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> Google will roll out fiber even if it's somewhat unprofitable just to slowly squeeze the ISP's into obeisance.

Anti-competitive conduct is good when Google does it?
Not sure that's true just yet, but it is close. Apple's December quarter tends to be particularly blowout, sales will fall by 30% to 40% by the June quarter.

Microsoft and Google will combine for $160x billion in sales this nearest fiscal year. The iPhone for the same fiscal year will generate approximately $150 to $170 billion depending on how the year goes.

Edit: What's with the stream of downvotes? What I said is accurate.
Netflix works fine in Chrome on Linux. What do you mean by "licensed only to selected companies?"
Yep, that's weird.
Consider the incentives.

With an offline game, once you've bought the game, the transaction is complete. The developer has no incentive to do anything more to you except leave you with a happy memory so you recommend it to your friends.

Online games have subscription or advertising-based recurring revenue models. The developer's incentive is all about finding ways to exploit security vulnerabilities in your brain so as to cause repetitive behavior. If one developer has a sense of ethics and doesn't do that, another will. Playing an online game is like advertising that you keep bitcoins on your laptop: you're giving smart, dedicated and ruthless people an incentive to attack you - except it's far more dangerous, because it's not just your computer or your money on the line.

The advice I would give is, if you're going to play video games, stick to offline ones and don't touch the online ones - in exactly the same way that I would advise people, if you're going to do drugs, stick to pot and don't touch cocaine or heroin.
Yes which sounds stupid until you realize they didn't own "Alibaba stock itself," Yahoo did. Yahoo could've used that money as it wished but activist investors held Mayer's job as ransom, and she just payed in full.
You can sign up for a direct bank and have a free checking/savings account with higher interest and no fees. They even pay ATM fees up to a certain amount a month.

I still don't know why people have accounts at the big banks.
they will stop upgrading, period

Has that been observed with Chrome, ChromeOS, iOS, etc.?
Oh please, stop it with the fanatics. The first version of your comment is not only incorrect but also not the type and tone of contribution appreciated on HN, and you have been here long enough to know it.
Does anyone know why Yahoo! can't simply distribute its Alibaba shares to the Yahoo! shareholders? I'm assuming it would incur a tax liability of some kind but I haven't seen any explanation or discussion as to why it's not as good an option as the spin-off plan.
I think that the first step on moving to HTML5-only player is the support for DASH on the live streaming stack. AFAIK, Twitch is using HLS to broadcast their channels which isn't supported on browsers by default[1]. I bet Twitch guys are working on this right now.

[1] There's an initiative to play HLS videos without flash at https://github.com/RReverser/mpegts, but its too much heavy since the browser needs to change mpegts container to mp4.
Paying lip service to something is not the same as applied economics.
Use this UA the next time:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 8_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12A4345d Safari/600.1.4
My first reaction was... The what fee?! Is this the Onion? Who charges debit card fees?!
Web servers serving malware are exploited in drive-by scanning; find a vuln in a webapp, drop your malware. It doesn't even take exploiting the system itself, and generally does not affect the web server at all. Taking over a DNS server would take much more work to pwn first, and then require reconfiguring the DNS server. Much more difficult.

Fetching a user-supplied URL is not enough to exploit remotely. You have to exploit the target's DNS resolver, because you have to feed it invalid or impossible records. All existing DNS resolvers will reject these because they break RFC.

It would be much easier to exploit a web app and drop your payload and exploit it locally, which is what everyone currently does to pwn servers with rootkits.
Yes, Virginia, as hard as it may be to believe today, once upon a time RealNetworks was a very big deal.

For a real spit-take, though, put one of the companies that we think of today as Very Big Deals next to it for comparison. Like, say, comparing Apple's performance to RealNetworks' over the decade from 1997 to 2007:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=0&...

(I omit the last few years because AAPL has gone up so much over that period that if you include it you can't see the line for RealNetworks anymore. But check out how long it took Apple just to reach the heights Real was at in the late '90s.)

Or Adobe, all the way up to now:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=0&...
I can understand. I like to think that technology and hacker types can be idealistic and passionate. For a lot of hacker and tech types the salary isn't the main driving force. So if you've been stuck in a corporate IT/Dev environment I could understand.

Have you ever been to a hackerspace? If you're looking to meet these types of individuals this is a great place for it. I remember the first time I went to one I talked with a guy who works at a local family oriented science centre and he just loves micro-controllers and playing with them. We had a great conversation for a good two hours. It was very uplifting to see someone love something so niche.
Maybe somebody should make a consumer cost keycard system.
I would be much more inclined to use that.
Why do you think short term employees (or even contractors) wouldn't have the same parental leave as everyone else?

