skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point I'm almost forced to call you intellectually dishonest!

Just finish off that tid-bit of quote you pulled, and you'll find they specify exactly where they come from — a Creator. Whether or not you believe in a Creator might determine whether you reject natural rights, but for those of us that aren't so quick to reject God, then there's a sound basis for believing in them.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
WhatsApp is actually built on XMPP, I believe. I'm not sure how much it's modified it though.
Yes. For the first few years, I was amazed at how far people would travel for it. (They still do, I'm just used to it now.)
Asking as someone who's trying to figure out continuous integration (and loves python): what would you use?
That's one way to look at it. But there are what, 2 million freshmen a year? If we start slotting random freshmen into Mark Zuckerberg's room at Harvard, how many of them would have made it to be a billionaire?

Yes, he got lucky. (Which I already acknowledged.) But successful founders aren't "just lucky".
Even the domain is qntm.
Actually, this is what acquihires are great at. An interesting article recently about eBay's turnaround and how CEO John Donahoe started acquiring startups to drive innovation with talent they can't simply hire or grow internally. http://www.businessinsider.com/explaining-ebays-turnaround-2...

> But beyond the tactics, Donahoe realized there was a deeper issue bedeviling eBay. It had stopped innovating. [...] eBay also had a problem attracting and retaining innovative, entrepreneurial people into its executive ranks ...

> Andreessen’s second theory of innovation is that the people who are the very best at it are the people who create successful technology companies — founders. They are the people who have a proven ability to develop a concept and bring it to fruition.

> For this reason, Andreessen believes that tech companies should be run by their founders.

> The problem for eBay is that its founder, Pierre Omidyar, had no interest in running it. And Donahoe, a talented manager, had the wisdom to know he was not the kind of visionary who could found an innovative tech company.

> So he decided he was going to have to go after the next best thing. He was going to have to build a team of founders, or founder-types, and give them the run of the place.
Perhaps. But the US and China are mostly isotropic* markets, it's easier to control them than all the different European countries.

*for lack of a better word
That's kind of a stretch. Bash is the only lingua franca of devops. Perl might be next, depending on the organization you're involved with. Then Python or Ruby might be next... hard to even figure out how to objectively measure which of the two is more popular in the "devops" space.
They are making decisions in the presence of the knowledge that essentially identical "god" agents will be making decisions based on the same information and the same mental states, and that the "god" agents' decisions will impact their own existence.

If at any time they were to "choose" to shut down the simulation, it can only be because the total state of the world, including their sense-data and internal mental states, cause them to do so. If that's true for them at time T, then by hypothesis it's true for the "god" agents as well.

It may be that, in the sense you have in mind, the protagonists simply do not have choice.
Nah, I didn't announce it publicly, I was pretty ashamed of it at the time. Most people didn't even know I was up for it and I liked it that way. I'd rather surprise my friends with a "So I'm moving to Palo Alto!" message than a "Dang, apparently I'm not good enough." follow up/pity party.
Mother Teresa told Africans condoms were evil. Gandhi was a racist.

"We were then marched off to a prison intended for Kaffirs. We could understand not being classed with whites, but to be placed on the same level as the Natives seemed too much to put up with. Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized -- the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live like animals." - Ghandi

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/the-gandhi-none-o...
Interesting given these statements:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-Google-Smartphone-Ste...

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Elon-Musk-says-Android-apps-c...

I wonder if Musk made these statements to coerce Apple into a better deal?
you are not buying the user, you are buying their attention.
True, but the only thing I've ever heard it praised for is how well it handles multi-person video chats. I've never heard of anyone using it for purely text chats. Maybe that will change, but it's not an SMS replacer yet at any level.
After-hours price changes are pretty much meaningless. After many years of seeing dramatic after-hours changes contradicted when the market opens, I've concluded that generally you should just ignore what happens after hours.
Still not enough to bankroll the Hyperloop.

Right?
I have a question does the cities Google picks have anything to do with their CDN locations?
Rick Reed of WhatsApp: JPGs and 3GPs and AMRs Oh My
WebSID
How Things Change
If you're interested, you should read On Intelligence[1] by Jeff Hawkins (inventor of the Palm Pilot). In it, Hawkins presents a compelling theory of how the human brain works and how we can finally build intelligent machines. In fact, Andrew Ng's Deep Learning research is built on Hawkin's "one algorithm" hypothesis.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507...
I thought Apple's Find my Friends app had a built-in 'fuzz my location by...' setting where you could do 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 etc. miles. I can't find it now though and am possibly therefore misremembering it as something else.

