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Sculley was a success at Apple: he took annual revenues from $0.98bn in 1983 to $8.00bn in 1993. After Steve Jobs's Macintosh flopped, Sculley saved it with the Mac II.

Jobs rejoined Apple in 1997 when turnover was $7.078bn, after which turnover declined to $5.36bn in 2001 before recovering to $8.28bn in 2004.

So Apple did better when Sculley was in charge ($0.98bn in 1983 to $8.00bn in 1993) than in the next decade, when he wasn't ($8.00bn in 1993 to $6.02bn in 2003).

What Sculley didn't do was successfully introduce non-Mac products (iPod, iPhone, iPad), which Jobs did. The jury is out on whether Cook can do that too.....
You're halfway to a blockchain!
There are many things in this article I feel compelled to attack or nitpick about. But just to highlight one: the assertion that "the big problem is that Apple’s last hit product, the iPad, came under Jobs and launched six years ago".

That ignores the Apple Watch, which has basically created a new product category and proceeded to immediately account for more than half the total sales in that category. The Watch has outsold the iPhone during its early days, as well. For any other company, this would be reported on as a great triumph. Unless you have wild fantasies that Apple is supposed to magically produce an iPhone-sized business every two years, even though no other company in the history of money has ever produced an iPhone-sized business even one time. Double-digit millions of units of sales, first year, for a brand-new product that nobody's ever spent $400+ per unit on is pretty good.
Scaling up only works to a certain point. Not every screen is a phone screen and should suffer from the same amount of visible text. If I scale a page to a good line length I end up with text so comically large that only a single paragraph fits on the screen, if at all.

When lines get longer you either have to increase the leading, or font size, or shorten the lines to retain readability. Personally I hate having to detach every other tab from the browser just to change to width to something that's readable. In that sense I much prefer the content to have a maximum width beyond a certain viewport width because it's the only viable option to still have text that is readable.
That's for blocking IO, it doesn't work on evented IO:

> [SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO] only have effect for system calls that perform socket I/O (e.g., read(2), recvmsg(2), send(2), sendmsg(2)); timeouts have no effect for select(2), poll(2), epoll_wait(2), and so on.

And from my understanding would have the same effect as a timeout on select/poll, so it's not the correct way to do anything.
I think that's hardly the case. If Linux users were reading the source code, we wouldn't have such an embarrassing track record when it comes to security. Major security issues like Heartbleed existed in code for years.
>>> Most distros symlink /bin to /usr/bin.

>> Uhm, no? I've only seen it in recent CentOS (older versions didn't have it), and maybe Fedora does this as well.

> Arch, Ubuntu, Debian all do it.

I haven't checked Arch, but neither Ubuntu 16.04 nor Debian Jessie haven't
created /bin as a symlink.

>> You can do it [restoring execution bit on /bin/chmod] in any number of ways [...]

> Only the last one is a clever solution

On interview you don't need to have the most clever answer. It's better to
show you understand the mechanisms underneath by having several sensible ways.

> What do you mean? They didn't know there's a copy of the same binary?

No, I meant this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627670

And there is no copy of the same binary.
Great work! Like it a lot - especially with Dart ;-)
On one hand it is nice to see that the school doesn't matter as much as people think but on the other hand it is sad that people see their studies only through the eyes of ROI. As if education has no value of its own. I'm probably just naive and an idealist.
This "article" is barely two paragraphs, and doesn't have any new information. There's a reason Art History majors working as baristas is a well worn cliche.
Show HN: This app lets you call up to 10 people at once. Useful?
You have to understand how ad exchanges work (and what they are) and what intermediaries there are.

Ad Exchanges handle the actual delivery of ads. They have a massive inventory of ad slots available on a massive amount of websites and it's their job to fill those ad slots up while making as much money per ad slot as possible. Google (Doubleclick) is not the only display ad exchange [1]. There are quite a few other ones like OpenX, AppNexus, Microsoft, and so on. You can directly buy on these platforms but it's generally better to use a Demand Side Platform (DSP) because they provide a wrapper around these platforms and you can manage bidding, targeting, etc. in one place. They also offer various programatic techniques like real-time-bidding (RTB) that can end up costing you less than you'd spend directly in an exchange. Lastly, some exchanges operate in such a way that small advertisers can't utilize them. It's a human-intensive process that involves spending a lot of money, signing and committing to insertion orders, etc.

Because of this stuff, most people are now using DSP's. The DSP's buy large batches of inventory from the ad exchanges and it's their job to maximize the revenue they get for their purchased inventory. As an advertisers, I can set up my campaigns in the DSP, which might involve setting targeting options, setting up remarketing pixels on my website, etc. With RTB, I set a maximum bid amount (in CPM) in my campaign and when it comes time to serve an ad, if the ad slot matches my targeting or remarketing preferences, I compete in an auction against others and the highest bidder gets the impression.

