skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is a doc as well. Her opinions and experiences map to you wife’s, mine to yours.

This is not about life being better than death. This is about the amount of pain and suffering you cause yourself and others while fighting off death.
> I ask because, this fact alone, seems to suggest to me that they're very much undervalued right now. But I'm not sure if I'm missing something.

But you're forgetting one other possibility and that is there income starts to trend downwards due to falling sales and falling market share.

Under that scenario they would eventually start to loose money and start burning into their cash pile.

Emotions play a big factor in the movements of share price and at the moment there is a fear Apple will continue to lose market share to players like Samsung and Google.

Will that happen? Only time will tell.

But don't think it can't happen. You need to look no further than companies like Research in Motion, Sony or Nokia to find companies that had massive market share only to see it eaten away by competition.
A meaningless splash screen and a short list of vague claims leaves me with little idea what I'm looking at and no desire to share my email address.
That and don't forget:
1. The tools that can work with it [Hudson, etc]
2. The support for SVN if you want it
3. Plugins aren't the worst thing in the world. Instead of fighting arround with Tomcat to get a dev server going and deploying the artificat manually [or getting the ide to do it] you just have to use mvn tomcat7:run ... easy.
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How about if you were in a lot of pain and were told that you can take a pain killer but it would likely shorten your life (not necessarily a hypothetical choice)?
Could crowdfunding change that? https://bountyoss.com/
I've used Gradle on a handful of small projects and am very surprised that you're seeing an order of magnitude difference between a Maven build and a Gradle one. Can you provide a little more detail about what the script was doing for 10 minutes?
> Neophytes are indeed more creative than seasoned veterans
> I'd be happy to be disproven, but until then, I'm equally happy to treat what I find to be a valid theory as fact.

I thought for a while what is best to say, but perhaps I'll just go with a counter-example: Intel. The founders were around 40 when they started the company, and experienced in their industry. Not the 25 years mentioned above, but I'm taking that as a hyperbole.

If it takes a young, creative individual to create a 1 billion pound company in 6 years, what does it take to make a 54 billion dollar company in just over 40 years?
DUDE, do you mind me taking this page? :D
I read OP's question as intending to use the cash pile to fully buy the company, rather than leveraging the pile and paying partially.
Thanks for the feedback. Will try and add more clarity.
I played through it. There's 5 "tests", and it took me about 2 hours, though now knowing the solutions I could play through again in probably 15 minutes, so it just depends how long it takes you to figure them out.

Overall they're very good levels. A good bit more difficult than the base game, and most of the other user-created levels I've played. I was a little surprised that a couple places were more about reflexes than brainpower, since I assume they're looking for good problem solvers rather than good first-person-shooter players. But in general, very good puzzles implemented very well.
Your math looks off.

100k = 100,000. 100,000 * (currently) $514 = $51 million USD. You certainly could live off that for a year.

On second look, you are talking about dividends.
Rinehart inherited a $100m company and grew it to a $18.5b fortune. Looks like that's as close as it gets.
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Shhh you'll interrupt the maven hate circle jerk.. We can't have that.
Apple is in the category "growth company" and needs a growth story to justify its value. When the roof comes in sight, as it does currently, the party is over.
Much cooler than mine. I just ran

$('img').each(function() { $(this).mouseover(); });

every few seconds. Something cool should have happened.
Personally I got so sick and tired of Lemmings back when it was released that I find a feeling of peace by letting them all fall to their death.
Why do you keep ramming Section 8, DoJ, and Congress down our throats? This sort of regulation, if it were to happen, would be done at the state or local level.
wait a sec, a bunch of researchers doing what they want is subsidized development? maybe in the states.

in europe a bunch of researchers doing what they want is just that. a bunch of researchers doing what they want.

and then comes a us company making money off of it.

"sorry dude, you're not a hobbyist, you don't count as free, because you have a day job, and get paid to do what you want." /facepalm

not to mention that most got developed FIRST, and then got funded after showing off their value proposition
I can't understand the Maven hate. People prefer their own half baked ant tasks which don't handle dependencies? IMHO Maven takes some getting used to, but it brings a lot to the table and can make the build process very repeatable and extensible.
The AAPL has fallen from the tree!
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I think the parent's intent was $100k worth of each, not 100k shares.
Just to recap: this afternoon two Apple-Fact stories ("Apple releases earnings") get flagged the hell off the front page.

At the same time, two anti-Apple posts float right to the top.

People sure do resent success.
Good point, you can read his message two ways:

1) "I'm sure none of us did anything wrong."

2) "If any of us were wrong, then that's NOT OK."
I would probably go with AAPL. AMZN is currently trading at over 3,000 times earnings; their forward P/E is in the 150 range. They are mainly an online retailer, and retail and high profit margins usually don't go hand in hand. I expect them to grow, but it's hard for me to imagine a plausible scenario in which their growth matches their current valuation.

