skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"this approach doesn't work" ... the fact you sent me this message over the internet in our modern society begs to differ. Science does actually work.

As to a different approach that rejects authority ... What would that look like? Would we not value expertise anymore? Would there be no expertise anymore? I like being allowed to get good at something by putting in effort ... and once I do I'm going to be right about the subject more often than those who haven't put in effort. And people will notice that and listen to me, they will value my opinion more than others.

I'm pretty lost as to how this dynamic could be broken in a non-nightmarish way.
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Are you asking if they can buy from themselves...?

Or do you think that exchanges set a price and then are given leave by the council of BitCoin to just hand out an infinite number of BTC's at that price.

They have an inventory, yes they could sell coins but it would be view-able on the blockchain if they started moving lots of inventory through a major exchange.
Fleet by CoreOS, a distributed init system built on etcd and systemd
How is the free plan going to work? Are they going to monetize it somehow by collecting data or serving ads?
No, he's saying that grey text makes him think of a comment on hacker news that has been downvoted.
Forming monocrystals and other delicate processes, for one.
I think the key idea here is actually betrayal.

The optimism described by Stockdale was a false promise and when broken proved hollow, whereas the optimism described by Holocaust survivors tend to be more about belief in things despite a feeling of betrayal.
This is a pretty bad list. To say that the fast inverse square root trick revolutionized computing is a joke. I doubt anyone on HN was unaware of any of these algorithms and couldn't name more "revolutionary" ones.

No FFT? No simplex algorithm? Hashing? Strassen's?
I've played with it. It's nice. But in my defense, it's literally the only Node framework i've ever touched.

Had to switch out Jade for twig though. Significant whitespace for html templating... shiver
Wow. I had no idea. Though I'm not the author of the article, I came with the title. I didn't even know there was such a thing as an "800 pound gorilla".

Thanks for pointing this out. Learn something new every day.
The image that they show reminds me of the way that the 2D discrete cosine transform works.

http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/imgs/512/312/2680596/2680596_pone.0...

It looks similar to this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Dctjpeg....
No because you can buy bitcoins but cant get them out of MtGox. At that point,it's just gambling.
We are trying to create a mobile-first (tablet and iPhone) solution to managing sales pipelines for small/medium companies. This is because we personally found salesforce too bloated for our needs. I would love to chat more with you about your needs, and see if we could tailor our upcoming products to what you need.. (and do some customer development!)

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They can trademark "Experiment.com", but if they really had a shot at a pronounceable four-letter domain name, that seems like a no-brainer.

From the article:

It was just settling for a domain choice. In 40 years,
when I told my grandkids what I did, I shuddered at the
idea of telling them I worked at a company called ‘Ryza’.

Um, Denny, it's your job to make the name mean something. Why do you think your company was initially confused with Zynga?
Your music is awesome :)
Usually it's actually

Beliefs <-> Emotions
Beliefs <-> Thoughts
Beliefs <-> Actions
Emotions <-> Thoughts
Emotions <-> Actions
Thoughts <-> Actions
It's possible to do that in AdequateRecord, but I've purposely left the mechanism undocumented because the API is not stable. You can do something like this:

statement = undocumented_method_call { |params|
Article.where(xxx: params[:xxx])
}
statement.execute xxx: "some value"

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/e5e440f477a0b5e06b008ee7...

The trick is that the cache only supports caching ActiveRecord::Relation objects, and not everyone knows which calls will return a Relation object. For now, I want to hide this API and make it as "automatic" as possible so that people don't have to change app code, but still get performance boosts.
If the process involves haggling and negotiating then it is a game between founders rather than a business decision. Sure it was someone's idea and someone wrote the code and someone picked up the pizza and made the coffee and you could dig through the past and assign values to all those things. It's totally fucking stupid but you could still do it.

What matters is not how you got here but where you will go. What matters is not how much work you have done but what work each of you is going to do. If you pivot are you going to claw back equity from the idea guy? When the code base is rewritten in Go to support that pivot is the programming guy losing stock?

Allocate equity based on pots of coffee made [one of you will like this idea] or divide it equally and focus on trying to make so much money that an additional 5% equity split doesn't matter.

Good luck.
Discrimination does nothing in a network with no congestion. I hope Google isn't planning to operate a congested network.
Great list.

L2ARC, zil can each have their own volume configuration (mirror, etc.) For example, using different types of SSDs for each. http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/zfs-and-ssd-cach...

zfs send & receive ... Send snapshots around like a fancy SAN.

raidz (N+1 - like raid5)
raidz2 (N+2 - like raid6)
raidz3 (N+3)

It's also way faster and cheaper to put together boxes from commodity enterprise server hardware, making hardware raid cards basically expensive shelf dust catchers along with overpriced SANs and NASes.