In almost all cases, the ad exchanges are going to make more money (by means of providing value to end-advertiser) selling to people who are setting their own targeting preferences rather than trying to guess. Within the targeting options presented to advertisers, there is lots happening in the background by machines that are doing things humans can't. Ad tech is pretty sophisticated, even if it sometimes seems that it's not. Ad tech has created much more value for advertisers than it's lost when it isn't perfect.

[1] Many people may think Doubleclick is the exchange but that might be because Doubleclick is the most common ad slot you see on a webpage. However, that ad slot is a different product, Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP). You can drop in inventory for any exchange (or even hardcode an ad in cases of a direct buy) in DFP, so it's displaying ads from other exchanges, not just Doubleclick.
I've seen this claim repeatedly but it doesn't match my personal experience. I've taken to using a user stylesheet that disables max-width on all elements. It makes my subjective web experience a lot nicer.
That's literally the opening line of the response. You conveniently ignored the meat of a well constructed point in an attempt to quickly show that OP agrees with you.

OP has correctly exemplified the idea of 'safe spaces' being used to silence debate and discussion. Thus allowing every individual to possess their own subjective truth, and conveniently dispose with hard realities when their beliefs are in conflict with said realities. This is exactly the same as the far right in America conveniently ignoring the reality of climate change.

I'm all for oppressed groups having a safe space and living their lives freely, but the danger here is individuals retreating to a 'safe space' every time life hands them lemons. We didn't progress this far in human culture by tip toeing around beliefs.
No. They discontinued the larger battery and it isn't designed to operate at grid scale. http://gizmodo.com/tesla-is-discontinuing-its-10-kilowatt-po...
It's just my opinion, and I have no factual basis. It's an appeal to common sense, but I stand by it nonetheless.
Creed transcends class, though. And basically any other societal norms and pressures.
That is a side effect of the cost. In-state public university costs are up 296% over the last 20 years[1]. It is no surprise that a family spending that much money, per child, will consider the return on that spending. It is far more than a typical car and more in the realm of buying a home.

[1] http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-col...
I can buy into that if we can also have the rest of space "safe" for the expression of ideas, as opposed to this phenomenon of SJW's ruining public presentations attended by hundreds of people by screaming "take your hate elsewhere" and other such childish nonsense.
The only times I've heard of safe spaces and trigger warnings is when people bitch about them. Can we get a safe space were we don't talk about them and a trigger warning about trigger warnings so I never have to look at a bullshit oiece about them?
When it costs upwards of $100,000 to attend, you better be thinking of what you're getting for your money. Unfortunately in America it doesn't come free.
This is absolutely true. But the solar can still be used to nip in the use of fuels. If you have a fast acting source that can follow the solar signal, you'll still make a dent in the consumption of the fuel that creates the energy.
It has been deprecated for years, disallowing new customers.

No sign of any replacement
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Also need wind to provide base load of course. It's always windy somewhere.
In my experience, committing directly to master is a helpful way to decrease merge conflicts. They may happen more frequently, but you get little conflicts more often, rather than large conflicts or conflicts that need to be resolved multiple times.
There's a really great throwaway joke in the caption of one of the illustrations that accompany the story.

In the image captioned "The trajectory of a Falcon 9 booster from launch to landing," the caption directs the reader: "Click to vonbraunenate."

I googled "vonbraunenate," and there were only a handful of results aside from this particular article.

So then I googled "von braun," and of course, the first result that came up was the Wikipedia entry for Wernher von Braun.

So what's the connection?

Von Braun was an aerospace engineer who "developed the rockets that launched United States first space satellite and first series of manned lunar missions."
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I remember an anecdote in the Steve Jobs biography where the first thing he did when he came back to Apple was severly cutting down a confusing and overlapping matrix of products. Now that he's gone, that matrix is creeping back up. I've lost count how many different types of iPhones and iPads there are now.
Part of the problem, though, is on the other side: if a student says, "This (action) causes harm to members of these groups in this way," that student is using words to start a discussion about the topic at hand. It seems that many people find this discussion itself offensive -- polite people don't talk about racism, sexism, etc., because calling out someone's bad manners is worse than having bad manners in the first place. (That is what my grandfather taught me.)

