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And how much money did the Galaxy S III earn on those 10 million sales vs iPhone?

I'm not sure if you are actually asking for an answer here - it seems you think you already know the answer.

Samsung just had record profit last quarter, prior to the Galaxy 3 launch.

They don't break down per phone profit & margin, but:

Samsung's quarterly handset division profits nearly tripled to 4.27 trillion won ($3.8 billion), accounting for 73 percent of total profit, and operating margins jumped to 18.4 percent from 12 percent in the preceding quarter on strong sales of the Galaxy S and the Note phone/tablet, the surprise consumer hit of recent months.[1]

Now 18.4% profit margin isn't as high as Apple's, but OTOH it includes a lot of low end (and less profitable) phones too.

TL;DR? That thing about Apple making most of the profit in the mobile phone market is no longer true.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/samsung-idUSL3E8FQ...
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No, I think Swizec was saying that he wanted the ability to write text after clicking "Now you lost me!", to explain just why he is lost. For instance, he might click the button and then write "I don't know who you meant by 'they' in the second sentence." into a text field that popped up before clicking "Send Feedback". Giving more specific feedback might help Krista fix the exact part of the post that is broken more easily.
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Awesome! Thanks. All this 'obvious' marketing stuff isn't obvious to everyone. Thanks for your help.
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I took a screenshot for those who still do not see new design:

http://i.imgur.com/T7mXM.jpg
They also say in the article that this is not unexpected based on previous events. So I guess it is happening about every 150 years to get a meaningful average. Otherwise they are just averaging a bunch of differences in dates.

So to get an idea of how normal this is, don't we look at how many times this has happened before, and what the deviation from the 150 years is to get a better idea of what is happening?
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Ok great thanks. This is all gold!
I have seen a few on Hacker's News but, like gender posts, they get flagged off the front page uber-quick.

The problem, and why I ignored your comment here to start with, is that you phrase is as "yes, but..." "Yes, that's bad, but why aren't you focusing on this totally different thing!?!" That's a form of derailing, especially when you suggest that those things are important because of how they affect men, rather than that both African-American men and women may face additional challenges entering our industry.

A positive way to engage in this specific effort, and thus not derail, might be to ask the organizer, "was there any difference in the demographics of this relative to other hackathons in terms of race? I am curious if the inclusiveness had any spillover effect."

That way, instead of changing the subject you are deepening your engagement with the topic at hand. If you would like people to instead stop talking about this post and talk about something different, you will probably have much better luck posting a different article where such conversations wouldn't be off-topic and derailing.
Since an upvote alone won't help OP gauge how many people experienced your problem, I'm saying "me too" here.

Loved the game though. Quick, easy, worth a few minutes playing around.
So you data mined the color? That's a little underwhelming ... from the title I thought you meant the shape...!
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I'm pretty sure that absolutely none of that is new. The "change my profile from anonymous to visible" part makes total sense in context.
Mobile advertising is only in its infancy. If you think ads are invasive now, just imagine what life will be like when they move to a screen 1/10th of the size!
Great suggestions!
- Making the game only one parameter sounds great for an "Easy" mode but the scoring algorithm would also make a lot more sense, true that.
- Name of company makes sense, will put it in soon!
This person's username is green, their comment is graying, and they are the only green name on the thread. RageKit has simply asked a question asking for clarification. Given this post is already a meta discussion, what factors influenced the downvote?

From what I see, it could be that the general nature of the comment is tangential to the tack that the general nature of all of the other comments took, that the user is new, and/or that the "games = crack = bad" phrase is atypical of sentence construction on this site.
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Agreed. I have done a bit of teaching and I would gladly turn the monologue over to someone else and spend my time working individually or in small groups with students on projects or helping them gain a deeper understanding of the material.
It will be EOL soon. Apple got so desperate they mailed out free 10.6 discs a while back to mobileMe users, so I got my folks a free upgrade:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/24/free-snow-leopard-discs-...

This tells me they're ready to pretty much bury 10.5 soon.

That said, as long as your system works and runs the apps you want - it is by no means bricked.
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:) I wasn't intending to offend, so I'm glad none was taken.

As an engineer, I usually cheat and stick to text with typography. I'd put the name in big-and-bold, with detail information below, offset but at least as prominent. I'd describe exactly what it is the product does, add at least a link to some information about yourself or the company and change the "sign up now" button to something like, "enter your email to give it a shot!"

http://pinboard.in/ is my favorite example of engineer-driven-design. You have an advantage: you are an engineer selling to engineers. I'd suggest thinking about what makes you respect a website or noticing which calls-to-action you follow for a week, and then trying to apply those lessons to your own site.
Yep. The problem becomes more acute if you have more typical numbers like a customer lifetime value at, say, $3k over 2 years and a cost of acquisition at $1k. That's a very worthwhile business but going cashflow negative for the first ~8 months of the relationship can get very unfun.

