skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you're an Android fan you have to admit this is a pretty uneducated analysis.

First, he's guessing on the revenue (while conveniently not mentioning how much Apple makes per phone in revenue)

Second, saying "Apple is getting beaten by a license-the-software-to-everyone strategy" is a little ignorant. History is never finished and claiming Microsoft beat Apple in the PC wars ignores the last decade of evidence that things are swinging the other way. You could just as easily make the argument that licensing works at drawing in users but users get so frustrated with incompatibilities that they eventually go to a more integrated solution. Which brings me to...

Finally, surveys have shown the true question of whether Android will crush iOS is in the buyers next phone choice. Do they stay with Android or is their satisfaction level so low that they're driven into Apple's hands? That question won't be answered for years.

I don't mean to discount Android's accomplishments which are significant. But this article about those accomplishments is just silly
I will tell what is hard, multiple country legislation, different cultures, and different languages. Its too segregated.
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Hmm.. I don't know, I immediately grabbed the triangle scrubber and started moving it to the right and it very quickly clicked for me what was happening, and why the bubbles were growing or shrinking.
Thanks for the feedback. I didn't know about google tasks, but now that I do I'll give it a try. I've never tried org-mode. For some reason it seems intimidating to me.
That doesn't seem like a no-brainer. Wouldn't it be harder for skilled Americans to find jobs here if they're competing with immigrants? It's not like there aren't high-skilled jobs in other countries, where those immigrants whom we educate could get jobs.

The subtitle says Our policy toward the world's best and brightest is currently: "Welcome! Enjoy this expensive education. Now go home!" Does that make any sense? But I think it makes even less sense to say to native-born Americans, "Enjoy this expensive education. Now go to Europe to get a job, because we decided to hire an Indian instead".
I think you are making a lot of assumptions about what they are going to be using the info for, particularly the video section. They pretty explicitly state they want to hear your communication skills (those matter) / passion (most people would argue that matters too). You go from them telling you that to "So you'll end up choosing the prettiest people..."

You also have the "... who present the best and write the prettiest code regardless of how important or influential it is." Which is less crazy, because they do say that they want people who write clean code (who doesn't?). But they are also asking for your resume, so I don't think that saying "regardless of how important or influential it is" is fair, either.

It sounds like you've been through a lot of rejection in your life, and I really do sympathize, and understand what that can do to you. But you've gotten to the point where you're lashing out at these guys as though they've already rejected you, way before it's gotten to the stage where they could have even thought about rejecting you. It's not fair to them, and it's not fair to yourself. It comes off as incredibly aggressive, and it creates a really huge barrier before the conversation has even started.
...such as long period of maternity leave...

This is really bad for startups. It would really suck if my crucial employees (and not just female employees) were to vanish for 14 months while continuing to be paid and still have the right (but not the responsibility) to come back at the end of it.

Even if I replace the missing employee, I might be stuck with an extra employee a year down the line, and I'd have less money to pay the replacement with in the meantime.
Can you please elaborate more on that. I am curious. I developed for iOS and android. I am a .net developer and I'm about to port my code to wp7. I was hoping that it will be a lot easier compare to the other 2 since I use visual studio and .net on daily basis. Am I mistaken here?
No it doesn't...you honestly think anyone would record a video off the top of their head?

Those answers will be calculated to sound the way you want to hear. "Of course I enjoy working, if I can't get 90 hours of work in, I feel depressed that I'm not living up to my potential...taking days off is also completely unacceptable, since I don't want to let my coworkers down."

And getting a feel for a person from a video is not too smart either. In one case, you are friends with the person just talking. In another they are trying to essentially beg for a job talking into a camera, alone in a room.

And if you are getting 1000 applications, it's completely dishonest to require all those people to spend days creating their applications. You are not going to watch 8000 hours worth of video and read all those essays...so why do you require people to do busy work?

And if you are going get 1000 applications, you won't be picking non-programmers either(well maybe one). So why get all those people's hopes up and waste their time? There is no way I'd believe you'd pick someone with a biology degree over someone who already has the basic programming knowledge, where you don't have to explain what an IF statement is or how to create a variable.
Facebook is the largest seller of online display advertising in the world (bigger than Google), and they've still got a relatively immature advertising platform.
It seems to me that the hype around Web Sockets has overshadowed the Server Sent Events API (http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/) which for most situations where you don't need a continues stream of data is a more sensible system. It is purely a message sending system by design.

