skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth covering, sure, but don't get all frantic about it.

How many times does Apple have to strong-arm their suppliers into doubling wages (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/28/apples-fo...) before people are happy? I haven't heard of any other company doing this.

Apple uses the same factories, the same suppliers, and the same logistics as everyone else. Why do they have such high margins, then? Could it be they know how to run a business better?

Remember Apple focuses on creating a handful of products and manufacturing the hell out of them. HP, by contrast, has over two thousand different printer models. Why do you need so many models? How can you build up enough volume on any of those to cut manufacturing margins?

Sony's PS3, by contrast, is basically a single unit, so they can slash margins tremendously. The only variations are accessories and an easily replaced hard drive.

Apple comes as close to that model as they possibly can. There's actually an unusually large diversity of notebooks now with the Retina machines being introduced, but that's still a fraction of what Dell or HP has in their line-up.

Samsung's starting to "get it" and they're promoting their flagship phone instead of any of the hundreds of others they have.
Imagine if you not only realized you were living in a simulation but that the simulation involved randomness (god playing dice) and you could somehow force backtracking with a simple button so that different values were chosen. Now, play the lottery and hit that button whenever you don't win; you could then surface an unlikely universe where you get really lucky.
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and also that higher debt leads to lower growth

Or that lower growth leads to higher debt. See Krugman's chart at http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/reinhart-rogoff-....
From what I hear from a friend that worked in laptop development at Dell and HP, most of the actual design is done by the Chinese companies that will eventually manufacture the hardware. American hardware companies have stripped themselves down to the point where they basically just specify and test outsourced designs. It's a system designed to produce commodity hardware at low prices, not innovative products.
Thats not always the case.

I've been badly screwed over by Leftouthansa many times, their response: "Nope, we don't care. We look forward to seeing you onboard." [After 2 support tickets, one to complain and then the other to report the unanswered first ticket after 2 months]

I have been treated well by KLM.
If I wake up naked and sliding down a drain pipe, I'm gonna be really upset...
You speak of a "meter [that] has barely moved," yet the economic consensus is that were it not for the stimulus, unemployment would be even worse than it is now.
If you can handle the tiny-ass (but much higher res) screen the Surface Pro comes pretty close and is in about the same price bucket. It's silent/vibrationless in practice (I don't know if the fans are off or just very quiet) on any workload other than games. I'm happy with mine.
I'm sure they do checkpointing and can roll back in the event of a problem. This has probably happened many times already.
Well, this explains all the bugs and glitches in life like disease, death, assbutts, war, famine, broken hearts...
Dean Baker's critique of this response is typically incisive:

[Herndon, Ash, and Pollin] found growth was slower in periods with debt levels above 90 percent of GDP than below, but the gap was relatively small and nowhere close to statistically significant. Furthermore, they found a much bigger gap in growth rates around debt-to-GDP ratios of 30 percent. If we think that [Reinhart and Rogoff's] methodology is telling us something important about the world then the take-away should be that we want to keep debt-to-GDP ratios below 30 percent.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/quick-tho...
" Star systems in a society come about because of a paucity of influential sorting processes. " - Lanier, Jaron (2013-03-07). Who Owns The Future? (Kindle Location 598). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.

-- my thoughts --

I am sure it was.. but the main point is.. people attribute more rationality and objectivity to a process that frankly even by pg's own comments ( check out his essay on " two kinds of judgment ) is not so.

Investors ( even incubators ) should be a secondary thought to an entrepreneur's path.. I'd go so far as to point that its best to have a defensive approach and look for paths do not require them ( even pg has hinted many times via his essays.. including the cockroach bit ).

What happens when the first example arrives that clearly just bypassed the whole lot of the present ecosystem till a very late stage and hits the range of a Google or Microsoft ?
http://www.bash.org/ since 1999 :)
Not sure what constitutes an ultrabook, but would the macbook air fit your needs? It's really high quality and fan is off almost always. It doesn't have retina at the moment, though.
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Poor choice of words on my part. I meant we're talking about developers making decisions, not users making decisions.
I'll throw my "rejected from YC" story into the ring: my co-founders and I applied to the S12 batch. We were fortunate to get as far as the interview phase, only to receive a very kind rejecting email from Garry Tan that evening. His basic criticism was: "you guys aren't serious about this idea" (we hadn't yet quit our day jobs).

So we quit. We spent the summer building Meldium, reapplied for W13, and were accepted - and it was an amazing boost to our company. As a founder, you're going to get rejected a lot - use it as an opportunity to learn and grow.
I'd sell bitcoin (if I had any) and by gold, a chance like this will not come again. Circumstances coming together to depress gold momentarily.
There have been a ton of cloud CPU benchmarks, e.g. http://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks If the cloud is implemented properly there should be minimal interference from neighbors, but it would be an interesting thing to check.
Stay hungry, stay alive, and be relentlessly resourceful (as PG says). You'll figure it out.

