skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RIM's current market cap: 7B

RIM's highest ever market cap (6/20/08 @ $145/share): 76B

Apple's current market cap: 580B

The comparison isn't even close, and that's just the financials. Take a look at the market segments each company covers, and you find a similar disparity in comparison.

Yes, Steve Jobs was a huge part of the vision of Apple. But he wasn't everything. Apple is successful because of how the company is run, and coincidentally, Tim Cook is a huge part of that. If you remember, 12 years ago Apple was a struggling company selling computers to designers, illustrators and some educational institutions. Since then, Apple has transformed itself to be the dominant high-end personal computer maker, the dominant high-end smartphone maker, and the dominant tablet maker in consumer electronics. They managed to grow and flourish a retail business model in a decade that saw the demise of retail as more companies shifted to online distribution channels (an effort led, coincidentally, by Tim Cook). They have more cash on hand than the U.S. government.

If anything, a better comparison would be Apple 1999 : RIM 2012. Except that RIM doesn't have a Steve Jobs-type product visionary to bring it back from the brink of death.
So.... basically you're complaining that there's too much interest in accessories for some of the most popular consumer electronics devices in all of human history?

Don't be that guy. That "oh, I used to like that band, but then they got popular and sold out" guy. There's nothing wrong with people loving their idevices enough to want to spend even more money on accessories that make them better. And it doesn't take away from the rest of the market, if anything the great attention to kickstarter in general is helpful.

Kickstarter is not necessarily about "breaking bounds" or being revolutionary. It's about helping small groups of people and individuals make their dream projects reality. Sometimes those projects are merely mildly evolutionary, that's not a problem, evolutionary is just fine. Merely accelerating the pace of evolution in product design is enormously useful.
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Also A/B test the pop-over dialog to see what works best.
I would be interested in meeting up for fun/ programming practice/ etc. depending on where you live here. If you would like, shoot me an email and we can chat :)

Edit: ninja
I do this too. CTRL-click to open a new tab.

That is NOT working for me on a Mac.
Cheers! Thanks Rishi!
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I graduated from UF in 2004. This was the exact reason why I did not pursue a degree in computer science alongside my finance degree. The only course I took in the computer science department (Something like Problem Solving with MS Office) was completely unorganized. I picked up my programming background on my own and in graduate school.
The try/except is the preferred python way of doing things. In Python, try/except is cheap, and in the case where the try actually succeeds, you can gain a slight performance benefit. In this case, since performance is the goal, it is perfect for memoize.
Inspired by ZeroBin I started to wonder whether you could create a pastebin service with no server side component. Shortly (yeah I'm not really sure what is with the name) is the result of that.

Data is compressed using the deflate algorithm, then base64 encoded to ensure it can be stored safely in a URL. It is then set as the window.location.hash of the current page. Testing with various URL shorteners has shown that they don't care about long URLs generated by this. I still need to add checks to ensure that the URL isn't too long (I'm looking at you IE), but as a quick proof-of-concept I'm happy with what I've come up with. I'm wondering whether the same idea could be used to share data in other formats...
Its true that this part seems like not a big deal. But I think with the growing number of devices in everyones arsenal, it's becoming more of a burden. I charge 2 laptops, a cell phone, and a tablet every night. A kindle every once in awhile. I'm on the fence on this one too. The product looks awesome, just wish that number(7 days) was bigger. Part of this may be just getting used to the whole concept. I'd imagine you'd get pretty reliable battery life out of this, not like a cell phone where apps consistently have the potential to suck the life out of your phone. But I definitely would of liked to see some features mentioned on this to conserve more battery when you're using it as a watch and not a smartphone buddy. Solar cells, and being able to disable bluetooth etc.
I'm highly suspect of this motive. It seems like first stage of EEE.

It's odd they're putting emphasis on standardization of HTML5, when their latest browser is two years behind. Their HTTP 2.0 initiatives just seems like an attempt to retard Google's SPDY protocol.
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What advantage does this chrome extension have over just going to the trello webpage?
ok sorry I was confused.
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This could be extended by adding file upload support. What impact would this have under a SOPA-world?
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I was planning on transferring to UF next fall to get a bachelors in Computer Science. It worries me how little the university cares about Computer Science if they're planning to make such a decision. I personally would like to thank everyone who signed this for rallying against such actions.
I strictly use XCode for C/Objective-C/C++ programming. I don't do any web programming.