A lot of the students decried in articles like the original are using calm, controlled, verbal arguments to represent their point of view -- but then that's represented as silencing. I guess I do see a generational gap. Young people say, "What you said is an example of a microaggression." Old people hear, "You're a racist so you can't talk, and mentioning this microaggression means I'm so afraid of conflict I can't compete with China in the new world economy, except I just started a conflict by stating the truth as I see it instead of shutting up and rolling over like I would have in the old days, so maybe I can compete with China...?."
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The five arguments on why people struggle with monads
You confirm the problem in your response:

"usually"

"only two"

That means that Google.com is still needed as the front-end to MS documentation. Ergo, it doesn't matter how many domains they use to host their documentation.
Labor should get substantially cheaper though. As it stands, people will only accept a job if it covers all their living expenses. Even if you offer to pay enough for half their bills, they'll keep looking for a job that can pay all their bills. With most of their expenses covered by the government, they would be willing to work for a lot less money than before - assuming they're willing to work at all.
> the USSR was created explicitly with the end-goal of leading to a communist society […]

I'm not sure that's true. Granted, it was ostensibly, outwardly created for that purpose. But I'm not sure that was the actual intent of those who lead that charge.

My History is quite dusty, so I wonder what exactly brought about the dictatorships you mentioned. Besides, it wouldn't be the first time a revolution lead to (near) absolutism. The French revolution for instance lead to Napoleon. Given this, I wonder how representative governments were able to emerge at all. It doesn't make me very optimistic about the possibility for democracy either. (Yeah, for various reasons, representative governments are hardly democratic: elected leaders are very poor proxies for the will of the people.)
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It's not just Indian users neither. Once an Indian user saw that banner and signed it, every single one of his friends got a notification about it. In fact, that chained reaction somehow ended up in my notifications too by one of my friends signing it. I was furious!

See: https://twitter.com/r3bl_/status/679093130080161792 (notice the checkmark that's checked by default).

In my opinion, they managed to accomplish exactly what they wanted to with this campaign: make the whole online call for discussion by the India's regulatory authority meaningless.
This article is about statistics, not individuals. While it certainly shows trends, for any individual person, their ROI depends on what they do with their own lives. (And ROI might not even be their #1 goal.)

As for me, I got a degree in Fine Arts from a small liberal arts school, then become a coder. I have almost zero regret about that choice, 20+ years down the line. Actually, if I had to do it again, I am more likely to skip the coder part, not the college part. (20+ years behind a desk... I could probably find a better path.)
> "At this time of year in places like California, solar doesn't help meet peak demand".

That's a very specific claim, and I don't think your cited graph even supports it.

Presumably, you say "this time of year" because you know that the yearly peak in California is driven by air-con usage in the summer afternoons, which correlates very well with solar.

But even right now, in early May, the graph is mostly flat through the afternoon and evening, with only the slight peak at 8 or 9 at night making your statement true in a very narrow sense.

Notably however, the graph only includes grid side solar production, so panels on homes or business roofs are not included in the graph. If you added those to the total demand curve would shift upwards during solar production hours.
True-- Efficiency may not be the best term for marketing this thing (to anyone beyond the YC community). I'm all ears for sure.

I'd love to hear your thoughts. You can reach me at info@wedwell.co

Thanks again, we're still early here. Plenty of room to evolve the product. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
The salt is nasty to remember, the position of the salt is nasty to remember... just use the "XKCD scheme" or Diceware and get on with your life.
nothing's "free", not even college in european utopia.
Some guy brags about his son..
Also, UEA don't have taxes and cheap foreign labour to built it.
Because the point of college is to challenge your ideas and beliefs, not shelter and reinforce.
It also depends on how much your parents earn:

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/graduate-earnings-what-y...
I don't feel like "getting the overall meaning of what you said" and "100% accurate voice transcription" are the same problems and comparing the two isn't fair. When I speak to you in a thick accent, it's OK if you only understand 1 out of 3 words because human-to-human communication is lossy and able to deal with misunderstood, misheard, or completely unintelligible data points. Transcription requires 100% percent accuracy because you want the written word to be exactly the same as the words that come out of your mouth. This is a much higher bar and is one that human-to-human speech rarely achieves.
Meh, it isn't black and white where you see one or the other but not both. Ignoring the ROI factor and being ignorant of it is a risky business, reckless IMO and coming from someone who intrinsically loves to learn.
Slow reads are not a great attack vector on modern OS releases.

Slow requests (like slowloris) were much more effective.
When you call coal baseload (I assume this is what you intended with baseless), you are contrasting it with dispatchable generation. Coal isn't nearly as responsive as hydro or natural gas or whatnot.

The difference between solar and coal is that the output of coal is more reliable.
The 7.8% line is to be taken with a grain of salt though. If you decide to invest all the theoretical college money and work without said education you'll (hopefully) still earn >0$.

It would have also helped if the article said what degree/how long it takes (BA, MA) and what the investment cost for the degree actually is (provide median or something). A typical BA takes 2 years and is in the ballpark of 50k$ on the lowish end (I heard that as a low end average for in-state public schools).
Had I invested that fictional amount at 7.8% since universities are "free" here I'd have about 225k...yay
We had a pool of IPs we were leasing on our own, proxy services get abused and are poisoned.

