skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at some point it becomes the user's responsibility to type an extra 5 or 10 characters to disambiguate their intent if they are looking for "news" or "criticism".

Google gets flack for not being an omniscient omnipotent benevolent God, when they are being darn good.
Fastest growing FB page in The Netherlands defends Blackface
It's only decline if the US is doing worse than it did in the past. But this data seems to be a single snapshot. It would be good if someone could find past results and see if there has actually been a decline.
And so it should, the content can only be provided for free because people are being exposed to the ads.
You could just as easily plot USA-RICH and USA-POOR and conclude that wealth/income "lead to or indicate the problem". Or USA-NORTH, USA-SOUTH, USA-EAST and USA-WEST and conclude that geography "lead to or indicate the problem". I'm not sure how you can draw a causal relationship here.
Because people like new things.

My grandma taught me the saying "More money than sense." . It's proven incredibly wise
"The reality is that race plays a huge role in intelligence."

I'm going to need some kind of cite for that before we go any further, you know.
Oh, cry me a river.

The entry level Mac Pro in Brazil will cost R$ 12,999.00, which amounts to $5906.23, which is 96% more expensive.

At least the shipping is free.
A fraction of the price? Not hardly.

A 64gb model of the iPad costs $700 (because 48gb of storage should cost $200 to pad those juicy margins).

I bought an amazing desktop from HP last year on a black friday sale for $779. For what's in it, you couldn't have assembled it from Newegg at that price.

In another generation or two the typical Chromebook will be superior to the iPad on performance, while being half the price.

You should buy a desktop or laptop because you get drastically more computing power at the same price.
> I don't understand why they don't just find a way to integrate console controls onto iOS devices on their own and DOMINATE the space.

You'd be talking about essentially a dedicated device. The 'hard-core' console market, where the manufacturer takes a loss on the device and hopes to make it up on the games, someday (it took Microsoft about a decade), is probably not something Apple would be too keen on, given their business model. Of course, they also have no experience making console controllers. Probably better to leave it up to the partners.
Entrepreneurship has become as commoditized as college
What is the relevance of this quote?
I hear you, same in Belgium!
The original (in BASIC!) - http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/GD.BAS
Which LinkedIn dataset are you talking about ? - Rapleaf used to sell one but I don't think that's available anymore.
Parts of it do read like a resume. But... perhaps since Doug is calling this a portfolio rather than a resume he doesn't need to worry about it being in a format suitable to be submitted as a resume.
A great way to expedite that transition is to disrespect them, treating them like your enemy when they're still your ally.
Given how very SHOCKED!1! German politicians react, one could get the impression that they honestly believed the NSA would only spy on the lower classes.
With neither of those devices did Apple have to warn the markets upfront of a significant reduction in margins, though (there _was_ some fall, but it was smallish); they did with the original Mini.
A good test of how well someone knows their subject of expertise is whether they can explain a concept within that field to a 5th grader in laymen’s terms. If you cannot, I really doubt you truly understand it beyond simple regurgitation of complicated sounding jargon. We can do it for code, and I'm confident you can do it for any other subject as well.
don't know why your comment was downvoted, i find it extremely relevant. i also remember how, a couple of years ago, blackberry announced a rise in profits, and how some blogger explained how that was the end of their product cycle and that they were only improving profits from a soon to be extinct product ( with nothing to replace it).

microsoft is not as deep in a mess, yet it's really good to be aware of the fact that sometimes rising profits means you're milking the last drops from the cow.
There are a lot of people who use their work e-mails with LinkedIn because LinkedIn provides a useful adjunct to their actual work. A company that I used to work for, for example had a link to each person's LinkedIn profile on their biography page. The testimonials they received on LinkedIn were worth rather more than the ones that might be put up ib the business' own site.
Who cares? The stock is over 1K now!!!
Amazon beats estimates, stock soars
> Finally, the "software is free" announcement

This is really about the desktop/laptop market and not the mobile market. It's important to separate these two markets when looking at this decision.

