skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, which is why Apple commands a relatively small share of the PC market and why the entire Mac desktop/laptop and OS X business is only about 12% Apple's total revenue (last I checked last year anyways).

The Moto G is $179 and is, honestly, quite a bit of phone. Compare that to the iPhone 5c which is $549, over 3 times the price. Macs are about as much of a premium over PCs (comparing entry level hardware costs, not equivalent builds, as that would be a lower multiple).

Realistically, Apple is setting themselves up for the same type of market share in the phone business they have in the PC business. Android is at 52.2% of the market and climbing in the US (where consumers are currently insulated from the actual cost of a phone though this is starting to change) and at over 80% and climbing internationally. It's looking like it will be Android in a position analogous to Windows in the smartphone market.
I would love to see someone give i2p-bote a good analysis. I tried using it a couple of times but wasn't able to ever receive messages successfully. They are advertixing some pretty awesome features though; no content or metadata leakage; it is secure against a global passive adeversary if you use delays between relay hops; parties don't have to be online at the same time to communicate.
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Well I also disagree that the New York Times writes trash

Odd that someone who thinks the NYT is a 'transcendental' organization is wedded to a literal interpretaion of word.
There is a lot to be proud of fighting Islamic terrorism and defending one's homeland. The world isn't one homogenous soup of moral equivalence.
in 'emerging markets' like germany more and more people are getting PAYG sim cards due to the prices being much much cheaper. so much cheaper in fact, that it often makes economic sense to buy a phone unlocked and pair it with PAYG, compared to the on-contract alternative.
Right, by this point high end phones should be much more powerful, with much more memory and battery life and more special features or similar. But the delta between high and low is mostly GPU and to some extent CPU speed and screen resolution.

For example, I'd expect by now that 64GB would be the default for mid and high end phones with 128GB and 256GB as options. Instead we're still seeing "high-end" phones at 16-32GB.
China is overflowing with cheaper, better spec'ed phones than the Moto G. And their own homegrown high end phones that compete for the Iphone end of the market, like e.g. Xiaomi and Huawei phones priced in the same price range as the iPhone.
I tried to read the article, but the first paragraph already compelled me to rant.

There is nothing 'mysterious' or 'strange' or 'bizarre' about entanglement. Lets look at the classical version, suppose there is a red billiard ball at the middle of a billiard table. I shoot a white ball, such that one ball ends up in the upper left pocket and the other ball in the upper right. Then the state space is white ball in the left pocket and red ball in the right pocket or the white ball in the right pocket and the red ball in the left pocket. Because of momentum conservation it is impossible to have both balls in the same pocket and billiard balls also do not spontaneously change their color. So the moment I do look at one ball, I know the color of the other. It is exactly the same thing with 'quantum entanglement,' some conservation law demands that certain outcomes are impossible, and therefore the possible states of the system are restricted compared to a 'arbitrary' configuration. ( In the billiard example, I put one ball in one pocket. And then roll a dice two determine where to put the second.) But on the other hand, claiming that entanglement is somehow 'bizarre' lends itself to a Einstein quote. And we know that Einstein quotes are the pinnacle of modern science journalism.

[Edit] The parentheses are misleading. I mentioned a dice as a shorthand for arbitrary, not to imply that it has anything to do with some quantum process. So the point is, that in the classical case I follow a specific process, which leads to outcomes which are restricted compared to the case where I just put the billiard balls into arbitrary pockets.
These are helpful! Thank you so much for making them available.
"The business plan can not consist soley of 'Accumulist ranks high with Google."

This is really a variation of the general notion in business that you are in trouble if you only have several big customers or a few customers control most of your destiny. In this case of course google is not a customer but it's really the same thing. Eggs in a basket. Anyone with any history in business would quickly realize the problem with putting all your eggs in one basket.

Certainly one of the reasons I am not a fan of SEO. Live by the sword die by the sword. Rank high at SEO and you can lose that rank.

Less likely if you are paying for your advertising.

Back in the day the furniture and department stores that were paying for advertising in the local paper had a good situation. A barrier to entry against competition because they paid. It wasn't free. Likewise I was very successful with the yellow pages in on past business. Any competitor could have done the same thing. But they didn't. They were to cheap to just take a chance, even with a small advertisement. I liked the fact that I paid for those ads. They worked very well. Each year we took out a bigger ad.

Let's take a real world case here. Let's take grellas who gets almost certainly business from his postings on HN. Let's further assume the fact that he is to big and popular to fail and that he is not likely or even close to likely to get banned from HN. As if.

