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Well, warm weather, no state income tax, cheaper real estate but still close to CA... if only it wasnt Vegas. :>
I guess this will be terribly slow in Internet Explorer.
1. Yeah, pretty much everybody today told us to make tabs work. Going to add for sure
2. Hadn't thought of saving searches (not listings) yet, great idea
3. Damn! My js skills suck, will debug
3. I'll check with Edmunds if they have an API, that could be cool. In the mean time we were going to add some stats about how any car compares to others nationally with the same model, year, and mileage

thanks!
Well, at the very least, the people who work for him will come- and thats hundreds of well paid, educated white/asian young people. That's a pretty good start.
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As a rule of thumb, I think it's a lot easier to make more revenue as hardware company selling products worth hundreds of dollars at a time. Samsung made $37 billion in revenue in Q3 last year, for example, and HP makes about the same, too.

The only problem with these companies is that they don't really know how to maximize their profits. They usually compete on price and release many models with increases costs due to complexity, so profits end up being a smaller % of the revenue.
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Apple also isn't responsible for any of the major ecological catastrophes of the last 100 years. Labor violations in China certainly, multiple companies ruining hundreds of miles of United States coastline not so much.
Very cool. Challenging.
Much more relevant: http://xkcd.com/924/

(is there a topic which xkcd hadn't nailed already?)
Yea, Turkmenistan. I am currently 22, so about 5 years ago. Believe me or not, I learned about Ubuntu much earlier than MacOS. People here realized about Apple when iPhone was introduced, which is around 2007 (I was 17 by that time). My friend bought MacBook Pro several months ago, and when people coming to his office see it, they still get this "What on earth is this computer, with Apple logo? Is its the same Apple as iPhone Apple one?". Please come visit our region any time, in case anyone happen to come here, email me : nazarmailbox at gmail dot com. I will gladly show you around :)
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My question: what can this not solve? What problems could a human solve that this language couldn't?

I think that would help me get a better idea of what you're trying to accomplish.
I dunno- I think all you have to do is improve schools honestly. Young parents in America are starving for good education. For example, you could start really good charter schools that only allow residents from the area. The trick is making money off of the whole deal. I think that's where the investment in commercial and residential space comes in.
This is a very clear and compelling (so to speak) way of thinking about the problem, and one I don't think I've ever heard before. Is this an independent invention of yours or is there literature to be found on the "rag doll" model?
Yep. Awesome thoughts. I can't help feel though that this goes against a bunch of the blockbuster desires of a bunch of folks on this here site. There's a lot of folks gunning for the next Groupon/Airbnb/Dropbox homerun instead of hoping to knock a few singles/doubles in their projects.
This is not true. The software Prey (which is designed to spy on people who have computers that have been stolen) takes covert photos and sends them without activating the light.
What you wrote pretty much sums up why I went with a Macbook Air recently. My first Apple product ever. I used to think in terms of cutting edge video card, processor, etc. But my last Windows laptop would freeze up from getting too hot. Just watching a video on Netflix caused this problem unless I elevated the machine to allow free flow of air.

My Macbook Air can compile a video lecture while I'm watching a Netflix video without overheating. I've realized that Apple creates a great computing experience without using cutting edge specs and their experience is much better than other PC manufacturers. And their products look like something you'd want to take care of and appreciate.
That is really impressive. The management of Apple is definitely to be commended for doing an epic job.
I searched for something and now it is stuck with that result. Even if I go to a new tab.
Reminds me of the children's book "Something for Nothing" which took the principle a step further. When some cats started trashing a dog's house just for fun, he offered to pay them to do it. The next day he paid more but made them work harder for it. And again etc. Finally he said he had no more money, and the intrinsic motivation of the rogue cats was gone - he never saw them again.
won by unethical manufacturing labor and lockin-in customers. not impressed.
FWIW, Greplin's cofounder (Robby Walker) went straight from Google to Greplin. Although, to be fair, his last startup was acqui-hired by Google too.
I agree with the parent - no way would Apple want to do a massive acquisition.

I also agree with the grandparent, Apple is unlikely to part with its cash soon.

All the cash is Apple's "war chest" - it's let them do innovative things with their supply chain (prepay for ~$1bn in parts to get a substantial discount), it's let them fight a massive patent battle (we'll see if this pays out), and gives them all sort of flexibility moving forward.

Could they do all of the above things with less than $100bn in the bank? Of course, but the massive cash hoard allows them to continue doing the activities above, even if sales/growth slow down.
The quality of the comments both here and the author's blog is astonishingly good, every comment adding something to the discussion. This is the hacker news I know and love.
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You have to define the way that the sort should work though, and at that point, what you really want is functional dependencies. Coq, Idris, Agda, etc, etc.

