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> Predatory pricing occurs when you sell a product at such low prices ...

Thanks for correcting me on that. I was mistaken.

> but that is a different sense of the word than what the OP refers to ...

I am aware of that.

> Apple doesn't have a monopoly in any of the markets it participates in ...

The market is broader than just the end-users of phones. Share markets, patents, deals with collaborators (such as network operators, music companies), and bribes (mostly in less developed countries) are just as much a part of the market as end-users.
MasterCard joining push for fingerprint ID standard.
In many ways you are in an enviable position. You can take pride in the fact that you worked hard (at something you apparently didn't like)but you worked hard enough and competently enough that you got paid really well. Second you can take a healthy pride in the fact that you were wise enough that you lived on less than you were making and built up investments such that you could retire on a modest income at 31. Relatively few people achieve that level of income and even fewer exercise that kind of discipline.

But you now desire significance and the potential for even greater financial success. Great, get started and quit worrying about whether you will succeed. As others have pointed out if History or English majors can teach themselves the skills needed to succeed in web or mobile development there is no reason to imagine that you will fail to acquire the skills that you need.

Quit worrying about competing for a "job" and use your investment income as an extended start-up runway.

As you start developing an idea, go learn the specific technology needed to develop that prototype. If it starts to get traction great, you might have a hit on your hands and retain all the equity. If it doesn't get traction, at least you learned a new technology. Rinse and repeat. Since you have basic income covered, I would focus on the significance side of the equation. Do projects that you care about.

If you eventually tire of trying to build your own ideas, find a non-profit whose mission you believe in. Use your newly developed skills to work for them and help make something good happen in the world. They probably won't be able to pay you all that well, but you have basic income covered.
Seems like you not need an occupation, but motivation, preceeds by vision.

Think deeply on what you want to make better of this world. Start from there.
While "Understand" is nice, "72 letters" seem even more brilliant.

Ted Ching usually puts into a short story an amount of ideas some other authors would expend on a trilogy.
While it does have no impact in the expected complexity of factoring larger keys, this kind of thing is informative of the maturity of public factoring software: a single person with (presumably) access to a number of machines can pull off this kind of job on their own. Given the number of things that can go wrong in a complex method like the NFS, this is noteworthy.
There is significant press attention given to the appearance of the Apple's products and market share stats, but Apple's real focus is on the software inside the devices, and on the developer base and applications available.

The most important weapon in the battle for the approaching mobile device world will be to get the best quality applications on your platform. Apple is winning this battle, application quantity and quality, and the press does not seem to give much attention to this most critical aspect. Something like three of every four dollars spent on mobile applications now goes to iOS apps, and head to head comparisons of the most popular mobile applications show the iOS versions are clearly of higher quality.

Apple has a monopoly on selling devices that run the huge iOS base of applications, and this should continue to allow them to sell their hardware at nice margins. They've stayed focused on building the developer community and APIs, with the goal of building a library of applications of the highest quality, and raining cash on their developer community. Apple goes for the win while most everyone is distracted by insignificant stats like market share.
My advice would be to setup a paid support arm ASAP, and tell the person complaining they have two options:

1) Log a bug against the windows build process, and you'll look at it when it reaches the top of your priority list, or

2) Engage you for paid support to investigate the issue.

You are under no obligation to make your softwear buildable on any platform. If he chooses to disagree,he can refuse your license, delete your software and move on.
If you are motivated you can learn to program well, as good as any other.
BUT: Do you envy the success of industrious males and covet their hard earned money and its attached status? Why do you want to "be one of those guys with 100 million (idol-worship)?"

The people you listed had nothing in terms of financial assets during the start of their careers. Jobs was a nobody who lived with his parents.It may be difficult for you to muster up that same level of motivation with 1 million in your portfolio.

Look, programming and computer manufacturing may have been the medium through which a subset of motivated and imaginative people created their wealth during the past 20-40 years, but programming and computer manufacturing were just the medium. The foresight of these men is what led to their success (Paul Graham is a brilliant guy.)

Do you deserve to take a job from a younger, hard-working CS guy just because you are not satisfied with your career choice? Do you think that human progress is measured in dollars? Maybe what you need is some substance in your life other than phantasies of wealth and portfolio screenshots. If you had had the foresight of the successful men that you listed, then maybe you would already have "100 million," or more! (Are you married? Kids?)
Your database is your friend
This is an oblique comment but it reminded me of Ken Thompson's quote:

"Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: 'I'd spell creat with an e.'" [1]

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=poFQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22spell+cre...
Agreed with the dual video cards - my friend has trouble on his laptop, and I am pretty sure that's what causing it. I've been very happy with my HD4000 grapics card. It handles the desktop environment very well, is low power, and has excellent open source drivers. It's probably not amazing for gaming, but I didn't buy it for that.
Your method is sane, the problem is with RVM and rbenv, which everyone uses and depend on hacky implicit shell BS (rbenv less so, but it's still there). Build from source and use the full path to the interpreter is the only sane method IMO.
I don't recycle because it's not an economically viable activity without subsidization (robbery).

