skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The article clearly states Windows Phone's growth was slower than Bada's
Did you even see the numbers?

Bada grew from 1.9 -> 2.7 percent in 1 year. Microsoft's total share (including the old windows mobile grew from 1.6 -> 2.7 percent in the same time. How's then Bada growing faster? http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/gartner-global-mobile-sales....
Conversion rates around 1% are typical, but in this case even if the conversion rate was 4% (which would be very good) it would only translate to ~17k
Does red get you kicked out of the con or something?
If not, this would turn into a game of who can collect the most harassment cards.
If so, then people could simple kick out people they don't like.
"I have myself seen the so called "bad boy" attitude succeed in a number of situations in real life."

Those "bad boys" are interesting in ways that you are not.

Still, who cares if you get the girl? You're not entitled to date any/every woman. You do not get to because you want to.
Have you looked at AMD's G-series embedded parts?
Now imagine the APUs there (vector units) alongside a couple ARM cores.
Yeah, I was interested in the [0...255] thing, the calculated gotos were discussed in the other comment.

As far as js0n, it's a great example of cool things that can be done in gcc, but isn't really useful at all since it only handles the first level of depth and has no typing. The jsmn, with typing and nesting, is actually usable, also compiles a lot smaller than the big tables in js0n.
I think they talked themselves up plenty, I don't think they made very good use of kickstarter. It is possible PA would have had significantly more success if they had put up each of their project stretch goals as individual campaigns. I would probably kick in for the automata and daughters projects but not for a reality tv show. Lumping everything together made it feel like a gamble as without enough people kicking in it's not very likely the projects you as an individual care about will make the cut.
You could certainly build smaller roads and smaller autocars, since you wouldn't have the margin of error involved with human drivers and larger vehicles.
It depends on the area. That is high for where I live. The seller has to pay 6% to the realtors, but the costs for the buyer varies a lot.

Also, you can ask for the seller to cover a lot of your closing costs. Even if they take that money from the price of the home (and it goes up or doesn't come down as much), you get more money towards your down payment. Try to have as large of a down payment as possible.
Hey! I’m not sure I understand your service, so (honest question): Is it basically a proprietary BrowserID (Mozilla Persona)?
This sounds like a great addition and could make games like Minecraft run way better across machines
Groupon didn't invent payday loans. "Merchant Cash Advance" loans have existed for many years where merchants who process credit cards can sell a portion of their future credit receipts for immediate cash and the industry has grown substantially year over year. The industry kind of has a scummy tinge to it, but these are merchants who cannot get capital from traditional sources and want to upgrade their retail location or buy some equipment. (or go on a vacation, the funders truthfully don't really care how they use the money)
link for people using real computers. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator
The concept of "positive rights" really doesn't make any sense

Eppur si muove (Italian for 'and yet it moves', fabled as what Galileo said when signing his confession that the sun goes around the sun). Some jurisiticions recognise positive rights. Ergo they exist.

outside the scope of the theory of rights - this is just policy

Again, some jurisiticions recognise these as not a mere policy, but as rights of a person.
All of this could be avoided if guys would just follow the advice in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVuAGFcGKY

1. Be Handsome
2. Be Attractive
3. Don't Be Unattractive
So their first game sold for $2.99 up front and earned them $20k-$40k for two years. I would call that successful. Then, for their second game, instead of sticking to what works, they made the decision to switch to a freemium model, and made the mistake of making the "free" mode too good, and neglected to advertise in-game that there even is a premium version to unlock. Many lessons to be learned here, but rather stunning that they weren't able to fix this much earlier, before becoming homeless.
Looks like the fragment ID was added to escape duplication detection.

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328257
Ahhh...the good guy / jog myth.
Android Fragmentation
Thanks for the resource. I guess I will have to get used to using underscores, which I currently dislike typing.
I'm seriously sick with people complaining that the software they gave away for free didn't make them any money. Maybe we need a better business model for people who make other people's life better, but hey, at the point you make the decision to give away stuff for free, please don't complain.

DISCLAIMER: I'm making Open Source software and I can (sometimes) make a living out of it. I'm trying not to complain too much though
Honestly, I find the cards incredibly weird. I can imagine a class of 10-year-olds using them, but adults?
Out parameters and LINQ do not mix
Is there any proof of this, the search+gmail integration was about making it easier for _you_ to see _your_ email. similarly for Google Now. This seems like unfounded conjecture to me.
> It's not a position to take as much as a description of reality.

A purely empirical description of reality would, of course, regard the notion of "rights", "government", and "society" as mere abstractions that have no autonomous existence, and are merely ideas in the minds of human beings.