Right, they are taking aim at MS, but not in the way I think most people here are talking about. For most Windows users, Windows is either free or transparent (OEM install so the price is both ridiculously reduced over consumer, and it's just part of the computer purchase). You'll also generally get years of significant updates to Windows for $0.

For Apple, selling the OS has always been kind of weird. 99.999% of people who get the latest OS X are going to run it on their Apple built and sold computers anyway. And Apple obsoletes their hardware from the upgrade path faster than the Microsoft equivalent. So most users might see 3 or 4 years of solid updates before getting obsoleted out.

(Anecdote, my Windows desktop from early 2007 is still able to be upgraded to the very latest MS desktop OS. My MBP from the same time frame is so obsolete I can't even get a version of Flash that runs on it.)

So what changed? Surface. Apple has never competed well in the desktop/laptop market until very recently. Despite all the MBP and MBA I see at Starbucks, Apple only owns about 10-11% of the global market. But tight vertical integration and a very loyal customer base means they can squeeze that 10% for lots of profit. A user who upgrades their Mac every 3-4 years...well $100 for an OS license isn't all that much. And Mountain Lion? What was that $20?

So Surface changes this, Apple knows that Microsoft has the appetite to swallow ungodly amounts of money trying to get Surface some marketshare. And with Surface the OS is basically free with the device. A Surface Pro 2 isn't a bad little computer and is a better MBA competitor than any ultrabook is. This is the first time that Microsoft has really built, marketed and sold their own computer which means that the OS really is free. A couple price cuts and Surface Pros will dominate the Starbuck's scene (at least outside of the Valley).

While not really important to Apple right now, Apple needs to strategically move to cut this off quickly for the future. As a company Apple is just now finally starting to get large groups of people to move to their computing platform, and it'd be a shame to lose their momentum right now.
> People have been lamenting America's decline for my entire 38 years -- and more.

Well, for most of that time, by a number of measures, America -- and particularly the conditions of the middle class -- has been declining.

> At some point, we have to stop listening to the Chicken Littles.

Repeatedly saying something is going to happen that doesn't is being a Chicken Little.

Repeatedly saying something is happening when it is objectively desmonstrable is not being a Chicken Little. Even when it keeps happening over an extended period of time.
"Making them gold or shaving off a few ounces isn't very exciting."

I agree. Things I have bought or preordered recently, however: Oculus Rift (not a developer, just want to see what it does) and Thalmic's Myo. Both because they are exciting.
I've been working on raising one of my quotas for the past 10 months. Filled with regular meetings with Google reps about it.
It looks like TC didn't look at the table in the S-1 correctly: http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/00011931251... (top of page 154)

That page + the "Several of the company’s directors and executives are sharing stock" (sharing? These are shared shares as opposed to all those unshared shares) indicates not a lot of care went into the writeup.
Yours is probably a textbook case of someone needing a partner who has a better idea of where that line is seat of the pants wise. I've never needed that it comes naturally. I simply weigh the downside to any decision vs. the upside. It's almost automatic. After a while your brain just works that way.

I'll give you an example (which doesn't relate to business). My state requires front license plates. But I have a nice car that I don't want to mess up. But I also don't care if the cops stop me. So I didn't put the license plate on the car. Worst case is I get pulled over. I get a ticket for $85 or whatever. Maybe in some extreme case something even worse will happen but it shouldn't. So I decide to take that chance. (Nothing has ever happened not that it couldn't etc.).

In the case of the body shops you are probably shielded enough from the down side both legally and also emotionally so you are ok with it. I think that's fine from the way you are describing it.
Don't worry, I'm sure you'll one day have the opportunity to purchase Weightbot again when they update it.
Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States
The economics of interstellar spaceflight
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> NT server for a small business running exchange and maybe Access is shifting over to gmail + AWS

I think many small businesses are looking at Microsoft's cloud exchange solution to be honest. Works just like exchange (meaning all the mobile devices and apps that expect exchange like outlook still work), isn't expensive, pretty reliable and gives loads of space.
At what point does Google step straight into Evil territory?