In my office, I found out that the cleaning crew had been trashing the carefully segregated recycling for months. I had a good laugh.
I love it when people throw in "clearly" to their claim. Despite your claim - it isn't "clearly irrelevant".

if their market share is so tiny, why is anyone reading this story on HN?

in the US, iOS isn't irrelevant, Apple has 40% smartphone market share and rising.
I laughed out loud when I read that idiotic part about "this will be my last hit" too.

I do like John McAfee's take on chronic weed use though: “Marijuana is the drug of illusion. It creates the the illusion that you’re thinking great thoughts and doing great things while you’re sitting on the sofa and growing a beard.”

Anyways, if this guy was delivering Oxy he's lucky he is still alive. Oxy drivers are almost always jacked where I live. All the major crew members here are addicted to it because it calms them from being paranoid since they are all marked for death by each other and constantly looking over their shoulder. Gangster anxiety is best explained in the classic song My Mind Playing Tricks On Me by the Geto Boys.

Kind of strange this guy didn't mention any anxiety of being busted or having a gun shoved in his face. He just slammed all his customers leading me to believe he didn't actually deliver drugs. If you don't wake up in the middle of the night panicking after dreaming of your door getting kicked in or don't think that everybody on the street is following you then you aren't in the game.
Customer service is a big one. Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) is setting a pretty high bar with their Happiness Heroes, and even their founders spend time every week doing customer service. In a world where more and more processes are becoming automated, the human touch is going to increasingly become the differentiator: and if you execute well on that, people are going to take notice.

Example: Airbnb and photography. When the founders went to New York to meet their customers in person (instead of emailing them from behind a screen in SF), they realized that many of the hosts didn't have any good photos of their listings, despite the spaces themselves being beautiful. The guys took some nice photos of their customers' listings, and WOAH: they started booking more nights. Now, Airbnb partners with local photographers around the world to provide their customers with this service.

They started with a human touch that "wouldn't scale", and it's this sort of service that, I believe, will separate the startup wheat from the chaff.
IMHO the problem isn't this information being public or even easily accessible. It's that people judge others based on this stuff which shouldn't be terribly relevant in most situations (anyone can get arrested, and even actual criminals are not always bad people. Especially if it's something minor or happened long ago.)

The people hosting this information to tarnish people's reputations in order to get them to pay are assholes. But the fact that your reputation can so easily be tarnished and that it matters so much is the root of the problem.

I mean if you really did believe the information was relevant and helped people make better decisions about others, you would want it to be public and easily accessible, right?
> 2. Everyone will value their own time now much more, so you will automatically get paid for what you achieve, not for the hours you worked.

While a Star Trek Earth style system sounds awesome and utopian, I cannot help but thinking most people would just stay home and drink and/or watch Law and Order marathons all day. Hell, that does not sound too bad to me at all, and I love my work.
Here is my story.

5 years ago I was an apprentice copper and tin smith, I have always been good with my hands, and because of the dot com crack around 2000 I decided to go for a career in construction. However, it didn't turn out that way. To cut a long story short, 5 years later I started to learn web development, 2 years into web development I was the acting lead developer and teacher of others. Now 4 years later I am in a new job, well paid, respected by my bosses, and I am still learning new languages and frameworks.
Point is, anyone can learn programming, and I dare say, after what I have witnessed, anyone can excel at it too.
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They don't, only in states where they have a legal nexus until/unless the marketplace fairness act passes the house.
I find I go through ups and downs as well. My ups generally occur when I accomplish something, when I work on something meaningful, when I help others, when hard work gets acknowledged, when I learn something new, when I influence change, when a complaint or a concern doesn't go unnoticed, etc.
The downs on the other hand are primarily connected with feeling of helplessness, often due to restrictive hierarchy and bureaucracy, staleness (same work every day), status quo, frustrations that go unaddressed, etc.

edit: tuning out, punching in/out (ass in a seat), meeting expectations for me are all signs that point to me being stuck at a job without much enjoyment. Not being vested in the company is a tricky one though - I am ready to make certain sacrifices for a company, however I will always ensure I have a backup strategy. The same should hold true for companies as well.
> work reasonably well in most climates.

