skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note 1 sold 5 million by march last year according to CNet[1]. Note (lol) that they express similar cynicism but that they published a correction that it was units sold at retail.

That doesn't mean that these new figures are the same, but it does show you that the 'phablet' form factor isn't a complete bust.

The AP article[2][3] that seems to be the source here doesn't give a source for these current figures.

1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57405736-94/samsung-boldly-...

2. http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Samsung-s-...

3. http://technology.inquirer.net/19882/samsungs-galaxy-note-ii...
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Just a guest, but there is a music video with some men in underwear dancing around embedded in the page ( This is the video itself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pivLTWIJ7xo&feature=playe... )
> That's probably a very niche market.

I will not comment on that as I have no sales numbers breakdown.

> They can either skip the $700 one for a year, or make it $800 for 128 GB

If it was, somebody'd probably propose it. And yet we're still stuck at 64GB. We're stuck at 64GB on tablets, we're stuck at 64GB on smartphones and we're stuck at 64GB on PMPs. I'm guessing the 128GB single-chip modules either are expensive as hell or simply not available at the necessary scale (though they may not actually exist, Toshiba had a press release back in mid-2010 and supposedly test samples in Q4 2010, but I haven't seen anything since)

edit: ah, it seems Toshiba is just now starting mass production of their 128GB modules: http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-starts-mass-producing-128gb-fl... so this is a case of manufacturers not even having the part available. I'm guessing we'll start seeing phones and tablets with 128GB options in early-to-mid 2013 (just in time for the next iWhatever)
Much better. There's plenty of data out there around call to action buttons with a lot saying that a red button converts the best, but contrast is definitely important.

A nice little guide here FWIW: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/call-to-action-buttons-guidelin...
Then why would 6x be "terribly unreasonable"? Because 6 > 3 and inbetween is your arbitrary cutoff point?
The N64 had fewer games and more expensive than the competition, but the quality standard was far higher (there was a whole lot of unbelievably crap shovelware produced for playstation) and it was a more powerful system; the best N64 games (of which Goldeneye was certainly one) were by and large better than the best Playstation games.

In "top 10 games of all time" lists the only Playstation game you tend to see is FFVII, which deserves its place but is more a triumph of storytelling than gameplay; from the N64 Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye both regularly feature. It was only towards the end of its life that we saw Playstation games comparable to those in technical terms (heck, while it's been overshadowed by later instalments I remember being blown away by Rogue Squadron back in '97 or so), and I don't think we ever saw the equal of Perfect Dark until the next console generation and Halo.
Working closely with the IDE team is a good thing, but core language developers focusing on the IDE and the language in the same time can indeed lead to some compromises that hurt the language.
I mean, you can't simulate the weather exactly, but that doesn't stop us from writing "good" approximate simulations. It's not hard to simulate a TM, even if we can't build a real TM (unbound memory).
"Dear Apple, stop overcharging for extra iPad memory, or else I'll buy your product anyway ... and then COMPLAIN about it!"
What if the assumption is that P(designer|woman) >> P(developer|woman)?

I.e., suppose a new girl shows up at your office. Someone is offering even money that she is a developer. Do you take the bet?
Questions:
1. Is time to binary serialize the data is lesser than json serialize?
2. If the data is to be consumed by apps only why not use it for external transfers as well?
If it helps, think of it as a tax on the rich.
(a) In your hypothetical example, everyone seems to be heterosexual. I assure you reality doesn't fully match your theory.

(b) It's just an "attractive female" advantage, "attractive men" have been found to have similar advantages.
Unless your getting paid, or you think you'll be getting mad referrals from it, why do an HN logo? Why not do your own stuff?

At least get pg to pay you for it. Seriously. He has the money, he should pay for it.
> I'm frustrated by the fact the MacBook extra RAM/SSD is so expensive compared to manufacturing costs.

That's quite variable actually, at least for the non-air non-retina ones the trend was generally that the prices (for RAM, not SSD) where fair-ish right at release (markup of 10 to 50%, roughly in line with other manufacturer-provided upgrades), but Apple doesn't float its prices so a year later with RAM prices having fallen by half or more (depending on the quantity) the prices were inane.
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To give racist equivalents, it's as if in the USA, imagine you came into the room and there was a latino man there "Are you the new cleaner?"; or in UK, imagine one was introduced to a new eastern european member of staff, "Are you the new cleaner?".