But now let's add that he has managed to build his firm with more associates and rent more space as a result of being on HN (speculation on my part for the purpose of my point). Now let's say something happens and all the sudden HN is not in favor anymore. After all nothing is guaranteed. What does grellas do then (with all that overhead)? How will he quickly come up with more work?

Would be much better if grellas had a formula for business that he paid for or had more control over.

Not making a specific judgement or suggestion that grellas stop posting or that he is not spending his time wisely. Just drilling down to illustrate that if you get something you don't pay for you lose a certain amount of control (and a barrier to entry) that having to pay gives you.
How San Francisco can become lemon self-sufficient
From what I can tell, it would appear that this system is still vulnerable to some level of traffic analysis. Last I checked the messages are identical as they are sent around the network, so it should be possible to observe the origin of a message by observing the first node to transmit that binary string. A similar approach could be used to identify receivers if the acknowledge messages are enabled. While this doesn't get you the content of the messages it does leak some information about the sender and receiver which bitmessage should be hiding. This level of traffic analysis might seem unrealistic, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to detect 'evil' clients which could watch a large portion of the total network without too much resources (in theory).

There are some recommendations on the other forums about using tor to make this information less useful, but that is not what the system uses by default.
Academic in this instance. It would be an absolute disaster for Vine to assert or cooperate with a Weev-esque prosecution for something of this nature.
> So I didn't grow up in the United States so I am not aware of what high school counsellors teach kids, but are there people really selling the idea that if you go to Podunk university and study Asian comparative literature, you will end up with a good job?

Yes. And it wasn't just HS guidance councilors pushing this - parents were saying the same thing.

That's because as the white collar workforce in the US expanded in the 1960s through the early 80s, many positions just asked for a 4-year degree. The idea was a college degree showed you were teachable in advanced subjects and you'd do most of your learning on the job. Since then (US) employers have shifted away from job training and prefer candidates who can "hit the ground running." -- either by job experience or relevant degree or both.

Unfortunately, many schools and parents did not pick up on this change for whatever reason.
Oh boy, that paper is a huge exercise in setting up a strawman and knocking it down. Lemley has done some good work, but this is not it.

1. He goes on and on about "patent theory", and it's worlds apart from how patent systems work in practice. His feeble connection is that practice is based on theory.

2. He cites a paper that directly contradict what he's saying.

2. a) He cites a paper to ostensibly support his theory that patent offices are pro-individual, but the reference actually says, without paraphrasing, "The patent laws do very little to prompt this view." It actually concludes that the lone-inventor rhetoric "has done little to stave off the increasingly anti-individual-inventor changes in substantive patent law."

2. b) He perpetuates the same "Watt stopped Steam" myth that Boldrin and Levine make. And to support this, he cites the Turner/Selgin paper that asserts precisely the opposite!

3. Further, regarding steam, he insinuates patent law didn't work as expected because Watt's patents promoted steam research by forcing workarounds. In fact, innovation through forced workaround has long been a known (though possibly post-facto) rationalization of the patent system.

4. All the examples he gives of "multiple independent invention" are actually examples of multiple individuals independently inventing different inventions. And he further proves it by saying that many of those inventors secured patents for their own inventions as well!

5. All the other parties working on the "genius" inventions did contribute to overall knowledge, but a) their work was not wasted since they did things differently, exploring the problem space further, and frequently got their own patents, and b) those inventions that ended up being remembered as genius were actually the commercially more successful ones, typically because they were either technically superior or their inventors were sharper businessmen.

6. He implies accidental inventions are less deserving of protection, completely omitting that those inventions all happened in labs or research environments by people who were actively experimenting.

Throughout this paper, Lemley consistently makes two mistakes:

* He conflates the broad “idea” of something with the specific implementation that makes that something work;

* He conflates popular narrative about patents with the patent system;

And based on these two, he enumerates flaws in popular narrative where most major inventions were not invented only by those that got all the credit.

And then he completely fails to show how this flawed narrative has anything to do with the patent system, which, by his very own examples, does reward individual and incremental contributions.
You mean like Seal Team Six, the British SAS this particular unit is modeled on, and all special forces (military and police) from all the developed countries ever?

A uniform and a gun does not automatically make anybody morally bankrupt, perhaps you want to reserve judgment until you know what they actually do:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe
It seems to be an extreme case of digital sharecropping. http://www.roughtype.com/?p=1600
Not really. The 5c just took the place of the 5. It's the same older hardware and build just with a cheaper to build case. So, instead of continuing to make the older versions of iPhones and marketing them as the less expensive alternative, Apple has switched to having the 5c fulfill that role with the same ~$100 price difference... so the phones on contract in the US start at $99 (5c) instead of $199 (5s) and are discounted appropriately.
It's bad because it cause physical damage. Virtually every long-term practitioner of a "hard work" job is damaged: back, knees, neck, hands. It's very often a career that you can't outside past 50.
I'm confused about why this is still a common question. I haven't seen a job posting in ages that doesn't say "CS degree or equivelent experience".

