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Your post seems confused.

There's nothing in a net neutrality demand that would change Google's costs as such. One might argue that neutrality might impact Google's potential profits - but since Google already has such a large portion of the net's traffic, it's main business model has involved a neutral net and they have been a strong advocate. Since they profit from a large portion of Internet traffic, their aim has been to increase this traffic to thus increase their profits (IE, the ability to shake-down Netflix is not worth anywhere as much as the other ways Google makes money - see: "world's largest advertising company").

On the other hand, some of their motive for entering the ISP business has been make sure the current operators respect net neutrality and don't engaging in sleazy that exploit their monopoly (throttling, ad-substitution, etc). If net neutrality were guaranteed, Google might feel less urgency in entering this business. On the other hand, they aren't doing this at a loss so they may well continue.

Also, Google has a vast internal network that carries it's internal traffic. This network isn't part of the Internet at all and won't be affected ever by net neutrality issues.
In the same way as hacking is ONLY about making a product?

You can never do it out of general interest, just to learn more about something?
> Flying is for getting from point A to B. Flying just for fun missing any purpose might be fun the first couple of times but then it's like driving a bus from A to A.

On the contrary. For years I owned a Piper Super Cub, an old-fashioned cloth-wing airplane, and I flew it everywhere just for fun. I would fly it out into the desert and land in a dry lake bed or salt flat, just to be somewhere totally wild and unexplored. I also stunt-flew it at air shows, doing all kinds of aerobatics and fun stuff. That was the most fun I had as a pilot, and flying for business couldn't compare.
I really dislike Apple, but admire Wosniak.
WhatsApp is also really strong here in Germany and other parts of Europe. More of my friends are on WhatsApp than Facebook (only very few more though).
If you want evidence that HN has a fetish for money, it's that the technical details of Whatsapp's success are only closely inspected now that gratuitous cash has been thrown around.

You may view this comment as too cynical for this particular topic, but the ridiculous surge in Whatsapp stories doesn't lie. And of course we should inspect the action of successful companies.

I am merely pointing at the crude vulgarity of the Valley's barometer for success.
This is easy to say in retrospect, but there are always the two competing narratives. The other narrative gets more press because the primary way to grow is to "get more press."
Usually, people define Intelligence to be "that thing humans have". We can recognise it in ourselves and other humans, realise it doesn't exist in animals, but there is no really good definition of what that means.

But that doesn't mean anything. Creating something artificial that has whatever it is that we have is the goal.
I admire Elon for what he is trying to do. But selling to Apple would be a complete U-turn to what he has said. On many occasions he has mentioned that he won't change ownership of Tesla till the mass market electric vehicle becomes a success. That would be at least 2020 as that would be the time frame when one can say whether Model E is a success or not. I hope he sticks to what he has said.
Is bitcoin really selling for 150 USD? (12:05am PST)
Unfortunately, there aren't. Or, rather, there are, but not easy to find and not so many. Not enough for the amount of work that is out there.
No, it's not. The Mt. Gox price is disconnected entirely from other exchanges due to the inability to withdrawal either Bitcoin or dollars, and the uncertainty over MtGox's solvency.

People on MtGox are effectively trading GoxDollars for GoxCoins. Someone setup https://www.bitcoinbuilder.com/ to trade GoxCoins for Bitcoins.
I don't know, SMS was huge in Germany as well, there were unlimited plans etc., still, today everyone uses WhatsApp. Group messages, broadcasts, media, cross-platform, and it's of course easier to convince people to use WhatsApp than Facebook.

I lived in the US for a while, and I can't really come up with any reason why it should be different there. Only that way more people are on Facebook (and those are also way more active). Still, I can't really explain why texts stuck around even for smartphone users.
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Using an arduino to test load? Nerd jokes are getting out of hand.

Answer is resistors+heatsinks. Or lightbulbs if in a tight budget.
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I was only joking. No offense is taken.
Nothing about the actual computing mechanism introduced in the story is realistic, and that's on purpose. The point of the story is to investigate what would happen if such a thing were possible.
No, Mt. Gox is selling Bitcoins that you will never be able to withdraw for $150 USD. Coinbase is currently listing a buy price of $611.21.
> * An infinite loop does not end, even in an infinitely powerful computer

What do infinite loops have to do with anything? Presumably the creators of the simulation would be skillful enough to avoid them.

That would be this:

"""

But it was still pretty exciting stuff. Holy Zarquon, they said to one another, an infinitely powerful computer? It was like a thousand Christmases rolled into one. Program going to loop forever? You knew for a fact: this thing could execute an infinite loop in less than ten seconds. Brute force primality testing of every single integer in existence? Easy. Pi to the last digit? Piece of cake. Halting Problem? Sa-holved.

"""
The whole thread including the OP is full of speculation by unqualified people, because AI is the ultimate fantasy for all of us here.

