skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we are building some apps in indian languages for which we believe schools would be a good market, volume purchase makes good sense for us
I really don't understand this obsession with git. I've been heavily using both git and mercurial, and git keeps getting in my way no matter how much more I learn about using it. Whenever I have an option I choose mercurial, as it simply makes much more sense, to me at least.
We've recently put out 2 Android apps for our local market, one for the business market, one for the medical professionals market, and I guess it's because of that our stats (from the Play Developer console) are significantly different than these.

Business app: ICS 53%, GB 37%

Medical app: ICS 46 %, 40 %

So while it's not all rosy, the actual impact of the fragmentation is significantly dependant on who your target market is.

Also as a tip to all developers struggling with fragmentation:

- https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/ (ActionBar library for pre-ICS devices)

- https://github.com/ChristopheVersieux/HoloEverywhere (Holo Theme library for pre-ICS devices)

They're both well known, but doesn't hurt to repeat, these will make your life a lot easier.
The color issue doesn't have much to do with pentile, that's why. Yes colors are interleaved, so it sounds like it would be logical - but that's not the case

The SAMOLEDs from Samsung have weird colors because some colors get used faster and their intensity diminushes over time.

On the S3 and S2 (which has NO pentile, still has weird colors) you can mitigate it in the color profile settings

On the S1 there are tools to completely fix the colors, yet it's a low rez pentile display. While you can see the pentile matrix on this one, specially well if close, you can't see the color difference once calibrated. There's just no way.

There's no "grainy" effect that I can see tho. The resolution's just too high to see it at normal distance (on the S3 that is. Definitely something you can see on the S1.)
The color issues are not pentile related, they're on all SAMOLED samsung makes. See above post.
Thursday morning cynicism maybe but: Your mathematician makes 6 assumptions (maybe one of them realistic) to build a model and then thinks mathematics "knows" something about the world and its ways.
I'd say "don't care" is a pretty accurate reading.

When ICS arrived for my wife's SGS2, she was probably more irritated by the update clearing her home screens than she was about most of the improvements in ICS. IIRC, the only feature that qualified for actual excitement rather than mild interest (or even less) was the ability to kill Vlingo dead, dead, dead.
The MIT opencourses are pretty good (18.01 is single variable calculus, 18.02 is multi-variable, and 18.03 is differential calculus, but there might be others).
So explain somethingawful.com and the many other sites dedicated to the posting of gore and gruesome deaths?
I wish manufacturerers would make thse boards with VGA output. There's no sense in buying a 35 of 50 dollar computer if you need a $150 monitor to use it.
This is well-known. I'm curious to know how they get the IMEI on iOS cause there isn't a public API but only an undocumented method on the CoreTelephony.framework. Using a private method is one of the easiest ways to be banned from the App Store. BTW on January 13, 2012, Whatsapp was pulled from the iOS App Store for 4 days. I think they were pardoned by Apple because of the popularity of the application.
A bit gimmicky (since the argument could easily have been stated in a couple of pages), but he developed the argument cleverly.
Did you ever write about this? Seems like a lesson a lot of people need to hear.
Apple are devoting huge dev resources to iOS. Check out the last slide 'and more' from their iOS 6 preview at the bottom of this article (1). Sure most of the low-hanging fruit and signature features are in place, but they're still making strong efforts to upgrade and expand capabilities such as accessability features for disabled users, improved localisation for overseas markets such as China, expanding iCloud's capabilities. A few years ago you could say that a competitor could pick a few major feature areas such as social network integration, navigation, cloud services, etc and beat Apple in those areas. Now that's just not possible. They have all the feature areas covered and are steadily deepening their feature sets in those areas. The only real way to differentiate against them now is in hardware.

(1)http://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-6-our-complete-overvie...
Nokia faked the still photos too
I'm sure Google is already the developer of the most-downloaded, most-popular Android applications, by a large margin. To date, that seems to have motivated them to establish a good foundation for introspection and dynamic dispatch early on and then produce compatibility libraries as needed. I suspect they find the current situation an acceptable trade-off.
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The ones that I would really like to see are Neural Networks and SVMs. Thanks!
Let me second the recommendation for the software mentioned. An added side-benefit to these apps: walking away from the keyboard gives you the opportunity to think more clearly about whatever you're trying to do.

(Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with either AntiRSI nor WorkRave, but use both.)
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I get page not found error for the op's submission. But I assume this is the page which was submitted, http://www.technologyreview.in/biomedicine/41024/
No, but for me <ESC> acts like <META> and the actual keybinding is M-. or M-_.

The command you are looking for is yank-last-arg for bash and insert-last-word for zsh.
it's very easy in academic science to end up working on projects that are just
little extensions of previously known stuff, and that's sort of a waste of time.
Not that we can see it in black and white, the case is settled. Pictures can't lie.
(Just to be clear - you guys didn't come across as creepy in person in the live feed - the "company" did).

