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What a beautiful post. Definitely quality.
From the article:
"So what happened? Why did Microsoft lose its lead?
Simply put, the technological winds shifted, starting around 1997, to favor vertical integration."

Well ok.. I mean, "is the sky blue"? Tell me something I don't know. And next time, (to the author) tell me on page 1. Don't make me wade though 2 1/2 pages of historical crap to get your point.

My thoughts on the author's profound (sic) reason:

Change is constant. Those who recognize that win. MS didn't. They might in the future though. Look, not even [his holiness] Steve Jobs recognized change. He finally came around after failures; like the near collapse of Apple; or him being forced out of the company he help create; and of course Next. I remember when Next was first shown at Comdex. What an amazing machine. I was working for Novel at the time (anyone remember Netware?) at the booth. I ran over to see this Cube. It was beautiful. Ahead of it's time. Which is why it' failed. Actually I think Next marks when Steve did recognized change. He just had bad timing. Eventually it all came together for him... I mean look at the Mac now.

Of course I state all of this in hindsight. I didn't recognize change either. Though my guesses are better now. That comes with age. :)

Sorry got off topic.. look my point is, isn't not seeing change the reason ALL companies decline? MS will either reinvent itself, or when enterprise dries up, it will too.
I think Apple just doesn't want Twitter screwing it over like Google did and Facebook will.

The fact that Google wouldn't provide turn by turn navigation, 3D and other features to iOS was a hard and expensive lesson for Apple. And with Facebook also getting into apps and phones it needs a third party.
This is really cool except that I have no idea what any of these things would look like from a satellite image.

Could you possibly have "examples" of a base camp / avalanche / etc?

I can't tell if something is an avalanche or just a river / runoff.

Best of luck finding your friends!
I'd skimmed the 'Democracy Index' report. It addresses equal protection, but the problem is the narrow context of the question. Asked in regards to political expression, I think it'd be hard to say that the equal protection in the US is anything but good. AFAIK we don't really have retaliatory crimes going uninvestigated. However, when we widen the scope to include things like government criminality, SLAPPs, copyright infringement, drug possession, and general sentencing it's pretty hard to say that parties of differing political/social/economic standing receive similar redress.

The freedom to help condone whichever big-money candidate sweet-talked me the best or to write in the name of someone who definitely won't be elected just isn't worth that much to me, especially when it fits into continuing the status quo oh-so-well. I'd probably miss it if it were gone, but as it stands I'd much rather have laws be understandable by everyone, and minimal penalties when they've not been violated (even when one ultimately prevails, time wasted by the system is a penalty itself). These are fundamental parts of the rule-of-law that are sorely missing.

And ah yes, the good old argumento-ad-declaring-a-viewpoint-as-part-of-the-downfall-of-hackernews-um. If something is disconcerting, that may mean you need to examine your assumptions. In actuality, you're making "obvious" arguments because you're ignoring the (quite insightful!) point that was made with regards to individual freedom, while arguing against a straw-man of institutional freedom.
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I'm not seeing anything different than YouTube's initial attitude to copyright: If it's novel and a lot of people are using it happily, it must be ok!
You might like to look at scheme shell.
There is a difference between being interested and doing something. All I can say is, trusting a site run by a former middle school teacher/math coach as the "savior of education" is completely stupid.
Yet we have all these influential people saying such things. You would think Khan Academy would be more vocal about being a supplement and not a substitute.
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Twitter will earn $260 million revenue this year and $1 billion expected in 2014.

Seems like serious revenue to me.
Microsoft underperformed the market indices in the past ten years (SP500, Nasdaq, Dow Jones). That means its shareholders would have been better off selling the stock and investing in a diversified fund.
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The problem with many explanations is that people who write them have forgotten how it is to not know Bayes Theorem. Here is my humble attempt as to where people who want to grok Bayes theorem can start:

Imagine you have been locked inside a room. You are asked what the outside weather is. Assume you have to pick one of sunny, cloudy and rainy. You know it is July so you predict it is mostly sunny. (Because intuitively you know that the odds of "sunny" is more than the other two). [1]

Now you see that someone has entered the room carrying an umbrella. You are asked that question again. Of course you are going to update your answer based on the new information. Your previous odds calculation, while good, has to accommodate the umbrella factor -- a very solid piece of additional information. [2]

Before the umbrella happened all you knew was [1] and it is called Prior.
After you saw the umbrella the odds are conditioned on the umbrella and it is called Posterior [2]. which is what you want. And you should definitely use your intuition about the weather too [1] which now goes to the right hand side of the equation.