Also, Apple pays dividends, and they have enough cash to operate for 1-5 years on zero sales. They are better positioned (IMO) to reinvent themselves without being rushed, and at the same time minimize the potential negative impact of that reinvention to their shareholders.
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An interesting quote of Tim Cook today:

"We aren't interested in revenue for revenue's sake, we could put the Apple brand on a lot of things and sell a lot more stuff. The most important thing to us is that our customers love our products, not just buy them but love them."

I hope that their current market capitalization won't make them modify their pace and be disturbed by this noise. I hope they won't rush out new products just for the sake of making Wall Street happy. Keep iterating, keep hard working on non-public stuffs, there is no hurry.
> This according to Wall St means they are failures.

No, it doesn't. (edit: they are failures when it comes to keeping up their growth rate, yes.) But if previous stock price was arrived at by assuming rate of growth would stay constant, the stock will drop if rate of growth drops, as according to best available prediction the company will be worth less in the future than you had previously expected.

Stock prices are influenced by all kinds of predictions, guesses, and voodoo for present and future. It's a good idea to not to attach too many personal feelings or judgments like "winner," "best," or "failure" to the stock for this reason.
I recommend any new programmer interested in developing web applications or an internet startup should learn JavaScript first. Here is a blog post on How to Learn JavaScript Properly:
http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly...
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He never contacted AT&T. There was no talk of blackmail. He embarrassed the company.

The alleged crime was identity theft. The people he was accused of stealing the identity of were journalists whose emails and UCC-IDs were pulled out of the data in order to email it to them to get their attention.

It's a bullshit prosecution and I'm flabbergasted that people on this board 1) can't bother to dig up the facts and 2) support the feds prosecuting yet another hacker who didn't do shit.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/522213-auren.html
Is immaturity with no actual harm done by him worth five or ten years of his life?
Maven thread is ----->
The stock market is not a place for rational actors. It is a place for visceral, very exaggerated responses to trivial developments.
I've seen this kind of thing out of MIT too often to 'trust process' or anything like that. See the Meal Plan debacle if you need to be corrected of that trust.

I am not cynical about individual people, though. Hal Abelson seems like a good choice, though I for one hope he does not convene a committee on this subject, because in that direction lies a soulless, unenlightening report.
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Draft.js: map changes in the filesystem to events on the client
Exactly my thought. If I was planning on phishing, say Bank of America customers, I will register something like BankkofAmerica.com. Not BankHacker, or PhishingBank.com. Lol, I wonder whose idea at NameCheap it was. No dearth of stupid people in the world. And for the people who are saying, "it was just a phone call" or "just a quick chat", the thing is just the whole idea is ridiculous, to have to chat with someone to register a domain with a particular keyword in it. Its just like GodDaddy would not let you register any domain with the word "godaddy" in it. As if they own the ICANN and they have the right to every single domain with that word in it.
> so far I don't see any sign of the kind of leadership that would require.

As of 29 October 2012 - Eddy Cue in charge of maps/cloud services, Craig Federighi in charge of iOS/OSX, Jony Ive in charge of human interface and hardware design. It'll be interesting to see how iOS 7 pans out, because these guys are very good at what they do.
namecheap is an American company, so be prepared to have your domain taken under the guise of copyright infringement. The domain doesn't have to be associated with piracy as demonstrated previously by the FBI.

I use namecheap for all my domains, and I rate my experience with them. I've had no troubles with them, though if you rely on your domain for income I'd change it to a country with friendlier laws.
Peter Thiel Talks The Future Of Education, The Need For Innovation
It's crazy they they sell a very conventional, understandable thing, a globally recognizable product of unlimited magic, that nearly every person of means in the world has or wants—and yet the market hammers them hard on a 0.7% miss on expected revenue in a quarter with 8% fewer days than 2012Q1.

Here's what I think they should do: Tim Cook needs to become a narcissistic billionaire who parrots about polyamory and militant libertarianism. Now that's what Silicon Valley is all about. $$$.
They've essentially refreshed their entire line of products, leaving a wide open field for 2013.

Makes me wonder what they've got in their pipeline. If it's just spec bumps and incremental improvements to existing products, they may not have what it takes to excite. If they have a product or products that enter into new markets, they could return to the $700 levels we saw before.

What I expect in 2013? What markets are untapped?

1. Apple TV will be opened up to app developers.

2. Apple will release a wearable device (wristband, watch, something).

3. Something with home-automation or smart-home technology.
On the contrary, imo this actually highlights the gross injustice in Aaron's case, considering the outrageous imbalance in the potential sentencing in the two cases.