If you were actually at $10 CACA and $10 monthly revenue you'd give a phone call to either a) Bank of America credit card customer service (ask for a $25k++ credit limit) or b) your advertising channel (and ask for Net 30 payment terms).
I though I would answer your 1,2,3 points as it might generate some more ideas about how to go about achieving conversions.

1) I thought it was simple (but I may be too close to the project). We scrape the apple website in all countries for reviews to apps that you have entered in the site(they don't have to be your own). Then we translate the non english ones and email them to you if you have any new ones that day.
It's really great to help you track what your users are saying about your app. Or what users are saying about your competitions apps.

2) This is good advice and easily fixed. Thanks!

3) Noted. I will remove it!

Thanks a lot for your feedback.
Wow, that is a lot like FB (which started out kinda MySpace, etc). The more that information architectures converge, the easier it will be for a federated solution to emerge. Federated social nets being a hope of mine for the future.
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Yes, my immediate response to the article is, "if I have never even seen greatness in this role, what is the likelihood I'm going to hire greatness to fill it?"
It seems this point is coming through clearly. I think maybe I was too close to the project when I wrote what it did.

See above comment for a description!

Thanks for your feedback.
What's HN without the meta-detours!

You're certainly correct, but brevity of the writer and intelligence of the reader means I don't have to be explicit about every point, just as if I were to write that a cockpit altitude alarm is telling a pilot he must act with increasing urgency to pull a plane up from a perilous dive.

I could be explicit, and say that the alarm itself is just a combination of electrical circuitry and detectors that change behaviour due to input thresholds, and that the alarm does not particularly care whether the plane crashes or not, but I trust that the reader understands what I'm saying when I say the alarm is telling the pilot he must pull up.
Won't that just incentive quantity of tweets rather than quality of tweets? Where is the value in that service?
wouldn't the single speaker put serious audiophiles off?
I'll share my own subjective observation - I feel that the overall "quality" of comments has remained high, at least in terms of writing quality and persuading arguments. That is to say, I don't often see many "dumb" comments ranked highly.

However, I have noticed lately that the highest ranked comments are almost always those which vehemently disagree with the author of the original post. I seem to see fewer comments that begin with "The author makes some great points, but he may not have considered..." or "This was a great project, the author should consider expanding it by trying..." More often, I see comments that are cynical and dismissive of the author's points. While a healthy dose of cynicism is necessary, and I love hearing both sides of the story, some of these comments definitely lean a little closer to the "mean" side of the spectrum.

I suspect that this is a subtle side-effect of not being able to see vote counts, that somehow results in fewer votes being cast by those with neutral or positive opinions, but I'm not quite sure why.
It makes sense, but it seems like they're holding cheap bait in front of you to get you to be more public with your information. I deleted my Facebook account over loss of privacy. Hope I don't have to do the same with this one.
They're probably trying to make it a place unemployed people like to spend time.
"There is scientific consensus"... No, there is not.

Sorry, but there is[1].

You are welcome to debate whether those scientist are right, and welcome to debate if other, non-climate specialists are better qualified to offer their opinion, but trying to argue against there being a consensus is misguided.

[1] http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-co...
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Rather than await a moment of silence, perhaps now is the time to carefully see what can be preserved. Somewhere in possibility-space is a model in which great minds teach in only the ways that they are well-suited to. Giving the same monologue year after year will likely die, but the teaching time that frees up could be used for some sort of mentorships or discussions or teaching of subtleties.

The first step is to characterize exactly what is lost moving from a traditional model to a Khan-academy-like model. Then to determine how to focus on those things. Then to experiment.
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I agree. The hackers will only be a small percentage of your user base (guessing <=5%), if you have a problem at all. This issue is more problematic if you track revenue metrics, and so JB users may inflate your numbers considerably, if you're not cognizant.
I spent about 10 minutes doing searches and couldn't find anything I was interested in. No Larry Niven, no James Michener, no William Gibson, no Max Brand, no several other authors.

So I tried some current best seller type stuff. No Stephenie Meyer, no Suzanne Collins, no Charlaine Harris. Finally found some Stieg Larsson.

The blue headlines and grey text are hard to read. The little cloud thingie seems odd. Other than that, I like the site. I clicked on links, got the review, from the original site. More content and I'd probably be a user.
Great advice roguecoder. Thanks. I will have to think about this!
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The cranks who claim Einstein is wrong have no means to prove he is.

However, when a scientist argues against the lack of long term data to discuss global warming, and the inconsistencies of the theory, he is met with disapproval, insults, and shunning. There is a lack of scientific discussions because there is a huge political agenda behind it, and it is not a surprise to see most of 'climate scientists' funded by governments who approve of that theory and want to have this on their agenda.

