skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This didn't make sense. The title states Apple not only has influence on prices but actively affects them. After eight paragraphs of introduction, the author reverses his hypothesis to low priced apps drive Apple sales.

The simple truth for low priced apps is well established: market land grab. When creating a new market it's essential to grab as much of the market as fast as possible. Some companies will grab as much as they can regardless of risk while others will be conservative and only grab as much as can be defended. Success requires the lowest possible barriers to entry by users, including price.
The relevant Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-04-03/

(Brief aside: is XKCD the modern Dilbert?)
iTunes is available on Windows and does content syncing with multiple devices just fine.
Well, fortunately, Google don't sterilise people who fail the interviews...
5 Year Old Boy Suspended For Making "Lego Gun" At School
That is one of my biggest issues when trying another editor, the vim compatibility is great, until it isn't.
Theoretically it would be possible to compete with Apple because their price position makes them vulnerable (high margins). A competitor offering an equivalent product could undercut them and come out on top. This is textbook from an investment point of view.

This was all said in the article I think but I'm just trying to rephrase it.

But yes, as Microsoft demonstrates competition in this sector doesn't always go by the book. Because it really isn't such a free market with non-captive consumers.
Thank you. I dropped out of college 3 times. It took me 10 years to earn a 4 year undergrad degree (with 10 years of student loans to go along with it). I started taking Vyvanse in year 8. Now my loans are paid off, in only 3 years since graduation, and I am earning enough to start saving for my 9 month old son's college expenses.

My medication literally changed my life, and in every single way it was for the better. People who attack ADHD medication with blanket statements are incredibly misguided. It would be like keeping calorie-dense food from Anorexia sufferers so that they don't become obese.
What this article basically says is that Apple is not special because it is likely to become (in case of price wars) Amazon. But I don't get what makes Amazon so special to be valued at P/E 3000 while Apple a company with enough capital on books to buy 100% of Amazon stock in cash is valued at P/E 10.
Possibly a stupidity and self deception of investors.

( On another hand I totally admire Jeff Bezos and the company he built )
"Source: LinkedIn" ...

There's a reason why Kara Swisher of AllThingsD is so critical about the tech blog reporting scene's way of "breaking" stories at all costs - even if they're factually untrue.
Half of adults believe social media has eroded their privacy in the workplace
More than half of adults (53 percent) believe privacy in the workplace has been eroded with the proliferation of social media.
The reason that I suggest spf13, is because it shows what's possible. I spent nearly a year building up a set of plugins and settings only to discover that 95% of what I had "discovered" was included.

I'm sure it has it's problems, but you can easily remove all of the included bundles. I think at the very least it provides a well structured foundation to built upon.
But the tension is (probably) very high, if a digit gets trapped it'd (probably) get crushed.
It is shit like this that makes me what to shut down the FDA and ban anybody who has every worked there from having a job again.

Isn't it enough that sick people have to suffer from their sickness? Does these nazies have to destroy their only chance of a better life?

If it turns out that the cure doesn't work, then let the estate sue the company -- don't go around ruining peoples life just to increase your own power.
Amazon Lockers and local pickup solve different problems: the Locker solves the delivery guy issue (will I be there to sign) but doesn't provide the immediacy of in-store pickup for those items that are available in store.
I wonder if they would be opposed to allowing Google or some other big book digitizing company to scan the manuscripts to preserve electronic copies in case of disaster?

It would do wonders as far as allowing the world to take a peek at the ancient texts, keep at least some trace of them safe in case the originals were lost, and it would be good PR if Google or somebody like that "saved" them digitally.
That's actually very bland for an in-company motivational video, and a good lesson in store design from Apple's perspective.
That's trespassing, and unlawful entry? I'm confident that there is an existing law that covers it without resorting to felony CFAA charges.
> The Bible, boring? I mean, it drones on with boring passages sometimes, but the stories are far from boring. I'd say terrifying, sickening, tragic at times.

It's like reading a Shakespearean play for me. The stories might be interesting, but a lot of the time it's hard to understand what is actually going on, and what's going through the actors' heads.
Hybrid Cloud will End Virtualization Lock-in
Let me know what you think! Thanks :)
Would you say that the phrase "atheistic religion" is a contradiction in terms?
The reason WINE works is that it essentially runs x86 programs as-is and provides the needed linkage (shared libraries) used by the Windows programs. (Windows syscalls are usually issued through an intermediary shared library, so WINE can trap them there.) Much of this work is re-implementing the various libraries; bugs in WINE can usually be attributed to missing functionality (incomplete or stubbed functions) or bugs in the WINE implementation.

Running an x86 program directly on ARM is … impossible. So maybe WINE on ARM can serve to run WinRT applications… but none of the existing x86 Windows applications can run without x86 emulation, which would be absurdly slow on Android devices.

