skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In December 2000, Microsoft had a market capitalization of $510 billion, making it the world’s most valuable company. As of June it is No. 3, with a market cap of $249 billion. In December 2000, Apple had a market cap of $4.8 billion and didn’t even make the list. As of this June it is No. 1 in the world, with a market cap of $541 billion."

In other words, Apple is currently about where Microsoft was when they started paying dividends a little more than a decade ago...i.e. The point where they went from a growth company to a the sort of "blue chip" held by index funds.

The past decade has been spent securing their place in enterprise - their core market and one in which Apple, Google, and Facebook offer little competition. With loads of cash, a conucopia of brilliant personnel and Gates and Ballmer as the two largest shareholders, the whims of Wall Street bloggers don't have much effect.
If nothing else, Google will probably win based on the use of "Youtube" (a trademark) in the domain name.
Surely, fame is insufficient reason to start drawing parallels? If not, what about Brunel vs Phelps or Paris Hilton?
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I don't think that's how this works. AFAIU, this works because it literally wipes out your HIV-infected immune system and replaces it with a new one(not HIV-resistant per se). Correct me if i am wrong.
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Maybe it has something to do with cost overrun that professor Bent Flyvbjerg researches.

Basically he says that budget estimations are prone to a cognitive fallacy by those with planning powers.

EDIT: added "estimations"
Wait till they start learning Calculus - by this point it would be extremely useful to have understood that slope is a rate that describes how two variables change in relation to one another!
I believe I have xcode 4.3, time to snatch the new one I suppose!
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Same thing here. Gnome Shell integrates perfectly with my workflow while Unity does not. I would like to leave Gnome 3 for something better, but that thing is definitely not Unity. I really don't understand all the hate about Gnome 3. There is pros and cons like every other window manager. I use it everyday (mainly for coding and system administration) and it's very stable and it got everything I need and well configured by default.
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Now someone will have to write a blog post about your usage of "retarded".
Last time London hosted the Olympics was post-war 1948, on a budget of less than a million pounds (I'm not sure if that figure is adjusted for modern currency or not, but either way it's not much money) - they didn't even build any new buildings for it.
>It's more fun than Disneyland!

That's not a high bar to clear when Disneyland is so congested that you can't get on all of the rides.

(Or any without waiting an eternity in line.)
Can you elaborate? What CPM do you think he's getting on these ads?

I'd expect that he doesn't have a particular niche beyond music or music video, and in my experience as you gain more traffic the CPM price that you can command actually goes down and not up.

Facebook only has a CPM of 30 cents to 50 cents.
Yes, Microsoft has a safe market in the enterprise.

But in 2000 they still had a growing consumer market (remember Windows 95 was only 5 years ago).

Now they are struggling to protect that consumer market, while markets they expected to dominate (remember when Windows Mobile + Exchange was supposed to kill off Blackberry?) have proven to be no only complete failures for Microsoft, but have become weaknesses through which other companies are pushing products into the Enterprise.

Just about every CIO in the world said the iPhone would never be allowed in the enterprise, right up until their CEO demanded it.

Then the same CIOs discovered they could sell using Google Mail in their enterprise as "Oh, it's just the same as GMail", while cutting their costs hugely over Exchange.

Then VMWare came along and allowed CTOs to run non-homogenous platforms in the datacenter, and do it much cheaper than the old way.

Make no mistake: Microsoft makes good money and is still a force, but the last decade truly was a lost opportunity for them.
This is incorrect.

You have a minimum of 100MB of RAM from each app. That gives you 10 apps (total: 2 GB)

But If you have only 1 app, you can increase the memory quota for that instance to 2 GB.
Robots.txt doesn't apply if your program is acting via user commands.

If I tell my browser to 'rip' Youtube.com, its just as fine as if I tell Youtube-mp3.org to rip a specific video for me. In both cases, technology is acting as a tool and not an automation.
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Most big projects of this nature come in over budget. The reason is the incentives of the politicians coming up with budget estimates.

If they come up with a realistic (high) estimate, the project doesn't get done. That's a political loss - their cronies don't get paid, and they don't get to put their name on a big project. If they come up with an unrealistically low estimate, their cronies get paid and they rarely get voted out of office.
That might be the obvious path, but there is an obvious counter-example: IBM + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.