I'm not married - but you're right I'm almost certainly not the right market :-)

However - I chucked a link to your site at a couple of friends who are in their late teens (F), early twenties (M), and early thirties (F) who I know don't read my twitter stream. I obvious didn't prime them with my opinion :-)

The responses were "Kinda douchy" (teen F), "Is it a dogging site?" (20s M) and "Looks like something for blokes who want sex" (30's F).

None of them went past your home page.

It's a small sample I know - but it may mean that you're not sending the message that you want to send via your copy and images.
Actually, most Android users (scratch that, most cellphone users) do not care about updates at all. I've seen "normal users" with notification icon about update available and what they do? Ignore it. (To add, in Sony Ericsson's case, the notification is non-dismissable. Their biggest concern was, how to make it disappear. They didn't want to run the update; "the current software is fine").
Very true. The competition always seems to have bigger self-inflicted wounds.

For example, last year I'm pretty sure HTC and Sony hurt themselves by skimping on internal storage and Motorola had some high-profile late devices. This year I think HTC made a mistake on microSD and removable batteries in the One series, Sony launched too many devices on Gingerbread and both Motorola and Sony were too slow with their ICS updates (even though Sony probably has the best update coverage of any phone manufacturer). And so on.
I was bartending during the Giants/Cowboys game, saw this ad and for a minute wasn't sure if I had seen a new KF or not. But if so, it looked crazy thin. Christmas 2012 looks to have a salvo of great devices going around this year
Migration and cost of migration, how much it cost to take the data out of the provider, if you are using cloud database services.
You know, I've been asked recently "what kind of company would you like to work for?". I had no answer then, just said that definitely not Google or Facebook.
Now I think GitHub might be that kind of company :)
I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit.

The Linux / Windows update situation that is most analogous to the carrier-gated smartphone updates is updating OSes inside large companies. It's the same update process - a third party has to certify your update and then the update is incrementally rolled out to a large number of computers.

So how do corporations do with their Windows and Linux updates? Well, I'm using XP and RHEL 5 these days and I don't think my experience is at all atypical...
"This is a big one, and it is something that has been on the drawing board for a while. The lock screen has a single primary aim: to provide useful functionality when the screen is locked."

Sorry, what? The primary aim of a lock screen is to prevent unauthorised access. They're proposing to allow unauthorised people to change/pause songs and view perhaps personal information (they say it's configurable, but Gnome's "configurability" leaves a lot to be desired).

Also, you have to hit ESC to actually unlock, whereas now you can just start typing your password. I unlock my screen 100s of times a day!
The DX is so much better than the normal Kindle, why can't Amazon just wait and let the market develop? Given a few years, I think it would do just fine.

Right now I'm not upgrading until I see a DX formfactor, no matter what the new features are. I like my printed page the size of, well, printed pages.
Your argument is simply not true. iOS users regularly update as we've seen time and time again. Windows users regularly update. OSX users regularly update.

What makes Android users so different ?
The security snakeoil
Your IMEI isn't secret: not random/hard to guess, and not private. It's like a MAC address. Except you can't change it.
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I am an indirect member of modENCODE project -- I am paid by the project but work on computational and data analysis and therefore not wed to it. I feel I should clear up a few things.

First, that 80% figure is a guesstimate, far from definitive.

Second, those "new" discoveries are "associated" by statistical tests. All popular reporting has sidestepped the issue by not explaining the quote around word associated. Basically it means they occur together above a certain statistical threshold. For vast majority of noncoding regions we know nothing about their functions, and this situation will remain for the foreseeable future. I don't have to tell people here that correlation is not causation. Recall all the reported health benefits of wine drinking; it is same degree of certainty.

Third, new technologies inevitably have teething problems, which have not been fully worked out. This means all reported conclusions comply with accepted notions within respective scientific communities. The data are not accurate and reliable enough to overturn any received wisdom.

Forth, yes, this means the main reported scientific results are not new nor that surprising to people in the field. But this is the way popular science and specialists interact.

By and large these papers represents a lot of hard work, but in terms of amount of data and research topics they are already being overtaken, as they should be.
I've heard of the "police state", but what's a place called that's run by lawyers?
Researchers find most BitTorrent users being monitored
Bitfloor Bitcoin exchange hacked, lost $250,000
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No, I think their main concern was that it would have put a ton of their constituents out of work, which is, not surprisingly, a major concern for their constituents as well, even those not directly employed by anything auto-related (benefits of having a healthy middle class and all that).
Yes. At least, as-implemented.
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I believe your link is for the MIT Technology Review India version of the article.
Works as great as native on the S3 using the stock browser.
Ponder the dreams which visited me in the night. While still laying there decided which burdens to carry and which to ignore for that day. Hear my kids playing and tell myself that whatever seems pressing right now (email, last night's unfinished project, team conflict, etc.) will be meaningless in another month, year, life span, but dragging my ass out of bed to play with them (nothing gets someone ready to take on the world like hearing your two kids shout, "it's dad, let's wrestle him!" at 6 am) before all the other stuff crowds in must not be missed. Commence wrestling with said kids.
There is definitely something up. The Register got their hands on one but the minders managed to stop them sending the photo externally:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/handson_nokia_lumia_...

