skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but I'm also being generous in my engineering estimates to put Google in the least-flattering light. And the ISP's started this fight by blackmailing Google--don't bring a knife to a gunfight springs to mind.

Google won't take too much of a loss, if any. Once a fiber network is in place, it's almost maintenance-free for several years. In addition, Google built all their hardware from scratch to minimize cost.

Finally, you may find that Google Fiber turns the network over to the locality for anything too unprofitable. That's a win-win--the locality runs the network (and gains the profit of cable TV, etc.) and Google breaks the monopoly of the last mile.
It's a big branding issue as well.

I know Apple makes two laptops: MBAs and MBPs.

I don't know what all laptops Dell or Lenovo make. I don't know if they have ultrabooks, and if they do, what are their names.

When I buy a new Windows laptop, I sort by specs, not brand. I avoid a few brands (HP, Acer), but as long as I get good enough specs at a good enough price, I'll buy anything.

I don't care about specific models/brands in Dell, Samsung or Lenovo because I don't even know if they exist, and if they do, why I should give a crap about them.
Comparing two companies over a period of time without taking into account splits, reverse splits, dividends, etc. isn't very meaningful.
Facebook takes blame for outage, denies attack
This looks really nice. venantius: you should make a fancy demo with http://showterm.io

Although I guess its not that interactive. There should be more of these instead of gif demos for tty programs though.
In other words, Apple is a successful business. People have been making that same statement for a long time and nobody has been able to do what you are suggesting.
Lensless space telescope could be 1,000 times stronger than Hubble
> Only other nitpick: How many copies of Photoshop magazine does that apartment dweller need to own? ;)

This is something you'll see in lots of virtual environments, there is only a limited number of objects of a certain class so you'll see lots of repetition. Personally, I blame the teapot.
Windows 8 is not the problem; it's the terrible PC hardware. Even when the hardware is good, manufacturers still screw up when it comes to drivers like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8546702

Most laptops are so low-end. Finding one that's decent is tough.
You ship later or you scale back the scope to something manageable.
People with CS degrees are just as clueless as everyone else. Pretty much every good developer I've worked with has not had a pure CS education. They've all had varied backgrounds and the only thing that ties them together is that they really enjoy solving problems.
This isn't that far off from ideas initially put forward by Brandenberger and Vafa...
and the evidence for that is?
Mainly because they are creative / productive, whereas gaming is passive / consuming.
That Google finance page, ironically, uses Flash.
Yikes. I meant that last sentence with a bit of tongue-in-cheek. I certainly don't mean it's a _bad_ thing for parents to pay to raise their children. But surely you would prefer to be born owing some extra taxes, rather than never be born at all because your parents couldn't afford it? Preferring existence to non-existence seems like a pretty mild form of selfishness to me.

I find it very interesting that this proposal seems more objectionable than the version where the childbearing subsidy is paid out of general taxes. Is it really more moral and less selfish to force _everyone else in the country_ to pay the cost of raising you than to force you to pay for it yourself?
<\s> is short for "end sarcasm".
Perhaps even Samsung Heavy Industries, until Apple gets around to vertically integrating that part of its supply chain.
It is very impressive when compared to the $9 billion budget of the LHC [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Cost
Flickr and Tumblr haven't been disasters (yet) for users, at least... :)
He, me three. I thought they mistyped obedience.
The Guardian is from UK, perhaps they are not using the American billion but the one that means 1E12
Businesses do.

At least, several of them keep sending us cheques as payment for our products, even though we keep asking them to use wire transfers :/
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>I'm also not sure what electronic payments you're referring to (transfers to others?)

I transfer money to and from my bank accounts using ACH transfers. It typically takes a few days for those to clear.
Ah, but you forget. An apple super carrier would be extremely user friendly. It could probably be crewed with 10 hipsters and a few Apple geniuses.
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Oh ! and this one is a PC boot sector. Sexy
I see a chain error - looks like the intermediate certificate is missing.
Youre right. The world economy is a humongous place. However, what happens when there is 10% unemployment? What about 20 percent unemployment? Or what happens when the screws capitalism are turned and you see 90 percent unemployment? That is is the intended result of capitalism, is it not? To me that was a fail system. And communism and socialism have both proven to be failures.

now, what do we do about this? Honestly, I have no clue.
Not really... Anticompetitive would be if:
1) The entrenched players were selling at "zero profit" or price equal to marginal cost. (I find this dubious, they are monopolies after all. internet services are a fraction of the US price in many European countries)
2) Google were doing this with the intention of raising prices once all of its competitors go out of business. Since they are behemoths in their own rights, I just don't see Google having the desire to push a price war to this point.

In general "dumping" is hard to establish since no one is going to reveal their cost structure. In my experience it is normally an accusation flung by incumbents because that other guys stuff is too cheap.

