skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the point of view of a developer, one counter-point is that the App Store still makes far more revenue than the Android Marketplace (about 17x more, to be precise), so iOS is still a better platform of choice [1].

A counter-point to that counter-point is that Android's Marketplace has far fewer apps than the App Store (about 4x fewer), and far fewer paid apps (about 2x fewer) [2].

That 8x factor still doesn't explain the 17x difference in revenue. My guess is that the typical Android app is of lower quality (since the store is not moderated) and lower priced in comparison to iPhone apps.

At any rate, given this dramatic change in market share, it seems to me that not deploying for the Android platform at this point is a dangerous proposition, except perhaps if your primary customer acquisition channel is the platform's built-in store/marketplace.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/861-5-percent-growth-androi...

[2] http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-20032228-78.html
You'll likely find that how much it costs is a variable factor, where the cost of your service is the variable.

Given the above analogies, a ringtone service has a lower barrier to acquisition, since the average purchase price of the customer is much, much lower than, say, a financial service.

If you can get customers for $0.15, and your service costs $20 a month, you're doing a mind-blowingly good job. The cost of acquisition will generally rise as the cost of your service goes up, and that is expected. There are 'tipping points', which is to say, you might keep about the same cost of acquisition for a service that costs $10 vs a service that costs $15, but if that service goes up to $100, then you should expect your cost of acquisition to rise as well.

The magic is in finding the sweet spot, where the cost of acquisition per dollar sold ratio is the best you can get, but in order to truly measure that, you'll likely need to know the expected lifetime revenue of a given customer, which you're going to have a hard time measuring with early numbers.
i found my short term lease in SF thru this leasing company:
http://www.archstoneapartments.com/

they have a couple buildings in and around the city. hope this helps!
haha sorry about that. good job woman :) Ok that doesn't sound right either.

Yeah I just checked it on my iPad and it looks nice.
Understanding Search Ranking Factors
We have a government that generally believes we can legislate our problems away and that most people are incapable of taking care of themselves. When you start from that premise, everything that you do "for the good of society" or "because it's fair" ends up stepping on someone, usually those closer to the top. Alternatively, when you have leadership coming from fields where reason and making things better by creating are valued, you get a different result.

Oddly enough, I'll cite China as an improving example of this and I think it's due to the make up of their leadership:

* In the US, the top of the Obama Administration is mostly lawyers and/or mostly from Harvard. Over half the Senators were/are lawyers. The last President with technical/scientific training past Chem 101 was Herbert Hoover.. 80 years ago.

* On the other hand, China's president was a hydraulic engineer and the Communist Politburo is eight engineers and a lawyer. Their previous president was an electrical engineer.

Source: http://www.economist.com/node/13496638

Which country do you think values scientists and engineering more? Which country do you think understands science and engineering better and pushes to strengthen those fields or at least gets the hell out of the way?

(Now I feel dirty for celebrating something about China's political leadership.)
At least in American law, this is already true. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act)
Phones are easy to replace. Not much lock-in.

Phones, yes. Phones with apps, not so much: Now you have an obstacle to changing platforms.
You can solve almost any problem just by thinking about it, the question is: how inefficient will your solution be?
I wasn't aware that acting on preferences and then articulating them when prompted counts as a sense of entitlement.

You must get angry a lot.
I'd also suggest asciicasts.com, they're transcriptions of railscasts episodes, and I find they compliment the videos extremely well.

I also like Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen, it's a great way to learn how Ruby really works, written in a more approachable style than the Pickaxe.
If that were a random sample you'd be completely wrong -- that's more than enough to get extremely accurate numbers.

What's more likely is that compete is based on a panel [1] [2], and the members of that panel tend not to include the type of people that read tech sites.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/25/compete-data/

[2] http://www.quora.com/Where-does-Compete-get-its-data-from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge#Proverbially
This, just like the "dear old people" article comes off to me as overgeneralized whining. Maybe it's just because at 32 I'm smack in the middle, but I'm just not comfortable with "this is what's wrong with your generation" type of articles.

In this case, there are a few important truths so slathered over with condescension and scorn that as a teenager, I would have no choice but to rebel. The author forgets, that rebelling is not simple petulance, but is the final stage of individuation.

I get the impression the author here has a bone to pick, most likely due to personal regrets or fears, and is turning to browbeating where mentorship is called for.
Right, I know no one is looking for more burdens in their lives. But if the condition is that you're basically subcontracting to someone who you know going in doesn't have all the skills you do, and maybe not all the skills necessary to complete the project rapidly, but that the subcontractor is self-motivated and an autodidact already, I think the burden is removed.

