skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a big but difficult market. Beyond mom-and-pop shops it becomes more and more like enterprise software with expensive sales and support costs.. only without the enterprise margins.

I wouldn't say Apple Pay is a threat to Square Register. If anything it might even drive POS upgrades which Square could benefit from. Having said that, Square does need to diversify beyond POS systems and payment processing, and Apple Pay puts another nail in the coffin of Square's foray into payment instruments (Square Wallet), which they already pre-emptively killed.

Unfortunately Square Cash operates at a loss. If it were possible not to operate at a loss there'd be a million competitors overnight.
well, you could argue that the startup business plan is to become profitable through outside investment rather its own business model. square fits this, their target group is still a single customer with a large sum of money rather than lots of customers with small amounts (aka a business).

losing money as an intermediary on financial transactions is not easy. banks and organised crime sure scratch their head looking at square.
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Does Square have the margins Apple or Google have that would allow them to give them away for free forever while not making a profit?
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Is it possible to see which wallet have recently make a 30k+ BTC transfer to Bitstamp?
May help guess how many BTC this trader actually have in stock to sell.
In San Francisco there's a neighborhood where streets are named after cities: http://goo.gl/l9slSp
I have been an HP customer for about 30 years. I have purchased test instruments, calculators, printers and computers from the company. Some of these products are still with me. For example, my collection of HP calculators starting with several HP-41's up to the current HP Prime. Even a 30 year old HP-41 works and feels as when it was new. Also a range of digital voltmeters, signal generators and scopes. With minor maintenance (replace dried electrolytic caps) good as new.

HP used to stand for uncompromising quality. At least that was the theory. I've owned a range of HP printers, tarting with the original LaserJet, up to the LaserJet IV and a pile of ink jets.

As I said, I also owned a range of computers, mostly a pile of laptops and probably one desktop (the only factory assembled desktop I have ever purchased).

After a while I think I was buying HP out of habit. I say this because their quality has consistently disappointed for the last, say, 15 to 20 years. They went from, to borrow from Mercedes, "The best or nothing" to seemingly building some of the worst crap out there.

Their calculators went from superb to crappy displays and even crappier keyboards. Their printers might work OK but the software and drivers have been horrific for years. On the computer front, I used to buy laptops by the dozen for my business but stopped because of simultaneus failures after N years of use. In contrast, products from companies like Acer and Asus keep on ticking through thick and thin.

To address the split. I hope this means returning to some of HP's roots when it comes to design, quality and superior performance. If that isn't one of the objectives they are going from one "me too" company to multiple "me too" companies. Next year we are already planning to toss out some of our HP printers and laptops in favor of other brands. They no longer stand for what, ultimately, were the reasons to remain loyal customers.
GNOME. It's significantly worse than either Windows 8.1 or Hackintoshed OS X.
Looks like a poor man's CAVE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environ... for your bedroom. They should have called it the ManCAVE. ;)
Maybe not as a gaming experience. But this could be super cool in the kitchen. Imagine having your recipe or cooking video projected onto the bench or wall and follow you around as you prepare the meal. No more worrying about getting food on your laptop.
If anyone feels like watching the wall slowly drop in real time, I made a website that uses Bitstamp's websockets API.

https://alloscomp.com/bitcoin/wall.html
This is where having a supply chain guy like Tim Cook is a big boon. At 25% of the market, I'm sure there are both big opportunities to leverage your position, as well as big hazards in either managing lots of contracts, or in dealing with perhaps a small number of suppliers capable of those sorts of yields.
net worth is the accumulation of all the assets you have, including cash and the paper worth of the equity in your startup, less your liabilities (debt). so it's more appropriate to couch this in terms of asset liquidity, and secondarily, the riskiness of that asset.

as you allude to, the hard part is properly discounting an illiquid and risky asset (like the paper valuation of a startup) based on your risk tolerance so that you can adjust your finances accordingly.

what many new founders don't realize is that a startup is an undiversified investment. they are all-in on a single asset and that's very risky.
I think it's ludicrous that spelling skills would be "eroded" by spell checkers and drop-downs. If anything, steady exposure to corrections to misspellings would teach one to spell correctly the first time (though errors like 'their' vs 'there' might still be an issue).
Is this just a blatant copy of OhLife?
so they bought EDS, turned HP into IBM services (cheap, outsourced shit), and now they spin it off again. makes sense, EDS employees still have their old personnel numbers. plus they never consolidated their ERP systems.

the full blown write-off of the 11bn of autonomy is in there as well.
Great mini site and in trying to share it I've discovered yet more bugs in the iOS 8 share button.