(Extra shout out for iXsystems, not because they use lots of Python, but because of massive awesomeness supporting FreeBSD and FreeNAS. Also their parties put Defcon afterparties to shame.)

Conclusion: Full ZFS is often better than a SAN, NAS and/or hardware solutions. Also protip: Direct attached is way, way faster than 10 GbE, FC or IB, especially if images are directly available to compute nodes.
yeah, bit biased towards CS.

Neural nets opened a lot of doors.

Bellman equation is in a lot of equipment.
Let me add: Least Angle Regression.

It's an efficient way for performing Lasso (L^1-penalization) to regression models, which has the benefit of (in addition to reducing risk of overfitting) producing sparse models.
This is pretty logical. MtGox halted BTC withdrawals because of the transaction malleability issue (which, due to MtGox's poorly made software, let people get their withdrawal payments more than once, leaving MtGox open to get its wallet emptied).

So now many people are stuck with MtGoxBTC, which is simply a balance in MtGox's database. MtGoxBTC is being traded for actual BTC (on exchanges like https://www.bitcoinbuilder.com/). It has a lower value since people are unsure whether or not MtGox will fix their system and let them take their money (IMO they probably will). Sellers are getting out to avoid the risk, and buyers are getting discounted (but potentially risky) BTC.
Node.js with Bogart (promise-based framework similar to Express), Redis or Postgres, and Foundation. It helps to have a Yeoman generator specifically for it. yo bogart in any directory and boom, ready to roll :)
Hungry Bear Loose in NYC
That's ironic. Windows Phone users ask the same question all the time.
Well, this will likely be a boon for whitebox vendors.
Is it a market failure that I can't use Nokia Maps on iOS, or Apple Maps on Android or Google Maps on Windows Phone? I'm no proponent of invoking the "magic market fairy" but to me situations like that fall far short of "market failure."
What's the point of doing a browser at all then? Or email? Or a new device? Or having a company in the first place? Or inventing anything?

How can you tell a tech company is dead and done for? It's when they stop pushing the boundaries, when they stop serving their users, when they stop inventing, when they stop competing. Because, they think they can afford it, famous last words of countless once mighty giants.
Securing the channel with SSL should fix the issue, no?
Running is good
Growth Hacking: Myths, Risks, and Tips for Startup Businesses
Where does someone's butterfly effect responsibility end?

If I create a startup and hire 20 people, and some of those 20 people like to eat some particular type of food for team lunches, and their presence at that eatery makes the lunch line longer for other patrons, do I have some obligation to apologize to those patrons for the long line?

If my 20 employees don't elect my $500 stipend to live within walking distance, what pennance would adequate for me to apologize to citizens of earth for the increased CO2 emissions from their driving and to the citizens of San Francisco for the extra 40 vehicle trips that would be foist upon the city? For good measure, he's paying people $500 a month extra to live within walking distance. For this, he gets a river of crap?!

At some point, companies employ people, those people get paid, those people spend their money consuming other items, but the company has no responsibility to apologize for that 3rd level effect consumption, IMO.
Of course, this is an excellent example of why the British government should do more of what it keeps saying it will, and what the contractors' and small businesses' representative bodies keep arguing for: use smaller businesses or individual contractors for jobs that can readily be done on those scales, and consequently have far less red tape, pay far less money, and probably get results at least as good as anything you'll get from a professional government sponge-soaker like the big consultancies.

It's about time governments stopped using big name consultancies primarily because of their name rather than any measurable benefit, and paying (apparently) a 400% premium for the privilege. That money comes from taxpayers and doesn't even go to the skilled people actually doing the useful work.

This probably ranks alongside laughing at anyone who defends excessive compensation and bonuses for for senior management, investment banking staff, and the like, on the basis that they need to pay competitive salaries, all while those staff are actually making decisions that result in huge losses to their employers. It is never necessary to pay the market rate for incompetence.
Facebook Is Buying Whatsapp For $16 Billion
Underthinking Design ?

All they've got here is a style guide. Totally ignoring all the rest of the design process when it comes to the interaction, layout etc.

Maybe if they made the distinction to only say 'Overthinking visual design' but really I'm still not sure what to take away from this article...
The question everyone should be asking is how are they funding operations with no more cash flow.
It's not legitimate criticism, because ARB_robustness exists. It's pure FUD.
We're talking about the brain. The brain can change itself from the inside just by willing it. Much more can you change the brain using purposefully designed external stimuli.

The brain is like a FPGA, part of which implements a FPGA programmer.
Turkey's answer to flappy bird
I think that is only part of the answer. The Krita team is also a lot more compact and has a clearer, more internally defined end goal (it will be interesting to see what happens if its userbase explodes).

