skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised this has been upvoted so highly considering it's just marketing propaganda with selective data compiled by Samsung.
seems very useful. I can't enter numbers in the "how much" field though. (Safari, Mac OS X)
I like the 'only app store' part as if that's a bad thing
Ah yes, the good old feature checklist comparison. Because that tells a customer so much about what it's actually like to use the thing they're buying.

Strange how customer-satisfaction rates (or anything of the like) don't show up in these comparison charts -- too squishy, I guess. And really, who cares whether people actually like using this thing? It's got a Super AMOLED Plus display, dangit!
Maybe it's just a long cycle.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:US_Feder...
Always a risk of data corruption, key management issues, etc. when encrypting at rest.
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So that chart is the same chart as posted in "androidguys" blog. I dont think Samsung would highlight carrier differences as an "advantage". Maybe someone more enlightened than I can tell me if max download speed is a relevant comparison tool. I rarely if ever even approach the maximum 3G limit on my iPhone due to AT&Ts network, and I don't think any phone network has the capacity to truly serve up these max speeds consistently. Maybe Im being cynical here, but I dont know that I would want that much speed since it would just encourage me to hit my bandwidth cap more quickly...
You could also use http://sitecheck.sucuri.net .

However, since the site is now disabled, it won't find anything...

*note that we see this type of malware on sites with vulnerable plugins or using that uploadify script.

thanks,
Uhhh.... yeah, but that's the point.

You have file at /some/path, then you put newer version of that file to /some/path, replacing the old file, and the symlink still points at the same address, and it doesn't matter what actually happened with the file itself.

It's useful enough to warrant its own abstraction.
This is a great example of what's wrong with Android marketing.

Most consumers are not interested in checklists, comparisons, "anything you can do I can do better!" Consumers are interested in apps. Services. Angry Birds. iTunes. Status. Style.

Just look at some of these. "Can be used as HDTV remote control." "microSD slot." "Content Stores."

These don't matter to the average person. They may matter to you or me, sure - I certainly envy a handful of Android features - but they do not matter to most people. And that's the biggest flaw in high-end Android phones, and why they don't take away iOS market share in the high end, only replace dumbphones in the low end.

This, by the way, is why the Droid is the only Android phone brand that has been impressed on the average users. They had the standout commercials, and as weirdly overproduced as they were, it worked far better than the average feature checklist, announcer spouting off stats, or comparison chart.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts when it comes to smart phones. Comparisons like this miss the big picture.
I think it's a great move by Apple to make the 3gs seem free because it says the following:

1. 3gs owners: it's time to upgrade to the 4/4s (that's me)

2. It'll burn down existing stocks a lot faster. What was more valuable, an HP TouchPad in production or an HP TouchPad when the production was stopped?

3. Parents who have an iPhone will be able to get their kids one on the cheap, thus reclaiming ownership of the ir own phone. This also indoctrinates the child into the world of the iPhone, a strategy Apple has pursued with all of its products since the very beginning.

4. Lastly: get the phone into the hands of a holdout, at least on a trial basis, and hope for an upgrade after a couple of months, if not the same day in-store.

Market share is very important to Apple as it bears on their bottom line and while not compromising on quality (low-end iphone) they can still get a portion of that share by unloading old 3gs stock and maybe even removing 1 & 2 stock still out there in the wild that does nothing to promote present-day Apple products. Walk into any of their stores with an ugly piece of hardware and they'll try hard enough to get you to hand it over.
Why is the registry a hierarchical database instead of a relational one?
I think the developer was saying that there's no function or option to do that.

The commenter suggested editting the js file. The developer wouldn't recommend that.
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Regulation is not the answer. Intervention by well meaning governments into the market is what has landed us in this mess. Instead of rushing in to save the large banks and other institutions on the backs of the tax payers these institutions should be allowed to fail so that more prudent, efficient mechanisms can take their place.
Greece is simply the tip of the iceberg, the bit above the sea which you can see, whatever solution is eventually found for Greece will likely be taken as precedent for the rest of southern europe.
i'm not sure about the quarterly without actually going in the database and querying it but over the span of 3 years we went from 0 registered users to 150,000. Each user does not necessary mean a sale as our source of income is purely based on the ads on our site since our content is free. It's a mobile related website.
Not all companies have the luxury of time to train a new hire about higher levels of complexity, especially if they should have learned that stuff in school or at a previous job.

