skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good, I'll avoid you as well. Whole lot of good your mindless binary worldview does you.

There are legitimate discussions to be had about what Jobs actually did vs the perception people have of him. But there's no doubting that the former category includes a number of meaningful and industry-defining accomplishments.

Unfortunately, those like you who aren't done constantly arguing an equally biased anti-Jobs/Apple view seem to think that rehashing the truly dick part of who Steve could be discounts what he did (often by citing other folks involved / inspired, as if it doesn't take a village to build a revolutionary product). I'm not really sure I'd ever miss interacting with such an ideologue.
You know we all feel the same http://vmavalankar.svbtle.com/why-facebook-bought-whatsapp
Life sucks, and then you die.
Absolutely the same as AIM messenger or Y! messenger back in the days.

There are some differences which is possibly because it's the mobile equivalent.

One is that you don't have to add any new contact. If anyone on your phone book has whatsapp, they instantly show up i.e your identity is your phone number.

Two when you join a group if there is a person already in the group whose you know in real life, but don't have the number of, it's easy to get their contact into your phone book.

I was able to reconnect with quite a few of my old high school friends using whatsapp. The interesting thing was that everyone spread around the world. Many are in the US, but several are in UK, some are in the middle east, many in India, a couple in Singapore and the group chat made it possible for everyone to instantly connect without having to "add a friend". Plus, no cost difference to send a message to someone in the UK or India.

Like you said, it's the mobile equivalent but the group chat feature is what makes it really useful esp. if you have friends in multiple countries.
You know we all feel the same in some way http://vmavalankar.svbtle.com/why-facebook-bought-whatsapp
Whatsapp was popular just because of its simplicity. Are this people going to screw whatsapp? Hope they don't
it's because you broke a promise you made to someone. breaking promises is generally considered bad/flawed.
This makes a perfect HR case study.

Do you test a person's ability to mug up algorithm puzzles?

Or

Do you test a person's ability to build a $16 billion company?

Sounds like the latter is a more result oriented goal.
> It is possible to admire someone without thinking they're flawless; or, perhaps, to admire certain traits/aspects of someone without admiring them altogether.

The problem with the Steve Jobs "legend" is that it is told in such a biased way that many people believe that:

- he was a Genius
- he succeeded against the odds
- Poor Apple was copied by competitors after inventing everything, and had to resort to patents to defend themselves. *(Miserables music playing in background)*

Well, the actual story is pretty much completely different, Jobs was an aggressive shark who did not care about sucking the blood of people and unethical business practices, Apple mostly did not invent anything new at all and while they were certainly copied they copied as much themselves as the others.

Therefore I'm not sure if there is anything much to admire of Jobs once you remove the layers of lies surrounding his story.

There are many more hackers who would deserve their story to be told rather than him.
Not only attention. Also their profile and access to their thoughts which is an asset that big brother is willing to pay for.

In 1984 you needed to hand a copybook to someone you wished to invigilate. Today you invigilate by billions for $40 per head :)
Not to nitpick, but I think you mean nitpick.
if by alchemy you mean making gold from another element then it does exist. we just cant do it yet
A fun, social way to discover music.
Value = the amount that someone will pay for something. $19B in this case.
So you can tilt and roll it of course! Hire me anytime, Facebook.
This was highly confusing without context.
All this rage for a salesman? Wow...
WhatsApp Acquisition in Context
I can believe Google made the offer and it was rebuffed.

But, I think the price paid here suggests there were other bidders. And, while an acquirer making an offer may want to enforce a 'no shop' agreement, the acquisition target usually wants more bidders. (Does Sequoia keep secrets from Google, when a Google bid could maximize their return?)

So I'd guess Google knew WhatsApp was discussing acquisitions.

