skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why did they release this after hours?
All earnings/major news releases are pre/after hours in order to reduce volatility on the news. Look at pre/after hours spikes of anyone (including MSFT) releasing earnings to see the effect earnings have on stock. Netflix yesterday was also a good example.
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Direct statements indeed. The honesty is refreshing, even if it will naturally be countered for weeks by PR. It's interesting to gain some insight into how this sort of person views the world.
emacs's autoindentation for several languages (e.g. haskell) is a lot better than vim's. that all by itself is a compelling reason to use evil for those languages.
I think this is way too direct. You atleast need to qualify if they really have the PROBLEM (even if you know they have the PROBLEM, it will atleast involve him in the conversation). Probably after that you can explain very briefly how you can solve the PROBLEM and give out few good names from the current clientele that have solved same/similar PROBLEM and then ask for a demo day. No?
It seems Microsoft (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT+Key+Statistics) is doing financially better than Google (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=GOOG+Key+Statistics) in every aspect.
Microsoft also has a more diversified business so I wonder why Google still has a larger market cap.
This is misleading; if the gains you obtain by having a nuclear and space program in the long term are greater than not having them and investing somewhere else, then the rational choice is to have them even if you're poor.
> Is it actually proven that the costs are passed on (i.e. that the price would be lower in absence of credit cards)? Because, again, in theory that only works if the demand has enough inelasticity.

Go buy something at your local No Name Shoppe and compare it to what you were paying 3 years ago. Adjust for inflation. Be shocked by the random ~3-4% cost increase.

My best personal example is the place where I play Magic the Gathering increasing the price of packs to adjust for the processing fees (and struggling to do that for fear of sending the regulars back to buying packs online, which would shutter their business permanently).
Up 14% from $21.5B from a year earlier, which was also a record:

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

Key difference probably being Xbox launch.
Well, it makes perfect sense. You are protecting the client it self - by dictating which sources can be used for fetching information and code. XSS is about malicious code injected on your site, in their browser - it's not the client who's misbehaving.
Do you find yourself only patronizing places with a register up front?
COM was actually not a bad model. Sadly the closest thing is HTTP and JSON right now.
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What everyone wants? Xbox one. I liked the Surface Pro 2 too . Just wish it were a tad cheaper.
I believe they are referring to a shift to cloud-based servers that usually aren't stock IBM/HP/Dell, etc... machines, but rather custom builds for the cloud.

I wouldn't go so far as to say doomed, but it will be a shrinking business until is his a steady level.

Lenovo has done a pretty good job with the PC/workstation side of IBM that it bought a few years ago. There's no reason to think that they wouldn't do just as well with the servers. Just because IBM doesn't want to spend time for the small (to them) profit in servers doesn't mean that there isn't some real money to be made in that market.
Why is the 'dirty water' considered to be 'fresh'? Is there any estimate of the salt content available?
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Yes, I completely agree with you that security spending can be trimmed if we make it more efficient. And yes, that money definitely should go to public programs that improve on our well-being (less attacks then!).

However, I just want to state that we can't completely ignore security either. If bombs are going to go off around us (we cannot make 100% of people non-violent), it's not as if we could stand still and take no action either.
And the goverment by the virtue of having tanks and jets and soldiers has intrinsic monopoly to decide what are the rules that have to be observed to even be allowed access to the market of given country.
It is apps like these that make me consider switching from iphone to android on my next phone purchase.
I still have yet to hear someone recommend a microsoft product in the last 6-12 months

I think this is a common fallacy, especially after the Apple phenomenon. We assume that just because people aren't rushing to recommend the products they are using, those products aren't selling. That is not necessarily true, especially once you account for the many different motivations behind product purchase.

As I think about the most recommended product in different categories, those companies/products are not the leading ones in their category. It tells me that not being highly recommended does not equal sucking.
How about this one, which affected my own business?

http://www.peaktopeak.org/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/9...
(1 MB .PDF)

The reality is that this was a very poorly implemented and marketed attempt on Chase's part to herd its business customers into accounts with higher fees. But who has time to deconstruct their bank's motivations when they decide to jerk their customers around, with or without a government mandate to do so?
We need an alternative mechanism to fund medical research. Granting artificial monopolies aka patents isn't cutting it, and it's getting highly unethical.