Google will never buy airlines, it'd be like Apple taking over the music industry.

Besides, Airlines are a very low-margin business. How would a GOOG investor react to them taking on such a margins-killing subsidiary?
Maybe I wasn't clear, my point was that the major breadwinners still depend on their high operating system marketshare. I have no doubt that things like sql server would be the last to go, but if they ever lost their operating system monopoly a lot of products they depend upon would collapse, and they would mostly definitely feel it.
God, that graph in that article is so dumb it hurts. It appears to undermine their case, in fact. Actual graph:

http://cl.ly/image/1t2Y3d1B0A1y
Anyone planning on buying Twitter for around the IPO price?
Let me say it again, you can patch the WELL KNOWN points of any program.

I don't care where your compiler's AST tree or code generation is. For any compromised program (including a compiler) all I need to do is to monitor the files it generates (patch file_open), for any executable output files, patch its main entry point and add in a payload.

When a compromised compiler is generating your compiler, it will patch your compiler's entry point and add in an extra payload. When your compiler compiles another compiler, it will do the same thing, and so to any other programs it generates.

It's virus writing 101.
I frequently see users who don't realize that the email field on their profile page is not visible (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6593160) and that they have to put it in the "about" section. There should be a text warning next to the email field saying that it will not be visible to other users (or a checkbox to make it visible).
I tried it out, but forgot that it wouldn't work with our project because it's all in coffeescript! Oops.
Macbook Pro Mid- 2009
Upgraded to 8GB Ram
Equity analyst here. The people following those companies don't know dick either. And the CFA doesn't give you ANY credentials (certainly not just level I) regarding business strategy. Stop listening to people based on titles and credentials and start evaluating (and critiquing) their arguments.

My opinion? Microsoft is expanding revenue but losing it's core business slowly. I think they'll look pretty good for the next couple of years until viable competitors to Office come along. All these other sources of revenue are contingent upon their traction in enterprise, something that's unlikely to change in the short or medium term but when it does will very unpleasant for them.
No comment about the new version, but my view of the old version was that it was the most heavy-handed overly-styled app that I use. Sure, that was the Tapbots aesthetic, but I used Tweetbot for the interaction design, in spite of the visual style.
It's not the 'flat design' that is killing creativity and differentiation.

It's the fact that so many of the apps-going-flat-ios7 are deciding to go with the color palette of white background + bright blue text/icons — it's surprising as the iOS 7 HIG does not require that color scheme.

There is great opportunity to take this aesthetic in a different direction and it's surprising to see this not go there. This is the same look as Mail + Safari.
i suppose the point 300bps is trying to make is that those kind of announcement need a lot of work before you're able to draw any kind of conclusion from it, either positiv or negativ. I only have a very small amount of knowledge in accounting, but i was amazed at how subjective and arbitrary some accounting decision can be, and as a consequence, how you can make profits appear basically anywhere you want to ( on one year).
I take it you're getting at people avoiding thinking about the thought that race might be correlated with intelligence, lest they become an awful person. And it's a fair criticism. At the same time however, it has been noted that people have a subjective bias against people not of their own race.
You shouldn't submit a resume like this. If you're sending in a resume - you always send it in a 'normal' format; but I always think these are good for your personal website! Shows creativity, that you're passionate about what you do, and if it's complex enough - an extra project to showcase!
Schema UI Front-end Frameowrk
A quick and easy-to-implement framework for awesome developers.

Light. Responsive. Lean. Built with LESS.