So having instant access to the API references, the ability to drop into the debugger, set breakpoints in-editor, etc. are all must-have features for me.

Especially since I'm relatively new to Mac OS X Platform Development.

When I write Java code, I also use Eclipse.
Yeah! All I'm really looking for is for the person to acknowledge my donation.

BTW, I did just donate a small amount to the chili project. One more piece of feedback. My real name shows up on the donation page. Not a big deal, but I'd prefer if my user name appeared there instead. I'd like to remain semi-anonymous.
For a memoize function, try/except is perfect. You gain a slight speed benefit from function calls that are memoized as compared to the "if x not in y", and since memoize is all about speeding up repetitive function calls, it's the most optimal choice. Using the "if x not in y" you are giving up speed of the "x is actually in the y" in exchange for a cheaper than "except", however if you are memoizing a function, chances are that the function is going to eat up processing power making your optimization of the "exceptional case" at the expense of the "normal case" not worth it.

As far as people understanding code - this is a common pattern in python code, try / except should be easy for anyone to understand.
That my fried, is called experience.
Thanks for the exhaustive response.

I agree with almost everything you say; you seem to have it right then, I just didn't go through github so I never saw the README.

However, I would still argue that you should get rid of the packages, that's extra-work you could better spend elsewhere. For someone installing a dev-toolkit it's absolutely not too much asked to paste "echo >>~/.bash_profile 'source ~/.meteor/magic.sh'".

They have to do that anyway as soon as they need the latest git-HEAD because of some bug in the release version (we know how it goes, don't we? ;-)).

So by giving them the right instructions right away you save them this extra step. And you save yourself from making a bad (and false!) first impression on the older and grumpier devs like myself.
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I think it should include a note that Shift+Right Click opens the standard context menu. And then let the standard context menu open when you hold down shift.
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that was a joke ;)
Mostly closed source, sadly.
The work and conditions shown in that video (although obviously not the pay) don't seem too different to IBM's factory in Greenock, Scotland in the late '90s/early '00s.

The scale was smaller, since it was pre-Lenovo ThinkPads and Netfinity servers, not millions of iPads, but it had a surprisingly similar feel.
[Disclosure: I worked at VMware from 2002 through 2011.]

I take issue with the claim that the competition "quickly followed" on for (at the least) the transparent page sharing feature. VMware was shipping transparent page sharing in their type 1 hypervisor since ESX 1.5, which was released before I joined the company.

KSM was first proposed in 2008, and I believe it didn't actually ship until 2009 (note: the delay was at least in part because the developers wanted to avoid the possibility of exposure to patent litigation since VMware held a patent on the technology, software patents are evil, blah blah).

You can tell a similar story for VMotion/live migration of running virtual machines; VMware first shipped it in 2003 and it was at least 2007 before any competing hypervisors were shipping a similar feature (Hyper-V didn't have it until 2008 R2, Xen had it sooner - possibly in 2007?).
Great. You just ruined someone's billion dollar payday.
Yup, we're working on anonymous giving, definitely will have that up very soon!

Just hold tight, hopefully you'll enjoy having donated to the project. :)
years -> days is a much bigger difference than 7 days -> 2 days
Andrew, it's a great show. You do a great job. But it did crack me up because I came to Mixergy to watch Rob and it was my first Mixergy episode so I thought it was a bit humorous. Didn't mean anything person by it, youre doing a great job.
From the How It Works page: "Developers include a JavaScript library in their application which gives them access to a shared data structure (your Firebase). Any changes made to that data structure are automatically propagated to all other clients and to the Firebase servers....If a user modifies a piece of data a callback will be triggered on every client allowing it to respond to the change."

It sounds like every client gets a full copy of the entire database. You wouldn't exactly want to run reddit on this.

Or am I missing something?
I'm not trying to spin this to make Google look bad.

It just looks like that their spending an awful lot of money to arrive at a net income which is almost equal to the amount of money they spent.
We've been at covert war with them for some time, and this is just another shot fired.

