skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i get what you're saying, but i'm not sure that's actually true. once you are getting offers in the billions it's pretty clear you have something. obviously no guarantees, but certainly you have some potential.

that being said, the market potential for a google is quite obviously higher than the potential for snapchat i think. I can't imagine a future world where snapchat is worth more than google, and if it is, it's almost certainly because they used that valuation to pivot and make something more worthwhile.
Thank you, this is a real gem. I'm very grateful for MS Research in general, as they do some very interesting things that are only possible when you're the size of Microsoft, et. al. but I really do wish more academic papers came out of huge institutions. This knowledge really is worth sharing!
Indeed, that was my (new) co-founder!
Here's the reality, as I see it - most businesses, that is to say, (US) commercial enterprises that operate within the confines of the USA already comply with any and all search warrants, FISA letters, government requests, and so on.

In fact, most of the traditional large enterprises in the US keep teams of people around to operate policy and software solutions solely to archive and protect data that may apply to government and civil investigations.

Large enterprises are concerned about individual actors - "hackers", competitors, unscrupulous investors who want to gain access to sensitive information. If the government comes calling, they'll just give up the information, because why do they care? The vast majority of large companies in the US don't store sensitive information on behalf of their users like Google does. If Exxon-Mobil can save $30m/year by running VDI on Amazon, they will - if the government wanted the contents of any employee laptop, they'd turn it over anyway.

It's end-users, service providers, and politically active organizations who don't want to put their compute on centralized infrastructure.
> This matters due to font-rendering differences between desktop and server editions, and my use-case is around web design.

I'm curious. What are the font-rendering differences? Are you sure it isn't caused by Remote Desktop or by the difference between software and hardware rendering?
If you've never been ripped off by a cab driver in a strange city, you either haven't traveled very much, or you've led a very charmed life. (Or you have been ripped off, but you didn't realize it.)
> Why are economists always so hung up on the concept of saving vs. spending, as though one is inherently better than the other?

Generally, it has nothing to do with normative evaluations of what is better, it has to do with modelling how systems behave, and spending vs. saving are important difference in behavior with substantial effects within the economy (whether the effects of one or the other are better -- whether generally or in some particular circumstances -- than the effects of the other is a separate discussion, the import thing for the science of economics is that the two are significant, and different, and modelling the difference is therefore important to modelling the behavior of the economy in different circumstances.)
> It's clearly insecure, but that's not really the point.

No, that is the point. I even pointed it out hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6727448

The failure is the lesson. The previous version was a clever hack written by a clever person. This is ignorance, and the lesson is that allowing users to run arbitrary code on other user's computers is bad idea.
My understanding is that the windows acpi code is actually very similar to or derived from the intel code.

As for bug for bug compat, that's really more an issue of broken bios. I.e., the acpi byte code is broken, not the implementation that interprets the byte code. Windows doesn't necessarily do anything crazy, it's the bios that asks "is this windows?" And then shits itself if the answer is no.
NSA has no idea when it spies on Americans
You can get Aero on Server 2008 R2. You just have to install an accelerated graphics driver.
At the time I was still working in backend.

I also have no complaints about my pay ;) But my experiences with big companies have left with me little desire to talk to them. It's always been a frustrating experience full of low-ball offers and treating me like an idiot.

Every time I've dealt with big-company salary negotiations it's felt like buying a used car. "Oh, we absolutely cannot go higher than that ceiling" "Welp, sorry then" "No wait, we talked to our VP..." - startups (or really, just smaller companies) have always been much more transparent and much more direct in their dealings.
just beware also.. git or subversion can be corrupted. so the best multi server zip/tar backup
This does not point out a problem with early adopter advantage.

BTC still appears to be a deflationary currency, which fundamentally favors the early adopter (though they may still screw up and lose that advantage). In a deflationary currency, over time, the cost of goods and services will trend towards smaller increments of the currency. Assume that the BTC economy stabilized, that it has a nearly consistent deflation rate similar to our nearly consistent inflation rates in other currencies.

