skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a couple of problems with the analysis.

First, users don't use WhatsApp because they're concerned about Facebook hoovering up all the data. They use it because their slightly cooler social influencer friend uses it, so they think they should too. Regular users don't care about Facebook from a privacy angle - they obviously do if it's splashed across CNN, but they forget again the next day.

Second, a factual error:

> Facebook’s business model on the other hand is built on the idea that the more a user interacts with Facebook (or Facebook-connected sites and apps), the more Facebook can earn, because it can present more ads.

Not more ads — _better_ ads. They already fill all their inventory. The difference is important. Better targeted ads annoy users less, but command a higher price from advertisers. And change 'giving them data' from a negative activity to a positive one!

Right now, Facebook's in a weird place. They know loads about me, but their targeting is still really crap. I don't know why they don't just add a 5 minute "improve your ads" survey, where they ask outright which ads they should be showing me. I'd happily tell them the sorts of things I buy loads of, if they'd promise to only show me ads about those things. Anything to get rid of belly fat ads.

If Facebook stored 10 times as much data about you, but the adverts were awesome and you wanted to buy every single thing, would you give them the extra data? HN users might not, but I think most people would.
Well, I decided I'll play with acme* editor a little bit, if I can't get on well with it, I'll probably go that way.

* http://research.swtch.com/acme
What a terrible analogy. It's not like Linda Liukas is a pin-up model trying to trade on her sexuality. She's an educator and illustrator who is trying to do something great.

Please, stop being so damn creepy and/or supporting people who are so damn creepy. This community doesn't have to be such a hostile place.
Apple do not support two versions of iOS back. They expect you to upgrade to a newer, slower version of iOS every time it's released.

You won't be able to get the new iOS 6.1.6 on your iPhone unless it supports iOS 6 but not iOS 7, it is basically only for iPod 4th gen.
The inevitable consequence is that you will end up with monsters such as this http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~r_high/memorial/rocketship.html RiscPC with pods called "slices". I don't think that the board components were able to be sliced out, only peripherals.
It's the "hello world" for people writing rendering software.
Would it really surprise anyone if it was revealed that stuff like this already happened with Bitcoin? Seriously, give a bunch of hackers with access to racks full of Other People's Machines, plus an obvious way to turn cycles into money, and the only surprise would be if they didn't take advantage of the opportunity. I for one expect this to be the norm for every cryptocurrency from now until the end of time. The only question is how much of it the rest of the world is willing to tolerate.
> One couldn't, as soon as the game came out, look at the executable or source file, and determine how it ends, way before anyone else who was playing legitimately.

...or until someone writes a bot to brute-force their way through the game, because computers are really good at trying lots of possibilities really really quickly, many orders of magnitude more quickly than a human player could.
I've never quite understood this argument. I hardly think a Colt and a Wingmaster are going to help stop trained soldiers, drones, jets, tanks etc. It is ridiculous and ignorant of reality.
Odd. I'm the only person with my name who comes up when I search on Google and my email address is on several of the links on the first page, including my GitHub profile.
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A Geometric Review of Linear Algebra [pdf]
> i'm sure you (or your employer for that matter) have better things to do than twisting your internal policies to client's dis/liking

I'm sort of at a loss here. The customer is always right, right? If you're deploying software, everything the customer sees is what they're paying for. If it matters to them, and it bothers them (which I can see in this case), I think the good companies fix it, and the bad companies have "better things to do"
It takes a theory at least 10-15 years to make it into university textbooks, let alone a general English dictionary.
Samsung allegedly pressures newspaper to kill coverage of anti-Samsung film
$3-4b does sound about right - factoring in the market/investor factors this article goes into.

If they convince all of their users to pay the $1 next year, that's $450m in revenue, so 8-10x revenue is a reasonable price for a tech company (outrageous for any other industry, but it's tech).

But 40x revenue, that's just INSANE. I'm sure there's something Facebook could've spent $10b on that would've achieved the same goal (making Facebook more kid friendly). How about a free iPad for every kid in the US?... Not an outrageous idea.
Even if user numbers were comparable, the number of users for WhatsApp is still curving upwards:

http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/026526/screen-sh...

I would also argue that being installed and used on mobile devices is more valuable than being installed on a desktop is.
Isn't it possible that the traffic could just be going over an MPLS backbone? If that's the case, then there could potentially be more hops that aren't seen.
Just for those who didn't get the reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMkBphtQRxs
It's a bit early to announce 2016 campaigns. Maybe we should just stay tuned.
How long has it been around?

Does 25k include the purchase of the domain as well?
there is for me :)
I put it online at the beginning of December. The purchase includes all the software, domain, twitter and facebook handle.
Keep this up and your account will end up dead.

What the hell is wrong with you? Is dignity obsolete?
Now you'll have to tell us about the project...