That said, one hell of a shot. They hit Iran, Syria, Russia, China (and Germany!) with one little leaked bullet...each of those countries is eyeing their industrial processes and engineers just a but more closely after today.
Interesting. I'd buy a watch with e-ink display, front light on demand, independence of phone for basic functions and at least several weeks battery life.
They are accurate representations of the people I have met and worked with. The sad truth is that most people do not really know javascript.
I was amazed that they may have removed the requirement for an independent audit of the accounting, but after looking into the changes it looks like it absolutely doesn't remove the requirement for an audit. Based on the summary that I read it looks like the main change with respect to an audit is that it only goes back two years from the IPO instead of five, and the auditor doesn't have to do a test of the internal controls. In practice this doesn't diminish the value of the audited financials nearly as much as your post would suggest.

[0] http://auditorsopinion.com/2012/04/04/the-jobs-act-debate/
Any investor that is worth their salt will do their own homework and come up with their own metrics for how they value a company.

The government should get out of the business of deciding what is appropriate for companies to report. As history has shown the government does a terrible job(Volt, Solar, etc.) of investing / guiding investments(mortgages).
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I think it's overrated. :/
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But that response was in reference to the comment asking him why he would want to take advantage of a bubble rather than rely on his own talents. To that comment, his response makes little sense.
What I like most about Firebase so far compared to Meteor, is that I can actually read about Firebase and its excellent documentation from any machine with any web browser!

Well done, thank you.
and a multivariate engine to test different font face/wording combinations for logo download conversion tracking.
Or making a comment on a web site that uses Facebook as their comment engine. That doesn't mean anything about whether they are visiting the Facebook site itself....
As a Flashblock user, I love the idea.
Paramount exec faces skeptical crowds on post-SOPA outreach tour
But the grandparent is more nuanced than that; it points out that regulation failed because it's been steadily stripped down. The attempted framing is not "we need more regulation", but "we need to return to what worked well in the past."

(SOX is just one part of the argument, though IMO the weakest part.)
Just pointing out some basic logic that may or may not be present in the above, but is not apparent either way: Just because one solution fails, it does not necessitate "all solutions fail, the right answer is no solutions". Perhaps the problem was in SO itself. Perhaps the problem is in the concept of regulation. Maybe a systemic fix would work better than bolted on regulation, and better than same system, no fixes at the same time. Perhaps a rethinking of some of those core components would be nicer.

Edit for those who are apparently thinking this is some sort of troll: Why can we look at code, say a scaling problem, and say "the answer is not a bigger server or a tweak on the existing code base, but a rework of the core components to work horizontally" and get kudos, but when similar questions are asked of government/financial systems, it is instantly and unfathomably bad?
That suggests there was a first attack in this conflict; AIUI, the Israel vs. middle east conflict is centuries old, and this is just the latest chapter of escalation and posturing. Once could also argue that Iran is justified in wanting to eliminate Israel because Israel is acting to prevent Iran's growth.

Don't mistake my words for wanting to live in Iran -- I just find myself disgusted when we westerners use a ridiculous double standard when judging our own behavior as compared to that of some country we don't like.
Though it's falling further and further behind mainstream browsers, Konqueror seems to take a principled stand on some of these things - I can still right-click on the github logo normally, and my keyboard isn't intercepted by flash plugins.

I think there's a small market for a browser (or browser plugin) that's all about client control. Querying mouse position, hijacking keypresses and showing popup windows and modal dialogs should be activated with a "This site tried to... Allow/Deny".

NoScript gets part of the way there, but I think you could go even further. Pages should display as soon as the HTML starts downloading, before CSS is loaded, before JS is all there, whatever. I don't care if this causes the page to jump a few times, or if it breaks a few scripts because it's not standards compliant, I just want to read my content on a slow connection.

I probably want to disable webfonts. They're a vanity thing, mostly, and the more I consider it the more I think I should be picking the fonts I read.

Maybe you could go even further - for specific sites with really atrocious interfaces you could have custom-written interfaces that almost completely remodel them (a'la Readability, I guess). I'm sure it would annoy web developers to have their pages render "incorrectly" on your screen, but screw them. My browser, my rules.
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UPI is (or was) a legitimate news organization and, anyway, Richard Sale was there before it was bought by Rev. Moon. If you're trying to imply there's a connection there, I think you're wrong.
Not just flash, all plugins, which is a good security idea, considering how Microsoft likes to slip in theirs via windows update.