Either way, it's trivial to take a lat and long and randomise a +/- on each value, or alternatively if you want a ciruclar error randomise a magnitude and angle and resolve the shift to lat and long.
Google’s Unusual Offer to WhatsApp
While I won't argue that Fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) is better than Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) it is, at the very least, much cheaper.

The cost per consumer for "last mile" connections can be an order of magnitude more than those used in the core network because of the economies of scale at play. [1]

Most of the UK is currently being set up with FTTC, representing a dramatic increase in the country's average broadband speed over the past few years. [2]
[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/fiber-its-not-all...
[2] http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2013/03/14/average-uk-broadband-sp...
IMO this is much more interesting than a multi-billion dollar exit of a simple chat application
Reminds me of the game Frequon Invaders. (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!i+frequon+invaders)
>There are 100,000,000 neurons in the brain.

You're off by 3 orders of magnitude. Try 200 Billion[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain#Structure
You've kind of illustrated the argument against you - I do know qq and wechat. What's to stop wechat from growing at the expense of WhatsApp?
Ask HN: What are the best tools to implement Pirate Metrics?
My website (and service) is finally built, and I'm readying to let my subscribers know about it.
Before that, I'd like to set up the metrics.

I hear Google Analytics or Totango are good. Is there anything I should be using before launch?
There's little to no evolutionary pressure towards the brain understanding how it functions.
This is called phased array, and it's been around since WWII for radar applications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array

More antennas can enable you to narrow lobes more - you may have not been phasing them properly to get that effect.
I also would not be surprised if Tesla becomes one of the early adopters of the 'iOS in the car' device.

Other than that, Apple and Elon are focussed on very different markets.

If Musk helped shape the executive team, that would be a boon for Apple. They need another muti-faceted genius to run the place and apparently they aren't under every rock.
Think I know what's happening here! My way of preventing too many keystrokes in quick succession is pretty hacky—basically, if you keypress <300ms after your last physical keypress, it doesn't fire an event. More appropriate would be to only suppress the event if it's <300ms after the last keypress that actually fired an event (vs all keypresses). Will fix ... :P

(The game mechanics should be identical to the iOS app though, with the exception of the occasional high-number tiles provided. Also in my todo list to figure out the algorithm the game uses to generate them, haha.)
My mom thinks whatsapp is the internet. That's the only app she knows how to use. I have standing instructions to recharge(pay the monthly internet fee) the "whatsapp" every month.
>"The mere fact that you have been considered for a position might raise your standing with potential employers [citation needed]."

Personally, the weeks following my interviews with one of those big players saw me approached by a couple of established start-ups and a major financial company - far more attention than I'd ever received previously.
I own a metal working company and car parts stores. I jumped from software developing to metal fabrications, I can assure you that being able to administer everything from my own erp at almost no cost is the key of my success.
>though it could also mean a loss of faith in facebook leadership

That's the zinger right there. It could be anything, from "WhatsApp is worthless" to "This tea leaves are turning green, time to dumb Facebook stock"
I don't see why it would; re-computation would be no more meaningfully expensive than a load/store, would it?
No one admires Steve Jobs because he was a domineering unethical asshole. Those qualities are not rare in American business.

People admire Steve Jobs because he repeatedly built and led teams who built and launched products that transformed major industries. The ability to do that is extremely rare and valuable.
How many are already using Facebook? Almost all!
Agreed. It seems like such a small detail, and yet, playing this web version, I realize how much I depend on it!
Firefox CSS-wide Selectors and All Shorthand Syntax
I find that "unless" adds some significant cognitive overhead for me, at least for more complex conditions. So I think this statement was a bad idea.
You dropped a zero.

16B * 10% * .5% = 8 Million
But if everyone above you mimics that action...
I'd be down for that.
Or up...
This Phone Is Great, Till It’s Time to Add Apps
>willing to put their money where their mouth is

Surely not THEIR money. Someone else's money, with a fee for "expenses"
Infinite CPU capability does not automatically imply infinite storage, but it does imply that you can compress any storage to an information-theoretic minimum size, by writing a search for an arbitrary program to generate the same data.

And that's some absurdly good compression, given the universe simulator assumed in the story: anything that will ever occur as a state of the universe can be compressed to a set of space-time coordinates and an extraction algorithm.

With some additional assumptions about the nature of the pseudo-causal loop demonstrated in the story, that compression can also include any arbitrary search parameters you can conceive of, without you having to express them as a program: just search for the data that will be on your hard drive in the future after having executed the search you're currently thinking of.
At first I thought Amazon was going to tackle digital currency or something.

Anyway, this is brilliant. Encourage users to buy a bunch of these coins to get a 10% discount. Then Amazon gets a free loan.
Would you mind going into a little more detail about what each color represents.