In this case, there are other cues that a person can use.

e.g. if the person's wearing a cleaners' uniform, it's not racist to ask them that. If they are wearing a suit, it's at a minimum socially clueless, and at worst bigoted to ask them that.
Apple can charge almost whatever they want for the memory as long as the competition is lagging behind on the software. It will probably be better in a couple of years. I'm buying a Nexus 7 instead for multiple reasons and the memory pricing is one of them. Main reason is that I already have an iPad 2 and want a smaller tablet but not the same one I already have.
Archos used to call them PMPs (Portable Media Players) when it sold them.

I think that's a good description, distinguishing them from larger more capable devices.
For instance, choosing my own working hours and tools would improve my output by 25%.

I'd be surprised if it weren't 250 percent. Corporate environments optimize for responsiveness, not productivity.

People talk about programmers being "overpaid", but I think we're underpaid, at least at the top end, and I think we suffer for it in more ways than the obvious one. We work under conditions where we produce at 10% of what is possible. That's because a good engineer's potential ABV (abstract business value) is well into the millions per year, so if we perform at 10 cents on the dollar, we still make a profit for our employers. If our salaries went up 3x, there'd be fewer of us, but we'd probably have a lot more autonomy and better working conditions, because it just wouldn't be economically feasible to put us in noisy offices, give us crappy tools, and have 90 percent of our time get eaten up by maintenance, meetings, bureaucracy, and distraction.
And I haven't even got it in a protective case of any sort!

I'm a risk-loving rebel me :)
How is this different from apigee?
A relevant good read is Joel Spolsky's "Camels and Rubber Duckies"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
There is fundamental concept in economics called comparative advantage, which implies that everyone can provide value to society making both themselves and everyone else better off in the process. So theory would imply that it is not a big problem.
Leaving theory and moving to the real world, Note that in the past agricultural jobs were the focal point of the economy and people were very worried about new plant technologies and large scale production. They worried - 'What are people going to do when we don't need farmers?' For the past 30 years or so the economy has been losing manufacturing jobs to low cost countries and automation. All during that process and even today people have asked, what people are going to do when all the 'good' manufacturing jobs are gone? In both cases the jobs are gone and never coming back and it also hasn't been a problem.
So just like the ordinary people that didn't become farmers and the ordinary people who didn't become assembly line workers are, today, contributing to society; theory and practice suggest that ordinary people that don't become technologists will also, in the future, be contributing to society.
Long time reader here.

I created an account just to be able to comment and try to downvote your comment.

What an exquisite example of fanboyism! Calling slimmer (but larger!) phone and a faster processor an innovation...
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meetup.com uses Java. And Google if you count Android.
Open office plans are "hip" because they show that you're in access to the anti-anxiety drugs you need in order to survive one.
At scale, volume can offset a lower price. One person consultancies don't scale that way without adding staff.

I would add that low rate clients are the worst type of repeat business. And word of mouth advertising (aka "telling all their friends") about your low rates isn't particularly beneficial.
Are you asking if it's factually accurate to conclude that, or if we should act & talk presuming that? I addressed that in previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4732145

(tl;dr: It's almost certainly an accurate deduction, but acting on it might make society/culture/company worse off, so let's not do it)
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It entirely depends upon the chemistry of the automotive lithium battery, which typically use different catalysts than laptop batteries. For Lithium Manganese Oxide batteries, the prediction is 70% after eight years. That would be 175 miles range at 120,000 miles driving. There are new and better chemistries coming out like lithium NMC arriving this year that store 75% more energy per lb at a similar price. http://insideevs.com/nissan-ceo-carlos-ghosn-second-generati...
It shouldn't take you more than one Google query to find the place to report Facebook security problems.

I don't think it's a good idea to link it from the general support section -- you don't want the security team that is hopefully carefully monitoring this stuff to have to wade through thousands of regular customer service complaints.
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Also of interest: Velocity Raptor http://www.testtubegames.com/srel101.html
hey, I found HP and Red Hat on the line too...
There's an even simpler rule: The more convenient currency conversion is, the more you are getting ripped off.
I wonder if he understands that a long drawn out complaint about pricing where the author understands all of the component details, yet bought the product anyway and shows all signs of being willing to do so again... completely validates their pricing strategy.
Yep, and Apple has traditionally capitalized on this big time. For example, on a Mac Pro:
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MD772LL/A?

You pay about $150 per 4 GB of RAM, or $37.5 per GB. Current ram prices are about $4.5 per GB!