If it breaks the back of the ISP monopolies and forces them into the role of unprofitable utility, all the better. That's the whole point of market forces, right?
It's a weird metric, because 1 guy at Apple can hire a firm of 100,000 employees at FoxConn in China to do the actual work for Apple. If those employees instead worked for Apple directly, the end result would be the same but the amount per employee would be far less.
"So, I started playing Fallout: New Vegas. I clocked like 120-140 hours in two weeks. I beat the game, I beat the expansions. I had a blast.

I think the problem with the video games is that they often offer a certain kind of refuge. "

If you had a blast, why is it I problem? I still remember some gaming sessions fondly. I think escapism is one of the more likeable traits of mankind.
Yahoo rallies as firm reveals plan to spin off remaining Alibaba stake
DHH's Ruby on Rails demo is pretty hilarious at half speed: http://youtu.be/Gzj723LkRJY
You went around collecting literal signatures, or got your neighbors to enter addresses on fiber.google.com?

I'm in Nashville and willing to do a fair bit of legwork if it means it'll bump my neighborhood up on the install list.
Perhaps you're unwilling or unable to conceive of how change can be accomplished but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

Are you having some kind of personal contest to see how many times you can say "theoretically"?

Did I say it would be easy? Or are you just going to make things up and ascribe them to me.

What's your point, anyways? To convince everyone that we should just give up and accept the state of things?
Couldn't you say the same about Steve Jobs? Doesn't this say more about "most Valley startups today" than it does about people that actually forged these industries?
I'm referring to Charlemange, not Genghis.
SKI programs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
Tech’s High Barrier to Entry for the Underprivileged
Seems like Yahoo is the most successful VC in Silicon Valley!
(Minor clarification: I wrote "paternity leave" thinking "That's the gender-neutral term, right? The one with 'parent' in it?". In retrospect, I realize my brainfart, but can no longer edit. Please pretend I had written "parental leave")
How much of this do you have working already? I've been using Zeo and miss them a lot, tracking sleep phases or heartrate through this seems very ambitious.

Also, some physical switch for microphone could be nice..
Do you know where we might read more about those Monument Valley numbers? That's an interesting statistic.
Once again, not talking about Genghis, the thread refers to Charlemagne.
I've been waiting for either Alibaba or Softbank to step up and buy them out for months. Now that they're spinning off the Alibaba shares, and given that their core business is currently valued around $0 (by the market), I imagine that Softbank might pick them up for a steal.
They should totally add some jitter, uneven angles and speed transitions, and it will fool people.
The hardware (including a bed warmer that is 100% guaranteed to not set your house on fire), controller software, sleep-tracking software + mobile apps, all for US$100k? Either we haven't learned anything from previous crowdfunding nightmares, or they have another source of funding.
Yahoo's stock is valued far less than the sum of its assets. That is quite a lack of confidence.
"The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines."
As much as I'm happy that you're able to detect fraudulent transactions, I am really disappointed that there's not a Content Security Policy rule to prevent WebRTC :-(
Past paper for the post of Inspector in land Revenue
Rust provides memory safety without VM to begin with.

Although I do not like the comparison because it's not factually correct, Rust is like the "safe subset of C++". To write actual safe, modern C++ is very close to writing valid Rust. After learning Rust, I became a better C++ programmer.
Chrome is open source in the same way Android is open source - built on open source components, with some proprietary sprinkles on top, but good luck having any say in the development of Chrome or Android, it's pretty much Google's way or the highway.

With Mozilla, all discussions are open, choices are justified, and literally anyone (assuming your reasoning and technical abilities are sound) can contribute.

(I'll note that I don't actively contribute much to Mozilla, but if nobody uses Firefox then it's not going to keep getting better).
Why Mobile Is the Winning Ingredient to Commerce
This is a very valid concern because I used to own a Zeo headband that did a lot of the same stuff, and when the company went belly-up the cloud service disappeared, leaving all their customers with a useless bedtime fashion accessory.

Really encouraging to hear the developer's reply that the their APIs will be accessible over wifi and that they'll even be open-sourcing some of their stack. Wonder if they specifically learned from what happened with Zeo. I'll definitely consider this as a replacement.
Downscaling life
Here is the official video from Yahoo on FY14 earnings : Marissa Mayer answering questions - http://finance.yahoo.com/topics/yahoo-q4-full-year-2014-earn...
Electronic transfer is used in the UK, for most bills and many individual to individual transactions. I've not heard of a bank posting a cheque on my behalf.

I found some statistics, but they don't include debit (or credit) cards, just normal transfers between banks: http://www.paymentscouncil.org.uk/resources_and_publications... .