I am definitely referring to the model in your second paragraph.
How did you see this post with those host settings?
Craigslist and Padmapper are the best. I just did this, it took me about a month and a half to find a place. I ended up getting a place in Noe Valley of 27th.

I drive the 280 every day now to Palo Alto. After 9:15 am from Noe Valley and after about 6:30 PM, it's a breeze. It takes me 35 minutes total, and I got 75.

If you don't want to drive, Portrero hill is your best bet. If you don't mind driving, Bernal, Noe, Glen Park or the mission (or portrero) is your best bet. Castro, SOMA, or anything north/west will pretty much suck unless you leave after 10am.

The real problem with RWC is that it takes a long time to get to the downtown section from the 280, so you might have to think about the 101, which WILL suck, no matter what. The 101 doesn't really settle down at night til 7 or even 8.
I've only tried a short stint from PA to RWC on it in the mornings and usually that sucks too.

Portrero is your best bet for caltrain though. You'll probably spend $150 a month on caltrain passes. The big thing there though is you'll have to find somewhere in portrero/dogpatch to stay, and I think that's harder to do because there seems to be fewer places. Also, if you live there, you'll probably want to live close to 18th or 3rd to be within walking distance of anything.

Check walkscore.com for any places you find to see what's around them.
Hmm...well, then maybe there's hope:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825174102.ht...

(article on "dry water")
While a student I dug ditches, weeded fields of barley, worked in a lab and even had a stint on a trawler in the North Sea.

Sure does make you appreciate a nice desk job!
For short puzzles, you can try out our newly launched site puzzlenode: http://puzzlenode.com/ | Only 4 problems there now but there will be at least 4 new ones added every two months, hopefully much more often than that.

These problems also serve as entrance exams for Ruby Mendicant University. We release our RMU exercises as well, but they're more open ended and likely take more than two hours in most cases: http://university.rubymendicant.com/resources/learning_mater...
> How to get the good end only?

If you genuinely believe your blog post is HN worthy, post it. If HN deems it HN-worthy, it'll end up on the home page and, hopefully, spark a good discussion.

Unfortunately, HN doesn't always agree with us on what is HN-worthy ;-) but that's what life in a community looks like.
And that would be a valid question, as 1996-you would be using Netscape Navigator 2 or Internet Explorer 2. Good luck building web apps for those browsers ;)
Yet sometimes the medium defines the message. Until the 19th century, you would pay to watch a theatrical or listen to live music because it was the only fair price available. When you wanted a picture of yourself, you had to pay Renoir to make an original portrait. The 20th century brought us the selling of copies. That was a weird mixture - you paid for the vinyl disc , or the print poster, but you knew the price was not the price of the material alone. I think the digital world provides so much opportunity to create original content, that we no more need copies. I like how economies arise in digital worlds that are based on original content or services, like online game worlds, virtual goods, software-as-a-service and web site design. I believe slowly but surely we 'll get over the economy of copies. It's like going back to pre-19th century really, but in a good way. Not arguing my case strongly here, it's just a certain point of view (after all it's Saturday)

p.s. i dont really believe SMTP,FTP,or HTTP were based on the real world ontology. they were engineered out of necessity
Study Suggests U.S. Could Use Fewer, Not More Science Students http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/study-argu...
That's what I get for never fact-checking Star Trek... ;-)
Something I've never understood. People advocate to make only the buying side of prostitution illegal. The same people often advocate to make only the selling side of drugs illegal.

It's a weird dichotomy I can't wrap my head around.

(I realize that some people may favor only one of these policies, but I don't think the intersection of people favoring both is empty.)
There seems to be a "small" difference between this and the Windows analogy: Apple got into the mass market this time and its users are showing money. If Apple can keep at least 10% of the market then it might as well have more than 50% of the people-that-actually-buy-apps market like you show.

Let's assume this scenario of 50%. Then it all boils down to how better it is to develop to one platform against the other.

And, to keep it in perspective, I didn't even mention the iPad here...

I always thought Apple was going for the wrong strategy here, once again (like the article points), but I'm starting to doubt it.
runs kinda slow on my iphone :(
Interning in the states is fairly easy with a J-1 visa once you have an employer backing you. The visa costs roughly $800 (mine have always been covered by the employer). I always used CDS to get the visa (http://www.cdsintl.org/interntrainusa/about-j1-visa/) but I am sure there are other agencies that are just as good.

Send me an email if you need more info.
Fred is a big proponent of "open", which is great, but it's still not clear that "open" is going to win this game.

The battle between Windows and Apple wasn't just about "open" versus closed. It was about availability of third party software. It was about ability to distribute effectively. It was about mindshare. There are other reasons that Apple was not successful through the late 80's to 90's (even when they allowed third party computer manufacturers like Franklin to license their OS). But Apple is an entirely different beast now. And Android appears to be on it's way to such a wide variety of configurations that it may not even be recognizable as Android at some point - what if Amazon's app store becomes real popular? At that point, are you developing for Android or are you developing for Amazon?

