skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time Blake Ross cloned an app for Zuck was when Facebook Answers came out to compete with Quora. I guess Zuck feels like Snapchat is a threat? I wonder if he tried to buy them.

Blake Ross Clones usually scare people, but they never work out. I don't think Snapchat has much to fear.
This is still spinning. What you're saying is still isomorphic to: ARM has an "advantage" because it's a smaller company with fewer product offerings and no ability to fab its own chips. That's just insane. ARM Ltd. (the company) is successful in spite of these facts, not because of them.

Maybe what you're really trying to talk about is the "ARM ecosystem", where the big mix of players has a market incentive to try new stuff. And there you might have a point. But it's certainly no disadvantage to Intel specifically -- every one of those players wants to be doing what Intel already is (Apple is very close already, with their own CPU core and SoC design).
What does this mean for the future of the Nexus brand?
Patio11 Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies
Not sure if this helps, but this paper shows that Integer Linear Programming is solvable in 'pseudo polynomial time' when dealing with fixed constraints - http://lara.epfl.ch/web2010/_media/papadimitriou81complexity...
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Nor is there a way to keep people from taking a picture of an iPhone screen with a secondary camera. The promise of "self-destructing" pictures seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
You make a claim that this is specifically for Chrome on OS X, yet I don't think you've done enough homework to make such a broad statement. I am using Chrome 23.0.1271.101 on OS X 10.8 no a retina MBP, and fonts looks beautiful across the board (with no mods on my part). All those in your post look the same to me. What gives?

I first clicked on the article hoping to get an answer for the crappier font rendering in Chrome on Win32. Font rendering is one thing IE still does better than Chrome/WebKit.
I'm not a "gun advocate", I'm just against the politicizing of a national tragedy. I'm against this one in particular because this tired rhetoric of blaming the gun distracts from the core issue, and that is that there was a person mentally disturbed enough to want to kill a bunch of children, and guns happened to be how he carried it out.

How did that person get a gun? From his mother, whom I understand acquired her weapons legally and after numerous background checks. Nobody sold this guy his guns, Congress never had the opportunity to come between him and his weapon of choice.

If we're going to talk about further legislating guns to prevent this specific type of crime, we've only got one single option available: you go out to every gun owner in America and tell them to give up their guns, so that there is no chance at all that some crazy person can steal it and go on a rampage.

And that is the reason this argument is so old, and why it feels so tired. Because you can blame guns and gun owners all you like, but that will never solve the problem.
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Are you saying that Windows cannot support zero-cost exceptions? Do you have documentation on why that is?
100%? Of course not. The vast majority? I'm willing to bet, yes.

The reason I think it's intellectually dishonest has nothing to do with suicide itself. When someone behind a keyboard or behind a news desk talks about gun-related deaths or gun violence, the image is of armed robberies, execution-style murder, and more recently the crazy white kid with the assault rifle. If you live in certain parts of the US you might think of gang violence.

It does not evoke a mental image of the divorced alcoholic ending his life with a revolver, or the undiagnosed depressed college student with his dad's handgun. These are two thirds of gun-related deaths, and they're cheapened when pundits and members of Congress use them to try and score political points.
After trying GMail in that app, I think it's proof of why there should be separate apps :)
Oh, i don't disagree that would be better, i just don't see why it's hard to watch them play crusader. It's what you should expect.
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> $40 profit on a (say) $700 computer.

If you're willing to pay $740 instead of $700 then you might get that -- but most people aren't. It's not that only one company realizes it, it's that one particular company also charges you a lot more.
Before starting a startup, you take into consideration the chance that a tech giant might implement your idea better, faster, and stronger than you. It's a risk that Snapchat took, and clearly it woke someone up.

From Facebook's point of view, why pay money for an app which can be developed 12 days? The only reasons they would acquire Snapchat are for the team and the users.

The users of Snapchat are likely to already have a facebook, so they likely don't care too much about the users. They will paint it as being more convenient for the users, which is true, but it's also true that the nature of capitalism is anticompetitive.

http://proletariat.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/the-myth-of-capi...

In the case of Instagram, Facebook had more reasons to acquire, but I still don't think that one was really worth 1.2 billion.
Ah, that's just my own pet peeve. Web design is full of trade offs and I think you made the right one. It's really not a good idea to view those articles with a 720px wide viewport. As I said, beautiful work and keep it up!
Maybe so , but its a very good product and there's nothing to rival it so you'll get both camps of people's.
Compliance with California's required registration of "assault weapons", in the 1990s, was estimated at about ten percent. The official assessment by the CA Dept of Justice was that the registration effort had been a failure.

