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I’d argue on-premise software, as a category, was a bigger bubble than what we have today in tech. It delivered little value to the end-user but the companies that sold them were commanding huge valuations for years because of the huge margins that they were able to charge.

Wow. Well that's a pretty strong claim. I'd really like to see some kind of proof.

Unless I misunderstand you, you are claiming that companies like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP were (are?) overvalued.

You are also claiming that their software delivered little value.

Those are some pretty bold claims, and I don't think you've made the case well enough for them to stand up.

I think that you point about usage being a good indicator of future revenue is somewhat correct, but the really valuable analysis would be to show the types of services where usage is a good indicator of future value and ones where it isn't.

Eg:

Free file sharing? Not a good indicator

Social platform? Good indicator
Absolutely, but it's interesting to see the shift in interest at the top of the mountain, so to speak.

Bush's true accomplishment was destroyal of Iraq for two reasons: most of his buddies are war-enterprise contractors, such as Lockheed, Boeing, Halliburton, etc. So immorally but legally the entire Iraq war regime was a smart transfer of wealth from taxpayers to those few friends of Bushes. Another reason was so that Bush family (and friends) can keep the price of oil here in US at decent levels (to the contrary what public assumed was that US wants to take over Iraq oil fields. No reason to do so -- plenty of oil here inside USA).

Now fast forward to Obama and you can clearly see Obama is not friends with war contractors. His buddies are mostly in healthcare business and it's as big, or even bigger than war, cause you can run war only X amount of years. Healthcare is forever. Hence Obama is mostly interested in deals related to screwing healthcare, and not interested in deploying US military into ongoing wars. Better spend tax payers money for rich friends from Pharma and Co.
You cannot offer unlimited storage when you offer a cloud storage product. Bitcasa found out the hard way and now OneDrive is taking the same lesson, people will abuse it.

I think any company has the right to change their business model and/or product offerings. The one thing I'm a bit confused about is why are they decreasing their free storage tier and taking away the camera roll bonus? To me that just seems like a really bad PR move. In a similar fashion Box did the same type of thing way back in the day and while that was their right I still won't use them to this day.
This is always the issue with mechanisms of control like "trusted computing" and cryptography in general. The question is, "who is in control?"

Cryptography can be used to control you (for example, signed BIOS), or you can use it to be in control (encrypted email). I think that "trusted computing", when properly implemented, could be a powerful tool for users.

In this case, the concept of a "trusted computing base" is different from "Trusted Computing".
What is their job? I thought it was as a search engine. So, let me ask -- when people steal blog content, what are their motives for doing so? Is it to deliver that content to you, the reader? Or is it to get Google hits? How well are they preserving links, illustrations, reader comments (which are a disaster a lot of places but not all of them), an archive of other work by the same author that may be of interest? How often are they slipping undesirable things (ads that lead to sites that offer malware, for instance) alongside the content they're stealing?

If Google wants to be the best search engine possible, returning the original result for an article relevant to the user's query is a better result than returning some second-hand copy littered with low-quality ad junk. And if that's not Google job, then let me know whose job it is and I'll start using them instead.
Honestly, I think build system complexity and breakage, and library/dependency/versioning hell is a much bigger problem than just learning how to use tar.
The number of times I've had autoconf configure scripts whine about not being able to find some library when it is installed for whatever reason...
TLC and the History Channel serve bullshit like Ancient Aliens. Who still watches a 20th century medium like TV? I don't.

On Coursera, colleges showcase some of their most famous professors, they cite sources, offer background material. The courses serve as advertisement for a college, so they would be shooting themselves in the foot if they served rubbish.

What course did you do on Coursera that gave you such a low opinion of it?

I had a formal education, and liked it so little that it turned me off the field. After working in a completely unrelated field for years, I got another formal education to get a degree relevant to my job. A MOOC is not a replacement for a degree, and doesn't compete with you at all. It's a way to check a university out.

Did you know Alberta is a great place to study dinosaurs? Did you know Kopenhagen is a great place to study earth sciences? Thanks to Coursera, you can now find out. Twenty years ago, there was no way for such information to reach me, or for me to act on such information. Or for me to study such a field, because there isn't a career in it outside academics, and we weren't that well off.
I would like to but it depends. I intend to wait a few weeks and see what impact other owners report before I decide. I would be willing to trade some performance or economy for better emissions but if the software/hardware changes turn these cars into either a Geo Metro or an F150 (shitty performance and economy, respectively) I'm going to opt out, then take the car down to the local tune shop and have a stage 1 kit put in.
Wealth is not a fixed sum. When a machine comes along and automates 50% of our labor, we (not we literally, but 'we' as a system) have two choices to make: 1) Accept that our jobs are now 50% easier; or 2) find twice as much work to do. The latter is what seems to happen every time technology automates processes and procedures especially. Take email's replacement of the telephone, for instance. There are only so many calls you can place in a day, and therefore only so much value those calls can generate. But you can send hundreds of emails and accomplish much more work than you could with your phone -- and also generate lots more value. When capitalism is given the option to generate more value, capitalism tends to take that option.

