skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been a problem in the (US) wireless industry for a very long time, long before Android. OEMs have always been more than happy to make 4 variations of the same phone for 4 carriers with 4 different names; putting Android on everything simply makes the problem that much more obvious. HTC was the worst offender for a time, even forgoing their own branding for the carrier's.

It'd help the situation much if OEMs simply made ~4 models (not counting radio configs) every year, and stuck with them across carriers. Moto, for instance, would have:

* RAZR (flagship)

* Milestone Pro (keyboard)

* Milestone X (mid-range)

* Defy ("free" phone)

on every carrier, and that would be that.
Embark (YC S11) wins "Best transit app" award
I love this approach. I'm working on rewriting one of my webapps and I'm taking this concept to the extreme.

The website part will have no backend. Just static files served by Nginx. Even much of the data can be served from .json files. Where true dynamic content is needed, search for example, a minimal API will serve that content, sitting on another server, on another domain.
Wouldn't voting destroy the nature of it and just create another digg/reddit/hacker news … ?

If there's to much information in one room: just build a subroom.
Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping
The Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown_%28film%29
Can you explain how it's different than 4 car companies releasing once a year?

Android's plunging prices are not really a depreciation of the hardware value, but rather an indication of the rapid pace of the software - well, I'm ignoring fragmentation for the sake of argument. Like you said, "antiquated, much more rapidly," but not by specs - by software features. Example: Ice Cream Sandwich is slowly becoming available.

The iPhone lives off in its little garden - I agree that "you know your phone will be state of the art for foreseeable future." Apple strives to maintain vertical integration, so their software moves slowly. It's lock-stepping with their hardware. Hardware innovation generally moves at a steady, predictable pace.

Why does it matter that Android's value is more closely tied to the software? That's Google's area of expertise. They've tried to make the hardware a commodity. If it doesn't end up fragmenting so badly consumers start leaving (and I don't think they will) -- then the hardware will not garner the big margins. The software will (under Google's control, hopefully monetizable by them).

Software innovation can be more volatile, but especially for mobile phones it can be what sets you apart. Arguably, Apple has the software edge - hence, Android's furious pace.
Yeah, I stumbled on to the payment plans. I'm not certain about the price points you've set there - it would ultimately depend on who your target audience is, and if they would be willing to pay $1200/year for 70GB storage and your current feature set (and branding, I guess).

It looks like you're trying to go after basecamp here - everything (interface wise) is as simple as possible, but it adds conversation and extra description to todos, which is an improvement over what they do.
Our main competition is probably 37signals' Basecamp (and their upcoming Basecamp Next). They really do the best job selling to small businesses, especially businesses that do client-based work.

There's a surprisingly small amount of quality software that caters to this market. And virtually none of it does a good job with mobile, or with integration into other services that people commonly use for work.

Our plans -- once finalized -- will probably range from $25-$100/month.
I agree and instead of tariffs I'd rather see the US put some money behind domestic solar. I don't want subsidized goods to kill the domestic mfgrs, but I'd love to see us combine our technical innovations in solar with a full court press to get the industry off the ground.

I'd say the same for modern nuclear.
How to take the lead from the Italians for new stuff
For what it's worth, I don't really think that your down votes are because other people misinterpreted what you were saying; rather, you didn't really say anything. In subsequent comments you've revealed what you meant, and it's interesting.
Negative buzz was unlikely the goal of any of these ads. Depending on the brand it may matter more or less. Godaddy for instance has all the negative buzz they need.
this looks like nothing more than a crowdsourced hedge fund.
They could host it behind age checks. It seems like it would be easy enough for them to perform automatically.
There is some strong competition in this area, espacially Corona, but I can tell from the first look that you guys are in the right direction. Your comunity seems to be growing already which I believe is the most important for a framework like yours.
20 months ago, I paid a lot of money for my Android phone when I signed on for a three year contract. Just a couple of weeks ago, my wife replaced her phone and got an Android phone for free with her contract. Her phone is lighter, faster and slicker than mine and has significantly longer battery life.

That in itself can explain the depreciation rate: new Android phones are so much better and cheaper than old Android phones that the old ones can't compete except at a very low price point.
I thought this article was great and says a lot about the importance of details. In a way I see a lesson in the importance of details but I also see people concentrating entirely too much on something that may not deserve the amount of time that's going into it. But back to your original point - despite the fact that I liked the article I am also seeing the same pattern. To me it seems that either everything that gets posted on the 37Signals blog is pure gold or, more likely, it's like there's a Cult of 37Signals around here now. They have some good stuff but come on, the front page is starting to look like their personal RSS feed.
Fab Isn’t an Ecommerce Company
This seems unlikely. JCP's CEO apparently gets ~.5%-1% of JCP's profits (i.e. ~.01-.02% of revenues, dependent on performance). 0.01% of revenues is not enough that a company will actually feel the CEO's salary, but it seems very likely that a marginally better CEO can raise profits by 0.01% of revenues (which would allow a doubled base salary!)