You can find the repo here: https://github.com/danmalarkey/schema
Just for completeness sake, there's also GPG for iOS as well: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opengp-lite/id405279153?mt=8
Talk about image compression in those screenshots...
TB3 uses the system font size that you specify in Settings -> General -> Text Size.

I do agree that the default is too large, and furthermore that some (most?) apps would benefit from an independent text size setting.

[Shameless plug] My app MUDRammer: A Modern MUD Client[0] is very text-oriented and uses its own text size control to allow for font sizes from 8 to 24pt, far more than would be possible with the system control.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mudrammer-a-modern-mud-clien...
... I wasn't describing my situation, although I would bet 1,000s is a bit more common than 10k and 100k but I take your point (I think).

I use FreeBSD with Samba, but I only have 500 at my current site with a mix of iPads, PCs, and OS X.
Also, NoFlo: http://noflojs.org/.
I use a mid-2010 13" MBP, and a Core i7 custom desktop from Nov 2008 (Vista, then 7).
Pure ML approaches are doomed to end up in a tar pit of AI mysticism. A statistical learning model can and will conclude that the thunder gods make the crops grow. People like Douglas Hofstadter and Eliezer Yudkowsky will have to use classical AI approaches to train our AI children in science and rationality.
Drone pilots have same level of PTSD as pilots of manned combat craft
Well yes, which is why you try not to get caught.
Wind River Linux adds 64-bit ARM, adopts Yocto 1.5
I've worked on a lot of systems that don't have pgrep.

'ps aux | grep' works everywhere
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It's a whole different app and the old one remains on the store. It's for all the world a different product, which would have its own new key.
What we found happening with the chickens in Zelda Ocorina of Time
Looks like they jumped from too complex - 6 options - to throwing segmentation (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...) out with the bathwater
If the whole flat design pendulum could swing back a little that would be great. I don't see why everyone is going so crazy over it.
I've implemented ECC and you are 100% correct. Nobody should implement ECC unless you really really know what you're doing.

Mapping points to the curve, multiplying points, point addition, there is too much math stuff to mess up on.

Just don't do it. If you read one thing tptacek says, read the last paragraph.
It at least gave their app a special visual style. Now it's just "Tweet" without the "bot".
Why does it need an internet connection? Why is it posting data to a server?
I might miss understood you. But what your are describing sounds to me like some sort of supervised learning but not necessarily a genetic algorithm.
Quit consulting job, time to hack away at the world
an unnecessarily long account of quitting the perfect consulting job to refocus and find direction.
Text sixe is controlled on the system level and you can adjust it in the settings: General / Font Size
Creating OOD Classes without ending it with 'Manager'
2010 Dell Inspiron 15 laptop with Windows 7 and 2GB RAM. Mainly runs Eclipse, PuTTY and a few browsers
Lockheed’s stealth C-130 successor revealed
Watch as the flag-all-NSA-stories brigade pushes this relevant story off the front page...
In addition to our regular license, we have a read-only license that lets people run (but not edit) scripts. An Enterprise license lets you give up to 4 people in your organization read-only licenses.
It was a different market at the time, though. Consumer monitors didn't have the colour accuracy for photo and video professionals, and those people were accustomed to paying a _lot_ for their computers and monitors; the 30" display was going up against even more expensive things from the likes of Ilyama.

Today, it's different. 4K displays haven't (yet) become entrenched in the professional space, and a lot of graphics professionals pay much less for their computers and monitors now. And besides that group, is there really a market for a >$3000 monitor at all? I'd be surprised.
Darpa just wants to treat depression. (And not, you know, create supersoldiers or anything.)
Is the amount of time you spend in dealing with the resale included in the overall costings? My impression is that most people who do the resale dance aren't cheap when paid by the hour.
I agree, there is a trend in iOS 7 for visual "blandness". I'm not upset about it, but I do see it happening.

