skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Note that Apple is not only about iPhones.

Actually it is. Well actually it is about hardware sales. iTunes is contributing only ~5% to the revenue while iPhone sales alone are over 50%. So giving hardware away for cheap and making it up in volume won't really work.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/24/apple-reports-best-quart...
To me, that is more like Ruby 3.0, or a similar languages with another name.

How will this turn out? Matz will approve it? If yes why not make Rubinius the default implementation?

If not, then ?
It's in the first sentence - interclick, acquired by Yahoo for $270 MM couple years ago.
> I think if Apple launched a "budget" phone it would destroy much of the Android market. Maybe it would damage their brand though, who knows.

So long as they maintained quality their brand would be fine, but their profits would take a serious beating. To compete with low to mid range Android phones they'd have to seriously cut prices and margins on their low end devices. This means the low end devices would be better value than the higher end devices, sucking sales and therefore profits from them.

Apple simply doesn't need higher market share. It already has a much more dynamic and valuable app platform and media ecosystem. What Apple does need is a high market share in terms of paid apps and services. These are where the actual value of a platform come from.

Right now if you want the best apps and services, you buy Apple. If that changes, then they'll have a problem. However large volume sales of cheap Android phones that only ever run the pre-installed apps are simply not a threat in this regard. The market share platform argument against Apple only works if all those Android phones are actually being used as app and service platforms. If they're not, then they're irrelevant.

There will always be a contingent of sophisticated customers that will prefer Android, or even Windows phones. Those people will continue to buy flagship Android devices, and there's really nothing Apple can do that will change that. This is fine, and it's not a threat to anybody. Large scale sales of low end Android phones similarly isn't a threat to Apple. For now Apple is quite happy doing what it has always done, or tried to do. It's taken control of the high end of the market, making vast amounts of money and doubling down on quality and user experience. They're not a threat to high end Android phones, they're not a threat to low end Android phones, and those phones are not a threat to them. They're in competition, sure, and neither 'side' can afford to slip up.

Steve Job said many years ago that Apple and it's customers had to give up the notion that for Apple to win Microsoft had to loose. It's like than here. For Apple to win, Android does not have to lose. The problem with Apple adopting a low-profit scorched earth, market share first policy against Android is that it would only leave scorched earth left, and that's no basis for growing a strong business.
Well for $100 I'd rather get the 5S.
It would be a whole different story if the difference was 200-250
Just to be clear, this story is rumors from unnamed sources.
How Context Could Put Microsoft Back in the Game
> Is it possible to call the garbage collection at a certain time?

import gc; gc.collect()
Compared to the 5s.
What if Steve Jobs Built a Product for your Conference Room?
Continues beating until it decrypts into what he wants it to decrypt.
> In less than five years, Google did what seemed impossible: Launch and succeed with three new platforms, in categories Microsoft dominated: Browser, mobile OS and PC OS.

It's disingenuous to say Google has "launched and succeeded" against Microsoft in the PC OS space.
interclick was mentioned 5 times in the first four paragraphs:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/01/yahoo-buys-data-driven-ad-c...
Have you looked at ERPNext? It is Open Source - http://github.com/webnotes/erpnext

Though it is an ERP, you can just use the accounting and sales modules and hide the rest.

(I am a developer at erpnext)
The major and minor version number are not here just for show. For example the transition from NT 3.51 to NT 4 implied the transition of the GDI to the kernel.

In NT 5.0 there was the addition of PnP with full ACPI support (and it saw the inclusion of the WDM).

NT 6 saw a major update of the graphic driver model that enabled to have a smooth desktop experience (also IPV6 was totally included in the system).

So no, it does not mean "nothing". ;)
If they're buying it outright yes, but it's a different matter on contract. There we might be talking about the difference between an initial outlay of $100 and $200. A trivial amount for some, a significant difference for many.
>The 5C has lower-than-expected demand because the 5S has been wildly successful

Correlation is not causation
The 5S is doing well not because the 5C isn't. Apple meant the two models for different markets with the 5C meant to ride into the market of low/mid-end android phones unfortunately they aren't finding as much love in that market.

