skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what was he waiting for?
Incidentally, many lawyers and law firms run their own mail servers for precisely this reason.
I don't think that's right. My guess is that the vast majority of iPads and iPhones used in the workplace are sync'ing mail via Exchange. While that could change, it won't be because Windows is no longer the dominant client OS.
You realize that Yahoo is Bing right? Yahoo outsourced its native search engine to Microsoft a while ago and has served up results from them ever since.
With a massive markdown on inventory last Q I think it's fair to say that even most MSFT executives would tell you that they screwed up most everything around their go to market on tablets (to date) Doesn't mean they won't correct it. I think Marco's point was that it's kind of lame of Apple to beat such a currently dead horse.
I've often wondered about Apple's reluctance to fully take advantage of iOS as a serious gaming platform. At the WWDC they mentioned some key partnerships to deliver console-style controllers for iPhones and iPads -- 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.

I want to play AAA titles on my iPad with AAA-caliber controls, not some flaky touch screen stopgap.
Probably not when you include ad revenue
I'm using a 3 year old T510. Same Config as yours. Lenovo build quality is simply amazing. I'm really really rough with it and its still in one piece.
Look at southwest's front page and then look at Google presentation of their site map. Their own site is such a train wreck that I wouldn't be surprised to find out that conversion is superior if the user starts at Google instead of their own site.
Update: It did not in fact work. It turns out that my SATA cable happened to die. I replaced it myself for about $25 on Amazon.
This probably would have been better put as "*nix-based" operating systems. If you include MacOS, iOS and Android as nix-based, it's very much happening at both the consumer and the enterprise level.
Dismal.

Btw, is there a way o view this that doesn't require a google login? I'd like to share it more widely.
It can make sense to buy an ad even if you are the top result. It basically makes your top result take up twice as much room. More room = more clicks. It also pushes any competitor links creeping up below your top result from being above the scroll. And of course, with this new sell out mechanic, you get even more than double the space to shove out your competition.
it is happening again. Apple (aka macintosh) is trying to squeeze blood from a rock. Three rocks actually. They didn't learn the first time. Innovation has died yet again at Apple. This time though they have an cash cow (iTunes) on hand to keep them going while they pump out junk for the next x decades. Microshaft 2.0 has hit the shelves.
Nit: the hard dependency on good randomness for ECDSA is a property of DSA in general, and not of elliptic curve cryptography. The DSA construction has what is probably the strictest randomness requirement in all of mainstream cryptography; a bias of just a few bits is, with repeated signatures, sufficient to recover private keys! (The attack that makes this work on ECDSA is extraordinarily cool).

The problem with NIST Dual_EC_DRBG is simpler than the article makes it sounds. A good mental model for Dual_EC is that it's a CSRPNG specification with a public key baked into it (in this case, an ECC public key) --- but no private key. The "backdoor" in Dual_EC is the notion that NSA --- err, Clyde Frog --- who is confirmed to have generated Dual_EC, holds the private key and can reconstruct the internal state of the CSPRNG using it. I think this problem is simple enough that we may do a crypto challenge on a toy model of Dual_EC.

Nobody in the real world really uses Dual_EC, but that may not always have been historically true; the circumstantial evidence about it is damning.

The NIST ECC specifications are in general now totally discredited. If you want to see where the state of the art is on ECC, check out http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/.

You should never, ever, never, nevern, nervenvarn build your own production ECC code. ECC is particularly tricky to get right. But if you want to play with the concepts, a great place to start is the Explicit Formulas Database at http://www.hyperelliptic.org/EFD/; the fast routines for point multiplication are mercifully complicated, so copying them from the EFD is a fine way to start, instead of working them out from first principles.
Perhaps not to see how Tesla was going to do, but to see if Apple could continue its streak. After their latest announcement events, some may argue that streak has ended.
>Part of it was the lack of surprises, which isn’t Apple’s fault.

For the iPhone announcement, I would have agreed. That was unsurprising due to supplier leaks.