I guess at IBM is was obvious things had to change - it might take a while before MS gets to that point.
Nope. The old Microsoft was described by Bill Gates famous motto:
"A computer on every desk and in every home, all running Microsoft software."

They wanted to rule the world. This was never ever Apples philosophy. Not with the Mac, not with iOS. They don't aspire a 99% market share, they are even content with 10% and indeed are deliberately limiting themselves in their product range. They don't want and can't reach every demographic. It is also noteworthy that not many services/products of Apple are subsidized. It was classic Microsoft to use their Windows/Office money machine to enter different segments and outcompete others.
What's the point of these downloading-webservices, anyway? From my (perhaps naive) point of view, saving a media stream to disk is a better task much better suited for client software.
Nowadays, there are pretty good tools for many operating systems. In the future those might turn into browser extensions, or even become a commodity feature in the browsers.

I remember when some websites started to use JavaScript to prevent other from copying their text (by suppressing the right mouse key, catching Ctrl+C, etc.).

Today, this reappears as "DRM enforced via Flash" on YouTube and many other sites. These new types of DRM won't remain in an open web for long, either, for the same reasons that trying to block Ctrl+C is insane.

So I'm asking myself why this guy put himself into that very weak position in the first place, by providing a webservice rather than a tool or browser extension.
It is like banking system ! you can be independant with your own safe-deposit box but it is easier to make business with a bank account ! If you ask only cash payments, it will be weird sometimes in BtoB !
Same for APIs.
How could you today socialize your application without Facebook, Twitter API? Geolocalize without Googlemaps API or Bingmaps API? Make our own ?
His message was a nice warning for us all to work harder to keep the web a thing for people, all people, not corporations.
I had a similar experience, where I found that none of my computers, neither my six year old laptop, nor my one year old laptop (!) could support GNOME 3, which has essentially prevented me from upgrading my fedora from 14. Since Fedora is currently on version 17, this makes me sad, and ruminating about which OS to jump ship to.
> the internet started in the 60s (kinda, 1986 definitely)

There are three years you can reasonably point to:

1969 was when the ARPANET project was founded by the DoD. This is the kitchen-sink-historian viewpoint: The ARPANET was the first packet-switched network and was certainly the ancestor of the Internet, but very little specific has carried over into the modern day. The main innovation from this early was packet-switching, or dividing up the message into a lot of little packets that are all individually addressed and can each make their own way to their ultimate destination. This provides reliability, simplicity, and economy compared to the phone system.

1977 was when the first gateway was demonstrated: Specifically, it was the first TCP-based transmission between three dissimilar networks. This is the functionalist viewpoint: Both TCP and the heterogeneous network-of-networks concept are essential to the modern Internet. The network-of-networks concept (implemented by gateways) allows different physical networks to share the same data, for example phone lines and Ethernet cables and WiFi. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) guarantees reliable and in-order transmission of data over unreliable physical networks, mainly by resending packets that got lost. Once you have gateways and TCP, you have the modern Internet. http://www.computerhistory.org/press/30th-anniversary-intern...

1983 was when NCP was ditched for TCP/IP on the ARPANET. This is the most restrictive/pragmatic view: NCP was the underlying protocol suite/software used on the early experimental ARPANET, whereas the TCP/IP protocol suite (as implemented by a lot of different software) is what we use today. NCP was implemented by specialized hardware and would have been prohibitively expensive to replicate anywhere else, whereas the TCP/IP stack has been implemented multiple times for multiple kinds of hardware and on multiple OSes. TCP/IP allowed the Internet to take off.

Hobbs' Internet Timeline is interesting: http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
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Kudos to him if he does. Shame we won't know for sure :) I would say it's <= 50k/month with that kind of site/traffic/ranking, but maybe you have more insight. The conversion will be horrible so his ad provider(s) will drop price over time.
I have been thinking about the need for something like this, but a bit more menu-like. Suppose I am running a high-security site that needs more than 2 factors? Shouldn't that be as easy to set up as 1 or 2? So I image having a bunch of fields, any number of which may be required or optional:

- Real Name (if you can verify against public records that might be worth something)
- account name
- mailing address
- home address
- phone#1 [voice? text?]
- phone#2 [voice? text?]
- question #1
- question #2
- question #3
- select an anti-spoofing graphic
- RSA key
-...