You might get a few. Very quickly, cops would refuse to go door to door (being fired from your job is better than being dead). Maybe you could get the military to do it.

There's a paper on this somewhere (I'll see if I can dig it up) that estimates the lifetime of firearms in the US at about 300 years, if we stopped selling them today and banned their transfer. I forget what the "confiscation" estimate was -- I don't think it changed much.

Hacker News relevance? Legislation doesn't solve a damned thing. Remember the crypto wars of the 90s? Imagine taking crypto away from people now.

[edit: not half-life, but lifetime]
It comes down to what one reads, when, and with how much focus, too.

I just started trying to "chunk" my time in Google Reader, and I noticed a significant increase in actionable information taken away from the articles despite reading from the same sources as during my "between work duties" peeks.
I looked into how SnapChat does it, it's pretty simple: http://blog.chpwn.com/post/38491252231
This is an interesting statistic. What is the source, the WHO?
he may be on a retina mac, i see no difference on chrome either

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1437645/chrometext.png
There are pop-up restaurants, why not a pop-up status? Although the former makes money.
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pg wrote about this very subject in his essay Good and Bad Procrastination http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
Has there been any other discussion of the supposed Node.jar port to sit on top of this?
great idea, even if it's in the spirit of christmas.....
According to wikipedia Integer Programming is NP-Hard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming
Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies for evolutionary opponents
which essentially means it needs exponential time, and as such is useless
You can't install it from the play store but side-loading works fine with or without rooting the phone. You have to continue to side load all updates though so keep that in mind.
Agreed. I've caught myself forgetting my morning coffee - and feeling more energized than not - when I can start the day with interesting project work instead of the "business as usual" maintenance work.
well here's the agency behind it... pretty elaborate if it is a hoax: http://www.therefore.co.uk/our-work
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Haskell: other languages make making mistakes too easy.
> I think that's so obvious on the face of things that it's trite to labor the point.

No, it's not. It's the dirty little secret of "free" cloud services: you're using somebody else's resources to store your own (intellectual) property, relying on vague TOS clauses that can change from one minute to the next. This is exactly why this brouhaha took off: all of a sudden people "felt" those clauses were now abusive; they realised they were relying purely on Instagram's benevolence, and they "felt" that benevolence was now gone.

This is the case for any cloud service, including Dropbox, iCloud etc; there are probably a few exceptions (I'd expect Salesforce to have tighter TOS), but the overwhelming majority of consumer-oriented cloud services are in the same boat. Last I checked, Dropbox reserved the right to go through your files -- for troubleshooting purposes only, no doubt, but again we have to take their word for it. How many times did you actually read those TOS? For what I know, they might now state that Dropbox can sell your data to China.

The hard truth is that the garage is not yours and it will never be yours; in the best scenario, you are renting it with a tight contract , but in most cases you just had a chat with the owner once and he sorta promised not to resell your boxes full of comic books. Sooner or later you'll find a less honourable owner, and shit will fly.
Steve Jobs had Steve Wozniak, that's what mattered.
It's not so much that Apple understands marketing (they use the same ad agencies as anyone else), but they understand the market.

I think a really good example of this phenomenon is the whole screen size debate. The tech press just could not understand why Apple was so hesitant to join in the screen size war and go from 3.5" to 4.0" to 4.3" to 4.7" phones. The tech press is, of course, almost entirely male. Meanwhile, more than half of the potential customer base for these phones is female, and disproportionately young females at that. Females have substantially smaller hands than males. My wife, who has no exposure to the tech press debate over screen size, lamented to me that her new iPhone 5 was great except she didn't like how the screen was bigger and harder for her to use one handed.

Apple gets it. Apple understands that teenager girls are a bigger market than male geeks and designs its products accordingly. If you think, instead, that Apple's dominance is the result of Apple being better at targeting advertisements to teenage girls, then you've completely lost sight of the ball.
Because if you used a sufficient number to light a room you would have to hire people to lift the weights continuously, and if you have to to that, it would be far more efficient if you hired them to generate electricity using a pedal powered generator, because that is still the most efficient way to transform human labor into electricity.

Come to think of it, pedalling for the time it takes to lift the weight and charge a supercap that will them provide electricity to the LED might still be better.

[Edit: Lets do the math: 100W effective for 30 seconds gives you 3000J electrical energy stored in the cap, drained over 3600 second provides an average of 830mW for an hour.]
I have no professional need for a book like this, but I enjoy Patrick's writings and have learned many things I can apply to my "real" work (internal BigCo applications). I may not buy this any time soon, but for anyone on the fence for whom this book is directly related to your work, buy it immediately and don't put it down until you're done.
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Cal Newport's actually made a career out of debunking the "simply wired differently" hypothesis: http://calnewport.com/blog/.