Intuitively, the diagram seems to say that behind (in front of?) each blue dot (antenna) the signal is really strong while on the other side it kinda drops down, only to strengthen again when we hit the middle of the triangle. But I really have no idea what's going on...

Thanks.
s/few/many.
Interesting. Makes me wonder how long until we see something like a mix of LightTable and Cloud9 (web-based IDE). Web-based REPLs will be great for collaborative development.
He's not saying you should rely solely on obscurity for security. He's saying that, in addition to other basic security precautions, the use of obscurity is a good idea. The less a potential attacker knows, the better.
They fixed the hidden flag problem by just not sending the character; you used to be able to talk while hidden, and later talking would reveal you, because there wasn't a hidden mob to tie the text to.

If I remember right there were actually two stages of the run hack in UO; in the first it was an advantage when the server itself was laggy and not just the client, later it was only an advantage for working around laggy connections and had severe rubberbanding and desyncing.

And no, this can never be worked around solely on the server without resorting to something like OnLive. Another thing I didn't mention about UOE was it could make it always be daytime--how are you going to work around that on the server?

As for which packet:
http://necrotoolz.sourceforge.net/kairpacketguide/packet78.h...

which links to:
http://necrotoolz.sourceforge.net/kairpacketguide/CS/mobiles...

Which has the status "hidden"
"Woah, Teslas have big ass iPads in their dashboard." http://i.imgur.com/FcJ9hdL.jpg

I said that jokingly when I first saw it, there may be some truth to that now!
What's more interesting IMO is they assumed there the first and only group to ever run that simulation for all of time. Realistically your probably running on someone else simulation which would end up diverging as they pocked at some other part of reality. In other words you may or may not be a top level simulation if changes don't get reflected in your world, but if your not a top level simulation you would want to find out who's simulating you and try simply to find out what changes to expect in your world.

You can then setup several simulations to try and see if your simulating yourself just with odd initial starting conditions. Which get's into orders of infinity and countable numbers as some other groups may have the same idea.
People use it as a cross-plattform SMS replacement where I live, so that number isn’t that surprising to me.
Good question.. I assume its a relatively trivial question for a serious mathematician, but I suspect it's something like: there are classes of problems that, given infinite computation, require infinite storage. In this case it is strongly implied.
fios penetration rate is 35% which is not bad. http://www.lightreading.com/fios-slows-but-still-grows/d/d-i...
Well, it's not about buying Tesla, because that makes basically no sense for Apple. It's not about getting him to work for them because what's the appeal for Musk to take anything short of CEO (and the job is already taken by a fairly capable man).

So, iOS in vehicle; or possibly some kind of partnership related to battery technology (research or production).
450. I can't believe they spent 16 billion dollars for just 450 million active users. That's $35 per user.

32. Well, they can't be acquiring the talent, because no matter how good they are, it's crazy to spend $500,000,000 per employee.

1. Speaks to the potential risk that it'll be to monetize this base and change the business strategy considering it's built on the idea of no ads and a low charge.

0. Fair enough, they created a massively successful product without any marketing. That said, not exactly sure how it translates to future profitability.
Is there some sort of regulation going on there? In a normal market I would expect rent to rise until the wait time was down to something reasonable. You can always find an apartment within a week or so in NYC - its just going to be really expensive. COL here is about double the national average, largely driven by housing costs.
> Rails unarguably attracted a vast number of web designers

Why?

> low-impact way to learn some server-side dev

Ruby is not low-impact. There's this myth that Ruby is lightweight, easy to read, and simple to get into. I seriously question if any of the people who perpetuate this myth have ever actually attempted to program Ruby.

Ruby source code is incredibly ugly and difficult to read. There is so much "magic" going on that it is difficult to begin to even understand what the code is supposed to do [1].

Ruby's syntax is incredibly aggravating. I've found it damn near impossible to understand even trivial programs without consulting the manual every three or four tokens. Worse, the language is ambiguous: is that colon a symbol, or a dictionary mapping, or a ternary operator?

And this is leaving out that Ruby == Rails to a huge extent, so much of the documentation and examples that are out there are burdened by the further complexity of a large web application framework.