As productivity grows, we choose to reinvest that productivity gain in more work, resulting in more systemic wealth creation. This becomes a sort of treadmill, and damned if I know how we get off of it. When we routinize and automate something, we always seem to find a higher-order task to take on in its place. The result is that our world is wealthier than ever (in the economic sense of the word). The unfortunate side effect is that we seem to be working harder than ever.

Tl;dr: Machines make our jobs easier, so we squeeze more work and more complex tasks into the vacuum created by the automation. This process repeats itself.
Could you share some examples? That has never been the case for me Ruby v. Java.
I find it depressing that after decades of working in the command line, this never occurred to me.
Added it to the list =P
Is it very marginal? Shouldn't it reduce banding by a factor of 4 or so? I notice banding a lot on all sorts of content.
Ayah Bdeir Says 'Hardware Has Its Sh– Figured Out'
Ok, we changed the URL from https://github.com/arximboldi/psychosynth. We also rolled back the clock on the story. (This is the latest in a series of experiments we've been running that attempt to give good submissions a second chance at attention on HN.)
I guess the problem is, there are some technical fields where old means useless. If I'm googling for Javascript libraries, hardware recommendations, or a fix to a package conflict in Ubuntu, I don't want something from 2010.
So WW comes and buys up space in bulk... and manages that space and gets a nice profit.

And they do indeed seem to be making a nice bit of profit.

Don't you think though that real estate moguls are seeing this and getting tempted? I think pretty soon they will learn and decide to "push out this middleman" and take on some of the responsibilities that WW is doing. Or maybe not, because most real estate moguls are too oldschool and will fail to successfully do what WW is doing.
As much as I dislike Apple, I do appreciate when they push things forward. They've done the opposite for laptop design (bad keyboards, hot chassis) but Retina has probably contributed a bit to other OEMs shipping not-totally-crap panels. Maybe this will push that a bit more?

What I'd pay for a X series ThinkPad with a 10-bit "Retina" display...
Only Neoconservatives can invade Iraq?

The democratic party is traditionally better at selling domestic totalitarianism, but what exactly would be the point of letting an opportunity such as 11SEP2001 pass them by? I don't think the democratic sponsorship had a different country lined up to attack, and going after Iraq was already on the agenda, so they would have been beating those exact same war drums. There would probably have been more sustained bombing and less ground forces, but I'd call that a flavor.
He shot straight, got to give him that.
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Thanks for the feedback JusticeJuice! We have definitely focused more on the API side of things more than the website at this stage but lots of website updates are in the works
True, it's just that Gitter is so much better for development. Yet, developers are still pushing Slack.

Anyway, wasn't Gitter open-source in the beginning though [0]?

[0] https://github.com/gitter/gitter
Parts of the US are turning into Third World conditions.

But don't tell the elite that. They're doing fine, and they have numbers that tell them how great everything is. Orwell meets pre-collapse USSR, with homages to a number of empires of yesteryear, overlaid with a Gilded Age veneer.

Something with as much momentum as the United States will not peacefully come to a full stop. It may continue to slide to a slow halt, or explosively disassemble in some fashion.
That's more like it. What a prick.
Ross Perot was right, and he was crucified for it.
I have trouble taking this complaint seriously. If the platform's interface paradigm is such a hinderance just sheild them from it as much as possible by providing pre-configured environments or use a different platform. There is tremendous value in knowing how the command line work, how the systems work and how they are configured whether you are talking about Unix, Windows, AS/400 or whatever. If you skip this, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5400185.
On Picking Partners
I wish more people _would_ talk about IRCCloud in these threads. They don't have many people working on their product, but they give me hope that someone actually can modernize IRC. Their newly redesigned web UI is now snappier than Slack (on Chrome at least), they support emoji, cmd+k, and image/video/pastebin/gist/tweet/etc embedding. Only real downside is that they're currently developing the ability to search your logs. I know some people using it as a bouncer with their own client, but then taking advantage of mobile clients and push notifications.
I think the unlimited storage is very appealing to the consumer. For example, Amazon has S3 priced per GB. For the average user, they do not want to sit down and calculate how much their cloud storage is going to cost them. Instead, knowing that they can just keep uploading and not worry about it is best.