There is no reason Apple (or any other company) to release a product to cannibalize its' own existing market especially when they are getting consumers to pay a premium for the existing product
No matter the whole hype cycle I do actually reckon Elixir is positioned to be the new leader on the programming-web-front: being underpinned by Erlang means it is the ONLY platform/language out there so far with super solid scalability to rival Java AND a light/novel way of programming. That being said I'm personally doing fine with newer versions of PHP (which for my purposes are solid and fine when backed by best practices and prepared sql statements!)
The dots are further spaced apart so so your eyes are drawn towards individual balls rather than the image as a whole. Plus as the balls are already coloured and you have ball tails, it's easier to see the ball paths.

Also, worth mentioning is the balls on this follow a subtly different path as they don't intersect the centre of the shape like they do in the article's gif.
I think what GP is saying is that in emerging markets, or at least in Thailand, there is no "compromise" market segment (and it's not going to appear regardless how much Apple "want" it). Normal people get ultra cheap phones, rich people get high-end iPhones, which is why 5c is a miss.
For comments, it would cut off the display on Twitter at 140 characters, with a link to view the full comment on the external site. This would also encourage site owners to adopt the system, as Twitter would push tons of traffic.
I feel it's the situation at my country (Brazil). People don't own much too, average salary around $650. Apple's stuff are very expensive and most owners (specially of it computers) don't even know how to use the Mac OS X, to the point to want to switch and install Windows on their newly shine Mac (have seen this pattern many times). I really believe that Apple make it's money selling Status and not "cellphones". Steve Jobs showed it. But looks like the new managers at there didn't get it yet.
Agreed, but, do most of the users of SnapChat care?
" and hit the cancel link after you realize that they are including transactions that you had no intention of completing"

Why are you starting transactions you don't intend on completing anyway? I haven't tried it, but from what I've read so far the workflow seems perfectly reasonable for the vast majority of transactions. It's not like when I pay a friend the 10$ back he fronted me last week in the bar when I forgot my wallet, that I give it to another friend first and say 'hold on to this for a bit while I ponder whether to actually go through with this 'transaction''.
It's been a year since last I was there, and it looks like they're halfway back to where they were when they bought it.

I can find links to a website by typing its name into a search box now. I can see a list of my own links now. Those are nice improvements (or dis-catastropic-mistakes) over the last version.

I still can't sort search results by anything other than, well, randomness it seems. Certainly not by number of points. Maybe by date of the last save?

So yeah, halfway there. Even the font is halfway between the terribly oversized font from the redesign and where it belongs. I once got 20 links to a page. Then I got 4. Now I'm back to 9, which at least looks like a list.

I'll check back in a couple years to see where they're at. But I'm not going to start using them again. Fool me once, and all that.
That's exactly the point: these are people's unfiltered thoughts, and it makes me lose faith in my fellow man (or at least fellow American) whenever I read such comments.
Build a platform instead of a website or an app (social music discovery)
They adjusted their revenue guidance upwards after announcing weekend sales. I would think at least one of the iPhone models exceeded sales expectations, not just "performed as expected".
As another person who has lived in both places, banking is a lot freer in the UK. Yes, UK banks charge overdraft fees - but so do US banks. Most US banks will charge you to send you replacement checkbooks; many will even charge you a monthly fee to maintain the account. There are notable exceptions, but they don't have mass market buy-in.
Actually, RC4 is pretty memory hungry (with a state of 256 bytes) and performs a lot of read operations that hit main store in small devices.
Don't understand why they are trying to fix what was not broken. Delicious was a fast and easy-to-use UI for social bookmarking.

Over the last 3 or 4 years they made their UI progressively worse: replacing spaces for keyword separators by commas, slower autocomplete and now barely visible input boxes. Delicious has been extremely unkind to it's longtime users.
A loophole used by Apple.

And Google, and Microsoft, and Adobe, and Facebook, and Oracle, and Pfizer, and Starbucks, and General Electric.