I've found Ruby so obtuse and unnatural that every time I've tried to learn it, I've quickly become so aggravated at the language's awful syntax and strange abstractions that I simply give up. If Ruby's warts are bad enough to make someone with my programming-heavy background desert it before making much headway, why did "Rails unarguably attract...a vast number of web designers"?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872899
And it's much clearer on what it actually does.
I do this for a living. You are correct. The way I work is a fixed fee in advanced based on rough estimates of the final value of the domain. Consequently I get paid the same but I'm incentivized to purchase as cheaply as possible in order to get referral business (but not at the expense of making money).
Facebook just purchased 400,000,000 phone numbers.
We know a ton about the brain but so little about the mind itself. We still don't have definitive answers to what consciousness is, why it's here, what's useful for, etc. Some people debate whether the mind exists at all. Also, there's still very little understanding of the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind.

I think building an artificial consciousness is going too far. Artificial intelligence is simpler; it's just fake intelligence. Seems easy enough right? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's intelligent. We don't need to make it "conscious" necessarily, again whatever that means, in order for it be intelligent.

I feel like we can build artificially intelligent software pretty "easily" relative to making it "conscious".
I now feel like a jack ass for working at a MegaCorp. To be working like a donkey under a glorified email router paid 3x more than me for doing toothbrush factory era supervisors role.

And yes I do agree with you. I recently rejected a offer from a start up for offering 50% below market rate.

Seems like I made a smart decision.
ICQ is still around.

http://www.icq.com/en
Why on Earth are people compelled to continually repost this?
Given how much GM is pushing Siri Eyes Free Integration, I would imagine it would not be profitable to buy Tesla. Probably, as you said, iOS in vehicle or iOS integration.
(I do this and work buying domains for people.)

There is a problem with that.

That system only works in the case of names that you don't care if you get or not. In the case of a domain that you really need (and most buyers that I've dealt with really want the name or names they have decided on) you run the risk of pissing off the seller and having him play all sorts of games that can result in paying more or deciding to not sell at all. The broker stands less to lose than the buyer does. They only lose their commission but a deal screwed up means you don't get your domain name.

But most importantly an incentive like that assumes that every seller is the same and can be manipulated with effort. I can assure you that is not the case.
I suppose one way around this would be the NSF to require any grant awardees to deposit their structures in a publicly accessible database...But, I'm a bit surprised--is there nothing like arxiv.org for chemistry? Why not?
Agreed, pretty much anyone in the United States above the poverty level seems willing to spend $20 a month for unlimited texting.

I'm way above that, yet I opted for the pay per text plan and paid 20 cents per text. All my friends made fun of me, but I saved a few dollars since iMessage didn't count toward my costs. However, it effected how people without iPhones would naturally choose to interact with me.

Basically, everyone loves iMessage, but no one thinks twice about alternatives. The general assumption seems to be that it's a god given right that you can send a text to a phone number. iMessage did such wonders obscuring that, whereas having to actually download some other app unveils everything.
And then, some sessions were difficult to get in to.
The language choice as such does not matter much, but there are different libraries available for both languages. So you should choose the language that best suits your needs. E.g. statistic/scientific stuff: Python. Web: Ruby. (My personal preference is Python.)
This isn't all that unusual. Most people realize that hiring processes are really random. In some ways just hiring anyone who applies, firing them after 90 days if they don't work out, and keeping track of who has been through once is probably a better system overall.

The recent work on how SAT scores don't predict college success is similar. There is a huge amount of influence around 'fit' and environment. Some people just "click" and some people don't. Genius rock star programmers that don't click are poor employees, and some times former washouts that do click are your key hires. Hard to predict.
What an amazingly awful website.
I don't want to watch a 10 minute video. What did he say exactly?

Edit: The title of this story was originally something like "Musk confirms talks with Apple".
Were you there when Ballmer promised every employee would get a new windows 8 machine? I am still shocked at how they could mismanage that so badly - almost everyone I know was angrier about their equipment after that effort than before.
Go halves?
I guess in practice I don't disagree with you, if your definition of government is "anything that can fully oppress you". Sure, our government is an organization that has the ability to take away our self-claimed rights. The whole point that our founding fathers set out to achieve was to give government so little power, and to check the power it did get, so as to allow people to live free of government coercion. But no, people decided along the way that we needed to make government bigger, and here we are.

I have yet to understand where you're going with this. If companies inevitably become so powerful that they become governments, then letting the sitting government regulate them is inconsequential; takeover is inevitable! Let's just all eat worms and die!

No. I think the original thinking during the age of reason makes more sense to me. I think that the people truly hold the power, and as long as we don't give up our inalienable rights to governments (in whatever form they exist), and be sure to always question and hold suspect the people we put into the collective positions of power, then we'll be ok.

Don't forget that the limited liability that we give corporations is a government-granted right. That's one of the major reasons we have issues with large companies.

(I'm not going to get into a debate about Coolidge. I think he was a great President, truly the last of his kind — though even he had his moments of growing government.)
Sun Tzu