skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But I am afraid that is not what people admire in him."

Citation? Most of the Apple-centric bloggers I read admire Jobs for the company that he created, not for the way he got there. Perhaps you're mistaking admiration with fascination: a lot of famous people are ruthless, but it's rare for that ruthlessness to be directed towards something other than money or power. Jobs's life is full of unbelievable stories, and people talk about them because it's fun, not because they think they're a good example of how to run a business.
It's because of network effects.

(I'm not going to switch to the 2nd best app where I can only reach 10% of my friends.)
There are 100,000,000 neurons in the brain. It's not that many. A Core 2 Duo has 169m [1]. A neuron is connected to about 10.000 others. And how many computers do we have in the world? It even sounds like we scientifics are sluggish at inventing AI ;)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
A ball that is going to a predetermined area while you stand still...

Hitting a headshot of another player that can go in any direction / velocity while you yourself are traveling in any direction velocity all _before_ that player kills you can be very challenging and depend on very high skill and reaction times

The amount of money a player makes compared to someone in another sport has no bearing.
nah, that illustrates it even better.

the historical remark was an overblow comparison. Red close buttons vs flick up. simple pages vs full applications. etc...

the one now is a 100% copy. nothing changed. the purpose, look (design patent?), interaction, function. everything is exactly the same.

The only two changes:

- you can't rearrange. (they probably wanted, but ios7 has corner cuts all around)

- when you switch apps it annoyingly changes the order making your previous spatial knowledge useless. (probably a last minute 'fix' for not rearranging)
Technically their giant databases of copyrighted information is IP :)

If everyone stopped using Facebook tomorrow they would lose a lot more than 3% of their value, though.
A little off-topic; I got that ending when after few minutes of careful consideration and weighting my moral values I got angry, turned around and shot the hologram. Damn, ME3 has some deep moments. I ultimately went with "take control" ending, saying to myself "please please, don't be evil", as it was the only one that seemed reasonably right.

I don't remember any other game where I literally thought for like 10 minutes before making a choice.
Twitter passed on him also.

https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/1895942068
I'm sure that's what Zynga employees thought too. Sure, accept less than your market rate, but there are lots of trapdoors before the cash ends up in your bank account.
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My dotbomb stock hero was always Cuban.
Their cashflow hasn't halted. There are still plenty of trades happening between current GOX customers and they still get trading fees on these trades. The problem is that their customer acquisition and retention will take a massive hit because customers can't withdraw their coins (or fiat in a timely fasion).
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The general feeling among many implementors seems to be that the Annex K functions are very much the wrong way to harden string/memory handling. I don't know of any linux or bsd libc that has adopted them.
It's not about developing an alternative, which will likely flounder anyways, considering that WhatsApp has the momentum and critical mass on users already. It's completely a defensive mechanism. WhatsApp dominates and will continue to dominate markets FB chat could never touch, and may invade current FB chat territory.
There is an OS X version. I'd assume there is also a Windows and an iPad one. I bought it earlier today and did the first session. It was fun. My eyes felt weird for the first few minutes after finishing the session.
if you tell me the generating process then I can give you a ranking (likelihood) function over all possible biases.

But if we already know the generating process, all the hard work is already done. The case of real interest is where we don't know the generating process, but we have a bunch of data, and we're trying to figure out what the generating process is from the data.
> You're building land mines

I prefer to think of it as stockpiling toxic nuclear waste. A land mine explodes causing isolated damage to a single unlucky individual one time. Toxic nuclear waste on the other hand poisons an entire city (ie. area of technology) and is pretty much indestructible until its half life (or several of them) expires.
was reading an interview with Demis Hassabis, thefounder of Deep Mind (acquired by google for £400m) - he didn't seem to think there is a single general purpose algo to get us there
That's not true.

ICQ turned out to be practically worthless. MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger, Yahoo Messenger. Those ended up not generating any meaningful business what-so-ever.

How do we know at this point that WhatsApp, Snapchat, et al. aren't going to end up in the same history bin?

How about webmail? Is Yahoo's email service worth $20 billion dollars? Is Gmail worth $20 billion? Nope.
I did bash him while he was alive too. What is your point? he was human. A criminal human. So what? How committing crimes is spiritual?
Newer servers are dramatically more power efficient, and since power is a continual cost, replacing them on a regular cycle is a pretty easy decision.

The newer stuff tends to be denser and easier to manage, which further reduces rack space and meatware cost.
Ruby is language geared for building websites. Python is language for scripting.

Why in the world Ruby resource websites would be better compared to ones Python has...