But at the end of the day, there needs to be some limit as you alluded to.
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> That sounds like 'sour grapes'.

Believe me, it isn't. I'm no trader and have no interest in speculation. I'm perfectly happy collecting my dividends (that profit "nonsense", as you put it) while you boys do your thing.

> I won't participate in all that profit nonsense.

Riddle me this, then. A company is founded. Takes a few rounds, goes public. Billions of its shares are traded for years. Then it goes bankrupt, and all those shares are canceled.

Who profited? Trading is a zero-sum game by its nature. The profits, if any, accrued to those who were paid dividends. For every trade, show me a winner and I'll show you a loser.

It's fine to bet on the horses. Good fun, fresh air and a pleasant day at the track. Nothing wrong with it. Maybe you'll even get lucky! But if you want to make the sure money, you're better off owning the track... or the horses.

> The only value you usually get from most shares, is what you sell it for.

This couldn't possibly be more wrong. As I just explained, the true and total value (using your definition of CASH MONEY) of any corporation is the dividends it pays. Otherwise, there's a loser for every winner in the trading game. If you only own shares that don't pay dividends, I can understand how you might fall into this way of thinking, but that doesn't make it right.

This is a product of various cognitive biases, among them the Dunning-Kruger effect, the bandwagon effect, recency, groupthink, survivorship, and many others. It feels good to believe that one is a better-than-average trader, that one has skill in trading and can consistently and reliably make money doing it. Because it's often possible to make money without skill, even for periods of time that are large fractions of a human life, it's easy to draw that conclusion, especially when it seems like everybody is making money trading as is often the case in bull markets. Because one is making money trading (or believes he is; it's easy to overlook the bad trades if you don't keep a good accounting, and even easier to imagine unrealized market price gains as if they were CASH MONEY when in fact they are nothing), it's easy to assume that it's the result of skill. But most traders have zero or negative skill, and like the gambler who always lets it ride, will eventually go broke.

I don't really care whether you trade. I don't really care whether you make money or lose money trading (the odds are not in your favor). I certainly don't care what assets you choose to own. But don't tell me that the income I receive from owning -- not trading -- solid businesses isn't profit, or that your way is better than mine. When people start talking like you, I begin to wonder if we once again have a generation of traders in the markets who have never experienced a crash or a secular bear market. Those unrealized gains can turn into losses and margin calls awful fast when things go to shit. Yet shockingly often, even while prices crater, the dividends keep coming.
The "original" article is here, though in German:
http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/iMacs-lernen-10-Bit-Fa...
it's not like there haven't been warnings about vanity (or 'a proud look' if you will) since bible days.

i like how journalists pretend old problems are new because magical technology is an intermediate facilitator between the user and their vice.
The banding is mostly caused by color compression rather than device support. 99.99% of the content one usually sees is compressed, and many times it's a second compression over something already compressed (I don't know any "uncompressed Youtube" or "raw Instagram").
Lame. I understand killing unlimited. But 15GB to 5GB? That's less than Google, and quite easy to fill with photos. Doesn't Amazon also offer unlimited photo storage as well?

They even admit that the average is around 5GB. So the 15GB to 5GB seems to be aimed at annoying/hurting average users that are close to or a bit over the limit. And 5GB is trivial to fill with even a moderate amount of photo taking.

And the paid plans are getting nerfed. $1.99 used to be 100GB, now it's 50GB, with no way to increase? How does that make sense? Edit: Ah it's to push people to sign up for Office365 which offers 1TB. I bet someone thought this was an oh-so-clever move.

Well, I guess MS Online/Live/whatever has always been a bit of a mess with zero clear direction.
No.

It's not built for you at all.

It's built for torrenters (and usenetters) who download massive collections of files, have them sit on local hard drives, and want easy ways to organize them and play them back. and it does an amazing job of that.
I know ubuntu, osx and windows 7 phone home for certains scenarios. Until you are running some *BSD box, you aren't getting that "zero invasion of privacy", you just think you are.
The S3 price per GB is less of a problem for the people I know than the outbound bandwidth pricing.
Hahaha I actually can't believe this. Microsoft offer unlimited storage when the pitfalls of such a move are well-documented because other companies have tried it many, many times. It fails. Microsoft not only discontinue the unlimited storage, but they also cripple their free offerings as well. What a disaster. I bought an Office 365 License for 4 years predicated on the unlimited storage, I hope I get a full refund.

