skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the correction.

More Tim Cook on the call:

"regarding the mix as an example, the iPad mini gross margin is significantly below the corporate average "
I agree re: faster iteration to keep up with competition, but my point is in line with what was said in the earnings call - Supply of the iPhone 5, ipad Mini and new iMacs was constrained, so they were unable to meet demand. Combine it with a shorter quarter and you can account for a good amount of the shortfall in margin.
The title I set was "AAPL -10%" but for some reason it was truncated to "AAPL".

Background TL;DR: disappointing Q1 report.
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Thanks! It has been 2 years in the making to this point, straight after Google Code Search closed and I was feeling the pain of its loss.
I think the the combo of increasing revenue but flat on profit is worrying: that tells you something is eating away at the profitability of the company. It jives with the perception that the company has "peaked" and its best days are behind it, that competition is successfully biting into margins.
Can somebody leak the source code for the old Red Faction games?

Those didn't seem to be a franchise that got sold off, so maybe is abandonware?
Yes, or continue Dawn of War (maybe even go back to the first installment's RTS approach?)
Some of them do. Some people (still) can't afford as much nutritious food as they should be eating. Any cuts to food stamps, reduced and free school lunches, etc., will make the situation worse. Some "conservatives" are seriously talking about cutting these programs.
I'm not against split licensing, I think it's a fair for an author to decide. Envato makes that decision for its authors, I think that's unfair to authors.

Having said that, I don't buy into to the idea that Envato's licensing protects author's works, at least not for WordPress themes & plugins - if there's data to support the contrary, that would be interesting to find out. The reason I think this it is not the case is that there are outfits excelling with their business doing everything GPL. As far as I know there are no companies that have regretted switching to pure GPL in the WP space.

Secondly, the reality of the fact is that even with restrictive licenses, trademarks and lawyers in place it's impossible to prevent people from copying/stealing/etc. What does work is having a community that cares about principles and understands why they are important which is why I think the foundation believes these kinds of positions are necessary even if they draw harsh lines. (I do not agree with banning/excluding/or putting authors needlessly in bad graces with the community as they are now though)
See also 'pyp' -- http://code.google.com/p/pyp/
That's terrible logic, akin to Apple's "the iPhone 4 isn't defective, you're just holding it wrong." If a product is confusing your users, you should improve the UX to increase its usability.

Adding a default .gitignore file with some sensible defaults has no negative trade offs. If you really do want to commit your .ssh folder, just remove that line from your .gitignore.

I will admit that adding .DS_Store, while convenient, might be impractical since git is meant to be platform agnostic, and they probably don't want to start adding all sorts of platform-specific files.
Hence my comment about inventory management. Moooooo.
well, that's the longest amount of time I've spent on a 404 page...
Well, LaTeX is a child of TeX. Knuth himself says TeX is pronounced tech, where the "ch" sounds the same as from the the word "Bach" (the composer). He also says "tech" (as in technology) is fine, but "tecks" is utterly wrong.

So, LaTeX is pronounced "Lay-tech" with the ch from "Bach".

"Lay-teck" is also correct, but "Lay-tecks" is completely wrong.
Great, then you can respond to some observations and answer some questions:

1. Your FAQ is at odds with your privacy policy (http://www.wolframalpha.com/privacypolicy.html) which states that you can collect and retain Personally Identifying Information. How do you explain the discrepancy?

2. In a conflict between a "FAQ" and Privacy Policy, which one is the officially binding document? Why should I entrust my data to comments made by a pseudonymous user or to something that is called a FAQ?

3. Your privacy policy is subject to change without notice. How can I be assured of any guarantee given that you have this blanket clause? Why would you not offer your users to opt out of any changes that weaken their privacy?

Please back up your responses with URLs to legally binding documents that provide strong guarantees we can rely on.

Thanks.
Namecheap Makes $44,000 Donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
>It's a fact of averages that 50% of people are below the 100 IQ line - it seems that the new world economy has no place for them.

There is always work if you're willing to accept the pay. What we need to do is make sure that the benefits of automation go to reducing real consumer prices rather than corporate profits, so that the meager pay commanded by menial jobs is still enough to make a living.

The problem is corporations don't want to accept what that means: We would have to heavily subsidize alternative energy to sustainably reduce energy costs, which would "harm" the oil industry. We would have to subsidize (more) the construction of housing, which would "harm" the housing market, also known as making housing more affordable. So they lobby against it.

What has to happen is that profitable industries that make their profits from poor consumers have to be less profitable, so that the poor can keep more of their money. That's pretty much what it comes down to.
I've never understood the hate for it either.