Given that what we currently have isn't a free-market approach at all I wonder why we couldn't just fund it directly, via taxes. The cost could be shared between countries AND the research could be directed. The companies could be pure R/D labs, leaving the manufacturing to others.
We have a Julia and iJulia app on https://koding.com. It's going to be used by Harvard & MIT students soon. It's public and everyone can try it by simple login to Koding. The best part is you can easily try it online, without installing anything. Here is an screenshot of how it's look like (iJulia and Julia inside Terminal):

http://d.pr/i/MsZt

The source of this app can be found here:

https://github.com/gokmen/julia.kdapp

I'm happy to answer any questions :)
Exactly. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_Ass
Pretty simple to deduce. Bayer is probably a pretty big donor to various politicians. I wouldn't be surprised if high-level US officials have tried to pressure Indian officials with other things to make sure this works for American companies.

They've done it time and again with copyright law.
Not only that, but nobody forked over billions for Snapchat. The company took investment at a price that suggests we can extrapolate a total valuation in the billions, but nothing like that amount of money has actually changed hands. Lenovo is putting up $2 billion in cash for this deal.
Office 365, Bing advertisements, Surface tablets (they say they doubled their revenue from Surface in the last year), Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox One, Microsoft human input devices (mice and keyboards), Windows upgrades (consumer and OEM), Skydrive, support and licensing, SQL Server, Windows Server in general, Skype, Exchange... the list goes on.
His wristband is an interesting bit of nonsense that is popular with sports people.

See this BBC article for one example. Selling a strap of silicone (cost: maybe £1) for £30 is impressive.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12135402
I've personally heard recommendations for Surface and Windows phones.
>Go buy something at your local No Name Shoppe and compare it to what you were paying 3 years ago. Adjust for inflation. Be shocked by the random ~3-4% cost increase.

That wouldn't give actual data though, just anecdote. I'm interested if theres anything out there with a bit more rigor.

Furthermore, the claim is that prices were passed on across the board, not just at small businesses. Was there a 4-5% increase universally, or just at Ye Ole No Name Shoppe?

> My best personal example is the place where I play Magic the Gathering increasing the price of packs to adjust for the processing fees (and struggling to do that for fear of sending the regulars back to buying packs online, which would shutter their business permanently).

Doesn't that support what I said? They had difficulty raising the price, because people could just buy the cards elsewhere.

Anyway, I'm interested to further have this conversation, but getting back to the original argument, I think the only way Bitcoin could actually solve this problem is if the merchants dropped credit cards en-masse. Most credit card agreements stipulate that you cannot give discounts if they do not use a credit card. Then the question becomes if enough customers would be willing to forgo their cards for Bitcoins to make it a good value. Even at a theoretical 4%, I'm not sure I'd be willing, unless the Bitcoin ecosystem DRAMATICALLY improves.
> I don't really understand which product is doing so well for them?

Isn't it server related software, e.g. SQL-Server, Exchange, and so forth?

Perhaps some Office and some Windows 8 licenses, too. Both are good cash cows.

This much is likely: it's not Bing, nor the Surface, nor Windows Phone, nor the XBox…
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If that's the case isn't Sony set to report similar profits? From what I've read the PS4 is outselling Xbox One pretty substantially (even though Xbox One is selling quite well).

Can it really be attributed to XboxOne and Surface? I'm really curious too.
Any comparisons to https://vividcortex.com/blog/2013/07/25/johnny-deps-a-go-dep... ?
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Fair enough, the previous quarter they just said this : "Search advertising revenue grew 47% driven by an increase in revenue per search and volume."

Google's CPC in their third quarter 2013 was down 4%. If the ratio holds then a 34% increase in revenue would translate into a 2.9% decrease in CPC. Of course that assumes they are trading traffic 1:1. Hence my curiosity. Google will announce in a couple of weeks and we'll get to see.
And the bytecode is just calling polymorphic methods. All the real work is done in the object implementations of type(x). I was very bummed years ago to realize how shallow the bytecode representation in Python is. There is no sub-terpreter, just C.
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It's not anymore - in fact it's not even on page 8. And I have showdead on.
What is "theft" other than something that only exists in the context of government enforcement of an artificial privilege?

And is this privilege particularly artificial relative to others we accept readily? Most people believe that people should have the privilege to own land. Yet if you think about it, land possession is far less deserving of the government's protection than a drug formula. This drug is something Bayer created, that didn't exist before. Land is something that nobody created, that people simply claimed (in the U.S., those who "own it" derive their ownership from dispossessing Indians), that will continue to exist long after everyone who claims to "own it" is long dead. Why is land more deserving of an artificial government monopoly than a drug formula?
I think something that hasn't been mentioned is how much they spent to develop the drug, and how much they expect to recoup.

If someone has to take a drug for 3 years and pays 195,000 dollars, and there are tens of thousands of patients, they can certainly price it lower than that.

