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You can download "the last supported version" if you want, the app store offers that now. And any apps already installed or purchased can be re-installed at a later date.
I am happy that stock images are going out of fashion. I'm looking for a job and whenever I see one of those brightly-lit "people in suits looking serious" pictures I immediately don't want to work there.

Example: http://spotadmin.lifesize.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/iSt...

Who are these people? Why can't the company put pictures of its actual employees up? Why is the guy writing 'X' over and over and what's with his wristband? Etc.
I'm personally against IP and I don't think he has a right to the temporary monopoly. If the government shut down all patents, I don't think he'd be right to call it theft.

Still, perhaps he has some sort of point. The way he government selectively disables this provision has a tinge of dishonesty about it. Perhaps it could be argued he has the right to an equal monopoly protection relative to others.
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What is Windows OEM Pro revenue?
As is usually the case with language design, performance and optimization are often on the opposite side of the scale from code learn-ability and usability. More than likely, the "huge engine" would be some other burden the language has that he doesn't want in exchange for faster prototyping.
That would be fantastic, and I'd love to see that.
Here's a tip: if you have a problem you're having trouble solving, work/think about it a bit before going to bed. It will be fresh in your mind, and as you sleep your brain will churn away at it.

This works for pretty much everything.
> 3.9 million Xbox One consoles and 3.5 million Xbox 360 consoles.

Is anyone else surprised by the sales numbers for the Xbox 360?
This is also possible to a degree in Python, though you only get the bytecode:

>>> def f(x):
... return x * x
...
>>> import dis
>>> print dis.dis(f)
2 0 LOAD_FAST 0 (x)
3 LOAD_FAST 0 (x)
6 BINARY_MULTIPLY
7 RETURN_VALUE
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Maybe I'm missing some history, but I don't think that Bayer ever wanted to enter that market. He doesn't want to do business in India.

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.

This starts to get murky from an ethical point of view because we are talking about a cancer medication, and I doubt that software IP would fall under the compulsory licensing. But, cancer drugs are expensive to develop. Bayer should absolutely be afforded some IP protection to recoup the costs of developing the drug. Otherwise, they'll just stop; or more likely, just increase the prices elsewhere around the world.

I'm sure that Bayer isn't as concerned with losing the Indian market for the drug. But rather, they should be more worried about the Indian generic version of the drug hitting the international market.
emacs -nw

:)

It looks great when it combine it with amber-on-black Glass Tty in my xterm.
I assume you got the freelancer's visa? How hard was that process? Were you able to get it in your first 3 months to avoid making a visa run?
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Not sure anyone actually cares about that older lib since Facebook's ReactJS is what powers Facebook.
we are for the integrated IPython REPL. but my question was more in terms of intellisense, debugging, profiling, mixed julia/C++ debugging, etc. ie, a fully integrated experience in VS.
> This isn't entirely accurate. Most credit card companies now tack on a 30c + 2.9% surcharge for processors that do fewer transactions than some arbitrarily defined limit, well known to most small companies as the "PayPal tax" because they started doing it first and the credit card companies realized they could get away with it too.

Wasn't aware of that. We charged flat percentage rate, and added to the processor I think it was 1.5% or so. But like I said, a decade ago, so maybe I'm just wrong on that point and forgot.

> And it's usually passed completely on to consumers, because eating it as a business owner with a low-margin business is pretty damned hard, and because the little guys are doing it, the big guys get away with doing it too.

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.
Nice. I wish they would break this out a bit more:

> Bing search share grew to 18.2% and search
> advertising revenue grew 34%.

It echos what we're seeing in terms of more people using alternative search channels (which, on a per page view basis, increases revenue in those channels). But for me the interesting bit is that their revenue grew twice as fast as their market share. That could be because they have moved to a point where incremental share is entirely accretive to their revenue, or it can mean that they are getting more for their ads. That would help understand whether or not Google's CPC is going to go down a little or more than a little :-).
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I agree with the message but why is this nonsense on the front page?
I think the 360 is going to be like the ps2 was last generation. An obsolete console with a surprising number of sales.
Holiday season, Xbox One launch - it's much easier to make "revenue" off $500 hardware, than from $5 a month Office services. 4 million Xbox Ones is already an extra $2 billion in revenue, regardless of what the profit is.

