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You are probably thinking of Lenovo laying off the employees in the server division they bought from IBM.
It doesn't explain that at all. Not all of the "good employees" want to live in SF, especially if they want to own a home or have children. The point is that it's not necessary to ask people to live in places where there's all this stress surrounding finding a place to live, finding a good school for your kid, and having a decent quality of life.
My grandfather helped Hyatt to write his patent. Interesting to finally see any press about him.
It's too obvious to be an ad. A covert camouflaged plug needs to be hidden much better.
Without knowing the breakdown of which units are being laid off, how do you or the shareholders have the information to know if management is indeed "shedding the dead weight" or is instead tweaking the numbers to meet Wall Street expectations?

You don't. Increased opacity makes it harder to make any judgements. For example, IBM is quoted as saying they have "more than 3,000 job openings", but those could be pro forma openings which aren't expected to be filled, and exist mostly to promote the idea that IBM is hiring. The real test would be the number of people hired, but IBM does not publish that information.

The article does not say, as you believe, that IBM is "investing billions in new business areas". It says IBM "committed $1bn to its new Watson unit and $2.2bn to expand its cloud offerings". Those appear to be an expansion of existing business areas, and not an investment in new ones.

It also says IBM has "investments in areas such as nanotechnology which will bring hundreds of new jobs to New York State." IBM has been in nanotechnology for over 20 years, so you can't conclude from this article that this is a new business area.
The left says we're in a housing bubble, but prices keep going up with no end in sight. They want to believe in a bubble like they want to believe in man-made global warming. Outside of the political sector the meritocracy is alive and well. The best and brightest are still getting ahead if the runaway success of snapchat, whatsapp,instagram facebook is any clue. Ambitious, high IQ people are making millions and billions in a matter of months and years through coding, web 2.0, stock market, real estate ,etc. The meritocracy, America's global influence, and the US economy has never been stronger. The left wants to believe that America's best days are behind it because they resent the success of the 1% that make America the success it is.
Apple will never be the same as it was under Steve Jobs. Period. In a world of A, B, and C players, Jobs was an A+++ player; you can probably count them on one hand.

The thing is, no one can bring him back to life. He's gone forever and it seems like a lot of folks have not yet reached the "acceptance" stage of grief. And if I can be cynical for a moment, writers and reporters can make a nice living off exploiting that, by writing articles and books like this one.

Apple can still be a great company. It does not need to change the world every 4 years to accomplish that goal.

Life is not black and white. There is a huge range between best company in the world (how some people saw Apple toward the end of Jobs' 2nd tenure), and failure.
Still though... some way of tying the effects of management actions that harm workers to the compensation of management themselves would at least reduce the inherent moral hazard here.

But I'm not even sure the most "fair" way to do that... what if you bring in a new CEO right as the mismanagement of the last CEO finally blows up the balance sheet? Wouldn't seem fair to the new guy to make him pay for it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...

Here are some of my "favorite"(anger inducing) comments:

▻ Poor student, all he had... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...

▻ Son's college fund wiped out... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...

▻ Used many credit cards... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...

▻ Holding coins for a friend(even outside of bitcoin, don't hold money for friends. Usually won't work out)... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...

▻ Everything he owns is gone, doesn't know how he's going to eat... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...

▻ Sold his car, put everything he had into bitcoin... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...

▻ This one is probably fake, too dramatic... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s...

▻ This guy lost $8,550 of his wife's money... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv26o/gox_horror_s... ..and if you read all his comments on that thread, I get the impression he's going back in without his wife's support.

Just keep on reading that whole post. At first you'll feel sorry for them, but quickly that sorrow will turn into anger. "Why the @!#&^%$ did you do that?!" is what you'll be repeating in your mind over and over. But none of them beat this one by a Reddit admin from awhile back:

▻ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c525e/ive_lost_mor... ...just the title alone is epic.

Bitcoin, and all the services around it, are gambles. Never gamble with money you can't afford to lose. Reddit should have a huge red glowing banner at the top of /r/bitcoin reminding their users of that at least weekly.
There are plenty of reasons not to do the alternative. Are we now going to iterate them and iterate counter-reasons and such and such? It's a waste of time.
That's one solution. The other is that housing becomes such a huge liability to local commerce that people will just leave.

Housing prices are like high taxes or burdensome regulation - they add to the cost of doing business, and in the extreme case people will just get out.

The end game if the Bay Area won't allow more housing to be built is that the industry will move out of necessity. This is already happening, though not at scale.
C is just one among many languages that can be used to write runtimes on. There are other safer ones, that people tend to ignore but are almost as old as C.
Does Ashton Kutcher thinks he is some kind of big name people would care to buy phones he is associated with?