If you like to be boiled in the summer and frozen in the winter, not to mention having to cycle on icy roads with no shoulder and sixteen-wheelers bearing down on you.

Anyway, if you do cycle, please don't make a habit out of blowing past pedestrians at full speed, and think twice about riding on the sidewalks.
The Engineering Death Spiral
No, you're missing my point; it's not about what happens "under the hood"; it's about the holistic properties of a FRP system. (Also, you don't need to explain FRP to me; I've implemented three FRP systems in two languages.)

A system if stateless by definition iff its observable behavior is independent of its input history over time. (This definition applies to disciplines other than computer science, BTW.) That is not true of any FRP system which generates behavior signals from event signals (as a database does), unless you want to execute said system over fixed data (your "list fold" example), therefore making time irrelevant, making the system non-interactive, and making the example uninteresting to the problem FRP is trying to solve.

Does a FRP description of a system eschew global mutable variables and non-local effects? Yes.

Does a FRP description of a system force state to be handled explicitly? Yes.

Do FRP languages encourage decoupling of state into small pieces? Yes.

Are FRP programs described by referentially transparent pieces? Yes.

Are useful FRP systems as a whole not stateful? Absolutely not.
"Theories that create theories" seems a completely arbitrary categorisation. We have software that derive predictions from records of past data. How is that not a machine creating a theory, albeit a simple one?
We freelancer also do business. Sometime ,we not always online and doing other thing.But too abuse and trying keep cost like only entertain Facebook message just for just communication just too way annoying.To me,i you don't want take the call or meet face to face better not deal with me.Sometimes meet face 2 face required to knew client capability on payment and scheduling.
One way to handle all the information of the programmer
I thought that GTA 6 was really impressive, given that they modeled everything as buildings, the idea to use the entire world for a video game is exceedingly clever.
A shoutout to the uWaterloo team too. (As an aside they're in velocity as well.)
I'm not sure that I would call multiple times a year "very, very rarely".

Every service loves to use their total number of members and say that requests are very rare--relative to their number of users.

But honestly not sure what they could have done, if FBI comes in with a legal request for a specific user's data, what are your options?
There will always be pundits on both sides of these sorts of arguments. In the early 90's, there were lots of people predicting IBM's imminent break-up. In 2011, Tomi Ahonen was claiming that despite everyone claiming that Nokia was under siege, it was still the world's largest seller of Smartphones (since he considered Symbian a Smartphone OS), while others were claiming that Nokia was doomed.

Time is the only way we can tell which of the pundits were right, and which (in retrospect) sounded like idiots.
I am envisioning parents explaining to their kids that they were named "Free Viagra" in order to protect them from Google.
Actually, it's almost certainly as the other person stated - for administrative moderation purposes. There is no other purpose to maintaining historical backups of this sort of data. Especially not when that costs money.

When I built a site that existed for a very long time, was very popular, and involved monetary transactions, I had to track nearly everything. IP addresses, address changes, email changes. Everything I could think of. This was then utilized when I suspected someone of fraudulent behavior. I could pull up an administrative screen that compared data in an archive copy (where I dumped the older information for just this purpose and to specifically keep it inaccessible to the outside world for user security purposes). With that, I could see whether several users were actually the SAME user. I even tracked things like user-agent string and detected screen resolution.

A lot of pieces of data can come together to provide more than circumstantial evidence that someone is shilling, trying to feedback-bomb another user, and so on. Enough correlated points of data can confirm suspicions like this. You'd be surprised how many people use an email address for one account, change that address, then create a second account with the email address they used to have on the first account and then use the second address to drive up the value of their stuff by shill-bidding against another user on their own item.
For a site that large and well-visited, with almost entirely user-generated content, all of which are on technical problems many of which could involve illegal activity?

I'd agree that that's very, very rarely.
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Too bad there's not a complimentary document, "How Rsync Breaks", because that one would be quite useful as well. I've had it fail in the most annoying and arbitrary ways and it's dissuaded me from using it in any real production situations.
It goes even deeper than local ordinances and taxation. Counties often have specific requirements and certifications. Many states and local governments have mandatory 'use tax' and other usury laws that require registration and reporting--regardless of incorporation status or total dollar amounts. Counties, townships, cities, subdivisions and condominiums often have provisions, restrictions and covenants that specifically address and/or expressly prohibit various aspects of subletting such as short-term rentals. Further, many mortgages prohibit renting. Lastly, there's the issue of homeowners insurance.