If the price per year is 1950 (3%) and a million people are using the drug, that that 1.95 billion dollars. Per Year.
Apparently not everyone as the PS4 is dominating right now: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2014/01/23/why-ps4-is-sellin...
the interesting thing is that what excites me about julia is that it is clearly a scientific computing language designed by people who are language geeks. the feature set seems very clean and well-thought-out to me.
My cofounder (spaky here) seems to be comment-limited on HN, but here are his thoughts on this:

I completely agree. I speak two languages regularly (English/French) and I also find it to be a pain point.

It's something that I hope we can address over time with Minuum. Certainly the first step will be making it really fast and painless to switch languages.

We've also considered having a quick way to disable auto-correction/disambiguation on the fly.

Do you have a favoured solution? Sounds like maybe simultaneous language support doesn't quite cut it for you.
Windows Phone looks like something I'd like to give a try, especially given the spotty experience I've had with Android so far. And if I were to get a tablet, I'd definitely look into a Surface Pro (once they aren't so expensive).

Perhaps I'm less of an Anything-But-Microsoft guy than most around here.
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> Mind explaining where it was implied that the window represents a nude female?

This is actually a great feature in online debates when you want to find something to argue about. In particular, this feature doesn't force the first party to explicitly state offensive things in order for the third party readership to take offence. I call it, offence inference. Can a sentence be interpreted in an offensive light, by anyone? The offence inferer will find the implicit offence!
Nuclear weapons are arguably necessary with a nuclear armed neighbor they've regularly been at war with, and the space missions have the potential to make profits for India.

The US funds space missions with folks dying for want of medical care, but people don't tend to complain about that.

I'm not sure funding their NHS is going to do all that much good when the drug costs multiple times the per-capita income of Indians.
He bought a Chromebook. He got the Chromebook.

He did not buy 100MB of Verizon service, that was a "bonus/bundle/offer".
That's unfortunate but I have not run into that problem. Your claim was that everyone who has dealt with bank has had a problem Bitcoin has solved. You provided a problem that is specific to people with business accounts at a certain bank. I cannot recall having any problem with my many bank accounts that would be solved by Bitcoin.
Disclaimer: I am not a guy who hate Google or have anything against Google+ and I personally am okay with Google showing me on search result, but on the case of real name policy I am a nay-sayer.

Google, Facebook need to stop this real name policy or ease it. Having real name real identity, a page that people can view as they search on Google is great for some people. If you are celebrity or some famous programmer or mathematician, you probably don't mind. And usually these people get official "verification" if they are truly famous people. You see that a lot on Twitter and Facebook.

Sometimes I can careless about people's real name and instead I pay more attention to their pseudo identity, their username in this case. It's a choice and we should be more willing to make this real name policy flexible.

I still use G+ for friend's communication but other than that it has no use for me. I don't get 10000 followers like Linus does so why should I care about having a real name?

If Gmail is happy with James Bond why can't I use James Bond (I am just making it up)?

http://elliott.org/problem-solved/google-plus-says-my-name-i...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebooks-forgotten-rule-fa...

Why would anyone need to provide some documentation to show that he or she is who he or she claims to be?
Communication is key. If you are in a hurry, tell the wait staff. They should be more than happy to oblige.

I really think you're in the minority of expecting to be in and out of a restaurant quickly, save for diners.
My answer is:

If your product/service can't be explained by e-mail,
I'm not interested in acquiring it. Please remove my number.
MSFT has been flat for so long that no one wants to buy it.
"At a daily dose of 4 tablets, this comes to $5,637 per month,"

"..is for western patients who can afford it"

Oh the irony, at least in the US. How many can actually pay $5,637 per month out of their own pockets if not for health insurance which is mostly subsidized by your employer if you are lucky enough to have a job. On the other hand, India is still more of a "I pay you out of pocket, how much do you charge" system.

Having said that, I am not necessarily saying that protecting your IP/inventions is a bad thing. But before you start comparing countries/markets, make sure you have enough knowledge of how a particular market operates.
If you used this with Backbone, could you throw Backbone's entire View object away and use this instead?
I'm sure I'm being very pedantic here, but the "no incentive" argument has always bothered me. Saving a life is an incentive. Satisfying intellectual curiosity is an incentive. So the company does in fact have incentives to develop something new without this "privilege." The may have a strongly decreased financial incentive, but that is very different from no incentive.
I'm not sure what exactly the history of this product is, but my guess is it's a treatment that:

1) Cost a shitload to research

2) Is only applicable to a handful of patients

If this is true, then I don't see what else they should do. If they aren't allowed to sell it at the price they want, then perhaps the research wouldn't have been funded in the first place?
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They don't get anything.

http://ycombinator.com/np.html
There's someone who has patience!
I believe that Whatsapp and Groupme are the two popular apps in the U.S. I personally use both, but prefer Whatsapp and use Groupme only because my workplace does.
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I love the Japanese system: They put the bill next to you as soon as your first order comes, and then they keep it updated every time you order something more. Once you are done, you take your bill to the cashier at the exit, pay, and leave.