More likely explanations: various inefficiencies interfere with getting the best, (good) CEOs are not easily attracted by even larger salaries, companies in dire straits need to pay for the damage they're likely to do to a CEO's resume, the study is simply too small. (Teasing out a 0.01% effect is hard!)
Don't worry though, the spreadsheets team has been notified.
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That's right. Oliver Hunt wrote a full simulator and released it under MIT, which was so perfect as I was just starting to look into fluid dynamics myself, for what ended up being this website. I used his physics calculator component almost verbatim, and wrote the display/ui stuff I needed around it as though I were using a library.

I've done more serious touching of it, for performance reasons -- taking mults and invariants out of loops, or memoizing for example -- but I always ended up either breaking it or making it slower, so for now I've settled with leaving it alone!
Ruby on Rails on Windows in production
Another related explanation: the much smaller number of models makes it easier to understand what you're buying.

In the past year, Samsung has released the Sidekick 4g, the Galaxy Nexus, the Galaxy Y Pro, the Galaxy Y, the Galaxy Pro, the Admire/Vitality, the Galaxy S II, the Droid Charge, the Galaxy Fit, the Galaxy Ace, the Replenish, and the Galaxy Mini.

Even having just limited it to one year's worth of Android handsets from one manufacturer it's a daunting list.

In the same timeframe, Apple released the iPhone 4S, and a Verizon variant of the iPhone 4.

One of these is incredibly easy to understand, the other is not.
Agreed, Rob!

I think on a higher level this also brings up the more general question of whether a unique, well styled UI element adds or detracts value. It is subjective and varies on a case by case basis. Perhaps a lesson to extrapolate is that taking such a risk with your primary action button can swing conversions a lot whereas taking that risk elsewhere on the page (eg Mailchimp's quirky status messages) adds personality and may help conversions without betting the house.

It would be great to compile a list or visualization of successful UI quirks.
Current state of hard drive prices, three months after Thai floods
I would love to know the break down by type of business. Surely a CEO is more important at a product lead company than a service company?
IPhone dock on track to break kickstarter funding record
Yes, end results are equivalent, but complexity shifts.

If a consistent stack is more important, caching may be the best option. If fewer layers of complexity at run-time is more important, out-of-band/pre-processing may be the best option.
I have an EVO 4G from Sprint. It's less than 2 years old (still on the original contract) but it's been EOL'd by Sprint. What's funny is that you can still buy it from them, get a new contract for 2 years starting from now, but they've already guaranteed that there will be no updates for it anymore.
It's not enormously different, but A) you're encouraged to break things up by category ("Clothing", "Art", "Household Items"), B) you can follow all of a person's categories or just some of them, C) it's got a strongly consistent aesthetic - Tumblr is far more customizable (think Facebook vs. Myspace), D) grid-based layout rather than vertical blog style (though Tumblr allows this as well)
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I switched both my blog [1] and our engineering blog [2] over to Jekyll and couldn't be happier. It's incredibly easy to deploy (we push our blog straight to S3) and working locally is a breeze.

[1] http://kyleconroy.com

[2] http://twilio.com/engineering
Pretty much sounds like Zaarly
This looks like it's using R to teach, primarily. I'm partial to "Collective Intelligence" (Toby Segaran's book)-- it's written with all python examples and appears to have much of the same content and approach (practical application > theoretical underpinnings).
Because they like Apple and have some "data" that shows Apple is better. The only missing piece is how that data makes Apple better, and that's what this statement is for.
My favorite comment on there:

What, no mention of the Borg? They have constant awareness of each other and consider it jarring when someone "drops off the grid"... they suffer real problems with an environment that fosters "epistemic closure"... better analog for social networking than the Great Link, IMHO.

I think we might be heading more to being like the Borg.. :-)
You have a shitty boss. It's his job to recognize your work and reward you. It's his job to justify and defend your promotion to other people in the organization. Your work and contribution not visible to people in other parts of the organization means in the management meeting, he doesn't associate your name with the accomplishments and probably taking credit for himself under the guise of "MY team did it."

For your benefit, you should manage your relationship with his boss, i.e. your boss' boss. Promotion/raise choices usually is the negotiation between your boss and his boss. He needs to justify to him why he should promote you. So if your work and accomplishment are known to your boss' boss, half of the battle has been won.
We don't see the exact numbers on the technical side, and my hunch is that pretty much all of the 500ms was saved because of client side optimization.

He mentions spriting some images, that only saves several HTTP requests, often translating to 200-3000ms quicker total load time. (Note that we're talking about full page load times, from the first DNS query to DOM ready.)