So common sense is a perfectly satisfying qualification to post in this particular thread. Concerning the 5 senses, I refer to common wisdom because it speaks to everyone. Those who know better are probably smart enough to translate "5 senses" into an accurate scientific wording.
Why Facebook Just Paid $19 Billion for a Messaging App
Thanks for the kind words.

Language is relative-- it depends on who you want to sell to. For marketing professionals, you use one set of words. For CEOs, you use another. For engineers who think marketing and selling is a lot less important than technology, you use yet another.

The choices you make to appeal to each group will turn off the others to some degree, so it gets back to "Who, in your opinion, is that man in the chair?"

Because you say "Startup" at the top, it suggests you're looking for companies with less than 10 people, pretty much all of whom code, who have decided that they need to make money selling but aren't ready to hire fulltime marketing people.

I could drill down quite a lot more on the issues, but I charge for stuff like that. Three other things could be quick fixes but could go a lot deeper:

1. The color(s) you add to a site determine the emotional reaction people have to you.

2. People will look at your references and assume that, if THEIR company isn't in more or less comparable to those two, they don't need you yet. Who references are can be just as important as what they say.

3. Rates are less important that "How long does this take?" If I know a project takes 8-16 hours, I don't have to know your bill rate to say "I can probably afford Greg." If you say it takes 13 weeks, that's something else.
Ah, the subset of stunt pilots will run a MUCH higher risk profile. That would explain a lot.
Exactly. This article is just another surveillance state propaganda piece.
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My favorite stash option is -p which let you select which lines you want to stash.
" apparently strolling into what was previously thought to be one of the most tightly guarded uranium processing plants in the US."

White hat nun?
Maybe some form of this... ?

http://www.javaworld.com/article/2071753/mobile-java/push-me...
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YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkMaWZFePI
Because that's what marriage is. If you don't like it, there's an easy solution - don't marry. You can do practically everything - from sex to going to movies together to emotionally supporting - without being married. If the concept of sharing your life with another person sounds weird - just don't do it. It's not mandatory, you know.
I think that the ad serving potential is mostly overrated. We are developing immunity to all kinds of ads lately.

And if google are scared of Whatsapp they could easily remove it from the store ...

Time will tell. I think we will see the whole social stuff collapsing soon commercially.
The number of people who want to send text messages is several times the number of people who want to use Facebook, especially given the cost of mobile data on prepaid phones.
It is quite well known that WhatsApp uses Erlang. I bet it must been discussed here already.
I think the assertion that you have to simulate the whole thing is somewhat self-obvious, and I'm not physicist, but I'll try.

Take the "window" of the Earth. Without simulating the rest of the solar system, there is no way to account for the gravity effects of the larger planets, the energy from the sun, the occasional impacts from asteroids, the high-profile fly-bys of comets like Halley's, etc. Without simulating the rest of the universe, what would the simulated-astronomers on your simulated-Earth be looking at when they peer into their telescopes? What happens when you fast-forward far enough into the "future" that the Milky Way merges with Andromeda?

You can't simply hand-wave these things away by saying, "well, we would ray-trace the things that are observable" because you have no way of knowing what is observable without simulating the whole rest of the universe too. It's either simulate the whole thing, or your simulation is very limited and inaccurate.
Skype has that. Yes, it's paid, but so is Whatsapp.
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Is there not any form of travel you enjoy? Not even a bike, skateboard, or even a walk in a forest?
It is more economically efficient for the manufacturer to deliver ~300 cars to one location every couple of months and have the 300 customers drive the "last mile" to their homes when they want to buy a car.

The alternative is to have the manufacturer drive all the way to each customer's house at a time the customer chooses individually.

The current system of car delivery is a better use of energy/people's time than autos on demand.
It's not just the raw numbers. I would love to move onto Telegram, which is more secure, has an API, and works from a desktop. But, I can't.

There are about five or six odd people in my life (professional or private) that I message frequently. Even if 1 out of them isn't on a particular messaging platform, I can't adopt that platform wholeheartedly. With Fb Messages, Hangouts and every other popular smartphone oriented messaging platform there would always be that one or two contacts that you regularly communicate with, who would be left out due to having an incompatible device. Whatsapp on the other hand works on pretty much every phone. When you want to replace something as prevalent as SMS, the long tail matters.

There's another tangible benefit of focusing on so many platforms. Whatsapp, which doesn't spend much (if anything at all) on promotion, is prominently featured in the advertisements of many budget phones, as manufacturers see Whatsapp support as a strong selling point.
Who Are the Major New gTLD Applicants and…(Part Three: Minds + Machines)
Minds + Machines was the first "new gTLD portfolio applicant" I spotted early in 2008, when .PARIS started being mentioned. Then came a few other projects like .HORSE and later .VODKA. Being French, my vision of good new gTLD suffixes may be slightly different to those native English speakers.
> It helped a ton with the systems and comms but pretty much nothing for my landing and takeoff ability.