For this event, it was completely Apple's fault, because there was nothing really that surprising. A lot of "that is some very nice engineering" but nothing to really make competitors go "uh oh, we gotta go back to work and catch up."
Not at all. RIM was screwed when the iPhone was announced, and despite dismissing it publicly (just like Microsoft did) they knew that internally but did nothing.

That lack of leadership sealed their fate.

Google and Netflix are firing on all cylinders not placating Wall Street with short term profit surges.
I think it's time for the crowbar.
I see the value of a lot of these programs/courses as connecting you with your first job. What did that look like for you? Did you move? Find something local? Did Tealeaf help you?

Anyway, I'm very interested in your experience.
Perhaps what finished off 'the year of the Linux desktop' in the end was OSX.

It's incredible that the enterprise mail market is dominated by MS. How Linux didn't get that is beyond me.
Yes but Apple (or any the OS developer) is 10+ years behind MS in the enterprise architecture department; a market they'll probably never enter since they want margins on hardware.... not corporate bulk discount contracts.

I don't see how anybody can assail their stranglehold on the cubicle market.
I never understood why big companies waste money for keyword campaigns for their own brand, especially since they are going to show up first anyways. These banner ads provide branding opportunities so I understand this move.
Xbox is not a success. It's consumer-popular.

http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-h...

They don't have one operating system like Apple. They blew up on cloud recently. Most consumer-people don't seem to grasp the nature and scale of the 'house of houses.'

They have multiple billion dollar products and to try to FUD that it only takes one photon blast down a tube to destabilize anything or the whole thing hints at some naive notions on your part. It's a fully functional death star.
True, though I suspect you are going to be doing that already since you will undoubtedly fuck up your homebrew CPU in novel ways many times while building it, and spend many hours debugging each piece of it. ;)
mid-2011 Mac mini, base model, SSD added by user.
If they play games in Q1, then they'd simply take a hit in Q4. The annual report is audited, and the quarterly numbers have to add up to equal the annual numbers.

It wouldn't look good to play the Surface write-off trick twice in a row.
> running WindowsXP with 4Mb of RAM

huh?
we = Apple fans
If you see the latest Macbooks being introduced, you probably want to get one. It's very shiny and the Retina screen will allow you to experience computing in a great way.

I do not want to get a Macbook. They are vastly overpriced and underpowered. If I ran a movie studio, I might buy a Mac Pro. But that's about it.

Cars in general are great, they provide mobility and that's useful. But how are the new cars better than what was available 30 years ago? They're not even more fuel efficient.

Look at traffic fatality numbers over the last 30 years, and tell me that we haven't made innovations that haven't impacted lives. How many kids have parents that were able to raise them because they didn't die in a traffic accident that they would have died in before?
Bitcoin was designed to be quantum-resistant and upgradeable: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Quantum_computers_would_bre...
I use a brand new MacBook Air. Previously a 3 year old MacBook pro. Only reason to switch: battery life. 12 hours is a major game changer for me. I never worry about running out of juice throughout the day.
That's generally the solution to the problem of accessing the Web on old PCs: request the mobile version of the website. Heck, with enough trickery you can even get Opera Mini to run.
Sony seems to be in a positive transition off late. All products havent been refreshed. I was surprised how good the Xperia Tablet Z was. Was lighter and thinner than any comparable tablet when it launched around Mar this year.
You get booked on them through code shares all the time, though, using other major airlines.
A 4-to-5 price ratio relative to latest model...it's hard to justify.

If that's what the market will bear, then it's justified.

Let's say you have $10k to spend on 10" iPads for a school district, and either model will run the educational software you want to run. Do you choose to provide for 20 students or 25 students?
Inside Paul Allen’s Plan to Reverse-Engineer the Human Brain
mobile CPC is paltry.
Oh yeah! I remember this too.