Edit: Another commenter says that the project wiki suggests using qemu to run the x86 code on ARM, and then trap calls into native (ARM) WINE libraries. This approach seems unlikely to yield good performance. I am concerned that different C and C++ calling conventions means some additional work will have to be done to cleanup function arguments at every call, which is just more overhead on top of x86 emulation…
How difficult would it be to get Wine running on a jailbroken iOS device?
No doubt it was "reaffirmed" along with a nice Don Perion and a cruise.

The amount of corruption in the current system is insane.
Whist we're talking how-tos, here's a guide that turns your Raspberry Pi into a Ninja Block: http://ninjablocks.com/blogs/how-to/7195040-using-a-raspberr...
I think the point of GP is that basically Adderall IS Amphetamine, rather than some kind of special derivative.
On the last point, one thing I've taken away from the HN karma system is that your votes are most highly correlated with the general traffic around a discussion, more than with anything specific to the comment. Posting almost anything decent on a story that sits on the front page for a day will get you double-digit upvotes, especially if it's an early comment. But posting something in an article that only briefly hits the front page will not get much attention.

Come to think of it, that does transfer to both business and academia to some extent.
Very cool website!! I predict some people watching this site just to keep an eye on your position... It's tempting!
it lists total users as 11777 that looks like a very small number for hn which sends 10-20k visits if a site hits top spot. or are there a lot of lurkers who never signup?
Many people learn peck-typing and then find it difficult to switch to touch typing since its initially slower. It would be cool if someone could create a program that tries to get people to learn typing as them type real things they would be typing anyways. It could also analyze their real typing and provide drills for weak keys and combos.
So you were on a medicine and when you stopped taking it you failed out of school but its all just a bunch of bullshit?
This is a nice way to get kids used to the future of copyright and the future of society at large. You don't own your shelter, your media, your electronics devices. Even something that comes from you doesn't belong to you since you owe so much to the roof over your head and the guidance of your teachers.

-A HN Ghost.
Skyscrapers are by far the most ecologically sound way to store people. Finding ways to build them larger and more cheaply is Great for the enviorment.
It would be nice to see the list by comment karma only. That's the one list that I haven't actually seen anyone create so far.
>>>So maybe WINE on ARM can serve to run WinRT applications

That would be a trick: How do you buy RT apps when not on a Microsoft-approved device?
:%s/SublimeText/Sublime Text/g
But Wine on x86 Android would be useful.
Whenever I see something like this, I used to furiously bang away at the keyboard and type a lengthy, long rant, but now I don't even bother.

It's become all too commonplace that I just hang my head in shame and grow depressed to see my fellow human brothers and sisters become captives of selfishness and corruption.
A more straightforward solution would be to pass this bill [1], which would require that tax-payer funded research be made publicly available. Once this becomes mandatory the publication/reputation system will be forced to adjust accordingly (and many journals may not survive the transition).

[1] http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr4004
Implementing a Newsfeed with SQL
> 3) Since Vim runs in the terminal, it means that I can, very easily, perform many things without having to use the mouse or alt-tab once. Uninterrupted workflow is extremely important to me as a developer who tinkers with the entire stack:

I have a stupid, but related question for the smart people of HN.

I find myself using Vim in the terminal, instead of GVim, for the same reason: Ctrl-Z works, Ctrl-PgDn to the next terminal tab (and back: Ctrl-PgUp) works, it doesn't pop up a new window when I run it, etc.

But GVim has much nicer colors (I picked my favorite out of about 50 themes), and I can't get Vim in a terminal to look more than halfway decent. In the terminal, colors are more distracting and hard on the eyes.

Is anyone aware of a way to get the best of both worlds, i.e. true-color colorschemes in Vim in a terminal? To partially answer my own question, KDE's Konsole seems to support true color[1], but before I install it I'd be curious to know if Vim even works with that feature, and if there are any other, preferably GTK-based, true-color terminals out there.

[1]: https://github.com/robertknight/konsole/blob/master/user-doc...
This was interesting initially, when I just "ego-surfed" it when the link was first submitted, because of the richness of the data displayed. It became more interesting, as the discussion here in this thread developed, when I realized I could look up any arbitrarily chosen user, for example the user who kindly submitted this link, freework, to see the same rich data for that user.

The current user interface on Hacker News proper shows a leader board

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

and discloses total karma and recent comment karma average on each user's user profile, e.g.,

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tokenadult

But this interface offers more, and prompts me to look up some fellow users to see what their detailed statistics look like. As I expected, cwan, who gains almost all of his karma from submissions rather than comments, has a higher percentile than anyone else who began participating here in the same month.