FizzBuzz weeds out the entirely incompetent. It is then your job as the interviewer to do your best to select the best of the remainder.
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Peldi, something similar to this happened to me for a number of years (I've run my own WP site for 6 years now); every 3 months or so, no matter what I did to lock the site down it would get reinfected with malware.

It got so frustrating that I toyed with just taking the site down permanently a few times because I couldn't handle the maintenance burden psychologically (it was such a downer to be fighting the same fight every few months for 2 years).

BUT, I finally found out what had happened, apparently there are some f-ing ingenious ways people can hide hacks in your WordPress site.

I outlined all of my steps here:
http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/finding-and-removing-hidden-word...

The basic trick boils down to uploading a fake HTML or image file that is actually a PHP script that hides in your server folder and is executed by the running process every few weeks which then infects all the other files (adding in JS headers or footers to every template file).

Another nasty trick is to use the same mis-named file uploaded into your /uploads directly, but to register it as one of your WordPress plugins. So if you search the WP database plugin table for non-PHP extensions you might find a "plugin" registered as "/uploads/2011/06/profile.jpg" when in reality it is a PHP file and not an image that WordPress is executing.

The blog post outlines how to find and remove them, I'd also recommend against running WordPress with permissions that don't allow writing except for the /uploads directory.

This means no more automatic updates inside of WordPress, you'll have to do them yourself (same for plugins) but it also means no more hacks getting through and writing themselves to your DB or file system. They can even upload themselves but then cannot effect the system in anyway because the executing process has no write perms.

It has just been a lot easier for me to run in that fashion and keep everything up to date manually.

Hope that helps!
I like the idea that 'the people' who called the police and 'the people' who got diveintohtml5.info up and running are obviously the same people, cause they like, use the internet and stuff.
We can not say with 100% certainty that a particular set of data fits in either group. This is more of an AI problem than a statistics problem, although in this particular case the differences between the two types of data sets is big enough that a relatively crude statistical analysis can generate a cleat answer to the question.

In a more general sense, I would tend to use a Self Organising Map (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map) to identify the two groups of data, and then discrimante between them. The dimensions of the SOM would be different statistical analyses of the data sets - what is the mean, the absolute spread, the standard deviation, the median, etc.

The nice thing about using a SOM is that it will show you whether or not you have succeeded in finding a measure that can successfully discriminate between different data sets - whilst at the same time actually doing the discrimination for you.
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Ask HN: Why do ASP websites load so damn slow?
Does it have to do with the VIEWSTATE and STATEHANDLER crap that is supposed to maintain page state between page loads?

Reason I ask is that I have been writing screeb scrapers for websites of which several are ASP ones and these scrapers are so damn slow compared to some of the other websites I've dealt with.
I used python with pylab/matplotlib to sort and plot the columns. It was easy to spot the two sets. I suppose a histogram would have worked nicely. This also would have been easy with my selected tools.
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This is what I hate, hate, hate about all the language used to describe the PIIGS. Deadbeats! Irresponsible losers!

Well, a little bit but – someone had to lend them the money in the first place. The liquidity crisis of 2008 hit everyone…
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You are spot on. Samsung has built a better phone, Apple is better at making people think that they built a better phone.
Frank Lantz, Ian's friend mentioned in the article who used to work at Area/Code and now at Zynga NYC wrote a response: http://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=2383
This would be super useful to us if we could set percentages of the total amount everyone is due.

We share an office with a couple other companies, but the lease is at our company's name, and we always pay for everything and people pay us back.

Since some companies are three people, and some folks here are freelancers they aren't all due the same amount; i.e. there is 10 of us, but my company pays for 2/10 because there's two of us using the office.

Maybe adding this feature would open up your service to more users with our problem users. (We are using a shared Google spreadsheet.)
When I was a teenager, my bubble only talks about Operating Systems: Linux, BSD, Amiga. OSNews.com was the "it" place next to SlashDot.

It was fun back then.

I think I'm going to grab my time machine and warp back.
Linux also has "mount -o bind", which corresponds to Plan9's alternative to symlinking.
It seemed to me that he did read the entire post and simply provided his own commentary/experience on the impact of adding such notes to one's file at Google.

Edit: I just noticed the comment you replied to has a more recent edit-time than your comment... Apologies if I missed something here.
From what I'm reading, it seems like Samsung is trying to use FRAND patents in their injuction against Apple which I thought is a big no-no.