An explication of this empirical understanding would recognize that human beings use abstract ideas to mediate their experience of the world, and that the value of ideas is to be found in the utility they provide to those who bear them.

So, accepting the reality that we live in is one filled with human beings who mediate their experience of life - and their relationships with each other - via conscious ideas, the discussion turns to evaluating the utility of those ideas; there's no other "reality" to explore.
Weird, Outwitters is listed as free on the one man left website, but iTunes has it as $0.99
From a feminist perspective, it's not very empowering to a woman to have to resort to props and other crazy schemes to get unscrupulous men to fuck off. Men don't have to do it, why should women.

I think it'd be helpful to identify why this problem exists in the tech field. Is there a chicken and egg situation where more women in tech would solve these problems, but something about tech prevents more women getting involved?
Glad to hear it! Like I said, just a small thing. I'm really excited to see where you guys go with the platform.
Ask HN: Mobile Card Swipe Solutions : Difference?
How are Square and a number of white-labeled incarnations of Roam Data differentiated?

I read Roam Data's blog post about the difference in hardware-level encryption ( http://blog.roamdata.com/roam-datas-secure-solution-averts-square-like-attacks-on-its-customers-and-partners/ ), but then, what else is the differentiator?
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I'm curious about what you dislike about LF. I could also explain our choices a bit, but I'd rather offline that.

tim.showers@foreignpolicy.com
Hmmm, not sure if I agree with Fred Wilson on this one. Fragmentation is a real pain to deal with. I guess if the fragmented parts aren't too numerous and they have tons of users then you just deal with it.

As a developer, Android presents a challenge: it's a pain to develop for but it's too big to ignore.
The purpose of the education and testing requirement for cosmetologists and barbers is not an arbitrary financial hurdle; it is a legitimate safety function of the government.

These people will be using very sharp tools on your head. Tools which may draw blood, or worse. The education and testing requirement ensures that such people know how to safely use those tools across a wide variety of situations (i.e., requests), and can demonstrate that they are actually able to use those tools safely in such situations.

Should the schooling cost that much? No, and it usually doesn't unless you go with a private school. Smaller cosmetology schools cost in the neighborhood of a few hundred. Alternatively, if you feel strongly enough about this, you could open your own school. The primary expense is facilities (including equipment and supplies), since this type of education is experiential--you learn by doing, not by watching it or reading about it.
To play the devil's advocate, what happens when that vocal minority happens to be in a leadership position at your company, like the director of engineering or CTO? It doesn't even have to be a programmer who is infatuated with a methodology in order to push it out onto other developers. Very rarely do we individual programmers choose to use the methodologies of which we are subjected.
Instead of the red card if someone touches you inappropriately why not slap them in the face - hard.
I'm not really sure what advantage ARM cores would give, considering that the added complexity is quite significant.
Q: Why Do 26 Million Checked Bags Go Missing Every Year?

My answer: Because they contain valuable things.

When I used to travel with checked baggage, it almost always got stolen or lost. Bad luck? No. I would pack expensive cameras. I now only put cheap clothing and nothing metal in checked baggage. Everything valuable comes with me by hand, and when that isn't possible is shipped using a more secure carrier like FedEx. Since not packing valuables, I've never had a single bag lost.

The fact is that baggage handlers at airports are criminals who make money stealing things. There are exceptions, I am sure a few are honest. Not many though.
I can easily believe that Google+ isn't being forthcoming with their real intentions
Women want equal right but can't deal with such stuff and thus cries for help? If you can't deal with what you experience there - DON'T GO THERE. Simple. After all you go there just for fun. I was harassed by women and I learned to deal with that. Time women stopped crying and learned to take care of themselves if they want "equal" rights.
As far as I recall, they were not protected as internal emails disclosed not just knowledge of piracy, the company actively encouraged it from within.
"And if you're paying attention you ought to notice if you make them uncomfortable, and apologize."

I don't think you need to apologize. Their uncomfortable demeanor could be brought on by lack of attraction rather than offensive behavior (assault/harassment), in which case their negative reaction will be a clear sign to get out.
Google Plus: Create vanity URL for your page and profile.
Problem fixed! You should be able to sign up now.
Agreed. I was generalizing out of haste, since I didn't (and don't) have time to write a manifesto. :-)
>A purely empirical description of reality would, of course, regard the notion of "rights", "government", and "society" as mere abstractions that have no autonomous existence,

This is completely consistent with what I've been saying. The fiction of a set of inalienable rights granted to us by an omnipotent power is a fiction, or 'abstraction' if you will.