But Apple makes the headline. Normally this would be headline whoring by the predictable media, except that this is the BBC, and I thought Starbucks was made the whipping boy for tax evasion in the UK.
A Screenshot Paints A Thousand Words For Bug Reports.
What It's Like to Plummet to Earth at 834 Miles Per Hour
Apple always exceeds their own numbers. They're notorious for setting extremely conservative guidance so they can easily jump over it and claim amazing success (even if revenue growth has ground to a halt and profit 'growth' is moving backwards).

Every version of the iPhone that has ever been sold has been supply constrained, there's no news there. They do it on purpose (or they're wildly incompetent after seven years of making the iPhone).
I imagine the Stackoverflow guys are familiar with Linux architectures, they also run the open source forum Discourse[1] which is a Ruby on Rails app that comes with a recommendation to set up and develop in a *NIX environment[2].

Certainly the point is to use the right tool for the job, and I wouldn't dismiss your final comment: having a team proficient in .NET is a great reason to build your tools with/for that platform.

But no, I don't think it would be fair to reply to this article saying "Why didn't they build this for [my preferred language]?"

[1]: http://www.discourse.org/
[2]: http://blog.discourse.org/2013/04/discourse-as-your-first-ra...
More information about the underlying tax loophole:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
"Historically misleading" as in "never happened" - Rousseau seems to have either invented or adapted the anecdote for his autobiography, which attributed it only to "a great princess":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
Decided to do a quick test..

//make yourself a file
dd if=/dev/zero of=1m count=1 bs=1m

//post directly to origin

time curl -F "file=@1m" -X POST "http://up4.pinkbike.com/upload/t.php" -w %{speed_upload}Bytes/s

array(3) {
["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]=>
string(81) "curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8y zlib/1.2.3"
["REQUEST_METHOD"]=>
string(4) "POST"
["CONTENT_LENGTH"]=>
string(7) "1048770"
}
230177.000Bytes/s
real	0m4.560s
user	0m0.004s
sys	0m0.010s

//post via Cloudfront to same origin

time curl -F "file=@1m" -X POST "http://dhima35gjf4ct.cloudfront.net/upload/t.php" -w %{speed_upload}Bytes/s

array(3) {
["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]=>
string(17) "Amazon CloudFront"
["REQUEST_METHOD"]=>
string(4) "POST"
["CONTENT_LENGTH"]=>
string(7) "1048770"
}
227055.000Bytes/s
real	0m4.623s
user	0m0.005s
sys	0m0.011s

So upload time is not much different from my location. The origin is in San Jose, and in my case I'm in Vancouver BC, and going through the Seattle cloudfront edge.
Would be interesting to see what you get from other locations
( I'm occasionally getting "ERROR: The request could not be satisfied" with cloudfront post )
That's assuming they'll provide it at all. I'm assuming if they get someone to overturn universal service regulations, some rural, less profitable communities may be deemed not worthy to keep providing service in at all.

I'm sure just the idea makes the cable companies feel all warm and fuzzy.
(disclaimer, I'm one of the Salsa20 in TLS draft authors).

Note that the suggestion of using Salsa20 is to replace RC4 not only to get better performance, but because RC4 is broken (as you know).

Salsa20 (and ChaCha) can be implemented on constrained devices and reach RC4 like performance. On modern architectures the algorithms word based functionality better utilise the HW than RC4 and can reach better performance.

Yes, AES with HW-support such as AES-NI can provide really good performance too. But then we _only_ have AES (and DES/3DES). Do we want to reduce SSL, TLS to a single symmetric encryption primitive? And no stream ciphers?
Can someone please explain me something that I don't understand?

I'm quite sure that Apple has smart economists. So why do they call something that costs 15% less than something expensive "low price"?

Thanks.
Great article, but as a matter of etiquette, please don't use all caps.
You Don’t Want To Spill Coffee On This Womans Latptop
The 5C does not have to sell. It purely has to be the 'other' choice instead of Android etc. being the 'other' choice. It is there to make the deluxe 5S seem a 'bargain', that is all. This makes purchasing the 5S a lot easier for the customer, psychologically.