If you receive a salary of 100BTC this year, at a 10% deflation rate you would expect your salary the next year to be about 90BTC, and about 81BTC the year after. 7 years into the job (barring other pay raises) your pay is cut in half (in absolute terms), but can still purchase the same amount each year. Now, assuming a modest 30% savings rate, after about 15-16 years you'll have saved up more than you will earn over the next 15 years. So now my kid is grown and entering into the economy, in his first 15 years he'll have earned what you saved, but have a fraction of your wealth. 15 years after him another kid has grown and entered the market and faces the same dilemma.

Today, BTC is unstable, the value fluctuates wildly, "early adopter" is a fuzzy term because BTC is still young. But this is the fundamental problem facing deflationary currencies over an extended period. The deflation rate, similar to the inflation rate for other currencies today, has to be tempered. If it's allowed to get out of hand it'll wreck the economy it's meant to facilitate.
Yeah, stay away from that stuff... can mess you up.
Is there a video of this thing in action? I didn't see a link in the article (skimmed it quickly though)
Same does not go for Pinterest. Pinterest will be able to make money and lots of it very easily. It is the perfect social site. It is a site for women to tag things they want to buy. It doesn't get any better than that except for maybe google. If I could invest in Pinterest today or anytime in the last few years I'd do it in a heartbeat. The same cannot be said for snapchat.
Accepting payment by credit card is one of those regulations taxis in SF find unfair and inefficient, and so flaunt regularly. So, from that perspective, I think it's germane.

I've also had drivers in SF smoke, refuse to give me a ride, and try to charge me extra fees, all of which are, AFAIK, against the law.
How can something so small have more surface area than a basketball court?
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Thanks. The classifying is what took (still taking) a lot of time. Looking to give everyone the most accurate idea of how a course would be classified at a university.
MySpace did take the money. We'll never know what they could have developed into had they not become part of News Corp.
This is a fantastic pair of headphones I bought recently off Amazon... they're cheap (20 bucks), bluetooth wireless, very comfortable, snug. They charge via ordinary USB cables, and a single charge lasts about 16 hours. Love 'em and would buy 'em again:
http://amzn.to/19m3z4G
One of those asian messaging app companies makes 20%+ of their revenue from stickers (tens of millions of $ a month)
Thanks. We like CC also. For now we are sticking to courses that would be considered full or close to college courses.
Yeah that was fun until I got an alert box in my face.
> Behind the scenes barely anything has truly changed

This might be is different from country to country but legislation is usually very different when you are freelancing vs contracting as a company. So even if the author doesn't understand it yet, when shit hits the fan he will (and I don't want to sound too harsh but eventually with companies it always will).
So this is a shot across the bow at WhatsApp and kik and MessageMe right? Those apps are incredibly popular in developing nations.
It can also get fairly chilly in comparison to Latin American countries.
Anyone else not able to read the article? NYTimes prompts me to register beforehand.
If you install this, the messaging tab in the primary Facebook app now just switches you to the Messenger app. What a weird choice.

I decided to uninstall Messenger, I like being able to chat while browsing other Facebook pages.
I really dislike these kinds of posts that try to dramatize things with statements like Uber "has no customer service." It feels like you're trying to hold up the company by stirring up the mob. You should have given them more of a chance.

I had a problem where I rode in an Uber and the GPS tweaked out, causing the distance to be 2x what it should have been. I responded to the email, and they refunded me for the difference that was overcharged within a day.
What made you choose Morocco?
Assuming a 5% rate of return since that offer (2010) that money is now worth 6.95B, so GRPN is still below and at best, equal to that value.
NeuroHeli: Flying Buddy 2: The Future of Brain Wave Controlled Toys
An excellent 101 article.
No. The comment is

"Why is Snapchat worth $3 billion? Because Facebook is willing to pay that much and investors are willing to invest at that valuation."
What do ideas and inventions have to do with copyright? No, it isn't time to kill Copyright, that would be a very bad idea. But certainly reduce the limits. Much less than the current "greater than the average lifespan"
Just checked. No SMS bridge, just a WhatsApp-like phone numbers based contacts system.