Couldn't agree more with this post.
Because of that, peer disapproval already is not working in this environment; peers simply aren't disapproving.

Yes, they are. Its just that any one isolated indecent of disapproval doesn't get much attention compared to incidents of scum. I'm not saying the levels of scum are acceptable, just that there is a disparity in which encounters get shared.

The disapproval needs more mindshare, and thats why I think it was a smart move that defcon staff embraced the red/yellow cards. Nobody is really going to walk around telling everyone about the time they saw a guy tell another guy to knock it off. The cards on the other hand, they had plenty of people talking.

On the whole though, we tend to look out for our own. Stories like this: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3043545&cid=4096... and this: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3043545&cid=4096... tend to be much of my 1st hand experience, the worst I know of first hand are people that don't known any better than to stare at someones tits.
By that definition, no cab companies are cabs, since that is exactly what the cab companies do--arrange trips between independently contracted cab drivers and potential customers.

Under the legal definition of cab services in many municipalities, Uber is a cab service rather than a livery service. In other municipalities, Uber is merely a livery service. In the U.S., each municipality gets to define what a cab service and a livery service are (because that is a local power under the federal system of government).
At first I thought you meant Facebook "shares", as in the social plugin.
Understandable. Any idea when you'll be opening up the platform beyond family and friends by the way?
Some people may recognize the existence of 'flying bananas': yellow objects which propel themselves through the air by their own power.

This is, of course, due to imprecision in those people's use of symbolic identifiers: those who possess a higher-resolution semantic repertoire might instead call the thing being observed a 'canary', and regard it has having little ontological connection to a banana.
Fragmentation? Here’s your iOS platform matrix
Don't forget Denver: http://www.denverbikesharing.org/

Denver's bike share is a blessing, especially for visitors who don't have a rental car.
The Stainless Steel Rat series were a huge part of my teen years. I'll have to buy the entire set (I guess it's definitive now) and make sure my daughters read them.

Rest in peace Mr. Harrison.
you are true..
My boss always tells me, "REAL MEN DO JAVASCRIPT",
Well, jquery still is the best.
peace.
This is merely an issue of reciprocity. Reciprocal interest takes time to develop. Don't get ahead of yourself, and don't use the alpha male as your personal frame of reference--they are outliers.
No, I typically write entirely client side applications.
Kippt (YC S12) rolls its own sync for GitHub repos/gists, social favs + more
This is exactly the consensus that all but one of my hacker friends, including the women, have come to.

No. If you assault me, guess what's happening? I'm going to hit you in the fucking face, and most of the people here, since we're, you know, a community are going to physically remove you from the area.

Edit: if this wasn't clear, the "I" in this story is would be my female friends.
you are true.. My boss always tells me, "REAL MEN DO JAVASCRIPT", Well, jquery still is the best. peace.
Apple or Microsoft: Who Will Take the Air Out of the Room?
The tablet rumor mills have been churning lately, and much has been written already about the Microsoft Surface having an extremely low, “we’ll make it up in volume” price-point of $199. With admittedly great sounding specs, and a rumored-to-be-low price, how can Microsoft’s competition hope to compete?
SNL had a good training video to help you. Google "Tom Brady sexual harassment"
Fly to 6 Continents in Style
Why the 'Open' Office is a Hotbed of Stress
The title was fishy, and within a paragraph I thought the same thing: "confused and poorly written."
When adults are acting like 10-year-olds, maybe it's the perfect solution.
No- some JPL engineers have thought of it too!

Here's an interesting history of Lisp as flight software at JPL:

http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
I like the newly introduced "Humble tip". Smart way for them to make (extra) money.
Never take advice from someone who thinks it's meaningful to talk in terms of "what women want", as if there's this undifferentiated mass with a unanimous set of values.

If you haven't noticed that different women want different things, and are attracted to different kinds of guys, that might explain why you have trouble telling the difference between flirtatious give-and-take, and one-sided harassment. Or for that matter, the difference between assertive but respectful self-confidence, and blind aggression.

"when the girl is attracted to the guy, it's flirting, but when she isn't, it's creepy/sexual harassment"

How about if we correct that to: "when the girl responds positively to the guy, and he keeps going, it's flirting, but when she responds negatively (or tries to avoid him) and he keeps going anyway, it's creepy/sexual harassment".
Adobe makes money from selling the Flash authoring tool, but development of the Flash plugin is an expensive cost center. Macromedia and Adobe have spent a decade trying to monetize Flash's huge user population without much success. They can't charge users, but they had some limited success selling licenses/servers for Flash DRM video streaming. HTML5 video is unlikely to support DRM to content publishers' satisfaction any time soon.
From one of the comments:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm...
> Who I really wish would grow up at DEFCON is the EFF. Once again they have a fund raiser in which one of the prizes is a picture with one of the strippers DEF CON hires every year.