As for Apple cutting orders due to weak demand, they simply placed a large initial order with their suppliers to get a better price. They probably told them it was going to sell like hot cakes when all along they only needed a modest quantity. They now go back to them and say 'sorry folks we won't be needing so many for the next order' and the suppliers walk away wishing they had charged more per unit with the first order.

Note this article is thin on sources and the angle implied - 'weak demand' is just interpretation.
That's ominous on A Small Orange — didn't realize that. Great.
>Right now if you want the best apps and services, you buy Apple.

This argument is about 3 or 4 years stale and needs to stop IMHO. What at all will you call a best app today that will drive someone to buy an Iphone instead of say, android because an equivalent one or even the same app isn't available at the Play Store?

Yes, there are a lot of poor apps in the Play store but I can find similar ones on iTunes. Again there are a lot of great apps in the App Store but I find them at the Play Store as well.
How can I explain this to my brother?
My self Sumit Sharma from India. Engineering Student but do not like to be engineer. I have been blogging since December 2012 and very happy to do this (PapaBlogger: My blog). Now it has become my passion. I am not earning good money right now so my elder brother is worried about my future. I have performed well in blogging and want to continue this further. But I don’t know how to explain this to my brother. I do not want more money just want to be happy with my work. As a part of HN I need some suggestion for this. Thanks in advance.
Android is a monopoly. The network effect will get worse and worse and worse. Two or three years from now, Apple will be lucky to have 7% of the global smart phone market. The only thing left is for the iPhone to be squeezed into an ever smaller corner, as Windows did to them last time. Tech markets like these are almost always winner take 95%.

Over the next three years, Android will take over 80% of the tablet market as well. The iPad will potentially suffer an even worse fate than the iPhone market share wise, because the subsidies aren't going to be there for much of the tablet market. The iPad will be competing with $125 and $200 tablets that are 90% as good at half the price. The outcome has always been obvious.
Hey we can answer any question regarding sourcing components, hardware manufacturing and making the product..
I'm not going to lie. I almost peed myself in fright after the logo turned into an entire block of garish blue.
But moving from AES and SHA to RC4 and MD5 should have made a few bells go if simply because it is bad engineering and shows lack of knowledge.

If we want to move away from MD5 and RC4 we first must start deprecating their usage wherever we can. Removing suites in SSL/TLS that uses them is a pretty simple step. Moving _from_ good suites _to_ these suites is the totally wrong way to go.
I didn't know you could do that in Bash
Or teen sexting, you know. Child pornography production is a serious offence.
You're still debating whether or not it's easily crackable.

Let's imagine the phrase you were saying needs to be remembered is simply "password", whereas a phrase good enough to not be cracked actually needs to be 400 characters long and include punctuation and numbers. In that scenario, you would be thinking "should take 10 seconds to memorise", whereas realistically it takes much longer.

That shows that the difficulty of phrase is of course relevant to how long it might take to learn, and the fact that other people have been arguing with you over how difficult the phrase needs to be shows that it is debatable.

So maybe you're right that your example phrase is fine, but if his wife learned a much more complicated phrase then it could well take longer to remember.
Apple is categorically the largest employer out of everyone on your list. They employ over 4,000 in Ireland alone and should this particular tax loophole impact that number, it would have a monumentally devastating long-term effect.
Apple's margins are falling, and will continue to for years to come as their elaborate subsidy ride comes to an end. Carriers will not be willing to bend over endlessly for a company with ever shrinking market share.
Of course, he is completely ignoring the continual Service Packs which keep fixing the bugs and adding features long after the OS has been shipped.

Most of the time, windows users are advised to wait for the first or second service pack before they start using a new version as their primary OS.
Not to mention Apple are the ones who 'pioneered' this 'Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich' scheme.
I work on software that is used by, among others, the vehicle repair trade in the UK. The phonetic alphabet is commonly used by them to relay vehicle registration numbers over the phone. I've noticed that they rarely use it with customers though.
Just because you use c# doesn't mean your whole stack needs to be Microsoft. No reason why you could have Windows web-servers running asp.net/c#, but have postgres DB, nginx, memcache etc on linux. Azure seems to be actually encouraging this.

