skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came to say the same. We have all three in my household, and the Android UI absolutely feels 'cheap' compared to the fluidly animated lushness of both WP7 and iOS.
As somebody who lives in Africa (Ghana), I cannot overstate how important this could be. I hate malaria on so many levels.

Poor people die from it all the time. Wealthier people mistake it for a cold and die. It is also about as common as a cold here, so a lot of productivity is lost. Not to mention the huge amounts of money being spent on health care.

It is not a coincidence that the worst hit countries are the poorest, people can't afford treatment and the costs for the societies might actually keep many African countries in poverty.

Not to mention how inconvenient it is to not be able to sit outdoors at night, making sure your house is sealed off and spraying with poisonous insect repellants all the time.
The comparisons are very appropriate.
No need to wait for Perl 6

Absolutely :)

use autobox::Core; # or perl5i::2

[1..10]->map(sub{ $_ ** 2 })->sum->say;

Or if you like a double helping of sugar in your tea!

use Whatever;

[1..10]->map( &_ ** 2 )->sum->say;
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There is a substantial likelihood that Ballmer is correct. Android's market growth has been based on the fact that it offers a touch interface and is not controlled by Apple.

Outside of the handful of people dogmatically committed to open software (whatever that may be), practically nobody actually loves Android.

It's simply a cost effective alternative to iOS. However, Microsoft's patent portfolio has raised its cost and Google's lack of B2B orientation and "if it's on the web, it's in the public domain" approach to IP create an uncertain roadmap for manufacturers and the rest of the industry.

And Google's weaknesses are exactly Microsoft's strengths. Throw in the perception of potential conflicts surrounding Google's purchase of Motorola's mobile division and the preferential release of Honeycomb, and WP7 becomes even more favorably positioned among phone manufacturers.

Microsoft appears to have a coherent long term strategy - my mother will probably buy the phone that works like her computer - the one likely to have a Metro UI in the not too distant future.

Despite spin to the contrary, consumers overwhelmingly vote with their wallets when it comes to Microsoft products and manufacturer's tend to prefer supply chain partners willing to understand their needs rather than being left to their own devices and guessing at the development roadmap.
Google "monopsony."
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If I sign up to a video store and suddenly some guys are watching inside my windows all the time to check whichever videos I might enjoy more, no, that would not be ok with me.

It's harmful because it's abusive.

Next year they will want more revenue, so how deeper will they go for that, will they break my windows open and storm the house?

I know it's an exageration, but it ilustrates my point.
Can someone share some insight on why Flash is so much more performant at these types of operations? I recall not too long ago when the Javascript + Canvas demos of this type weren't even possible with a couple hundred particles, and this one does an outstanding job, but if you click on the Flash version, you can fill it so full of particles that the physics break, and there's little or no lag (on my system). Why is that, and can we ever expect Javascript + Canvas (or similar tools) to catch up to Flash?
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I wrote one in Python a while back. https://github.com/phreeza/cells

Contributions are always welcome.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like a way to tug at people's heartstrings for free capital. If interest goes back to the original investors (donors), surely Starbucks is not going to track down everyone who contributed a dollar for their $1.05 back.

Someone is going to profit handsomely from this, unless all the proceeds are reinvested into other loans.
I dont see how you guys can't see the clear link bait here.

This is the direct quote of Ballmer from the original article referenced here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/19/ballmer_disses_andro...

“The biggest advantage we have over Android is that you don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone,” he said. “But the cheapest phones will be Android, and we are going to have to look at bringing the cost of our handsets down.”

If you actually try to comprehend that 2nd part, Ballmer is clearly saying the lowest COST phones will be Andriod, probably because it's cheaper to develop on (almost free) and has lower hardware requirements (almost none), and Microsoft needs to decrease the COST of WP7 hardware to compete in the low end market.

This has NOTHING to do with the quality of Andriod, which is what the author is implying here with the title "Calls Andriod 'cheap'".
Yeah, I saw that too. One sentence about a new UI framework hardly inspired confidence. Let's hope they do make it easy like you said.
I understand that they are different. I wanted to know why one is worse for child development.
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Ah ha, you missed my very careful weasel wording! I said that Citebase found no citations, not that it actually had no citations, mwa ha ha.
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> Facebook has bases, and operates, in Europe. Thus they MUST abide by our data laws.