Beats by Dr. Dre I can understand, but I don't see any point in Kutcher's moves. If he just wanted to VC, he could have done that without anyone knowning. It's not like his name offers anything to the brand.
From my limited understanding, I take that this is the issue in SF. There is a lot of regulation issues with building denser housing thus the shortage in supply.
Is this hostile to users who need custom CSS for accessibility? Or do those users do something else entirely?

I sometimes wish Google would release numbers when they make changes. Finding out how many people used the plus operator (and how many of those used it correctly) made Google's removal of it slightly easier.

Edit: the + operator for searching, apologies for not being clear.
That is not necessary. If prices get so high that no one wants to or can afford to live in SF, then the prices will naturally decline.

I'm old enough to be a crusty dot-com boom veteran. Rent prices were about as crazy as they were today, except it was more in the South Bay than SF, so no one appeared to care as much. My 2 br apartment in the South Bay went from $1700/month to $2300/month after the lease was up. We had to move out and into a shitty rental in Sunnyvale for 2 years, when the rent prices started to drop because of the dotcom bust.

So, the supply-demand equation is very real, and at some point, prices will abate. Nothing goes up forever.
Yes but hysteresis effects likely come into play where actual price points can't keep up with ideal market price points when the ideals change quickly. E.g., residents would balk at a $30 Chipotle burrito (I'm guessing here) even if that's the price it would need to be for a Chipotle owner to break even. By the time residents update to the "new normal", the damage is already done.
Gotta disagree with you on this one. Lots of folks in w00w00 worked together. In that sense, they did invest in each other (with time and effort, if not cash).

Also, back in the late 90s defcon days, w00w00, CdC, New Hack City, each had an entrepreneurial spirit. w00w00 perhaps more than most. I remember when CdC launched BackOriface, it was just as much a startup launch as anything.

Note: I don't claim to be a member of any.
Ok, I thought Arduino had more capacity.
Good article - it's helpful, and for me it adds clarity to the discussion.

Parsing recent industry statements, it's notable how Coinbase and peers have been using a rather loaded term of art, "bad actor", in reference to Mt. Gox, both directly and indirectly.

Yet even after all that has happened, many are still basing their conclusions on Mt. Gox's past public statements.
You mean just like you dropped your vector calculus class.
(just saw [this article](http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2014/03/02/windows_8_surface/) on the hn frontpage which describes very well what I meant with bullshit and mess. I kind of like the metro part but as I need the Desktop part... no 'love';)
I think this is a minor flaw of an article with much greater ones -- then again, I'm biased, as I make this mistake regularly. (In my defense, it's incredibly easy to pass over without noticing: I didn't even notice it in the article until you pointed it out.)
Yes, but without his opinions being as informed or detailed, and without having built, run and/or sold 3-4 succesful billion dollar companies (Apple, NeXT, Pixar, Apple mkII) and involved in sucessful hundrends of million units selling products.
I am one of the biggest proponents of end-users running a full-blown resolver. I've been on the record on this point. Like the OP, it sounds like you really don't know what business we're in. Monetizing DNS with ads isn't our business, and it hasn't been for more than four years.
The news is that somebody thought hiring a not that succesful an actor like Kutcher would be good for the brand.
"I'm hoping some people start to wake up and realize they don't have to be in SF or Silicon Valley to be successful entrepreneurs or technologists."

Yeah I agree.

But being in the Bay Area helps a lot.

If I move to Myrtle Beach, would I be surrounded by people like me who are into startups or will I be one of the few?

It is not even the local resources or quality of life. San Francisco is a poorly-run city. Startups and entrepreneurship, however, thrives in spite of it.

For better or worse, the mindset of the people living in the Bay Area sets it apart. That is something that is hard to recreate.
>> Not as good as pen on paper, but the closest I've ever seen.

Agree 100%. The only catch is that the pen tracking can go a little wonky near the edges. There is, however, a fix: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2171198

If you don't need handwriting recognition (I don't personally, but it is nice to have), I've found that Stylus Labs Write to be better than the App Store's version of OneNote (http://www.styluslabs.com/). It seems to have a little less lag than OneNote for note taking also. FWIW, Write is cross platform, and I imagine it would work great on something like a Galaxy Note.

The full version of OneNote, however, is worth the cost of admission. Works fantastic with the Stylus and is way better than the Win8 App store version.
The benefits of eating bugs
Swedish circumcision laws are an interesting topic.
Escape from Microsoft bubble
Bitcoin Paved the Way, but it’s Not the Future of Cryptocurrency
Cool. Was he a patent attorney?
You're right, I never saw it's in there. Sometimes you use a piece of software a lot and yet it's still possible overlook obvious features, I guess :)
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It's sad to see IBM gut its workforce in the very place it was founded, just to increase its EPS.