So

Posterior = ( ) x Prior

This blank is called as Likelihood... it is the probability of umbrella given the weather.

Imagine you live in a place where the umbrella is used only during rain. So the likelihood of an umbrella given it is sunny is very very less and is going to make the product of Prior x Likelihood very less.

Whereas the likelihood of umbrella given it is rainy is almost certain. Even if your initial guess (prior) gives less odds to rain.. the product of likelihood x prior for rain is more than that of the previous paragraph product. You answer "rainy"

Of course there is more to it and I suggest reading other great explanations in this thread.
The best explanation I found of the theorem was from the book by Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis:

-> You have a resulting event B in front of you. Any of {A1,...,An} causes (all of them mutually disjoint) could have led to B. Now, you are aware of how likely each of these {A1,..,An} is of producing this B (this is P(B|A)). Bayes theorem allows you to use this information to deduce which {A1,...,An} is most likely to have been the cause given that B occurred (P(A|B)).

i.e. you use the Bayes theorem to reverse the conditional probability relationships given in the problem. The exact expression is now easily derivable using this idea and the total probability theorem.
> Believe it or not, the mainstream American audience wants to see egocentric American coverage - they enjoy it.

Probably true. I hate it.

Don't get me wrong, I love to see how our athletes are doing. I simply don't enjoy the cultural isolation and exclusionist coverage that our media pushes on us. Here's an opportunity to learn about others and we get fed a typical short-attention-span American egocentric media diet.

This becomes very evident once you travel around the world, look back at the US and make some comparisons.

When it comes to the Olympics, World Cup or other events it is also particularly bothersome because the US is made-up of hundreds of cultures that have come together to adopt this nation. This does not mean that Afgani-Americans or Chilean-Americans don't not want to see how the teams or athletes from their native soil are doing. Events like the Olympic Games are opportunities to honor the many cultures that form this nation by, at the very least, providing reasonable exposure to their athletes and stories as well.

This is where online coverage could be so far ahead of typical network stuff. You get to watch what you want.

Another thing that doesn't sit will with me is when accident reports go something like "139 people, three Americans". OK, I get it, you are trying to tell our country that three of ours got lost in the accident. However, for some reason, these reports always sound like they don't respect the rest of those lost in the accident. I surely can't be the only one who feels this way.

Finally, why are NFL or NBA teams "World Champions" when the competition is national?
If I tell you, now, that I just came up with this sentence two hours from now, am I lying?
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Does anyone else find it odd to lump Netflix in with Facebook and Zynga? They offer entirely different things, have different business models, relate to the public and their customers differently, and as far as I can tell, different struggles.
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I never disagreed with the equation (of course it's correct). My point is that the prior always comes first, even in UII. You're not simply picking the hypothesis that best explains the data (assuming by best explains you mean has the greatest likelihood P(O|T)), otherwise you just end up with the hypothesis containing a lookup table of all previous data. You need to take into account your confidence in the hypothesis before the data arrived (e.g. based on the complexity/size of programs expressing that hypothesis for UII).
Even if they aren't perfect, it's better to have them on the web as a starting point. From there, KA can iterate and make them better.
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Commercials are not a problem at all with a DVR. You'd be surprised how good you get at skipping them. If you have kids you hand them the remote control and it happens "automatically".
I wouldn't call what their competitors did "coasting."
It's good that they're trying to update census access, because by all accounts, trying to work with census data has been hell on earth.