I wonder how many major corporations out there right now that are thinking of how tablets could fit into their work environments are playing around with the Android OS? My guess is not many.
Thanks. Those pesky, prolific Hofstadters.
Copyright is actually more deeply rooted in the Constitution (of the US) than those other rights; the Bill of Rights happened later, after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
"this is what's wrong with your generation"

Most of that isn't generation specific and covers most of the past 50 years.
The hard part, though, is getting a good lawyer and accountant. I've worked with bad ones and good ones, and you can't always tell the difference from the outset.

Many times, I've found that lawyers' and accountants' opinions on critical issues are diametrically opposed. Clearly, someone was wrong in those instances. As expensive as it is, I'm now leaning towards the idea that one should always get two independent opinions, just as a sanity check.

I also strongly recommend double-checking everything yourself. You're still getting professional advice, of course. But sometimes it's good to practice what's derisively called "playing lawyer" and do some legal reading.

A good lawyer or accountant will not mind you asking questions like: "The corporation code says X; could this be applied to me to mean Y?" If your professional does get offended by those questions, I'd consider it a red flag. You're paying by the hour, right? It's no skin off their nose if you want to chat.
Real-time map of Dutch rail traffic
Oh, sorry - didn't notice that was a requirement.
Agreed, and I didn't think of that. A reverse commute would've been a dream when I lived there. Leaving the city in the morning and returning in the late afternoon/evening? Yes please. Unless of course it's Friday.
Really it's like watching T.V. except it's the internet. Brainless activities which keeps us just enough entertained that we don't go watch T.V. instead. ;)

It's also procrastination from doing the things you really need to be doing. So, check out the tips on dealing with procrastination.

I think what works best for me is to realize that I'm aimlessly wandering and just get up from the computer and do something else. Bonus points for getting out of the house. When I come back, if I fall into the same trap, then rinse and repeat.

Another trick is to simply do something productive on the computer for just 15 minutes. Set a timer and go. Once you get to that first 15 then usually that's all you need to keep going long enough to call it a day so that you can waste your time without feeling guilty that you didn't do anything. ;)
http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com <--- ipad app looks cool
A lot of us had a good laugh when people said the global android phenomenon would could to a halt because of the Verizon iPhone.

My opinion on why the iPad will suffer the same fate:
http://martin.drashkov.com/2011/03/why-android-tablets-will-...
I don't think the goal of an animated glowing form is to minimize CPU usage, so this is a bit of a non sequitur.
Simple life Manhattan: a 90-square-foot microstudio
Am I the only one that thought "hmm, this is <blink> 2011"?
Best idea. Definitely contact him via email.
Great Idea.
Awesome integration.Esp. http://www.onesong.me/users is awesome-the medium user icon.
How abt logo?
DMCA, copyright and terms of use, user agreement, privacy?
Predator: A Smart Camera that Learns from Experience (video)
Potrero Hill also features some great affordable subleasing in some nice old houses. It's also, iirc, more "suburban"-feeling than other parts of the city.
Scaling and Scoping the NYT Paywall
Phil Libin speaking at the Founder Conference, discount price ends tomorrow
I had thought of that to many times it is written as if you can take it either way
I would say using someone else's network is like giving them your mail to put in your mailbox 'cause you're lazy. Using an unsecured public wireless connection is like shouting to a friend across the park. The problem really is that people think of a line to the internet as just a line to the internet, no matter where it comes from or who it goes through, not considering that some of their communications are public
Guess if you really want it, you could submit a patch (or roll out your own fork)

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/tail...

Doesn't look very bad, but I am known for being an optimist.
It's all self-discipline. Like a diet, you could eat cake an ice cream every meal, but you'd become fat. You need the self-discipline to limit yourself on the Internet to remain productive.

Another way to lOok at it, depending on what motivates you ... Think in terms of "is mark zuckerberg wasting hours on these stupid forums every day?"
We are a startup (YC W10) looking for great summer interns and would happily help with visas, etc for the right person. My contact info is in my profile if you'd like to chat.
That's like saying you never want to have sex because you heard that Herpes was kind of itchy.
How Charlie Gibson made me scratch my own itch
If you are looking for algorithmic puzzles you can browse the archives of topcoder.com : http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MatchList

These usually require less time and less math skill than the already mentioned projecteuler.net problems.
Adding a little bit more padding on the form and making the labels lighter would probably fix that problem.
It should still demonstrate proper HTML and it only takes a few seconds..