I'm assuming here that the following two press accounts are not grossly misrepresenting the facts:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/18/us-apple-ipad-idUS...
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/01/goatse-security-trolls-...

Here at least you have clearly stated malicious intent, which may or may not have been serious, in jest or otherwise, but clearly the potential harm in Andrew Auernheimer's case is real, so much so that they 'joked' about shorting ATT stock before they released the data.

They were facing potentially only 10 years each max, compared to Aaron's 50.

To me, the disproportionate charges in the two cases is the most galling thing and should serve to highlight how out of control the prosecutors were in the Swartz case. 10 years may even disproportionate in Auernheimer's case as well, but at the moment I'm quite unsympathetic given what I've read.

I say all of that fully ready for the inevitable "HN Turnaround" when more facts and POVs are brought to bear and I change my mind on this. But at the moment I see very little in common between two self-aggrandizing lulzing jokers and Aaron Swartz.
pretty awesome, this works in chrome

new WebKitMutationObserver(function(event) {
$(event[0].addedNodes[0]).mouseover();
}).observe(document.body, {childList: true});
They're going to get pushed out by more competitors in hardware

But, why? It didn't happen with iPods even though you can build an mp3 player on your desk from parts ordered online.

It's not always about hardware-hardware-hardware-nerd-spec-wars -- Apple is a desirable brand and people want to be associated with it.
By "script", we mean a program written in PHP* which would generate plausible iPad ICC-IDs, run them by AT&T's web site, and save any ICC-IDs and email addresses it ended up with.

*: per the Gawker article, http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-11400...
As he always has, nothing is new or remarkable here. RMS is no more or less controversial today than ever before.
Regarding his fifth point, that rings very true and not just in open source, but many male-dominated fields. It's almost cliché to see a bunch of guys complaining to each other about the lack of female participants in one breath, and cracking sexist jokes to each other in the next. If I were a lady, I'd find that sort of environment unworthy of my attention too.
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Toxic fog settles over Salt Lake City
Doug McIlroy's solution is genius, and I hesitate to try to improve it, but it seems to me that if you reverse the order of the 'tr' commands, then you can slightly simplify the one that turns non-word characters into newlines, like so:

tr A-Z a-z | tr -cs a-z '\n' | ...

Since you first turn upper-case characters into lower-case ones, you then get to replace only things that aren't in a-z with newlines, rather than things that aren't in A-Za-z. It saves a whopping three characters!
years of toadyism?
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I think developers are dogmatic and stick to a particular religion. I don't mind mind maven but I hate when I see an example piece of code and the only way to get it to work is complicated maven(pom) script. Then I have to spend a hour trying to figure out what is in the maven script. And you end up with only 2 or 3 jars (log4j and commons-logging junit and some other jar). Why don't you just give me the version I need in a bundled jar and I can go about my coding.

My only fear with maven is when things break or someone how you have a wrong version of maven that the script requires or downloads fail or something else. If the script fails you can't do anything. And who knows, the only that was required was just compiling the java source with minimal dependencies.
Easy discovery of price information is also important to capitalistic markets. Of course, AirBnB helps there as well.
Microsoft presses US immigration for H-1B reform
Ask HN: Experience with Maven.co (The knowledge/consulting site)
HN: Anyone here have any experience getting work/contacts/exposure from creating a profile on Maven.co?

(Maven.co is a site that claims to connect SMEs with clients looking for information in some given field, and one is paid for providing information/advice to these clients)

I began to create a profile some time ago - but never completed it as i was just too swamped - but am interested to know if this is something that has had any positive results for anyone.

Anyone able to share insights/experience/advice/etc?
Once again, he wasn't charged with blackmail and he never said squat about blackmailing.

And if your intent is to sell the data, you don't use your real name when you get a media organization to write up the security hole.
What a shame. I like NameCheap's style, but Demand Media and their shitty search-engine-spamming content farms can kiss my entire ass.

Not that I feel strongly on this topic or anything.
Amazon's business model revolves around future profits. The stock price reflects that. P/E isn't a particularly useful indicator of anything.
Now i'm interested in the maven thread...
I always had the sense that after-hours trading was volatile, often manipulated, and not indicative of near-term future performance -- are my assumptions incorrect?
Are they still considered a "growth company" when their stock is trading at 11 P/E? Hell, it's barely considered a growth stock P/E when it was at 700 a share. If it's treated as the same type of growth company as even Google then AAPL would be worth close to $1000/share now.
I created a bookmarklet the other day. It doesn't work on all links, but I just tested it on a CNN article, and it worked.