A bunch of news apps guys under the aegis of Investigative Reporters & Editors put together an alternative API that's much easier to work with:

http://census.ire.org/

http://census.ire.org/docs/javascript-library.html
Fantastic. I'd love if you could tie in political contributions and voting patterns, as well as various types of patterns (which committees hold up what kinds of bills), etc.
That is cool. Can't save an entire company though. Might up their worth when they try to sell off their patents.
Try asking a book a question. Even so, text books cost a butt load. Might as well be a part of a college when you can ask profs even after walking out the door.
It's possible though that people are just losing interest in the type of experience Facebook provides. If that is the case then Google+ just arrived at the wrong time. No matter how good it is if the audience is losing interest in the whole concept it won't do well. So the relative failure of Google+ might not indicate that Facebook is in a strong position, but that rather the whole "social industry" is in a weakening position.
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I saw the talk. Much of the talk made the assumption that the hacker community has the same goals and values of the NSA. This NEEDS to be justified.

This is a hacker community and while not a single minded collective I believe there are many popular views that are diametrically opposed to some of the goals of the NSA. He mentioned that he wished the internet would be perfectly secure and then went on to mention how this would protect American IP laws. His definition of secure internet does not include values such as censorship resistance or freedom of expression/information.

He also tried to tell everything how great it would be if we all had IDS's that reported back to the NSA in realtime.

We were not allowed to ask questions. They brought up a paper with questions that must have been determined BEFORE the talk happened which isn't fair to the attendees.

I wish there was a DEFCON panel to discuss this. Everyone just clapped and seemed cool with him from my perspective. I'm not against the director talking at DEFCON, but I don't think we shouldn't be accepting his ideas without more public criticism and discourse.
Some of the comments in here are inaccurate. Clojure actually does not have very good anonymous function syntax (as well evidenced by the confusion the author of this mailing list post had with returning vectors: that syntax isn't even really "anonymous functions" but is more "expression templates/lambadas"), which causes macros (a construct that isn't actually first-class in this kind of language, leading to bizarre and bothersome failures to compose primitives) to be used in many places where functional programming would serve better (as the core special forms--like if--take implicitly in evaluated arguments in a language that is otherwise strict call-by-value rather than anonymous functions, you then need macros to build syntax similar to them). In point of fact, using Python decorators solves the specific problem indicated by this article quite well (and that's how I was handling that same problem in Python before my recent switch to Clojure, which while not perfect by any stretch of the imagination is still one of my favorite languages to date).
Methinks you both might be missing the economic meaning of "lost decade". It essentially refers to a gradual decline. There can be no doubt that, from its shares, it _has_ been a lost decade. Even breaking even would be considered a decline in comparison to other similar investment options.

Also, talking about what Microsoft might do in the future, doesn't magically erase the financial and business criticism of the past. If anything, past performance is a better indicator than "if XYZ can turn around, so can we". Momentum is huge.

As for Microsoft having "positions in all the right places". They have an amazingly strong position in two massive markets. Again, lost decade refers to growth and decline, and unfortunately for Microsoft, neither of these markets is seeing nearly as much growth as other markets. No one is saying that Microsoft isn't making a fortune on desktop and enterprise sales, they are saying that they are failing to capture key markets, such as mobile and tablets. In some markets, like internet or entertainment, their market share isn't horrible, but it's costing them a fortune.

In short, Microsoft's stock price is horrible. If Microsoft thinks the stock is undervalued, they should be buying it back. They are insignificant in a number of important markets, and in those markets where they are a player (but not a leader), they tend to be losing massive amounts of money.
Was the product itself really so disappointing, or was it more that people have just grown tired of social networking? It seems like Facebook may just be coasting on momentum and when Google+ arrived people just didn't have any motivation to sign up for yet another social network.
Gmail for iOS got an update last month that added push notifications, send-as, and persistent logins, FYI.
I do think that last statement depends on how you're looking at each company's products. As often as the debate is set up as "Microsoft v. Apple", they are two different companies that aren't always directly competing. When Apple released the iPod, it didn't directly hurt Microsoft but built up Apple. Even the iPhone, while taking away from Windows Mobile, didn't do much to really stop Microsoft, but once again built a major market in an area that was typically focused in on as specialized. Apple wasn't competing directly with Microsoft at this time, it was competing around them. It wasn't until the iPad that Apple really hit a market where Microsoft was investing resources into with little return, and took potential growth from them.

