skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this share included international sales? If so it could have something to do with Amazon growing in India where it has to route all sales through a third party.

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/RjEDJkA3QyBSTsMDdaXbCN/Ama...
There was that time Apple bought 1.25 billion dollars worth of flash [1]. And it's later made similar payments for similar things [2,3]. 220 billion in the bank is pretty excessive, but 1.5 billion is way too low for the sorts of things they want to do.

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/05/11/21/apple_to_prepay_12...
[2] http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/21/apple_prepays_for_...
[3] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/12/apple-lays-down-half-a-...
I like how you got down voted for reporting your first hand knowledge.

I used to deal with a guy in the oil business. Reselling valves pumps and misc plumbing. Nothing in that business is cheap. Just remembered, Shell? did a drilling project few years ago in northern Canada. Spent $2 billion to drill deep wells into what looked like a large reservoir of oil and it was dry. And that wasn't $2 billion in paper funny money, that was $2 billion spent on stuff.
I'm afraid you have some basic confusion with mathematical concepts, including "mapping", "irrational", "complex", and "infinity".

So, after you define x+1 and x+i, now what? Also please bear in mind that "infinity" is neither real nor complex: if you have a well-defined mapping into complex numbers, then by definition, it never maps to infinity.

(Yes, there are some "functions" like y = 1/x that "maps to infinity", but it's simply mathematicians being lazy and abusing notations because everybody around them understands what's going on.)
"Just?" He finished his position in February. It almost feels like he sees stock pressure and is piling on to get back in at a lower price.
A slight detour, but this always bugged me when Lois was falling to her death and Superman would catch her an inch off the ground.

Well done, Superman, you just broke your girlfriend into three pieces with your arms.
Presumably it would be an ownership group like e.g. Tim Cook + some other people borrowing the money, and/or they'd partner with a P/E firm. Isn't that what Dell did a couple of years ago?
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>And in the end, all currencies are tokens of account. Meaning that they exist in the end to make sure nobody double spends. But to be effective in doing so, the token material must the worth less then the face value. If not, people will have an incentive to hoard. And that will drive an economy into the ground.

Lots of goods tend to increase in value over time. Land, gold, stocks, etc. How is bitcoin any different? If people want to hoard, nothing is stopping them. They will just hoard, nothing has ever been stopping them.

And hoarding isn't a bad thing. If you aren't spending your money, then you aren't taking resources out of the economy. That means more resources for everyone else. Spending money, consumption, is what should be discouraged.
This makes me nervous about Google's long-term prospects. There just aren't any new ideas here. Pichai has been very focused on mobile, and that's not a bad idea exactly, but it's just riding a wave created by Apple almost ten years ago. He's now starting to talk about virtual assistants, but that was kicked off by Siri's launch, almost five years ago. To have long-term success, Google will need to develop genuinely new ideas, ones that not everybody has already heard about. You can't be the biggest player in technology if you never take any risks.

(disclaimer: former Google employee here)
So since this app is obviously less feature filled than the apps that it intends to replace (thinking alien blue)... what are people using as their new reddit app?

I've been trying to adjust to Narwhal, but its not quite sticking with me for some reason. Suggestions?
Take the set of positive integers (0, 1, 2…). Double them, so you have (0, 2, 4…). You had an infinite list of numbers, all "compact" (no room for more positive integers inbetween them), and with a simple mathematical transform, you've given yourself space for a second equally-sized infinity of integers to fit neatly inside of them.
I suspect that we would see a decline in the number of children born rather than an increase. If you could put off indefinitely having children many would do so until they died of some non-ageing related cause.
I meant Tesla's 1.5B is appropriate for their scale. Apple would obviously need more but not 250 Billion.
What about headlight fluid? I don't see a schedule for that.
It's "papers" money. It's not cash until cashed out.
That makes no sense. Apple management is going to buy out stockholders with their own money?

When you take a company private you have to bring in money from the outside, either using investor groups or borrowing.
He estimates f_l, the probability of life arising in a habitable planet, as 0.1.

Abiogenesis has never been observed to occur independently of its presumed occurrence when life started on Earth.

Given the current state of scientific knowledge on this topic, the only certain lower bound on this number is the probability of molecules in a suitable "organic soup" arranging themselves into a self-contained bacterium. And that probability is a _very_ small number.

If f_l is _very_ small, then there is no need to be pessimistic about our own long-term survival. We see no advanced alien civilisations, because there is no other life out there of any kind - the rest of the observable universe is sterile.
stock markets are mostly mind games. cue warren buffett's fear-greedy quote.
So good to see RMS being recognized for his work. A lot of my interest in computers is due to being inspired by RMS. stallman.org is a good resource for anyone wanting to learn more. Stallman's commentary on politics is also second to none.

