skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe there are over a dozen ARM chip makers out there. TI seems to be out of the mobile market. I hear Freescale will be soon out, too. It probably won't be long until ST-Ericsson is out as well.

So out of the popular ones we're left with Qualcomm, Samsung, Nvidia, Broadcom, Mediatek, and maybe a few others that don't operate in western markets much.

But it's quite normal for this to happen. It happens in all mature industries. Only a few big players remain, that have out-competed everyone else out of the market. The ARM environment will still remain much more competitive than the x86 one ever was.

There's also Apple which now makes its own chips, and while it doesn't sell them to others, it's still a competitor. As competitors to the ARM chip makers we might even consider the indirect ones (other architectures) like Imagination's MIPS processors (in the future), and Intel's mobile processors (also in the future, as I don't consider them very competitive right now).

Other ARM chip makers that don't compete in the mobile market include Marvell (servers and smart TV's), Calxeda (servers) and Applied Micro (servers).

The ARM market will be alive and kicking for a very long time.
I really like the idea behind this.
Especially it would be awesome to think of how Valve can contribute back to open source projects like kernel itself or helping communities improving their open source drivers.
The risk is that Apple becomes Microsoft. Microsoft has traded in the same $20 - $30 range for more than 5 years. Microsoft is still a cash cow. But there are not enough new hits to propel the stock. Apple's not leaving any time soon but until we see a new hit its staying flat to falling backward.

While I don't buy into the "Maps would have never happened with Steve!!" the one thing that was undeniable was the man oversaw the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Unbelievable. Cook et al shows no signs of opening an entire new market. The iPhone is 47% of revenues today and now has several peers where even 2 years ago it had none. A lot of fund managers parked cash in Apple because it was assured of a better return than interest rates. Now that's gone away etc. So all of these things will add up and the stock will trade flat to down over the next few years (unless they change the TV or computing device market again etc)
With the symmetry setting disabled, this is an interesting way of freestyle sketching (more so with a Wacom) http://new.weavesilk.com/?d4e6
How to make the same settings for root and my user?
Let's listen to some things Paul says and does:

• Has no clue how the banking system works. Even the Cato Institute called him "incoherent". http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/dec/...

• To lower the cost of health care he says we need to increase competition by increasing the availability of quack medicine (specifically homeopathic medicine) over science-based medicine. http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-09-24/ron-paul-we-need-true-comp...

• Has repeatedly introduced legislation to reduce the scope of the First Amendment's establishment clause so that it would not apply to state and local government, and to remove Federal recognition of a right to privacy. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:H.R.539:

• His budget plan proposed immediate massive cuts in research in science and medicine, and didn't have anything allocated for the National Science Foundation or NASA. Also immediately eliminated programs for the poor (specifically the woman, infant, and children supplemental nutrition program and the low income home energy assistance program). (No cite, because his site appears to have taken down the page that had the budget plan).

• Voted to block the USDA from even considering the possibility that there might be climate change and trying to figure out what impact that could have on the US food supply and the mission of the USDA. http://tinyurl.com/albm229 Here is what Paul wanted to stop: http://www.ocio.usda.gov/directives/doc/DR1070-001.pdf

Sounds like a crazy guy to me.
According the the article, TI is "eliminating 1,700 jobs in their mobile processor business unit" and will "stop developing new chips." You call it refocusing, I call it to terminate with extreme prejudice. Either way, it's the end of the line for OMAP CPUs.
I am stating the facts here. If you have anything to refute the facts let us talk about that. So what is your interest in Dropbox?
And this is superior to decentralized solutions like git-annex (for devs) or owncloud (for non-devs) how?
Reminds me a story of IBM's PC division..)
@zaid - member since August 2007. That's more than a year after Twitter actually launched, and your user number is in the 8 millions (ie more than 8 million accounts were created before that one).

You signed up for your other account in March 2007.
Twitter's descent into the extractive
How does how it feel to you have anything to do with the merits of the post? He naturally blogs about what he's obsessed with, and his opinions aren't any less valid because of who he is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Apple has fallen beyond markets, and it started before the election.

Not that it means a lot.
Did you do two exact same drip runs in a row? It has to hash and preload a JVM with the same classpath setup to work.

$ time java -jar clojure-1.3.0.jar add_1_and_1.clj

real	0m0.690s
user	0m0.827s
sys	0m0.030s

$ time drip -jar clojure-1.3.0.jar add_1_and_1.clj

real	0m0.879s
user	0m1.020s
sys	0m0.040s

$ time drip -jar clojure-1.3.0.jar add_1_and_1.clj

real	0m0.177s
user	0m0.033s
sys	0m0.020s

$ time drip -jar clojure-1.3.0.jar add_1_and_1.clj

real	0m0.176s
user	0m0.050s
sys	0m0.017s
The OP's blog renders wrong because it's forced into IE7 emulation mode by his own HTML: "<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>"

Who intentionally breaks his own website and then complains about it?
A wonderful read. I know a little bit about frequency analysis and was surprised to see how straightforward its application was (in theory). I'm even more surprised that after a decade of Google, that this approach wouldn't be one of the first things tried out given the length of the text. As the OP describes, it was a chance encounter at a conference that machine learning was finally introduced into the problem. Until that point, the linguist had been trying in vain to decipher the text...is there still such a gap between the researchers and the computational experts who know how to implement solutions?