Looking at "1990 to date", I'm not sure I'm reading the tables correctly. Were there really 265 million cheques processed in January 1990? That's 10 for every household. Last month was 46 million, 1.7 for every household — still seems high.

In any case, it compares with over 620M electronic payments for December 2014.
Thanks for the tip on etckeeper! I've been wanting something like that for a while.
What's the community using instead of iTunes?
You do realize he's talking about a stock exchange? Even a millisecond downtime is unacceptable. Some things don't even need backup, others need testing on identical hardware in identical configuration before deployment. That's just the way it is.
Today, the California Department of Business Oversight issued a warning on Coinbase:

“Numerous press accounts about Coinbase’s Jan. 26 launch of Coinbase Exchange erroneously reported the Exchange has received regulatory approval from the State of California. The California Department of Business Oversight has not decided whether to regulate virtual currency transactions, or the businesses that arrange such transactions, under the state’s Money Transmission Act. California consumers should be aware Coinbase Exchange is not regulated or licensed by the State.”[1]

[1] http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Press/press_releases/2015/Statement_on...
I'm not convinced Apple cares about market share in the smartphone war. They are still destroying the competition when it comes to profit and in their world, that's what matters. Google's game with Android is to get it into the hands of as many people as possible.

Apple's goals differ from the idea of getting as many users as people. The company seems to be more focused on getting a number of people who will almost absolutely buy their brand. That's their strength imo. How many businesses can boast of guaranteed lines outside their stores for hours when launching a product? (Bear in mind that lining up is very irrational for a lot of those who spend hours there seeing as they can often grab it online or from a carrier store directly. )

They operate by a follow the money mindset and it works excellently for them. Get people to love your product - this loyal customer we seek in the startup world - and you're in very good hands.

Kudos to them for their work
I hear you. The problem is that the response is super local. ie I think Google hoped that just entering the space would spur activity on regional and national levels. So far though it seems to be only those specific cities that Google launches in then respond. I hope that changes but the bigger guys are calling Google's bluff and just matching it in the small cities (like mine wooo hooo!) that Google launches in.
The HTML5 player is fantastic and I have been using it for as long as I can remember (since it became an option). My favourite feature is the playback speed controls, when trying to learn a song on guitar, I can follow along with the live performance or tutorial to learn how to play, absolutely invaluable.

Every day the number of reasons to keep Flash installed gets lower and lower. I still keep it installed on my machine for the occasional site that still uses it, but Flash's days are definitely numbered. When a site as big as Youtube stops using it, that is when you know there isn't long left. Fortunately Adobe realised HTML5 is the future a while ago and have been creating some great tools.
Apple's laptop division and the appeal of OSX have very little to do with these revenue numbers. At 6.9B Mac sales are only a few multiples of Microsoft's fledgling Surface business, let alone the laptop market in general.

IPhones on the other hand...
I agree we can't reproduce Microsoft Word with isofunctionality with 25 people (obviously). I agree my past comment made it sound like that.

I currently feel negatively from the readers, so I'm testing that again: I've written a comment below with figures and sources to back my claims - See comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8956544
Actually Zeo had a very nice serial connection and I never uploaded any of their data, pushing it in realtime to my HA system. But yeah, I cry a lot that they are gone, it's almost impossible now to get a headband replacement.
"[Useful popular thing] considered harmful."
Even before a beta, work with your prospective customers directly and closely. Determine what they really need and how you should really solve their problems before even presenting a product. If you don't do that before building a product, chances are you've built the wrong one, and a beta will only give you one or two degrees of course corrective ability from there.
Open source and open development model are two different things (the latter almost always includes the former, but the former may or may not use the latter.)
And FoxConn can of course hire millions of other people to do the actual work for them (mine the materials needed for the products, prepare them, ship them and so on).
Huh, that's pretty cool. I've been looking for a tool to do something like this for a while - I'll give it a shot on my next project.
That's surprisingly reasonable. The rule of thumb I've heard is only half of employee expenses is salary, so that gives you an average "effective" salary of $90,000 for Apple employees.
I'm having trouble updating my Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 LTS server to patch this vulnerability.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/578565/ubuntu-12-04-5-lts-won...
Yup, below $9733 USD per year is poverty in Mexico.

More than 50% of mexicans live with less than that.

That's why USA is so atractive to millions of inmigrants.

$4/day in Mexico vs $8/hr in the USA?!

It's a no-brainer.
I believe that the YouTube HTML5 video rollout depends on parts of the Media Source Extensions, which are only available in Firefox starting in beta.
>>1 billion iOS devices sold since 2007

That's an insane stat. Assuming average cost of an iphone as 500$, and 70% profit margin for an iphone, Apple has made 350 billion in profits on selling iPhones since 2007!!

