skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing Ruby and Rails. Ruby is also a general purpose scripting language. The OP was careful to only compare Rails with Django, Ruby with Python.
Seems like a pretty smart way to get a job at Facebook.
>>> It's gonna be one tough mission for FB to convince WhatsApp users they're not gonna be playing around with their data.

It's much less relevant if you step outside the HN.
I should write a book of what I've seen. Just a sampler:

- Publically thank the team members for working so hard on a project but leave one person off the list

- Invite your entire team out for lunch but then ask for separate checks

- Right after shipping a version, lay off the employee that put in the most unpaid overtime on it

- Publically announce that there wasn't enough money for bonuses for everyone so only a few people got them

- Heap praise on the developer that worked so many nights and weekends to get his code fixed and ignore all the developers whose code worked right in the first place

- Schedule lunch time meetings and have the receptionist order lunch only for yourself

- Rebrand the product to something everyone laughs at like "PADS"

- Cancel free sodas and water for developers but keep the well-stocked fridge for sales, marketing and executives

- Announce that the team will no longer be allowed to work from home, then the next day announce that you're working from home

- Have a pep rally type company conference and hand out "gold medals" to go with the "we're all winners" theme. Except you run out of medals by the time you get to the back rows where the developers are sitting. Also, make sure to get bronze-colored medals, not gold.
I'm a strong A.I hobbyist, and I just put up a website for my basic abstract algorithm: genudi. The website's implementation of the algo revolves around having a conversation with a computer. Currently in limited release, you can request a Pioneer account from there: http://www.genudi.com
My alma mater. Fortunately, since I dropped out in 1982, I don't have to worry about this breach :-)
It probably does happen with great frequency; it's just that the perpetrators aren't caught!
Ask HN:For those launching side projects, do you want a cheap web design?
I was wondering because many of the web apps I see don't have a good design. However, I understand that since it's a side project, many developers will not have a large budget.

Do you think a price of $250 would attract many buyers?
the idea that there is a better application for my atoms seems subjective/human too
This highlights another of Yahoo's screwups, IMHO. Whatsapp is built by 2 ex-Yahoo employees. Guess what everyone used in the late 90's for messaging? Yahoo Messenger. That's right - I used Y! Messenger all the time to keep in touch with friends before Social Networking was the norm and I'm pretty sure everyone else did too.

There is one more company that had the lead in messaging and screwed up - Blackberry. They released their app across platforms, 5 years too late. Had they hit the iPhone/Android apps stores 5 years back, they would have been in a better place than Whatsapp. The funny thing is that their co-founder even wanted to do that and not go after BB10 but he got pushed out.

I remember reading that whatsapp's servers basically run using Erlang. Erlang scales massively, and is a beautiful language for messages/telecom etc.. Hopefully, this will trigger some more interest in Erlang.
Aw come on now, they do perform a service that's of nonzero value - they (ostensibly) sift the wheat from the chafe. I don't have the expertise to know what's valid research and what's hokum, but I know if I read it in Nature, I can at least take it seriously.

Admittedly I believe we could develop a much better system for doing this then academic publishing, but I don't honestly know what such a system would look like.
How far east? I'm east of 82nd, and the fastest CenturyLink offers here is 1.5 mbps.
This is because Hacker News uses CloudFlare for DDoS protection, and Cloudflare supports SPDY.
Someone please tell me what I'm missing

> left your wallet, or your phone, sitting on the kitchen table ...

> Measuring ... roughly the size of a match box

I'm meant fix a match-box sized tag into my wallet and for my phone I imagine I'm meant to clip a treasure tag to myself so it beeps when I leave my phone behind?

> one tag connected to your keys and another connected to your bag

Another match-box dangling from my keys. And I can't think of any bag that I universally need to take with me everywhere.
Department of Homeland Security cancels national license-plate tracking plan
The mouse over CSS is a flattened look which is (IMO) very ugly with the embossed default.
> You have claimed repeatedly that cell tower antennas are simple dipoles. What do you base this claim upon?