* to put it in a less-polite way: how the F else would you solve a problem like this, with non-computational methods?
The other side of digital progress, you have no more privacy
So, this guy was lazy and refused to fix a bug, and get some hits on his blog in the meantime. Mission accomplished, I suppose.
Tonido is self hosted solution like git-annex and owncloud. It is much simpler, more nature and comprehensive support for all mobile platforms
Genuinely random recruiters, no, but if you might be hiring for something outside of your personal skill set, it's worth having connections with recruiters in those fields, if you may do a startup in the future.

I'd have a hard time hiring great enterprise sales people on my own; it's worth it for me to talk to enterprise sales recruiters infrequently and to seek out great enterprise sales managers as contacts.

Same for finance people, etc.
State of the Art
Don't use it.
This looks like a follow-up take on the similar TechCrunch article discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4791710.

Let me repeat my comment there.

I would personally not buy their stock any time soon.

I keep meaning to write a blog entry on this. To understand my reasoning it helps to be familiar with The Innovator's Dilemma (see http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Ca... for the book). The basic assumption of that book (backed up with many examples in industries from ship technology to hard drives to backhoes) is that any technology that has a well-established value proposition will tend to show exponential improvement on that value proposition over time. Users needs also follow an exponential curve, but it tends to be slower than the technology improvement curve. (A lot slower.) Therefore if you have 2 technologies competing for that market, eventually the cheap crappy one will be good enough, and after that point hits it wins. The premium technology will always show great revenue curves even once their low-end users start switching, but those curves hide a great oncoming disaster.

In every market that Apple is in, it is the premium product. It has competitors. And its competitors have a pretty good sense of the value proposition that they need to deliver. Therefore every market line for Apple is doomed. They show no signs of having new ones to wow us with, so Apple has a world of hurt coming.

But, you may ask, why did they not have this problem historically? My answer is because Steve Jobs' genius lay in constantly finding and delivering new value propositions. He found and defined markets for pretty computers, light laptops, smartphones, and so on. The whole Innovator's Dilemma argument depends on competing on a known value proposition, and Jobs never sat still long enough for his competitors to do that.

Of course Jobs is now gone, and there is no sign that Apple has anyone who has that talent.
Intel's been working on mobile processors for phones. They've had a few design wins for their single-core 2GHz Atom. No phones you can buy in the USA though. Reviews for released phones like the Motorola Mobility RAZRi are decent, but didn't seem to knock anyone's socks off. If they develop good LTE integration (they bought part of Infineon a few years ago) and if their management stays committed to this, they may have a chance. Intel was previously a big backer of WiMAX.

Marvell, who bought the PXA line from Intel doesn't have chips competitive with the current generation from TI, Freescale, etc. I don't think Broadcom has anything competitive either, but they don't have much publicly available information.

You've also got Freescale. I don't know if their latest generation (the i.MX6 series) is currently shipping, or how good the OS support is. I haven't heard of any major design wins for them recently, if anyone knows, please post it. If you are focused on the automotive market, this might be a good choice because they typically have CAN bus support.

Then you've got Samsung of course, though you'll be competing against their own products. Apple doesn't sell their chips. That's about it for the majors.

You've got other mid-range chips from low-cost vendors like Allwinner, but I haven't heard of anything from those guys which will allow you to make a leading-edge phone or tablet.

Late addition: According to their website, MediaTek also has a mobile app processor, but it is ARM11 based.
As others have said, nofollows do give you help in search results, although not as much as otherwise. They're looking to rise in search results more than for legitimate clicks.
He didn't say the opinions were invalid. He says it sounds whiny, and it does. He says it's insidiously self-promoting, and it is.
My experiences with drip were very mixed (on Ubuntu 10.04), it did not make a stable, reliable impression on me. I wouldn't recommend it for professional use.
Ask HN: Are .io domain names a fad?
There are a large number of new companies that are using .io domain names. I understand that a large part of this is due to good availability of english words, but wonder if it is a fad similar to the days of .ly domains. Do we eventually end up back at convoluted .com domain names until the next "cool" TLD?
Sorry, I don't see that your age is relevant.
Excellent! Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Yeah I'm really not looking for the funding but more user content.
I want to get toddlers drawings in there as some sort of xmas gift.
I do agree the dog (actually a bear in a bear suit) could be a lot more Christmass'y. So I'll fix that and put some kids art in there too to illustrate the point.
Yes, I am working on a fully featured app, though I do take a stance against inapp purchases for kids app's, its a good idea to add addon pack's.
What make this a ggood fit for analytics backend? How could be better than say, mongo or redis?
Growth at breakneck speeds can't continue forever, Law of Diminishing Returns and all that. Jobs is dead, and the market is a little spooked by that. Pull up a long-term chart of AAPL and note the trendline since '08. It is reverting to that line, which is not particularly worrying. If it falls below that trendline, it will become the next MSFT (in a stock sense). Actually, the question is not whether AAPL will become the next MSFT, but when. If you're looking for growth, I suggest looking elsewhere.
It might seem to be an anti-business angle

