.
Yes. I use them; the other bad thing you might read about is that to download encrypted stuff, you need to enter your password on their server.
This wouldn't be very useful for building a small interpreter.
I love Python, but skip this 'article'. It's poorly written and offers nothing to the reader.
Tracked Since Birth: The Rise of Extreme Baby Monitoring
b.

But about six months ago, I stopped posting and now I rarely visit. It wasn't a conscious decision. I just got bored with it and started tapering off usage.
> Swartz may have had a "legitimate political cause" but he sullied it (in my opinion) with illegal activities. Anonymous may also have a legitimate gripe but their actions were illegal and Hammond is now paying the price. That's how it works. It is wrong to act as if you somehow should be looked at differently by the law because you had a "legitimate political cause."

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...
Every country does this in some way through "investment visas." Including the US. Malta's sale is just a bit more blatant.
Video presentation for the slides:

http://download.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community...
Dart has a broadly similar server side role to Go (the approach is very different) in that it falls between C++ and currently popular dynamic languages, plus it has a client-side role where it aims to be a better JS.

Obviously on the server side it overlaps with Go, but Google has the resources to do multiple efforts in parallel in areas they think are important to find what works best with real world experience.
I think the interesting discussion point here is this..
In the US the prison system is a huge, profitable and influential industry. As the pharma industry will encourage doctors to prescribe their medicines the prison industry will encourage and lobby the legal system to increase the amount of prisoners.
While I totally agree with most of the sentiments you have expressed I do need to point out one issue I have with your comment:

>There is after all no intrinsic reason Africans can't provide food and water and medicine for themselves just as people do in Europe and America and large parts of what used to be the Third World. What's missing is knowhow and organization.

This comment is totally ignorant of the scale of the problems faced in the third world.

Ridding ourselves of corruption and getting together a solid plan still leaves us with massive problems to fix. Truly, MASSIVE problems.

It is the scale that requires capital and make no mistake that the first world has no small amount of complicity in the current state of the rest of our world.

I agree with you that money isn't going to solve it all.

Throwing money at it is largely a case of too little too late.
I have a 500Gb portable hard disk that gets appended to daily and cycled every 2 years. Plus a digitalocean VM which gets rsynced to daily.

Oh and a VS320 DLT which gets done when I can be arsed as that has a two decade shelf life. It and the drive live in a 400kg fire safe.

And I print all my photos on 10x8 paper that are worth keeping.

And I have CDs for music still.

Edit: see a lot of people relying on just cloud services. Don't do that. Shit does go missing and fail. And I bet you don't test your multi-gigabyte cloud drop until you need to restore it which is bad juju.
Show HN: Google calendar event short urls - a fun weekend project
Try Outlook.com. Even if you've gotten used to Gmail's unconventional UX, you'll feel right at home with Outlook.com. It feels snappy, fluid, everything is marked clearly, and easy to use.

It's actually joy to use.
There are passwords with uppercase letters and the puzzle distincts between those. e.g.: password is wrong but Password is correct.
iOS app has a share button top right when viewing a property, options for Facebook, twitter, email and SMS
But that's still a visa. This is a full blown citizenship.
I see what you're driving at (ha!), but "attempted manslaughter" is a contradiction in terms. Attempt implies intent; manslaughter is by definition without intent.

Look, I can see your point of view. There needs to be a deterrent, yes. Locking someone up and throwing away the key, though, should be reserved for only the most heinous offences. In my opinion, you should not be able to achieve that using only a six-pack, a car, and zero dead bodies.

There has got to be some other solution that doesn't utterly ruin the person's life, and the state's finances.
Interesting. I always assumed that as part of the Schengen Agreement there was some kind of minimum requirement for naturalizing foreigners. Given that apparently there isn't, I'm actually quite surprised that some small country hasn't tried this before.
after reading some github issues and some source code... There is also sails, and probably tons of other express/socker-io boilerplate frameworks. But meteor has this facebook guy on the homepage. Your boss will love it.
Ahh something I can speak to directly.