I think we're thinking of the A86 shareware assembler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A86_%28software%29
Its true in two very interesting ways -

First it has nearly sealed off the 'cloud' from Microsoft. Sure there is Azure, and you can ask many VPS providers to put Windows into the box, but Linux system images dominate the 'cloud' OS space by a large margin. So a lot of what Microsoft used to sell as 'back office', aka an NT server for a small business running exchange and maybe Access is shifting over to gmail + AWS.

The other place its getting crushed is of course mobile phones. If it weren't for licensing revenues from patents the Android (and Linux kernel) would be doing more financial damage, as it is, the number of 'seats' which run the operating system of choice are running a Linux derivative. We've talked about how this is the 'post PC' era, and it is, and the Post PC, whether it is your Samsung 'smart TV' or your phone, predominantly doesn't pay Microsoft an OS tax.

So revenues that Microsoft used to get for OS installs are now time limited patent licenses.
Crash Course on Lisp - Language Oriented Programming
Personally I settled on swig[1] for a recent project. My reasoning being that Nunjucks may contain more features, but, I prefer a constrained set of features that forces me to think twice before I implement & use logic in a view.

It's a great project anyway and it did take 2-3 weeks to decide between the two. Good luck with the project!

[1] http://paularmstrong.github.io/swig/
I am convinced they have monkeys for designers. WHY on earth would you allow "About 30,2000,000 results (0.25 seconds)" to take up space?! Are these guys insane? That's the most useless information on the page, and it's pushing the ads and search results further down.
Would it be possible to get a link to a technical exposition of the extraordinarily cool attack?
Then you should search for 'Apple fruit'. I'm sure it's orders of magnitude more likely that someone searching 'Apple' is looking for information related to the company than the fruit
The Failure of Giftag (For the Cost of Discovery)
I believe there will be a major cultural shift to tablets/phones/handheld.

The social implications worry me -- mainly that the most popular handheld devices (iOS) are _locked down_, you can't actually install whatever software you want on it.

I don't know if the actual experience of using Android, for non-techies, might end up seeming similar?

The social implications of this worry me. We spend increasing amounts of time on our computers, and have decreasing power and freedom over what software they run how.

I think your concern about it being harder to create on tablets, and the social implications therein -- is also legit, but it worries me less than the loss of control over our devices. People will find a way to create, although the nature of what they create will be affected by the affordances of the device, for sure. (there will be a lot more 140 char poetry, heheh)
Loved this. Thanks for sharing. I'm also fascinated by retention analysis matrices. If you're interested in how to programmatically generate one using funnel queries on event data, here's a guide for how to do it!

https://keen.io/blog/47823687779/how-to-do-a-retention-analy...
Contractors describe scant pre-launch testing of U.S. healthcare site
Interesting move. While I can see some overlap in experience leading large technical projects where industrial design and battery life are of paramount importance, I wonder how much of that experience will translate into actual car development.

From the outside looking in I'd rather fill that role with someone with car industry experience bringing actual cars to market, because battery life and industrial design are somewhat fungible, but if Tesla is late on bringing car models to market that has a serious effect on their timelines.
These are the consequences of tying your company's brand up in the RDF of a Dear Leader. No matter what Apple does, they're going to be criticized of missing an intangible quality of innovation or genius, because Apple's visionary is dead.

Tim Cook's number one priority should be untangling the Jobs cult of personality and Apple Inc. And I definitely don't envy him.
Amazon Reports Q3 Sales Of $17.09B, Up 24%, But Records Second Straight Loss
Breaking Development: Atomic Design
iWork 5 is awful. The Inspector was by far the most innovative UI ever seen; brought in by SJ with NeXTStep, and they killed it for a tablet-ish UI.

I'm quite sick of the trend that things have to be dumbed down for the average user so that things look "slick." It's happening in the Linux world, too, look at GNOME 3. At least, there, you have the option to get rid of GDM and Mutter, install OpenBox, and be merry.

Can't do that if you're vested in the Apple ecosystem, unfortunately... which is one of my most vehement dislikes about them.