The fact that the vast majority of cell tower antennas are simple dipoles -- it's the basis of the system. You want to argue -- go somewhere else. I was doing this before you were born.

http://www.unisonsite.com/pdf/resource-center/How%20Towers%2...

> I don't want to see a simple hexagonal cell system ...

No, of course not -- that would imply that you were wrong. This discussion revolves around a scheme to phase ordinary cellular antennas to improve the performance of a classic cellular system, the kind of system you don't want to talk about.

The big advantage of the scheme under discussion is that it works with a classic cellular antenna system (plus some additional electronics and mathematical processing). That makes a classic cellular system the topic.

Typical collection of vertically polarized cellular dipole transmitting and receiving antennas:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Cell_Phon...
Musl (looks like) doesn't support aarch64 and aarch32, so if you're targeting those it's not even an option.
An ever shifting mire of something which varies from libertarian to libertarian, all insisting the other isn't the real libertarian.
If we had a self-sufficient colony on Mars (or wherever), that could provide a reservoir of both population and (perhaps more importantly) civilization and technology that would allow our descendants to return and re-colonize the Earth (or rebuild its infrastructure) after a major disaster.

Even though Mars is clearly less habitable than Earth in general, the point is that the humans living there would be ready for it. If there were a disaster here that killed off most of our crops or something, society would collapse and have trouble recovering.
You would hope that from one bubble to the other people learn something.

The last bubble, people thought than making stuff available online was enough (Do X but on the internet). The first crisis taught us you need to have an actual business model and a way to acquire client.

But then, Google happened. Big user base can be monetized. So we have a second bubble where acquisition of user is the main driver, with the assumption than like google they will find a way to milk their users. At some point that bubble will explode too.
They should have got one for their own IP. It would have shown it all went to Redmond ;-)

"It doesn't involve the transfer or ownership of the patents itself." [1]

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-nokia-microsoft...
Pretty slim because Facebook exists in 2014 buddy.

Your problem is that you're associating the biggest most overhyped entrepreneurs as being the typical entrepreneur. And they indeed do hit huge luck. So you're right there.

What the media doesn't talk about -- are the thousands of founders running profitable companies in the tens of millions or even low hundreds of millions.

If you do something of value to society, the world will make you rich with a smile on its face.
Is "Tesla beats in Q4" a common financial reporting phrase? Google gave me five results for "in after hours trading following its general beat" and they were all for this article. Most of the results for "beats in Qx" were stories by Alex Wilhelm or blog spammy results.
That's a good setup for ...

(If you have to ask you're not authorized to know)
The link in the middle of the page goes to jobs.python.org which doesn't exist. Chrome's "Did you mean" recommends python.org/jobs/ but that gives a pretty looking 404 at least.
A lottery is the only sensible way they can handle the increased demand for tickets. I was saying they should have done this two years ago. It just makes so much more sense. No getting up at 6am and madly refreshing a page. It's just a much more considerate and friendly process. Similar to receiving a callback from customer support instead of sitting on hold for thirty minutes.
Is it his programming capabilities that make him so valuable?

Or something else?

Can those traits be identified and valued in the hiring process?
8 Ways Corporate Greed Is Perverting the Idea of the "Sharing Economy"
Cool! Haha!
AML laws are not US-specific - as soon as the current regulation catches up, any international exhange will either comply with their local AML laws doing the same thing, or will have trouble handling the 'real currency' part of their transactions.
Now if only the docs could look this nice
I've been using Google Voice since 2009 to similar effect. However Google has never attempted to advertise the service.
How the HELL did Everpix die?

No, seriously. Everpix DOMINATED WhatsApp on every possible metric: social networks/sharing, user commitment, revenue, advertising information, and long-term potential. Anyone can (and will) switch instant messenger networks on a whim. There's literally no barrier to keep me from telling friends to contact me on Hangouts from now on.