The really nice thing about SSE is that you can fall back to long polling very easily with exactly the same back end and as it runs over vanilla http without the upgrade protocol system is much easer to implement, you just don't close the connection after sending a message. Obviously its only one way but we have a well established way of sending messages in the other direction with http POST.
The technical quality of the photos is quite poor. They're way too bright if we're looking for subpixels, since all we see are full pixels, smeared together into blooming white. Also, looking at the HTC Rezound's standard color test, the Verizon logo on the phone is blurred just like the display itself.

It would help if the photos were re-done to actually show subpixels, sharply. (Edit: unless I missed the point, in which case the Settings menu shot should suffice: "It's PenTile but it looks pretty nice in actual usage!")
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Is Hungry Academy effectively an internship program that offers a guarantee of some dedicated training time instead of the intern being thrown to the wolves?
To that end, I think you should start by doing a search here:

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-os/t-find/t-find-prop.htm

If they hold the mark, I would re-brand. If they do not, I would try to launch as soon as possible with an MVP.
>When that "well deserved criticism" comes from the same people who feel compelled to post in every PHP thread, obsessively, over and over again ... it's hate.

No, you choose to label someone else's opinion as "hate" because it lets you dismiss it and throw out baseless insults at those people with less risk of getting taken to task for it. You told other people (theoretical people at that) what they think, and then told them there is something wrong with them and they lead sheltered lives. How incredibly arrogant.
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1.) Copyright "copyright"
2.) Send SOPA demand to RIAA web server hosting company
3.) ???
4.) Flawless Victory.
Yet another time I want 5 minutes of my life back from reading a betabeat article...when will I learn. To save the rest of you some time...

TLDR: 'But both city officials and Cornell say it was the school’s superior offering that clinched the deal. “The catalyst was that Cornell was beating them in every single category,” said source close to Cornell, citing the speed of construction, the size of the campus, and the amount of students and faculty it will serve.'
No system is going to be perfect, how can "high-skill" immigrants be evaluated with absolute certainty that they are, in-fact, highly skilled. I am sick and tired of employers in the U.S. viewing people with degrees from universities in third-world countries as if they are equal to a degree from the U.S (and thus possibly passing over US workers who may not have completed a degree program). I realize that some immigrants come here for college and that would validate their skills-sets, such as "if they graduate from the U.S. university with high grades, then they can stay and work" but it seems to me a lot of these supposedly highly skilled, supposedly "better than the average American" tech workers are people who were educated exclusively in another country and its not comparing apples to apples, in my opinion.
The worst are the 1TB ES2. These are the same as 7200.11 in the consumer series.
Thanks, that's fixed now
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- Update our build tool and native wrappers in support of bug fixes or new features. This may mean you learning new languages

- Write unit tests, update documentation

- Participate in code reviews, enthusiastically learn from and help teach other team members

- Help customers solve their problems using our framework by reviewing and patching their code, and creating example apps. All developers are expected to work with our customers (who are also developers)

- Contribute enthusastically to company business from feature prioritization discussions to attending events in support of sales. We're a small team who love what we do and expect everyone to muck in.

Requirements:

- Several years' experience developing JavaScript web-apps

- Very comfortable with HTML5, CSS3 features, libraries like jQuery, YUI, Google Closure

- You have built mobile, web or browser add-on applications that you can show us

We also value these skills and experiences:

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The color test was also bunk - no deltaE tracking, no gamut comparisons, no brightness level comparisons.
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How is it any different than writing an op-ed?
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Also consider that with self driving cars, passengers will likely pay a decreasing amount of attention to what's going on outside of the vehicle.
What about the relocation expenses? Are you offering a relocation package?

As someone who has attempted a country switch a year ago I got myself into trouble when I had to arrange a place to stay - a proper place to stay, because the company back then could arrange me a room in a small apartment with 6 other people sharing a kitchen and due to issues that forced me to pay 3 nights in a hotel. Luckily I found a room to rent through a colleague, right on the first day in the office.

Point being, as much as I adore the idea of dedicating my whole life into learning software engineering and web development, get hands-on experience in a real company and do what I consider meaningful impact in the world, abstract things in the offer like "money", "relocation package" (if any) and apartment are going to keep me "trapped in Greece" for now.