(See:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE...

for example.)
You call it price discrimination, I call it artificial scarcity. When the price difference is a single feature, more memory, I think most people do not perceive a value difference that is in proportion to the price difference. (It would arguably be different if there were differences other than memory as you might be buying a more holistic upgrade, even if the overall profit was the same.) But as Apple will not add SD card expansion slots, what can you do? Value extracted indeed.
"You've found market price when buyers complain, but still pay."

IIRC, PG said that. We're on HN. Rings any bells?
Actually, you can go cheaper than the Leaf, but it's not quite as nice. Mitsubishi makes the I, which costs $22,000 after rebate.
> This should serve as a loosely coupled, managed API server which acts as a load balancer to a larger extent, if it can intelligently cache requests and act like memcached for API requests.

I would pay for this.
Someone should use this for something good: Jailbreaking Windows 8.

I detest the AppStore-modell and locked down devices and wish for many companies (like the one's Raymond Chen kind of complains about in his blog oldnewthings) to have a little revenge:

Why not have a setup-programm which also jailbreaks the Metro interface in order to e.h. overlay a VideoLan window on top of it or enable access to all kinds of blocked APIs (like real sockets)?
You can bend this any way you want. Here's one take: Apple is subsidizing the cost of the cheaper iPads and compensating by making the top of the line more expensive.

If you find that a ridiculous argument, consider that, every time they haven't been able to make them fast enough to meet demand, their prices were too low for the market.

I do not think either of these viewpoints is right. This is simply a matter of "price to what it is worth, not to what it costs"
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Small startups live or die as a group, and there's a certain trust that this creates, so the typical office paranoia (i.e. always-on image management that leads to more health problems than most illegal drugs) hasn't set in yet.

That changes around 10 employees. Once it becomes obvious that not everyone is going to be a real member of the team, people start spending more attention on their relative status within the company than the absolute success of it, and the hypervigilant bullshit that people typically associate with "work" begins.
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Because that doesn't shape consumer behavior. It also makes people focus on the "Should I get the cheap one or the better one?" question instead of the "Do I really need this thing question. Binary questions are yes/no decisions -- the purpose of marketing is to make it difficult to say no.

Offering a good/better/best pricing model leads:

- People with more money than sense to buy the "best" one. (I'm richie rich, I only buy the best.)

- The mainstream joe consumer to buy the middle one. (Hmm, what do I really need?)

- The aspiring consumer with more desire than money to pick the cheap one. (Man, if I get the 32GB I can't pay my rent, but I need this thing, and the 16GB is $100 less, plus I can finance it over 6 months for less than $100/mo!)
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Daily standups take care of communicating progress well enough. The added value of software to organize work has to do with keeping track of all that needs doing and in what order, especially for teams that aren't colocated.
> Is it even a game?

Technically, yes: It has a goal (collect orbs) a challenge (navigate environment) and a difficulty curve (increased distortion).

But it's really a tech demo, though.
Who gets to decide what is a luxury item?

(I guess theoretically the tax office, ex: luxury car taxes...)
Interesting - I hadn't known that about Danish humor.

It is probably also no accident that the Mohammed cartoons were made in Denmark.

The thing is, those weren't even offensive or derogatory. The rest of the world overreacted and rolled over because of overblown threats from the Islamic world.
That would make sense across the board; in this case, you have to just compare the price point between different current offerings; these new instance types are similarly priced yet with higher specs in some areas, and I will argue that it is a tradeoff against the disks.

If you feel like Amazon should be cheaper overall due to Moore's law (and remember: they have lowered their prices numerous times since they launched on everything from hardware to bandwidth), then the price of the things we are comparing to would also be cheaper (as these are all just virtualized subsets of larger machines).
Actually, I own a Leaf and it does save me money against buying a comparable compact car like a new Sentra. His math fails to account for the full range of costs associated with a gas-powered vehicle including oil changes and engine maintenance. Also, I drive considerably more than my 17 mile one way commute, so it makes a lot of sense for me.

Here's a great spreadsheet to get the real costs:
http://www1.extension.umn.edu/environment/energy/vehicle/
There was a relativistic version of asteroids: http://playthisthing.com/relativistic-asteroids

Looks like the site it was hosted in is gone, though.
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No, it's based on manufacturer and retailer using a 100% markup.
Last I knew, it was less about the effort, more about the license. And if you really need/want Apache 2, it's available in the ports tree and as a package. #> pkg_add apache-httpd
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It's at least possible that they would make more money with lower prices (but it depends on where the volume is and where it would be).
I meant to refer to extensions implemented independently by one compiler or another. Clang and gcc both provide lambdas, but not in the same way, and there's no standard for it. (I could be wrong on both points; this is purely from memory, and could have changed.)
I think the problem is the base memory is too low compared to the system spec. Apple is selling an arguably "high end" product and 16 gb is really pushing what is needed. They've upped speed and screen resolution but the memory levels has remained the same.