While structural differences in neurology might grant an edge at the very peak of performance (compare to Michael Phelps and his extra-long torso), the vast majority of performance differences come down to effective training. We're talking 9-9.9x out of the "super-developer's" 10x.
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Which Tizen and Bada are designed to do. They're shipping alternatives today that can let them juke if it gets hairy, taking their investments with them.
As far as I understand from the two papers, and I haven't finished reading them, nor do I expect to understand it all, but this appears to be very much an LP problem, not ILP, from what I've read so far.
"I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been 'lucky.'"
- Oprah Winfrey
You provide two examples of a promising change: Pinterest and Medium (I don't use either of them) but their solution appears to be as same as what Reddit provides, i.e, the sub-categories. So what is the difference?

Also, why ask for Facebook connect for Personify?
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"Was the second Steve Jobs era of Apple executed masterfully? Yes. Did Steve Jobs’ beautiful vision, taste, and marketing catalyze our journey back from Windows to Mac? Yes. Did Steve Jobs hire outstanding talent in order to re-gain an edge over Microsoft? Yes. Did Steve Jobs advance innumerable concepts, such as seamless hardware/software integration and uber-simple functionality? Yes."

Is the headline good linkbait? Yes.
My processor gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it.
They're involved in efforts like https://www.tizen.org/about, but I don't really see this one lifting.
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Nifty, I hate going to the Github UI to do some of this stuff. Is Hub backwards compatible with existing Git commands?
>Also Haswell is rumored to cost 40% more than an IVB Core. That's close to $300 for a CULV. That's simply not sustainable when it comes to the new market that is forming for tablets. $300 is more than the whole BOM for your typical $500 tablet. I doubt you'll see that chip in anything cheaper than $800, at a time when you get "good enough" tablets for $200 whole. Intel's competitor to ARM simply isn't the Core line-up. It's Atom, for better or for worse.

In terms of OS for an x86 tablet, you're looking at Windows 8, or Linux with a custom shell, and that's it. There's an unofficial x86 port of Android, but I wouldn't stake any real product on that without any support from Google.

Since MS has already established the baseline price for the Win8 tablet around $800, and they're marketing it more as a tablet PC that can do everything you do with a normal desktop or laptop than an iPad, is this really that much of an issue?
So %80 percent of the content comes directly from his blog posts. Seems like he really likes conversion :)
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The various comparisons look the same to me as well, and seem to be clear, no obvious 'fat fuzzy' rendering. Cheap as chips Samsung NC10 netbook.
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I for one hope they also let manufacturers create many more "Nexus" devices, if they are going to pursue this with Motorola anyway. They need to create a Nexus program with much stricter guidelines than the typical Android phone (no skins, no extra crapware, lag-free, and which gets at least two dot-oh upgrades - like 5.0 and 6.0), and also allow them to make $100 (unlocked) Nexus devices, too.

I wouldn't buy the cheap one for myself, but I could recommend them to people who just want a cheap smartphone. I'd much rather recommend them a clean Nexus device, than a skinned custom-software one, with an unpredictable user experience, that also doesn't get upgrades.

All of these Nexus devices also need to have all of their upgrades handled by Google alone - just like the Chromebooks. In fact, this Nexus program should be handled almost like the Chromebook program. Nobody gets to touch the Chrome OS but Google.

I think these devices would become increasingly more popular thanks to the word of mouth of the people who actually know what they are and recommending them to all their friends. This would clean up the Android ecosystem a bit by having exactly one user experience across Android devices, and having a major portion of the Android ecosystem be upgraded on time and for a longer period.

As for this X-devices strategy from Motorola, they could use it as "iPhone-killers" - as hero devices of their ecosystem, like Nexus has been until now. But they need to be devices of highest quality, and they shouldn't try to also compromise on price, like they did with Nexus 4. I'm not saying that Nexus 4 suffered from it, but to be honest that strategy started to worry me a little because Google might want to get to lower and lower price points in the future, and forget about making the very best devices in the market. And I think that would be a very bad idea. Google needs to excite "influencers" in the tech world, and they can't do that with sub-par cheaper devices.