I would venture a guess, that people making websites tend to be better at making websites.
Yes, the website is pretty terrible. An OSX version seems to exist, since they used a Mac Mini in their research. More info I've found:

- video interview with researchers Seitz, Deveau and Ozer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKbbF66cyqI

- short published article on the baseball study: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)...

- lots more technical info about the app and the study (supplemental data to above article): http://download.cell.com/current-biology/mmcs/journals/0960-...
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From what I can see, most of the violence seems to be perpetrated by the protesters against the police. No matter how bad the government is, violence isn't the way to change anything (especially not when you are dealing with Putin).
We have entered the age of Lorem Ipsum images hitting production websites :)

http://i.imgur.com/fvYGWvi.png
I call this the "PhD from MIT Syndrome". A few of them actually think that they know everything about everything no matter their field of study. The are polymaths (in their own minds at least).

Years ago, a physics professor scoffed at me when I cautioned him about storing 64-bit ints in 64-bit doubles. He said, "who is this that speaks to me as though I needed advice?" He could not understand why his program failed sporadically. Must be a bug in the compiler. It certainly wasn't his code.
It couldn't hurt, but you shouldn't have to rely on obscurity. Then again it's Python's home page, so it'd be pretty easy to guess that it's probably using Django (especially now that it supports 3). Also it's kind of a dick move to maliciously attack a project as beneficial as Python.

Also, does Ruby's official site run on rails?
Well clearly the user who called 'rubbish!' is the true brit ;)
I'm not sure why you think what I said means "desirous of concluding the interview process quickly", because I didn't use most of those words and you appear to have pulled them from thin air; frankly, that's weird.

They gave you plenty of criteria; they gave you a book, and the understanding that they wanted you to be able to talk intelligently about the material that the book covers. If you're so incapable of self-introspection that you can't accurately judge how well you understand material without external validation, then you should probably work on developing some self-awareness before getting upset that a company doesn't respond to arbitrary requests for meaningless information.
Great new feature and video but yeah, the techno 'music' was totally out of place
Something more sinister seems to be going on. Looking at the chart, it is clear that someone (mtgox itself?) is trying very hard to keep it at or above 260.

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/mtgox/btcusd
Amazing how little attention this is getting.

Still can't say I'm surprised about either point. They were clearly stuck for material for that third day and I heard definite noises about them sharing the concerns some of us voiced about the attendee demographics!

Frankly the 2013 keynote was a tad embarrassing too (without the giveaway the mood in there would've been a lot more skeptical - my row were amazed by how bad a lot of the demos were), so I wonder if they're going to tone that down.
>> very amateurish for today standars

Indeed.
Facebook's only job is staying alive. That's the very minimum they can do, and is all they're trying to do.
Doesn't tainting then become "assigning to the USA government"? Why should that be the case?
It's just because it matters more that we have all of our contacts than save $20 a month. I think you'd need higher priced SMS or a very large WhatsApp userbase.
I'm going to be shorting facebook at the open tomorrow. They overpaid by at least 300% on this. Big blunder even for a company of FB size
The article specifically says that it allowed players to read lines further down on the eye chart.
Presumably this is connected to this kind of thing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25729140
No they are still fools because, other than Facebook, who else is going to pay them $3 billion?
Thank you. That answers it. I had no idea geostationary orbit was so high, but I probably should have.
It's clear in my eyes that Palm did not fail due to market forces. They had the best smart phone at the time, and I purchased one and enjoyed it immensely.

I now have an iPhone and I hate it but I have to tolerate it. Take my account for what it's worth, but PalmOS was clearly superior from a productivity standpoint. This is cemented in my mind further by the integration of Palm or Palm-like features into iOS since iOS7.

If these threats had any basis, then Palm would be able to sue Apple since now Apple feels entitled to rip off Palm's design decisions, sadly, 'that train has sailed', but now we're left with an uberpowerful Apple who only answers to God.
"Everyone has contradictions" is not an excuse for any and every instance of bad behavior.
Bonus marks for the colon which is the endangered punctuation in modern writing.
How did she even come up with that value? Seems awfully precise.
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I think it's quite rare that any individual employee (probably excluding founders) is responsible for a significant percentage of the value of a company.
Okay I can't tell if you're trolling me or what. Let's start with one really simple thing and from that we can learn a lot.

You have claimed repeatedly that cell tower antennas are simple dipoles. What do you base this claim upon?

And when I say "base" I'd really like some links to in-depth explanations. I don't want to see a simple hexagonal cell system like this with A-G labeled cells and a repeating pattern (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/ra/topics/mpsafety/sc...). That's how cell phones got started back when there weren't many users and there was a LOT of ground to cover. These days there are many, many more users and as such things have gotten more sophisticated. I included links to wikipedia articles that contain more current information.