I expect their revenue to continue to increase a little bit in the next quarters (YoY), as they keep focusing on selling hardware. I don't think their profits will improve too much, and might even see a decline within a few quarters, as it gets harder and harder to sell Windows 8 licenses, since most people don't like it too much, enterprise customers don't like it, and they've just announced a year and a half before release that Windows 9 is coming next year, which is pretty crazy on their part. Android and iOS will also keep affecting the sales of PCs, and therefore the sales of Windows licenses, too.
Nice EPS @ $0.78 as well.
from the FB post "In parallel, other members of the Security team investigated the logs corresponding to this issue and confirmed that it had not been previously exploited or used maliciously."
> You can choose to use this, but after getting over my initial distaste for it ("Ack! Who got markup in my code!"), I could never go back to not using it.

Or you could just use HTMLbars/Handlebars. Seems like "JSX" is just a more complicated version of a Mustache-esque logic-less template.
My guess is its Lenovo's OEM business. Lenovo supplies a lot of Fortune 100 companies with laptops and they run Win7 Pro.
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Maybe India could fund its own NHS instead of nuclear weapons and space missions?

India is a country that likes to play poor when there's some advantage to be had, but it's a facade.
Legalities of all this aside, these comments perpetuate many of the worst stereotypes of major pharmaceutical companies. This will not be smoothed over lightly.
Get an Emotiv headset and prototype it; will buy...
... and yet, 9 years later, it's still news!
OEM is their one time install version of windows (with switches). This is the license usually carried by most hardware retailers.
They sold them "into the retail channel", which I think means retailers bought them. Microsoft probably tried to liquidate the rest of their Xbox 360 stock in light of the Xbox One, which could explain the large number.
To me, the moral of the story is rather: Use another search engine than Kayak. Others, like Skyscanner, include Southwest.
> "The part where Julia kicks in now is the point that Matlab has a lot of market ground, especially with engineers who are not extraordinarily passionate about programing. For some people the burden of learning another syntax is just too big, they are not full time programmers but spend their time more with acquiring data and using the results. I really hope that some of them who are not willing to switch to scientific python can agree on switching to Julia."

As I see it, this will be Julia's main market. Younger engineers (read: "non-CS engineering students", i.e. electrical, mechanical, civil, etc) may encounter Python in college and become proficient in it, but because of historical reasons most of their assignments require some combination of Matlab, C, or Fortran. Even in group projects where the students have more independence with their choice of tools, if only one person in the group knows Python, the group will probably default to one of the common tools. When time is a scarce resource and time spent learning Python doesn't show much promise of improving your class performance, most students will neglect it.

Julia, at first glance, looks very familiar to a practicing engineer or scientist who is experienced with Matlab or Octave. It's the sort of thing that you could teach yourself in a weekend, and teach others at work if need be. Not necessarily the low level cleverness of the language or some of the more advanced uses of it, but enough to Get Stuff Done(TM). And that's what matters to most technical types without a background in CS. They will appreciate elegance and safety when they see it, but they're not going to decide what tools to use based on those factors.
Witty sarcasm much?

Without this "privilege" a company has no incentive to develop anything new, leave alone anything that requires massive R&D investments. What India did is it effectively said that they don't want to participate in the development of new drugs, so their stance on this matter is frankly quite ludicrous.

Try this for a comparison - Germany declares that all software sold in their country should be priced at $1 or less. Would you still be talking about software companies being crybabies for objecting this? Doubt it.
Check out the Julia pycall library. It allows arbitrary python calls from inside Julia with nice autogenerated bindings from python objects to Julia types.
That sentence doesn't read like that to me. Their search market share is 18.2% and is not a growth number. Advertising grew 34% from some unspecified base.
While that is one way of looking at it. It also encourages other companies to put in effort in finding different processes to produce the product. Whether the amount of effort involved is substantial or not is a different matter, but the end result is that drugs are very cheap in India (as it should be). Companies try to make money at scale and not by squeezing their customers dry.

My dentist recently told me about 2 drugs which are essentially the same. The drug made by the foreign company costs Rs. 200 (approx $4). On the other hand the India generic version costs Rs. 30 (approx 50cents).
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Yup the street had them at $0.67 http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/msft/earnings-forecast

Why did they release this after hours?
Even though I'm not really a gamer, for some time I was considering getting it for GTA V. In the end I didn't but I wouldn't be surprised if some people had done that.
I agree that recoupment of investment is not a right, and as such laws are not here to help with that.

I think there's a key difference between the threat of death from a disease vs. say the threat of death at a robber's hand. Do you agree? If not, is it immoral/extortion whenever someone is charged money for a necessity?
Depending on where you post, your links may or may not end up passing any link equity, but generally speaking it's a good idea to get a conversation going about your brand (as long as some of the edge cases don't apply, such as negative comments, guest blogging on low-quality domains, etc).
Seems to me that most peoples' points is that Bitcoin solves problems that most people do not have.