A long standing tradition: If you got rejected, please forward your rejection email to free@mixpanel.com and we'll hook you up with a free Mixpanel plan to help out while you're figuring it out.

- Suhail
I'd appreciate some thoughts from more informed people than myself.

As I understand it: Intel didn't go into mobile devices because of lower margins. Arm has now taken that market, and are killing it because they have the volumes to make the lower margins palatable and not much competition.

Intel is now going into the mobile space now as they have decided they are better off with low margins rather than no sales.

I could only imagine the total demand for mobile devices is a much bigger market than it ever was for PCs so surely with Intels production capability they can own this segment soon?

And with that being said, at the price intel stock is right now, we should be buying them up by the bucket load?
So... Will desktop/laptop computers ('workstations') become super expensive (high-end) to justify Intel's valuation?
Apples and oranges. The number in the article is 'crashes caused by officers driving at high speed', the general pop statistic is all vehicular deaths.

Similarly, deaths per 100k is the rate of victimisation amongst the population. Deaths per number of officers is a rate of offending, not victimisation.
Link to their project proposal (Cornell): http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.1847v2.pdf
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I love UIAppearance. I am not too well versed in CSS but UIAppearance adds a lot of what I have seen done with CSS. You can change the default appearance of most default elements really easily, and declare containers inside of that with a whole different set of defaults. It makes styling your app a really painless process. All you have to do to make all the UIToolbars in your app red, for example, is use this one line at the start of your program.

[[UIToolbar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];
I hear this over and over again but don't understand why "complex" suddenly means "non-idiomatic UX." Most iOS apps follow common design patterns, and IB makes building these patterns extremely straightforward. For the one-off odd screens, sure, don't use IB, but certainly if you are building an iOS app the majority of screens will not require crazy unique UX. If they do that is probably a design smell.
In my mostly uninformed opinion, drug laws are a huge part of the problem in terms of public interfacing with the police.

That said, while people may complain about particular speed limits, I don't think very many would call a cap somewhere below 120mph "unjust".
> Well, driving above the speed limit while on duty is required.

Admittedly, it's not really physically possible to catch up to someone traveling at 90 mph when you're limited to 65, however they have lights and sirens that, according to law, they are required to use while responding to an emergency or incident, which broadly covers speeding.

According to the original article, more than half of all incidents occurred outside of the officers jurisdictions. Miami-Dade limits officers to 20 mph above the speed limit at all times, even while enroute to an emergency (270 cops were found going over 90, 70 being the highest speed limit in Miami-Dade). FHP limits officers to 15 above the posted limit, but does allow excesses if the situation requires it, but only if the environment allows it and it is safe to do so, but earns the prize for the fastest speed of 129.8 mph.

http://databases.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/ftlaudCopSpee...
Or analogous to any other abuse of position.
Wait till my grandma gets word of this...
The former, as it's not make believe.
Carpe Diem, my friend. Money is great, but if you had an experience like that, one that you felt was an eye opener, then do whatever you need to do. Like Jeff Bezo's Regret Minimization Framework.

I had a similar experience where I was almost T-Boned by a Semi Truck that ran a red light when I was 18 after I just graduated from High School (I am 21 now). It made me realize what I want to do, and is perhaps one of the best things that could have happened to me in its own morbid way.
I visited the site in incognito mode, and I see the review: http://i.imgur.com/v9P9cJJ.png

Yelp has publicly stated that they filter reviews[0] since many people try to game the system. I'm not sure how they filter the reviews, but this is probably a good guess: http://qr.ae/TluW1

Disclaimer: I'll be interning at Yelp over the summer.

[0]: http://qr.ae/TluOB
And if it has? Well, then the statistical likelihood is that we're located somewhere in that chain of simulations within simulations. The alternative - that we're the first civilisation, in the first universe - is virtually (no pun intended) absurd.

wrong. there are multiple alternatives; we are the nth civilization in a real universe, we are the nth to the nth civilization in the multiverse, etc. Sloppy sensationalism and bad statistical reasoning in this article.
Have you heard of Max Tegmark's quantum suicide argument? If you believe it sufficiently, well, buy a lottery ticket and cyanide, and really commit yourself to it :)

(No, please, do NOT do this.)
I thought it was pretty interesting the first three times this was posted.
Reinhart-Rogoff, Continued
Great question. The simpler syntax reduces the number of rules to remember and shrinks the possible space for bugs. In back of the envelop user testing with non-programmers we've found people can pick up Space significantly faster than JSON.

