skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I turn to the great philosophers of the early 90's when struggling with these sort of existential questions:

Life's a bitch and then you die
That's why we get high
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
Life's a bitch and then you die
That's why we puff lye
Cause you never know when you're gonna go

http://rapgenius.com/Nas-lifes-a-bitch-lyrics
Interestingly my girlfriend has been using What's App to communicate with her family in Venezuela cheaply throughout the last week since they've been unable to get any news. It's really sad to see the government act this way and hopefully the realize that they're causing a lot of unrest in their citizens. It's always inspiring to see citizens standing up to the government in all these other countries. you see some protests in the States but it never feels near the scale.
- "big games by giants" - it was clearly stated by both sides that Ukraine is strategical point for geopolitics for west and east (you can easily found sources, Brzezinski as example), so no conspiracy here

- "It's not Nazis there" - it again easily verifiable that there are Nazis (just first West media from google [1]), you are trying to ignore the obvious here

- "Russian medias are not biased, they are writing complete shit" - I'm not familiar with all russian medias, only with some online news, and for them I can clearly state that they are writing not more shit that popular West media

1. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/22/ukraine...
I tell you one thing, if I was in control of MtGox I would be buying all these bitcoin's up and making a huge profit when I indeed did fix my problems.

That mtgox is not in fact doing this (through a buyback program or proxies) tells you a lot about their confidence in their eventual recovery. If they were confident in recovery they could backstop prices and make a killing later by selling.
You'd think that after 10 or so such major protests in the past few years, the dictators would learn not to repeat the same mistakes everyone else did before them. Someone should write a "10 commandments" of sort for how dictators should react in case of major protest.

Maybe do what American presidents do: promise major changes and tell them everything they want to hear, and then do cosmetic changes at best over a long period of time, until people forget about it. That strategy seems to work pretty well in US, and it seems to pacify almost everyone.

It should certainly be much better than doing drastic stuff like shooting at protesters and cutting off their communications "to make them stop". That always makes the situation worse and forces the protest to escalate and even become violent.
I was with the only camera crew ever to film in WhatsApp offices
Of course people use hangouts for purely text chat -- it's Google Talk!
You can mute them though.
Be clear first and clever second
The EU is a $16.5T economy, most of it on the internet, vastly underserved by internet companies compared to the U.S. Even Facebook was English only until 2008. Big business opportunities are being missed there.
i m using lenovo a 269i android 2.3.6 .it does do lot of thing for 50 phone.i no need high end graphic card.it just a phone which i can call. whatsapp and gps.enough for me.
A PPL does allow for "cost sharing" for flights under Part 91.

It's a very grey area around ride-sharing boards, but as a pilot I wouldn't touch a ride-sharing board because of exactly what you say, that the FAA would likely look at that as a Part 135 (charter) operation, my insurance may not be valid, my certificate would be at risk, etc. all for a few hundred bucks in shared costs. No thanks.

It's perfectly legal for me to fly 3 buddies down to Atlantic City and have each of us pay 25% of the direct cost for the flight. Let's say that was $100pp. Perfectly legal by FAR 61.113(c). http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div8&view=te...

IMO, it's not OK for me to post on a ride board: "Fly to AC this weekend with me. $100 per person."

It's a grey area, I admit, but I wouldn't touch it, and I would recommend against someone building a startup to do just that without qualified legal counsel first. (and if they say "it's ok!", I'm not sure they're qualified... ;) )
> It's not Nazis there...

How do you call Pravij Sektor then? UNA-UNSO? White Hammer?
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not true. ANNs were one of the first general purpose functions. Once people got their heads round ANNs properly they got generalised to kernel methods. So now modern machine learning often don't look like neural nets anymore, but the lineage from back propagation is obvious.

Deep belief nets have made things that look like neural nets popular again, but things like sparse ICA stacks is suggestive of another wave of theory led morphing back to non-neural architecture. But the point is that the theory followed after the invention of neural architectures both times. So the root is the ANN, and thus I think it is a really important algorithm in history. It was a bio inspired innovation too which is interesting.
But a very brand saturated market with cost of distribution/marketing considerably more expensive than RoW
Interesting - that's 100ms faster than the test sites I was using.

Do you know what language he used to implement the base setup? I had a suspicion that implementing in Go might end up being faster than Python.
I remember an interview in the early stages of the protest where the demonstrators were so proud of their non-violent and peacefully organized demonstration, showing how elderly people helped with logistics etc. How do they feel now?
How is Whatsapp even remotely the same thing as Facebook? Were SMS ever considered to be a rival to Facebook?
I say Illuminati are recruting you.
Bring the gold monkey to the outer tunnels and wait for the mailman to give you a red carnation. indicating you passed the test.
Are you sure?