There's nothing wrong with that; for example, Luis Zingales proposes[1] a "pro-market, not pro-business" position for the GOP. I'm not an American, but I'd love to see a true movement against crony capitalism. We desperately need one here in Portugal.

[1]: http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon0708lz.html
its not close to the same battery power as the number of pixels is far greater for retina than HD on Fire HD

Resolution: 1920 x 1200 vs 2048 x 1536, thats a fair chunk more power

2304000 vs 3145728 pixels = 27% more battery drain
From what I have experienced OTR only works if both clients are online at the time of messaging. It does not seem to encrypt when the recepient is offline. Can someone confirm or deny and maybe explain?
The Dalvik VM does run on x86 now...

You'd just need to convert all your .jars and that's it. I haven't heard of any other incompatibilities with standard Java.

Edit: Is there a port of Dalvik to amd64? A cursory search did not find one.
Yet it doesn't use WebGL (essentially the state of the art for hardware-accelerated cross-platform three dimensional rendering in the browser).
I think that it's a great achievement for someone his/her age to do. I wish I could've had the determination and knowledge required to write and publish a module at that age.
This is great, I actually wrote a blog post some time ago about input types http://blog.mitemitreski.com/2012/10/input-this-input-that-h...
When I was evaluating browsers for support it turned out that Opera is most up to date when we talk about input and desktop.
Thank You very much for the best and easiest solution. I have corrected the error. Thanks once again.
Does anyone know how to use with with lein?
I'm not sure you understand either. P/E ratio, cash on hand. No reason AAPL shouldn't bounce back from this.
I think the lesson to be learned here is that the guy who wanted to be President entrusted his get out the vote effort to skunkworks volunteers on the cheap (-ish).
Some of my friends make over $200,000 per month with spamming.
Are these commentaries actually getting published in the print version of Nature, or is Nature now venturing out in a HBR fashion in the "expert" blogging business?
I’m not sure whether that’s a good comparison, but that could be down to personal taste. Microsoft made tons of money by selling an extremely boring product. That’s never something Apple did. Plus Apple sells hardware, Microsoft software. They are fundamentally different companies.

I can see Apple having a stock like Microsoft (i.e. flat for a decade), I can’t really see them being like Microsoft.
Hi,

Thanks, that's my fork, it's was released under Apache 2.0.

https://github.com/RobertLowe/nvd3/blob/master/LICENSE.md

* 2. Grant of Copyright License.

* Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.

Irrevocable copyright, I love it. It will stay open source and hosted there.

Bob should not be all to blame. Novus is clearly handling this poorly.

EDIT:

I'll accept pull requests, and if anyone had issues, please repost them.
I think that .io domains are popular for a few reasons, they are geeky "input/output" and they somewhat resemble a 10 (binary 2). Of course you mentioned the availability aspect which is huge. I personally own two.io (not sure what I'm going to do with that) so I may be biased :)
And I don't see why this comment is relevant.
"I dare YC to choose 10% of teams at random"

That doesn't sound like a good idea.
First, the sample size is going to be pretty small if they do that.
Second, there are some team/people that have to simply be made of fail, you can spot from the start that they will simply not make it.
Short-sighted drivel.

"In every market that Apple is in, it is the premium product." Why do you think that is, exactly? Apple has quality products because it is a culture designed to produce Quality. As long as that does not stop, they will continue to absolutely pave the streets with their competitors' remains, because, frankly, no other company in the market has the company-wide culture necessary to produce the end-to-end quality that Apple does. It's far too soon to tell if they can still innovate into new and unexpected markets, but they've only released a handful of products since Jobs' death. But the truth remains: whatever market they enter, they will dominate.

What do they need someone to come up with ideas? Shoot, I'll do it. How desperate do you think they are? If I show up at 1 Infinite Loop claiming to be channeling Steve Jobs, do you think they'd hire me?

Hogwash.

I wouldn't buy anytime soon either, but only because the stock price will continue to fall as short-sighted investors keep believing things like this.
It's worse than a risk, it's almost a guarantee.

