skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this blog post was meant to be the first in a series that described the new features of the new API release. Best way to see all of the capabilities is to look through the user manual and API reference.
Impressive that iPhone sales, despite dipping vs. the previous quarter, were actually up 21% year-over-year. The year-ago quarter was the iPhone 4's launch quarter. If I'm remembering correctly, the iPhone 4 was supply-constrained around launch but could be found in stores somewhat easily by the end of August 2010.

Undoubtedly the presence of the Verizon iPhone accounts for most of this difference, but it's still very impressive that the iPhone 4 had many more sales in its last quarter (as the flagship phone) than its launch quarter.
This can't be said enough. Has Google even acknowledged this as a security issue?
This is not a story about Apple Computer, this is a story about analysts who mis-predicted something

It cuts both ways though. Apple has routinely exceeded (i.e. underestimated) their own revenue numbers for the past few quarters. From Apple's perspective alone, that sounds good because it means their stock shoots up and they get good press. But it means that people who hedged based on the expected numbers got hurt. That annoys people trying to make a living trading (whether those people deserve to make a living trading is entirely a different issue).

So the analysts correct, and bake that offset into their estimates. And Apple "missed" based on those estimates. So people who hedged based on the new guesses have to dump the stock, and it drops.

That's just the way investment markets work. Apple can't ride the "unexpectedly good news!" waves without getting hurt by the "oops, not as insanely great as expected" quarters.
In school we studied research that correlated how many of hours of TV a day a person watched, and life expectancy. As many people thought the more tv you watched your life expectancy fell.

When you first hear that it sounds like TV can reduce your years on earth.

When they took a close look though they found a confounding variable; health care.

Those who watched more TV tended to be poorer, and thus had less healthcare. It's possible that the same thing is happening in this group of research as well.
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http://db.tt/z5Kw1Ti thanks!
Your use of "them" is a bit unclear.

The browser decides when to send a referrer, not Google. You can, for instance, tell your browser never to send them, or to send a specific one.
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A currently open API & JavaScript & PHP SDK for building all sizes and sorts of travel apps. Sits as a layer between your content providers and/or booking and allows for building social travel itineraries, or many other types of functionality. Social publisher/listener is super cool!
Yes it does. I download ALL my google docs contents weekly in a zip file using their export tool. I regularly shift documents between word, excel, google docs and openoffice all the time with few if any problems.
> It’s not that political journalism has strayed from its roots, or stopped covering important elements of a modern campaign. It’s that the elements of a modern campaign have changed, and as journalists, we have not kept pace.

As someone who actually ran for a small state-level elected office in 2008, I can flat out state that journalists have strayed far far away from anything resembling journalism.

> I don’t believe that we as journalists devote enough attention to understanding those changes.

In Denver, there was ONE journalist whose "beat" covered our race. And the subject matter that the agency we were running for was a small part of what this one person's reporting covered. This guy was older than I am, and I'm old enough to be making "catch up" contributions to my IRA and 401k.

Downsizing and mergers in the newspaper industry has resulted in single reporters covering what used to be covered by a handful of reporters 2 decades ago. It isn't new technology that is enabling more productivity, it is the endless downsizing to boost share prices that has gutted and rendered news agencies useless and unfit for duty.

In 2008, when I ran for that office, there were 2 daily newspapers. In early 2009, one of them closed their doors.

> Elections will become even bigger surprises to us, and then how long will it be before readers start to ask whether we actually know the people and places we cover?