_Revolution OS_ is a really good documentary that goes over the genesis of FSF and how Stallman played an in important role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8K460vx1c
so... the current engineers are producing at lower and lower quality, so your solution is to "invest in more engineers"... and who will train them? what will they do? more of what the old engineers did to tank quality?

they should invest in far less engineers. they only need 1. he's dead.

#SELL
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I think curious the headline reads like he just dumped his 53 million shares overnight. It's not like the company is dead, he just doesn't see growth.
Office 365 relies on Azure as well (unclear how much of it, though)
IMO it has nothing on Alien Blue and they've now pulled Alien Blue from the app store, it's quite sad really.

It feels like going from a well designed, highly configurable application that really took UX into account to an app that feels like a web frame and wants you to use the website instead.
This is really interesting. I'm particularly struck by this item: "order in a way that takes urgency, importance and deadlines into account"

Do you envisage being able to configure this ordering (for example by weighting the various factors)?
Charlie Stross submitted[0] a link to a post on his blog[1] touching on this last month.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11373605

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/follow-t...
Despite their current dominance, Apple knows that downward swings of fate come fast and hard in the tech industry. Consider that 10 years ago, the biggest names in mobile were Palm, Nokia and Blackberry, and now they're either gone or hollow shells. You can think farther back and find plenty more examples of unassailable kings who went bust in a hurry. Then compare that to e.g. Microsoft, who at one point looked doomed but managed to get relevant again by using their huge cash pile to break into a capital-intensive business, which they wouldn't've been able to do without it.

I imagine in this sector more than most there's a strong temptation to amass a huge safety net so you can ride out getting "disrupted". As a leftist Keynesian I don't particularly like it-- seeing all that money sitting there doing nothing drives me crazy-- but I understand the motivation.
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you'll be able to read all about the numerous off shore companies they use in the next panama papers release.
Despite teenagers having mobile unrestricted access to all sorts of supposedly corrupting media available to them at all times, they still make rational decisions regarding their bodies. This is very encouraging to all those that value freedom.
What does his life expectancy have to do with anything? You think he's still gonna be CEO in his 70s?
The cardinality of the set of prime numbers and of rationals are both aleph-null[1]. Same with the list of all integers, the list of all positive integers, and the list of all even integers. They all have the same cardinality, and that cardinality is aleph-null.

But please, continue to argue with mathematical definitions that have been established for over a century.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number#Aleph-naught
Why do you save money?
There's not much you can do today about future alien invasions. You can however freeze today.
Unlikely. You weigh a kilogram more after the reception, in a month you'll be 30kg overweight so you have to take that into account (unless you set your survey period to end mid-reception when you're at your funniest after a few beers, so your d(sense-of-humour)/d(weight) remains above 1. ;)
I'm sticking with Alien Blue at the moment, as I mentioned in another comment the new app doesn't even come close IMO and I'm sure they'll give the old line of 'we're working hard to improve it every day, adding new features etc... etc...' - but Alien Blue wasn't broken - it has been one of the best designed apps on my phones over the years. Why replace something people rated so highly with something half assed and piecemeal?
That's far more cash than they could possibly need.
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Not really, you get a warning that said module might not support this 'release candidate' of a major breaking version.
Exactly, people seem to forget how many oil sources are out there which become profitable at about $100 a barrel.
It's going to end up as one of the following IMO:

A) Trying to promote it despite from what I've seen most people being quite upset as they felt Alien Blue was so much better and brushing over those comments while pushing their 'vision' hard.

B) An apology for the new app in comparison to Alien Blue - 'We hear your feedback and are working round the clock...'
Googling for the title works for me.
>What does that kind of hardware for CV primitives have to do with deep learning?

They have hardware convolutions on 12 SHAVE cores (kind of a DSP core). It means that the chip can run some useful subset of convolutional neural networks very fast and energy efficient.

They also have 2 general purpose SPARC cores, which allows you to have a "normal" program running there. Not sure, how locked the USB stick going to be, and if running your custom program would be an option.