This means you can message anyone who uses Messenger if you have his phone number.
Typeface vs. Font: Terminology Smackdown
An explanation of the subtle difference between those two terms.
The concluding line says it all:

“I’m facing a crisis in this industry, said Mr. Ma. “Young people, the things they like on the Internet, increasingly I don’t understand it. This is my biggest worry.”
Animatron: online animation tool
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Agreed, I had to remove messenger because of that - it annoyed me that much.
added an array for blocked words;
http://jsfiddle.net/sy85U/47/
Note: I think the app is syncing your address book with FB servers.
I look for pay range first
Then the skills required and "nice to have".
Then the problems they are solving to see if they are interesting.

The positions that interest me are ones that aren't 1 dimensional: not just GUI, not just algorithms, etc.
This seems to answer the question: https://www.facebook.com/help/458736564237313
When you launch the updated Messenger app on iOS, it asks for permission to use your contacts. The alert message was sufficiently creepy that I didn't give it permission to "sync contacts" with Facebook.
so facebook saved 3billion dollars and rolled out a snapchat clone in 30 days, it can claim a billion user in next 60 days
I'm in Panama right now visiting family. How does the talent/tech scene compare in Costa Rica to Panama or the rest of central america?
They do have email.
Cisco warns US spying fallout hitting revenue in China
My first computer experience was compuserve on a printing (only) terminal.

It was kinda like this but without the color.

You could only use it at night because the rates were too high during the day, the dialup was meant for business use.
Was anyone honestly expecting anything good to come from TPP? We've known since the first draft leak back in 2011 leaked that the whole purpose of TPP was not to benefit anyone except copyright lobbyists and pharmaceutical companies. Why else do you think these talks are being secretly held?

If the TPP is approved in all participating countries, it has the potential to really wreak havoc. What we are seeing here whether or not you understand it that well is bad news for open source, bad news for anyone that uses the Internet and bad news for countries that rely on cheaper generic drugs to treat illnesses.

What a sad world we live in when lobbyists and rogue politicians are conspiring to destroy the world. And while it could be worse, if TPP passes this is only the beginning of what would be a very destructive agreement.
You keep saying that, but I'm not actually seeing it. Industry isn't good for you, but it is pretty damn low on my list of concerns.
Really good point. If you have a blog you should write more about this. Very interesting.
Source: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/08/08/line-corp-brings-in-13...
ask Mandelbrot
there's no magic here. For example, activated carbon [1] has a surface of 500 m^2 per gram. It's just a very porous structure.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon
I'm on the verge of turning 30, so I'm not too old to remember being a teen, but I can also sense a mild but tangible generational gap between me and the teenagers of today. So while a 1 billion offer for a chat app seems outrageous to me now, I know that Teen-Me would be all over something like snapchat.

I don't know what that says about what kind of software I should be building, if it says anything at all.
... and LINE, and Kakaotalk, and ...

The thing is that many of these apps are both pretty good, and have insane market penetration... It's hard to see why anybody would switch to a FB app that's very likely worse if they're already using something else (so all their contacts are there).
Cisco’s disastrous quarter shows impact of NSA spying on US companies
I've been hoping for a supercapacitor laptop battery for some time. I'll gladly take a 3 hour battery life if I can get a 30 second recharge.
What 9 World Leaders Were Doing in Their 20s
They are much more likely to date somebody who has been introduced to them by a friend they trust.

That's more of an availability problem, though, not a trust problem.
Just tested, this happens on iOS. Not sure about Android. I definitely agree with you.