Can you confirm or deny if my worries are legit?
Right, but in Chrome it's as easy as Ctrl + Shift + n from another Chrome window.

edit: I'll note that I don't believe that the parent to this post should be down-voted. It was informative and on-topic.
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1) Importing skilled immigrants is like exporting jobs because most of these people go back to their own countries, and those who stay take the place of a US citizen who could have had the job, if our education system was better and our government's policies were otherwise aligned with the welfare of its people.

2) All routine immigration should be immediately stopped, and indefinitely kept that way. Exceptions should be made only for the few, true geniuses who could definitely benefit the US in a big way.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9PpaoZE8oXk NumbersUSA - Immigration by the Numbers - Part 2 of 2

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XyTmClBU7nA NumbersUSA - Immigration by the Numbers - Part 1 of 2

http://NumbersUSA.com
Were the hotkeys designed for both Mac and Windows systems? I'm having a bit of an issue with the hotkeys on a Mac.
Legislators read the NY Times. Or, at least, their staff reads the NY Times and tells them what was in it. They don't read searchengineland.com.
FB might say that it enhances the timeline, which is essentially their way of organizing your life for you.
If that's all it takes to DOS your competitor, well, I don't think you have much to worry about from them. Even a busy motorway doesn't have that many cars passing over it per minute.

Also you're going out on a highway, at night, to lay down a big sticker. That's dangerous, suspicious, and illegal (before we even considering what the sticker does). If you want to DOS a competitor there are much more effective and safe ways to do so.
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I don't know how German or Swedish employers do it honestly. Boot strapping must be 100x harder with women.
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Did you watch the video? I highly doubt this is a "superficial beauty contest."
Your friend should consider doing a full-length blog post about this, naming the carrier he visited. That's a pretty shocking story.
A tablet for every child in a land of 2 billion with 10% internet connectivity. My motivation to build an Android app has increased three sizes.
I don't have permission to talk specific numbers in public and it's not really my part of the program -- but expect the during program salary to be a reasonable living wage in our expensive city and the full post-academy salary to be at or above other beginning developer positions.
its a 404 for me too!
> it has session handler support so sessions are done completely in memory.

It is unbelievably easy to build session support for other op-code caches. Here is my code for APC:

if(extension_loaded('session'))
{
function ses_open($path, $name)
{
return TRUE;
}

function ses_close()
{
return TRUE;
}

function ses_read($id)
{
return (($GLOBALS['session'] = apc_fetch($id)) ? $GLOBALS['session'] : FALSE);
}

function ses_write($id, $data)
{
if(!isset($GLOBALS['session']) || $GLOBALS['session'] != $data)
{
if(apc_exists($id))
{
apc_delete($id);
}
return apc_store($id, $data);
}
else
{
return TRUE;
}
}

function ses_destroy($id)
{
unset($GLOBALS['session']);
return apc_delete($id);
}

function ses_gc($max)
{
if(
($apc = apc_sma_info())
&&
($apc['avail_mem'] / ($apc['num_seg'] * $apc['seg_size'])) < 0.25
)
{
return apc_clear_cache('user');
}
else
{
return TRUE;
}
}

ini_set('session.save_handler', 'user');
session_set_save_handler('ses_open', 'ses_close', 'ses_read', 'ses_write', 'ses_destroy', 'ses_gc');
}

The only problem is that this still requires you to compile the session extension. I am looking into ways of working around that, since it's not really used for anything except re-direction.
what we'd expect to see, at the price of accurate reproduction

Can you explain what this means. Since our eyes are the only reference we have for interpreting colors (the other being wavelength, and that's just a number) I'm curious what an accurate color really means. I know that we can see billions of colors but only a thousands at the same time.
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Do you have an option for remote commitment? (outside USA and not willing to relocate during learning period)

Also, is it possible to learn only Ruby, without Rails? While I find Ruby a very interesting language, I'm not really interested in web development.
It's missing http://www.browserling.com.
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this is awesome - I wish that this could be made into a formal setup (FossFund ?) so that the rest of us who have a different fiscal year closing (March in India), can make the choice at the right time.