At my current gig, we use SiteKiosk which locks windows down tight. It uses the IE WebBrowser control via ActiveX/COM/.Net/however the hell it works. Its basically IE but slightly shittier due to there not being a 1:1 between it and IE proper. SiteKiosk has some pretty powerful digital signage features you don't really get from a Windows Embedded scenario. One feature of 8.1 I was looking forward to was "kiosk mode" but with WinRT being blocked from talking to localhost, except through a hack (yes, fuck you Microsoft) it was stillborn for my tastes.

.NET apps are ClickOnce or xbap, which is basically pre-Silverlight. This is the suckiest part. SiteKiosk can run normal applications and Silverlight with no problems but it took SL 5 to get proper COM support and it isn't terribly easy to make your normal .NET library "just work" so that wrapper for a card dispenser isn't as easy to leverage. Due to the low number of these apps (2), we haven't bothered migrating away from shitty xbap.

The largest amount of applications use typical wamp running a lightweight PHP framework and sometimes MySQL as localhost. Some are completely or partially Flash driven applications as well.

SiteKiosk and leveraging IE lets us focus on perfecting the experience though I've become complacent. IE development is just too slow now and testing in Chrome with superior dev tools are absolutely essential. The problem there is we can easily paint ourselves into a Chrome-only corner if we aren't careful.

Leveraging the POS equipment like barcode readers, card dispensers, or printers are the only thing the web proper isn't really suited for unfortunately. This may be where Windows has much more leverage due to their driver model. Most equipment we interfaced with had a .NET library or simple instructions of use with P/Invoke. I saw very little (<1%) that had anything to do with Linux and in typical fashion wasn't something to simply use via something like PHP or Ruby/Rails. Maybe we chose Windows friendly vendors, though, so take this with a grain of salt.
It's funny that people here think he's making fun of snapchat, but the article is from 2009. He was making fun of facebook's $6.5b valuation (or maybe it was $10b). The fact that he was completely wrong (fb is now over $100b) doesn't stop people here from thinking that there's wisdom in this nonsensical post.
You'll get a lot of Russian mobsters that way, buying their way in and buying property to get a foot in the EU door.
Yes, AFAIK if you invest $1m+ to some U.S. company you get investment visa and free to live in U.S.

There is one difference though - U.S. is a country, so is Malta. But if you get citizenship of Malta you get citizenship of E.U. which means you can leave Malta behind and go to any country that is in E.U. Also, Visa is not really citizenship.
Just because some people don't know what they are doing, doesn't mean you can't run windows to drive displays.

I founded a company 9years ago that did just that and let me tell you, that we prided ourselves with never having had something like this happen!! And we deployed over 100.000 such devices!

Besides, the $15 for a windows license are irrelevant if you look at the project cost.

It also made sense from a technology point of view... .NET is great for UI heavy stuff, there is not a single media format that's not supported on windows and you get great drivers for all the hardware that's out there!

Microsoft also helps you with distribution/promotion of your solution.

And like others already mentioned...it was also easier to sell windows based systems to corporations because it was the defacto standard!

The problem with the digital signage industry is, that the barrier of entrance seems to be low and therefore everybody tries to put together his own little crapy solution. That's why the whole market is fucked up and that's also why I sold my company as soon as I could.
Obviously, the riots, car burning, head chopping... the kind of stuff you'd see on the news. But more importantly in the long run, it simply doesn't work, much like many of the immigrants who come here. See Malmö for example[1] where "the majority of foreign born working age adults do not work." That, and every other indicator makes for a bleak picture of immigration.

[1] http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2013/05/malmo-case-study-i...
I tried Lisp + Java and got Objective C instead.
Why would you pay almost a million dollars for citizenship? Honest question.
Strange, it works fine for me in Chromium 30.0.1599.66 (225456) on Arch. In what way is it not working?
Mt. Gox used to stand for that. It no longer does. There is a very distinct difference.

I didn't say that you didn't like LG, I asked if you still referred to it as Lucky Goldstar? My point was that LG used to stand for 'Lucky Goldstar'. Now, it is the actual name. QANTAS used to stand for 'Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services'. Now, it is the actual name. In the same vein, Mt. Gox used to stand for 'Magic the Gathering Online Exchange'. Now, it is the actual name.

Further to that, you referred to the site as 'the magic the gathering online exchange'. This is obviously not true anymore: it literally cannot be used to exchange MtG cards anymore. You cannot deny that they pivoted from exchanging MtG cards to exchanging Bitcoins, and calling it something that it obviously is not anymore is wrong.