>How do I connect my camera?
The chip itself has a couple of MIPI lanes. The USB stick likely does not expose that. And I agree, that's suboptimal.
There was a site that only listed no-IAP games for a while, but I think they "pivoted" into something less useful. http://www.slant.co/topics/1194/~android-games-without-in-ap... / http://www.slant.co/topics/3480/~ios-games-without-in-app-pu... is what's left.
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this is sad. I use delicious a lot and this was the last straw and finally pushed me to pay for pinboard. I just hope they come back up so i can export my links.
Does anyone have contact information for chroem-, who submitted the application for Mechanical Mind? It's too late to comment on the listing, and there's no contact info on his profile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442038
I don't really understand our what your issue with ocamllex/ocamlyacc is. Clearly you don't need them if you are willing to write your lexer/parser yourself. Also the same tools exist (and originate) in Unix/C land with (f)lex and yacc (a.k.a bison)
The HP has 1.5GHz Intel Core M, 4GB RAM and a 1080p display for $550.

vs $299 for an Acer w/1.6GHz Intel Celeron, 1080p IPS display, 4GB RAM.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CVOLVPA

Either way, it's good to see more affordable FHD chromebooks.
That episode gets me every time, and I've probably seen it more than 5 times. It makes me feel empathy for cryosleepers that don't even exist yet haha
so i guess my super super slow free-shipping orders (non-prime) from amzn as a result of their curbing capex?
It has nothing to do with garbage collection. I could've used GHC Haskell with sufficient extensions (MultiParamTypeClasses, FlexibleInstances, perhaps UndecidableInstances too) enabled as an example, instead of C++.

The point is that C++ has a much richer type structure on which you can dispatch.
I totally agree with you in the ideal case. Problem is in some ways, AWS is too awesome due to all the add-on services.

Systems are more than just compute, and the last 3 companies I've worked for have become increasingly coupled to AWS over time due to use of the add-on services.

You build your system and over time you need message queuing, ability to send emails, databases, load balancing...

You can run / build these yourself but do you want to use up your team's bandwidth setting up say, postgresql replication ... or just use RDS?

If you use third-party (e.g. out of AWS) services, you lose the ability to do security with say, instance roles and in larger orgs you lose time to the "new vendor due diligence" process and getting the business to sign off on new support contracts etc. Maybe you also need some new automation tooling.

Because all that business-ey stuff is already in place with AWS and administering say, event queues, is sure not core business, most project teams will SaaS that capability if they can. Whatever service is already in AWS ends up being the no-brainer answer.

So hard to avoid architectural coupling. Then you look at the devops scripts and realise all the usage accounting, security configuration, deployment scripts and so on would need to be rewritten, and you have to go through compliance again if, hypothetically, you were to move on from AWS...
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I assume the definition of "private" that people in this thread are using is no external shareholders. Apple could theoretically keep increasing the buyback program until their are no outstanding public shares and the company is owned by the Jobs estate, Tim Cook, and all the other internal stockholders. Although there is virtually zero percent chance of that happening.
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I don't think you can. Some (most?) of those contributions were made exactly to promote those views on politics and society. To separate those contributions from that is disrespect in and of itself, almost by definition.
Absolutely fascinating way of looking at things, the concept of "Resleeving".
Dunno if it's suicide so much as being killed by Chavez / Maduro. If they could just get someone mainstream who understands economics to at least a passing high school exams level then things could turn around.
I take it that the gas station bathroom didn't have them? In ND, every gas station seemed to have had the same condom dispenser. I've always wondered what company was responsible for them and who stocked them.
If you are interested in possible bias and the background of the author, he worked for USAID from 2004 to 2010 first in Venezuela then in Uganda, before he was a humanitarian relief worker with World Vision and Food for the Hungry:

http://www.cfr.org/staff/b16446
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“You can’t have the technology to wake people up and not have the technology to do a bunch of other great things, like provide abundance to the population.”

Sure you can. Just a couple paragraphs previously, you were making the point that cryonics is "just medicine", and medicine and (for example) agronomy advance at very different rates. I can easily imagine a future in which we have the technology and medicine to revive all of the frozen cancer patients, or all of the frozen ALS patients, but are still struggling with drought, climate change, and widespread poverty.
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Content creators merging with content distributors creates the kind of perverse incentive that the FCC/DoJ should cite to prevent these kinds of mergers.
See if you can solve this problem with software. The article and comments pretty well articulate the problem.

Weeding the Worst Library Books
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586061

A combination of data from Amazon and Google Books along with library checkout and interlibrary loan requests might be able to lead you to figure out what books to store at what library location in a city, what books to dispose, and what type of books patrons of a specific library prefer.
I went through most of the applications and comments earlier in the month (I need to do the rest) and it took me around 6 hours [1].

I think the best option might be for someone at YC (Dan this is going to be you) to make a top 20 list and ask those applicants to put in a longer application that we can then rank and comment on - the 2000 character limit of the initial application process was too limiting in my opinion to use for the final ranking.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11477879
That's awesome. Like jq but for html.
This is like the thought experiment around teleportation.

What if the way to teleport was to make a copy of you at the new location, and then disintegrate the old you.