I think that to say that Microsoft has the chance to retake Apple with the direction they're taking misses the core reason why Apple has become so big. Apple didn't build their company back up through competition, but through creation. That's not a statement saying that Apple was in their own bubble and not taking massive amounts of inspiration from others. It is saying that they as a company defined the market, leaving companies like Microsoft at a step behind no matter what. It's like Apple joining the gaming console market. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony would have way too much of a lead to make it easy, and if they focus on developed markets they are going to be constantly fighting to keep up instead of pushing the fight forward.
I've effectively boycotted as I have no legal means of watching the events. Way to make another institution irrelevant to my generation, big media. Enjoy your profits while they last.
If writing language bindings for Qt based C++ apis is harder than writing language bindings for GTK C based apis, how come there are at least as many high quality language bindings for Qt as there are for GTK?

Just because an api is C based doesn't make language bindings 'happen automagically', otherwise Gnome wouldn't need the GObject Introspection project. KDE has a similar project called 'Smoke' and some language bindings based on that.

There are different technical challenges to writing bindings for a C++ based api as opposed to a C based api, but it is just not true to say that one is better than another in my opinion. This is based on my experience doing a lot of work on Qt C++ language bindings, and a project using GObject Introspection.
One of the reasons Microsoft is unlikely to pull it off is precisely that they are one of the world's biggest companies.

When Apple bought NeXT, Steve Jobs had a tight cadre of very talented people who he trusted greatly. It was basically his invasion force. Apple at that point was in crisis, and wasn't particularly big. Market cap: $2 billion. Revenue $7 billion, down from $11 billion two years before. Employees, 9,300. They were doing basically one thing, selling computers, and they were obviously fucking it up.

Microsoft is much larger ($250 billion market cap, 92,000 employees), and they're still fat and sassy on their monopoly rents from Windows and Office. Few there feel any reason to change. The company is so much larger than Apple was that just getting a handle on it is a massive task. Actually turning it around is a very tall order.

Even though Apple was much smaller, it was something like 7 years before things really started to take off. Even if somebody could turn Microsoft around as quickly, how will they get the board and the investors to sit still for such a long period? Jobs could do it because Apple was his baby and Jobs was Jobs. But who has the mojo to do it with Microsoft?

A much more likely path is the one Yahoo is on: slow decline plus musical CEOs as a variety of highly paid people rearrange deck chairs over and over.
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Interestingly, database sizes seem to be lesser than RAM sizes in all the plans.

Isn't that the exact opposite of what is needed in the real world?
Sign up? Why can't I just browse it anonymously?
If you don't get it, then why do you need to know? Obviously it wasn't clear enough to attract your attention, so why waste your time with a product that can't even explain itself clearly?

That's my thinking anyways.
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Ah. Your use of not true made it look like an outright dismissal of his whole statement. As for the order of when to pick the prior, I think what is more important is that the data not influence your choice of prior. If you were some oracular machine you could see the data and generate hypothesis and priors for them independent of the data and still not fall for the problem you state.

And then there is the problem of how do you form sensible hypotheses without at least knowing the shape of the data first. The form of these hypotheses are themselves a restriction on the possible space. I think that is what the GGP was getting at.
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The questions weren't scripted, at least some of them weren't. DT was checking his twitter and I saw at least dave aitel's one about Cyber Command growth/size on there.
I think you can actually, just x out of the sign up.
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Back in ye olde days, we had this thing called "radio". In wonderful FM quality, it would broadcast music. Over a week, just about ever bit of current music. We old folk also has a device known as a "tape cassette recorder". (look it up young people) Now, some naughty people worked out that you could take the output of the radio and connect it to the input of the tape recorder, and record what was playing on the radio. Wait for the weekly top 40 (or whatever) show, and 2hrs later, you've got the top 40 singles. With decent kit, we could get very good quality recordings, and with clever use of the record levels the DJ, etc could be eliminated. Now, some clever people came up with the idea of making a radio that also had a tape cassette recorder built in. This machine had one single use. It made recording off the radio trivial.

So, back to 2012, what is the difference between manufacturers making radio cassette recorders for the exclusive purpose of ripping audio from the radio, and what this site does? Youtube basically broadcasts like radio, all be it on demand, and this site is basically a cassette recorder. Also, does any one remember being hunted down by their local radio station for pirating?