Less of the glacial Debian-style politics than have encumbered GIMP never also helped Krita.
Winkdex – Dynamic bitcoin index
Heh, nice. Just a little feedback - I can select all purposely or by accident and it highlights the dots. Also, in FF on Win 7, the 'press f11' prompt won't go away. Thanks for the opportunity to get an idea of what this is about, though.
I can't believe they don't do a simple fix that can be done in less than a minute. This is a serious information leaking issue. The time they spent on replying emails to the author are long enough for just get the fix done.
North Dakota town is the most expensive place to rent an apartment in the US
What do you think about it? i'm the designer/frontend/backend developer so if you have anything that you want to add please comment!
Have you heard about the McCollough[1] effect? Check the URL, it's an image you can look at for a few minutes, and it will change the way you process images for several hours. For me it lasted days. And it's all in the brain.

http://www.cheswick.com/ches/projects/me/
Facebook acquires WhatsApp for $16b
buy from where at 260? they ate the ones selling at that price. nobody else

its like a shady guy in the corner offering you gold for half the price. good luck with that.
You sound like one of those people in the suburbs stunting Atlanta's public transit because it would bring in more black people. The areas you are describing are not high crime areas, just poor.
How to Drive Installs for $1 with Facebook Mobile Ads [Case Study]
MOS 6581 SID (C64) in a Browser (Web Audio API)
Facebook to Buy WhatsApp in $16B Cash and Stock Deal
This kind of reminds of playing Tribes in the early days. I was a sniper and would hang out in the mountains, monitoring miles of terrain and waiting for the slightest pixel of movement so I could zoom in to the max and nail it with the laser gun. That game definitely improved my visual responsivity and awareness, if not my actual acuity.
Possibly relevant Bible verse: "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." Mark 11:24

Ancillary to that: "When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." James 4:3
If anything, because Ghostery blocking a request is indistinguishable from any number of connectivity issues that may occur outside of the user's control.
Facebook to acquire WhatsApp for about $16 Billion
Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs
Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp
Only if they actually have any real BTCs left at home to cash elsewhere.
SEC Filing for Facebook Buying Whatsapp
Facebook Is Buying Huge Messenger App Whatsapp For $16 Billion
Perhaps the UK could sue the US for copyright violations, then? The leaked stuff was originally copied from a US facility.
Coverity Acquired for $375 Million
Facebook Buying WhatsApp For $16B In Cash And Stock Plus $3B In RSUs
That's one example, but more often than not, startups fail. I'm not betting some portion of my business on a, what, 1 in 10 chance that they'll succeed? The value proposition would have to outweigh the possible downside.
Isn't it the account holders at gox who are selling at that price?
If you can read caniuse's table, you'll see that WebGL's actually supported on mobiles. You can get a more quantitative view from http://webglstats.com/ if you'd like.
Using that context, I have no knowledge of the form the certificate takes, so I can't venture an opinion at all in this case. I suspect the answer is "no", but that's just on general principles.
...For only $ 29 /month/GB.
No, as long as they send precise distance radius info, a person's location can easily be computed with very very small margin of error.

The easiest fix is just to send less precise location radius. The user does not care whether another user is 6 miles or 6.0000000001 miles away from him anyway.
Here is a direct submission url: http://demosquared.com/submit-your-product.html
I guess it all comes down to you not seeing internet conectivity as a utility. Personally, I think it has a lot more in common with sewer/electricity, from the near impossibility of market entrance right down to the sewer/electric/phone lines being physically next to each other, than to putting a phone in a box and selling it to someone.

Heck, I'd even put mobile service as being closer to a normal consumer good than wired internet. Wireless they just need one tower every few miles.
Broadcasters get injuction against Aereo in Utah
I can't tell if everybody does the same, but I simply enable enough connections for the total of all clients, and am done with that.

Clients talking between themselves to establish if they can create another connection or not is madness. They'll keep their connections in the maximum all the time anyway.
Facebook to Buy Whatsapp for About $16 Billion Cash and Stock
There's another app called "GlassesOff" that seems to do the same thing.
Oh, this discussion is gold! ;)
CoreOS fleet – a Distributed init System.
My attempt to summarise the difference in language familiar to computer scientists, is that you can look at the frequentist vs Bayesian debate as being about when a worst-case analysis is preferable to average-case analysis for unknown parameters of a statistical model.

There's something you don't know (the parameters). Are you looking to make statements which bound how bad things could be under the worst-case setting of those parameters? Or do you have some idea upfront about how likely different parameter settings are, and want to make statements about them in the "average" case?