Over here parental leave is common and expected, so it is always factored in. It is a very common way to enter the work force or try another job, as it is short term by nature.
China censorship system upgrade blocks VPN services, causes weird traffic spikes
This is great to see. As an Apple fan, it was fun to watch Google's Android quickly steal everything from the iPhone, and then fail to make as much money as Apple on the endeavor. Apple has been a great leader in consumer-ready touch devices.
Cumulative inflation over that time has been 5.2%.
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Truly phenomenal.

But then when no one else is making decent laptops this is what happens. If anything the gap has grown thanks to Windows 8. I'm not a fan of Yosemite by any stretch, but it is very much the least bad of the available options.

And on mobile, iOS is very clearly in for the long haul now. There was a time a couple of years ago when Android looked like it might gain enough momentum to sweep them away, but it now looks like the iOS market share in developed markets is going to remain fairly solid.

I can't be the only one that has noticed the rise of the Mac-based business but all running on Office 365. It seems to be the new default.
The problem, at least for me, is that 13" is about the minimum screen that I'm willing to consider, and this is the second display of that size that I've seen (the first being Sony's Digital Paper, which is currently prohibitively expensive for me). I'm hoping that the price on this will come down into my range once the tech gets proven out a bit, though if it ends up getting positive reviews I might not wait.
Read the article again
I think these results are amazing. Kudos to Apple. And now I'm going to be "that guy" on HN. iPad is off 18%. So now Apple really is living and dying by a single product? I mean it's amazing how well they are doing with "just" one product but technology tastes seem so fickle that it's an interesting predicament to be in.
That would include 1) rules for the movement 6 chess pieces 2) board definition and initial setup 3) end conditions 4) exceptions. A tweets lenght worth of each, neat.
> Interest rates (which Greece now has the highest in the European Union)

The averaged interest rates are actually fairly low for Greece as a lot of its bonds are held by European institutions with very good conditions. The effective interest rate is at 2.4%, slightly lower than even Germanys effective rate. The more interesting value is the debt-service burden, but even though that's higher for Greece, it's still in the same ballpark (it's about the level that the US have).

Still, the debt is horribly high and I don't see a way to repay it. I also don't see a way that Greece can meaningfully default without leaving the EU. That's impossible to sell to Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland or might trigger a landslide. Maybe a unified fiscal policy could help. We live in interesting times.

see http://www.socialeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/OP6.pd...
Introducing a larger device was exactly the right move it seems …

I wonder how that interacts with their iPad business (which isn’t even just stagnant, it’s shrinking). Maybe it’s one of the reasons why the iPad really didn’t do this well this quarter? Not that it really matters all that much, though, if the iPhone 6 Plus is eating (part) of the iPad pie. Better that than a competitor.
I'm kind of disappointed that the folder names actually have to contain the code. From the title, I got the wild phantasm of a language entirely encoded into folder structure - ignoring their names completely. Maybe it would be "Pure Folders".
Because it would be taxed at 40% vs the spin off which would mean absolutely no tax.
Sometimes just to wrap my head around really large numbers like this, I like to put things in units of aircraft carriers. The US Navy's last finished carrier cost $6.2 billion[1], meaning that $74.6 billion[2] is enough to buy Apple 12 nuclear carriers, a.k.a. a nuclear carrier fleet larger than that of the US Navy.

Of course this is an inaccurate and very silly comparison[3], but at least for me it does give some sense of scale. That is a preposterous number of iPhones.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_George_H.W._Bush_(CVN-77)

[2] Yes, I know that number is revenue and not profit. As long as I'm making a silly mental comparison though, why not have more fun by using the bigger number?

[3] Maintaining/staffing carriers is astronomically expensive, $74.6 billion is actually only enough for 12 empty carrier-shaped hunks of steel.
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It's impossible to talk about this in general terms, but in most places, the utility poles are owned by the power company and Verizon pays to string fiber along them. It's unclear whether FiOS is profitable when taking into account the capital investment. They're running a small operating profit, but they have $23 billion to recoup. Almost all the traffic on Verizon's network runs on LTE, and that is spectrum Verizon bought the license to for billions of dollars in auctions.

It's staggering how much FUD there is on these issues. This is stuff you can just Google to inform yourself about.
Not to mention Turkey is always a real threat -- like any expanding nation that wants to play a big role in the area, haven't forgotten it's empire status and has several assets that it covets in the Aegean area.

Even intelligent people for some reason don't grok history, and always assume "this time is different" and "wars cannot happen anymore because ..." (of course this is exactly what they said in Europe just before the first world war).
I like the 30 minute rule, it is a good one. I would rather not have the meeting at all so I shoot for short 5 minute calls or emails over meetings. I ask people to email me the agenda about the meeting before I except. 95% of the time I can just respond with emails. Though I am a programmer not a VC, one day maybe :)
Truly amazing quarter.
It's the same thing. Distributing the shares or creating a spin-off that current Yahoo shareholders will own is the same.