Kind of hard to keep a straight face as a scientist when your funding depends on the theory itself. Of course youd be fighting to make sure it remains the 'mainstream' theory.
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Yeah but these kinds of stories have been going on since Groupon first started doing business. At this point it's kind of embarrassing to see a new rant about Groupon. I feel bad for the guy but I also just want to say, "well... duh. what did you expect?"
...or the fact that's it's increasingly looking as if cosmic rays cause cloud formation thereby controlling climate change.

No it isn't.

A recent study showed that cosmic rays can, in some circumstances trigger liquid drop formation. However, it did not show that this happened often enough for clouds to be formed, let alone often enough for it to have any effect on the climate.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/cern-cosmic-rays-basic.html

http://www.skepticalscience.com/GCR-Backing-the-wrong-horse....
A rule that I learned a long time ago in tech is, "The commodity always wins."

And it seems to work out that way most of the time. If there are two technologies, and one manages to become a commodity that is installed all over, that's the technology that you see innovation coming from and the future coming out of. It is often the worse technology. But it wins.

I don't have a horse in the phone race. But when I see Apple folks talking about profit margins and Android folks talking about units sold, I'd lay my money on Android winning in the long run. It may be a worse market to be in now, it may make a lot less money. But where the users are is where the future tends to be.

This happens for a lot of reasons. Let me give just one. When teenage kids (who don't have a lot of money of their own) get a smart phone, they are going to be given Android devices because it is cheaper. When they play around with those phones and master them, they will be learning Android. Many will stick with Android. Others will learn Android, and their first programming experiences will be with it because that is what they have. And once they grow up they will be worth a lot more than $0, both as customers or developers. But they won't be imprinted on iOS.
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P.S. - it also took like six hours of banging my head against a wall for unrelated oauth-related problems, but not DK's fault.
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It was, however, founded by a guy who left the human genome project and took his hard-won expertise elsewhere.
Yep, same here. Most of the logos were either nonexistent or plain grey squares.
> If inflation and interest rates spike, you'll make out really well.

Will you explain this further?

As I see it - if interest rates spike (and incomes stay the some), buyers will be able to borrow less, not more money at constant monthly payments. So housing values should go down? What am I missing?
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Been there, done that... Something like this happens at least a few times a year, so I am not sure why this made the news. it usually happens because of human error overriding the many protections that software have to prevent it from happening.

To make matters worse, the tickets are usually sold in mater of minutes because the algorithms that calculate the most efficient route from point A to point B lock on to the fare and use it for everything.
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Work at a couple companies that grow from a handful to hundreds of employees, and you will find greatness.
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I still have the urge to grind karma, though I've passed the limit for downvoting. The reason is that I remember when the downvote karma threshold was raised from 250 to 500 karma, a year or two ago. I'm worried that in a year or three, PG will raise the limit again, and I'll be unable to downvote again. So karma remains an effective motivator - though I kind of resent that I don't know whether my further karma generation will ever pay off. I would feel better if PG had an official formula or schedule for the inflation of downvote thresholds, or if he said that the threshold will stay the same for the foreseeable future.
I mean no disrespect when I say this: if you are unable to perceive the subleties of which I'm writing, I feel pretty sorry for you. There are differences within genres of music that Pandora can't quantify (yes, Bad Religion and Pennywise are different) and Pandora very obviously attempts to quantize listening preferences toward the most popular examples of a given genre.

(Your analogy is pretty weak, too, because those subleties exist within food as well; a Pandora-for-food would give you wet Memphis barbecue because you liked dry, and would steadfastly refuse to stop serving you wet barbecue no matter how many times you clicked the down-fork.)
So, as noted in one of the comments to the original article, the question of why 355/113 is particularly good can be restated as a question of why the 292 term in that expansion is so large.
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where is the missing link?

Are people seriously still asking this?

There is a whole list of "human missing links" on Wikipedia[1]. The best preserved are the Australopithecus afarensis set of skeletons[2].

It is thought that A. afarensis was more closely related to the genus Homo (which includes the modern human species Homo sapiens), whether as a direct ancestor or a close relative of an unknown ancestor, than any other known primate from the same time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_evolution_fossils

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis
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I would call both "madmen" in that their reasons and methods are irrational to a "normal" citizen of sound mind. Breivik is also a terrorist as he was attempting to further a political goal (however irrational and incorrect said goal is).

But, as you say, the term "madman" is an easy and emotive term used by the media, and also incorrect. They are irrational about one or more things, which led them to take irrational actions (however rational and clear their thinking seems to themselves).

> If he were exactly the same person, but of muslim descent he would have been a terrorist.

Yes, the media (and probably the authorities) would certainly have done that, but they would have been wrong (c.f. the Ft Hood massacre)
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