I go to a college that is right next to the village Endicott. The population of the nearby city of Binghamton, a member of the Rust Belt, saw its population decline from a peak of 85,000 to its current total of about 47,000 when the manufacturing jobs left. The decline has taken it's toll on the city. Binghamton is now one of the fattest, most depressed cities in America.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/america_fatte...

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-depressing-cities-in-ame...
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The one gotcha, especially if you go for a heavily discounted Surface Pro 1, is battery life when compared to the likes of an iPad. If you can deal with that, the Surface Pros are fantastic devices.
You forget to say about new "power" in Kiev and west Ukraine:

BBC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkiSPMpTp_I
Sasha Biliy @ Rovno government meeting(UA language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01is0p0mzJQ

(and much more)

Of course, people of Crimea, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, Odessa see that violent nazi power and want to detach from the new Ukraine.
My current business Cram Fighter (http://cramfighter.com), a study planner for standardized tests, started as a side project for me to learn iPhone programming. I didn't even plan to sell the thing. But over a couple years it has grown at a good clip and is well over ramen profitable, but not quite mortgage + 1 newborn profitable :) I'm hoping to get there by next year though. I'm pretty proud of it since it's ridiculously niche and very much an accidental business.
I bought one yesterday on the strength of the pen alone. It was an impulse buy and I may return it (14 day return, no-restock-fee), but it is really, really impressive and I'm digging it. It'll also let me build a touch version of my game on a system I can also build on, which is pretty handy. I wasn't looking forward to deploying to Android ten bajillion times.

Also, oh my god is OneNote wonderful with that pen. It is so good.

Mac laptop, Windows tablet, Android phone. My digital ecosystem is confused.
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I was previously an IBMer (not US based) until I left a couple of years ago, and I know someone very close to me who has just been offered redundancy from IBM (also not US based).

I appreciate the company's responsibilities are to the shareholders, but their approach seems to be short-sighted.

The culture in IBM seems to be if you are a sales person or a project manager you are the well-treated elite, and anyone else (i.e. the researchers, the developers, designers, consultants - basically anyone who actually makes anything that IBM sells) can go fuck themselves and are treated as dispensable/replaceable assets.

They're painting themselves into a corner - there are only a limited number of times you can get rid of the people on the ground actually doing anything before it really starts to hurt.

I think they've realised this and that is why they are now just buying companies rather than creating their own offerings.

Is it too late? Probably - they are only just getting their act together with cloud offerings whilst a bookshop has become a market leader. I dont think they can catch up.
It is. http://arclanguage.org/install
My home keeps going up in the bay area. same for my stocks. XLV GOOG FB TWTR. I've made so much $ in terms of my investments since 2009 it's obscene. And i never worked a day in my life at a regular 'job'. This is the smartist era. the new economy. ppl get rich without trying. losers fall beteen the cracks and get evicted. better lean in says Sheryl sandburg.
Shawn Fanning was part of tons of "crews" on EFNet. Just like anybody else who was on irc at the time.

Before WhatsApp's purchase, the "napster on irc" byline was, #winprog taught him all he knew about winsock programming and without #winprog napster would never have been made.

Now suddenly it's "without #w00w00, napster would never have been made" because this combined with WhatsApp's purchase lets someone write some 1500+ word article about nothing.

I wonder what would have happened if TetriNET ended up selling for millions back in the day, would that have suddenly become the irc hackers made bajillions byline?

And surprise surprise, people who used one of the more technical communications medium back in the 90s end up being technical people when they grew up.
Generic chat UI, check.

Generic marketing copy, check.

Generic video with uplifting folky music and hipsters dressed like hipsters doing hipstery stuff, from sitting at a minimal wooden desk to surfing, check.

So what exactly does this bring to the table that we don't already have or does better?
It's already pretty bad, at least on Android - I have a hard time editing my text when there is a typo somewhere due to the bottom of the text field expanding and including the "reply" button, so I can't select the last line with my fingers.
Maybe you've heard it all before because it actually is good for productivity tasks. Did you ever think of that?

Not everyone is a shill.
I have 157 karma and I can't downvote anything. How exactly do you downvote on HN? I've never seen anyone explain that (and I can't really see it in the settings either).
I guess it's time to give up that tech job and become a real estate agent.
The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping.

To me and Occams razor that sounds more like a stuck key than the NSA openly deleting stuff in a manuscript while you're writing it.
...I don't. I was never arguing that. See my first comment.
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>One of my smartest friends noticed that when his support team answered emails quickly, the customer would treat this as an implicit invitation to shift the support thread into a support chat, via email.