I'm a little disappointed though that the new laws making all Internet connected devices essentially one device when it comes to warrants isn't really shown on the site. If the site's source is available somewhere is be happy to help add more about it.
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I was just in Iraq (kurdistan) - and in Dahouk, they have the same.. it was strange arriving in Iraq and driving down Australia road to turn into Montreal street..
If a first-class, distributed VR world became a thing, I could get lost in such a world forever. I would stay logging in for work, hobbies, friends, adventure, and romance. Perhaps I would log off a few times a day for food, sleep, hygiene, and exercise; I could imagine that being the extent of my physical world interaction if the VR tech were good enough. (It has a long road ahead to reach that point though. Ancillary technologies would also need to evolve for closer to brain/full-sensory I/O.)

Given tools to continually innovate and improve the digital world, I don't think I could ever grow bored of it. There would be endless permutations of possibility with which to express myself. I could make games, movies, physics, patch the stack. I could play God. Or I could let someone else play God and adventure through the worlds that they create. Then perhaps send a pull request.

An all-enveloping creative world sounds so much more exciting than the life I'm living right now. I could finally be anyone I wanted. Make anything I wanted. You might say I have this freedom now, but none of us really do. In a virtual world there is no central society to tell us how to conform and fit in, no traditional family structure. No tradition. Just feeding your short life's want for expression. I want that so much.

I can see so many people like me preferring a life like this. With this level of freedom. Imagine: Religion, money, and power could have little bearing. Meritocracy reigns, but even that could be ignored if you wanted.

Furthermore, I can see costs as becoming nearly negligible. No more consumption of material things beyond bare necessities: food, shelter, hygeine, and healthcare. Nobody needs a physical high rise view when the digital world can give that to anyone. I don't see why anyone else would need to buy the things we are trained to as consumers. (Would that be an economic problem? It very well could...) I don't see this necessarily ruling out a digital economy, but unless things are contracted and paid for on a per-demand basis, digital assets can easily be copied... an economic problem that might need to be considered.

If this were widely adopted (and barring societal collapse stemming from large swaths of society switching to a VR lifestyle), I can see it bringing ungodly amounts of funding to biochem research. We might elevate our concern for solving our biochemical longevity problems above all else.

Sorry for rambling and wasting your cognition with this idle pipe dream. I'm actually pretty pragmatic and don't expect for much of this to happen while I'm still young enough to enjoy it. Or at all.
Only if they start making calculators again!
Cold water:

Square Wallet was a big dud, as was the Starbucks partnership. That was their "greater plan" at one point.

Square Cash is easy to use.. but operates at a structural loss of over 20 cents per transaction.

There's plenty of issues when you look past the surface, particularly with the business model. They have not yet delivered a polished product that's enjoyable to use and makes lots of money.
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Wait. Something doesn't make sense.

1. Apple consumes 25% of all DRAM -- more than any other vendor. That's what the article says.

2. Doesn't Samsung sell more smartphones than Apple?
Their sales team rocks, good for them
The more we work to make every space safe for women, the less need women will have for a safe space.

edit: There are enough exclusively male places for me to be feminist in, if I feel there's some sort of shortage of places to express myself.
I guess I could parse the attitude of developers who don't "consider the user's needs in the design of a system" as patriarchy... but in the gender-neutral "parents telling children what's good for them" sense of the term, not the gender-politics one.
Are you suggesting that commercial landlords don't understand the risk of bankruptcy?

First, not every startup is going to die. Second, you don't necessarily need your tenants to survive to capitalize on these leases. For example, leases affect a property's value. If you're looking to sell a building, having tenants locked into long-term leases at record or near-record rates is not going to hurt you.

The landlords have been through booms and busts before and know more about the commercial real estate market than the entrepreneurs they are leasing to. That they're increasingly looking to lock in longer leases is a good clue as to where they think we are in the current cycle.
Thank you all for your feedback. I have learned more not just about pricing here. I'll do my research on developing my communication skills.

I'm not from marketing and sales. We are managing college school data. I have build from enrollment to accounting. Our boss just discuss about our sales and market that is why I know how the company works.

Here is link to my projects if anyone is wondering:
arcibalio.com/works
It's incredible how much that UI screams "testing ui" and "default buttons" from some off-the-shelf ui toolkit. It's sufficiently functional, but not pretty at all. It's kinda cool to me to think that even Apple engineers use that style of UI when they don't have their own regular toolkit around.

Sufficiency for internal tools is the most important part of them.

One other thing of note is that the UI, especially the generic buttons, already followed the finger-sized buttons paradigm pretty closely. It looks like the only one that doesn't follow that is the list view for bookmarks; but, list views are hard and very different on phones than they are on computers, so it makes sense.
I remember that there was another neighborhood with streets named after countries in Santiago, in La Cisterna. Also there is a street named "Central America" that splits into two, one named "North America" and the other "South America".

https://goo.gl/maps/iDDiH
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Agree. Not to mention Square doesn't exactly have a monopoly on "making useful things that users love", not by a long shot.