It's not a dick move to pay them their asking price, and use a token.
In which you assume far too much:

- that espionage is required for a state to function successfully

- that maintaining US hegemony is both a national good and good for the world

- that brute force is the only other viable option to rampant surveillance

It is specifically because none of those things ought to be assumed, none of them are a given, and none are inherently good or desirable or required, that one ought to condemn these acts.
I wonder how's Rapportive doing this days. That is, whether this plug-in seats in people's GMail app and sends out data to LinkedIn or not.

After all, we are talking about the same team more or less, and surely the same company who owns Rapportive today.

If my concerns are real. One might find this is ironic that Rapportive was backed by YC and Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, and now this very company violating GMail users' privacy.
I work in the security industry. Quite a few folks in this industry will quit their job to just go learn. They then jump back into a job once they get the skills they wanted. They do it out of passion for the work. I've made a sustainable business model out of my work. I don't talk to that piece, but I try to reflect on why I (and my friends who take a hiatus) are more productive when we're free of a normal workplace.

On HN, we're well acquainted with the benefits of working on our own. In the security industry, this isn't a common mindset yet.
really? how do you know?
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I think you're right, but only partially. In addition to being the only industrialized nation in the world left mostly untouched by the war, it was also the prime destination for the world's best and brightest looking for someplace to escape to. Add to that the fact that the US was already in the mindset of trying to prove itself equal to the "traditional" superpowers (England, Germany) and that it found itself immediately after the war in competition with a genuinely scary foe, and the US really had nothing to loose by going all out.

Peace is not the US's only enemy. The US also suffers from that most damnable of afflictions: success. Physical isolation means that the US doesn't have to worry about aggressors on its borders, but it also means that the US feels less of a push from its friendly competitors. Why invest in science or education? Why not just enjoy having the world's largest military by a long-shot? Why not enjoy the land? the natural resources?

That the US will eventually loose its top spot is certain. The problem is, when the US finds itself no long top dog, will it have the means to kick itself back into gear. That, I think, is the real damning implication of these graphs.

Being better educated won't prevent the eventual decline of the US, but it will determine just how far down that decline goes...
Depressed soldiers are a liability. Also things like PTSD and other traumas might benefit.
Oh good, a military R&D lab aiming to develop brain implants...

Is there an equivalent of a tin foil hat that is available for subdermal implantation?

Kidding aside, military research has resulted in some of the most amazing stuff these days... like the entire space program and velcro.
Internet, GPS, Autonomous cars ... Shall I continue?
This is believable, but I'd like to dig a little deeper. Do you remember which Windows apps you were comparing yours against? And on what version of Windows?
I can compare it to http://reddit.com/r/somebodymakethis except the mods (or owners of Assembly) are free to commercialize your idea and not share the profits with you if they decide.
I seem to have missed the part where it was suggested that only the US is guilty.

If there existed a solid body of evidence to disclose to the world that Germany, France, or Russia was carrying out such actions on a wide scale, that would dominate the press in under a minute.

This is the US receiving equal treatment given a preponderance of evidence.

This is how the press should be.
I've never seen this claim convincingly supported in a way that partials out the effect of socioeconomic status, parental involvement, and geography. It's an easy claim to support if you just look at straight averages.

I'm sure there is information I'm not familiar with, but I'm unimpressed with the "citations" that have followed this claim in other conversations.
Maybe we should step up the spying in Confederate states too?
Definitely miss the old aesthetic but it does clash with iOS7 a lot. The photo tossing animation is superb. I wish other apps let you do the same instead of forcing one directional tossing.
You're right about the lack of leadership. But as someone who has worked at both RIM and MSFT, they're vastly different. Moving out of the MSFT platform for example isn't exactly as simple as switching out a couple of servers and handing out new phones to employees. Also, there's innovation on the enterprise side of things (very cool stuff (on par with google) being done in Azure, SQL Server, Visual Studio, .NET, Dynamics CRM, Skype/Lync, Sharepoint etc.) which I think where most of the money will eventually come from (and the trends suggest that)