300TB is quite a lot, even today.
Potentially. This exploit was known to apple for some period of time, if NSA has access to the internal apple bug tracker, then they could certainly exploit the bug.
The technology is coming, whether anyone here likes it or not. Whether it's nanotech, web prying or any other things we haven't even dreamed up yet. This is inevitable, you can't ban research and development into it.

The people who are using it for wrong will use it no matter what, the law has no meaning to them. Whether you outright ban it, or ban parts of it, individuals will ignore the bans and try to exploit it for wrong. This is also inevitable.

So, the important question to ask is what is the most effective way to establish and enforce a reasonable law that allows society to experience the benefits while acting against the detriments and those that would exploit them (for purposes of blackmail, industrial espionage, etc).

What else would you propose be done? Because almost all of what I've heard so far has been complaining, which history shows is the least effective way of actually getting anything done.
reminds me of the google "tilt" search:
http://goo.gl/kaJCiS
Hm, if a portion has substantially low entropy compared to natural language, maybe it was records of something?
JavaScript Frame Busting or Proper Apache Headers + Whitelisting
Building NSQ Client Libraries
The A in the title is for AWESOME.

I have been writing about linear algebra almost non-stop for the past two months to organize the best possible "playlist" of topics that cover a linear algebra course. It's a hard problem, this linearization of a graph of dependencies into a stream of .tex

Prof. Simoncelli has a very good geometrical take on the problem. He manages to cover all the essential topics in 10 pages. Geometrically speaking, vectors = arrows and matrices = transformations on arrows.
Web Translation Service using Apache Cxf JAX-WS, JAX-RS, SpringFramework
Interesting. I don't have a microphone, but it did detect my Rocksmith guitar cable as a mike. It almost worked, but didn't quite get the right tone - I'm assuming the custom cable isn't just a straight-out mike.

The needle was very stuttery, as opposed to other tuners which have a much higher frequency update. Is it always like this, or am I seeing perhaps an interaction effect with this non-standard mike?

Nice work, though.
Please try Guitar Tuner.app on Mac OS X. It has a neat UI so I can see where the sound falls within on the scale. Took a screenshot for you: http://imgur.com/XCge66b

Personally that UI is better for me.
There could be an ASIC for that. There's a new memory interface that works at 10 TB/sec with 16GB memory[1].Currently there's no cpu/gpu architecture in planning that's even close to needing that memory bandwidth, and the manufacturing is expensive.

All this means this tech won't fit decentralization well.

[1]http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=13209...
I developed a serious internet addiction when I was a teenager. My parents were working class and struggling to make ends meet, and I was always dreading the day the phone bill arrived. After a couple of confiscated modems (I had a secret backup box of old 28.8s), I realized I could just trade my web skills for money and pay the bills myself. I guess that's what I've been doing since.
Yeah, but there are nightly pentadactyl versions which work perfectly well with the latest stable firefox.
When that same kindergarten teacher behaves towards one of the male parents as to an infant then it's flirtatious. Certainly in Western society much behaviour which is considered fine with a child is inappropriate with an adult, and vice-versa of course.

If I bounce my friend's daughter on my knee and chat to her it's fine - if I bounce my (married) friend on my knee then it would be considered highly inappropriate in the same circumstance and an affront to my partner and hers. Same behaviour, the first is innocent; the second might be but would be assumed to be sexual or appear pseudo-sexual and so [in my country and circumstance] be considered wrong.

[I've not watched the video yet but am addressing the general case.]
Finally, someone took this step. I really appreciate his work.

Don't get me wrong. Vim is an awesome editor and it is the only editor I'm using now. I've been using it for decades and still cannot find an editor which can replace it. Sorry, emacs, I tried several times but failed. I know it's my problem but I'm too familiar with vim's short-cuts.

However, I do think we can still do some improvement on vim, especially on its plugin systems. If you wrote plugins for vim, you know what I'm talking about. For example, can you quickly tell me the differences between map nnoremap nnoremap? How to write comment in vimscript?

To me, vimscript seems like a language patched by lots of authors with inconsistent goals. It's not as cohesive as Emacs Lisp. And there are lots of historical reasons why they do that --- I know, it's backward compatibility. But you have to move forward at some time.

With that being said, I do think it is necessary to have an editor which keeps the good parts in vim and improve it by not considering too much about backward compatibility. I'm so glad that someone did it for us.
10 Tbyte/sec memory interface
Trying to get a 0.0 GPA in a quarter/semester/year really is a worthy challenge. Much more difficult than you would think. I tried 3 separate times - closest I could get (without dropping from classes) was a 1.0.

I believe being spoiled by many of the finest computer, console, and arcade games of our time, as well as being a heavy book addict, made me bored of the "correct" way to play school at the rather early level of 2nd grade. So I started looking for ways to play the game to make it more fun.