If "proven ability to execute and release polished products that are enjoyable to use" is the bar for a high valuation and optimistic projections, we should maybe start throwing gobs of money at a lot of design firms and app consultancies.
The problem with a system that incorporates leap seconds is that you can't calculate time in the future. Leap seconds happen haphazardly and so can't be predicted.

POSIX defines a day as precisely 86400 "seconds". That makes date-time calculations incredibly easy. Then, using a database of historic leap seconds, you can convert to UTC, TAI, etc quite simply, albeit without being able to pinpoint the precise UTC second during days with a leap second. Also, your _future_ POSIX timestamps will always remain valid, regardless of how many leaps occur between now and the future timestamp.

Of course, POSIX timestamps are really only useful for civilian date-time applications. (Which fortunately is pretty much all anybody cares about.) A POSIX "second" isn't the same as the SI second. If that doesn't cut it for you, then you really need to use TAI (UTC is kind of a half-measure). But then you effectively forgo easy date-time manipulation and display, particularly for future dates.

Admittedly, the Go code is a little misleading. Their calculation of UTC is imprecise, and can be off by a second here or there, although the day, month, and year will always be correct. But the same holds for Unix and, AFAIU, Windows as well.
The problem with women's groups in technology is that there are very few women in tech to join the groups.

And I highly doubt that male chauvinism/sexism/harassment is the reason women aren't going into tech careers.

http://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chala...
That phone interface has a very 80s retro-look to it, and I could imagine it appearing as a "futuristic smartphone" device in a movie from that decade. I honestly don't think it looks all that bad.

(Then again, I like artistically simple yet functional UIs and think gradients are far too overused now...)
If you have numeric data in e.g. NumPy arrays and you care about performance, numpy.savetxt() followed by text parsing in C++ will never match the speed of just storing the binary data. For example, use numpy.save() then load the NumPy format in C++ (it's a pretty simple format), or use a more cross-language format like HDF5.

Even if you have received data from an outside source in text format, perhaps the first thing you should do is convert it to a binary format on disk; this will save you a lot more overhead than any amount of scanf() optimization will.
Maybe the Mac and iPod businesses more than makes up for the difference? I don't know how Samsung's other DRAM-consuming businesses compare.
The goal of top-tier colleges is to make as much money as possible, like every other business. Thats the reason they've come under fire for letting in students from China and the like that cheated on their SATs and rejecting tax paying US citizens, because they can charge the foreign students huge premiums.
Oh, Zen.. Essentionaly, it is a trained via simple practices habbit of doing just one thing at a time and just doing it well, the state 'businesses coaches' selling to you as 'the flow'?)

The key to all esoteric teachings of the East is an approach from the premises of cognitive psychology and 'systemic view' of modern humqn physiology, discarding volumes by self-proclaimed western 'gurus'.

Then Yoga or Tai Chi Chuan or Zen will be as clear an ancient insights to our own nature (as a complex system made out of several subsystems of multitudes of semiindependent processes).
How misogyny helped me beat the market

I had a problem - figure out how to make money off the stock market. Luckily I was part of a culture - a privileged mysoginist racist evil culture - which recognizes that there is an objective reality that can be approximated by concrete models and empirical corrections. So I did some bayesian stats and came up with a moneymaking stat arb strategy.

That's about as reasonable an argument as the one contained in the OP. It occasionally brushes against reality (e.g. feminist critiques of analytic philosophy and objectivity [1]) but really just attributes intellectual success to an unrelated ideology.

That said, I'm upvoting this in the hopes that someone can steelman her argument, which could be interesting. The aforementioned steelman should hopefully also reject my argument.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/femapproach-analytic/#FemC... http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-epistemology/
I guess the EEOC is finally breathing down their necks. Funny how long companies like google can get away with it....

Vote it down if you like: it's the obvious reason Google is hiring its security guards.
Well certainly you know quite a bit about Java / Python. I suggest setting up a micro experiment plan to try each area of interest out, and then based on qualitative ("I enjoyed it") and quantitative ("I have ideas to further my interest", "I actually spent time doing this") results delve deeper.

This structured approach should allow you to try many things and pick a few to focus on in the longer term without feeling overwhelmed.

Recommended reading: http://privatelist.findyourdreamjob.com/what-top-performers-...
The point is that this is a polemic piece, it's Valerie Aurora after all. The opposite of polemics would be apologetics. Valerie is implying that feminism is equivalent to civility, civility in the Latin sense of being mindful of the rights and responsibilities to human society.

That's where she loses me.