My recommendation to prove to yourself just how out of date and out of touch with modern technology that journalists are, is to run for elected office yourself. Many elected positions are part time (school boards, for example) so you won't have to give up your day job to experience it. Despite coming in dead last, and the winner spending 200x as much as I did, it was a blast.
Thanks for that Ivan! I sure will look into the listing and email you if I have questions.
so a quarterly revenue of $25 billion is "laughably" low?
I own a touchpad and without a developed app base it feels so rigid to me. I don't want to share links by email I want to share them through my various online accounts. I don't want to multitask by navigating to cards I want to have in-app multitasking through swipes. Even reading a PDF on it is painful because the font rendering is so poor. I don't think HP really "got it". It was barely worth the 99 I paid for it. I installed the new update today. And while this update increased the responsiveness it didn't address the fundamental workflow problems... But since they are abandoning it anyway I probably shouldn't expect anything anyway.
Excellent, thanks!

http://db.tt/MJwnP12k
Do you have any data to back this up? I've been tasked with getting rid of old computers before (at a large company) and it was a very painful process. Schools wouldn't take them. I can't even imagine trying to send them to another country! We ended up actually paying someone to haul many of them away.
If the market is efficient, then companies should fall below expectations exactly 50% of the time.
I think the most interesting thing is the number of iPads (11 mil up 20% from previous quarter).

Apple will need exactly 15 million in the holiday quarter to hit their 40 million goal for 2011.

I really didn't think they would make it after their ipad 2 supply problems in the Jan-Mar quarter where they only sold 4.69 mil but it looks like they may pull it out. Maybe someone's bonus is on the line if they don't ship 40 million :)
I didn't misread anything. What I'm saying is that sharing "as" a different aspect of myself is functionally equivalent to sharing with a different Circle, from a privacy perspective.
It takes some effort to setup such test. There are more important things to do.

Besides - there is no point testing it now, considering that Google slowly takes away that option.
Thanks and welcome to HN :)
linux outlaws
http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws/

& radiolab (though they're more every ~2wks)
http://www.radiolab.org/
Trigger your photosensitive epilepsy with Space CaCSS backgrounds
Droid RAZR vs Bionic vs iPhone 4S
I use dropbox everyday for work and my personal life. I have two problems with dropbox though.
1. There is no paid plan between the free 2 gb account and the $100 50 gb account. A nice 10 or 25 gb account would be great. It is hard for me to justify spending the 100 a year when I don't need all that space.
2. There has not been a huge change in dropbox since it's inception. I find myself using it less and less, since it is so easy to share documents with google docs.
I wonder how often this will be misused:

To utilize the NoSSLSearch option for your network, please configure the DNS entry for www.google.com to be a CNAME for nosslsearch.google.com. We will not serve SSL search results for requests that we receive on this hostname. If we receive a search request over port 443, the certificate handshake will complete successfully, but we will then redirect the user to a non-SSL search experience along with an initial message explaining so.

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
That's much harder to do objectively, but I'd love to see some 3rd party evaluations.
They (almost) all use the same encoder.

Albeit most likely with different settings, for a different speed/quality tradeoff. And some might be using ancient versions from the dawn of the Bronze Age.
To me, the biggest news here is the 1QFY12 guidance of $37 billion. Guidance of 30% above their best recorded quarter ever. Wow.
One thing I hope you can fix -- I can't read the orange on dark grey example boxes.
Thank you! http://db.tt/GVZTYxMH
Looking through a few of these, I really wish they would put some more effort into the sound quality. One of the lectures on forms was so warped, like they had hooked the mic up to a guitar amp.

The phrase "quality over quantity" really comes to mind. Lynda makes great tutorials, and TED talks are just amazing (presentation wise). The Stanford tutorials may have great content, but then again so do books...if you're going to do videos, at least do it right. There is little point publishing just for the sake of publishing.

Though I guess these lecture recordings are the equivalent of alpha software...so I might just have somewhat high expectations.
Thanks! I made your feedback an issue on the github repo and will repost when I have an update for more feedback.

I've had lots of people ask for an intro of some sort to greet the visitor - that's definitely my top priority.

I'm also reconsidering the layout - I've gotten some feedback about the amount of scrolling.