Rather like with worst-case vs average-case analysis of algorithms, which is more appropriate depends what you're trying to do, and sometimes both are interesting.
The very first paragraph of the article puts the lie to that, doesn't it?
10 points in 10 minutes. If multiple accounts weren't used, that must be a ready-worthy article.
SSL isn't hiding anything if the attacker controls the client endpoint :)
It is free for "only" the first seven years.
Yep. My time spent playing Delta Force 1 paid off in Tribes. (More so in Tribes 2 - too bad nobody played that one!)
Facebook Buying WhatsApp – $16B In Cash And Stock
This sort of nonsense is why I will never touch bit-coin... Good luck..
The Winklevoss Twins Are Creating A New Bitcoin Price Index Called The 'Winkdex'
Suddenly Snapchat at $3B doesn't seem so ridiculous.
Welp. There's another app that I won't be accepting any updates for from now on...
Not a single city in the upper-Midwest, Great Lakes region...
:(
The article states "By proxying iPhone requests...".

I don't see how the attacker can read the JSON payload if SSL is used. Am I missing something?
Such a waste. Most Whatsapp users already use Facebook in parallel. Facebook will never see a ROI on this acquisition. Not even close.
Would love to see Google, or anyone, come shake up the Australian market. We are still beholden to low bandwidth, almost non existent upload and data usage caps.

We also have a national broadband network that most people will never see due to the politics played by the current government.
Django connections to the database are bounded by the number of threads and processess you set.

It didn't have a pool, but it's a mistake to think it just oppened connections at will.
Also, by Sam Altman. Assuming several people saw it in their RSS readers and submitted it after reading.
The last time I valued Tesla, it needed to have CAGR revenue growth of over 70% in the next 5 years with margins of comparable high end car manufacturers (about 15%) to get a fair value of around $75.

I hope you get off the train before this cycle comes to an end.
This will be the largest Israeli Startup Exit of all times I think.
"$4 billion in cash and approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares"
Wow, thats an incredible return on a $8m sequoia investment

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/08/sequoia-whatsapp-funding/
Good for them!

Now on to uninstalling it :-(
That is a LOT of money.

That being said, I use WhatsApp every day to chat with my friends around the world and it's really excellent. I know it's used a lot in other parts of the world even more, so I doubt this purchase is focused on US markets. It seems that every one of my Arab friends uses WhatsApp to talk to their families back home (and they use it at home, too). I don't know about other regions.
(samaltman.com)

Most likely assumed read-worthy based on the author.
They might as well go ahead and buy WeChat as well.
I wouldn't think of this from a ROI perspective. Facebook might be trying to go for the monopoly on mobile messaging. And once Facebook controls that, they can do anything.
I got a Lumia 928 about 9 months ago. After three iPhones, it continues to be the best phone I've ever had.

Lumia Black update has a lot of great features (http://www.nokia.com/global/windows-phone-black-update/) and as a bonus it didn't brick my phone like when I upgraded my iPhone 3G to IOS 4 and my phone became so slow I couldn't even answer it before the call went to voicemail.

Anyway, nice to see Nokia continuing to add features to the phone.
Same here. Facebook has already showed his ability to ruin things instantly.
Some interesting numbers:

WhatsApp raised only $8 million (from Sequoia in 2011 http://www.crunchbase.com/company/whatsapp).

19B sale price is about 10% of Facebook's 173B valuation.

At 400 million, WhatsApp has more users than, the world's third most populous country, the United States has residents.
This seems insane. I love WhatsApp, but I recently switched to Google Hangouts because it also supports SMS and I don't really miss it. I don't understand how it can be worth this much when Google has already released a direct competitor to its product that is (and likely always will be) free.
I used WhatsApp to stay away from FB's chat app. Telegram is picking up popularity within my circles... I'll default to that
The IRA almost killed the UK Prime Minister. It was hardly a trivial matter.
"$0.60 for cake: Al-Qaida [in Mali] records every expense"
Damn.

I know Whatsapp is a big deal -- when I was in HKG a few weeks back every advertisement was Phone Number and Whatsapp number (We're talking on-bench advertising) and on TV as well.
Still, crazy.
I agree with you 100%. Sure, there are 10x programmers just like there are 10x lawyers, politicians, analysts, doctors, nurses, teachers, administrators etc. They are good because A. they like what they do (10K hours rule and all that ...) and B. their personality/intelligence is in-line with their profession of choice.
You cannot teach or mentor someone to become 10x in their field.
Fortunately, not everyone needs such ground breaking abilities. Just a few are good enough. The rest of us will do just fine by showing up, doing good work, collecting our pay-check and go live a good life (defined by the individual).
how does this guy consistently write mini-Paul Graham essays?
Turn your home computer into a SSH + web server
http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-...
Facebook is buying WhatsApp for $16 billion
I wish they didn't sell. Love the product, FB will ruin it.
Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp – Facebook Newsroom
PayPal Opens Mobile SDK
"OpenERP: Apps empowering Business"

"OpenERP: Apps enabling your Business"

"OpenERP: Apps Open for Business"

... 'Apps' & 'Business' are key