And what's with this dehumanizing technique of not naming those she disagrees with? You see this often.
Yes, that doesn't make sense. For every iDevice, there are 6X other devices sold. For every Mac there are 4 PCs sold. We not even counting server and other non-phone/table/PC market here where Apple doesn't even have presence.
Also, I may be wrong but I believe iphones have only 1gb of RAM vs 2gb for most android phones?
I'm not a gender studies major, but to me it seems safe to say feminism is rampant with sexism. Not necessarily in the hateful way, but in the way that affirmative action is fundamentally racist.

So, while I may not always agree, it is never a surprise.
I find it amazing that people take this idiotic idea seriously.
Newsflash: there has always been protein shakes. Stuff you can buy at GNC is almost certainly a lot better for you than this garbage.
Err... I don't think there is such thing as a gender-neutral patriarchy.

A patriarchy is not "a power system" or "a system of authority". It is a system in which males are in power.
Analysis of artificial price inflation to give appearance of discounts:

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How would you explain that there used to be more women than men as programmers? (http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...)

What do you think changed?
This article seems to be designed to get people to come to Blackhawk Partners for funding. However, on their web page[1], they say they're not interested in funding start-ups:

"Unlike many private family offices, venture groups and other hedge funds, Blackhawk Partners, Inc., does not generally back ideas, start-up situations, private equity or other hedge funds, project finance or Greenfield opportunities."

[1] http://www.blackhawkpartners.com/firm/about-us
I think that's common with real estate developments everywhere. There's a neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas where all the streets are named after locations in Estonia:

http://i.imgur.com/Z6u2IjI.jpg
Pretty typical. I've seen developments where all of the streets were named after tennis players or golfers.
The actual article says sales, so maybe they're not counting Samsung using Samsung manufactured DRAM as sales?
So why not just use PayPal? I've paid people through PayPal on the spot and many small businesses seems to access it.
This is really cool! For people who don't want to wait to upload their data, here are some annotated screenshots of interesting locations from my data (I had ~140 MB of it, accumulated over the last year):

http://imgur.com/a/9H6vb

It's amazing that I can zoom into a city that I've been to and nostalgically recount the story behind each location on the map. I can see this being a great storytelling aid that goes with your photo albums.
>>And I highly doubt that male chauvinism/sexism/harassment is the reason women aren't going into tech careers.

Then you're wrong - http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/
These numbers seem way off. Even if Apple doubled the sales of everything they make it would be 25% of the entire market for everything that uses DRAM. Servers. Desktop PCs. Embedded systems, etc.
venmo feels like its trying to be a facebook app, broadcasting payments, etc. I want the app im using to send money and nothing else - cc square from a normal email is so much less intrusive.
The reason it seems to you that broadly defined reasonable behaviour gets all thrown in the feminism bag is because feminism just asks people to act reasonably with women; it does encompass a broad set of reasonable behaviour. As the quote goes, "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." Yet this is so hard to achieve.
youtube at 360p wasn't exactly a great way to demo your product.

That being said, I'd love to see high res demos.
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." - Rebecca West

There's nothing sexist about feminism; it's simply wanting equality for women -- that does not mean that women and men are the same (as is often claimed), but that they are treated the same. Comparing feminism to affirmative action is incredibly misleading.
No, shallow NN definitely overfits in normal circumstances. However, in this case they are building a shallow NN that is not learning a normal function, but is being trained to emulate a deep network of equivalent amount of parameters.

Parents claim is that in that case, we don't have to worry about over fitting, since we want every result of target network to be as closely emulated as possible in the shallow network.
is POS even successful? Seems like half the places that used to have it have switched to other companies.
No FTP access, but I expect HTTP will remain.
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I can think of one historical figure who fit the bill. Michael Faraday, who established the basis for the concept of an EM field, had very little formal education. For such a person to rise to prominence in physics was as unthinkable in his day is it is now.

He was apprenticed to a local bookbinder and bookseller at age 14 and became a voracious reader as a teenager. He later wrote that one of the books he read during that time changed his life—Improvement of the Mind, by Isaac Watts. He rigorously applied the personal development principles within and began studying science on his own from the book shop.

He started attending public lectures of a prominent chemist, taking copious notes on lectures and sharing them with others. He gave the chemist he'd been following a 300 page book based on the lecture notes and the chemist later hired him as a secretary! He had to endure a multitude of slights in the company of other scientists due to having humble beginnings while they were almost universally gentlemen, but it was his ticket in. Once he was working as a prominent scientist's secretary, he had access to the scientists' professional circles, if not social circles. He relentlessly continued his studies and got so good that people could no longer ignore him. Within a couple of decades, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oxford and he eventually became the most prominent physicist in the world.

There are probably similar stories of slightly less prominent physicists in this century, I just haven't heard of them yet.
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