Thanks!
It is for this reason (amongst others) that companies like Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and Google do not give guidance.
http://db.tt/Wo3AIAs

Thanks
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Honest question: Why is Facebook governed, at least in part, by European law? The reason I ask is that the United States has a lot of trouble enforcing its copyright laws abroad (which is good in my opinion), but Facebook and Google seem to bend to European laws regarding privacy and transparency.
From reading this blog post, it appears that you have successfully attached the RESTEasy framework to the Apache Commons Email framework with one POJO. Uh, congratulations?
Because first he tried buying them, and when that failed, he built it himself (well, ordered the Apple employees to).
Yes, a monster guidance. And remember this is Apple's estimate, which is has always been a lowball recently (even for this quarter, which was a little disappointing). $40B is definitely possible.

Certainly the iPhone sales this quarter weren't that great, but given the circumstances (most people knew the 4s/5 was coming), as well the 4s sold 4 million units on its opening weekend (almost 1/4th of all of last quarter's sales), I don't think it was that bad at all.

Obvious disclaimer: long AAPL, may buy more tomorrow
What you have to understand is that most of these artificially high estimates were created by hedge funds with short positions in AAPL.

1) release an artificially high revenue estimate
2) wait for actual results
3) wait for stock to dip when estimate > actual results
4) sell short positions
5) profit

These analysts are not actually idiots, they're evil.
I wrote this for a friend who is just getting started out in python/web stuff. It might be a little n00bly for lots of people here, but it could be interesting for people who aren't pythonic who are thinking about making the switch!
I'm curious: what could the FSF have possibly done to earn your distrust? Have they ever lied? Have they ever hid their intentions? Have they been factually incorrect on a particular issue? Or did they made predictions that haven't realized? Or did they act like jerks? (This one doesn't count in my book.) What happened? (I'm serious, I'd like to know.)
That's a Pentile display though, so you can effectively take a third off that. So make it 845 x 475 measured in real sub-pixels, which isn't even qHD. Not that it's not going to be a fantastic screen (the black levels on those things are lickably awesome), but 206 PPI is about what AMOLED has been maxed out at for years now. Samsung has been getting higher resolution, but only by making screens bigger. And now at 4.65" they're really stretching (haha) it.
I'm going through this now. I've no math/logic background but wish to learn, so is perfect for where I'm at. Interactivity is a great learning tool. The book's focus isn't on real world software engineering though, so anyone expecting that should look elsewhere.
OwnCloud web services under your control
Apple stores might close next wednesday in honor of Steve Jobs
You should do a little Jig :-)
> The real backing that a US dollar has is not its gold. It is the fact that the US government has declared itself obligated to accept tax payments in terms of US dollars, and it will not accept anything else.

So, how about if someone would get a farm of computers mining bitcoins, at a rate where the bitcoins pay for the electricity etc, but then they also rent out this computing power for anyone to use for whatever purpose (like Amazon), but for this accept payment only in bitcoins, being the exact amount of bitcoin that would have been mined otherwise with the computing power rented out.

Would that work?

Then you back it with something else of value, namely computing power, but you only accept bitcoin as payment.

Just a thought, though.
But couldn't some programming be beneficial and some harmful?

It just seems like quite an oversimplification to say that all TV is neutral or harmful to development.

My kid is 15 months and we occasionally play "signing time" sign language training DVDs. She's learned a lot of spoken vocabulary from it, and appears to be in the 99th percentile for language development. She doesn't typically sign anything (except for milk) but the other day I asked her what the sign is for a few things and she actually seems to know them.

There is no way to tell for certain, but I credit the signing time videos with giving her a very clear sense of core (verbal and signed) language symbolism. The repetition of words, signs, and pictures has always seemed quite interesting to her, with the less familiar, more abstract words/concepts initially seeming a bit less interesting and subsequently gaining significance as her overall awareness improved.

I have noticed on the few occasions when we've had a movie or show on the TV when she's been around that she'll initially pay close attention to it and then after a minute or two begin to stare blankly at it... this is quite the opposite reaction she has to the signing time videos.