Any idea what would the equivalent figure in Android profits for Samsung be? Android crossed 1 billion devices sold in 2013, but my guess is the number is going to be much smaller.
> What's interesting is that the market values Yahoo at around 50B at the moment. The BABA spinoff is worth 40B. They have 10B in cash. Their share of Yahoo Japan is 7B. Even before accounting for Yahoo's core business, they should be worth 57B.

Which suggests (assuming all that is accurate) that the market values Yahoo's "core business" as a $7 billion liability.
Bring bitcoin to South America? Again?
They make luxury products and yet everyone owns one. That is the real genius.
There are some really bloated "YouTube enhancer" type add-ons that do it unreliably. This has been a problem for so long that it's pretty clear Google doesn't care and wants YouTube videos to auto-play against the user's wishes. They want to force you into using their UI rather than opening videos in new tabs.
This is the ticket.

Slack is operating on three principles.

One, that their product actually has value commensurate with its price. That's a remarkable tenet for any product, and it keeps them honest.

Two, demanding a high value for a product influences customers' perception of that product. By not discounting or downplaying the value at all, Slack builds on the psychological worm that you're getting what you pay for. This has been proven in (consumer) studies to make people like purchases more compared to items of the same price or free.

Finally, they assert that the market exists and their customers have the ability and desire to pay for a better product (ddebernardy's point).

All correct.
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Okay that is anti-competitive, than what shall we call dumping a useless service onto consumers that they have to overpay for? Also these ISP's keep their competitors at bay, so consumers do not have a choice but to pay them high fees for useless service.
How Stupid Is a Davos Audience?
Now if only Facebook did the same, I could finally use Safari without switching to iPad mode!
Ubuntu Phone in Desktop mode
Which Bootstrap When? (2013) [pdf]
Ask HN: Getting a USA bank account as a foreigner?
Is there a way to get a bank account in the USA?Reason: to accept intl payments (Stripe isn't available here)

Will be visiting the USA soon, and I'd like to open a bank account if possible.

Thanks.
I don't think it is quite the same thing. This plan will result in Yahoo!'s shareholders being given shares in SpinCo, which will own Alibaba shares.

Distributing the Alibaba shares directly to the Yahoo! shareholders would result in them owning Alibaba shares directly.
The author didn't say the developers wouldn't care, but that the extra effort means the developers wouldn't care enough.

Fixing a bug requires figuring out what's broken, and that's a lot easier when you know something broke between 4.7 and 4.8, than in any of the revisions between 4.4 and 5.6. (Especially if there were actually two latent bugs in 4.4, one of which got exposed in 4.8, and one of which got exposed in 5.2)
I think many would agree with me when I say, Windows 8 was at least part, if not the biggest part of the problem.

Nobody wants to relearn a UI just because MS wants to create a bridge into windows phone. The fact is the UI changes did not serve the average MS user, but served Mircrosoft's business ambitions.

Any feature that I care about in Windows 8(faster boot, better monitor support, and ah I don't even know of anything else I would care about) could have easily been put into Windows 7 without UI changes and everybody would have been happy. But instead they packaged up the good stuff with a big FU to the power users, who happened to have disproportionate influence on PC acquisition choices and it's not like it was just the power users that were completely flummoxed by the UI changes.

Windows PC hardware is fine, drivers are more difficult because there is so much more Win PC hardware out there, but in general I have very little difficulty supporting a multitude of windows hardware/drivers. I actually have a much more difficult time getting driver support in Linux, but for different reasons. Basically, drivers are not what is holding PC sales down, it is Windows 8. It's not just that many saw Windows 8 as a step or two backwards, but the big loss is that it also failed to bring Windows forward.
> Yahoo's stock is valued far less than the sum of its assets. That is quite a lack of confidence.

The value of any business entity with non-zero liabilities is less than the sum of its assets. That's just finance 101.
Do you have a source where I can read about the tax rules that apply?
Very true. Consider that this is the main Laptops* page on samsung.com: http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/office/mobile-computing

It's as if they want their laptops to be as generic as possible.

* They don't even have a Laptops page. They have an ATIV page which bundles everything from mice to all-in-ones under the brand.
This is an interesting idea, but if you're shipping all the container code and the image inside the binary, I'm not sure how much you gain over just shipping a precompiled binary of redis itself. At best, you're baking in the config you want, but with the work being done here you could just patch in your desired config options into the redis binary.

libcontainer explicitly doesn't claim security as a feature, so you aren't getting real security wins by doing this, especially when you can put a static redis process in cgroups and limit it down with SELinux or similar anyways, and the packaging/distribution workflow is pretty much the same as pushing a static redis around.

I feel like I'm missing something; can the author or some other knowledgable soul point out the upsides of packaging a service like this?
An Aol merger or SoftBank buyout seem like the most likely scenarios. Microsoft might also be interested.
I think in Kansas you can get a house very cheap