Yes, a common experience. Landing and taking off involve some subtle things that most simulators don't capture, like the fact that in a small propeller-drive plane, at slow speed, the propeller torque twists the body of the airplane, so you have to apply some counter-rudder to straighten out the fuselage and maximize climbing efficiency.

And landing has risks that simulators certainly don't capture, like the all-too-common stall-spin on final approach, which turns out to represent a high percentage of all GA accidents. Most simulators won't even imitate this common problem -- in most simulators you can't force the plane into a spin, either at altitude or while landing. That by itself might make a student overconfident about how much he's learned.

In reality, a student or new pilot turns too slow on final, realizes he's not lined up, so he banks too steeply and applies some aggressive rudder, which causes the inboard wing to stall, then unless the pilot knows exactly what to do and does it instantly, the plane will stall-spin, do a 1/4 turn and hit the ground before an inexperienced pilot can react. A very common accident scenario.
Perhaps 3-5x as fast in terms of time because you don't have to stop at red lights and you can take the "as the crow flies" path instead of zig-zagging. Pretty sweet deal for $30k!
It's likely most of those users were once on Facebook, so I don't think personal info was a big selling point here. I think they made the purchase because 400,000,000 users outside of their bubble is a little worrying. It's a threat, what happens if WhatsApp begins to pivot and push more into Facebook territory?
I hardly use stash any more. If I need to "stash" something, I just commit it. The reason this is okay is because we work on very small branches, with the aim of squashing everything into a single commit before merging it with master. So it doesn't matter if I commit half-baked code to my branch, since it's going to be squashed anyway.
Video of talk http://vimeo.com/44312354
That's not the case. WhatsApp barely holds any data. The user doesn't have to give over their personal details. It ties them to their mobile number & messages are stored only until they're pushed to the client. Once pushed they are then removed from WhatsApp servers.
This is pretty similar to what google can do with gmail already, and that doesn't seem to be more profitable the traditional google search ads.
Being suddenly slung into outer space sounds pretty terrifying.
If the law was so badly applied, why no news outlet ever mention the judge name or defense attorney? It is clearly a case of incompetence or negligence.
http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/messagin...

Understandable.
I'm not sure why you are talking about cable owners here. The plaintiffs in this case are broadcast stations and networks, not cable companies.
WhatsApp’s anti-ad philosophy is really a broad new vision for mobile
you dont need a FBaccount for Whatsapp... FB messenger wanted to do this.. but Whatsapp has a much bigger potential to be part of every day conversations. similar to why FB was better than myspace..
I don't think so. This is a strategy to crack the Asian markets and the markets of developing countries where Facebook is not so used while whatsapp has practically replaced SMS messaging
I'm in the same position. I deleted my Facebook account last year and now it feels like they have rejoined me without asking me. Damn it.
The problem with light bulbs is that their resistance changes wildly based on applied voltage, so they're not very reliable indicators of power dissipation unless you can measure both voltage and current and multiply them together in real time.

A big resistor in a heat sink, yep, that's more like it.
Or replace it with Google Chat, for that matter.

This blog post is not insightful. Both Google and Facebook have been doing what he's talking about for a long time. WhatsApp is not really a game-changer in concept. It's a game-changer in terms of user base, if anything.
WhatsApp indicates nothing about the migration of startups from the Peninsula to SF. As far as I can observe, that migration started going full steam after 2011. WhatsApp was founded in 2009.
> Where is the public listing of WebGL games that you can quickly browse and start playing?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore
Probably not, but it's close to equally high, which is one of Whatsapp's strong points.

Additionally, it's not just popular in "the developing world" (whatever that means), but also in many European countries. I haven't seen a map, but I suspect that Whatsapp is very popular nearly everywhere outside the US and China.
> Being suddenly slung into outer space sounds pretty terrifying.

Definitely a breathtaking experience.
But then if you don't need an FB account for Whatsapp, FB is not going to show you any relevant add.
i never said they are saying to serve it in whatsapp. its all about the data and the content.. its not about what they will definitely do. but what they could potentially do.
yes, because everyone building websites are mouth-breathing neanderthals who know nothing other than how to assemble marketing websites from pre-built web components and frameworks that do nothing important.

get over yourself, bud.
Perhaps you could integrate some type of death instrument into the simulator to increase the realism. Crash your plane, and a stack of exercise machine weights falls onto your head. Something like that.
thats what they are doing with gmail isnt it? with all relevant ads when you open an email.
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It absolutely makes sense to work on a J2ME app today if you have a product aimed at developing nations. They won't be swimming in smartphones any time soon.
Given the same problem, I'd look at a reactor pattern MQTT mosquitto like pubsub protocol in Go, Erlang or something JVM/CLR. The beauty of publish subscribe of many low bandwidth clients is that they need tiny bits low latency work in a sizable bandwidth app. Could run BINC/CBOR RFC 7409 over zeromq on lower-end infiniband between boxen. Millions of IM users are just similar enough to tons of smart meters that the solution overlap is enough, but obviously people are more bursty with jagged sinewave daily traffic loads.