Why? One might argue that European laws MUST be changed. Pointing to laws is hardly a moral argument, there are tons of terrible laws and facebook might as well be a victim of one of them.
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If I link to some copyrighted material am I not providing a way to download the copyrighted material?
Well, if their data mining skills are good enough, they still might be a threat in your fantasy league.
Interestingly, the Euro, when introduced back in the early 2000s was considered biased and even led to a statistician testing it out.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1748
This is binary compatible with the upcoming A15 processor, but lower speed and more power efficient. The intent is that a chip will have some A15 cores and some A7 cores and use them as appropriate to balance speed and energy consumption.

It could also be used as a standalone processor where its performance is sufficient and energy efficiency is a win.

The "Cortex A∗" numbering scheme should not be confused with the "Apple A∗" numbering scheme. They are unrelated. There is in fact an A5 in each scheme at the moment.
"Fascinating" as Mr. Spock would say. Perhaps he's screaming because he wants an Android release that will challenge the iPad but isn't getting it.
Really? Perhaps you should reread the following parts of history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dunkirk#Halt_order

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad#Case_Blue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain#Raids_on_Brit...
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In overall power consumption how high is the CPU on the list of components? I'd imagine the display, WiFi, cell radios, Bluetooth are the real battery zappers. If a device was to be built using this big dog-little dog strategy, realistically how much battery life could expected to be gained?
Leading digits of factorials
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Beyond the similarities there are some interesting comments from professionals and responses by the Roboto designer here:

http://typographica.org/2011/on-typography/roboto-typeface-i...
Isn't it lovely how Ed Bott always tries to spin everything into something favorable to Microsoft?

In the same page, he says "microscopic percentage of the PC market that uses Linux" and "A non-trivial percentage of PC buyers will want to replace the installed operating system with either an older Windows version or an alternate operating system (like Linux)".
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Likewise, ml-class.com is currently being offered and covers some of the material under discussion.
I'd love to, but unfortunately I live in a glass house.
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I think that the questions you raise are extremely pertinent, so I agree with you there.

We have discovered that the free market will act in such a way that safe workplaces are extremely rare

I just don't buy that. I think "extremely rare," there, is a very gross exaggeration. And I think the frequency of dangerous workplaces greatly decreases, as national prosperity increases (which, modulo other kinds of interference, happens over time).

I mean, come on - even Foxconn is relatively safe. I'm not hearing accounts of people getting killed, I'm hearing (at worst) accounts of people being fired after acquiring certain kinds of repetitive stress injuries.

On the other hand, I do have a moral problem with someone forcefully interposing between two trading parties (in this case, employer and employee).

In fact, that kind of case is the only kind in which people are forcibly prevented from exercising their free will.
More here: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/playing-with-html5-video-...

And the cool "explode your face with HTML5" demo is here: http://bit.ly/democam
This is slower than the processor in the iPhone 4S.

Edit: But it could appear in future iPhones as a secondary processor.
There are Android animations [1][2], not sure how they compare to WP7 or iOS though.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/view-anim...
[2]: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/animation-in-...
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This article claims this algorithm is very likely happening inside my computer right now, but it doesn't elaborate. Why would my computer be performing this algorithm?
Looks really good, but I fear the name might be a bit deceiving. I've found most Java libraries start with J, and most JS libraries end with JS(processing.js, popcorn.js, three.js), so I initially disregarded it as a Java library when I was just skimming the page.
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> We need to stop talking about "job creation" and start talking about "wealth creation".

It's more than wealth creation, though. People must also be paid fairly for the wealth created. Wealth creation is happening, the problem is that the rewards for it are all being skimmed away and those in the middle are being squeezed-- squeezed out of their homes, out of their cars, and out of their educations.

The housing boom of the last decade resulted in a great deal of wealth creation. That wasn't the problem. The problem is who ultimately winds up owning that wealth and how much it's worth on the market.