Not a lot of fun to learn how they work, but they're really quite impressive.
Anytime i hear things like this, i back out of any long positions i have in it. When people at cocktail parties tell you buy company X, its a bad sign (overcrowded trade).
well, i did change from debian to ubuntu just because of the hardware drivers being there by default. So it's just logical.
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No shit. I've worked at companies that offered free bagels and it didn't make any difference to me in the long run.
You are right in general, but here we are not comparing AAPL's revenue vs GOOG's revenue. AAPL's profit is more than GOOG's revenue. Now that's definitely remarkable.
Sounds like a combination between flow-based programming and declarative programming. Perhaps a possible approach would be to write a flow-based programming language with some methods marked as "pure" which statelessly map input to output and others able to be written in a more traditional, imperative, less functional style?

In a flow-based architecture, it seems to me that by design, almost every component in the flow would be testable.
I've noticed both (typos and stems), and am impressed with how accurate it is.

I miss literal search, and then they removed +keyword - but fortunately, quotes do it now. For example, rip and "rip" give slightly different results, with different emphasis within them: https://www.google.com/search?q=rip https://www.google.com/search?q=%22rip%22

Google's predictive search while you type is amazing, especially because it is so fast - you can select the search you want. It's tab-completion for the web. And it can be informative in itself, if you aren't sure of the right terms. (i.e. the deep search problem of not knowing what you are looking for).

I think they are doing a great job of searching for what you want - which is their goal. Technically precise searches aren't their main goal (though I wish they retained it somewhere).

However... artificially ranking their own links, ranking that isn't objective, is deadly to the utility of their search, and to their brand. In the past, google products have seemed to rank highly, but google claimed this was their natural rank. What is the evidence against them now? EDIT ok, the evidence is explicit and damning: http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php EDIT2 ok, I'm not getting the results they claim, at all. I'm using "google.com" but from Australia. Maybe that's why.
Out of all the big players in tech, I think Apple understands very well about sliding into mediocrity. Apple has been around for a few decades now and they already experienced a huge decline before.
> Do people disagree that social signals can add to relevance? If not, then how does Google get these social signals, if they're locked out of FB and twitter?

Let's say fb/twitter release a public api to access the social signals. So things like number of likes on a particular news page. In return, is google willing to release the data on number of clicks on a particular search result for all queries? Seems a bit hyprocritical no ?
Love it, the interface is great.

I'd like to see query parameters stored in the URL instead. As others have mentioned, it'd be nice to be able to bookmark pages and you currently can't. In addition to the bookmarking use case, I'd want to be able to email links to the results (e.g., so my dad could check them out).

It was also initially confusing to return to the homepage to find my past query, not the search form. Even if you don't get around to embedding search parameters in URL right away, consider adding a clear button to erase all of my input and let me start fresh.

More of a nitpick, but when I made a typo on my zip code on the main page and hit submit, it also erased my entry for the search box. The form data should be persisted even if there is an error, and the problem input should be highlighted in red or something.
I don't know what led this reporter to believe that improved FFTs could speed up rendering on mobile phones. Is there any basis to this at all? Seems like you have to create the picture first, before FFTs can be useful at all.

Maybe he confused compression with rendering?
This really blew me away when we moved here. I'm assuming it was a carrot to get infrastructure build out but I have a hard time imagining that there wouldn't have been competition to do that even without the concession. I'd love to drop Comcast for an alternative.
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As a layman who has done a lot of research, I have 3 pieces of advice for people investing their 401k/IRA:

1) No Load Index Funds.

2) No Load Index Funds.

3) No Load Index Funds.

Seriously people. If your fund selection is so poor in your company's 401k that they don't have a single No Load Index Fund, lobby your HR to get one added, and put your money in the lowest load Index Fund, and put only the very minimum in there to get your company match, and put the rest in an IRA at a company that gives you the option of a No Load Index Fund.
I'm thinking that maybe this has nothing to do with mobile web vs native app this could be desktop vs mobile. This post makes it out to be like native apps are gimping the user share from mobile web but I just thinks it's people doing what they used to do on the desktop with their phones.
<fantasy> Google will have a mutiny where someone will kick out Larry and spin off Android, Google+, Youtube and Chrome OS and shift the focus back to basic Web search </fantasy>
Great discussion.

For those of you objecting to the lack of cited evidence for my point of view, please keep in mind that this was a short magazine piece, not a long form blog post. My point of view is certainly aspirational. But it also reflects my experience in the venture capital industry over the last decade.
America is an unparalled success story when compared to modern history. You're right...."there are many countries that admire and copy US lifestyle". And for good reason.