In high school, hearing the words "wasted potential", were like a trophy to me. It showed the teacher respected my knowledge (which I obtained for my own pleasure and proved at will by getting random A+s), but frustratingly knew it was not a result of the system they were paid to run. The few really awesome teachers I had, did not get this treatment. I could sense their love for knowledge, either in the way they were actually passionate about the subject they taught, and/or the way they treated students with respect. For these extremely rare few, I was willing to pretend to play by the school rules out of mutual respect for the teacher, not the game.

Unsurprisingly, many of these truly awesome teachers were fired or forced to transfer schools. The highly competitive high school had too many parents complaining to the school board about their kids being given a B, and even tried to convince the teachers to erase records of cheating (they being honorable ambassadors of knowledge, of course refused). This was the final proof to me that the system was a joke.

"Wasted potential", I learned was a reference to the potential of the system to use you to perpetuate itself. It had nothing to do with your own potential future, which was always your own great responsibility (thank you Uncle Ben). I had 127 recorded absences in 12th grade. I still graduated, as I expected - the only thing more important to the school than student attendance, was public appearance.
Bash has also come a long way recently. I suspect a lot of the excitement over zsh comes from mac users who are stuck with what is now an ancient version of bash.
I "earned" a 0.6 for a semester in college. It was a very fun few months.
Building a startup is slightly harsher than an island full of cannibals.
Heh, funny in this context because the only items on the page that are blinking are those which would normally be bold anyway as they were in the query.
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Codemash
Kind of awkward given that Chrome's new rendering engine (which has branched from Webkit) is called Blink

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blink-rendering-engine-for-...
Awesome - glad to see someone trying to prevent hearing loss. I've had tinnitus for a few years now and am very protective of my hearing these days. Now that I'm forced to be more aware of it, I'm consistently amazed at how unnecessarily loud the world often is. Always have a set of ear plugs in my pocket!
Indeed, but the experience is not one you'd want.
Honestly though; I bet you use chrome, didn't even bother to see if this worked in Firefox, and saw this as an opportunity to trash another browser based on your knowledge that <blink> support was deprecated.

I use Chrome, I like it better than Firefox, I also knew blink was deprecated in FF and had the same thought(would this work in firefox?) because I hadn't bothered to check if this was done using CSS or the <blink> tag. Although I didn't consider commenting on it.

Unless you're using a version of firefox older than 24 this is a pretty weird statement.
Add this to ~/.vimrc

" Make it behave more like a (Windows) GUI editor
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin

and use gvim - the GUI counterpart.
> This is how all the big CDNs do it

You have no idea how big CDNs do it. I've personally installed CDN gear into ISP racks. Sometimes you get an uplink into a router, other times you sit on a switch with other gear.

That "direct fiber interconnect" is called private peering and mostly used to fill cache boxes on the providers network.
No but it says something about the quality I can expect from the black boxes that Apple provide me with. And its not a good thing.
Football coach accused of kidnapping and killing a 10 year old girl
And is it true, was this the cause? Or is this fiction?
There are a bunch like this. Try "recursion", "the answer to life, the universe and everything", "tilt", "barrel roll", "kerning" (and "keming"), "google pacman", "zerg rush", or "conway's game of life".
Yes. If you're only looking at the gaps between the numbers, adding a constant offset to the serial numbers would have no effect on the estimate.

On the other hand, if instead of ordering them sequentually I roll a die and add the number of spots to the previous serial number, I think I can trick you into thinking I have three times as many tanks as I actually do. In fact, I feel quite confident of it.
What it tells us is simple and people keep trying to make more of it than it is.

Users are leaving Facebook in droves. Facebook is buying back users who's attention they have lost.

People are migrating to other services that offer a better experience for the task at hand. This is what Facebook/Google/Microsoft keep forgetting.

FB bought Instagram because their own photo feature wasn't as good and that's where they sensed people would be moving to. They've mostly left IG alone and it's been good.

WhatsApp is a better IM experience. Facebook buys them to get back users that have left.

The thing to remember is that people leaving something like Facebook isn't "I'm deleting my account", it's inattention attrition. Facebook users don't die (mostly), they just stop caring.

So FB buying WA doesn't mean much except FB is trying to alter its course. To their credit, they have the foresight to see they're failing and attempt a course correction.
This reminds me of the now dead https://github.com/chrizel/Yzis

Even though it has been tried a few times before and never seems to catch on I really like the idea and would be down to help except I haven't coded C in 15 years and don't really have any desire to go back. I wonder if there are parts I could help with in newer languages. It's always fun to pick up a project to learn a new language.
One word: rectangles.
Edward Snowden leaks spur new privacy industry
Now you are making a false dichotomy.
It's an apples to oranges comparison.

I want to draw a conformal mapping diagram in word and also write a 3-vector of the navier-stokes equations.