So to summarize I'm skeptical that it makes sense to generalize too much about the specific age ranges when kids are "ready" for various stimuli. I think that metaphor is stretched too far. Instead, a child will find certain stimuli intensely interesting (including some stuff that may be on a TV). To the extent that the child can conceptualize the structure of the stimulus enough to provoke learning, the stimulus can be considered "good" or beneficial to learning. But the developing brain will also get overwhelmed, so after a certain point even a good stimulus becomes noise and can only lead the child to exert effort to tune it out, which would use up cognitive effort for something without any learning benefit.
Same experience here. My only affiliation is they sent me a t-shirt. Lovely service.
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The rep lied to you, he wanted to sell you postpaid. Better commision for him.

Network-wise, the difference is in the billing backend, not in the towers or coverage.
Yeah $37 billion guidance. guidance for the previous quarter was only $25 billion. holy crap.
OK, someone explain this to me because I've never understood:

1) Company says it's going to make $1.00/share

2) "Analysts" says it's going to make $1.10/share

3) Company actually makes $1.05/share

4) OMG sell the stock!!1! it missed some arbitrary number!1

I'm a libertarian, but crap like this really irks me.
>"This is undoubtedly because the world was awaiting the next version, the iPhone 4S, which launched last week."

Apple announced their upcoming announcement on September 21.

The quarter ended September 24.

Soft sales for the quarter were almost certainly due to strong competition and a more commoditized market for smart phones.

The spike in 4S orders may be due to the T-mobile roll out and the fact that T-mobile has offered its subscribers no contract plans at a discount when the subscriber purchases their own handset.

I suspect the 4S is having the effect of converting many of those accounts to two year contracts and a meaningful fraction of 4S orders are a side effect of those conversions.
read my comment above.
The article discloses many naive misconceptions about the world. Revisit it in ten years or so and maybe by then you'll have changed your approach to unsupported generalizations.
I invited some colleagues but Dropbox denied the referrals because they said it came from the same computer. It came from the same IP (our corp firewall).
I didn't feel like fighting it because I'm under my limit anyway.
I'm pretty sure my Asus laptop doesn't have an indicator light.
Speaking of the first example, compiling it with -Wall provides some hints:

$ ghc --make test.hs -Wall
test.hs:1:1:
Warning: Pattern match(es) are non-exhaustive
In an equation for `fn':
Patterns not matched: #x with #x `notElem` [0#]
Ask HN: How would you pick successful YC applications?
Suppose you have been asked to pick 300 successful applications out of 6000 YC applications in 20 days. You realize that the usual rules [0] are tough to apply given the time constraints. How would you go about doing this?

[0] http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html
What would the attacker do with the picture?
No - it's saying Apple routinely lies about it's expected earnings so that every quarter there is a headline saying "Apple earnings beat expectations"

So the street takes Apple's figures and add 20% because they know Apple always understates by 20%, so on those figures Apple didn't do as well as they should have.

The problem is that you don't know if Apple really expected $30Bn and under-performed or really expected $25Bn and over-performed.

Apple is a public company with shareholders and has a legal(and moral) duty to actually produce honest figures. Ultimately massaging them down is just as bad for investors as talking them up.
I think its to do with Irish tax laws being more favorable to large international companies

EDIT see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_Arrangement
Definitely - this is important as a control.

