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It always pays to check the fine print.

If you click through to the story this is based on, you find this:
http://betanews.com/2009/07/22/apple-has-91-of-market-for-1-...

Two caveats:

1. They're talking about revenue-share, not a share of units. That 91% revenue-share is very likely to translate into a somewhat smaller share of units because Apple's Mac ASP is probably substantially higher than the overall Windows ASP, even when you're restricting both to the $1000+ segment.

2. They're talking about PCs sold "at US retail". I'm not sure what their definition of that is (I couldn't easily find the original report), but there are two things it almost certainly does not include: sales to businesses and direct sales from manufacturer websites.

I find that unsurprising. I think it would be hard for NPD to gather that sort of data. However, both segments are important in $1000+ Windows PC market. Business buy plenty of $1000+ PCs (I'm sitting in a room of them). And the best price for a $1000+ consumer PC is almost always at the manufacturer website. I strongly suspect that, for most manufacturers (except Apple), the majority of $1000+ PCs are sold directly from their website.
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That’s not the point. If you patent it, you make that process public. That’s the intention behind patents. They were supposed to give inventors an incentive to publish how their inventions work while still protecting them.
I think it's longer than a year. It'll take something really huge to overcome "Well, if Facebook couldn't break out, who can?"

That will ripple back through all investment phases since the ipo is the dream payoff day for many investment rounds.
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It's probably easier to find bugs the deeper you get. There's the assumption that you're authorized, and fewer people get that deep so exploits come up less. It's far from ideal, but most of the issues are listed as low (2) or medium (2). Only one is listed as high (though the last is undisclosed).
Read the article. He is complaining about how the casino operated, not how he bet. One of the most crucial piecing of information in professional trading is knowing your exact risk position. NASDAQ apparently was unable to confirm whether trades were "done" or not. Having a uncertain $100mm exposure to something really scares a trader, since he cannot hedge it. This is the kind of situation where telephone hand pieces get snapped in half, and holes get punches through LCD screens. The flash crash a few years ago created a similar situation where the exchanges decided to cancel certain trades at their own discretion.

NASDAQ really botched the IPO. Trading was supposed to open at 11am, and it appeared to me it took until 11:20am to actually start. Problems persisted even after FB opened. They won the listing over the NYSE on the promise this sort of thing would not happen. Mega IPOs always seem to have a lot of drama. GOOG had a lot of stupidity with some interview Larry or Sergey did with Playboy, and I think a few other issues. Finally FB got to the end of the long road to going public.
I would need alot more information about this before I'd be comfortable buying btc from them.
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The concept of a "descriptor" as an object for memory accesses that helps with bounds checking and preventing memory overruns was borrowed lock stock and barrel (including the terminology) into the Symbian OS's C++ API - classes TDesC, TDes, TPtrC, etc. Contrary to the amount of bitching one hears, they were a pleasure to work with, for me, due to the confidence due to bounds checking, efficient representation (perfectly ok to stack copy them) and it was just convenient to have to never pass additional length arguments anywhere internally.

... ok 'nuff fond reminiscing.
Yes, but hell, it looks awesome so far.
We are testing in Silicon Valley only and will hopefully go worldwide. Singapore has a great startup ecosystem that's just taking off!
The contracts absolve NASDAQ of liability in calamities of this nature (my business was almost destroyed -- had to take a 250K loss -- thanks to an order entry server failure), but it doesn't make you feel better.

Having had something similar happen to me, I know how much it sucks. You accept its a possibility, but don't really believe it will happen until it does.
I set a minimum requirement of Opauth Core to be PHP >= 5.2 (though technically it runs fine on >= 5.0) and tries as best as I could to not introduce any unnecessary dependencies, which is the reason why cURL isn't bundled and basic HTTP calls are made through get_file_contents(); and hashing is done through iterations of salted sha1() instead of bundling 3rd party encryption scheme.

Yes, file_get_contents() is not that great, but strategy developers can choose to require cURL if they want, just that Opauth Core doesn't require it.
FBOs are absolutely part of ES2, and thus presumably an official part of WebGL. I've used them in embedded contexts, but never in a browser. And as always, this is on the bleeding edge of what the drivers are prepared for, so dragons may lurk. But at least in principle it should work.
Exactly analogous to its web crawlers means fully-automated, regular, scheduled collection of GIS data.
Surely your "smartphone" can read a PDF?
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The original email I sent was:

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However I'm worried - most manufacturers offering low-price Android
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My "secret" is to hold the bottle in my hand and swing my arm in a large arc, using centrifugal forces to pull the ketchup towards the mouth of the bottle.