It's a relatively thin wrapper around Javac for defining your dependencies and implementing a standard compile, package, test, deploy lifecycle.

In the bad old days you would just half-implement the same thing in an ad-hoc way.
Well it's not like they pack their bags and run away...
This seems like quite an interesting development. Isn't this method of 'blogging' something similar to whatMedium is doing? I wonder if they'll start allowing anyone to post ahead of schedule.
A system that has the ability to replace congress and bring power back to the people.

What? I mean, I like the idea of an open source voting platform and all, but there's no need to oversell it that hard. Besides, I don't think voting is all that stands between "congress" and bringing "power back to the people" as you say.
Strange this article has 30 pts, is 1 hour old and is at the bottom of page 2.

A 3 year old article with similar pts is in the top 20.

Does Apple take 30% of the HN points too? Techcrunch penalty?
So if the company has a startup capital of $1000 (certain not enough to run the company), the founder would have to continue to loan the company to keep it alive. Someoneday in the future when the company makes enough revenue it will start paying back the loan. Is that the idea?
"Crytek, who is currently developing Homefront 2, has purchased the rights to the Homefront franchise."

later on, they revealed it was $500,000
That is strange. I saw this when it was first posted and the title was "AAPL -10%". Seems you've fallen victim to some Mod trickery.
Which capable open source software from this century would you recommend?

When I divert from a class or a package, I look at the source and redefine it as I desire. I have full control with LaTeX regarding the finest details. Which software gives you full control?
What "stopping poaching" really means is that you don't want to pay your valuable employees what they're really worth. If a competitor needs your employees and offers them more than you're paying them, you have one legal option: make a more appealing counteroffer. Of course this costs money, and the Apple chose the illegal option of colluding with a competitor rather than the more costly (but legal and appropriate) option of making the counter-offer. What 'stopping poaching' really means is robbing your employees of the fair value for their labor.
CyanogenMod and ROMs with Pdroid do give you cherry-picked permissions, for what it's worth.
Nothing new about that, you didn't need github's improved search to do it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+inurl%3A.s...
I can't help but think that statement is similar to saying, "Letters are a perfectly valid means of communication; I don't see the use of these telephones."
A response from Rob Crossley:

https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149670496768002

https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149784678322176

https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149862562353152

https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149937736847363
I just wish spideroak had a easy to use and registration free service like mega.

Well, the w3c is creating a recommendation for js crypto APIs, so maybe we'll soon see more services like this.
One more time, with feeling: Free Software != Open Source Software.

Open Source is a marketing term, coined by ESR because "Free Software" is scary to businesses, much the same way that record labels coined 'New Wave' to make Punk Rock palatable to the record buying public.
It's probably being flagged down by the Android fanboy contingent more than anything else.
Classically, the new technology created a new class of work to operate/use it or decreased the cost of something so much that it was affordable for the middle class and required a lot more workers to handle the new demand. Now the middle class which benefited from new, cheaper, better products is shrinking with substantial (but by no means comprehensive) evidence that job growth as we've known it in the last hundred years isn't coming back.

Even in software development, there may only be limited growth due to its open and exponential nature. As more developers work on software, the more tools will be developed to make their work more productive and efficient. It's a self reinforcing feedback loop that might have an equilibrium that won't be sufficient to account for all of the jobs lost as a result of software. American manufacturing, for example, is still one of the biggest sub-economies in the world and is insanely productive compared to Chinese manufacturers per person, but it doesn't create anywhere near as many jobs as we have lost overseas. At the same time, manufacturers in industries like medical, aero, and defense are complaining that they can't get the skilled workers they need to grow and as a result are forced to invest way more into automation.

It's very likely that I just can't look at this period of human development without heavy bias but it seems to me that the ridiculously easy flow of information allowed by the internet has destabilized the equilibrium we've had with creative destruction and job growth.
Krugman has touched on this a bit in recent posts, although he's still in "gathering evidence" mode on the issue.

It's a very interesting and serious problem, and I very much agree that a "hybrid socialist system" is not the disaster some say it would be. We're not talking about centralized bureaucratic communism, but rather what is already in place in parts in many Western countries.
... and getting a lawyer which costs money. Is that right?
So many lemmings. Gotta catch 'em all!
It's possible that isn't the final version; I just found the screenshot on GIS. But as far as I know it still looks like that in RTM.
> It uses the groovy language so hopefully it doesn't fall into the same trap as described in the post.

The article mentions Gradle :-P Need to read the whole article ;-)
> disappointing Q1 report

Did Gruber read a different report because he seems to think they broke all sorts of records this quarter. He's pretty impartial about Apple, right? :)

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/01/23/apple-q1-2013-re...
Oh great, will I have to log in to read blog entries beyond the first one?
Let me clarify that when I'm sick, I just want to be taken care of, I'm not saying that should apply to everything.