Some levels of security, such as RSA key may be worth paying extra.

It would be particularly sweet if you provided a simple UI (checklist as above) that writes working client code for me. Oneall.com does something like this.

Overall though I have a few impressions:
- Not a good color scheme; doesn't sell it. I say this as a non-visual person.
- Include a bundle of sample code, and some docs with diagrams showing the flow of typical use. Yes, we can figure it out with a minimal explanation but your business model is making it super-easy to do what we could do on our own.
- I think your site (due to the nature of the problem space) may benefit greatly from iterative A/B testing.
- I like the domain / service name. I would actually remember that.
I think it would be worthwhile to partner with a good site designer.
I like that article very much, so I wanted to monitor the blog. However, I found neither an Atom feed nor an RSS feed. That's a pretty good way to turn off potential regular readers.
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> I am being downvoted, because my assertions (admittedly in unpolished form)

You're being downvoted because you keep reposting (word-for-word) the same nonsensical rant on HN[0] and various other places around the web. Perhaps you could tidy it up between now and the next time you repost it so that we can understand your argument.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842382
2) Privacy - No anonymous usage collection.(tier 1 price)

I have not installed your app, but I am curious. How obvious is it to users that their usage is being "collected"?

Also, I would be really curious to hear how your pricing scheme works out. Please make a post when you have enough data to report on it.

You said you recently got back into software development. What were you doing in the mean time, and how long were you away from it?
Yea, I said that too at first, and now I really like it. I think it has a steeper earning curve than most OOPL's. There is an elegance to the language; though I would love to see a complete overhaul of the language to support namespaces, and to decrease the overly extensive use of @. Prefixed classes just make everything harder to read, and feels very 80's.
Samsung vs. Apple feels like the Yankees vs. Red Socks or insert your favorite sports teams. Instead of rooting for your favorite sports team, you're rooting for your favorite phone manufacturer or tech company.

Also, shipped vs. sold makes any time a company brags on how many phones they shipped very misleading. Many companies are famous for channel stuffing to get the PR boost and to "fake it til they make it".

In Samsung's case, the sell through rate is probably pretty high, but still nowhere near as accurate as when Apple says how many devices they sold (as Apple only has 5 days inventory at any given time, Samsung probably maintains months of inventory).
That makes sense. One could even argue, that it is the prime freedom that 'powers' the US. (it could not be a superpower without)

Although, personally, i consider the most "free" market, to be about more than tax levels and (lack of) labour laws. The current interpretation is very one dimensional.

For example, the US (and Holland as well), do not protect against legislative extortion. Nor do they effectively limit anti-competitive behavior. You can not build a solid stable company on top of any infrastructure owned by potential competitors. From net-neutrality to side-loading of apps. The freedom to innovate pricing models conflicts with the freedom to innovate actual products.
I truly don't understand why people consider this 'news'. Has Apple given some indication that they want to own 100% of the smartphone market, and that every potential smartphone customer should be an Apple customer? I do not think they have, but I also don't follow these things obsessively.

If you want to bring up the patent lawsuits, I do not personally believe Apple is opposed to competition, they are just opposed to that competition 'stealing' what they feel (rightly or wrongly) that they have invented.

Apple cares about Samsung only to the extent they believe all or part of Samsung's success is built on infringing Apple patents.
Pascal makes code reuse hard. http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html puts it better than I could. And when I used Pascal in the early 1990s - and this was Borland Pascal, one of the better ones - it even had strings! - things had not improved massively.
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Most people don't know how to install software. That might change now that the browser-extension install processes have been streamlined (except on IE, of course), but for the most part getting code running on a user's machine is a huge hurdle.
It is very simple: on every new Apple computer or computing device, by default you can only install software through their App Store. That means they dictate what software gets to run on their computers. I think on Macs you can manually disable that feature and allow installation of software from other sources (analogous to the App Store on Android). But how many non-power users will do that? On iOS that never was an option, and clearly Apple is trying to move in the same direction with their computers. That is a dictatorship.
I think it'll work the other way - with a self driving car, long commutes will be more tolerable, since you can do other things while you drive (are driven), so sprawl will increase. Imagine having some sort of bathroom built in to the car - you could do your morning grooming in the car, which means you could commute 30-60 minutes without losing any time you wouldn't be spending doing the same thing at home anyway.
as soon as twitter starts using tweets for ranking link relevance, there will come the army of people trying to seo the ranking and leaving relevance in dust.