A photo site tells you where people go, what they do, who they hang out with, how they spend their money, and also requires a huge commitment from users since it's a burden to re-upload photo libraries to other sites. Plus they enjoyed a steady revenue stream of $50/year or whatever, AND they could rely on the diminishing cost of storage and bandwidth over time.

To say nothing that Facebook has no photo library feature beyond selected individual uploads (which yield relatively little information about location, habits, friends, etc). They really could have used Everpix. (Or Apple could have finally obtained a usable web service.) But Facebook already has a messenger application. Hell, they have several depending on how you count their properties. What the hell does WhatsApp add to their portfolio, beyond a crappy name and a whimsically unattached user base?

I'm just baffled at this point. I guess $20b for Snapchat will be tomorrow's acquisition. Then $50b for AIM, why not.
StackSocial learn to code bundle with "name your own price"
I agree - I've read a ton of books, but usually only take small nuggets of knowledge from them and end up having to reread them every few years. Instead, most of what I know about programming I gained by doing. Writing a lot of code levels you up, not reading about writing code.

I find reading books, articles, tutorials is a great way of finding out what you don't know and what you might want to try tinkering with next to level up, because otherwise you just use the same techniques over and over, but to actually level up you need to get down and dirty and write a lot of code.
Because it adds to the cost of the acquisition. If their market cap goes down 5% as a result then that's an extra cost of ~$8B, for an overall cost of $27B.
Elon Musk says any acquisition of Tesla - very unlikely
Yes, here's a quote from the FreeBSD Foundation's July 2013 newsletter:

At WhatsApp we leverage FreeBSD and Erlang to provide
industry record uptime. The ability to scale linearly
on commodity hardware has allowed WhatsApp to keep our
serving costs low. These days we run anywhere between
2 million and 3 million concurrent TCP connections on
a single FreeBSD server...

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Jul-newsletter#w...
And at that point you have perfectly traceable transactions, since the 'fiat transaction' part has personally identifiable information of both participants.
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5% is what, 8-9bil market value? This deal gives out 12bil in stock, so the loss in market cap is less than the dilution of shares from the deal.

In other words, in hearing that 12bil of worth was being taken away from shares, only 75% of that was realized in the fall, making this a net gain in share price (not counting cash). If you count cash, this actually seems pretty neutral.
Coincidental hindsight aside, just given his background as it stood in the 2009 timeframe I'd love to be a time traveling fly on the wall to see his interviews and/or the decision making process that had both Facebook and Twitter passing on him.
There must have been other bidders – such as Google, Apple, Microsoft – who saw WhatsApp as an end-around Facebook's social dominance.

So imagine one of those other bidders had won, at a lesser price. Facebook might still have taken a 5% hit, facing a newly-empowered competitor. At least now, as with Instagram, the threat has been absorbed into the mothership.

It's a rich price, but arguably strategically justified.

The people who criticized the prices paid for YouTube and Instagram were very wrong. Also wrong were those who said Facebook was crazy for not accepting Yahoo's buyout offer, or that private investors were crazy for giving Facebook its rich pre-IPO valuations. Facebook keep chugging along, knowing and confident in its understanding of the opportunities and threats.
Given the relative conditions on Mars and Earth, the hypothetical disaster befalling Earth would have to be pretty horrendous for life on Mars to represent a positive alternative.

I think we should colonize Mars, not because things on Earth might become impossible, but just because it's another planet, suitable for some adventurous, hardy souls to colonize.
Something like they found a SQL dump file that shouldn't exist, looked at its creation date, inspected the log files (e.g., web server logs) and found network activity indicating it had been sent somewhere bad. Or they saw some unusual activity when doing a monthly analysis of web log activity, dug into it, and realized the whole DB had been sucked out through a SQL injection exploit. Or...the possibilities are endless.