"Alas, the Minders leapt into Red Alert mode to prevent me transmitting the results, you'll have to take my word for it."
Let's not forget about how this helps new bands to put their music out.. and even get some money out of it. They don't need to chase a record label and they don't need to pay agents and so on. It's a great way to reward artists and a great way for consumers to find new, quality, music!
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The problem is that the DX is not a good Kindle from Amazon's perspective. Note that while you're requesting your "printed page" to be printed page size, they're focusing on a "book" that is book sized.

From Amazon's perspective, a great Kindle is something that you use extensively, carry with you everywhere, and buy many books on. There are very few books that Amazon sells that are seriously helped by the DX's larger screen, save maybe for someone who needs to crank the font way up.

The DX, I assume, is great for PDF's with formatting/figures that won't convert well (which the small Kindles are pretty bad at). But Amazon makes no money on you reading PDF's on your DX.

A DX with a great touch screen and a stylus could also make an outstanding replacement for paper that you write on. But again, Amazon won't make money for each page you scrawl.

Add to that the fact that the market for the DX is presumably significantly smaller, and you get where we are now. Amazon charges a lot for the DX because they need to actually profit from it, instead of relying on content sales. Amazon doesn't have a big incentive to improve the DX because it doesn't make them much money.

Maybe in the long run, they'll get around to it, especially if technology does get to the point where you can make really good lines on e-ink. Then maybe they'll push for the Kindle to be the digital piece of paper that everyone owns, and oh by the way, now that you can buy content from your paper, maybe that will be some very profitable paper for Amazon.

But right now, the incentives don't align.
This is too funny. And on top of all this, the sheer comedy of the ad. I mean whats going on here? Is this supposed to be some date night? A couple on vacation? No. Felt more like a guy who somehow landed a girlfriend/date above his league and is trying to get as much as possible on camera to show his friends because they won't believe him.
No way... Fake pictures in ads? Who would have thought!
Why so much hate on Nokia?
Ask HN: What is Best User Management App?
What is/are the best user management app/site do you have used? We're considering using www.intercom.io, but want to know what else is out there. Any thoughts?
Google's statement: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraclevGoogle-1237.pdf

Oracle's statement: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraclevGoogle-1236.pdf
I can say precisely which lens was used to make that photo: Canon EF 17-40 L USM on a DSLR. Or some other very, very similar lens. No photographer can mistake this for anything.

Like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meonoctis/5661946485/in/set-721...
You could raise the same argument about all the time they spend releasing open-source software, or producing the really great presentation slide decks that they do.

Regardless of the fact that a well-designed application encourages people to use it more, the fact that GitHub provide their employees with the opportunity to produce such well-polished interfaces is an incredible marketing tool for potential new recruits.

At the end of the day, it all fosters an environment where developers want to be The Guy That Works at GitHub, and all the great talent they attract just bolsters their position even more.
This would be like a fast food ad showing a juicy steak when what they really have are hotdogs.
They are as noted prototype devices – with no announced release date – so it's completely in the realm of possibility that the camera simply isn't ready yet. Of course that doesn't excuse the misleading video and pictures Nokia used to advertise it.
Do you think it is possible to pull off a startup where the team (e.g. three people) is spread over different timezones?
How would possible investors react to something like that?
IMEI isn't related to the phone number (IMSI is). And it's a horrible idea since IMEI isn't secret.
Because using fake stills is something people are not happy about?
Accessing a remote data-store with CORS from PhoneGap
That, and the example shots all look like someone picked the wrong LASIK surgeon.
"Professional driver on closed course."

"Screen image is simulated."

"Product enlarged to show detail."

etc. etc.