I really wish restaurants around the world would adopt that system (I guess the dependency on tips is one aspect that prevents this approach from being implemented in other countries. In Japan, there is no tipping).

But tipping is another annoyance in today's restaurant culture anyway.
The scientists who develop such drugs generally do not do it to make billions of dollars. Their salaries usually are in the 6 figures and I see no evidence that fewer drugs would be developed if society paid for development through universities and nonprofit research centers.

There are other incentives in life other than money.
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My vote goes to 'feature' too. However, I didn't know about this behaviour, so perhaps Google should have a tooltip explaining what it parses.
It's important to remember that you're not just paying for the successful drug. You're paying for all of the unsuccessful ones as well.
You're assuming the author wants to use Julia to build complex systems. Much of scientific computing has no need to do so, but is more concerned with discovering new knowledge and testing new ideas. Once the knowledge is gained, products may be built around that knowledge or new inquirires may be launched from it, but scientific computing usually uses programming languages as research tools rather than development tools.
Love your product! The site is still a bit basic, with only 6 indexed urls and a domain authority of 18. Further, your web mentions seem to be split between babywatch.co and babywatchome.com, and you're not 301 redirecting from one domain to another. I would pick a domain name (ideally something you can see yourself sticking with in the long-term), and then consolidate all the inbound link equity under that one roof. The next step would be then to start producing content, perhaps even with the server infrastructure I suggested in my article :)
I recommend the Surface 2 Pro.
Given time, we can change the meaning of "afford".
Most of React's novelty, I think, comes from the Virtual DOM. Your view spits out a DOM tree using the React.DOM.* objects. The JSX allows you generate the appropriate calls to those constructors by writing something that more resembles HTML. You can't just use Handlebars, etc.
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That's not what domination looks like.
I love Jason's quote. It's easy to get caught up with the outcomes instead of enjoying the journey.
Google hating is the new Microsoft hating (there were three "Google Complaint Articles" on the front page of HN today). I guess we need someone to hate since we've moved to pitying Microsoft?
But surely e.g. Comcast could offer equivalently good service in equivalently wealthy areas (while continuing to offer bad service elsewhere) and get just as much money as Verizon gets.
Although I'm sure there has to be more to this story. If Bayer wasn't going to sell the drug in India (since it wasn't made for Indians) has that 'privilege' been taken from them? They still have monopoly rights elsewhere in the world.

It does make me wonder why, in an attempt to capture more revenue, it isn't being released and priced locally in the Indian market? I'm guessing fears of re-export degrading sales in the western world?
> it is changing every minute or so
It is, just like in Bitcoin - there are bot miners you are racing against (otherwise the provided miner.sh would eventually work)

> I might have to switch to a faster language :(

Probably not, I did it in python.

There's a systems problem in how the miner is architected that you can tweak to give you a better chance of winning the race.
The market works in mysterious ways. I feel the same when comparing Apple to MS. MS is more diversified. If Apple royally screws up the iPad, they can do a lot of harm to their business. If MS screws up Windows (and they have, a few times), they have so many other revenue streams that they can survive.
> This basically says that if you aren't in the Indian market or aren't offering your product for a price that India agrees with, your IP protection is meaningless.

That seems reasonable. Why should we expect India to grant privileges to a company that wants nothing to do with India? They are giving India no reason to give a shit.

If Bayer has an issue with Indian generics getting into countries that it does have an interest in doing business in, then Bayer can appeal to those countries to block the import of those generics.
The last thing needed in these comments is sarcasm.
Yes, that's the approach I took in our Marathon project (https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon/tree/master/src/main/...). The view is React, the models are Backbone, and I intend to use Backbone's Router as well. Backbone.View is never used.
Now they can afford to buy some new tech. Cheaper than innovating weak product.
I can see value in it for the individual in the sense of developing and maintaining an online presence that parallels your real world presence. You might have 10 followers, but if someone is interested in who you are -- such as a peer, colleague, potential employer or what have you -- they can find out. Don't want something attached to that persona? The web still offers plenty of avenues for anonymity, I think.
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