Haha, had the same experience too! Started taking longer to respond and this stopped.
I don't think it follows that, if Apple doesn't launch a new product category this year, its because Cook has decided to sandbagging to maximize profit. That is not how Apple has operated since Jobs came back. Instead Apple's #1 priority is to create products that offer an amazing user experience. They won't release something until they feel they've reached that.

Consider the iPad. Isaacson's book revealed that iPad prototypes and multi-touch was actually created years ahead of the iPhone. However the power/weigh/performance ratios just weren't there for a compelling product. It was not until the scale of the iPhone drove down costs and improved technology that a compelling tablet experience was possible that Apple released the iPad. And even then in 2010 this was not an easy task. Go back and read the reviews for all the "me too" Android tablets that launch in the 2010-2011 compared to the original iPad. This is just one of a number of examples.

Apple will release a new product category if and when it feels it can make an impact there, not because of a time table set by technology pundits or analysts. This is just how they work.
The article to me is like an empty can that rattles really loud.
There is more of the author’s wishes than reality.
"You wouldn't [download] a car..."

Why, yes - yes I most definitely would.
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I was there. I'm friends with several w00w00 people, and worked for 4 years with Dug. I wasn't in w00w00 because I was in a "rival" channel (by the way, it sounds weird to mix TESO and ADM up with IRC channels like #w00w00 and #!r00t and #guild).

We were all of us entrepreneurial, but being in w00w00 didn't get any any support from, say, d0b.

I'll do you one better: #!r00t'ers started a bunch of companies together. Other than WhatsApp (WHICH I ADMIT BLOWS THE CURVE), were there a lot of multiple-w00-person companies?
More to the point, "keyboards flashing and beeping" is pretty much the polar opposite of what a professional organization like NSA would do. They would shred/unlink the file after its closed so that you'd never be the wiser.

But on the other hand, they wouldn't be in this guy's computer anyways because even if NSA were out to oppress him, he's pretty far back at the end of the ol' pri. queue. "Oh, no, not a manuscript, OMG, get Gen. Alexander on the STE-III!"
You need the full version of OneNote for the recognition.

It's vastly superior, but on the plus side, if you're using OneDrive or Office 365, you can edit existing notes either one depending on your needs for a given situation.
>This is a company that doesn't want my business. If I have to pick up a phone, you've already lost.

Well, if "opportunity cost" estimates pan out, the only responce to that is "Don't let the door hit you on your way out".
> but why is it so impossible to conceive of having a distributed, remote employee base? There are many successful tech companies (and YC startups) that have done this.

And there are some that are even trying to solve that problem by making it easier to remote, like ours (Floobits), and our YC competitors: Screen Hero, Hackpad, Sqwiggle. So there are a lot of options for making remoting easier. I know Zapier has a remote team and those guys are doing fantastic. At Floobits we're entirely remote. And really working from home is the best work experience I've ever had, I don't ever want to have to commute back to SF (I live in the east bay). I've been taking and picking up my daughter from school
, I've taken her to the library once a week ever since and I've gone to all her ballet lessons with her. Something I couldn't do when I worked in SF.

I hate that every day working people are priced out of their city, and a socially conscious company could consider remoting as a solution. Good for the community, good for their employees and good for the company.
I did understand the pun, but most of the article was actually about how quickly the prices in the area were rising, how people were paying rapidly increasing amounts of money for crappy real estate, how they were offering cash payments, payments above the asking price, etc. In other words, he was writing about a real estate bubble.
> Your mistake is aiming for the side instead of the top right corner of the screen

His mistake or just UI design so bad even a techie can't figure it out?

The amount of "you're doing it wrong" when it comes to addressing Windows 8/Surface UI issues is mind boggling.
It went down because of a permanent change in SEC regulations. It's not going to bounce up from that.
The solution is also "work remotely from somewhere nice". I like the short walk to my garden office every morning. In summer I can pick some fresh fruit and veg along the way for lunch.

The company I work for (Red Hat) has a huge contingent of remote workers. We work on IRC, by email and (oh the irony) Google Hangouts.
I just saw a report on TV about how gentrification in New York City has started to reach even the upper middle class, with young families north of $100,000 per year can no longer afford to stay in their Brooklyn neighborhood. In Manhattan, the super-rich of Russia, China, but also Europe have found a trendy place to buy luxury apartments that they then only use rarely. Not only workers, but also people with high-income jobs have started to be pushed out of the more sought after neighborhoods.
The only downside is that, if he was doing it deliberately, it's going to make him even more unbearable to deal with.
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