Yes, yes, we like "truth" and all. Especially when they're selling a camera after all, but getting a great cameraphone image and getting an image that will work on tv are two different things. No real surprise. Maybe disappointment, but no suprise.
Because clearly, they lie about what their products can do.
mPhoneNumber = tMgr.getLine1Number();
This doesn't work. The phone number is not stored in the device but is assigned by the operator and stored in (god only knows where) location, at least here in India.
Wow. Are you a professional photographer? If yes, nice to see you in here! =)
Wish I had read this before taking on a convertible - if only so I knew a bit more about the nuances of it
I wonder why did they do that, it was pretty obvious. The second picture looks good enough.
The one actually marked "taken on a prototype" looks legit - tonnes of ISO noise.
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Haha, yeah. I bought a Chinese textbook on Kindle and the Chinese characters were scanned. Worse, the scans were pasted into the wrong parts in some spots, mixing up phrases and translations, and they didn't zoom with the font size. Their Asian language support is atrocious, I guess.
Native uTorrent app for Android released
I think this is a fantastic illustration of how it's more important to get something 'pretty good' out in front of customers, even if you could have used the latest/coolest/hippest things. You're illustrating how you can go back and improve it later, when you're clearer on what needs doing.
Ask HN: Is BDD/Cucumber an overkill?
I was learning about Behavior driven development and Cucumber recently. It looks interesting, but i feel that it could be an overkill in the production.<p>What is your good/bad experience with BDD in real projects? Do companies like Google, Github use BDD in largescale projects?
I might be able to take that photo on that phone. I would use a high-output continuous light balanced with gels to match the ambient colour, and create diffraction stars by putting a cross filter in front of the lens. I think it's fake too, but I'd have a go at making it.
Andrew Orlowski has to be one of the most unreliable troll journalists and last person who's word I will take at face value.
No, it's an intellectually honest view of abiogenesis, which is not the same thing as evolution at all.
Wait...why can you say (very, very precisely) that lens (or similar) was the one used? Because of this other picture? I see no resemblance... Would you mind elaborating? I have no idea what you are implying or why.
Just as an aside, what is with the comments? Does every user have their own "award" to present?
Mesdames les conductrices : la Nissan Micra Elle arrive pour vous 
C’est au tour d’un grand magazine féminin de prêter son nom à la célèbre marque de voitures Nissan.
Celle-ci propose aux conductrices sa Micra Elle, disponible en France depuis le 1er septembre.
I bought a used car a couple months ago, paid $20 for a experian autocheck report on it and it came back with all the service records and accident history. Took it to a mechanic who ensured the car was in good condition. Since it was private party, i paid less than kbb value for it $22k compared to $28k(dealer price). Thats more than 30% savings. And if car is still under bumper to bumper warranty, you can go get a factory extended warranty for $3k and it will be the same as a certified preowned dealer car.
The shine on the lights appear very similar, to me. But I am no professional
Flat out doesn't work. CM10, Nexus 7, Chrome.
> IMEI is intended to be unique and private

It's intended to be unique but not secret and not hard to guess. It's a bit like your SSN or a computer's MAC address.

> If someone knows your IMEI they most likely have enough control over the phone to either completely spoof it or put malicious software on it

Err, no? Your phone can be asked to broadcast it via radio, your
phones previous owner / sales clerk knows it, etc,
your wife/gf knows it, etc. Now it's trivial for
any of those to gain access to your WhatsApp without
any active and sophisticated attack requiring physical access.

Sure, with sufficient effort it might be possible for
someone sniffing radio or having at some point handled your phone to subvert it in other ways, but this is zero effort.
This still seems minor. If someone is able to get the number doesn't that spell larger issues than whatsapp? I get the point being made and I understand the potential issue, but I don't see how its a major security problem with whatsapp as I figure things are probably compromised anyway if the user is able to get the IMEI to begin with
This stinks of Microsoft. Only one of their ad agencies could put together such a soulless dramatization of a couple's date night.
People have done that since the dawn of radio adverts and billboards...
"My view of the situation is that the period between the Android version launch and the launch of the first non-Nexus device is Android's equivalent of iOS's public beta. "

I would say this is straining for equivalence. The day iOS 6 went into public beta you could run it on a 2009 3GS.

Fundamentally Google has little power over phones that have already been sold so even if it wanted to it can't change the fact that many phones sold won't get official updates. So Google's focus has to be on tomorrow's phones. It puts the source out there for old phones and customers can complain to Samsung or use Cyanogen or not care.

OTOH Apple does have that control over older phones and coupled with the few models available this means it can afford to deliver an experience that's slightly more developer and customer friendly (in this respect). The fundamentals of this don't seem likely to change anytime soon.

The bottom line is if timely and regular updates are your killer feature then you're taking your chances with anything that isn't a nexus or iOS device. And while nexus devices are a clear 2nd place, iOS is Secretariat at the Belmont.

The irony I guess is we'd expect Windows Phone to fall between iOS and Android here and yet they've basically been the biggest joke. I guess they get points for honesty? We'll see how many checks those points cash at nokia's bankruptcy proceedings.
I too like xargs but see no need for these two xargs given sed is already used?

find images -name '*.jpg' |
sed 's/\.jpg$//
s/.*/convert -geometry 200x &.jpg &_thumb.jpg/'