I think twitter is better with focusing on their core competency of providing real time information rather then being side tracked into something very different.

Apple's stake makes good sense because offers both backups and decreases reliance on others. For Twitter it gurantees a medium/eyeballs and for Apple content.
Ice storms are another story. When I lived in KC I had week-long outages twice due to ice storms knocking over large fractions of trees.
> they are even content with 10%

Doesn't sound like it when they constantly go suing the heck out of competitors - not for their money but for excluding them out of the marketplace. Microsoft at least allows competition to exist if they pay up reasonably.
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You're right. It was just a bit confusing to see it with no context.

The service looks good. Hopefully they will add Redis at some point.
> Well, no, it's not a world away from that, because one of the major effects of estrogen on men is to affect androgen levels

You can't say 'ohh it doesn't seem to decrease T levels, so it must not be estrogenic!' It could still product other estrogen like effects.

> but it puts a huge hole in the entire basis for thinking that they might

How so? There are so many other ways for the isoflavones to affect the body besides lowering T levels.

We already know that there are a number of people reporting feminization, health, and gastro symptoms from consuming unfermented soy products. That's hard to ignore. Something is going on.
You are an idiot. Apple releases the source code to much of their technology: http://opensource.apple.com/ and http://www.macosforge.org/ and https://www.apple.com/opensource/
Things have changed since back then, but have a read of this news story from early 2000, it sounds kind of similar to now in some regards ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/719474.stm
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No where on this page does it REALLY explain what this product actually does. Marketing/copy fail. Even the about page you have to click around to find is more about their funding than what I gain from this product.
Can't resist posting my own visual explanation:

http://juanreyero.com/article/math/bayes.html
I really wish I could read your "About" page without having to log in.
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> I was made aware of the fallacy of the glass flows myth many years ago by the late great glass chemist, Nick Labino. Nick offered this simple analogy, "...if the windows found in early Colonial American homes were thicker at the bottom than the top because of "flow" then the glass found in Egyptian Tombs should be a puddle."

http://www.cmog.org/article/does-glass-flow

> Many years ago, Dr. Chuck Kurkjian told me that an acquaintance of his had estimated how fast—actually, how slowly—glasses would flow. The calculation showed that if a plate of glass a meter tall and a centimeter thick was placed in an upright position at room temperature, the time required for the glass to flow down so as to thicken 10 angstrom units at the bottom (a change the size of only a few atoms) would theoretically be about the same as the age of the universe: close to ten billion years.

I can find more if you want.

Edited to add: Oh what the Hell:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.ht...

http://www.thefoa.org/tech/glass.htm

(The FOA is the Fiber Optic Association. It seems every serious group that works with glass has debunked the flow myth.)
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Anyway, back to Skype: Here’s my question … what are you doing on Skype that would make someone want to pick your conversation out of the roughly 25 million Skype calls that are made each day? I suppose that anyone wearing a tin foil hat might assume that everyone’s calls are getting siphoned off to the likes of the NSA’s Utah “Data Center” where supercomputers using advanced voice recognition technology slice and dice every single utterance looking for anything and everything that could be used against anyone. That is, of course, utter bul … er, nonsense.
The same code in composable and reusable units would have demonstrated just as much.
It's not outsold. It's outshipped, and it's outshipping large multiples of SKUs against Apple's.
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The competition to which you refer, in this context was proven in the court of law to have infriged on Apple's copyrights. Thus the suit. Apple allows plently of competition when they aren't blatently stealing.
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> Who needs pure math research?

Every single human being who banks over the Internet, which, given how banks work now, is every single human being who has funds in a modern money economy.

I know, I know, but it's my favorite example: Number theory was held up as the exemplar of math-for-math's-sake pure mathematics until suddenly it was the foundation of cryptography. In the words of Chuck Berry, "Goes to show you never can tell."
They mainly release what they have to. They have been constantly reducing the number of OSS libraries with each new OS X release.
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You can drag it, just like Google Maps.
Maybe he's selling bikes because that's what he believes, instead of the other way around.
Google didn't provide turn by turn but we don't know why. Apple gets a cut of Google's search revenues on iPhone; android vendors don't get as large of a cut (or any cut in some cases).