I'll keep buying Apple because it's the best, but I still wish somebody would produce computers and software for real professionals. I don't care if it's thick; I want an optical drive with Blu-Ray, a decent soundcard, an array of ports, and user accessibility, with the best CPUs, battery life, and nVidia graphics, and with Linux preinstalled; maybe a custom Arch derivative with Wine, and XFCE or Cinnamon installed.

Once Wine matures to the point where virtually all the libraries are in place, I might even switch to running Linux full time and ditch OS X.
Thank you for finding another source!
you know, in case the first.. goes inactive suddenly?

Yes, exactly. In case you signed up using your work email, like practically everybody does, and then one day find yourself not working where you used to work.
And movie... or are we trying to forget that that was ever made?
He did that further down in the article, when he noticed that file path was encoded in the TrueCrypt.sys file.
We are a Apple/Linux shop here with a couple of hundred employees. We use Active Directory (switched from LDAP) and we have the Macs on load sets. We recently outsourced our email to Google. It is not as easy as with Windows.

Microsoft has a good thing going in enterprise as their boxes are much easier to manage en masse and it works well together. I do not think they are threatened as much by cloud services like Gmail, Google Docs as much as people think. They simply say to their entrenched enterprise customers in which things are working for them "We offer cloud Exchange and cloud Office" I think MS has the enterprise community on lock and they are moving in the direction to transition them to online services.
Apple Pulls Some Disney and Pixar Titles From iTunes
Measuring America's Decline, in Three Charts
If you're excited for the future, work on breaking up the culture that keeps technology a monolith. For instance, Oculus VR exists only because of Kickstarter. What else could we do to get innovators the resources they need?
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders
Well, there's always the famous inverse example:

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

i.e., it was not ethical because no one else would make the step either.
It seems like the trend lately is to float a tiny amount of shares to the public. From my perspective this creates an artificial supply problem for the stock and makes higher valuations easier as you need less institutional buy in to maintain the price, and a few good quarters can result in disproportionate gains in the market.

Can anyone comment on that or shed some light? As a potential investor, those factors make me shy away from these investments as it makes the stock more volatile to changes and puts the fate of the stock in a few large holders hands.
I think there's more to it than that. They want audit trails and backups, they don't want you reading email from unapproved devices, etc.
Thanks for picking up the typo. Meant to be 4GB. fixed.
Fake download for GTA 5 PC tricks gamers into downloading 18GB of viruses
apple fanboy blogging is "off" too, probably needs to retire
Doesn't Android already have a "profiles" mode so you can switch between multiple app layouts and configurations?
Don't know if I agree with your first point. AWS got a head start, but Azure is gaining and fast (Azure revenue - not profit - is at least 30+% of AWS already). That says nothing about SkyDrive either, which is already the biggest cloud syncing service out there. So saying Microsoft is getting "crushed" in the cloud is _far_ from being true.
> There are costs associated with each sale, not everything is revenue.

"Costs associated with each sale" are irrelevant when considering revenue.

If you spend $400 to make a $500 sale, it's the same as if you spend $100 to make a $500 sale. Both are $500 in revenue. What's different is income, which is revenue minus costs.
What exactly would you compare the new Mac Pro with? I can’t think of any other computer that is similar in size and features.

Even disregarding form factor, energy consumption, and ports like Thunderbolt 2: I just configured a HP Z820 on HP’s website to match it to the $4k Mac Pro. I couldn’t even get the same CPU & GPU specs, but the HP behemoth would cost over $8k.
perhaps even pay out a small percentage to the user based on the number of likes?
It sounds like your background might allow you to offer a unique perspective - or at least temper the immediate conclusions a layman might have.

What do you think about the importance of this announcement, given your training?
2-y/o MacBook Air. Well, some components (most of it) are new replacements following a spilled beverage (had drop & spill insurance). But the specs are the same.
as is duckduckgo.
While Excel has SOME debugging features, they really don't work well at ALL for large formulas. I don't need something to help me debug some multiplication.