I know that there is language in the AirBnB terms that mandate the owner take care of compliance. I wonder what proportion of homeowners that rent through AirBnB (or similar sites like VBRO) are doing so in full compliance with all of the above.
The latter, I assume. Wordpress provides a lot of value that Jekyll or another site generator doesn't, but you do need a cache.
Well, after all, our whole political system is founded on "if you don't like it - leave". It's not like we've built any mechanisms into the foundation of our system such that you should stay around and help with the formation of a more perfect government or anything.
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Bedrock Linux wasn't influenced by Nix. When I started working on what ended up being Bedrock Linux, I wasn't familiar with Nix. Both projects are going about things in very different manners. Nix's is a lot cleaner, but will take a lot more manpower or time to get to the point where I could use NixOS as my primary system. I agree that they're on to something - I'd love for Nix project to take off.
The situation is worse in inflated dollars -- even if we'd held the budgets steady in real dollars, we'd be losing to inflation.

Read the graphs. We increased funding 50% in real (i.e. "constant FY 2012") dollars, in nominal dollars it increased marginally more (inflation wasn't that important). The bulk of the increase was in the NIH - look at the second graph which breaks it out by agency.

Defense R&D includes a lot of basic science, I have no idea where you get the idea it doesn't. For example, this paper of mine (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0708.0635.pdf) has support from the Air Force. A lot of work in computational electromagnetism and operations research (to name two fields I know moderately well) is funded by the military.
I dunno ... sharing frequently, never taking more than you give ... could be describing some kind of firefight ;)
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Here's another account of how to do it, in a very authentic voice of somebody who's done it more than once:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Telescope_Making
I far prefer self-checkout.

You can take coins, notes, and receipt separately (note have them all forced into your hand, to be awkwardly separated later). Paying by card would avoid this, but prefer to stay in touch with my expenditures.

I also find it kind of satisfying, like increasing skill at a game.

The only downside is that if you pause a moment, an over-eager attendant will push in front of you and start doing it for you - like you're an incompetent idiot and should be grateful for their "helpful" interference. I'm truly astounded at this rudeness, but it's becoming less common. It doesn't happen because they're busy and need you to hurry - it only happens when they've got nothing to do.

BTW: not all self-checkouts are equal. My local (Australia) Woolworths machines are frustrating, forcing you to click unnecessarily. The local Coles are much better - if you mute the annoying voice instructions. I expect there are still other versions elsewhere.

Also, article is correct that human checkout is faster - partly due to faster machine calibration. For a big shop, it's probably preferable.
Yours! (http://ycombinator.com/np.html)
>I consider him the greatest creator and editor of products this industry has ever known,

are you effing serious? Greatest creator my ass. He took already built products and refined the hell out of them. Shit, he practically built the company on top of Wozniak's back.
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With the amount of Mozilla intern related HN posts I'm seeing lately, I'm really considering pursuing full time employment there after graduation. Working for an organization that has a mission bigger than maximizing profitability is really attractive.
this is honestly not a "crystallization" of ideas about why the author likes mozilla, it's just restating mozilla's core goals that cab be found on its homepage
Children at mercy of faith healers, skeptics and quacks
From the logs:

> Mon Sep 23 11:09:41 2013 commencing Lanczos iteration (32 threads)

> Mon Sep 23 11:09:41 2013 memory use: 26956.9 MB

> [...]

> Thu Sep 26 07:17:57 2013 elapsed time 51:56:44

I’m not sure that I’m understanding all the details. Does this mean that they factored a 210-digit number in 52 hours in a single machine?
I've recently watched this documentary called 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'. It is about this legendary 85-year-old sushi master in Japan and his two sons who will succeed him in the business. At some point there was an interesting quote that went along the lines: when Jiro dies, his son will need to be twice as good as him, if he is "only" just as good, people will think he is worse.

I think this is quite true in the Apple case, there was a "genius" aura around the Steve Jobs personality that helped inflate the perception of his already impressive achievements. Without that aura, Apple might be doing just as good a job as he would do, but people will think worse of them.

Personally, I think that as long as they keep putting out the excellent quality products they've been releasing lately, pushing into new areas now and then, they will be just fine for quite some time.
The IO monad is also declarative. But, just like FRP signal functions, functions in it can be used to describe stateful systems.
This is harder than you think, especially with mail.
People are reading this because despite a small market share, Apple is more successful than any other PC, Tablet, or Phone maker.

It's easy to point to rising market share less than one month after an annual product release. If it wasn't rising at that point they'd be in Blackberry territory. Typically, Apple is presented as having a losing strategy, and the current market share in the US is regarded as a anomaly that will quickly be corrected as 'Good Enough' Android phones such as the Nexus series or Galaxy S4 are recognized as being equivalent.
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