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/10/samsungs-attempt-to-...
And they never, ever highlight any qualitative differences. Such as 'can actually scroll through pictures and contacts smoothly', 'pinch to zoom doesn't haphazardly move you to a different part of the webpage', etc.
I agree that this is the problem with this specific article. But I don't think Android in the current state lacks anything to the iPhone. There are zillions of great apps in the Market. The evidence that the Samsung Galaxy S series are selling a lot proves that high-end Android phones are going very well.
Too bad the comments aren't just exposed as a file descriptor somewhere ..
hmm.. strange, works well on my Mac+Safari combination. Wich version of Safari/OS X are you running it with?
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I think they still need to release an iPhone Nano for the masses. The iPod was big, but the moment Apple brought out the iPod Mini, the iPod went mainstream, because it became affordable.

Apple needs to do the same for the iPhone...
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Great, thanks! Is it okay for you to have a quick look in your database and get your user numbers for each quarter since launch? Maybe you can even comment on each number regarding what caused it to develop that way (e.g. "organic growth", "service featured on greatwebsite.com", "outage for a week") ?
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Exactly! And you know, the newer Android phones I've used are far smoother than they used to be, but you still don't see that in the ads. I think a big deal about the iPhone ads that just show someone using it is that it creates this image of "responsiveness" - something that is especially attractive to those using dumbphones with resistive touchscreens. Android hasn't made any strides in that; manufacturers are too busy spouting off numbers.
Recurring expenses would be useful. For example, my roommate and I pay rent every month and the amount never changes. I should be able to enter this just once.

Also, some sort of payment integration (PayPal, etc.) would be nice so he can come to this page, see he owes money, pay it and have that payment recorded.

Excellent product though, I could see myself using this.
Jup, but not only percentages but also absolute values.

Was just with my room mate at IKEA. I used my card to pay. Some stuff is for the whole appartment, some stuff only for me, some stuff only for him.
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>I feel sorry for the guys signing 2 year contracts on this stuff.

This comes off as a fanboy response or at least ill-informed. Right now 4G devices drain battery life. It is faster but there are compromises to be made.

One could easily argue that Samsung has a lower res screen and ppi, the A5 is vastly superior to the Enyox and the S II has a rear casing made of plastic.

There are benefits to the S II as well such as a larger screen (if that is your preference), better front camera and removable battery.

I don't think that 4G/HSPA+ is a clear benefit to customers considering that real world speeds aren't what is stated by Apple or Samsung and it it is still not widespread.
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The iPhone is already mainstream. And the 3GS is now free, it doesn't get more affordable than that.
Sorry to hear that you got infected. You're getting good advice from pierrefar and others here, but here's one other tip: once you get your site back up, you can doublecheck that you're not infected by using the "Fetch as Googlebot" feature in Google's free webmaster console.

When you use Fetch as Googlebot, we actually send a crawler to your site, fetch the page you request, and then show you exactly what Googlebot saw. It's an extra way to tell if you've gotten rid of the hacked junk.
Unless it runs IOS I don't care about specs like that. Its all about the overall experience, applications and support.
Based on the final selections:

there is a 98.3% chance that f is b-like
there is a 98.3% chance that e is a-like
there is a 89.3% chance that d is a-like
there is a 53.1% chance that c is b-like

If these are multiplied together, it appears that there is only a 45.8% chance that they are all classified correctly?
Nice Bloom filter application
There must be some performance hit, however insignificant.
Or the more directly ironic fact that Smart cars are made by Daimler-Benz?
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Except for one item. They've heard of iOS5, want it bad and have no idea what this silly named 'gingerbread' thing is.

For my part, some of their plusses are actually detractors.

Removable battery? Every phone I've had was rickety and ended up with a broken battery cover (I wouldn't consider myself hard on electronics) and a bunch of lint and dust inside the phone. 4+ inch screen? Seems big and it's lower resolution, I prefer higher DPI in a smaller screen that can fit in my pocket without making a big flat bulge. And lastly 4G = battery drain. 3G where I live has great performance and I often use the personal wi-fi hotspot and for regular browsing and email and stuff I have only good things to say.
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My setup almost exactly matches yours (but I got two cats ha!). On the body side, I generally eat well, have been swimming once a week, but could do with more exercise.
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About a month ago, I bought a used Steelcase Criterion chair from an office liquidator for $120 (I believe it was Portland Office Furniture). I think the retail on these was around $800, and mine was in great condition. It looks like an ordinary office chair, but it's super adjustable. Seat height and back height, of course, plus arm height and arm width, overall tilt, seat position forward/back (it slides), and back tilt adjustment. Unlike any other chair I've ever had with a tilting back, this one can be locked in a properly upright position.

As you may or may not recall, I built a standing desk and was using that for about six months. It helped, but my neck/shoulder pain continued.