It's true you can't just wave your magic jobs wand and "create jobs," it's true that people gloss over the need to create wealth and eventually be profitable. That doesn't mean improving the number and quality of jobs (or work) available isn't an important focus.
This works and is very intuitive, but loses quite a bit of the coin flip's entropy in the process. There are more efficient algorithms, such as http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~qstout/abs/AnnProb84.html , which better use the entropy generated by the coin flip.
Google provides access to same, not even counting torrent search. "Providing a way to download" is a nebulous, slippery-slope distinction that covers just about everything to one degree or another, whereas "making available for download" (ie: hosting) is far more specific. It'll be interesting to see what definitions they come up with. Regardless, I don't see the courts being able to keep up with pirates without overstepping and making many innocuous things illegal.
If I set the slider to 50% then it still wants me to flip 3 times. At 50% one flip would do. There should be at least an exception for that situation, I can't imagine I'm being alone in testing the edge cases first.
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What I particularly like here is that the title of the article, and thus the title of the HN post, fully conveyed the puzzle, so I was able to think about it for a moment before reading the article, solve it, and then confirm that I had the correct answer. Always a happy moment. :)
>A condom that can be mounted with one hand, correct side up, and preferably through one continuous movement would probably remove 95% of the annoying and frustrating condom usage problems

use correct size. When condom is smaller than needed - then you have all these problems (and in addition it still leaves enough uncovered skin for direct skin-to-skin contact thus potentially decreasing the STD protection efficiency).
How much battery life is saved using an asymmetric multicore design as compared to dynamically downclocking of a "big dog" core? The article does not address this, but it does say that smaller die size of the "little dog" core uses 1/3 less power.
Taking the wishes – negative or positive – of one group of people and extrapolating them to condemn or praise a society is a dangerous strategy.
Some processors have a hardware random source. Due to manufacturing problems these are usually biased, but can still be used because of this algorithm.
> Why can't workers at Foxconn choose work there because it's better than the alternative, AND be treated decently and work in decent conditions?

Because then the cost of our electronic devices would skyrocket. iPhone 5: $2,500 (with two-year agreement).

> I've decided that I can live with a slightly older Android rather than upgrade...

That's nice, but it doesn't change who made your old Android.
If you have an Android phone it does have a breakdown. The couple times I've looked at mine it was screen and radios (wifi, cell) active/standby. But I think that is not important. As programmers, we look at the overall and can pick and choose parts to consider for optimization. Hardware isn't quite so general -- ARM needs to be ready in case a breakthrough in screen or radio battery usage leaves the CPU being the power hog.
Data creation is possible and easy, especially in append only filesystems. Data updates can be done immutably by doing creates and rewriting the pointer structure, which obviously destroys cache fetch for highwater mark objects but doesn't affect cache marks for global id'd objects.

Have you actually read the Paxos papers and the rest of the literature on this?
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"It's nice to see some common sense in the ruling"

No kidding. The first I've seen since the appalling Corley/Goldstein case.
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I've searched everywhere: here, YC, TC, his personal site - didn't find anywhere. Or maybe my GoogleFoo is just failing me today. Mind sending me on my throwaway ID: forwebsites AT gmail

throwaway because I'm just too embarrassed to expose my stupidity
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It really depends how much of each of those things you're using. If you have an LCD display that you set to be bright, its going to dominate your power usage when its on, but not if you're really maxing out the CPU. When you're not using the phone the cell radio is going to dominate power usage, but if you're on WiFi range it won't be that bad. Most of the time in that case the processor is going to be sleeping, but occasionally it will wake up and check for updates, etc, before going back to sleep. Its in a case like that where having it be a little A7 instead of the big A15 that wakes up will be a big advantage.
Editing a farewell message would be the most un-classy thing one could do. Authenticity is worth far more than any spell checked version in a case like this and I'm really happy that they didn't fall for that trap.

Think about it, if there had been no spelling errors or typos or grammar errors, the whole thing would not only have looked perfect, it would have looked perfectly faked. Real life isn't perfect.
The point is, you don't know ahead of time what the bias is. In that case, you have to keep flipping until you get a head followed by a tail, or a tail followed by a head. If the coin happens to have no bias, you should expect to flip 3 times before you get one of those results.
All they really need to do is changing that awful name.
BING.. i mean can u choose a more obvious name indicating that you dont understand aesthetics and are only off for the market share? Same for Windows fcking Vista. The only reason I didnt even try it was that name. It's just too emberassing, has no spirit at all and sounds like some scumbag from the marketingteam ridiculed all the hopes of the developers. Longhorn used to be so much better.
If they care about it, all they have to do is to show a little more enthusiasm, or simply fire their marketing advisors.
The algorithm doesn't care for the edge case and still throws away HH and TT. That case has probability 0 anyway, if the bias is continuous.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor:

Randomness extractors are used widely in cryptographic applications, whereby a cryptographic hash function is applied to a high-entropy, but non-uniform source, such as disk drive timing information or keyboard delays, to yield a uniformly random result.