I'd love to hear more definitively about how these competing priorities play out in a real high-stakes acquisition negotiation. (Could a Facebook, via a early rich term sheet, cajole a 'no shop' agreement from a target and expect it to stick?)
If MtGox halts trading, settles all pending BTC exchange transactions, return all fiat deposits, and then intentionally never returns any BTC, does one have any recourse?

I guess it would be some matter of Japanese law, international law (for claimants outside Japan), and the MtGox terms of service? What if these were virtual pets that people had traded?
The brief, insipid blurb does very little to incentivize me to register to see the rest.
I'm not American and I heard of this company for the first time, but it's obvious for me that 'over the air' is the progress, and 'over the physical cable' is not, and it seems to me that physical cable owners want to block progress, and an unreasonable toll solely for owning the cable, because they know they will never own the air.

Same thing with Tesla and car dealerships. Why would I need a dealership, if I can order a car to my door online straight from the manufacturer these days?
muryza.com

And use the savings to fill out a true, full rebrand
Brian Acton Wanted A Job; Facebook Said No
Have you checked out the following ones?

http://www.pythonweekly.com/

http://www.nosqlweekly.com/

http://www.founderweekly.com/

http://www.raspiweekly.com/

Disclaimer: I am the curator.
Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses in WhatsApp and Mobile IM Platforms
ld has a -e argument [−4] (and MSVC's link has /ENTRY [37]). Otherwise, if there is a function with the expected name, calling convention and arguments in the object file I doubt the linker will complain.

[−4] ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/ld-2.9.1/html_node/ld_24.html

[37] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/f9t8842e.aspx
There are temperatures lower than zero kelvin.

There are negative temperatures, but I wouldn't characterize them as being "lower than zero kelvin". It would be more accurate to say that negative temperatures are "higher than $\infty$ kelvin".
Ah I thought it was because the Ninja Turtles like pizza and they live in the sewer and the the easiest way to get a round pizza into the sewer is though a round manhole cover.
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You want this: http://blog.fanout.io/2013/04/09/an-http-reverse-proxy-for-r...
I'm not sure- great programming skills, algorithm knowledge et all still one thing.

The key here is 'gumption'. Raw enthusiasm, high spiritedness and child like courage in approaching ideas and implementing them. To work on projects that kill you. To take routine, crippling failure and weather and grow stronger every time that happens. Most companies have processes to avoid hiring these kind of cowboys. Companies have processes to exactly avoid hiring these kind of people.

You see bulk of these things have nothing to do with skills, or genius or talent. If fact these skills can build other skills.

The problem is most companies check problem solving skills. Do these companies test problem identification skills? Do they check how a person can take failure? Do they measure how hardworking a person is?

If you see it in a way, we don't seem to check the actual skills at all.
In Spain it has replaced
sms. Everyone with mobile use it.
I had a few tabs open today, a colleague saw them, turns out they were positions a friend sent me and was asking my opinion on.

It happens, you don't know the back story.
Looks good in general, here are some potential improvements:

* You can safely drop "I'm a conversion optimization consultant." The sentence that follows is more powerful and easier to understand.

* "How I can help." – titles should not end in periods. This one as well as "Happy clients." can optionally end with a colon. There are a couple places in the text where punctuation is also incorrect, you should re-check it against English rules.

* "Conversion Optimization" should be to the left of "Funnel Tracking & Analysis" because it's simpler, IMHO.

* The bullets under "Funnel Tracking & Analysis" don't really say much about how it brings money, just what it is.

* On Chrome in OS X with standard settings, "Funnel Tracking & Analysis" is split into two lines. Layout looks a bit broken because of that.

* "How can I help?" assumes that the client knows the answer to that question. Don't intimidate them, either drop or rephrase this.

* Why no email? You can add it using javascript, and the vast majority of spam bots won't see it (google how to do that properly).
You might want to actually take a look at some of those recalls, they're pretty bogus (like the whole "bring it in so we can adjust the floor mats" thing). And yes, I do believe Toyota did the recall as a PR effort. Take a look at what Audi did instead. They, correctly, stated there was nothing wrong with the cars and they took an insane PR hit and sales plummeted. There continues to be no actual evidence of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles.