I agree Ruby is terribly slow at initializing, but it is not going to be the bottleneck when you run your own dedicated boxes (and 37signals does).

Good job on increasing the conversion rate, by the way.

Edit: Also, it doesn't matter if you precache or cache on-the-fly. You should be serving the homepage from memory (and any static pages for that matter).
Some quick learnings from Inside Apple (the Book)
Looks pretty good for beta. I like the UI and everything seems smooth.

I'm going to try and integrate this into the project I am currently working on to see what the people I work with think of it.

Just curious, what are you using for your backend?
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Big studio video content accounts for the vast majority of video streamed over the internet. Apple did not ignore DRM on their own platform; they have it, they encouraged big studios to use it (and they did, happily), they just ignored the cross-platform part. Which would be perfectly fine had they not released their "Thoughts on Flash" piece saying the exact opposite.
First of all, I am a big fan of your work Mr. Doob.

Secondly, no! That's a good idea, I'll have to try it out.
Ok I noticed some weird behaviour with links found on google news (even feeds from google news use the origial url as a get variable on their url), those were making my drupal installation detect a 404. I've made some changes and now every redirect is a 302, any thoughts on that?

BTW thanks a lot for noticing the 404 statuses.
This seems similar to the problem solved by Gravatar with their automatically generated avatars, as well as similar services like robohash[1].

[1]: http://robohash.org/

I've used several sites like StackOverflow that use the automatically generated images from Gravatar, and they really do make the site more pleasant. Additionally, they make it easier to visually follow who posted what in a discussion.

The one difference (unless I misunderstood the article) is that these sorts of images are generated randomly from a hash and so are basically guaranteed to be unique. I think this is a big advantage as having two identical avatars in a discussion would just make it visually confusing to see who is who.
This is an incredibly interesting article though I would urge you to include some methodology. With some proper evidence behind these bold statements, you'd be making headlines at TechCrunch (you still might anyways)!

Great read, I'm now interested in your business.
Oh. Didn't think of that! Gotta add a timeout. Thanks!
liquid water could harbour life. the icepack probably doesn't have too much living in it.
Thanks! We're using Rails and MySQL, and hosting on EC2.
For the same reason that having only one car available won't make people pay exorbitant sums of money for it. People pay what they perceive the item is worth, typically based on quality. Sure, some people will always buy the cheapest car (or phone), but most people want a phone that will last. They'll pay a little more for a car/phone that will last longer.
he probably sold the previous version (to get the newer one).
> We’re not talking about a molecular computer that’s comparable to the CPU in your PC, though; rather, the scientists created a simple Turing machine-like finite state automaton.

This part made me laugh a little. The reporter knows what a Turing machine is, but doesn't know about the Church-Turing thesis. Not surprising.
There are already some ebooks made with Gideros Studio:

Elephant's Bath:

Link: http://itunes.apple.com/tr/app/filin-banyosu/id480530911?mt=...
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dkfxM-RVl4

Bir Kar Masali:

Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bir-kar-masali/id413759705?mt...
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Ob2KKz0Ig
These guys (Copenhagen Suborbitals) are building an amateur rocket to hit suborbital heights - 500,000 feet. Pretty awesome work:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=327...
It Doesn’t Make A Damn Difference What You Call The iPad
Why the conversation regarding the iPad and if it should be considered a personal computer (PC) is irrelevant.
Drawing or sketching on (any) webpages
I've been looking at doing the same thing myself. I noticed you don't have comments on your blog. I guess the solution would be a 3rd party plug-in like disqus?
Chimp solves memory test 'faster than blink of an eye'
Watched the video, Did anyone really remove their iDevice from the doc like that? I know I didn't. Nice design thought.
Priceonomics has great data on that as well (median price = $150):
http://priceonomics.com/phones/htc/droid-incredible/
Inside Felicis Ventures: Why It Looks Like A Living Room
Apple may release iOS 5.1 on March 9th according to iPhone operator profiles
I think you are confusing your success with the books ability to help you.

I am pretty sure the number of people who read the book dwarfs the number of people who actually are successful of those readers.
Russ Cox on Golang's new 'go' command
I use it as my daily driver, dual boot with Windows 7 only for Netflix and Steam.

I typically run Clementine, Thunderbird, Aurora channel Firefox, and gvim. It works splendidly on my Lenovo y560p.
I'm pretty sure that these expressions are simplified to normal JavaScript expressions at compile time, so there is no performance penalty.

Even if they were compiled at runtime, the performance penalty would probably be negligible unless you were randomly compiling the expression in the middle of an inner loop or something equally silly.
So should Google be working with other browser manufacturers or not? It seems like there's a double standard here.
Nokia shifts assembly to Asia, plans to lay off 4,000
Google paying users to track 100% of their Web usage via little black box
"At Priceonomics, we firmly believe that resale value is the best objective indicator of product quality."