On to choices, having many choices do not make people happier, but rather the opposite, there is plenty of research backing this up. Obviously having no ability to choose makes people unhappy as well. I don't think it's laziness realizing and acting on what makes us happy and what doesn't.
That's not not a 404 page (missing page). It seems like it's supposed to be a 500 page (server error) or 503 page (unavailable) but it incorrectly returns a 200 status which means everything is OK.

Edit: Corrected the 50X error information thanks to the responses below.
Inspiration: The Polaroid genius who re-imagined the way we take photos
Why not just mirror the entire Github in China everyday so even though the original Github is down people can still survive with (stale) copy in China?
Programming boot camps with job placement assistance
The contextual new Quora blog
gmq is probably talking about opening psd files in your Ubuntu file browser by right clicking them and selecting "open with Photoshop". That's not possible with the method i'm describing in the article. But it's something that's bugging me too and I'm working on a solution. I haven't quite figured it out yet though.
Me thinks the lord doth protest too much.
Inspiration Corner: World Top 5 Female CEOs Of Fortune 500 Companies
Nintendo vows to rethink its approach to Zelda
It's much easier if you resize the tab - they all fall in a nice little column (and it doesn't change if you resize it after the load).
You must be kidding. The worst thing about stackoverflow is not the naive questions but the obnoxious answers. Ask a question on SO, and the first priority of the Red Guards isn't to find an answer for you but to find a reason why your question doesn't even deserve an answer.

I've made good money over the decades as a programmer, but the technologies come and go like presidential administrations. I'm always a newbie at something. That's part of the fun. I'm always the guy who "doesn't know the difference between a variable and a browser" in something despite simultaneously serving on an "experts committee" in something else. I've lost count of the number of times I've spotted a "related question" on the SO sidebar while grazing for useful info, thought, Oh, yeah, what IS the answer to that one?, clicked it, and been informed by SO that they won't allow it to be answered because the question is "not constructive". Hunh?? The answer would have been constructive. Stopping people from answering a question that others are wondering about: THAT's what's not constructive.

Oh, but what if people are allowed to ask dumb questions, where dumb means questions that you already know the answer to? Well, then, it might be hard for you to find answers to your "smart" questions, right?

It sounds to me as though the solution is to worry less about dumb questions and more about the dumb search technology they have for matching incoming questions to their answers. With better technology than a bunch of tags and a 1980s-quality search engine, they wouldn't have to put so much effort into blocking questions and could put that effort into providing more answers.
Without a salt one can pre-compute all the KDF (input, output) pairs and store them in a dictionary (essentially). This single dictionary now acts as a kind of master key.

By including a random per-user salt, even assuming the attacker has access to the salt, the output of the KDF now varies on both a per-user and per-password basis.

Two users with the same password have different keys under this design, so pre-computing something that works for all users becomes infeasible.

If the KDF is weak in other ways, e.g., it is so fast that one doesn't need to pre-compute anything, that's a separate issue.
Apple revenue falls short again, iPhone sales disappoint
Apple Startup Incubator?
I thought capitalism was centered around labour providing value and being rewarded accordingly? I'm not sure myself. Although the other inputs to production are land and capital goods, the latter of which could I suppose be interpreted as "the robots that will take care of everything".
3D Printed Food
and an author of one of the more mind-expanding computer programming books ever.
500 isn't server busy, it's server error.
Speaking of LaTeX, and going a bit off topic... I've always wanted to try it but been frightened by the 'level of effort'.

I've seen LyX but never used it beyond 'trying'. Has anyone here tried it and what are your thoughts on it?
Or by people who don't wear their hardware choice on their sleeve and don't think a corporation's quarterly earnings are interesting to hackers.
Speaking from an economics viewpoint, new technology kills jobs temporarily. Eliminating/automating jobs is obviously a good thing over the long term: how often do we lament the cotton gin because of how much cotton harvesting labor it eliminated? Over the short term, it caused job loss for many cotton harvesters, and a concentration of wealth for cotton gin owners. But over the long term, it caused the cotton industry to boom, and created a higher standard of living for everyone. It just took time for the market to reach a new, higher equilibrium. The same thing is happening today with technology, albeit at a much faster pace.