If you can prove that they are in fact simple dipoles I have no problems accepting that they are not directional; a simple dipole is an omni. You learn that as a 3rd year EE.
Unqlite is very good, we use it as our main in-memory key/value store in Duda I/O [http://duda.io].
"Indifferent" can be pretty bad. You are indifferent to the existence of grass whenever you mow your lawn, for instance. Or even to the fate of the cow when you have a steak dinner.
Verbal diarrhea and philosophical regurgitations
friend started a blog and didnt know to how get some initial traffic,m just tryin to help out
The reason is that small donations either don't exist in USD (sub penny) or get eaten up in fees with the payment processor.

Last i checked, doge transfers are 1-2 dogecoin for most transactions.
Fighting bike theft with open data is a steep uphill ride
So Apple believes that they have eternal rights to their employees once they paid for their time once... Not a good sign for their customers.
Something's fishy though. Compare these acquisition numbers to the numbers that float in more "money-prone" parts of the software business. For instance, I've never heared of that kind of money being thrown around regarding the suppliers of software that banks and traders use.

It's not that a revolutionary social service shouldn't be worth billions, but What's App is messaging. And messaging in the long term could just as well boil down to a specified standard with half a billion apps out there that support the standard.

There's no reason why messaging should be a market that can be dominated by a single player over more than the social network percolation timescale.
To me it's pretty obvious how it works. It's a somewhat unusual pattern, and your mind is trying to remember where it saw it before and apply some of it. (In point of fact you just saw it a few minutes ago, so that's what you're remembering - it's not a long-term thing.)

If you look carefully at the word at the end of this paragraph I can't imagine that you don't see at least some of the appropriate colors faintly in it. Google.
I once met the ex-CEO of Orcon (a major NZ ISP) who had a near mythical view of Steve Jobs. The way he spoke of him made me realise that humans instinctively apply concepts to shape their world view, even if the concepts aren't made for it. There's nothing wrong with that. The CEO wasn't emulating the bad behaviour of Steve Jobs, simply the attention to details, customer focused traits that made his business successful.

To me it doesn't matter who someone admires. It's what they take from it that matters.

Also you can dig up endless dirt on the successful. As a rule of thumb anyone who's remotely very successful has exploited unethical behaviour some point in their life. You can do that with anyone really.
Isn't the goal that the refactored AR code is basically cleaner, which allows AR query caching to be more mergable?

Not asking for the same thing twice (or N-1 or N^2-1 extra times) if has to go over the network is a good thing.

Databases often aren't properly configured OOTB, especially when it comes to temporary tablespace and query caching.
I personnaly don't think the brain could be as intelligent if it were only a part of it, like if had 3 senses instead of 5 for example: The emulation of a sense by the others might be necessary to bootstrap the system. So we might just be on the wrong path when we try to teach a small machine to learn.

And maybe, once you have a fully functional brain, that it constantly derives out of bounds. Like sudden overheating, which is litterally the step #1 of a depression in a human. So we might not be able to scale an AI beyond the size of one brain. Apart from clusters obviously, but then you need to sustain civilizations of brains, and civs do collapse every dozen generations.

We might not be materially able to find enough energy to power all of those trials and errors.
i would be interested into your evaluation of Duda I/O, let me know your comments.
>that will allow every person to have an IP address for every device they have and retain that perpetually.

Wait... what? has someone implemented IP address portability while I wasn't looking? I mean, there was lots of talk a few years back, but my understanding is that the facts on the ground are such that when you switch ISPs, well, you are switching your IPv6 address (unless you are large enough to speak BGP)
per-message billing by telcos, high costs for international messages, no identity management (only tied to phone #), not cross-platform, character limits (MMS, the workaround, is historically janky), no delivery confirmation, lack of end-to-end encryption. Shall I go on?

the only thing it has going for it (and it's a big one) is ubiquity.
Same question here. Signed up for intuit since 2009 through bank of america; happy since.
Having gone to UMD for computer science I can say that the DNS servers are not on the main campus. And certainly a completely separate group of people managing them than basic infrastructure of the Registrar. That said, collaboration would probably be a good thing if it does not already happen. But who's to say any system is infallible?
holy metaphors!
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so it resorts to a conservative-and-expensive search mechanism in order to preserve those semantics.

Sorry but come on, these apologisms are part of the reason why these things never get fixed. Ruby 1.8 went end-of-life two years ago. And which precious ambiguousity are we enshrining here that could possibly justify this magnitude of wasted developer lifetime?