From yesterday's news:

According to [Ukrainian Security Service head] Yakimenko, “over the last day more than 1,500 firearms and 100,000 rounds of ammunition have come into the hands of criminals.”

...

Meanwhile in Ivano-Frankovsk, rioters have seized 268 pistols, 2 rifles, 3 light machine guns, 92 grenades and 15,000 ammunition rounds, the deputy head of the Security Service, Vladimir Porodko, has said, adding that the police are searching for the stolen arms.
Visa hassle and trip cost could be off putting considering you could watch all the videos at home.
General AI is not only possible, if you are to believe a TED talk it's already a solved problem. We already know how to make programs that determine their own goals and how to accomplish them. If it's true, http://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equation_f... is the greatest discovery in human history :)
Your path to happiness? Don't be so obsessed with money. Build something that's fun, and meaningful, that makes you, and others happy.
Instagram. Since the purchase, photos are much more prevalent in the main Facebook offering, and there isn't anyone else building a photo site to compete.
Not true how? I agree it's somewhat risky -- running untrusted code on the CPU is dangerous too and there have been bugs in sandboxing of JS/java/flash. Specs and implementations get tightened up, life goes on until the next bug.
Oh that is so neat how you bundle the whole thing up and then extract which one was hit! Bravo at exploiting the significant regex compiling technology to the max. That's one trick that I will remember.
DuckDuckGo link that redirects to Google. What's the point?
Codswallop! I'm in the UK and I use WhatsApp a lot. Though I do know many (mainly iPhone users with their iMessages) people that haven't heard of it, for us Android people it is an excellent tool for group chat & image sharing.
I don't think this link goes where you think it goes.
Ukraine-[video] People outside barracks in Maidan shot at by riot police
You're not taking into account the vastly simpler design of an electric aircraft. An electrically propelled aircraft will have maintenance requirements similar to a glider. Fewer engine overhauls and much simpler procedures means significantly reduced cost.
Truly impressive scaling and efficiency. This presentation is two years old. I'd love to hear how far they've come since. My limited experience dealing with many many orders of magnitude fewer users has found the same thing this presentation stresses, though: today's hardware is outrageously fast and powerful. The slowdowns are all contention contention contention.
Yes, Nazis are present there, sorry, you catched me on my words. What I was trying to say is that it's bullshit to say "west is using Nazis" (not sure what exactly is meant by "liberal west"). People who fight are not all nazis, not only nazis rebelled and bringing up nazis is irrelevant from my point of view.
>It would be pretty embarrassing if tech industry people were to spend millions on, say a lavish, LotR-themed wedding.

Not the same as celebrating having people lose their jobs and becoming homeless.
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I used to fly flight sim games. Takeoff is simple:

* FULL THROTTLE
* AFTER BURNER ON
* PULL BACK ON STICK
* AAAAAAaaaAAAaa
I'm in the UK and I'd never heard of WhatsApp until now. I wonder if a lot of these people who say 'X app is big in my country' actually just mean 'X app is popular within my social circle'.
Are regular expressions are good choice for routing? A trie seems like a better choice than a sequence of regexps. O(n) vs O(log n).
Yes and I would also add that using the phone number / imei as account identifier helped them a lot to convince everybody and their mother to use the service. Personally I'm not a friend of WhatsApp, but the reason even older, far from tech-savvy people are using it is the ease of access - you don't need anyones username or email - just install the app and your existing contacts show up. I've seen people who couldn't remember their own email using the app within seconds on a feature phone. Try that with Facebook.
This sounds like the correct, and simple, way to do it.
the crypto kinda is [1]. here's a post for some other information regarding threema [2]. you can always use chatsecure though [3], think adium/pidgin with otr for your mobile.

personally i'm not sure how secure any of that is, because if you consider how predictions on mobile keyboards work it's clear that they log your input. we just haven't seen them sending it back "yet"

also unrelated, but seems like cyanogenmod is adding textsecure to the base system. [4][5]

[1]: https://threema.ch/validation/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7253730

[3]: https://chatsecure.org/about/

[4]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...

[5] http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/whisperpush-secure-messaging...
"There is a feedback loop going on. Each universe affects the next one subtly differently. But somewhere down the line the whole thing simply has to approach a point of stability"

Why would each universe affect the next one (subtly) differently?
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And additionally, when you hear from your dictator something you've heard like ten times from other dictators in the last ten years - you become like really enraged. Don't you.