Also, I want to do a lot of tensor arithmetic with tons of superscripts and subscripts and arrows.

Tell me how any of this is accomplished in Word please. Saying Word is easier to us is like saying BASIC is easier than C++.
Considering its not exactly crowded or anything I am thinking this company wants to port this to a mobile app/ web app experience/ facebook game

Which I would not personally sell for less than 50k.

But again it doesn't have a user base which is why they are shooting for 25k.

If you personally think its possible to get a user base on your time then try it.

I personally would try it just because it looks like a really solid app even though its in alpha.

But I don't develop apps or invest in anything so I would wait for more people to reply who actually have solid experience with this.

I mean I am assuming you know this app has potential to grow but at the same time kinda sounds like you need the money. Which is why I took the time to reply and upvote it so other people can help
XSLT for the modern era.
I'd guess that they didn't know if they were allowed to do that, and figured if there was no serial number then they couldn't get in trouble.
Option to bring back Chrome's Old New Tab page has been removed
OT, aside:

Not sure what relevance your anecdote has to the topic, however ...

>he said "no Dan, pink is a girl's colour." //

I found for my sons that the girls in their nursery were very strong policers of colour and toys ("you can't play with that it's for girls" or "pink is for girls"); all the teaching staff are women, most parents/carers/guardians present at pick-up are women .. I corrected the kids [I'm like that, "anyone can have pink things, I've got a pink shirt", usual response giggling] but never heard anyone else do so.

Got to admit to feeling self-conscious carrying one son's pink love-heart handbag around after dropping him off though. It's really not my style.
the last numbers i saw for Google+ usage specified "active in the stream", which isn't incredibly clear but sounds like they mean actually engaging.

http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2013/10/google-hangouts-and-ph... (at the very bottom)
It doesn't really make sense to me to factor things out like that. Sales tax on groceries should be accounted for in the groceries budget. Property tax is part of your housing budget. Car registration fees and bridge tolls add to your transportation budget. Income taxes are different because they determine how much you're actually being paid each month.
Well as an aside, I myself when I was about 14 or so made up my own alphabet based on random glyphs i liked.

I used it to take notes in school and what not, but it was pretty simple. I did things like the thorn for th so it wasn't a direct 1->1 thing. So I could easily see #1 as a possibility. I just hope #2 is true. But its unlikely we'll know in our lifetime given that manuscripts history.
Peter Kasting's (https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting) comments:

Consider that, when we make a change and then test it extensively, we have a lot of data at our disposal to tell us whether it's a positive change in the aggregate. If you're going to claim that someone is "trying to justify their role by breaking things which weren't broken", you had better have similarly good data, from hundreds of millions of users, that shows that, indeed, we made things worse overall; and you had also better be privy to the actual design conversations that happened so you know when people are acting in bad faith. I don't believe either of those things is true.

When you claim that we "blatantly disregard" the user experience, or "can't hack constructive criticism", what you're really saying is "the team didn't do what I want on this issue". But equating "I didn't get what I want" to us being malicious and incompetent does not give you the moral high ground; it just makes you sound shrill and makes your opinion less likely to be thoughtfully considered, except by people who are already inclined to agree.

We _have_, in fact, considered the various issues people have raised with the new NTP, and suggestions have been kicked around as to how to address those issues, so you may see changes in the future. Completely reverting the NTP, however, is not one of those suggestions, because the new NTP is massively improved on all kinds of important user satisfaction metrics. Reverting it, in our opinion, would harm the overall UX for a large fraction of our userbase, and we have a moral duty to consider their well-being, _not just the opinions of the few who complain_.

Frankly, in the end, we can't make everyone happy with Chrome. Inevitably, everything we do is going to feel like a net loss to some group of people. Our goal is to not make that group larger than we have to, but it's never going to be empty. If you're not one of those well-served by Chrome's design decisions, you may be better served by another browser, and if so, by all means, use it. The goal in the end is for everyone to have good choices among many good browsers.

And regarding locking threads: at some point, we're not going to continue arguing endlessly. There is nothing to be gained by it; if our actions for the last six years as stewards of Chrome's user interface have not convinced you that we have our users' best interests paramount, then a few more paragraphs on some discussion thread aren't either. So yes, we can and will lock bugs and feedback threads, so we can stop spending time Arguing On The Internet (see relevant memes) and go back to work trying to fix bugs and make Chrome better.

I'm sorry that nothing I say above is going to make you any happier. I would prefer to make you happy rather than not. But I'm not going to do it by making Chrome worse overall.

Locking.
Remember, most of the deal was in FB stock. Maybe the WhatsApp people felt that FB stock is overinflated, and therefore isn't really worth $12B.
That seems like a bit of a straw man: the official OS X native version of vim, MacVim has literally all of those key map pings by default – cmd+c to copy, cmd+a to select all, etc.
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