So the real issue is not permanent job loss, but rather how do we take care of people as industry reinvents itself? The pace of this reinvention is accelerating, and has been accelerating for hundreds of years. In the near future, 20 years could result in a completely new job skills need. In fact, compare 1993 to 2013. Entire industries have sprung up while others died since then. Yet we do not lament the advent of the omnipresent internet because of the lost jobs in the newspaper, movie, music, and publishing industries. At least, not most of us. The same thing is simply happening today. Jobs will continue to exist. Just not right away. The real problem is only the short term: figuring out what to do when people get optimized out of some obsolete industry. There are many answers, we just have to think about it.

Socialism is an answer proposed by many people. I think I agree with them to some degree. Some kind of economic floor below which no person can descend. I don't know how this could be created, but I would argue that the "economic floor" has been steadily rising for hundreds of years. In the US, even poverty currently results in a significantly higher standard of living compared to the median income life in 1850.
"... the rate of advance is increasing."

There is certainly a truth in this, while a person could get by with a fourth grade education in the 1800's to someone who could get buy with "some high school" at the turn of the century, to needing a "high school diploma" by the end of the second World War. To needing a STEM degree in the 21st century.
> How would people react if they found out the BBC got all their news third-hand from a copied article that had been changed twice along the way? It is not reliable. No other industry works like this.

I got bad news for you buddy...
Very true regarding St Thomas' - that's where they took him.

Very lucky, but not for the poor guy who got stabbed. Not sure what happened to him at the end of the day.
It's currently down over 10% aftermarket.

I don't think it's fair to characterize Apple as "down from enormous heights." Throughout 2012, Apple's P/E meandered between 13-15, which puts it in the company of stocks like IBM and MSFT, and below Oracle. Even at its 700+ highs, Apple's P/E never came close to that of Google. It doesn't seem like a bubble.
Brilliant marketing.
Oh I didn't realize that impacted it. Seems like a dodgy use of the flag button.
Ahh, I see now: "After Hours: 460.49 -53.52 (-10.41%)"
This exact comment has come up in every single Mega thread.
> The real question is what happens after the singularity.

Probably more true than you realize. The most likely scenario for a technological singularity is an AI that writes a slightly more efficient AI, and so on until world domination if it's quick enough (which is likely).

So we better know exactly¹ what we want the AI to do, or it might for instance tile the solar system with molecular smileys to maximize a badly programmed notion of "happiness".

[1] With mathematical precision, no less.
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The Happiness of Aaron Swartz
Keyspace: capability-based secure key management and credential storage
Honestly, 99% of the time that I want to use linux it's because I want a more powerful command line. My current setup is usually windows/osx as my host system, and a simple putty connection to either a local headless VM, or often one of my linode servers. If you're familiar with vim/emacs, a command line is a perfectly acceptable development environment.
Both of these things were addressed in Windows 8.
As someone making his living in various forms of IT, knowledge of this kind of thing is difficult for me. I find it so disgusting that it's very hard to stomach recommending technical solutions, or even investing in the equipment I need, when I know that it will aid in the prospering of these companies that will then use it for such ugly, immoral actions. The problem is you slowly learn of this kind of thing from every tech company and soon enough you're just disgusted with the whole IT career. Unless you are very lucky with your job options, you can't just retreat into some happy corner where you program in Lisp on Linux servers all day long. You have to get over it and put it at arms length or face the fact your career is going to be much less fruitful than it otherwise would be.
OP was regarding Homeworld, not Homefront.
From Scrum to Lean
Open Source Software Licenses versus Business Models
Whenever I see these lists I always find it interesting to think about the fact that the only reason a Walton isn't in #1 is because Sam is long gone, and his value was split between his children, all 4 of whom have $30+ billion. Kinda crazy.
This is a great idea sir. I signed up and hope to hear from you guys. I can use more eyeballs looking over our work. I really like not having to worry about provisions.
How to Set Hijax with Django and jQuery
the 5 previous posts in this thread are so perfectly stepwise, it's making my head explode.
I'd say being busy can be considered as an error.

503 (Unavailable) is more suitable for that I guess.
Why would people put dotfiles like ssh keys up on public github?

This kind of thing is best suited for a private repo (github is still ok, just make it private) - cause it's most likely of no use to anyone but that single user.
This is probably the most unreadable Daring Fireball post I've ever read.

I understand that Gruber is annoyed that people are expressing opinions that differ from his, but my mind can't do anything but picture him frothing at the mouth out of rage as he wrote this.
Those are pretty good principles, and I'm not sure that I can add anything that those don't already cover.

I personally combine meditation, exercise, and friends by doing martial arts. Overall I think it's one of the better things I've decided to do in life, especially now when I can appreciate what it teaches (I'm not sure I would appreciate it the same extent 5 years ago).
Speaking of dont believe everything you read. I thought the update at the end sounded dubious.
Great work this should fix the issue for a few weeks. But really this is how things are exposed. SO great work!