AFTER EDIT: Link to an old discussion I tried to stir up, on a topic which other users are discussing in this thread, "Ask HN: What Kinds of Comments Should Be Upvoted?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065084

I'm always interested in how to emphasize the positive by upvoting early and often when I see good stuff here, so I like to hear opinions from all of you about what is good stuff.

P.S. By following the links from the submitted site, I am reminded that patio11 and I seem to have the same join date. I'm honored to be behind him in any ranking that includes the both of us.
Thanks for taking the time to write it all up!

Brought back some fond memories, and I hadn't heard about Renoise before ...
> emotionally-detached analysis of certain pieces of software

Really ? Ok so please expose us your analysis if you have one instead of repeating again an again your supposed conclusion without giving us any argument.
Why Linux works for content creators
Sure, but then it's just normal WINE. Not WINE on ARM, which is suggested by the article =).
Kim Dotcom offering 10,000 Euro Reward
Mega, the New Zealand based file hosting site created by Kim Dotcom (the guy who made the old MegaUpload, which was shut down by the feds) has proclaimed itself “The Privacy Company.”
Maybe we're talking about different fields, or maybe you misunderstood when I said "say, within 5 years of your PhD"? By this I mean that 5 years is the rough time when citations become useful. Before that, when you're on your first or second post-doc, there just hasn't been enough time for a meaningful number to accumulate. Would you agree with my statement if I had said 3 or 4 years?

EDIT: Let me put it this way: suppose you're 4.5 years out of your PhD and you're applying for a tenure-track assistant professor position after two post-docs. Your competitor has 30% more citations than you, but in average journals, and last year you published in Nature; that article hasn't had time to rack up cites (which it will). Without knowing anything else about situation, who do you think is more likely to get the position?
A Simplified Modern Approach to Stoicism
I'd say that if you operate any of those entities and leave unprotected (to such a degree) access to anything important enough to actually deserve a felony rap, then you are negligent to some degree. What's wrong with the civil courts for such things?
If Android gains traction on x86-based tablets and other mobile devices, CodeWeavers has a lot of commercial opportunities for pushing the running of Windows software on Android.

I honestly don't see how there would be that much of a market. Any native Android implementation of a particular program will be much nicer to use than a Wine emulated program. Really the only use I have ever found for Wine and other emulation programs is for running Windows games on other platforms and usually the performance is too poor or unreliable except in the case of very old games.
It's called Amarok.
That great for you if you would not want to take them but why should you be able to make that decision for other people?
Yet again, Facebook throws privacy to the wind and decides to reintroduce potentially infringing features without any sort of warning or notice.

This is getting ridiculous. I think it's time for me to close my Facebook account.

Again.
There's one other function of journals that few people seem to be bringing up or addressing: that of filtering the flood of research. Hundreds of papers per week are published a week in "biology" across dozens of journals, but in most weeks, 0-1 of those will be interesting to me. By scanning the titles in Science, Nature, and Cell, I'm much likelier to find the really cool stuff than if I were just given a list of all papers with a given tag.

I'm not saying that this recommendation is an intrinsically hard problem, just that it doesn't seem to be getting as much play as the other aspects of the open science revolution.
These were invented in the 1500s. I imagine in those days this was far more pratical than electricity :)
Is It Ever Appropriate to Access a System Without Permission?
What a rediculous comment. Windows still has plenty of advantages over OSX. Better window management, much better backward compatibility, better driver support, particularly for graphics cards. Its "simply better" for office productivity work, and computer games.

OSX has Unix compatibility, better audio and video production etc.

Neither is "simply better".
> The reason scientists don't blog a lot, or comment on blogs, is that there aren't reputation metrics associated with that kind of contribution to the scientific canon.

Scientists often present their unpublished data at conferences, even when the presentation has little prestige, and in fields where citing conference abstracts is rare, so the effect on one's reputation can't be quantified.

The reason that most scientists don't blog or comment on blogs is that they don't perceive these activities as contributing to scientific progress. This might be because these aren't a good format for presenting original research, because appropriate publishing platforms don't exist, or simply their fellow scientists wouldn't read their blogs. This is quite different from peer review, which most scientists recognize as an integral part of the system.

It makes little sense to create a "reputation" metric to index contributions that the scientific community does not believe are meaningful. First, focus on figuring out why scientists don't think blogging is science, and the rest will follow.
Apple is special because it is the paragon of the tech. innovator. There is always some new big thing in technology, and while Apple may not remain king, there will always be a company like Apple doing amazing things.

Amazon, on the other hand, is in retail. Very little magic or innovation happens in this old business, though Amazon is doing its best to squeeze some from a stone. Their music business was successfully disrupted by the iPod and they're scrambling like hell to prevent disruption in other digital media. It is not a place of wonder, and Amazon will never make anything but a token profit due to the nature of retail and Bezos' desire to constantly reinvest in the future.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something screamingly obvious here, but the article seems to me to be ignoring some rather critical facts.