(With the cap on, obviously).

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It does seem rather limited.

1) It's not real-time: it would likely refresh data every couple of weeks. That limits the number of applications.

2) The data gathered would be... well, my lack of imagination is stumping me here. The number and species of trees people have? The color of their houses? New business openings? Typical length of lines outside the door? The existence and extent of potholes on the road?

3) I'm sure even expanding street view would be valuable. But the leap from effective autonomous vehicles providing street view data on public roads to autonomous vehicles providing transportation to real consumers seems pretty small to me.
Really appreciated. pdf can't hurt, but epub version would be more friendly for kindle.
Here's my favorite part:

" The question is will NASDAQ do the right thing. They made $400 million last year and could pay out some."

what the everloving...ffuuu.. I hear whine whine whine from the 99%, and now I hear whine whine whine from a freakin hedge fund manager who BET $100m on FB. IS this the state of affairs now? Country full of WHINERS??
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Except for the memory corruption part. When reading that, I'm more aghast that we're still dealing with these basic bugs like "out of bounds array write leads to ROP chain that executes arbitrary code in the process". That just makes me feel even more that huge million-line codebases of C++, even well-engineered code like Chrome, cannot be trusted, because of the fundamental flaws in the C++ memory model for code that must be secure.
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It depends on the agreement, and whether the NASDAQ guys could reasonably have known there was going to be trouble. I'm pretty sure that agreement only covers unforeseen problems, so if they knew something was funky, they might be liable for a lot more than $3MM.
This is a crummy headline, the article/interview focuses on problems with Nasdaq's systems, which is far more interesting than some trader whining about a loss (which happens every day).
To be blunt, you have no idea what you're talking about here.
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And sales@apc.io is bouncing too. Classy.
Better traffic data? Accurate travel time data?
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I have a strong hunch on this one that the limitations are on our imaginations, and not on the potential applications once such an infrastructure existed.

I agree that the leap to transportation is small and that it will happen. I just can't see why Google would have been motivated to do it for that reason, but I can see World Crawlers as a natural evolution of their core mission.
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Awesome blog and story. I'm just wondering why there was no haggis or blood pudding in the pics I saw. That is what I'd be protesting. It is bloddy Scotland after all!
Ask HN: Where is the source file for the Paredit Cheatsheet?
I'm learning to program Clojure and Emacs Lisp, and mastering the ParEdit minor mode for Emacs goes with the territory.

There's a nice cheat sheet for ParEdit, which is easily found with a search for "paredit cheatsheet". However, it's downloadable only as a relatively low-resolution PNG file. To counter eye strain, I've been using "zoom in" while viewing it on my laptop, but the fonts look jagged as a result and I find that distracting.

Does anyone in the HN community have the source file or know where it can be located?

I'd like to generate a high resolution PDF which will look nice in full-screen mode on my laptop, and then make the source and PDF publicly accessible via GitHub.
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It's the versatility of emacs that keeps me coming back. I need to use R for this project? Python? C? Well, at least I can use it through the comforting interface of emacs.
Just to add to this comment. $100MM at 2% management fees, leaves $2MM for expenses (audit, legal, accounting), officers and staff. He probably makes most of his annual take in a performance bonus, which this 'screw up' probably reduced.

FWIW, my favorite part showing how these short term guys think: "we heard rumors there was a market in Europe for $70/share" fast forward to "this thing should have been trading in the $60 to $70 range." Based on a rumor from another continent.
I was expecting this to be like "How to read Haskell like Python", but of course it took the exact opposite approach.

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/
Does all of the USA and UK have school provided lunches? Here, where I am (Canada), schools don't provide a lunch to the students, and the cafeteria food that can be purchased is quite unhealthy (pizza, fries etc.). I'm in high school right now, which might be why it's different, but I don't remember being provided a lunch from the school in elementary school either.
What the fuck have people in this thread been drinking? It could be harassment if they'd had sex a hundred times, or no times, if they'd been married, or if they'd never met before. The sex isn't the issue here! Pause for a second, and think critically about the issue, rather than spewing crap onto the internet.

If you ask someone to stop such a pattern of behavior and they don't, that's harassment regardless of your personal history.
OK a correction: technically an intellectual ventures firm owns most of the patents now. But some were sold or licensed to Intel, some were already perpetually licensed to nvidia, and AMD had invested in them in order to use the patents as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta#Timeline
It's a perfectly respectable word.

Yeats - It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity

Joyce - Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
My languages of choice do make creating custom data structures at least as easy as Haskell, and I still rarely do it.