I see the setting in FF12b5 but not sure if it works yet.
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This is absolutely ridiculous. Can't imagine university like UF doesn't have CS program.....
Very neat script. Zolrath (Matt Furden) is a member of HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3772678
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It's really easy to bash Microsoft based on their history of interaction with the OSS community - remember Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? However it is no longer 1999 and the environment has changed. Microsoft is no longer the Great Satan that everyone is scared will dominate everything. They'll act in ways that further their world view and bottom line (primarily Windows and Office) and if that means genuine engagement, they'll do it.

There are plenty of people within Microsoft who would love to be in this space. Endorsement (if that's what this is) could unleash a swarm of smart people working on hard problems for the benefit of all. And it could just be another marketing stunt.
Is your contention that, because the original author once worked for a subsidiary of a newspaper founded by a religious nutjob that the story is unreliable?
That's quite useful! I hope you're making money from it.
Open up your protocols first.
I'm not asking for anonymous giving. I'm asking that my user name appears on the backers page instead of my full name.

It doesn't bother me that the project (or the site) knows my real name. However, I feel better if future employers of mine don't know about my love of hot chilis :-)
Sorry... I can't help seeing "infiltrate" rather than "engage with".
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That's not really a concern specific to Firebase or Meteor. Also, such costs are tiny, especially with hardware to deal with it.
This thesis[1] might help as a starting point. It is primarily focused on simulating colorblindness for the non-colorblind, and gives some transformations between trichromatic and dichromatic vision.

[1] http://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/26950/000761...
It's command + click on mac.
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Google "Hexadecimal" or "Binary" and look at number of results found.
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It sounds like someone should create a device to centralize power.

Charge one unit, and all the other units can pull energy from it.

Maybe there is a need for a micro-form factor rechargeable battery that can be put in electronic devices as a standard.
And run the entire server out of memory. 64GB of ram is cheap on servers now; you boot from a write-protected flash drive, and everything is done in memory. If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost.
The about:config setting currently works only in Firefox 14, available on the Nightly channel: http://nightly.mozilla.org/
Hrm, if you add a link shortening service you can host the pastebin http://bit.ly/IcBhvN
This is very interesting - YT link for those who prefer to download and watch at a faster speed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t...

"Ben Schmidt used the R language and data recorded in by hand in ship logs[] to create the animation above. Like all good data visualizations, it's not just fascinating to look at, it draws the viewer in to inspect the details and wonder. For example, at around 3:25 check out the flotilla of Spanish ships leaving the east and west coasts of South America in the early 1778 and converging on Europe in the summer. I'm no history buff[*] and a little Googling didn't reveal what this was all about -- does anyone know? Ben points out other historical events, such as Captain Cook's exploration of the south Pacific in 1772-1775.

In sailing, the weather certainly was a factor, which leads to another cool detail: that bouncing month indicator isn't just there for show. The month is positioned at location of the sun at noon in Africa - when it's near the the south it indicates summer in the southern hemisphere, and summer in the North when it's near Egypt. Ben has also created a seasonal version of the chart, showing all of the voyages of the period by month. You can see that animation, plus much more detail and commentary from Ben about the shipping data themselves, at the link below."
Is your comment speaking as one who thinks conservatives are right wing ignorant people?
I'd guess that people who wants to open a link on a new tab but doesn't know how to middle-click or command + click is indeed a very small minority.
I thought it would let me make a comment like subversion and mercurial do.
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If offering support was in any way required for Google's business model, they would consider it.

As it's not it would only be a waste of time as people calling as Google "customers" would ask about their search difficulties or Gmail formatting concerns.
This was the key quote from the article for me.

The question is: How many of those 200,000 people are actually engaging with Everyme, rather than just ignoring messages from the app? Cameron says it’s too soon to say, since not everyone is checking their email constantly.
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This was written for DCPU-16 Studio, which doesn't comply with the spec. If people ever want to use it ingame (or on all the other emulators), they would have to mod the input and graphics.
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Man tough crowd. Can Microsoft do anything right around these parts? Sheesh.
> Business guy means taking risk, being persistant, able to sell and to network. That's it.

Taking risk doesn't make you a good at business. In fact, quite the opposite. Great businessmen are experts at limiting their risk and identifying and acting on high risk-to-reward opportunities.

One of the reasons so many businesses fail is the misguided notion that you "must" take a lot of risk to start a business. So people take out a lot of debt / make risky decisions because they believe it's just part of the whole process. I think the best way to start a business and excel is to limit your risk and bootstrap as much as possible.

However, I do agree with you on the other three... ;-)
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