Of course if you want to do research at Google you'll need a PHD. However 99% of dev positions don't require even a BS.
Not all older adults use diapers. In fact, a quite small fraction of them do.

Baby diapers oversell adult diapers in all but extremely freaky situations...

And they have sub-replacement fertility rates -- which means that there are more deaths than births in the long run.
Being in the dictionary or not doesn't matter. Trademarks like "Apple" are often dictionary words.
And remembering the lessons of "The Innovators Dilemma", this strikes me as a potentially dangerous place for Apple to be in. (A company should always try to disrupt their own industry... instead of others doing it for them.)
The concept of the stack is built into the CPU? That's news to me... I mean, I'm not a hardware guy so I guess I could have been misinformed, but I thought it was something the OS managed as a reserved chunk of main memory (like the heap).

Registers are built into the CPU, but that's a different thing than the stack.
Are you able to hijack the registration process also? A couple of days ago I had my first ever desire to upload a vine for Twitter, but being a Blackberry user I can't do a thing.
How to recognize craigslist scamers and take them down... the asshole way
I believe OP could mean emigrate alone or immigrate with an implied "to a better place than where he is." You emigrate from, and he didn't mention where he was from.

Or the difference doesn't matter, because any large group of English speaking people will only use the word "immigrate" exclusively.
Some people do seem to genuinely look down on 'blue collar' work.

Last week, my sisters friends went for a meal out to celebrate her birthday. Her boyfriend drives freight trains, and seems to get some strange attitude from her friends. They are mostly working for free while trying to break into film, or journalism. A few are teachers, which the others seem to see as 'giving up'. Yes, they are hipsters.

I loved this conversation:

Sophie - 'so taking this as an axiom... sorry, have you heard that word before'

Sisters Boyfriend - 'Well, a long time ago my masters was in philosophy ...'

Sophie (double takes) - '... but... why are you driving trains? Surely you could find something better?'

Sisters Boyfriend - 'Well, why are you working as a receptionist for free?'
Quite simple, physicists use latex and crackpots use word.
Although I personally oppose it and find it asinine, I'm pretty sure COPPA is federal law.
Non-LTE works just fine in the US for a lot of folks. T-Mobile's HSPA+ network, where quite of few Moto Gs will end up, is solid. Heck T-Mobile's non-LTE network is faster than some other carrier's LTE networks in a lot of areas.
It looks great, but as I've mentioned here before, I have some concerns about the cost. It's a great short term boon to consumers getting a device of this high quality at this price point, but the margins have to be razor thing on it, so how do they make money for R&D? What about Company X? What do they do, slice prices to match to keep market share or hope they retain a profit share? If they slash where do they get the R&D budget from?

The smartphone market is starting to get truly interesting, I just hope it doesn't get dominated by the companies with the deepest pockets, it's a short term gain for consumers (we all like things cheaper), but could long term stagnate the market.
i believe israeli citizens have no choice about serving in their armed forces, due to mandatory service at the age of 18. not sure if he was a citizen though.
Do Developers Need A Standardized Code Of Ethics?
Kids cry and cops eat donuts. So ?
I've never been to business school, but I have to think there is a basic tenet regarding external dependencies that Demand Media ignored, whether it was through ignorance or hubris.
This is pre Google acquisition, pre Google models.
"These “domain parking” pages were immensely profitable, generating north of $100,000 per day, according to a former Demand exec who requested anonymity. “That’s $35 million-$40 million per year without doing any work,” the exec said."

Separate point domain parking pages (have much experience here) have fallen greatly over the years. Portfolios of pages used to sell for multiples of future earnings as people didn't realize how mercurial that situation was. Once again your destiny is determined by a few big players who have very little transparency (and in all honesty their own issues with fraud to deal with).

I have seen parked domains that earn perhaps 1/5 to 1/10th of what they did in the last decade. (As one example a domain related to mortgages used to earn perhaps $500 per month back during the boom and now I'd be lucky to get $50).

Not only that but both yahoo and google can ban a domain parked page if they feel there are fraud clicks. You don't get a reason and there is practically no accountability or appeal process.
"Show HN: Buy Amazon gift cards with Bitcoins"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5358580

Advice: change name in domain.

Result:
"AmazonBitcoins shut down by Amazon"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404232

Soooo yeah, companies have things called "trademarks" and "copyrights"... you can't just go putting another company's name inside your company's name, and then make your imagery the same as theirs, without their lawyers sending you a strongly worded C&D. However I don't see why this would have to shut down based on that -- why not restart under a new, distinct name and branding?