There is no excuse. If anyone in charge gave a flying f*ck and was not a complete code illiterate we'd have a --fast flag by now. In fact we'd probably not even have it anymore because it would have become the de facto default over night...
Have you been a heavy user? I have a sneaky feeling that they will let light users have it free, but start charging heavy users. That makes sense, because if you are a light user, there is not a lot incentive to pay.
There is an exchange that trades real fake money and mtgox fake money.
protip: nobody gives a shit if you made several hundred thousand dollars and are going to buy a car with it. quit bragging.
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> Citation?

You should probably delete that part. It is moronic to ask for a citation of an opinion. Your point is otherwise interesting.
I think the point is: local governments can barely pay for essential services (water, power) that most everyone in their district needs. High speed fibre that a small subset of their constituents would use is way down on the list.
There are surely a lot of other shareholders besides the founders and sequoia.
I think it cuts both ways. People can choose not admire MLK just because of his flaws, regardless if they had anything to deal with his contributions to the civil rights movement. J Cole has a song that talks about this somewhat[0], first two lines in verse one sums this situation up nicely (and applies to Jobs too)…

Also, some people may choose to admire Jobs because of how he did whatever took to reach his goals regardless of ethics involved.

Evidently when Jobs was alive, he did what he did despite what people thought of him.

[0] http://rapgenius.com/J-cole-she-knows-lyrics
1 week of camping, without electronics, resets our biological body clock
Thanks for not making it all flat like thousands of other sites these days. But it could use a site wide nitpicking by an anal graphic designer to tweak things like typography, margin, spacing, alignment. Things are not quite perfect.
But the network effects are still there if you have an interoperable standard. You can use _any_ app that supports the standard and still connect to everybody in the social network.

There is no reason why the social network of mankind should remain captured in the userbase of a single messaging app. And it is the abstract social network that does provide the network effects.
Buy on the rumor. Sell on the news.

Or as some brokers call it "sell into strength".

It's about profit taking and has nothing to do with "critique of a company's actions" or objectivity.
AOL also bought Bebo for $850M and then sold it back to the founders for $1M a few years later.
Even though this article is about math. It reminds me of my chemistry education.

1st year, you only learn about the basic concepts of general chemistry. For most science and engineering majors, this is the only time that they'll be exposed to chemistry.

2nd year, you learn about organic chemistry. It is only at this point that you start to catch a glimpse of what chemistry is really about. It forces you to really understand electrons and how they behave in reactions and as part of a structure.

This is where many pre-med, and chemistry students hit the wall and decide to change their major. Those that do survive through it with actual understanding instead of rote memorization can now look at chemical structures and reactions and know the exact number of electrons, charges and understand the flow like 2nd nature.

Then comes quantitative analysis and physical chemistry. Now you're really forced to understand and analyze the external enviroment and the myriad of physical conditions because reactions rarely take place in ideal isolation.

Next comes biochemistry, and it finally dawns on you that living beings are nothing more than complex machines put together by chemistry. Extremely complex machines, but still machine nonetheless.

I had a sort of existential crisis after being through biochemistry. But with that knowledge, it is now possible to read neuroscience text and catch a small glimpse of meaning.

Then finally, we come to advanced organic reaction mechanism. A course that is only offered every other year at my uni, taught by a guy older than Gandalf and Dumbledore put together.

Total # of people in that class? 3.

Now, we go deep, to the darkest pit of insanity. You realize that everything before was only a small preparation. Minding-bending subjects like orbital theory which makes no intuitive sense. The worse part was the professor and the book offered no consolation.

"Learn to deal with it." "It is the best model that we have at the moment." "It just works." They say.
People in the us use messenger. Same as people in Japan use line.
"We only hire the best engineers"
Depends on how far you want to push the definition of decentralized. The routing infrastructure of the Internet is still fairly centralized as is the allocation of IP addresses.
Fairly happy. We had the option of TWC or RCN and chose RCN based on reputation: TWC's is horrible, and anything I can do to avoid paying them money is probably a net Good Thing.
Makes perfect sense if you put it into the context of what is happening to other messaging apps. Wrote this a few days ago before Viber and now this acquisition.
http://www.hoista.net/post/76404923258/the-rise-of-trojan-ho...
Directional antennas is the main technique today, this guy isn't proposing a move from single to directional antennas.
That's not a brute force approach, and would be a difficult engineering task all on its own, regardless of the infinite computational resources available.
I'm interested to see where it would start to spread from (if it comes here at all), any thoughts?
> our sophisticated, multi-layered security defenses

Is there anyone that has worked in higher ed IT who believes this?
Wow, that sounds terrible! Could you file a bug, please? And please include the results from https://people.mozilla.org/~fmarier/troubleshoot.html
Can't you do two simultaneous transactions? At all times you're doing a transaction with an untransacted balance > 0.1.