In most cases I've found it's faster in implementation time, testing time, and running time to just use built in data structures when possible. Even in Haskell.
A few weeks back, All Things Considered had a really interesting piece on a school lunch program in Bangalore:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/06/149867092/indian...

Obviously, that's just one program, and in just one city in just one country, but I thought it was pretty neat.
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If he admits that it never had a shot, why did he invest in the first place?

Additionally, would we be feeling bad for Facebook if they had underpriced the IPO and the trader had made 25% profit on day one (and Facebook lost out on a potential 25% of fundraising)?
I think it's the kind of attenuation that the market needs right now because it basically discourages investors that buy in based on hype instead of intrinsic value.
Without the slippery coating though you end up with either that slamming motion or a toothpaste tube effect
The human environment is a lot better today than it ever was before. That era that you could catch and eat fish out of the river? It's the same era where medicine was primitive (no antibiotics, no anesthetics, no chemotherapy), food was comparatively scarce (and most of the population toiled to produce it), etc. Everything was much harder to do, and life was generally shorter on top of all that.

You say "before we populated the Midwest, you could actually catch fish..."

But that presupposes that I exist in the first place. If you somehow repealed the industrial revolution, I and millions of other people would not exist. Without modern industry to transform it, the natural environment could not sustain the majority of people alive today. (So there might be lots of fish, but not many humans to catch and enjoy them.) Nature as you hold it does not represent any kind of ideal, because under that view, I (and nearly everything I hold dear), do not exist.
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I agree with you. For all the startups that wanted to be the "Facebook of X"... if Facebook couldn't do it, why could they?
I doubt it's that bad. It might be that he hadn't done any bit hacking in C in a while. If you haven't coded in matlab for a long time and I asked you (during an interview!) to do random bit hacking, you might feel stumped too. You'd probably want to play around with it for a minute and re-figure it out, but you've got an interview waiting for you to produce an answer right away.
Absent the source document, I tried blowing up the PNG with Photoshop, using settings suited to enlarging a text-heavy graphic. I then saved it as a PDF:

https://raw.github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/prelude/master/pers...

It looks okay, certainly better than a zoom-in on the PNG file.

Another option would be to recreate the cheatsheet with Libre Office, or InDesign, LaTex, etc. However, that would take more time and I'm hoping someone has or has access to the source file and can share it.
There has to be some sweet, sweet irony in the idea being explored that high-frequency traders may have caused the NASDAQ breakage.

From an HN post earlier today (http://www.nanex.net/aqck/3099.html):

"...In brief, the problem was that the system took two extra milliseconds to calculate the opening price. Because of a decision before to allow continuous order placement during IPOs, cancellations kept “fitting in between the raindrops”, in the words of Bob Greifeld, Nasdaq’s chief executive, in the five milliseconds it was taking to determine a price."
6.001 doesn't exist anymore. The new set of intro courses are completely different. It sounded like you thought 6.001 is now taught in some other language.
Is there really any meaning left in the term bubble if a bubble can deflate?
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Problem is there's no rules. Noone got in any legal trouble over at NASDAQ. People do insider trading without getting caught. It's a rigged game.
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It would be nice if a link were provided to a simple example showing off the template. Lots of hoop jumping to see hello world...
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Pointlessly interactive.
That's the free market! Oh wait, that only applies to when you're winning. You ask/beg/sue for relief when it goes the opposite way.
You could just as well rewrite that for any other politically convenient target:

We are not going to evolve as a society until we abolish corporatized capital. I know that this is a strong statement. And it is likely to attract serious disagreement. Take this as on man's opinion and nothing else.
It is my contention that in modern times corporatized capital has done absolutely nothing good for our society. I understand that they had a time and a place to exist. Today, there's far more evidence of the damage they cause than the positive effects they may have been intended to produce.

Corporations create a false economy. One where people are paid exorbitant amounts of money for work that could be done for less in an open market. Corporations also create stagnation both in terms of innovation and of human capital. Corporate shareholders exist in an isolated cocoon where there is no need to excel or evolve past your station. Corporations damage competitiveness at a national and international level. Corporations damage the economy and destroy industries by creating contracts with unreasonable terms, benefits and pensions. Corporations in government create a nasty conflict-of-interest situation where hordes of shareholders contribute as a unified block supporting the very laws and politicians that regulate their own companies (oversee your own pollution, legal compliance, etc.). Corporations also use this vote-by-dollar approach to influence politics and the politicians that want their cash.