"What it claims as being foreign interference online", I'm speaking to you.
Most likely because it is showing on the news everywhere?
I saw this post yesterday

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=180977

It shows how leaders of opposition are using images from protests from Egypt, Bulgaria and other places as if they were from Venezuela
If you're suggesting that removing the sales staff, mechanic shop, and loud promotions from car dealerships would cut costs, I agree.

Perhaps we agree on all counts. I do not understand how a dealership and a local warehouse differ in a conversation about how to distribute auto inventory for sale.
that's a great one. going to have to use that one.
Well, these kind of problems have their own way of being solved. Look at uber.com - you would take your "buddy friend" you just get acquainted with over the Internet!
The laws are actually quite uniform, it's actually easy to release an app in multiple languages using one company in the UK, for example.

The hard part is getting partners or marketers everywhere, making sure they understand what you're trying to accomplish, making sure they don't rip you off and start their own clone with all your users and somehow providing support for all those people speaking different languages.

And of course, then there's the payments - receiving/sending payments is very hard, every country has their own preferred method that does not integrate with others at all.
Why I user Vim
I think so, but having a little more RAM can't hurt. I can't even load up 2 HN pages at the same time.
Visual BASIC.net on the upswing with developers
In a word: Convenience.
WhatsApp has a total overhead of about one minute per year.
Registration requires you to enter your phone number. Once. Afterwards you don't have to worry about anything ever again. Maintaining your contact list is a sunk cost, since it runs off phone numbers. It just works.
How to fix BBM for Android and iPhone Contact display picture problems
They could still be proud. They are not the ones that started the violence. If someone attacks you, multiple times, with disproportionate force, and you somehow manage to survive and fight back, you can still be proud that you wanted peace and not violence.

According to your comment I guess you would like them to be ashamed that they were forced to defend and retreat instead of fighting back?
It's funny that people are coming up with these libraries while comparing performance to the Symfony routing component, yet Symfony does exactly what you describe (dumping the routes to more or less a trie structure) if you activate caching, which is done in the standard framework distribution.

Not that I'm slagging off their efforts, in fact I plan to use FastRoute in one of my projects.
Are you really quoting the a source that's obviously biased?
Tired of elaborating tbh. I think I'll do another Ukraine AMA on reddit soon.
Facebook acquiring Whatsapp raises privacy concerns
It's hard to believe Facebook can't find Erlang engineers. May be their interview process got in the way. If you use standard algorithm/datastructures interview questions to hire Erlang devs you will have a hard time. All normal data structures in Erlang are immutable and algorithm complexity is a controversial topic there. Using Mnesia/ETS is a bit of a taboo for interviews (like using SQL on your coding task in a C/Java interview). Many Erlang devs would dismiss such questions as irrelevant and try to move on asap which is a big no-no in interviewing.
How long will it be until they have to purchase Whosdown for the same reason? How much time did they buy?
That's a great answer to a retarded question.
Facebook locked my account. No end in sight?
After flying into a new city then entering my password wrong a few times, without warning, Facebook locked my account. Sighting security precautions, I am unable to gain access until I've undergone a "Security Check".

I submitted my Drivers License and Passport photos and have not heard anything for over 3 days.

I manage multiple Facebook Pages which no one can post to now, since I'm the only admin.
I'm also running multiple Facebook Ad campaigns. Our CPA is good, so these ads are important, now I'm not even sure if they're running or if I'm still being charged, or if this is harming the company in any way!?

On top of all this I use Facebook Connect with many services, all of which I cannot log into. Including a few PAID services. I can't even use Spotify!

I would like to hear if anyone else has been through this experience. What happens next? How long will I be left waiting? What happens if I never hear back? Is there an end in sight?
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>"Buddhist" countries having castes is not the same as Buddhism being a caste religion. Buddhism is not a caste religion. //

The practical effect is largely the same though surely. Like a majority Christian country having racism.

How does a caste system survive in a country where the majority of adults oppose it?

I suspect the answer is "it doesn't". People who label themselves proponents of a particular religion often don't follow it's precepts, traditions or philosophies.
> Too high of a risk for companies.

Yeah and this is why Valve is a struggling company. Hiring really smart people and letting them make whatever products they want is doomed to failure.

Oh wait...
http://jetsuite.com/suitedeal

They hire out the return legs for trips which are empty

edit: The prices quoted are for the whole plane, all 4 seats so usually about 150$ each
Studying TCP in the wild
Love how the article repeats how much the founders hate advertising yet their new owners are purely in the advertising market. I guess when someone backs up a truck load of cash your principles go flying out the window. How long until daddy Facebook starts asking for WhatsApp for more revenue via ... ads? I guess that would be around the time the founders cash out and start looking at their next startup.
They pinky sweared, of course!