Anyways, here it is (YMMV):

https://gist.github.com/4596293
Apple sitting on $137 billion while Smaug the Dragon fast approaches?
Why was $114 billion withdrawn from US banks this month?
i wish power management was better in linux, and optimus was supported in xen. because then I would run xen on an optimus laptop, and then just start the right vm whenever I need it.

my ultramobile cpu actually supports vt-d, but so far it's completely useless
Amazing -- and this is the person that "Joe" is calling "completely unprofessional, childish, insulting and downright ugly in his comments". Joe, did it even occur to you that maybe those adjectives better describe people like you who not only set up hoaxes, but get their panties in a twist when someone's smart enough not to fall for them?
Not silencing and suppressing people at your own convention, people who are trying to improve your party rather than compete with it, would be a fabulous first step. Unfortunately many of those silenced and suppressed people have probably gone on to be competitors.
Yeah, aftermarket is pretty good indicator of next day opening price.
What's more crazy is that _profits_ (what truly matters) actually beat expectations.

I could start a business selling $100 bills for $99.99 and report back enormous revenue numbers. Hell, I could probably match Amazon's losses and revenues to a T - maybe Wall Street will reward me with a 2000 P/E ratio.
Not sure what this phantom comment is. I must have inadvertently left it while browsing on my phone with the iOS app. Would delete if I could.
Andrew Auernheimer, known online as "weev" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev), is nothing like Aaron Swartz. I speak from personal experience with weev.

Thanks to weev and his associates, my business partner, many of my volunteers, some family members of the above, and everybody who weev and his "trolls" could reach were subjected to a months-long campaign of constant harassement.

* One volunteer had to interview with Child Protective Services and the police because of false complaints made by weev and his friends.

* Another volunteer had trouble at her university because they tracked down her professors and made false claims.

* Our business faced several Denial of Service attacks and false complaints to our merchant processors and hosting providers.

* Harassing voicemails, phone calls, emails, IMs, IRC messages, etc etc etc.

The list of things that weev and the so-called Gay Niggers Association of America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nigger_Association_of_Ameri...) did to us is pretty long. It's sad, really.

In the end, it stopped when (I can only assume) he got bored. We developed a strong relationship with our hosting provider, our new payment processor, and we did as much as we could to help people who were put in bad situations because of weev's actions. Ultimately, we lost some volunteers and bled money for 3 months, but we survived.

So, weev has a good enough story to get his "confession" in TechCrunch and on Twitter and people think that he's another example of the over-broad reach of law and the destruction of young lives by powerful corporations/organizations.

Maybe it is.

But if you value the legacy of Aaron Swartz, do not for one minute confuse him and Andrew Auernheimer. One was a man driven by a vision who helped defeat SOPA and did many other good and noble things, the other is a self-described troll who spent years of his life doing his best to extract "lulz" from the pain and suffering of his fellow human beings.
Apple should follow Google, give everyone a 10% raise. The stock will then go up.
No, the system you describe is chillingly brutal and callous. It is your system that is done at the point of a gun, not mine.
These is non-responsive PR:

1. The PP explicitly says that Wolfram can collect and retain data indefinitely. The FAQ promises a horizon of 1 hour. 1 != ∞. Which of these documents is to be believed? Which of them constitutes a legally binding document?

2. I don't want reassurance from some Joe Random Shmoe. Your users have a relationship with Wolfram LLC (or whatever the legal entity is). So any meaningful guarantee needs to come from that entity. But until now, Wolfram has only provided weasel wording and cagey language. I appreciate you sharing your name, but then again you have a product to peddle, and we both know that nothing you say here is legally binding for Wolfram, so you could say anything.

3 & 4. PP provides no meaningful long-term guarantee. Saying that this is standard for many in the industry is a cop out. If your company is really committed to these principles of privacy you espouse and claim here in this forum, it certainly has the legal staff to get it written into those two documents to which you linked.

Time to get your principles in your legal documents. It's duplicitous to claim the high road while peddling agreements that sign away so much PII to Wolfram.
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Hardware in this market is headed for commodification.

Is it though? Apple, kinda like Intel or Nvidia (ATI? Are they still relevant?), is advancing the limits of what humans can produce for mass consumption. Every new chip fab process from Intel/Nvidia/ATI/TSMC advances not just the front-line ability of one company, but of humanity's capabilities as a whole.

Apple is the one spending un-stevely amounts on custom manufacturing processes while everybody else is still using plastic shells on phones/tablets/phablets cranked out by the hundreds of millions.

You can make all the Geo Metros you want, but some [1] people still want a Model X [2].

[1]: a heckuvalot of

[2]: imagine if the Model X was only $5,000 more than a Mazda 3 5-door. For $little more, you get the best designed thing in the world. Not everybody will pick that, but countless (well, about 50 million per holiday quarter) will.
There's a couple of problems with this post:

1) what if an employee really wanted to leak information anonymously?

2) rumors like these are fun, and let's face it, the subject matter isn't very important.

If it were someone embezzling millions in a company it would be a different story.