The other option would have been to sell the Alibaba shares and give the proceeds to shareholders but in that case, they'd have to pay 35% in taxes.
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Apparently people really like iPhones...
To be fair, the market put such a small premium on the non-Alibaba value in Yahoo largely because they weren't confident that Yahoo wouldn't just squander it.

Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr for nearly a billion dollars is a great example. That asset will likely never give Yahoo a return.
1K Chess for the ZX81 was 672 bytes long; the ZX81 had 672 bytes free. (Although it was more complicated than that because the ZX81 'framebuffer' changed size depending on what was on the screen, so a screen that was mostly white gave you more spare RAM.)

Also, because the ZX81 more-or-less did its video in software (again, it's more complicated than that; if you really want to know, you'll need a strong stomach. Let's just say that it hinged on abusing the Z80's built in DRAM refresh and the framebuffer was executable), which meant that the only time you could do processing with the screen turned on when it wasn't doing video. And the video took 75% of the run time.

The ZX81 was less a computer and more of a pile of hacks flying in close formation. The fact it ran at all was a miracle.
My opinion is going to be annihilated, but I think "tough shit" when I hear founders complain about being unable to hire people without all of the "complications" that come with the talent. You are not hiring robots, you are hiring human beings. This is why I do not agree with the "it's not personal, it's business" statement, because in most of the developed world, it's accepted that when you are building a company, you are helping to build a better society, not just line your pockets. And in a lot of the developed world, a "better society" is one with social benefits like PTO. I am surely speaking in unholy tongues to all of the sociopath-worshiping capitalists, but if you want human talent, you have to hire human beings.
Aside from the fact that this bug was seen by eyes and fixed years ago (long enough ago that there's been a new LTS release with it fixed of several if not most distributions), even if they didn't know it was a security fix, this:

> We now know that the line "with many eyes, all bugs are shallow" is just wrong.

Remains approximately similar to saying, while watching the tide go out, that sea levels aren't rising. Anyone who ever thought it meant they were fixed instantaneously, and who uses the fact they get fixed and found as counter-proof of the sentiment, was wrong. It doesn't make the idea fundamentally wrong.
Their network card still would have broken at some point and they'd be in the same bind they are in now: A non-working critical part and at the mercy of the developers to identify and fix the bug.
Amen. Not to mention the time factor of finding the product, earning the money to purchase it, and disposing of it. Ironically, the amish seem to have a better grasp of when you should be implementing technology than most other groups.
I changed bank in September. The whole process was online, and I had the new account number immediately. My old account's balance, regular bill payments and details of people I've transferred money to online was automatically moved to the new account. (I was impressed with this, there was more information visible on the new bank's system than I'd been able to see on the old bank's clunky system.) Payments to the old account are automatically redirected for 13 months — my workplace was migrating to a new finance system the same month, and received an automated message when they paid my salary.

There are no fees for normal usage, in the last seven years with the previous account I paid one fee (international transfer). The new bank gave me £100 as a 'reward' for switching to them.

I didn't receive a chequebook, but I haven't used one for years.
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For me it's the other way around, in a 4 years old netbook I still use, the HTML5 video usually performs better than flash.
Yeah me too.

obeisance: noun: deferential respect.
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Well yes but its more than that. Apple's iPhones when it comes to the smartphone industry make up a large proportion of the entire industry's profits even though they don't sell as many phones or have as much sales in proportion to the industry. [1]

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/11/04/apple-continues-to...
I assumed by "orthodox economics" OP meant the study of economics. If s/he actually meant corporate behavior then that's of course different. Unfortunately people often conflate the study of economics with business, which leads to a lot of confusion.
Same here. We use Telegram for team communication while everyone is out of the office. We've integrated it with github and CI, and now thinking about making this service public: http://telegram.jaconda.im
>in the US, without so much as a call to Telecheck or similar, or my bank, I bought a $16,000 SUV with a personal check.

That's atypical in my experience in the US. The dealer has always wanted me to get a certified (may not be the technically correct term) from my bank. Not that it's a big deal; you go to the bank, they put a hold on the amount in your account, and they stamp the check a couple times.

That said, checks still tend to be favored (even if they're issued directly from the bank) for many recurring payments, local service people, individual to individual casual transactions and the like.
Just three reasons among others:

1. Joins (real server-side joins) - so you can have many-to-many relations in your data (and nested arrays are a poor answer to this problem)

2. Awesome query language - No strings to concatenate, no strings to escape, no JSON objects with special keys, just plain JavaScript/Python/Ruby/etc.