Finally, when you said that "when you try to withdraw funds you are prevented from doing so and put on a waiting list" that is not correct. You are not prevented from doing so. Your request is processed and queued... just because that queue takes way too long for a lot of people doesn't mean it was prevented. Just like when I transfer money from one account to another and it is queued and processed over night doesn't mean it was prevented. Thankfully, however, that overnight queue is processed a lot faster than a transfer from Mt. Gox. But again, there was nothing stopping me from initiating it.

Also, just to add to what I said in my original reply, there are no doubt a lot of people in the world that are not having delayed processing at all... they just don't happen to live in the USA.

Don't get me wrong: I definitely think that there are issues with Mt. Gox in particular that are worrying. However, I would point to those things instead of mentioning things that actually aren't true. And when I point to them, I would point to them as problems with an exchange itself, as opposed to using those points to say "None of these are good reasons to buy Bitcoin".
This is a pretty good solution. But not many radio stations on this yet.

I also can't seem to find a directory of radio stations and their phone numbers on their website.

While many low-end phones includes a FM radio, they don't have an AM antenna. This could be pretty useful for listening to talk radio.
Anybody read this 'Ten Health Benefits of Fiber' thing? Who writes this stuff? I'm sure it's with good intentions, but the way it is written now doesn't sound convincing at all: every single sentence except the one for picture 6, contains 'may' or 'can'. I feel this just doesn't cut it in a world where proper education about food is a must since so many are suffering from not eating healthy. Suppose I'm desperate for a new healthy diet and want to go for fibers (after all, the title says there are ten reasons why I should) and read this, I just might think 'well it just could be better, but it could as well not be, screw this'
This article looks like linkbait, and poorly written linkbait at that. There's very little of substance in it, and nothing in the way of comparison with other languages that might alternatively be used.

For example, consider the paragraph headed "Python is a dynamic language".

"One of the reasons why Python has grown in popularity is because it is a highly robust programming language. Python includes a large variety of classes and data types in addition to the interactive and object oriented nature of the language."

"It also incorporates dynamic typing, modules and exceptions making the Python language an ideal way to create innovative solutions within the same operation."

This doesn't really say anything, in fact some of it doesn't even make sense. What does "includes a large variety of classes" even mean? As for having "a large variety of... data-types", pretty much any language you might consider as an alternative to python for web programming will be able to match it in terms of data-types.

I don't want to be snarky, but this article seems way below the quality threshold of what I would expect/hope to see on HN.
These were not unread messages. The list of names were (probably) taken from the last SMS senders on my phone, before I installed MightyText. Since I don't use SMS much, no new messages were delivered after installing it either. So MightyText went through my old messages, and then sent a reminder/engagement-email using those messages.

EDIT: I've updated the original blog post to make this clear.
Thank you for this, I am switching to Android for freedom but I wish to retain privacy also. Asking permissions for each aspect and requiring apps to work if it is denied is one of the few things I liked about iOS.
You aren't taking into account the value of money to people that are already rich.

Also, they have the scale to start testing monetization, but they are not, because they'd rather increase the value of their exit to an acquirer by growing users.

They want a larger exit.
I've done the same, it was just over a year ago. I've seen separatists (from the EU), people who want to abolish the Euro, and more. If someone wants each country to have different currencies why stop there? Berlin area is much poorer than the rest of Germany, why not give Berlin a separate currency too? Because these people are racist. It's true!

I try and tell people, I'm a skilled software developer, what Germany needs right now. And when was the last time a Canadian showed up in Europe and started causing a problem? Immigration is tiered based firstly on country of origin and wealth, not on skills.

I find it a little bit offensive that EU residency is just one more thing the wealthy can now buy. But on the other hand it was inevitable and was already largely the case. For less than $650k if you have a good immigration lawyer.
If you are familiar with front-end JS frameworks like Backbone/Ember/Angular, then learning Meteor is as simple as a read through the docs and building a sample app.

If not, then learning Meteor would be a great way to become familiar with JS frameworks, and make the move to more complex frameworks (Angular FTW!) in the future.

Either way, awesome tool!