Seriously?
In a world of nay-sayers, the entrepreneur is king.
https://www.bicing.cat/
This is why you flirt in a civilized manner first, and look for signs that they are or are not interested.

Yeah, it's easy enough to simply be polite, throw out some very casual flirting, and the see if the other person responds in kind. If they don't, don't try to escalate the encounter. Somehow this seems to escape an awful lot of people for some reason...
The bike rental market is very different from car rental market. Economists have been discussing it recently. Here is one guy's take (with comments providing their own theories): http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/07/bike_rental_vs.h...
THIS is what prevents more women from going into tech fields. From academia to the workplace, IT/CS has been built into a self-reinforcing boys club. Until on a large scale it is no longer socially acceptable for geeks to treat women like shit, there won't be many women in technical fields.
For cloning big projects, the "deletes code every time" policy would really hurt.
I think the humble tip has been part of the humble bundle ever since the beginning. Not sure if they always named it that way though.
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"From a feminist perspective, it's not very empowering to a woman to have to resort to props and other crazy schemes to get unscrupulous men to fuck off. Men don't have to do it, why should women."

I agree that the props idea is stupid, but men do have things differently. Men don't have to resort to using crazy schemes largely because women overwhelmingly don't approach men. And men who are sexually or physically assaulted by women have a significant fear of being ridiculed by society for not fighting back (or in the case of sexual assault, enjoying it).
Function pointers are also blech looking.
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"It makes me sick to my stomach as it so transparently preys on the weaknesses like addiction and compulsion."

You know what makes me sick to the stomach? Developers starving themselves to death because of a complete disregard to basic business sense and a misguided sense of righteousness.

5 easy steps to homelessness:

1. Spend years building products for a platform, where $1.99 is a high price.

2. Avoid doing even the most basic mental arithmetic to figure out how many units you need to sell at $1.99 to be able to pay rent.

3. Then set the price to zero, because you're a nice guy.

4. Sell in-app purchases for the super duper high price of $2.99, thus raising your customer's LTV to a magnificent $2.99. But, don't be an asshole. Ask for the upgrade politely and quietly, in the third screen of the settings. Remember, you don't work for $ZNGA!

5. Make it up in volume

"We really want to stick to the ‘free and pay 2.99 to unlock’ model, but if only .5% of users buy our game, we’re going to have to figure something else out. It’s very malleable at this point. Perhaps we’re giving too much away for free, it’s really hard to say until we see more data.”

6. Look a bonus step no.6! If after following steps 1-5 you're still not quite homeless, then it's time for some more data collection. Spend another year or so A/B testing the gradients of your upgrade button. And oh maybe, your upgrade price is too high? Yeah, test that.

Excuse me while I relieve myself of the agony of watching people do this over and over again.

AAAAAAAAAARGHH!!! FOR FUCK'S SAKE, STOP IT!!!!!

Why do developers worship Apple, but absolutely refuse to take the slightest hint from them on how to do business?

Read this - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

And repeat after me:

"Commoditize your complements."

"Commoditize your complements."

The app store is the most brilliant and brutal execution of this strategy. Apple is selling $500 phones - the most expensive phones - while simultaneously making developers fall over each other and well, go homeless, to make software for their platform to give away for free.

As if that's not tragic enough, the celebration of the lottery winners has the public and developers believe that making apps is a great business to be in!

patio11 has been trying to drill these things into people's heads for ages. But, all he seems to get is upvotes and not enough people getting his point.

You don't have to suddenly go all Zynga on your users. There's a vast chasm between selling virtual sheep to addicted grandmas and giving away the farm for less than the price of a toilet roll. You can charge a good price, which does not depend on huge scale to pay the rent.

Edited to add: Lest I sound like some smug business know-it-all on a high horse, I've made the same mistakes. Most of us are like this. We need to make a conscious effort to be good at business.
We're incorporating a mobile viewing experience on the iOS app. Right now you have to do live video through Flash. We're looking at a transition to WebRTC, but it's not viable as of now.
Every decent paper has one; the NY Times is no exception. http://www.amazon.com/York-Times-Manual-Style-Usage/dp/08129.... 384 pages.
They've been doing that for a while, it encourages them to create bundles from other people's games rather than just their own. It's good press for the rest of the indie community!