/s
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Well, I guess the issue is that I didn't think that was the conversation we were having. cinskiy asked why would one need a dealership, when one can order directly from the manufacturer - this doesn't imply anything about the distribution of inventory, just how the sales process works.
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And what you are implying is "so let's just close internets"?
More like a sports car that takes ultra premium as the plane can't carry a lot of people, can't tow anything and generally can't fly in bad weather.
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Yup :-) The repl will be going live later on today.
What are you trying to say? You can check more than one...

i) Maduro's government is right and the opposition wrong?

ii) The opposition is [even partially] right but they are using the wrong methods?

iii) Maduro's government is not using propaganda as a way to gain the favor of the people?

iv) Other. Please elaborate.
Welcome!

When might we be so lucky as to see an Android or Linux version? or better yet, a platform agnostic web based app?
We're using PythonAnywhere :-)
One of the key reasons whatsApp was successful was the simplicity for the user to start communicating - No registration or username creation hence allowing users not to care about remembering passwords. Another important feature was that the user did not have to search for their friends in family if they were on whatsapp and then add them or send request etc. They used the phone number and users phone book. If you have a friend uses whatsapp it will automatically show you.

WhatsApps is easy, simple, quick and beautiful! so the path to $16B exit is not a J2ME app but an idea to get users start communicating with minimum amount of effort and time.
I think it's because some workplaces have policies about not committing partially done code. ie. Don't break the build.

Personally, if I'm on a local branch I don't care, but I guess it might bother some people.
Experiment.com is not even on the first page of Google results when I search for "experiment". This can't be good for their traffic.
Then tear up the pre-nup and sign a new contract.
Why? With (or even without) Google pushing cheap Android phones it makes no sense at all to write for blackberry or symbian. Decent blackberry phones are more expensive than decent Android phones. Windows 8 phones are also quite affordable.
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As for the Nazi being among the people, I see it like this: the enemy of your enemy is your friend. So it is natural to join forces for a shared goal. The people won't let Nazi take power.

And Ukraine is not a battlefield created by super-powers. Super powers only aligned with the sides after it erupted. And people don't give a shit about them anyway. It's the same argument as blaming Ukrainian opposition - protesters don't give a shit about opposition, opposition only uses protests to sneak their way into power.

People are just fed with corruption and criminals in power, all the political fighting is secondary here, despite Russian propaganda efforts to paint it otherwise.
Wow. I just read that link. That's.... amazing. I've always thought ruby looked inscrutable, but I figured it was just that I hadn't taken the time to bone up on the syntax.... but no, it really is amazingly bad. Thank you for preventing future me from wasting time trying to learn it.
I was just thinking that the one thing missing from the frontpage was a blog post about gender and diversity in tech. Because that's one topic that just can't be discussed to death.
You want a video format for web video. You want a lossless format for web animation, which is what GIFs should be used for in the first place, not for lossily converted videos.
It was no peaceful protest since main state square's squatting. Illegal squatting of public properties is prohibited in US/EU, in UA too, I guess.
I wish there was a better way to reference the stashes than "stash@{0}".
> In Africa, they even have a song about it

They also have a song about it in Germany.
It's called "Whatsapper":
http://youtu.be/Rxb2A4uASqc
>Messaging is a more important part of Facebook than I think much of HN realizes.

Yeah, looking at this site's user base, a bunch of late 20s-30s tech people, they may be the place to see what some of the next big things may be, but they are not always the place to look for what is the thing right now.
We already have reason to use space. The big problem is that it's prohibitively expensive to get there. A space elevator solves that problem. Of course the elevator itself is prohibitively expensive too, but if it's possible at all, those costs will eventually be recouped.
It's a crazy amount to pay, but in mobile software only 2 things really matter - Photos and Messaging. These are the only 2 things that are universal to every single person on this planet who owns a mobile device and if you want to be #1 overall in the mobile space, you need to win in these 2 things.

If this guarantees FB winning the messaging war, then it's worth it. I still think that Facebook needs to buy SnapChat, Line and WeChat to close the deal and fulfill their dream of connecting the world.
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ETS/DETS are mutable hashtables FYI.
Baltic Aviation Academy has a lot of rather good and sometimes amusing videos on YouTube, including this one where they simulate talking a flight attendant through landing an Airbus A320:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkOT3fbc1O4

Obviously it's a bit unrealistic, but still pretty neat.
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What's that latest tweet of him? Probably a misspelling ;)