It is very hard to find the right clicks (paypal, etc.) to fund - say OpenSSH. Hell, I didnt even know that they needed funding until I accidentally ran into http://www.openssh.org/donations.html. Searching for "TuxOnIce donate" does not even bring up the paypal link right on its front page.

It would be great to have a Kickstarter.com for open source donations - basically a one stop page to search,click and send my money on its way.
EDIT: Humble Bundle's donation sliders are also a nice way to donate an amount and have it distributed the right way.

It would be doubly awesome, if I could donate, but also indicate a specific sub-project which I am interested in funding (e.g. multi-monitor support in Linux, etc. )
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Ask HN: Should I fix something that is still profitable?
Hi HN,

Me and a college friend started our company in 2006. Since then we've launched a couple of websites and few have them have gained good traction (we’re making about $500k in total profit every year which we split 50/50).

Now while we’re both co-founders on all our sites, yet ever since the beginning I’ve been doing 95% of the work from idea, marketing, SEO, PR, design, affiliates, etc (you name it). Basically, I never thought of it as work, for me I’ve always loved learning, and doing this stuff. Since I started the business first, initially when he joined me, he looked to me to teach him the ropes. Thing is, after all these years, he still does. Maybe it’s lack of confidence or motivation or complacence, but he rarely ever has shown any input or initiative to help our business (nothing till date except stuff I’ve told him to do).

Yet he still is my best friend and a really great guy and he stuck with me for the first two years when we did not make anything. He got campus placed but turned down the job offer and joined me for free to work together on projects.

Anyway, I’ve talked to him about a dozen of times and while he agrees he needs to step-up his game, it generally fizzles out in a month because he just can’t work without someone else telling him what to do and we’re always back to square one.

To cut a long story short, at the end of the day we’re just two guys behind this whole business. It is good to have him around because I’ve tried working alone before and it is terribly boring and unproductive. So even though he doesn't do much for business I still like to have another person, let alone my best friend, hang out with me all day. And all things considered we’re profitable. On the other hand, it feels rather unfair that for the last 5 years I’ve been doing most of the work, splitting profits in the middle and carrying around a dead weight which is causing me to burn-out.

What do I do HN? Should I fire my best friend, at least for all the new sites I create? We have an awesome relationship (we’re practically like brothers) but I feel that if do this, it may ruin our friendship.

Sorry, if this is too much drama but I don’t know who else to talk to and I’m going crazy thinking this over and over and not arriving at any good solution. So, decided to share it here, in case anyone cares to comment.
I'd rather be allowed to choose rather than forced to accept

That's one problem I see with UX/UI designers; sometimes they don't really think about what the end user wants.

And this statement is just bull-crap:

"All this got me thinking about if I’m truly designing a solution to a problem if all I’m doing is replicating the features of a spreadsheet in a web app. Why wouldn’t a user just use a spreadsheet then?"

Because you're building an application not a spreadsheet viewer.
You're thinking way too tin hat.

While we're there we better do something about all those people using radio jammers to down auto-landing aircraft.

Also, you better hope their are no vulnerabilities in the automatically driven mono-rail / train system you are riding in.

These type of issues are going to be discussed to the end of the earth but I can't wait to see driverless cars make their way from the lab to the car dealer.

As far as introduction, I would bet these features will be added to high-end luxury models and quite possibly initially limited to main roads (motorways / interstates) where the chances of encountering something unusual are lower. With the addition of a fair splattering of warning labels.
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http://beta.plan.nr/beta/HNVIP

We built a tool to make planning in groups easy. This was born out of getting sick of group email threads that made it impossible to actually make a decision, so we built plannr to allow users to add a variety of choices, invite participants and view stats on the most popular choices.

Oh also we chucked in our day jobs a couple of months ago to go full time on this (yikes!) We would love some feedback from HN, so far we've been in private beta for a week and only let a handful of people in so it'd be great to hear what everyone thinks!
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Hard drives are also commodities, which means they sell near cost. If Samsung charges $10 more, people buy from another maker. Facebook is almost the exact opposite: its userbase means that, right now, there is no homologous replacement (including Google+, because they don't have the users).

Which doesn't mean FB is "worth" what it's worth—to me it seems overvalued, but then again no one is holding a gun to my head and forcing me to buy its stock. The nice thing about markets is that we can bet with our money, or not.