I'd say it indicates the speed of improvement--whether quality has topped out, or is still improving.

Resale value for a hammer in a year migh be close to 100% of its original value. It might be used and scratched, but it still works as new, and there aren't any new revolutionary hammers out on market. Same with DSLR lenses, for example.

Top end MTB bikes are of very high quality, a joy to ride. But they depreciate sometimes by 50% in a year: new models are out, lighter, stronger, better-handling and everyone wants to upgrade.
As I said, I use Google Web History. Every link I click is logged to Google. They can figure out how much time I spent on each page from that.
RDPD author's whole point about assets/liabilities centres around home-ownership and how many people see it as an asset or investment rather than a liability or cost-centre. It's the only good example of a common confusion in the book and it's really not that shocking in light of the market as most people will have experienced it and the marketing around refinancing and home-equity loans in the past decade.
Putting up 1,000s of cell phone towers isn't exactly cheap and it's not like you can get it done in another country because it has to be done in your home country.
Hey, I've been working on a similar concept that does exactly what you suggested. Take a look: http://ec2-50-16-106-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com/0
You think? Zaarly seems pretty different to me in that 1) it's not quick favors, it's anything, 2) it's meant to be used only with people in your local area, and 3) you are doing the buying and selling yourself with actual money, rather than the site handling it with karma or credits or whatever.

Basically, Zaarly seems a lot closer to Ebay + Craiglist than my idea. Do you disagree?
The thing with lumping all 'Android' together is that it gives the wrong picture. Similar to lumping all PCs.

When you buy anything non-Apple, you have to be a smart buyer. This can be good or bad, depending on your world view.

If you compare premium non-Apple brands, they compare favoribly to Apple. For example, my Nexus S was $300 off contract (brand new). This is much cheaper than the comparable iPhone 4 at that time, retains good resale value, and will probably be fast enough/supported for as long as the iPhone 4. On the PC side, ThinkPad T/X series offers similar (or even better!) reliability/cost effectiveness/resale value to MacBooks. For example, the x220 series configured new at lenovo will cost ~1000. Current resale puts it at around 800, which is better than the MBP (for e.g. base at $1249, refurb @ apple for $1049, and resale at around $950).
> At Priceonomics, we firmly believe that resale value is the best objective indicator of product quality.

Really? It might be a decent indicator of product quality relative to other products on the market, but even then, plenty of extrinsic factors - from speculative bubbles to the lack of knowledge of longer-term product quality - can influence the perceptions of relative value that drive market prices.

That aside, how indicative of the overall market for phones is the specific segment of those who buy second-hand phones? Unlike houses or cars, few people actually buy used phones, and those who buy new phones aren't usually thinking about resale price at their initial time of purchase.

Does resale price really say a lot about the underlying product quality of a mobile phone?
Super Bowl 2012: Nothing Curbs App Usage Except Madonna
Pfffff. You are hilarious! Really, you are. Truly funny.
Why would we allow a private craft to be more dangerous? They probably will be, but because they will be soon be subject to even more strict rules, and sneaky things will have to be done to compete in that environment (see the financial system).

When the person making the rules (the government) is no longer subject to the rules, but held responsible when they're broken, do you think they'll get looser or stricter?

And now not only does your company have to obey safety laws or whatever else applies, you've got insurance companies, shareholder lawsuits, and so on.

The Challenger/Columbia astronauts are (correctly) treated as heroes who sacrificed for the greater good. The Space Inc. astronauts who die will be considered victims of corporate negligence.
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Executives Of Swedish Start-Up Klarna Arrested For Kidnapping And Rape
I wrote this post. We have opt-in, hash-based address book comparison working in a fairly popular consumer app, if anyone is interested in sharing experiences. I recommend it as the way to go.
> and people with older androids will switch too

If they keep Chrome Mobile's size 17MB there's no way people with 'older' phones will able to switch.
As far as I understand it, the "censoring" starts when someone flags a photo for review. So if I see a photo of my friend breastfeeding and find it to be in bad taste, I flag it- it then goes on to FB for review and perhaps a takedown. No one seems to mention that in the breastfeeding scandal, SOMEONE had to flag the photo for review, which means that someone found it offensive. So it's not Facebook going through every single picture ever posted to find ones to take down, it's Facebook responding to user requests to take pictures down.

I wonder what the ratio of flagged pictures to removed pictures is. I imagine it's pretty high.

However, the original argument is flawed. Holocaust deniers fall under First Amendment rights, breastfeeding falls under obscenity law.
Reddit founder: SOPA showed democracy works
Even worse, the reporter says "She took her admissions letter and then rocketed it into space." As if there were a rocket involved.

I mean, I like high-altitude ballooning, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that this sentence primed me to expect something an order of magnitude cooler, someone strapping 250 grams of aluminum-based rocket fuel to their acceptance letter and watching it blast off.