We didn't rate limit, we would just increase the size of the cookie pool if a captcha was hit, which was rare because we would scrape n-pages till a threshold was met to prevent that session from being captcha'ed so we wouldn't have to captcha solve it. We had two pools, the primary pool and the "chilling" pool, cookies near their captcha life would cool off for a few hours before returning to the active pool which behaves just like any other resource pool, every page scraped would "borrow" a cookie out of the pool, customize the encrypted location key, and make the request with a common user agent string.

Scaling it was difficult but once we had it figured out, Erlang was invaluable to us and our dependence on IPs dropped once we figured out the cookie methodology.

Solving captchas is cheaper than renting IPs.
Financial ROI of a degree primarily depends on whether the degree is in a high or low paying field... In other news, the ocean is full of water.

No story there. But then they draw almost flat lines, indicating the selectivity of the university (as a proxy for all kinds of things, prestige, quality of education/network etc) plays no role. But I find it misleading.

It makes sense I think to consider that they're not looking at earning potential, but at ROI. That means a selective school that costs $100k a year, and nets you a $100k annual salary, yields the same ROI as going to a 10k a year state school that gets you a 10k salary. You'd get a flat line on selectivity/ROI, as if it doesn't matter where you study.

You can be the judge of whether you think those are equal or not, and whether you'd be indifferent because they have the same ROI, particularly when you can afford the investment or get the investment subsidised.
Education might have some value to some people, in the same way that snowboarding or mountainbiking may have some value to some people. But the reason we make everybody do it is for the ROI.
If you read near the end of the article, they say that SpaceX is going to launch a Falcon Heavy in November as a test. But additionally they are going to try to land all three boosters. The two side boosters on land and the middle booster on the drone ship(because it will be going a lot faster)

Here is a simulation(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM). I have probably watch this video 20+ times just amazing.
There are 2 types of iPhone (standard and plus) and three types of iPad (Mini, Air, Pro). All of the other variants are just older models that remain on sale so people within £600 to spend on a phone can afford to become Apple customers.
Yes, and it is odious that "value" is measured based on ROI from getting the degree.

Do STEM degrees yield more ROI? Perhaps, but if the article is attempting to help an individual student frame their thinking about what to major in, it is very bad advice.

People should follow their aptitudes. Study what compels them and what they're talented in, regardless of statistical ROI's that apply NOT to individuals but to a population of people.

I've seen it a lot, good students who force themselves into degree programs for subjects they have no interest in: going to pre-law or pre-med or finance or engineering, not because they love the subject matter but for status and for the hope of a "well-paid" career (often propelled by parents wishes).

We may very well need more STEM folks, but what we DON'T need is more STEM folks who are passionless, untalented duds who are in it for the money/status.
This would be very interesting to see when compared with schools outside of the US where higher education is free or very cheap.

I'm curious about how many people go to the standard (STEM) fields of education because of the cost, and ROI vs they are interested in them.

If people had 0 debt maybe more people might choose alternative fields of education/careers that can impact the world in other ways.
Laws are rules but they are not enough on their own to make decisions. They are written with the implicit cultural background and the intent of the humans who wrote them. Plenty of case law is around determining what the authors actually meant when they made a law.

As long as humans write the law, and that there is the notion of a sovereign people, human judges should decide how to interpret and apply the law.
Will Condoleezza Rice Be the VP?
Yikes. Seems that almost no one designing websites bothers to study the more important parts of typography. Recently, typography has been bastardized to mean "an expensive looking sans serif font."

But there is really important knowledge out there regarding ease of reading, contrast, ideal formatting, etc.

Cant believe that they choose a font weight that is so light. That alone makes this redesign way worse than the original.
Oh and I just used a generic HTTP request client in Erlang and xpath / HTML parser to extract what we needed.
Any near death experience (real or perceived) can do it
I get the connection, I don't get the joke...
Cloudflare was allowed to patch their nginx with the correct solution. Would the Shared Source Initiative allow you to do that, ie patch and run the modified version ?
seriously? I'm muslim and when you use the word islam as the opposite of freedom that's actually offensive. Not here to correct or change your mind about your view on Islam (not a topic for HN anyways) but just saying that choosing your words more carefully is a valuable skill.
Can't you just dump it back in the ocean where it came from?

The sea critters are already happy to swim around in it, and you're not going to meaningfully change the concentration of the ocean. You could mix it with sea water near the exit point to avoid temporarily raising the concentration there.
Maybe, but it's interesting because I had quite a few discussions with my kids about infinity. It came up when playing the "how much do I love you" game. I introduced infinity, and from there I was able to teach them a little about it. They were very young and I am still impressed with how easily they grasped some of the concepts.
Phil Plait puts that sort of thing in most of his articles.