It is my opinion that corporate managers and shareholders, as individuals, are generally good hard-working people. However, once their thoughts and actions are controlled by the need to support their "team" (the corporation) the collective can, and often becomes, evil in many ways. Case in point: HP had a contract clause that caused Carly Fiorina to get paid tens of millions of dollars just for getting fired. She earned tens of thousands of times the average worker's salary to actively damage the business. The Chinese have got to be laughing their asses off when they see us self-destruct this way.

Fossil fuel companies are yet another example. The list of evils is too long to list here. The most basic one is the inability to tax them for emitting pollution that threatens to criminally kill millions.

We would be able to move at a very different pace if corporations went away. I won't hold my breath.
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Yes, even the ones AT&T locked. Look in settings for a developer/development submenu on any device.
Which is exactly what the patent is supposed to describe, in detail.

Take X, Do Y, Add special sauce Z. We have patented this method biatches, no touchies.
The point of a patent is that you must disclose the method in return for a limited monopoly.

It's to encourage the sharing of techniques!
Even if AT&T isn't held to certain liabilities, if an OTA bricks peoples phones and they don't do anything about it it would be a media shitstorm.
Sorry, but that job title probably won't fit. ;) We use whatever title you're using on LinkedIn when you login to the app.

Also, see below re: 'artificer' as a word.

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Kind of true, but I'm wondering if there is more to be gained in Silicon Valley by deflating and delaying the pop of the bubble a year or longer or by prompting a string of tech IPOs that will line the pockets of engineers that can fund many startups several years later after the pop. As someone working on a startup now and looking to move from bootstrapped stage to seed stage, I'd rather see the bubble deflate now. Lining the pockets of a Facebook Mafia and several other "mafias" doesn't do me and others like me a whole lot of good in the near to medium term.
I suppose as a hedge-fund manager he isn't an investor valued towards fundamentals, but if he really thinks Facebook should be valued at $60-70, then I'm not sure some NASDAQ crapping out on one day would change that. If Facebook turns out to be the next Google in terms of ever-growing profits, its stock will get to $70 (and higher) as a result anyway.
There was an episode of the podcast Planet Money where they claimed that the American Airline industry has, as a whole, actually lost money over the course of its existence. As in, overall, net financial loss.
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Definitely +1, that is a lovely system.
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For context, direct link to NASDAQ rule 4626:

http://nasdaq.cchwallstreet.com/nasdaq/main/nasdaq-equityrul...

EDIT: Also, "NASDAQ Equity Trader Alert #2012-21:
NASDAQ Proposes Policy for Unfilled Orders in the Facebook Inc. (FB) IPO Cross":

http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/TraderNews.aspx?id=ETA2012-21

(Their website fails to work in Chrome if you click around -- alert bubble states only IE and Firefox are supported. Tsk tsk.)
You make a very good point.

Is someone who is doing a startup in hopes of hitting the startup lottery (when you get bought out) a scam artist?
"This should have been a blockbuster."

Karma!
Paraphrasing: If government does the right thing, criminals hate them, and if they do the wrong thing, victims hate them.

What can they do, indeed?
Well technically it's an array after that split.
But now you're asking Google to intuit which bits of privacy you want (no Google app data) and which you don't (non-Google apps associated with your Google account are ok).

What about non-Google apps that use Google services / APIs on your behalf? What about apps that were non-Google when you downloaded them but were later bought by Google? And on and on.

Plus, other people are going to draw the line in different places. Should Google present a giant switchboard where you can decide exactly what to keep and what to get rid of? I feel sure that if they had, someone else would be here talking about Google's "social engineering" because they make the process of deactivating your Google account on an Android device so complicated.

The overwhelmingly commonest case for deactivating the primary Google account on an Android device is because you're giving that device to someone else. In that case you almost always actively want a factory reset. It is entirely reasonable for Google to keep things simple and optimize for that.

In most other cases, the data (not apps) you're talking about is either backed up to your Google account and/or can be straightforwardly backed up another way (e.g. apps letting you export to the SD card, emailing yourself notes, etc.). Dealing with those sorts of issues in your corner case isn't an unreasonable burden (contrast this with the Facebook situation, where almost everyone exporting their contacts from Facebook wants the email addresses, too).
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I think you're missing his point. Work experience should be proof enough in our industry. A high-stress interview process does not really prove anything.
The Raspberry Pi starts up by loading an opaque blob into the GPU, and that then runs the CPU under supervision. ie the CPU is a servant and controlled by the GPU, not the other way around as is normal in the PC world.

So irrespective of your video intentions, you are still at the mercy of a blob.