Is that what he is talking about?
50/50 is a special case. You don't need to use the von Neumann extractor. This algo is for sources of randomness that you suspect have a bias.

But if you did use this algo on a 50/50 coin, half the time you'll get an HH or TT and have to start over. The other half of the time you'll get an HT or TH and return. So, on average, you'll need to do 3 flips for each execution of the algo.
You never actually know the coin's true odds, so you still have to flip it an average of 3 times.
Thanks! About that image; it's a relic from when I first wrote the landing page (it was late and the copy was decidedly more crude) but I'm changing to something more in tune with my audience now.

As for market research, I talked to quite a few girls about it but it was mostly relegated to visual design. The rest was just me using ux stories to make what I thought would the best functionality for everyone. Not the greatest strategy I know, but I'm learning

And I've been working on making the contrast between white and the background more bearable but it's been tough. I'll take another look at it today.

Thanks again!
> In a default setting, Siri let's [sic] a complete stranger see
> your calendar on your passcode locked iPhone 4S, as well as get
> contact information, make a call and send texts and e-mails.

A complete stranger could also steal your phone. Solution: don't leave your phone accessible to complete strangers.
on a company blog that contains a company announcement they want distributed to announce how great their company is they're running google ads? How desperate for money are they? People actually do this? http://screensnapr.com/e/Osu5tL.png http://screensnapr.com/e/hmWFaV.png
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If your maps were wrong you could start a war :-) [1]

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Well, therein lies the problem I see. I do agree that anyone can become a great programmer. But, If everyone is a great programmer, a small subset will be even greater programmers and all of the companies will want to wait to hire them. There is, again, no drive to hire just anyone.

I'm not certain there is any solution that can come from the top. However, hungry people always find a way. I do feel we'll eventually see some big shifts in the employment structure to deal with the problem, started from the bottom. It is not going to happen overnight though.
> Apple marketing made buying their products practically a religious experience.

Not sure buying one is a religious experience. However, using their products definitely can be. It's annoying to have to reboot a device because it isn't connecting properly anymore after being on for a couple of weeks but it's nice knowing all you have to do is reboot. With other devices, a reboot is a hit or miss fix and you need to do it more often. I've only had one serious issue with macs that isn't fixed by a reboot and that's the network configuration holding on to dhcp leases or old certificates when they shouldn't.

The it just works stuff people talk about isn't completely accurate.

* My apple tv 1 shows up in itunes but nothing can connect to it. It's gone wandering again after a few weeks without a reboot. I think it's lonely.

* I couldn't get openvpn to compile on Lion, I had to find a workaround. Most of the issues I deal with are small things. The video drivers have never crashed on me.

It's not that everything just works. It's that more of it works than it does with other products. It also has a high amount of polish. I love the way OSX renders fonts. So much that using ubuntu makes me cry.
I wanted to bring up, the numbering scheme has always been awkward to me, and I'm wondering what will happen when Apple releases the A7, if they'll just let the confusion continue...

Was this an intentional move on Apple's part or just not something they paid attention to?
at least they learned from that experience with Vista and didnt chose a name at all for Windows 7 (although they messed up the internal version number).
If I looked at all the tablets that were $399 or higher, I would get the iPad hands down each time. You know what you're getting, and you know you're getting 100,000 apps to do just about anything. Why would I pay the same (more or less) amount as an iPad for a non-iOS device? Look at the TouchPad and Playbook. Same price, but almost NO apps.

The Kindle Fire will do well because it's $199. The fact that it'll have the Amazon AppStore and (presumably) run most Android apps will help is sustain itself, but people will buy because of the price and the Amazon name.

Android is going to have to go a long way with a lot of great apps to make an Android tablet worth paying the same as an iPad.
The code is already tail recursive, which is why it's doubly puzzling. Also, like you said, using an Integer instead fixes the problem. But I find that fixing these issues distracts me away from the main problem and that doesn't happen in OCaml.
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Cool article, I got asked this question during my FB interviews and had luckily seen something exactly like this before.