That doesn't mean that the US is right in every category??
they have a lot of this cash outside the US and the tax to bring it back is fairly high. I don't expect dividends on this basis.
Interesting.

Hard to think what it would be like if it got traction, though; you don't have a reliable way of telling if a single user has voted multiple times - so anyone with enough bitcoins could buy the front page, right?

To keep advertisements/spam away, users would have to be willing to outspend spammers - is that really going to work?
Surely, at that point, its just an advertising space, like a billboard, rather than a news site?

Another point is that, as posters get 80% of the bitcoins spent on their post, the poster (lets say they are a spammer) has more than a 5 to 1 natural advantage over legit users - because they get 80% of what they spend upvoting themselves.

Its interesting, but have you thought about these issues?
s/loose/lose
s/loosing/losing
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My experience matches yours. The synonyms and spelling corrections are tools that make my experience with google much better.

The issue, for me, continues to be the quality of the results. I still have a lot of issues with duplicate content polluting the results (particularly on programming related queries). I still have to dive a few pages deep way too often to find what I really want.

Although I've yet to find a competitor who consistently does better (or even as well).
What if you created a declarative language which allows you to override the algorithms in a functional/imperative? You could create a public algorithm repo that auto-pulls into your local machine on setup. Could search for algorithms by declarations. That would be a lot of reuse.
I think to have a truly declarative language that doesn't just dissolve into obscure commands at some point requires the language to have a true understanding of human language. Which to currently do well even just for answering questions requires Watson levels of computing power.
If you like Lisp, you can also give reading some papers from around the Haskell (and ML etc) community a try. Chris Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures is a good one.(See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf for the PhD thesis, or your local library for the expanded book of the same name.)
How is that Apple's fault? You'd have exactly the same false dilemma on any system where you wanted to run old and new software that weren't compatible with the same OS version. What if you were on Windows and wanted to run a new app that needed .NET and an old one that only worked on Win9x?

It's a false dilemma anyway, because you've ignored obvious solutions like virtual machines or dual booting. Again, exactly the same options you'd have on Windows, Linux, or whatever.
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Mostly, I'm able to search what I want but it takes me so many extra clicks that I can tell they don't respect my use cases.

For example, if I could I'd set synonym replacement on but turn off assuming I misspelled what I typed. Where's the option for that?
Surely $350M doesn't even get them started tho? Particularly with new high-density residential construction...
You already said you will be looking and SQL closer, so let me give a few pointers here.

Consider that in SQL you specif how to store data, including indexes, and then what you wan to get, but not how to get it. In other words you specify data structures and the engine picks a set of algorithms and builds an execution plan. The next logical step would be for the user to specify the schema, while the database engine is not only choosing algorithms but also reshapes your data into data structures that would allow optimal algorithm selection later on. At first it would only build new indexes, but then it could also start employing partitioning and ultimately move to normalization/denormalization.

Secondly, be on the looklout for when a problem reminds you of a SQL query. For example, a mail application looks like a query where you specify which fields from which emails you want to see and in what order, and on top of that query result you're specifying a style sheet, CSS on steroids, to make it render pretty. Style sheet is also declarative, not imperative! I am presently working on a framework that follows this model to facilitate iPhone app development, and it's looking pretty good already.
I can concur to this anecdote. I'm personally in the IT field, and just got tired of fixing computers all day, to come home and fix my own computer. It was something I loved enough to make a career out of, but yet I grew exasperated at having to maintain my own setup just to keep it in a semi-enjoyable state.

Once I had another hardware failure, I scrapped the whole thing for one of the first gen white Intel iMacs, and never looked back. I no longer get in to a domestic dispute with my computer when I come home at the end of the day. My desktop is at peace.
Oh, really? The title says "Agree or GTFO" on your screen? Odd, it doesn't look like that at all on mine.

Ever heard of a little thing called hypocrisy? Just curious.
ICloud has 85 million users?
Not sure how many of them are paying customers but the number is huge. The biggest surprise for me among all the other numbers.