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/145404/demo.html - submit inside the <form>
All good points, and I agree with them in the abstract. However, in this specific case, I don't entirely agree. The post was about how various other sites were taking aim at individual Craigslist categories, and this might be a good reason for CL to change in the long run.

"The only thing that would drive change would be an exodus of people - not just people complaining about how things could be better, but an actual clear, obvious drop in usage with a clear cause and a need for redesign." Maybe, or maybe the perception that an exodus is impending would be enough. In any case, that exodus may very well happen. Which, I think, is what the post is suggesting. I for one have stopped using CL for almost everything, due to the very reasons under discussion.
An insightful post on why "copyright" is a misnomer in a digital age
If you didn't catch it, 'beta' means 'son' in Hindi.
I'm not sure where you got that idea[1]. There was a time several decades ago when the Christian proletariat majority widely supported science, read popular periodicals about science, and aspired to educate their children in science and engineering. There was also a time when conservatives were far more pro-science than liberals. This is why it's important to know some of the history here. Today's anti-science sentiment is surely rooted in right wing Christian factions, and that needs to be fought. But there's absolutely no reason to think that conservative Christians can't endorse and value science, since they have in the past.

The acknowledgement of past conservative/religious alignment with science comes from Jacoby. Decrying the current state is not the same as a summary dismissal.

Mooney and Kirschenbaum are what the "New Atheists" call accommodationists. Atheists themselves, they believe in embracing and working with religious people to find common ground. They're looking to bond with the "sane" religious moderate majority and fight the Luddite, anti-science extremists.

EDITED to add:

1. Ok, you got that idea from comments, obviously. Beware comments on such things. They probably say more about the commenter than about the book.
I'd find it stupid to write a great piece that people on HN really would love, and hopelessly wait for someone else to discover it for you.

Now, the trick is in being sure that it's a great piece for HN. Delusion is by definition hard to detect on yourself :-)
This argument relies on Quantcast data that's not directly measured. When sites such as Compete, Quantcast and Alexa take a stab at measuring site traffic without direct measurement (like Google Analytics), the estimates they come up with are always way, way off. Unless there's better evidence that Craigslist traffic is declining, I don't buy it.
In the US, vast majority of the kids want to become firefighters or cops. . . . It's probably hard to tell the cause from the effect.

I think it's easy: jobs as scientists in the U.S. suck relative to other jobs. See here: http://www.miller-mccune.com/science/the-real-science-gap-16...? for more. Basically, if you have the chops to get a job in science, you're probably better off doing something else (like med school; lots of people want to be doctors).

Consider that firefighters or cops get paid reasonably well; effectively can't be fired after a short probationary period unless they do something incredibly egregious because they're protected by unions; have jobs that demand physical activity, so they aren't just sitting in front of a screen all day; and, in the case of firefighters, have a level of social prestige that means (male) firefighters are almost universally admired by women.

Wanting to be a cop or firefighter requires a two-year degree, if that. Wanting to be a pediatric surgeon takes a minimum of 12 (four for undergrad, four for med school, four for residency, although I think it's more than four). Wanting to be an engineer takes at least four.
I agree with you that none of these sites actually tackle the main uses of craigslist. I was merely questioning your assertion that you'd never heard of any of them :).
Just because people are making a lot of money in finance does not mean they are smart, or would be capable working as an engineer or scientist.
Social Music Startup Looking For Marketing Savvy Co-Founder
Disrupt.fm offers musicians word of mouth music distribution through Facebook.

Musicians can leverage their fan base to help promote their brand by offering free music downloads in exchange for sharing the song on Facebook. I've seen some good traction since launching in early January but I'm looking for a marketing focused co-founder to handle the musician acquisitions while I focus on the technical aspects of improving the site.

I'm looking for a co-founder with proven marketing skills to engage with bands, managers, and record labels to introduce them to the benefits of Disrupt.fm. Experience with Copywriting and Email Marketing are a big plus. Experience or connections in the music industry is an even bigger plus.

Since chemistry between founders is essential, please provide your Skype username so that we can video chat if I think there's a good fit.

If interested, contact me at dave@disrupt.fm

http://www.disrupt.fm
I totally agree that social interaction quality declines as group size increases - interactions will always approximate the lowest common denominator of a group over time.

However, I was not trying to imply or judge what is boring on facebook. Just trying to point out that the interaction activity around single women is more dynamic and less predictable than the interaction activity around mothers / families, and further that social security blankets are beginning to rule fb, by the numbers. Networks for the purpose of social security, by definition, are risk averse and less dynamic.

That being said, I'd love to see some analytics around unique page views of single women vs the rest of facebook users to see what facebook users on average consider interesting / boring.
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