Pressing back brings you back into the standard Facebook app.
perhaps try this book, i think it will answer some of your questions:

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...
First, stealing a car or stuff out of a car isn't a federal crime. Second, I almost never lock my car, but that depends on the neighborhood.
Incognito mode, perhaps?
So the web sucks?
I find this more difficult to do as I progress. My calculus book was full of difficult example problems so that I was prepared to tackle the problem sets whereas my number theory book has some proofs and trivial examples, leaving me almost completely unprepared for the problem sets without hours and hours of struggle.
an easier analogy: 100-stories building that stays on 1 cm^2 area has a total surface of 100 cm^2. Now, make the height of this building 1 cm, and you have 100 cm^2 surface in 1 cm^3 volume.

Make it 1M floors, and you are talking about 1M cm^2 = 100 m^2
The real question is how in the world any of these companies are going to making $100/user. I am a user of FB and TWTR and I can't imagine how I will ever make that much money for them. Certainly I can see some money, but not that much. CPM's just aren't that high. Snapchat? not a chance.
Because my entire account is banned, not just the device. If it were just the device, it wouldn't have been a problem - I could've just turned off the IMEI blocker and it would've been fine. Sadly, that's not the case!
High acid load (more protein) may cause Type-2 diabetes
Only if you opt-in to it.

When you launch the app you're prompted to decide if you want to sync your contact list so the app can be used to contact non-Facebook friends. It's not doing it without your explicit approval.
The actual study is here (zip file) - http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/files/Fagherazzi.zip
What software should I use to verify their claims? aerodynamics simulators or how they are called?
Consider how much more information is now available about human costs, though. If your brother/father/son/friend went to war in the early 20th century and died, you probably got a photo and a posthumous medal. Now, Collateral Murder goes viral and gets millions of views.
Ask HN: Would you start a startup if the upside was limited?
I heard that Switzerland is voting to implement a system where CEO's could only make 12x that of the company's lowest paid employee. They would also be implementing a system where every citizen is guaranteed roughly $22k/year, regardless of employment (I might not have all the facts correct).

Regardless, my question is if you were capped at $500k/year knowing that you would have this $22k/year safety net, would you still start a startup?

EDIT: I'm trying to ask whether a moderate upside - that is roughly equivalent to making $500k/year - would be enough to motivate most people to start startups. The Switzerland thing was just what got me thinking. DH5 people!
They don't ask for a copy of your social security card, no, but I have to have a cellphone tied to my account and I only have one of those.
guys, gals, ladies and gentlemen. The valuation is purely greed. A raw human emotion not governed my logic or common sense. There's no financial model that will be able to justify Snapchat at $3bln. So stop using logic to justify and/or invalidate viability of the business.

People are greedy, especially VCs. they inflate the valuation since you have Facebook ($114bln market cap) and other big Asian investors willing to pony up.
The nice thing I've found about using the Messenger app is that it seems to put a lot less strain on my battery, especially after I disabled location services for the Messenger app. I like being able to disable location services in Messenger, but leave it enabled in Facebook. I don't really care if my location is tied to IMs (and often prefer that it's not), but it's usually nice for Facebook status/image posts that are essentially check-ins on the go.
It would be unwise to do so. In any case, phasing out old servers and certs for new ones is common practice. Using one cert everywhere (which would mean using one set of keys everywhere, which is a horrible idea) would require more downtime for maintenance of the certificates. It's not gonna happen.
I think most f us are using deposit services for most valuable items & data. It's certainly safer than elcheapo safe at home.
Well-designed backup systems (say, Dropbox) don't actually require any overcoming of laziness.
Agree with your last point totally.

But 30 lines of code, what do you expect? Now imagine jQuery type library with a community of developers and you get... Google Docs :-p
For some reason, when I messaged someone on Facebook Messenger, it always felt to me more like I was bothering them, than when I used AIM/ICQ in the past. So I felt it was never really used in the same way. So I think this app is an attempt to make it a bit more casual, less formal.
I included the caveat of "normal". Obviously that amount of money is "spendable." 300k a year though will service a very nice lifestyle though. You can live an upper class lifestyle most places in the world without doing anything.