Three days after getting this Criterion chair and having proper elbow support, my neck started cracking like crazy. For the first time in three years, my neck muscles were able to properly relax. I'm sleeping on a normal pillow for the first time in two years.

So, my conclusion is that adjustable elbow/forearm support is absolutely critical. This goes against all of the old ergonomic literature I've read. Also, upright posture is very important, and you can't achieve that with a chair that lets you sag backwards.

Since most of HN is quite young, I'll do the old guy thing and give a stern warning: you may not have any problems now. You probably think your back and neck will be fine. And you might be right. But here's the thing: you won't know whether you're susceptible to these sorts of injuries until you develop one, and then it's too late. And by the way, stop slouching. ;-)

For those who haven't looked into it, you can usually find a good, used chair on Craigslist, from a liquidator like I did, or from a private party. Aerons go for $400 - $500, if you can get one for $350 it's a fantastic deal. Criterions go for $100 - $300. The Steelcase Leap is usually $300 - $500. All of these chairs are ridiculously durable, and replacement parts are available.
If in an established company, ask for a new chair. For decades I put up with whatever POS I could scrounge ... until I discovered that one could just ask for a new chair, and whoever was tasked with corporate ergonomics made sure I had one pronto. Maybe not perfect, but chosen for reasons known by someone tasked with understanding such things, and way the heck better than any discarded seating we're used to.
With the current version you can add each item as a separate payment and set the "who should pay" -field to "only". That'll solve the IKEA-case.
The sky is falling. From the article:

"The door may be slammed shut to all new deals."

Translation: Frigid winter.

Why? Because we're in a global economic depression. Because the government cannot print money anymore. Because anymore printing will most likely induce hyperinflation.

(That's why there was no QE3 announced last month. That's why Germany/Finland do not want to expand EFSF from $400 billion to $2 trillion. That's why China is clamping down on lending, and will most likely earn a 0% growth next year)

And so all the debts will come due. From the $700 trillion derivatives worldwide held by the banks to the tens of trillions of debt held by the government.

Sure, there will be individual investors spreading money around willy nilly (think Dave McClure). But for most, it will be time to prepare for winter. A long 10-15 year winter.
People are interested in different things. Some people, like me, appreciate the superior design of Apple products. Those people will not buy Samsung products. Some people are interested in apps. Some people are indeed interested in checklists and base their purchasing decisions on them. Samsung is targeting those people with this checklist as they are trying to differentiate themselves and serve a part of the market that is more interested in feature counts than other aspects of a product.
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i will do it tonight when i get home :)
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India's $50 (subsidized) tablet launched. Starting sales in Nov '11
Sorry, but it's not (only) about the hardware. I own an Android phone and I'd trade it for an iPhone any day (no money atm though).
The blurb - http://tech2.in.com/news/tablets/indias-very-own-35-tablet-t...

Specs:

Android 2.2

Wifi, 2 USB Ports

7'' resistive display, 350g

366 mhz processor

256 mb RAM

2GB flash

microsd support

2100 mah battery

can play 1080p video
Doesn't the app already do that (not the percentages, but the "some for me, some for only him" thing)? The last option of each expense is to pick who should pay for it.
...and the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami of JAPAN, for determining the ideal density of airborne wasabi (pungent horseradish) to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm.

REFERENCE: US patent application 2010/0308995 A1. Filing date: Feb 5, 2009.

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From Brazil too.

Before the last presidential election, the newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo and the magazine Veja published articles showing that the FARC (Colombian guerrilla group supported by drug dealers) donated money for the Worker's Party (PT) campaign.
> And that's where things fall down. If someone currently has a job, then emailing them out of the blue to ask if they want to come and interview for something vague is hoping that they're either looking, and just haven't come to you yet,

Agree with this point, but

> or not looking but unhappy enough with their current role that all they needed to start was an email asking them to submit a recent CV.

this is also valid, but not addressed in OP. Consider an employee who is working at a large corporation or consulting firm, who is talented but not particularly attached to his/her employer. There are many of these people. This email out of the blue from Google (or whoever) is pretty nice, and really could be the impetus to make a career move.
I think this chart is completely wrong. Of course, it's a marketing thing, but anyway. It doesn't even highlight the sections where the iPhone 4S is better.

Either way, I do believe the Galaxy S II is better than the iPhone 4S, and although I think fanbois don't care about these stuff, things such as microSD slot, 4G, weight and price matter to most people; maybe they don't care about the other technical mumbo jumbo.

And, please, Kies SUCKS!