Though you don't seem to be using Vine imagery... why wait for the inevitable?
For any Weeds fans: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665013/how-weeds-became-a-marke...
Getting to know Repa in Haskell
Show HN: A Super Simple Secret Santa Site
"I’m very, very close to moving all my family’s email accounts off Google."

To where?
I've used this phone and the lack of dual-band wifi causes some issues with wifi-connectivity. Its range is less than my Nexus 4 and it will sporadically lose connectivity over wifi, more often than other Android devices I've used.
We're comparing entry level but quality phones. 5c is Apple's entry level phone at $549. Moto G is Motorola's at $179. There are lots of cheaper Androids as well as Androids that match the 5c in CPU and screen for less money as well as deals you can get on refurbished/last years phones from both companies, but we're specifically comparing what a new entry level phone is.
It's the law:

http://www.coppa.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prote...
i'm sure that this guy whiningly (not a word, but you get what I mean) continuing to use gmail... will really show google
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> I’m very, very close to moving all my family’s email accounts off Google.

Yeah, sure, but Google's dick tastes SO good you'll never be more than "very, very close" to leaving them.

Go away, weak-willed hypocrite.
>You couldn't put two sound cards in a system, so the output would have been mono. Maybe I was wrong. I'm not so sure.

Huh? Nothing says you have to have two soundcards to get stereo (or multi channel for that matter) output.

And already in the 386 era were apps and soundcards offering more than mono.
If you want an easy entry into Germany as skilled worker, for example, you need to hold a 4 year degree in an appropriate field.
This looks like a pretty big real world consequence to me:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chernobyl&safe=off&espv=21...

Say what you like about the strength of the evidence linking burning of hydrocarbons and climate change, but it doesn't carry the risk of a meltdown leaving a footprint so big and dangerous that cities have to be abandoned. I don't think it's "ignorance... that borders religiousness" that keeps the field of nuclear research heavily constrained and very expensive.
Would like to point out (I did go to business school) this may very well be something they teach in business school (I don't really remember) but much of business is really common sense at least with respect to entrepreneurship. (Which is why there are so many successful people that did not go to business school). Not to mention the fact that even if you do learn this in business school it might be any number of things that you learn without any degree of "how important is this anyway". Think of reading a "man" page with a million options and arguments. Someone with real life experience knows what is really important from experience to concentrate on. Anyone can memorize things.
Reminds me of a story that made the rounds in 2011 [0]. The title is almost the same ("Google made my daughter cry" vs "Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.").

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/hey-google...
It hasn't been studied as extensively as Tor.
They don't need to. You can get an unlimited data + 100 minute no contract plan from t-mobile for $30/month.
Can you clarify #4? I'm actually struggling to see how my programming skills can apply to other jobs in any meaningful way outside of the realm of programming.

I mean, sure, if Microsoft left Seattle today, I could probably find another software company in town to work for. However, I expect at one point in time, machinists could walk into another shop with ease too. There is no reason to believe programmers will always be in high demand.
I was watching a video on axes and an expert in stone age hand axes used the curious phrase "...was present in the human inventory for a million years...". It got the gears turning and I started to think about the size and scale of the human inventory at any specific snapshot in time and importantly about parallel development in certain technologies -- like the bow and arrow or thatched roofing.

Even how certain classes of items concentrated in the local inventory of certain areas and led to the development of one class of technology over another.

No conclusions from it, but it partially reframed the concept of "stuff" for me.
You are jumping to (wrong) conclusions. My $200 phone was without contract. .

Here's a few examples of current Chinese phones in the Moto G's price range or below:

2GB RAM, Quad Core MTK CPU, 5" screen, 12.8 megapixel camera down to $121: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Full-1-1-i9500-MTK6589-S4-Pho...

MTK based Galaxy S4 clone for <=$150: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mtk6589t-S4-1-1-Perfect-Galax...

Note 3 clone for ~$190: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/3200mAh-battery-Galaxy-N9000-...

Most of these phones are very good quality and the main "problem" to be aware of is that the MTK SoC's are not the fastests alternative. Then again, neither is the one in the Moto G.
How do you figure Demand Media is producing lots of cash?

Their business is struggling just to break even on an operational basis, and has been for years.
I think the biggest problem is to guarantee that some future civilization will not dig up the waste believing it to be valuable, like we did with the old Egyptian graves. We could make it very difficult to do so, but it's not a "solved problem". http://vimeo.com/55736976 is an interesting watch (although perhaps a bit biased).
Sure they do:

The Boy Who Played With Fusion

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played...