EDIT: To be honest, if I hadn't spent the last month uploading 800 gigs of photos, I would be happy about this. The OneDrive apps suck, regardless of platform, and routinely report false-positive sync errors. My biggest issue is that (1) it took 2-3 months on a residential internet connection to upload my photos and (2) it consumed almost my entire bandwidth allotment.
No, it's not.

Blizzard has no idea how to make money from mobile. King makes an absolutely ungodly amount of money (especially measuring per user). Blizzard knows it needs to be able to make money from mobile eventually. Hence, a huge price.

Blizzard isn't just buying King for Candy Crush. They're buying King because they know how to make Candy Crush.
I also love Apple, but it's a bit of a stretch to call this "pushing things forward", when 10-bit color has been supported on Windows since Windows 7.
Massive supercomputer simulation models universe from near birth until today
Plex manages videos on your local network drive and streams them to your TV or computers over the network. It can transcode different format of the videos on the fly into the one your player recognizes. It downloads metadata (thumbnails, title, summary, review) for the video automatically. It tracks your viewing of the videos - new, in-progress (remember where in the video), and played. It groups videos in dozens of way as playlists to let you browse them.

I usually just dump the videos into my NAS and points the Plex server to it. The TV player points to the Plex server and streams the videos from there.
A cinema5D reader reported that he got 10 bit on a Mac Pro with D500 graphics and an Eizo CS230 monitor. So it probably depends on your Mac and monitor but you there's a good chance you can get 10 bit output from you MacBook.
Monthly subscription to "stock tips" scream all sorts of shadiness. That and stating that there's the potential to make "103%" return when you're just cherry picking back tested data. There's a lot that could be improved, but if you really think you found a secret algo that works, I'd focus all my energy on gathering the evidence to convince others that it definitively works. From the information on the website, there seems to be no indication of live trading with this strategy. You may want to add details in how you have tested the different ways you can trick yourself, paper testing results, and at some point trying the ultimate test of live trading.

Good luck!
It's for people who DVR shows and collect tons of BluRays and rip them so they don't have to hunt down the disc and wait through "you wouldn't download a car" every time they want to watch a movie.
Don't think so. Simpson's paradox applies when you have two groups and independently rates of your variable are increasing within both, but the population of the lesser group is increasing faster. For example, if death rates for both whites and blacks were decreasing but blacks had a higher death rate, and the population of blacks was increasing, you would see overall death rates increasing. If death rates for both uneducated & college-educated white Americans were increasing but there were an increasing number of college-educated white Americans, you would see death rates decrease.

Neither of those seem to be the case here: it's just one group who, tragically, is killing themselves or self-medicating to death disturbingly frequently.
A downside of a lack of micromanagement (which I think is a positive thing) is that sometimes I wonder if anyone knows how much work or insight goes into what I have accomplished...

Perhaps this is a reverse Dunning–Kruger effect? When each team member has a unique set of skills, how can you evaluate competence in each other, if you are not even able to properly evaluate your own skills until you become an expert?
Good theory but the same cohort in Europe has not seen the same Effect despite even higher secularization
Draw Something didn't make nearly the amount of money that King is making with all of its games at the top of the grossing charts. OMGPOP's aquisition if I remember correctly was more about users directly competing in Zynga's space, and you're right it didn't work out well for them.

Activision/Blizzard doesn't have a huge presence in the casual space. This expands their market and doing so with success. It should at the very least turn out better for them.
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Not really, it's the expected future value of dividends (plus the value in assets of the company and in voting rights, but these are normally much smaller than the value of the future value of dividends). People buy growth company stocks based on the belief that in 10 years, the company will be huge and they'll start paying dividends.

> Also preferred shares issue dividends, right? So all the rest - what is their 'value' by this strange definition?

Common stock can pay dividends as well.

If you still don't believe me, let me ask you - if tomorrow Google announced that they would never ever pay a dividend ever, how much would their stock be worth? Why would anyone buy Google stock in that case?
China to launch four scientific space probes over the next year
Income Inequality: Empirical View
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My only concern here is that 5 GB of storage will not be enough even though I've only been using it for school related documents in the last 4 months. I'm already using ~ 3 GB. I used to hate OneDrive because I couldn't remove from my system completely. I lost the urge to control my Windows environment when I started dual booting Linux, and relegated Windows to making documents for school work. I found that OneDrive actually boosted productivity within Windows. As a poor student who can't add any extra expenses to my budget I will have to transfer back to Google Drive when my 5 GB is up. Is 15 GB really too much for to give for free these days?
This is really nice. It's fast and gives good results (I mainly searched for some cryptography topics that I've been learning about recently), and the faceted search (filtering by publication venue, author, etc.) is very well done.