JSON is really popular. However, the number of people in the world who can read and write JSON is say, between 2-20 million. So a very small percentage of the people who could benefit from reading and writing structured data are currently doing so. Our thought with this is that perhaps if we can get enough adoption and developers involved over the next year or two we could enable a lot more people to collaborate on the web.
The companies leveraging ARM are the ones really killing it.

eg Qualcomm - 100% profit growth in 24 months, to $6.1 billion ($6.6b in last four quarters). They might be the size of Intel in three or four years at this pace, and their market valuation has already passed them (the market is making a clear bet there).

ARM itself is tiny by comparison. The real killing is being made by the companies leveraging ARM's designs (QCOM / AAPL / Samsung etc).

I view it as akin to taking commodity energy products (which often have good margins to begin with) and leveraging into the chemicals business with extreme margins (everything from Tide to perfume to industrial chemicals).
If you're interested in going a bit deeper on this, Nick Bostrom (http://nickbostrom.com/) has pulled together an intriguing case: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

A provoking question: if we found evidence that convinced us, beyond a reasonable doubt, that we were living in a computer simulation, would you change your behavior?
gives a whole new meaning to the term blue screen of death
like "cmd z" all the way back to the big bang?
Some data points: we had 5 video views. Rejected. Probably too old for YC. But we're doing well, so no biggie.

We applied with Arro, http://arroapp.com - tells you which product to get by analyzing millions of ratings online.
There are a number of problems with doing things like this.

The first is that significant speed differentials are extremely dangerous. Uncalibrated speedometers are very common and very inaccurate. Anything that causes guaranteed enforcement is going to reduce safety because people will start religiously following their speedometer instead of the normal flow of traffic, so now you have people driving all different speeds than one another based on how badly and in which direction their speedometer is miscalibrated. On top of that you have a situation where anyone who has made a stop for coffee or gas is exempt from the timer because of the stop, so you put a number of people driving 15MPH over the limit (because they stopped and aren't subject to the timer) on the same road as people driving 15MPH under the limit (because they haven't stopped and their speedometer is inaccurate) and you're going to see more collisions.

Then there is the pragmatic problem. Speeding tickets are big money because the law is enforced sporadically under unpredictable conditions. To generate revenue, enforcement has to be rare enough that it doesn't induce compliance. And the proposed scheme is entirely deterministic. Everyone who doesn't make a stop will discontinue their speeding between toll booths -- which is ostensibly the intended result, except that it means the scheme will generate no money and will deprive the government of existing ticket revenue that would have been generated on that stretch of road. Meanwhile it reduces the need for police presence, which means you'll have to fight the law enforcement unions to boot. It's not at all surprising that there has been little interest in implementing it.
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Could you?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/fausto-lopez-speedi...
I cant help but picture two mice trying to reconstruct the question from a human brain
I want this. please release for web or android
It's unlikely to work unless the button is so reliable that you have a better chance of winning the lottery than the button/mechanism failing in some (possibly undetectable) way. It's the same argument against trying to use quantum immortality to force a miracle by killing yourself, or constructing a machine to kill you, unless some desirable event occurs. It's much more likely that your machine will fail, or you'll change your mind.
Pinochet was not especially brutal, as dictators go. On his worst day he was far less homicidal than, say, Pol Pot or Idi Amin. Indeed, I can think of any number of democratically elected leaders with more blood on their hands, including several US Presidents.
If we were created like this, wouldn't it be feasible to say that the creators could just patch this up so the experiment will appear to work but is indeed, rigged.
Domain registered to keep focus on Boston Marathon victims, not conspiracies
Those postings were just simulations.
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Let us for a moment, assume that the quantum suicide argument is correct. It is probably more likely that you will somehow survive the cyanide with life-long debilitating effects than for you to actually win the lottery.
It's not ARM that Intel has to compete with per se, it's Qualcomm. They're the new Intel.

People keep saying Intel stayed away due to the low margins. Well the market doesn't have low margins. Qualcomm has a 30% net income margin; it's 50% higher than Intel's today.
It reminds me of this short novel: http://qntm.org/responsibility
If the 1TB object is constructed atomically, it has to wait, yes - but really, that's the case in eager languages too if you want the same final semantics.