Let the clients handle end-to-end encryption with something zk DH/OTR/SMP.

I'm curious how they later monitored this and did other common SRE stuff. Also deployments.
I think its mostly a press thing, but subject to perturbations. Saying the biggest (and smallest in terms of employee count) acquisition in recent memory was right in the heart of MV will transport the press from SOMA to University Ave in PA and Castro Street in MV overnight. Sorry guys, tough commute.
There are 450M not 450MM. What is the double MM doing there?

Sure but then minus the operation cost, tax, etc. You get down to very little. I don't dispute FB can turn it into a revenue machine by "inventing" a new way of looking at mobile and mobile messaging, but at this stage I am afraid the revenue that I read from Quora doesn't justify a 19B total acquisition. The price is too high; Twitter is about 40B ~ 50B (http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/01/03/twitter-near-70-va...). So WhatsApp is at least 1/3 to 1/2 of Twitter, depending on how you look at it. And we probably can agree Twitter, FB are all about # of users; unlike Google which makes 60B revenue in 2013, Google has a real revenue model + user base. If you sell Google for $100B I won't even complain and I probably think that's a big bargain. (http://qz.com/137191/googles-record-valuation-is-still-130-b...)
I am reading this from the perspective of an early stage startup: Biggest need for a start up is (typically) proving their business model and understanding how far it can go in terms of market size. Speak to that directly. Explain how you can much more quickly validate or invalidate their current approach.

Am not so interested in optimization than having someone that understands my business and can push us to get the right message to the right customer. You recommendation from Steve expresses that well, I'd suggest to emphasize that more in your copy.
Is python.org written in Python? Which frameworks does it use? Where's its source code(Is it open sourced)?
What does a market with competition looks like? 20 cables from 20 different ISPs hanging outside my window? ISP is a utility, like water, electricity, and gas. Maybe once we have good wireless technology it would be different.
Among my circle of friends, that used to be the case, but it's increasingly rare that I find anyone actually signed in to FB chat, so now it's only usable for asynchronous messaging. A bunch of people seem to have moved to either Skype, Hangouts, or iMessage for synchronous chat. I don't have any great insight into which demographics that might be happening in, though.
Show HN: What to use instead of WhatsApp
This is an unsophisticated perspective. Have you seen how fast WhatsApp is growing? They could easily cross 1B users in a year. Daily actives are at 72%. They are insanely engaged.

The move is probably largely anti-competitive, but there are certainly inroads to drive additional facebook engagement, which further boosts revenues. It's expensive, but remember that FB is a 170B company.

Lets just hope that FB doesn't get too invasive with the product.
Just because you haven't seen this many articles about WhatsApp before doesn't mean they haven't been closely inspected before.
The problem is that we haven't adopted the definition of consciousness that's useful long term
yet: that consciousness is best interpreted as a property of reality.

If everything is conscious then some parts of it are just more dynamic (intelligent?) than others. Physical reality least, plants more [1], animals even more and humans most.

Defined like that human consciousness just becomes that part of all consciousness which we recognize as similar to our own.

In that view AI is just making a small part of reality, a computer, more dynamically conscious and, very importantly, more similar to our own so as to be more useful.

[1] http://vimeo.com/69225705
Overall it looks good. I miss that code console isn't actual REPL.
No, they settled out-of-court and shut down after a preliminary injunction by a district court that effectively bankrupted them. There's no precedent there, and no hint of what the result of an appeal would have been.
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You'll get the program instantly, but writing formal specifications isn't trivial, especially when they have to be machine readable. Consider that there are some problems where the complexity of the coding is mirrored exactly in the complexity of the specification (for a simple example, a switch-case statement has as much logic in specification as it does in code).

But I'd also say that most problems people want solving are massively underspecified. For example, what is the formal specification for the problem that your preferred web-browser solves which its competitors do not?
I have nothing to do with this product, I just use it. I've been using it for months and so far I'm impressed. It seems to do things the right way (at least compared to WhatsApp) and I can get non-technical people using it. The FAQ[1] seems to do a bit more than just assert "Military Grade Security". The only downside is that it's not fully open source.

[1] - https://threema.ch/en/faq.html
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Yes, -p is great, also on `git add`.
avgas is more expensive doe
And 1/10th the capacity!
The OPs example only shows that you should never declare two variables on the same line! This is a rule that's as old as programming, even.

int* a;
int b;