And I don't think HNers are somehow less likely to hit the wrong pedal or refuse to admit it. There's always that possibility that they don't even know they hit the wrong pedal.
Good luck creating an app used by so many without having a stellar support team.
At risk of going off-topic, was your migration from Perl to Python a simple factor of the projects you worked on or was there a deliberate effort to proactively switch?

I learned Perl in the CGI days of the mid-90's and never even continued on to PHP. As a network consultant now, I find Perl to be immensely helpful, when it comes time to script some monitoring or automated activity.

That said, a fellow networker had mentioned that many others had been switching. Most of my days are not spent programming, but I do occasionally bust out a project or two. Is it worth my time to make the switch?
No, i guess he is diminishing steve's role in success of apple. He is saying jobs is gone and apple is still standing still without him
They are not linked lists. They aren't that slow. The `arrays` module gives you extra typed arrays for numerical computations.
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Star fusion does it every day.

Evidence that something exists is evidence that it is created.
In my experience, it's mostly used as a drop-in replacement for text messaging for

- people (especially preteens) with an iPod Touch or iPad Mini but not a smartphone/texting plan

- people with internationally distributed friends

- Android users who want iMessage functionality (friendly long messages, delivery confirmation, read receipts, sane group conversations, etc)
It's entirely possible that there are "Nazis" in this group. However, a group composed mostly of "Nazis" usually shows more in the way of flags, colors and symbols than what the pictures show. As would do communists, or even islamists. Seems like their is no easy explanation what this group actually is instead of a bunch of very angry Ukrainians.
> Just because your users are passionate doesn't mean you deserve a high valuation

No one "deserves" any particular valuation: those numbers come from how much people are willing to pay, and how little you're willing to sell.

Due to the post acquisition success of Instagram, companies like SnapChat and WhatsApp have more leverage than their predecessors in these negotiations. Thus, they command higher valuations.

WhatsApp, though of course a Valley company, seemed to have been "discovered" overseas. It famously doesn't have ads and instead charges $1/year (which its users are willing to pay). In the short term, yes, India/SE Asia are less lucrative markets per person, but in the long term they have greater potential for growth. With the numbers as they are, looks like Zuckerberg intends this as a long term play.
I think it's sort of hard to think of 'best of the 19th century' because so many things are now considered so fundamental they're easy to forget, but I'd put linear regression in there.
http://www.quora.com/WhatsApp-Messenger/How-did-WhatsApp-gro...
Not completely, this has been available in python 2 for a long time:

>>> from __future__ import division
And if you're a big fan of apple, Steve Wosniak would be the guy to admire.
Not everyone has a smartphone. Many of the people I need to text (especially my parents) have feature phones with no data plans.

Having to remember which messaging system you should use for each person is annoying, so most people just use one.
Awesome, thank you for taking the time to write that, Nikita! All things going on to-do list.

About the "Funnel Tracking & Analysis" title... I'd love to simplify that to just "Funnel Analysis." Would that lose too much meaning?
A good mathematical proof is like a poem, not a telephone directory.
IIRC, neural nets were a real backwater until recently when they figured out to train them effectively.
I'll have to remember that one :-) But on a more serious note, its been interesting to see the different sort of talent location ideas that have emerged. So I person I met a long time a go as a production assistant for the TV series Robotica was trying to come up with a new series and I suggested "American Hacker" where folks would go on the show and compete for a spot at Facebook or something. His comment though was pretty funny which was "That won't work Chuck because too many people are like you and they don't care about being on TV, you really need people who will cut off their own leg if you promise to put them on during prime time." Which was a sad sad commentary.