MSFT was $26.x 14 years ago (even though this is all ignoring the ups & downs between, it's still dramatic).

Megacap stocks are horrible investments on average if you're seeking good returns, specifically because the law of big numbers cripples the ability for any truly massive company to keep a high growth rate. Not to mention that large companies typically begin paying their large profits out in dividends (rather than using it toward growth), and Apple will do the same. Microsoft has paid out the equivalent of half its current market cap in dividends over the past ten years.

It'll be little surprise if Apple is $550 ten years from now, and that's a good scenario given the history of big companies tumbling from the top of the mountain.

Unlike Microsoft, Apple has no 'monopoly' in anything, and they have a vicious annual upgrade cycle. If Apple screws up one version of the iPhone, their stock would crash spectacularly, probably losing at least 1/2 of its value. Microsoft botched a few versions of Windows, and took their time on releases, but their desktop monopoly shielded them from the fallout.

Whether we're talking McDonalds, Boeing, Coca Cola, Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway, Exxon, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Dell, Chevron, etc. - eventually the growth boom ends, and stock returns race toward sub 10% annually. Walmart hasn't moved much in 12 years; McDonalds is now 'growing' at zero and their stock will follow; Coke hasn't moved in 15 years; HP and Dell are disasters, ditto Cisco's stock; Berkshire has returned about 3.x% annually over the last 14 years (with no dividend), radically below Buffett's historical record; Boeing has returned around 2.x% annually over the last 16 years. It's a very long list.

It's real simple in premise: you want Apple at $7, or $35, or $90, but not at $500 or $700 when the future returns are likely to be mediocre. Specifically, you want the next Apple, not the last one.
The AAPL-watchers at ZeroHedge.com take the view that hedge funds are heavily invested in AAPL and that if they leave the stock price will go down due to heavy selling. Further an avalanche of selling could be set in motion if 1 hedge fund sells enough to cause other hedge funds to decide to sell as well.

See e.g. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-08/apple-enters-gravti...

Note: VWAP means "volume weighted average price" and ES refers to contracts that track the price of the S&P 500 : http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/e-mini...
Seriously? You don't think it's possible for 3rd party accreditation firms to exist in the physical world?

Have a look at: http://www.bbb.org/
I don’t thin you are providing much of a perspective. People are notoriously bad at estimating what the budget is spent on.

In any case, dismantling the TSA would be about as effective as dismantling NASA in reducing the deficit: Not at all.
Whenever I talked to HR about H1 visas they told me it was a gimmick to save money. I also noted some years back medical doctors successfully lobbied Congress to decrease the number of visas for foreign docs because it drove down their wages.

As an American I am pro-visa and immigration, I just think we should get rid of perverse business incentives.
I think Apple's biggest risk is that their products become stale, while Android moves a step or two ahead in innovation. The early adapters that I know have moved on to Android products, and so far they are very happy.
Well, Wall Street is a totally different problem - one that is essentially an expression of systemic moral hazards that are present in our legal and banking systems. Wealth = responsibility and yet people are content to just put their money anywhere the return is highest. The result is Wall Street.

The open web is not at all anathema to making money! You say, "I like the open web you allude to. However, bills gotta get paid" but would you have also said, about interstate highways, "I like the highway system you allude to, but bills gotta be paid"? No, of course not. Highways enable gobs and gobs of business to be done. Twitter and facebook have built slightly more usable highways alongside the public ones, called them free, and people have gone there in droves. But once the true cost becomes realized, I think people will go back to the public highways - especially when this means that can go anywhere they want, however they want. Twitter is limiting clients, FB is limiting reach. Both companies are merely very expensive usability innovators on how users like to interact with the public web, in my opinion.
I think Jobs' real genius was actually assembling teams. He was extremely visionary, but he was also amazing at inspiring top-level talent. I think entirely writing off Apple's ability to innovate or find new markets is a bit premature.

This may be unpopular, but I sort of think that the 25% haircut Apple has endured is a market correction bringing the stock back to more honest numbers. Investors got ahead of themselves. I'm not sure they ever deserved to be trading north of 700. Even the best performers can get overvalued in the hype cycle. Apple has fallen to 527 per share with half a trillion dollars in market cap. That's still pretty healthy, especially backed by their financials.
Hedge funds and Wall Street are probably heading out the door, taking profit and moving onto the next 'story' to trade.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-15/remember

On the other hand, just last month: "Apple is going to hit $1,000 a share by January 2014, and will hit $2,000 by the end of the decade, according to a report."

http://www.macworld.co.uk/apple-business/news/?newsid=340227...
OMAP is not just mobile processors. "...TI wants to sell its OMAP processors in markets that require less investment, like industrial clients like carmakers." So no, they are not shutting down OMAP, they are shutting down the OMAP lines that feed consumer electronics.
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