The cost of windows licenses for web-servers is not that much. Avoiding SQL Server is the big win in reducing cost.
> To prepare carmine, the powdered scale insect bodies are boiled in ammonia or a sodium carbonate solution, the insoluble matter is removed by filtering, and alum is added to the clear salt solution of carminic acid to precipitate the red aluminium salt, called "carmine lake" or "crimson lake."

Seems a stretch of the word 'natural' to me :-)
I am afraid I didn't make the difference between the Thai and Western markets clear enough.

Thailand is a strictly hierarchical culture. In the old days it was similar to the Indian caste system. One was born into a caste. Nowadays, how much money you have determines for a large part your position in the hierarchy, but that requires you to show it. Another example: many people don't put their savings in the bank, but wear it in the form of gold.

When I said "People who have money and want to show it" what I really meant was "People who have enough money to buy an iPhone and want to show it". I don't think there is a market here for the 5c. It does not fulfill the purpose of an iPhone: showing that you have money and by extent status.

However, we will see the 5c/s are not released here yet.
But we're not in the Tablet Age; much like with metals, we're in a time in which no computing platform is dominant. This is in contrast with the PC era, when every other consumer computing platform was pretty much a toy.
I've used a XP virtual machine, as that alternative seemed way too difficult to setup.
Brad Feld already tried starting a HN clone and didn't pan out. http://tech.co/brad-feld-startup-revolution-hub-2012-12

I don't think USV's case is any different.
Even if Ballmer was correct in identifying google to be a competitor to Microsoft a decade ago as the article states, surely this underpins his immense failing as a CEO - given a decade and thousands of intelligent employees he still couldn't set and execute to a clear strategy and address the threat.
yeah, we've talked a lot about having two identity systems on usv.com. it is not ideal. but twitter doesn't have comments and disqus doesn't have the user base that twitter has, yet.

we are thinking about ways we can connect the two together in a tighter way to reduce some of this

as you point out, twitter and disqus are USV portfolio companies and we love using and supporting the products our portfolio companies make
Yes, absolutely. The iPhone IS the luxury brand of smart phones, and always has been. There are only two possible outcomes: they lose that status with lame gimmicks like the iPhone 5C, or maintain it by sticking to what Apple's brand stands for despite the risk of losing more market share.
Your reading pleasure under Arch can be helped. Someone called Bohoomil ported "Infinality" with every bell and whistle to Arch which he describes here: http://bohoomil.cu.cc/
The Archforumthread is here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162098&p=1 and he even prepared a bundle of free fonts which is described here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170976 where you can switch your preference for free, or Microsoft fonts, should you have them installed also.

tl;dr:
As of now you can have the very best fontrendering in Arch without compiling some patched stuff from the AUR or elsewhere, just by adding his binary repository in pacman.conf. It's top notch. Seriously.
maybe, but he didn't put in on the front page of foundry's web site.

we've been using this internally for a while to share and discuss links and we find it very valuable

so if a community doesn't develop around this, it will likely just be a public page where USV posts and discusses links, which in and of itself should be useful to entrepreneurs to see what we are interested in and talking about with each other
I've been with Dreamhost for quite a long time. Dreamhost is like a decent all-you-can-eat sushi bar. Not the best product, but it's worth the money you pay.

As you said though, their goofy attitude toward outages and such isn't good. I like the transparency of their status site, but when shit goes wrong I don't want a cat-meme reference.
Mobile friendly.. Seriously! What about 240px mobiles?

@media (max-width: 300px){
html * {
display: none;
}
html:after {
content: "Enlarge your window to see the content.";
}
}
Most people will have their phone with them. So the app will use the id's it can currently see vs the one it saw when it recorded the contacts it will cross reference and show you possible contacts.