Things like the Stripe CTF contests are good recruiting tools, hackathons kinda sorta, resume scanning and the 5 - 10 person interview panel? Hard to get repeatable results.
Anchoring in Video Game Design
http://pastebin.com/kFFRQvwR

(not the original - just unminified with http://jsbeautifier.org )
Do the lawyers here feel like Aereo's losing is reasonable?
Looks pretty, but the middle green on dark blue/grey makes it hard to read the actual Python code.
Upcoming events lists events from 2012

What ?
That is the same reason I don't like learning from videos.
Not in US, but it's absolutely big in Asia.

http://gigaom.com/2013/11/26/study-facebook-messenger-still-...
They need to regulate ISPs as common carriers. Anything short of that will result in ISPs constantly lobbing to get more say, until they get what they want. We can NOT rely on the free market to sort the ISPs out because there is 0 competition in that market.
Uh, I'm pretty sure any company would be within their rights to fire you for refusing to cooperate with a patent filing. Some contracts (such as mine) even stipulate such cooperation after termination.
Surprisingly in France you can have illimited text messaging for 2€ per month, 1 hour of communication included.

Though I'm not sure about you stats for usage.
They're illegal. Completely unethical. It's not popular because it's flat out wrong, and hurts everyone working for those companies & our entire industry as a whole.
Kudos to you for keeping this vulnerability secret and waiting for a fix. You've been waiting for a fix for almost three months, and without much of a response from the side of Tinder. And the latter I think is even more frustrating than the first.

Having been in a similar situation, I don't think I would have waited as long as you did.
> This is why you want financial regulation.

I believe we're in the beginning of a weird transitory period right now, but in the long term cryptography and cryptocurrencies have the potential to replace the need for certain types of regulation entirely.

For example, it's possible to build a decentralized exchange between different cryptocurrencies (or assets where ownership tracked on a crypto ledger) where no party needs to trust any other party at all (e.x. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_cross-chain_trading)
Whatsapp is great and the numbers speak for themselves, but I think that promoting the $0 marketing spend brings a wrong notion to consumer facing startups. Usually it's ok to spend here and there to get your initial user base or to learn about your product/market fit. Otherwise you're just relying on blind luck.
I wouldn't bother. I'd just go ahead and use 2 distinct APIs directly, and then after a while, I'll realize my code look more and more Javaish, and then I'll switch back to Java.
But it does:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation
Ok then, tell me where the evolutionary pressure came from for brains to consider and act upon things like burials, math, surgery, and brain surgery in particular.
That's a good pointer, thanks. I've been thinking about building a simulator to help qualify Threes strategies.
In more advanced games, higher-number "next" cards are somewhat critical. When you do add them, I'd love to hear how you did it!
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The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp
I'm surprised that he provides five versions of the method definition syntax and none of them are what Apple does and what I consider to be the standard:

- (void)doSomethingWithParameter:(NSString *)parameter;
Firstly is there even a Artificial General Intelligence even in Humans?

I know how to play chess, but I don't seem to be playing it as well as Gary Kasparov.
and that they use whatapp because they are poor. It is hard to make money off poor people. Short FB
I'm guilty of #4, but I think it's a judgement thing. If you're just going to briefly use the dictionary, I personally think it's a waste of time to go to the effort of creating a class. If it's core to your program it makes more sense since you can then tap into things like KVO a bit better. And, prior to ARC and automatic synthesis of properties, it made for a ton of boilerplate code.
Very nice.

Confusing name, I immediately though you were using three.js
Yeah. And what if the computer discovers that desire is pointless? Will it have a religion? Buddhism? Zen Buddhism?