But when I'm offsetting to an array upon which I'm selecting and summing a subset of these cells with an if-driven sumproduct, and maybe dynamically looking up all of the ranges with more index/matches.... its impossible to look at in the little formula tracing box.

I can't wait to try this out.
or it could be the different pieces of said component supplier suing each other. Always hard to figure out how the Chaebol works...
These are also very cheap clicks, especially relative to non-branded key terms.
Like the other commenter, I'd like to hear more - what did your employer think about you having taken this course?
I don't see your point. These numbers are quarterly growth numbers since the audited year end statements. It has nothing to do with their upcoming year end or future quarters. They tell us the positive things but don't show us anything related to expenses or actual revenue dollar amount increases/decreases.
Done, address is at tkware.info

Thanks!
I'm not sure I'd go with 'discredited'. Paranoia aside, I'd go with 'superseded' by better choices that weren't around in 1999. We probably mean the same thing, but this has become one of my pet peeves.
I wrote the package because I needed it. My compensation came when my package worked and I could use it. Since then it was just a "cost" because I chose to maintain it for the community. Like most of us I write software for money, too, but in this case the stripe package was just "collateral benefit" from something else I was doing.

I didn't have time to do the cleanups and rewrite that the package deserved to get support for the new Stripe features with a consistent API.

I haven't been needing the new features myself, so honestly I was delighted when they asked months ago if they could take it over. For them and for the community it was better this way than if they'd just forked it or just published another package.
My answer depends in part on exactly how you define "use regularly".

If by "use regularly" you mean utilize for direct user interaction with the machine, then that would be a Compaq laptop from 2006 with 768M of RAM and an AMD Sempron CPU.

If by "use regularly" mean "use to perform a task" then that would be a Supermicro dual Pentium-2 400Mhz system with 512M that acts as a PVR scheduler/recording driver. I've long since lost track of exactly when that motherboard was purchased, but it was somewhere in the 1998-2002 time frame. That puts it at somewhere between 11 and 15 years.

If you'd asked this question last year I could have answered an old PentiumPro box (with something like 128Meg or 256Meg of RAM) that a buddy from work gave me that was acting as an internet firewall. It likely hailed from the 1995-1996 time frame. But I retired it last year in favor of an old Pentium4 Thinkstation that I got from a local store in their "refurb" section. I have no idea of what year the Thinkstation hails from.
Now that the rMBP integrated graphics can finally handle the 27" reasonably well...they up the ante to 4k...

Can the 13" rMBP IGP handle 4K? If so that would be awesome, that form factor is perfect every other way...
Draft of Rapaport's book on the philosophy of computer science
you use the web app, as previously mentioned
I usually end up doing this, but not formally. I dive into the code and eventually find the bottom, and then work up. In the future, I think I'm going to try this and avoid wasting time wandering about trying to keep track mentally of everything as I go along. At the very least, I'll write it out in a notebook.
My laptop bias is showing. Those were the highest resolutions available on laptops. They were also the highest commonly-available resolutions for desktop screens, though none of those was the highest that existed.
I thought I was clear, but re-reading it I agree I wasn't.

What I meant was that I found little use for a tablet until I got the Surface. It still doesn't play a major role in my day to day activities but I'm using it daily and Windows 8.1 on the Surface is a wonderful experience.

If any other company was behind it I honestly think it would be more successful, but because it's Microsoft there is this natural hate. Just reading your comment, "Surface is a joke compared to the iPad" seems to indicate a lot of disdain for a product that I doubt you've even held in your hand. Am I wrong?
I dunno, they could be the first to come out with a CarOS and get government contracts (automate bus routes, trucks maybe, later individual cars). Self driving cars is right up there with EVs for future revenue sources...
In much the same way that, about fifty years on at this point, businesses have stopped needing mainframes and the software that runs on them?
I'd have said the same thing a few weeks ago. You may have better information than I do; I'm working from the (new) presumption that the supposed random curves aren't likely to be random based on their structure.
Very cool! Great work and thank you for your insight.
not at all. gmail can pull from many imap or pop sources.