What has happened here, esp. wrt. consciousness? Is the copy really you? Is the old you OK with being disintegrated? What if the old you escapes, are there now two of you, and what does that mean? etc.
this collab with FLIR for thermal cameras is interesting too. The video gives a bit more info about the myriad 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsopAM8FexE
I don't really like how they sell things from third parties on there. If it's sold by someone else and fulfilled by Amazon that's ok, but otherwise the whole point of buying on Amazon is to not have to deal with weirdo possibly-shady little retailers.
I'd like to watch a tinder stream
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I think your comment is fair but maybe misplaced in this case. Hosting advanced services isn't a new market. Amazon has demonstrated there is demand.

All Google needs to do is innovate on tech, pricing, and marketing. They can chip away at Amazon's lead. Google does not need all of Amazon's customers, just some. And, it's a growth industry.
Cool. (Full disclosure: I'm the lead developer on the diabetes one.)
> Why do you buy cell phones or laptops today, knowing that future ones will be better or cheaper?

Direct practical utility.

> Why buy some food today, when you know your purchasing power will be greater next month?

I don't eat, i starve, i die.

> Why pay for housing when prices are falling, knowing your contract will be cheaper in five years?

Now there you get into something interesting. Though the five years view is comically long.
I vote for the silicon entity.
I think momentum wise yes...

Google is more a service company than MS, and I believe it is more experienced in cloud technologies.
Investor confidence depends on information from sources of varying credibility, and if CNBC is using their position as a source of market information it's probably good to keep their editorial policy on a short leash. Icahn is rich and famous so he can probably get on the show any time he wants, but to the degree that he's pumping with questionable intents he and the network are open to criticism.
Give me lazy evaluation & I can define if as a function which takes 2 expressions & evaluates only 1, whereas in an eager language I'd have to pass a hand rolled if function callbacks
The whole thing is a scam, and by not doing anything the SEC is enabling this kind of behavior. Carl Icahn and CNBC should already have been investigated for this open manipulation of the market. We know that there are just few corporations with this power over the markets (CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, and WSJ). They should be on a tight leach by the SEC.
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No details, just like the posts about this yesterday. Obligatory 'check our blog later for more.'
Apple does pay a dividend.
Yup, especially for strategies. It's much easier to touch the position with your finger then having to drag mouse across the screen.
Right; this is more like when the UN declared internet access a basic human right.
Hoarding is a bad thing when we are talking about a currency.

The main function of a currency is exchange, not storage.

Without a currency you are back at the barter stage, or move to IOUs (that may ironically turn into currency if allows to pass from person to person).
James I don't think we need a full application (who wants to watch hundred of videos), but we do need more details from the short list. The 2000 character limit of the original application process was just too limiting for many applications.
Possible correlation: the last three grants he received were from the "Faggin Foundation" which among other things writes about "A Framework for the Union of Science and Spirituality."

http://www.fagginfoundation.org/articles-2/a-conceptual-fram...
In terms of market share, Microsoft beats Google handily. In terms of year-over-year revenue growth, Microsoft is also beating Google, although Google's growth is better than I had expected.

http://www.datamation.com/cloud-computing/microsoft-and-goog...
He's got 279K followers, what's CNBC (or Power Lunch's) viewership, and how many of the viewers also follow him on Twitter?
Facebook's experience and technology are miles ahead of MySpace. They are a key influencer of the tech industry and it's one of the top places many bright minds head to. There is no way FB will ever end up like MySpace, maybe a different death awaits, but MySpace died because it was a shitty product, bad UX, hacked together, and a very negative connotations attached to the site's community
Its probably the most convenient window to minimise service disruption amongst users of gitlabs.

Pretty common for security patches to take place out of hours
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11570911
to lose weight with just exercise is extremely difficult. you need to count calories also. if you're not seeing results, that's why.
50kb to display a blank page, AFAICT. But it at least tries to let you "Watch this live stream and chat with %s!"
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There wasn't a lot of guidance on how to format the Apply HN post. I was really early with my submission and made the mistake of posting it as a link and then writing a short comment describing what it was. So my comment ended up mixed up with all the other comments, any you couldn't see the description on the algolia page and probably got skipped over a lot.
"The first is the most important and may be obvious: Today's teens enjoy better access to contraception and more convenient contraception than their predecessors, and more of them are taking advantage of innovations like long-acting injectable and implantable methods that can last years over a daily birth control pill. But the second cause is something that goes against the conventional wisdom. It's that teens -- despite their portrayal in popular TV and movies as uninhibited and acting only on hormones -- are having less sex."

That's interesting, but lets just take a long look at the FIRST cause, which has come at the cost of endless political fights and only exists through that constant fighting. There are still a LOT of people who think that access to birth control is the problem.