Also, perhaps I'm naive, but I expect tech startup founders to be better with their money than professional athletes. Yes, you could be an idiot, but that doesn't mean 10 mil isn't FU money. It is if you have even a little bit of a brain. You can spend nearly any amount of money, but that's not really the point. You can put your 3 billion all on red and dammit if it didn't come up black. Doesn't make it not FU money. (No casino in the world will take that bet, but you know what I mean).
I would say that Java is a more common bytecode than ACPI. Sure, if you just consider desktop or laptops, ACPI will be more common, but feature phones all generally include a Java VM, and the baseband on smartphones generally do too. For that matter, SIM cards themselves include a Java Card interpreter, which interprets a stripped down version off JVM bytecode. Your phone may contain two or three different variants of JVM just to make a phone call.

Furthermore, exactly what you consider to be a bytecode vs a machine language can be a bit of an open question. After all, Intel CPUs don't actually execute the x86 instruction set directly, the execute microcode which translates the instruction set into the actual instructions that the CPU executes. So you could say that x86 is the ultimate bytecode. And hey, for a while Mac OS X had PowerPC emulation support, and before that System 7 has 68k emulation support. On the other hand, people have implemented Java in hardware, so today's bytecode may become tomorrow's machine language, and vice versa.

edit: Can whoever downvoted please provide an explanation? This comment is on topic and polite; if you disagree, please explain, as I would be interested to know why. If there's something that's incorrect, a correction would be appreciated.
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Did anyone else watch the linked video of the RC helicopter? It was amazing! I had no idea that those things were so powerful. The only ones I've ever seen are the ones at the mall.
I think Groupon was said to have done something like this. Not sure that was a face-saving move or not (rumor was Googs didn't like what they saw in their books much). If it wasn't then they overplayed their hand and never got their six billn. Wonder if this will end up being similar.
Indeed, that's what I was going for.
New Cholesterol Advice Startles Even Some Doctors
Nice. I look forward to the full office suite in 60 lines of JS, the email client/server in 75 lines of JS, and of course the bitcoin exchange web app in 90 lines of JS.
Definitely not, because at that valuation the offer is suspiciously too cheap - in fact it's so cheap it's unlikely he'll pay out because the first thing he'll do is hire a lawyer to get out of that contract.
Snapchat is already a very rich company. The founders are probably indifferent to the wealth at this point.

I also think a lot of people (myself included) find it hard to comprehend how much money can be made selling stickers in messaging apps. It's mind-boggling, and Snapchat, processing 350+ million messages a day, is in a very strong position to leverage that eventually.

All that said, I'd accept a $3B cash offer in a heartbeat if I were in their shoes. I wouldn't be confident in Snapchat's long-term survival. It might double its user base in the next year and then swiftly die when the next fad comes along. I feel that timing will be critical here. If they wait too long, they could lose it all.
Turn down the big money and wait for their one-tricky pony to die a slow death as it falls out of fashion?
I think the title should warn users of the various remote injection vulnerabilities present in the script. It took about 5 seconds for the page to change to xhamster
Dropbox for business
I've found it extremely useful advice to live by. It's easy to ascribe wicked motives towards one's antagonists, but doing so leads down a rabbit hole of magical thinking because you really don't know what motivates them in most cases. All sorts of ill-effects can result from people who sincerely believe they're doing the right thing but who have failed to fully appreciate the consequences of their actions. It's more productive to address the undesirable outcomes of a policy than it is to demonize the policy makers, unless you have abundant evidence of ill-will.
Yes, that Singapore's singular focus on a small number of quantitative outcomes has led to a society lacking a rich culture (i.e. qualitative appeal).