But with the X strategy, they can deliver these hero "best in the market" devices, while the Nexus program would allow for a sub-group of the Android market, to have devices from $100-$600, from different manufacturers, but under very strict guidelines, and with Google handling all the upgrades. Basically the Nexus program should become what Android should've been if Google could restart Android today.

tl;dr - Nexus = Windows/ChromeOS strategy, with one UX and all upgrades from Google for at least 2 years. X-phone - iPhone strategy; Google's hero device for the year, the one that's made to excite the tech-insiders, and push the ecosystem further, and the one that always comes with the dot-oh versions, not dot-one (e.g. 5.0, not 5.1).
Did anyone say it could not be "Nexus X" ?
Shut up.

You are going to be interrupted and there's going to be meetings. It's the nature of the beast in a business environment. If you can't function in that sort of environment, then you are a poor programmer for that sort of business, and they are better off hiring someone who can, even if they're not a "10X".

If your boss favors open-plan offices to foster collaboration, maybe it's just because he values something besides raw productivity, like being a team player and making sure everyone is on the same page when undertaking a major project on which millions of dollars and perhaps the lifeblood of the business are riding. When you're paying the bills then you get to build your own coder mancave, invincible against the slings and arrows of the outside world. Till then, either shut up and roll with the punches or work someplace else.
Lucky like a fox.
All WSOP Main Event winners are really lucky if you look at their hand history retrospectively. However, you still have to me a damn good player in order for luck to help you become the winner.
Stackexchange and quora are totally different. You dont really go on Quora to ask about that crazy bug in ur code.
In a democratic society, property rights are no more or less voluntary than any other regulation. Nobody asks you to consent to the property rights regime at birth nor can you opt out of that regime.
I would assume patio11 doesn't intend to directly make a lot of money off of this book. Instead, he wants to be able to tell potential clients he has written a book on conversion optimization, which allows him to charge a higher rate.
Thank you, Patrick!

I don't know how many times I've read one of your Hacker News comments or blog posts and thought, "Wow, this guy really cuts to the chase." Then I bookmark it but never return.

I'm hoping that this is kinda like a "Best of Patio11", giving busy people like me a chance to have it all in one place on my hard disk. If so, $9.99 is a bargain.

Downloaded, up to Page 14 of 136. I guess dinner will be late tonight.
Hopefully. Android may be good enough for the vast majority of people, for myself it's just rage inducing.

You know, I was sort of jaded from Apple's stupid antics. When my dad asked me what phone his employer should buy for him I told him to get the Samsung Galaxy SII. It got great reviews and was widely praised, it also runs a somewhat recent version of Android. Now I'm visiting my parents for Christmas and helping my dad configure it.

Holy shit, what an unbelievable piece of crap! There aren't enough expletives to describe that train wreck. Running Android 4.0.4, no less. Wow. It's just awful, no better than those crappy feature phones from five years ago, making all the same idiotic mistakes. How anyone can deal with this crap is a mystery to me. (I now just feel bad for my dad who has to deal with it.)

Apple, I may hate your antics, but you do blow Samsung out of the water. Google still has to step it up. I thought they were on a level. They still are not. All they have going for them is price and diversity. (Not that anyone but me care. But holy shit, what a piece of crap. I'm really wondering what all the gushing reviewers were smoking. Also, what the hell is wrong with that awful display? Why is white so green?)
Opening an iOS app bundle and copying a file out is already out of reach of a non-technical person.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/business/23dell.html?_r=0 suggests its more than just the 20 dollars per machine at stake
I haven't heard of pop-up restaurants before, but they sound a lot like food trucks.
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Why can't it grow? Server builders still want the fastest CPUs. For them, x86 still gives the best performance per watt and dollar. Yes, ARM servers are starting to appear but I don't think they're up to par with Intel yet.

And the cloud needs servers. Lots and lots of servers.

True, Intel faces stiff competition here. But folks are sometimes forgetting Intel wasn't always a monopoly in its field. It had competition, lots of it over the years. I wouldn't bury them just yet.
Peter Detkin also wrote this piece.
I really have to say that books (fiction or non-fiction) are one of the best values that exist.

For the same money that you would spend seeing a movie that will be over in two hours, you can purchase a novel that will provide more hours of enjoyment, more depth, and the option to return at any time.

For a fraction of the money you could spend on a scammy info product that constantly upsells you and pushes you to promote the author (via fb likes, tweets, etc), you can have the result of months or years of effort from one of the greatest minds in history.

I'm sure Patrick doesn't need any help selling his products here, but I'll say it anyway-- books are an incredible value, especially from someone like him who has shared so much before and from whom you have an idea what you'll be getting! Buy it.

I'm totally broke and could still easily justify this kind of purchase -- skip one trip to Chipotle and it's paid for!
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