Since web servers are most reliably logged even on poorly maintained systems, I'm guessing at least part of the attack hinged on that. It's really common to have servers that end up with no disk space because web logs aren't being rotated and archived/pruned properly.
Instead of changing things one universe below, change things 3 universes below you.

Or change the universe below you to change things 2 universes below it to change things in the universe 4 layers underneath that.
Surprisingly large percentage of FB users use it only/mostly for messaging. WhatsApp is better than FB in that it does only what these users want, works on various lowend phones (e.g. comes preinstalled on Nokia Asha) and works reasonably reliably.
My wife uses Kakao and she got me on it too. The app works well and it is cute. I thought it was hilarious how they monetize with stickers. Then, I realized ... holy sh*t ... this is worth a billion!
Wow, there's some hostility there.

Yes. I haven't interacted with the bundler team but I did try to contribute to rubygems during their security debacle. I hope these are not the same people.

but I've yet to come up with a solution that properly replicates Ruby's search-and-load behavior, and invariably ends up breaking on some edge case.

I have a hard time believing that'd be your only bottleneck?

If that's really all then do exactly what you said. Break the edge case, replace your iterative search with the O(1) lookup. There you have your --fast flag. Document that require_relative is to be used for relative imports for the flag to work.

Then count the days until someone patches up a 'fast-rails'.

And to the gem that auto-converts projects into --fast compatibility.
430mil of network-affect attached users is not 'whimsically unattached user base'.
It'll be interesting to see if we still have as many Whatsapp-type apps in future. It seems like there's already quite a few... WhatsApp... WeChat... Line... Kakaotalk...Viber...
From what I see there has been a great, successful push to "harmonize" AML provisions, so I believe they are at their core pretty much the same throughout the 'civilized world' and the semi-dictatorships have much stronger controls than that - so all the big economies and major currencies are affected in the same way as USA/USD.

Can you elaborate on which countries do you have in mind for "comply with the local laws, which are often much less strict in terms of AML provisions" ?

For extradition you mention Europe, but the EU AML directive is already comprehensive enough to make illegal most suggested bitcoin-for-laundering use cases; and it can be expected that if there are major loopholes found, then (continuing with their existing AML policy) EU legislation will be quickly adapted to close them.
680MM estimate was non-GAAP, Tesla's actually non-GAAP revenue was $761MM
That's my impression too. I can see it's good at what it does, but it looks like a severe case of right place at the right time in an otherwise ordinary messaging app. I wonder if they decided early to focus on language localization and so deliver the most polished-looking product in underserved markets.
"After one year of free use, the service costs $1 per year"

With 200M users a year ago - it makes a sense.
Seems like carriers or device manufacturers could easily undercut them by offering the same service, but preinstalled. I guess Apple already does, with iMessage. If only they weren't so blindly stubborn about interoperability.
I wouldn't quite say it does nothing, depending upon where in the stack the encryption is performed. If it's in the application layer (e.g. similar to transparent data encryption with SQL Server), it would stop anything else in user or system space from seeing the data short of hacking the DB process. Though it seems this isn't the case given that they're doing backup encryption separately and later.

They also talk about in-network encryption, which does directly speak to the NSA issues.

All of it is under the auspices of "network security", which is a growing concern because of the NSA debacle. And to answer ohm's comment, yes many people who know tangentially about the NSA accessing data don't really know that much about the practical applications of security. Something like this absolutely helps them drop a bullet point declaring security to bolster their cloud strategy.
Land should be priced the same way! There are lots of places I'd like to build a new home, but people own the land and aren't using it.
I thought it was the de facto messaging app across the world? Is there any particular reason why it is not used much in US?
I mean, if you assume only 10% of that value is going to employees, then you need only half a percent (0.5%) of that to get a $800k bonus.

If you've only been there 2-3 years, that's a substantial bonus that pushes your pay above market rate.
> Better to let the market sift out the successful founders than to payroll a hundred of them, hoping for a big win.