If the 1TB object can in any way be constructed a bit at a time, then in principle you can get some work done in constructing it and back that out if you wind up not needing it.
Nothing here yet either, I applied late as well. Keeping my fingers crossed they even have a chance to read the application. Good luck!!
Home page tells me nothing, just wants me to sign up for something I don't understand yet. That's when I closed the tab. If you want idiots like me to signup you'll need to sell me before you ask me to type.
I'm curious as to the technical details. I can't imagine why investigators couldn't get access to the raw Sun Pass database, which records tag id, toll booth, and a timestamp, if it works anything like my EZ-Pass system. From that, it's trivial to match up enter/exit records and divide the distance by the time to come up with an average speed. The article says they got the data from 12 police departments. I wonder what kind of records they obtained.
Wikipedia logs show Windows falling dramatically, mobile rising
this reminds me of the film The Thirteenth Floor... and the book it's based on.
Which allows people to read about it more often, making them think the problem is worse now.
I think for most people the point of category theory can be one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself ; or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_topology ; or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense
...but probably it's not so helpful to insist on more than one of these at a time. And I think it would be good if more writers would realize that.
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Why is knowing his timezone important?
Already have!
"The alternative - that we're the first civilisation, in the first universe - is virtually (no pun intended) absurd."

As opposed to us simply being some other civilization on one of the other billions of habitable planets in that same "first" universe?
Checkpointing does require a lot of resources and very large scale simulation like a simulation of whole universe may prohibit such checkpointing.
Crashing would be a side-effect. However your idea is correct. Consider instead:

[True, SpinForever()]

You can consider any "variable" in Haskell to have a value of the type of that variable or the bottom value. The bottom value is tech-speak for no-value at all, since it means that the program has gone into a infinite-loop trying to produce the value.

Eagerness would fix this since, such a program as above would always cause a infinite-loop, and thus the program would no longer be a useful construction. While with lazy evaluation it only spins if you try to evaluate any more than the first element in the list.

Of course you could also fix this by going with total programming which basically removes the implicit bottom-value from the language. Which is a nice concept. Though then you need to explicitly declare you infinite data from you finite data (think a network socket, compared with string). And you lose Turing-completeness (but who needs that anyway :) )
Yes, thank you.

He is NOT using QBasic, it's QB64. He gets instant access to some pretty sweet functionality that was never in QBasic. Transparent PNG support, resolutions with more than 16 colors above 320x200, double buffering, TCP/IP, and the list goes on.

Regardless, this guy is getting some awesome press with the QBasic thing. If you want to make money with games, it's all about the marketing.

I'll give him a little more credit if he used that tiny dos-box blue editor that comes with QB64 to code the entire game tho :)
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We could imagine that the simulation naturally backtracks given a paradox or dead end. So if the lottery is rigged, I would never get rich, and the simulation would just backtrack to where I would never decide to try this.
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> Gruber says: "The consensus among the people I’ve spoken to is that this is in no way a "rats leaving a sinking ship" scenario, but rather the inevitable churn of talented people capitalizing on the success of the company."

In other words, no news here?
Just wanted to say that I'm nowhere near your target market but the landing page looks excellent, incredibly polished for less than a year's work. Best of luck to you!
Please don't `kill -9` me! I'm having fun in this simulated universe.
We had 4 views from the west coast the day after we applied. Another 4 this week. Last time we applied, we got over 20. PG says they only look at the videos if the application seems promising. So I guess my application got worse?
| Gruber says: "The consensus among the people I’ve spoken to
| is that this is in no way a "rats leaving a sinking ship"
| scenario, but rather the inevitable churn of talented
| people capitalizing on the success of the company."

I guess the issue is whether or not the people that he's spoken to are biased against wanting to believe that the ship is sinking.

Also, if this is the 'inevitable churn,' then why is it even worth talking about? Why is Gruber stating that it's, "the single biggest problem that Apple faces?"
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I can also vouch for the Surface Pro. It's extremely well made, and pretty much the only downside is the small (but hi-res) screen.
> Qualcomm has a 30% net income margin; it's 50% higher than Intel's today.

Qualcomm doesn't run its own fabs as far as I know, these comparisons aren't very meaningful.

Perhaps I mispoke using the word "margin:" Intel makes a lot of money as a hardware company. Of course, they have to invest in their fabs, but their 15% is on a much higher number than Qualcomm's 50%. So let's just think profit instead ($1.2B vs. $2B).
Yeah, there's not exactly a perfect way of getting it just right, as far as I see it. I tended in my projects to use the tooltip object to highlight/explain certain interactive pieces. But I don't use tools like this to actually dig into interaction specifics--I use it to communicate the general direction of an idea only.
Thanks! We're planning an Android version.
Or the less click-baity headline:

"Physicists to Test if Universe is Computable"
Could? Probably; depends on the nature of the simulation.

Would? If they could, they might, or they might be pleased we figured it out :-P
"Two Anonymous 'Venture Capitalists' We Talked to Say They've Noticed More Apple Resumes Than They Noticed Earlier"

Come back when you have some actual numbers, you terrible, terrible journalist.
Math puzzle: Which way did the bicycle go?
That depends on the scales involved in the universe where the simulation is being run. Maybe we're easy :-P