Everyone who has ever dealt with a bank has a problem that Bitcoin can solve, even if they don't realize it yet.
Would you also say Facebook could disappear tomorrow without "any innovation or science be stopped" ? That seems like a silly way of determining if something has value or not.
That's the first ebook I ever read. It's free online! http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
> I find it humorous that Tiger Direct and Newegg are promoting Bitcoin mining with GPUS.

Why wouldn't they? They both sell GPUs and have a large backlog of them. Somebody who isn't knowledgeable enough about the topic and wants to get in on the latest fad is likely to see that ad and jump on it.

If I sold video cards for a living I'd be pushing them just as hard as I could too. "Bitcoin mining, OpenCL, desktop virtualization, they can do it all, come buy your video cards from me and not the other guy!"
They didn't announce Windows 9. Those were tech sites just reporting on rumours. And considering that the last couple OSes have been released on 3 year cycles, mid-2015 is exactly when you would expect Windows 9 to come out.
There are very few titles for Xbox One still, especially for Kinect. More importantly, all Xbox 360 games can now be found for very deep discounts, opening up a whole new category of customers who were previously priced out (EDIT: and game sales drive system sales)
Like many on HN, I'm not a fanatic MS guy (despite having a deep C# background) but I'm happy to see them do well this past quarter. They've only had a series of bad PR recently, epitomized by the CEO stepping down being the highlight story of the year.

But this doesn't talk about specifics. Consumer devices? I don't really understand which product is doing so well for them? I know it's anecdotal but I still have yet to hear someone recommend a microsoft product in the last 6-12 months. The only people that bought their phone were people that bought because of price point.

Can someone shed some light on what microsoft has been selling that everyone wants? I'm really curious now.
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I'm getting a Muse soon :) Hope I can type on it.
You pay the cashier at a counter near the exit - there is always a person there, so they will always 'intercept' you.
> Anyone even vaguely knowledgeable about technology knows what these company's business models are.

many people are not even vaguely knowledgeable about tech or indeed business models. They just know that it's commonplace to be on social media because their friends, families and work colleagues are, so they do it too. Should they be excluded for fear of being outed against their will?

> If you have information which is likely to damage you significantly, don't share it on the platforms they provide.

In a sense, the irony here is that people are saying "if you don't manage your information well or understand the tech you're gonna have a bad time", but really what's happening here is that the people in charge of and developing services like g+, facebook etc don't understand or respect gender identity and similar issues, but of course it's not them that have a hard time, but their users.

The people who are coming up ignorant aren't those who don't get how the digital world ostensibly works, it's those who don't take the time and effort to learn that their own comfortable existence and relative privilege leaves them in a position of being unaware of how difficult some peoples lives truly can be.

To some the idea of whether you're a man or a woman is a really simple and seemingly inconsequential thing, a dev might snort at the idea that anyone could get het up about whether their gender was accidentally revealed through a change, error or bad design. To others it's literally life and death.
thank you everyone for correcting my ignorance.

that more diverse the people are the more perspective we can look at a problem:

collective indulgence >= individual common sense

Thanks HN
Confused; Petrov was a human in the loop, thus saved the world? I agree with that view.
> I predict Amazon will take BTC within the next 2-3 years.

I'm willing to bet a hundred doge this doesn't happen.
Can you list one? I don't want to "be my own bank," as the advocates so cheerfully put it. I stopped working at a bank for a reason.
I think there's two conflated questions here. I should ideally plan my attack as if my opponent knows my moves, where possible. I should not tell my opponent my moves, where possible. Just because it's not on the news networks doesn't mean the enemy has no way of observing you.
people always release earnings after hours.
" or more likely, just increase the prices elsewhere around the world."

Are you saying they will make more money by increasing prices around the world? If so, why wouldn't they do that regardless of India's decision? They basically ignore supply/demand curves until India makes them angry? Or are you making some weird argument where they have to raise their prices in the face of medical tourism as opposed to the lowering everyone usually assumes?
These are some great quotes and perspectives on the benefits of bootstrapping a company.

I especially like Dharmesh Shah's and Jason Cohen's quotes.

Jason said: "People get caught up in the dream of massive outcomes, like being worth $1B or causing 1B photos to shuffle about on AWS. But you spend 0.001% of your life living “the outcome,” and the rest building up to the outcome. True happiness and fulfillment is realizing that the journey is the important thing. Bootstrapping is the clearest, safest, simplest, least-risky way to that fulfillment."