Why does quantum computing even exist if all forms of computing are equivalent?
or maybe they are simple paying to get our cell phone numbers? Something they tried to get from me for a long time and I always refused to give?
Now they have it.
you deposit "Gox" BTC to the "Gox" address on your account (internal transfers of BTC within mtgox still work) and/or regular BTC to your "Real" BTC address

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xmf8u/i_just_launc...
over 10% of FB total inflated market cap. short with me! When this thing implodes, it's going back to the teens ironically
In 2007 Facebook was not in the club of "large companies with many open positions", just another startup on University Avenue with some series B in the bag.
While I agree that right now there is zero competition in that market, the reason is because we didn't let the free market decide. We gave government approved monopolies to them and now we're seeing the consequences.
Denver Pastor says, "Jesus was an ass." See why he does ...
You welcome! I think "Funnel Analysis" is better. Tracking is kinda implied in the whole conversion / funnel optimization thing, and presumably the value is in analysis & optimization, not tracking per se, so that's what should be in the title.
Even more closely related would be a wavelet transform with windowed sine packet wavelets.
Yeah, but the dev will know at compile time what those problems are.
A lot of people on HN talk about how Facebook is pointless and on its way out. And it's true, Facebook probably doesn't make a lot of sense to people who are steeped in an email culture.

Young adults are not. Facebook is far and away the dominant messaging platform. Email in high school was for spam, communicating with teachers, and passing attachments ONLY. Short, synchorous messages that you didn't mind typing with your thumbs would go via SMS, but more verbose synchronous conversations and email-like async conversations were invariably Facebook Messenger.

I can find anyone from my real life that I'm likely to want to talk to on Facebook just by knowing their real name and identifying their face in search results. It's entirely frictionless - no exchanging identifiers or mucking around with pseudonyms. And I can have a conversation synchronously or asynchronously, transitioning seamlessly between devices and modes of communication, with conversation history, read receipts, and delivery confirmation always available.

Messaging is a more important part of Facebook than I think much of HN realizes. It makes sense that Facebook would neutralize WhatsApp's threat to its hold on messaging.
The idea that life is futile or pointless or absurd has a long tradition in western philosophic thought, however it is rests on a fundamental error and is a dead-end. I won't go into the technical details but, no, I do not subscribe to that view. You?
Humans are not a general intelligence.
they are taking a crap all over any sort of trust anybody could have had in them

MtGox's incompetence has caused at least 3 major price crashes over the last 3 years and somehow people keep coming back. Probably because there has historically been huge demand and very little competition, but that may finally be changing.
$50 bucks for life plan ... :)
That's what I use as well. In Apple's frameworks I've found them to be very inconsistent between different areas though.
This is something the phone of each user itself could do. All that is necessary is for the app to generate a random offset for the latitude and another one for the longitude at startup then report their location + constant offset instead of their actual location to Tinder.

Now the worst thing that will happen is someone triangulates a point say, 1/4 mile away from you.
Why do you think AI would be more concerned about efficiency than understanding?
That is the convention officially endorsed by Apple (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...)
AFAIK that's only the plan. right now they have very little if any revenue. People use Whatsapp because they are too poor to afford text messaging. My guess is that lots will leave even at 1 USD per year
I would be more excited if I wasn't using dvorak.
Those funds were seized because of their relation to SR and other illicit activity. As such I don't think that has an effect on Gox's solvency.[1]

[1]http://thegenesisblock.com/mt-gox-seizures-linked-silk-road-...
You're correct. I've updated the post with credit to you, thanks!
And then the question is - if the AI is more intelligent than us humans, it must surely be able to figure out itself, and it improve itself, includings its own goals, too?
Great story! One thing that stuck out to me—if you had an infinitely powerful computer, the "coding" aspect of it should take no time at all. All you have to do is come up with a description language to say what you want•, and b) seed rules for a genetic programming language, and then throw it at your infinitely powerful computer. You'll get a working program instantly.

• This might still be significantly difficult. If only you had a simulated version of yourself that you could use as a control subject so the computer could test whether or not the generated program met your expectations...
You're kidding right? It's text messaging. Do you have any idea what kind of engagement phone calls have?
Phew, in my time we used to program directly the magnetic memory cores in machine code.

Now get out of my yard.