3. Schemaless - Faster to prototype things, to adapt to a third party data changing.
Yeah, it's why I brought this up. I loved the Apogee/3DRealms talk in Masters of Doom! Brought me back to being a budding gamer in the 90's. Just wish there was more; a "Masters of Doom" for Epic, Apogee, Blizzard, and all the other big names at the time.
Well, the Yahoo shareholders already own the shares of Alibaba, since they own Yahoo and Yahoo owns the Alibaba shares.
Always amazed by the lists one can find on Wikipedia. The largest losses also tell an interesting tale.
Buying aircraft carriers is the easy part. Maintaining and staffing them is the hard part but it's a nice unit to use right next to libraries of congress and stationwagons full of tapes.
Seems like the opposite of anti-competitive from my perspective.
Validation is cool. But there's a couple of questions you have to ask yourself:

1) Do I need to go from an "idea on the side" to full-time? Pretty sure the funded company has multiple full-time folks.

2) Is it possible to function without funding? This totally depends on your business. If it's a SaaS app that can be funded by customer payments, you're probably ok. If it's a consumer app that relies on network effect (marketing spend), you may have issues.
> Shellshock is somewhat atypical for systems vulns no? Looking at all the CVEs for Microsoft for a couple of years, essentially all critical security exploits are due to their use of C/C++.

You're kind of answering your own question. Most OS bugs are in C because most OS code is in C.

> Heartbleed would not happen just because of a custom allocator. Eg Rust allows you to do so, but would have prevented that code from compiling.

If you get a large buffer and then "allocate" it by returning pointers to pieces of it (or offsets if you don't have pointers), now the compiler/runtime only knows where the end of the buffer is, not where the end of the allocation is supposed to be. You can write dumb code in any language.

> Basically, using C/C++ means that in addition to all the normal security logic errors like command injection, you've got to worry that an errant copy or overflow hands total execution control to an attacker. It's bizarre to not realise this is a huge language failing and that most of the systems level exploits are purely due to poor languages.

The problem with this reasoning is that it's solving the problem in the wrong place. Yes, if you screw up very badly then it's better for the language to blow up the program than let the attacker control it. But you still have to solve the other problem, which is that the attacker can blow up the program or possibly do other things even with "safe" languages because the program is parsing unvalidated input etc. And solving that problem, which needs to happen regardless, causes the first problem to go away.
I have used Atlassian Confluence for that in the past and it works pretty well for that task. Pretty much any wiki would do, its mostly a matter of how you decide to structure the information.

My advice: start slowly and grow organically; documentation can be prematurely optimized.
Given that inflation number the difference is still vast, with almost a billion dollars more for Apple.
"Chess program" has to be defined in a way the general audience can agree to. Many people could also code a non-chess implementation in much less than 487 bytes and call it chess.

It still looks like an impressive exercise, but any talk of broken records demands widely accepted set of rules that have been met.
> Unlike real serfs Uber drivers can set themselves free at anytime (i.e. quit).

You've never needed to work, have you? And I don't mean "have a job to afford the lifestyle you prefer" I mean been poor, unskilled, and needed to work to put food on the table.
Here's the whole interview in a playlist that they made but didn't link to: http://vimeo.com/album/3054418

There's a playlist (album) for each of their interviews apparently.

EDIT: still cant get it to autoplay though :(
OP here. Unfortunately the ansi palette is pretty limited so I didn't have a lot of flexibility in the color choice. That said, this can definitely be improved. I can work on it if people find it useful.

In the meantime, it's very easy to tune the colors your own: just modify this line https://github.com/draios/sysdig/blob/master/userspace/sysdi... in your local version of the script, using this as a reference http://misc.flogisoft.com/_media/bash/colors_format/256_colo....
I don't understand your point. Yes, it was a lot more difficult in the 90s, but there was also less demand. A front end developer can get by just fine.
Some interesting tidbits in the earnings call (http://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/27/apple-earnings-1q15/)

* Apple Watch is coming in April

* 39.9% gross margins

* 1 billion iOS devices sold since 2007

* 97% csat for iPhone as measured by Changewave

* Mac revenue was $6.9 billion
Probably not, but it would depend on the country.

It is common to treat parental leave through a similar (or the same) insurance system as sick leave, in which case the employer pays the temp just like in other extended leave type of situations.

(An employer pays model leads employers being unnecessary wary of employing. I know several countries practice it, but it has clear drawbacks.)
Will augmented reality games (eg. Ingress) be more healthy activities than flat screen stay inside games?
Samsung will do their earnings announcements on the 29th, it will be interesting to compare those two side-by-side.

Apple is doing extremely well on the margins but they have actually lost ground when going by the numbers (~30% market share now vs ~70% android).
It shows that margin on Apple products is too high. This leaves plenty of room for some company to come into the market and steal their customers. That it hasn't happened shows the strength of Apple. They make products people will pay premium for.