People have been beating Apple on price for years, yet Apple are still here and still reaping their profits. These are not commodity products - I doubt that too many people would choose a Samsung tablet over an Apple one based solely on the fact that they were £100 cheaper. If I want an iPhone or an iPad, I'm only going to be buying it from Apple

Amazon, on the other hand, offer pretty much nothing that couldn't be copied or beaten by a big retailer (someone like WalMart, or Tesco in the UK) if they really put their mind to it.
Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/17941z/is_there_any_way...
You can split with a command in Sublime: cmd+alt+[1,2,3,4,5...]

Also there are plenty of plugins that add shortcuts for arranging/organizing/moving within them.
Drawing conclusions of a company's performance given a stock price change is a classical mistake. The share price change only says if the announced figures were in accordance to the market's expectations and has nothing to do with the level of those figures. If amazon's stock went up is because the market expected its profits were gonna be worse than they actually were. It doesn't mean the market thinks amazon is awesome.
Interesting notion, but I'd be leery of the security implications of running code on my server that the client had its hands on. Which is not to say it couldn't be secured properly.
Now that you mention it, it's sort of surprising that there's not a url for each user.

It's not quite as useful, but a quick look at network activity shows the data gets pulled from /user/[name].json, like:

http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/user/martinced.json

/user/[name] without the .json hits an error, unfortunately.
WHile this is great link bait the fact that you yourself just upgraded from a flip phone 4 months ago hardly qualifies you to opine on the state of the cellular providers. You are writing a blog post about news to you which has been news to all of us going back years. Why not shutup and buy another flip phone rather than stating the obvious and wasting my 4 seconds.
Very cool to hear from you, and to learn that Bloomberg is open minded about new models. I'd love to learn more - my email is on my profile if you want to drop me a line.
I have been prescribed Ritalin or Concerta since I was a child. It helps me, immensely. Where I once attended special ed schools, now am a college graduate living successfully in NYC. Since I became an adult, once a month I must go to my doctor's office to pick up a physical prescription then take that form to a pharmacy to fill. I can not call it in. I can not get refills. All because Ritalin is a controlled substance. I wish the government would keep its laws off of my body.
nitpick: Intel made 2.5Bn of profit in Q4 of last year. Annual profit was 11Bn.
Not a Cal student, but Cal & the UC have a number of pages
about copyright, including:
http://ipira.berkeley.edu/uc-copyright-policy

IV C. Student Work

A student work is a work produced by a registered student without the
use of University funds (other than Student Financial Aid), that is
produced outside any University employment, and is not a sponsored,
contracted facilities, or commissioned work.

Ownership of copyrights to student works shall reside with the originator.

and a terser version at:
http://copyright.universityofcalifornia.edu/systemwide/owner...

Note also that schools using anti-plagiarism services like TurnItIn
might want at least an implied license to copy putative student
works so they could submit a copy of the work to the service.
I don't think it's fair to conclude "some people just don't like school" => "ADD doesn't exist".

I'm a graduate student working on my PhD in physics. Physics and astronomy are my lifelong passions, and is now my career. Nevertheless, my attention issues have prevented me from reading even a few pages of a textbook in a sitting. Isn't it just silly to not be able to sit and read about my favorite things.

After dropping out of undergrad, and then eventually graduating by with pretty sub-par grades, I was diagnosed with ADD and started taking medication. At my current academic level, I can't squeeze by on just wit alone; it requires a lot of focus.

What you're suggesting is that I should just drop my lifelong passion and head out Californee-way for some internet jobs.
Inequality for All – another Inconvenient Truth?
I'm partially only writing this reply as a slightly more "+1" than a simple upvote, but from my experience employing and leading people (programmers, generally) this certainly applies in the UK as well. Not only at elementary school age either, but right the way through education. More and more in the past few years I've come across people who've achieved degrees in subjects without ever really coming across a problem without a potential solution discussed in the near vicinity - perhaps an adjacent chapter.

When presented with just a problem, and no hint of where to find a solution, the end result has often been a mix of horror/terror/anger/paralysis. They have all of the knowledge required in the toolbox, but no practice at applying it in non-directed ways or of having to try (many) failing ideas before one works.

Very good luck with your teaching - I wish we had a lot of teachers over here who thought the same way.
What is the 'untapped market' that is mentioned in the startup bootcamp video? The presentation makes it look like just a new Zynga.
One of the key tenets of liberal democracy is protecting the rights of individuals, regardless of how popular they are. I don't like this idea at all, even if it is only in jest.
İNANÇLI, UYUMLU OLUNDUĞU KADAR BARIŞ, BİRLİK VARDIR.