Unfortunately not upgradable or expandable after purchase.
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Works for me on Windows 7, x64. Try updating your DirectX.
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Yep. I play it on my Mac through Residual.
Same thing applies not only for ATMs, but also shops with card readers that sometimes offer to charge you in your home currency.
Good one, didn't know about history.js!

I think the best pushState fallback is just allowing page reloads. Hashtags are probably just annoying and confusing for the user experience. Besides, there are other very effective ways to improve page load time.
a: Taking sexual orientation into question plays no good for anybody especially since it's completely individual aspect.

b: There's no "attractive male" advantage to be found in tech, at least not compared to "attractive female" advantage as your parent explained.
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This paper offers a number of proposals for the elimination of patents as a whole (while recognizing software patents as a particularly bad problem):

http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf

It does touch on much of what you have mentioned.
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I'm not saying scrap, I'm saying iterate. (Wrote a wee bit about it here: http://zachinglis.com/2012/why-the-apple-reshuffle-could-pro...)
Great tip for travelers, I will suggest you to do this everytime.
I didn't imply a yearning for anything, I was just saying a citation can mean different things in different circumstances. I think you've fallen prey to the polarization that Chomsky is putting forth: either you are dealing with huge amounts of data and don't care about theory, or you're a rationalist whose theories don't need any empirical support. The reality of successful science is on neither of these extremes, of course.

And by the way I do think that judging human performance by simple metrics is problematic, but not because it's statistics or not 'high-level', simply because it doesn't take enough information into account; it's a shortcut to the actual concept of quality, which is dangerous when metrics are used in decision-making. Automated metrics give an air of objectivity which an expert opinion doesn't have, even though the latter may well be much more informed.
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Most businesses are incapable of getting millions of dollars of value from a programmer because of the work that they assign them to do. As Paul points out, the biggest potential variation is in deciding what to work on.
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Question for all.

Personally, I would like to see a better method for new links to reach the front page without being lost in the cruft of new. To be fair though, I don't know if I really have a good solution for it.
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Hans Moravec created a relativistic version of SpaceWar! in 1971:

http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=274527
At least with the Pro you can go to Crucial. If an SD card slot was available on the iPads the OP's complaint would go away, I'm guessing
There are two separate effects at relativistic speeds.

One is that the actual size of things changes. That's length contraction.

But the other is that, because you are moving at such high speeds, how you observe objects is also affected. That's what StavrosK discusses in the adjacent post.
(a) In your hypothetical example, everyone seems to be heterosexual. I assure you reality doesn't fully match your theory.

I'm talking about social status and "coolness" which are not identical to sexual "market value". In fact, I think it's a bad idea for women to exploit any sexual "assets", because a woman who is visibly trying to do so won't be taken seriously. I'm talking about a more general-purpose social asset which is that an attractive woman is judged to be "cool" (even by gay men).

The initial conditions of social status are set by people wanting things, in the aggregate, so the heterosexual 93% have disproportionate influence. The final conditions are set algorithmically by something that looks like PageRank: people care about popular peoples' opinions because other people care about popular peoples' opinions.

This isn't about what's right or how things should be. It's about what is.

(b) It's just an "attractive female" advantage, "attractive men" have been found to have similar advantages.

True, but the ages in which people are most attractive are 18-29. Men in that age range have low social status (theirs starts out very low, but increases into the 40s and 50s) while women at that age have high social status (and it declines with age). Again, I'm not saying this is how things should be, but it's what is.

The result is that women reach their maximum attractiveness at a time of high social status, while men reach maximum attractiveness at an age when society still considers most of them to be unproven losers who jack off and play videogames all day. People tend to become more average in looks as they get older, and by the age of peak social status for men, almost all of them are in the "average" range where attractiveness doesn't have a major push.

A woman doesn't have to be highly attractive to take advantage of this, by the way. She has to be seen as preternaturally cool. There are women of average or below-average looks who can pull this off.
But it's just so phabulous!
Could you perhaps repost those links? I don't see them anywhere on your profile.