Does this affect dropbox and/or other providers? Existing customers might not stop using them but new customer acquisition could be a problem?
I would suggest github or bitbucket for code projects.
bitbucket in particular supports hg, which is a mighty fine SCM.
No need to move away from Foxconn, Apple could easily dictate exactly what Foxconn needs to do.
does alot/all of the in-game models have to be redone?
This is the case in the U.S. as well. Apple products are considered chic, and people merely buy them for the fad value. Apple marketing has been very good lately - a stark change from "Think different." Their product release cycle and pricing are magnificent as well. While other computer makers are reeling from the crisis and subsequent changes in the market, Apple has created a small ecosystem that is very well designed to pull you in. Once you buy the peanut butter, you also need the jelly, the bread and the butter knife.
I'm not sure I follow you there, the web has always been more than just html content delivered to your browser. I mean now there is even more access to raw data (json/xml based API) less need to build html parsers and try to scrape sites.
i find changing my search from standard google to;
http://www.google.com/pda

eliminates instant preview and instant results that really annoy me.
This is really well made. I'm building something similar for other product categories. Hope to put it on HN soon.
The central claim by the researcher is dubious: that its easy by a lone attacker to find a 'vulnerable' ICS.

If so, why aren't ICS sabotaged all the time?
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I agree. I'm trying to learn RoR right now. Seems fast for 8 weeks!
No need for accolades, they pay themselves extraordinarily well.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-11/apple-ceo-s-stoc...
The article doesn't mention what type of batteries used (for any of the brands tested), which is pretty poor. For some reason, I expect better of wired.
1. Stay on Snow Leopard

2. Install and run VirtualBox, and install Lion (approved by Apple EULA).

3. ?????

4. Profit
And $1.7M revenue per employee. Including all the retail employees.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple+revenue%2Femploye...
Huge difference between Apple and Exxon, etc.

1) Big Oil is in an industry where demand is highly inelastic, while demand for consumer electronics is far more elastic.

2) Big Oil is the subject of huge direct and indirect subsidies. Apple benefits to some extent from the fact that they don't pay for some of the inherent costs of their profit-making activity (disposal of iPhones, etc). The energy industry generally, and the fossil fuels industry in particular, don't pay for a lot of the inherent costs of their activity. From an economic point of view, dollar of uncompensated environmental damage is as good as a dollar of direct subsidies. The BP settlement, at less than what BP would've had to pay in damages, was probably $10bn+ subsidy. I haven't seen statistics for the oil industry, but the indirect subsidies in the coal industry run to the $300-$500 billion/year range (http://www.fastcompany.com/1727949/coal-use-costs-half-a-tri...). I'd imagine oil is in the same ballpark.
I'd buy a phone without all the bells and whistles. My current phone has a calendar, stopwatch, email, games, and web browser, all unusable because the screen is the size of a postage stamp and there is no attached keyboard. But it makes phone calls pretty well and that's all I want in a phone.
And who do you think is building your Android handset, exactly?
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The two co-founders of sonic.net are both on Google+[1] and come across as the type of ISP that most of us can only dream about. They also frequently discuss the economics of networks[2]... it's pretty rare/valuable to get such a candid view from someone actually in charge of running an ISP business.

Living in NYC, I can't tell you how jealous I am. Time Warner Cable is the only viable (although still unreliable) option for most people here, and youtube.com/my_speed reports the local TWC average as 6.5mbps down (up is less than 1mbps).

Somewhat related note; methinks the next internet protest should be to keep the soon-to-be-released cable TV spectrum unlicensed and prevent the telco lobbyists from furthering their monopoly power by privatizing this public good.

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[1] Co-founders:

Scott Doty - https://plus.google.com/u/0/116236096836985934797/posts

Dane Jasper - https://plus.google.com/u/0/109338113746295186594/posts

[2] Triangulation Interview - http://twit.tv/tri5
Quite impressive indeed. I was particularly interested in the insane iPad numbers, which surprised me.

I thought I would use this opportunity to ask the HN community: what do you think people use their iPads for? Honest question - I have had one for a long time now and barely use it as it sits in this awkward middle between a "full" PC and a smartphone. With so many millions of iPads sold and Tim Cook saying "There Will Come A Day When The Tablet Market Is Larger Than The PC Market” I am trying to form an informed opinion but just fail to see what the use case is for the iPad (perhaps reading a book? casual web browsing? netflix/youtube?).

So what do you think the future of tablets holds? Link to studies on the topic are much appreciated as well!
I love the idea, but there is no way I am moving to the US, especially not to start a tech company, even if you pay me. Silicon valley may have a lot of talent and money, and Y combinator is awesome, but I'd rather not deal with the TSA, the DEA and the DHS. Fascist oligarchies are not conducive to startups.
Normally what you'd do at a mature company in a mature industry (oil, finance, etc.) is pay out 10-30% of your earnings, one or two times per year (or maybe quarterly). Apple would still keep (and keep adding to) its war chest.

Wall Street does heavily penalize companies which have started paying dividends if they ever cut the dividend (or end it), much more than it rewards companies for paying the dividend in the first place.

It's tricky -- tax policy (which does change over time), earnings, other uses of capital, and market expectations, all change.