Every test was done using the same core settings (codecs, profiles, resolution, frame rate, bitrates, two-pass encoding). Beyond that, CloudHarmony used the default settings at each provider. We'll try to publish each video for visual inspection, but suffice it to say that they all look pretty close, especially three of the four, which use the same core encoder (x264) and the same settings. There may be microversion differences and minor variations in settings, but not much. The fourth uses MainConcept, which isn't a bad encoder itself. You'll probably see a bigger spread in audio quality - Encoding.com and Panda rely on faac, I think, which is an abandoned AAC encoder that isn't very good.
If you expected a 64% jump in profits and bought the stock at a premium on the basis of that then you actually do have a right to be disappointed.
Apple "lied"?? rofl.

wrong. read my other comment above.
The answer in a nutshell is that they have servers and offices in Europe.
According to the analysts and shareholders, YES. Just because it sounds like a lot of money doesn't mean it isn't low if you are expecting it to be more.
> (It is most certainly not about a fancy way of getting a pointer to the first element after the array, since this pointer has a completely different type.)

Have to be careful there. Going more than one after the end of the array is undefined (see 6.17):

http://c-faq.com/~scs/cgi-bin/faqcat.cgi?sec=aryptr

Actually, that whole FAQ should be of interest to anyone who liked this article. No matter how many times I read through it, I seem to find something new.
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No, an estimate of a quarterly revenue of $25 billion is laughably low for Apple.
There's a way around it. It's just WebDav.

Here's how to do it on Ubuntu, it works just as well on my Mac: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/how-to-access-your-box...
You're right. I just didn't include the guidance in the story title so it wouldn't sound like an ad for going long on the stock.
I think the real story is "Analysts wrong again, this time the other way". Seriously. The analysts have _never_ been right on Apple.
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It looks a bit better when you adjust for inflation:

http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/graphic-of-the-day-...

But you're right, not as stable as the US dollar. Still stable enough that people buy it as a store of value though.
Google Boots FrostWire From Android Market, But Why?
It's to do with whether a company has a 'physical presence' in a country. Facebook has a large presence in Ireland as a company, and Ireland is part of Europe.

It's less to do with a country enforcing it's laws abroad, and more to do with companies setting up a physical presence in a country.
I've found IE to be faster too.

Usually when developing web apps I get things working in Firefox first then test in the other browsers.

Lately I've been doing some work with Canvas and found IE to be the fastest for drawing large (many points) polygons(* ). I never thought I'd say this but it's been a lot more pleasant to develop in IE, at least during the proof-of-concept stage where I haven't done much optimizing or caching.

(* ) I haven't benchmarked whether it's the canvas drawing or javascript engine (or both) that's faster, just that overall I'm getting 30+% better performance from IE
Never mind. I see it. http://developer.apple.com/icloud/index.php

Does DropBox have anything similar? This looks like something that will run over DropBox.
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The stimulus mostly went to states, I'm not sure if any of it even went to Goldman Sachs. I'm also not sure it's entirely fair to say 1 bank's compensation package should be called into question because of a worldwide recession. Let the shareholders decide what's appropriate.
Weebly (W07) hiring a MySQL DBA
My favorite is the MessagePack serialization protocol. The Haskell implementation (officially supported, yay) uses Template Haskell to derive serialization and deserialization code, with full type-checking, for arbitrary data structures. Check it out:

https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/haskell/test/...
All machines were word orientated until the IBM 360's arrived and many persisted well into the 80's (the PDP-10 is a particularly famous one for hackers). Many of them got C compilers at one point or another.

That's not really the issue though. My point was that the choice of ILP64 vs. LP64 on a single architecture could not cause you to "lose" a 16 bit quantity. It can't, because those machine instructions obviously don't go away when you change your compiler's calling conventions. So a C99-compliant compiler would still be required to provide int16_t.

Which is... maybe too much minutiae even for a C minutiae thread. But it was my point, anyway.
Everybody calm down - Apple’s meaningless miss
They have a team of people sifting through the applications. Suppose there's four of them, that makes 75 applications per person per day. A lot of them are probably rejected pretty quickly, so they end up with a couple of dozens applications, which will be then discussed.
http://db.tt/ZgOyv5c
Why do you want to ditch Command-T? I've been satisfied with it. The one thing I do wish it had was ctags searching.
Microsoft shows touch screen for any surface
why would you buy stock at a premium unless you're buying put options?