This definitely resonates with me. Someone can achieve their goals without raising a ton of VC money. Even if the goal is a lifestyle business. I say, excellent! Go for it!
Of course it does, and I never said it didn't. I just said that my impression is that the primary motivation of language people is correctness. However, I have published several in the area of software verification, so perhaps I am biased.
Tomorrow I'll write you a reply, now I'm going to bed. : - )
Thank siscia, I'm one of the organizer of Appsterdam here in Milan :)

watermel0n I don't know if you study in Milan, but if you come to one of our meetups, you will find many reasons to stay in Italy or to better prepare you for setting up abroad. With graduation and European citizenship you are not trapped, you can go wherever you want! ;)

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What still amazes me: While working in an ipython notebook (http://ipython.org/notebook.html) on some numerical calculations, I can just pull up Sympy (http://sympy.org) and perform some symbolic computations (Fourier transforming some function analytically or taking the derivative of some other, etc.).

You can certainly do it with Matlab (provided you have purchased the symbolic toolbox of course).

Oh, and have I told you about how Scipy can replace R for really cool statistical analyses?

Sure, it can for some things, but why?

My thing with Python is that it kinda loses to Matlab for non-statistical work (except perhaps for select fields, like network analysis or language processing), and to R/SAS/Stata (depending on type of job and personal preference) for statistical stuff. Of course all of these (other than R) are proprietary and not cheap, but most universities have all of them anyway, and businesses just buy what they need.

btw: did you first learn Matlab, or Python? In my experience, there is a tendency for people who start with Matlab to dislike Python, and for people who start with Python to dislike Matlab :) Probably has something to do with some basic things being just so slightly different, and therefore bothersome.

Also, the Matlab IDE these days is actually quite decent -- does Python have something similar?
> $60/month is not a whole lot in the world of broadband internet or cable TV, regardless of who your provider is.

A $60 minimum subscription price is definitely premium compared to the $15-$20 minimum service price typical for a cable provider. Remember, it costs more or less the same to wire up a customer whether or not they buy the more expensive packages, and cable companies are often required to offer very cheap basic service at a regulated rate (e.g. $13.50 for basic cable where I live).

> They certainly are targeting big cities and the wealthier areas thereof, but I don't see why that would make it better than services from other providers in the same place.

If a company is allowed to focus on dense, wealthy areas, it can concentrate infrastructure spend on customers who can pay premium prices for premium service. That's what Verizon can do with FIOS. But cable companies usually do not have that freedom. Their agreements with municipalities require them to wire up a much broader cross-section of the population, which means their infrastructure dollars are spread thinner.
I'm going to have to check that out, my current pool only does Bitcoin and the payouts have taken a dive recently.
It's a very niche topic that I haven't found covered anywhere else (how to proxy request between Wordpress and Node.js, and serve both apps on a single root domain).

The lead up was basic, but I wanted to make sure that everyone was able to follow as I transitioned into the more advanced topics.

Clearly, I could have spent less time on the basics, good feedback!
I don't see that as an internet thing, its about long distance control, or remote control. Its the same thing when people say its easy for politicians to send troops to war, or when a soldier controls a drone. They don't directly witness the outcome. The internet is just a more efficient, wider spread, easier to access example of it. Maybe also, its the same sort of thing as common folk committing minor insurance fraud. They don't see a victim.

Often wondered.... If a website were set up which had just one button one the page, and message saying the following: "After 10 million unique hits, a nuclear missile will be launched at a random capital city" Then lots of genuinely convincing stuff about it being about it being real, such that it was know to be for real. Also probably restrict it to adults, some how. (No, I don't quite know how, but this is a thought experiment after all.) How long would it take to hit the 10M? Would anyone really click?

Anyway, its clear to me that the more remote something is, the more people disassociate from it. The internet is just another example.
Given the huge (and growing) game library on the 360 that doesn't work on the Xbox One, it's hardly obsolete. I have two friends who just bought their first 360 in the last few months. They bought it over the One because (1) WAY more games (2) less expensive games, and (3) all our friends have one so lots of friends to play online with.
You would have to prove that there would be more drug development in India without the current process, and I really doubt it would change anything.
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"“Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they’re all gone,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing"

A later sentence makes it clear he talks of desktop PCs. A nice sound bite, but is it true?

The first counterexample I thought of is Sony, but they left the market and returned, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Electronics.

HP, on the other hand, I would call a valid counterexample. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80 certainly is PC-like, and was released in January 1980, so HP was making desktop computers when Apple "started the Mac", even if we take that to be in 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh#Development_and_intro... shows that the project started in 1979)

Anybody know of clearer counterexamples?