Sorry, I can't help myself, but at a salary of $160k a year, payrolling "a hundred of them" per year would only cost 1/10th of what FB just paid for whatsapp.

It's too bad companies like FB and Twitter would rather let the 'founder' types slip by than to take more chances. When Facebook last tried to recruit me, they described themselves as "a bunch of startups that just happen to work under the same company." Yeah, right.
True, if they're going to toss around this kind of money, they should be buying earlier. I mean, if WhatsApp was worth 50 million a few years ago, they could buy 320 similar companies at that stage, totaling 16B. Basically anyone that gains traction, they could throw a couple hundred million towards and buy them out.
Update for you! Hahaha, I love that you said that about Forbes.Com. Hate that site...
This feels just like the real game. I am just missing the predictive/"test" move that lets you see what would happen without actually moving the tiles.
No I agree completely there. I think we all have reasonably good chances of creating successful small businesses and extracting our fair value out of society of a few million or even 10 million. But to start something that grows to billions or tens or hundreds of billions that quickly--that isn't skill, that's luck. It takes being the kind of guy who can make the 5 million dollar successful small business to have a chance to play the lottery, but I'm saying that most HN readers are of opportunity to play that lottery. Zuck is much, much different than the typical member of planet earth, but not MUCH (a little better, I'll give him that) than the average silicon valley engineer.
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230 million of those users didn't exist nine months ago. Why are you so sure they'll still be there in another nine months?
But they are trying only with tricks and short term solutions just to keep their stock prices high. Acquiring everything isn't a planned strategy for growth but rather a fear of the next facebook strategy, which obviously is not and couldn't be WhatsApp. Instagram maybe but still...
Who said you should? Why would you even leave a comment like this?
Boo.

At least this author uses it to describe a threat.

Most writers deploy the term to describe a really good offer, which grates upon my soul enormously.
NINETEEN BILLION DOLLARS can do quite a bit of world changing.
Funny this came at the same day as the WhatsApp acquisition, which is part of why I ask what happened to Mark Zuckerberg since the early days of Facebook regarding privacy.
Oh yea , who is it regulated by? Yo xhbvtv
I'd be happy to have a self supporting technology base on the moon so that the earth could be re-colonized.
does this mean Viber should feel ripped off at $900m?
The nun was convicted under the 1918 Federal Sabotage Act as amended by the 2001 PATRIOT act. Those laws were designed to deal with saboteurs, spies, and bomb making terrorists. See 18 U.S. Code § 2155 - Destruction of national-defense materials, national-defense premises, or national-defense utilities, at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2155

Note there must be "intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of the United States." I don't think this nun's intention was injury, interference or obstruction. Her actions were highly symbolic: Splashing human blood, spray painting a Biblical verse, and defacing a building.

In any case, there is no "right to protest." The first amendment only guarantees free speech, press, assembly, and petition for grievances. And even these "freedoms" are quite limited. OWS got tear gassed, billy clubbed and shot in the face with teargas canisters and rubber bullets for trying to exercise them.

Christians have been willing to suffer this kind of persecution, go to jail, and even die for their beliefs, ever since Jesus set the example for them.

Tougher laws and harsher sentences doesn't stop protest. The protests raging in Kiev right now were started by a new, tough anti-protest law.

In my opinion, the nun should have been charged with trespassing, tampering and vandalism (36 CFR 1002.31). Overcharging with sabotage and terrorism really just shows prosecutorial vindictiveness. Just laws and punishments are proportional to the crime.

> bypassing armed guards

Sounds like the guards should lose their jobs. The security contractor should lose their contract, and maybe pay the taxpayers back whatever they were paid. They clearly failed their mission in every conceivable way. What if this had been a real terrorist instead of an 84-year old nun with a can of spraypaint, some blood and a hammer?
C++ – What is the name of this operator: "--&gt;"?
So should facebook absorb every social threat? What would happen if Google's hangouts started to become popular, or another startup?