skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not the same arguments, because Android and iPhone are two very different things.

The reason why Android won is because the iPhone is just one phone from one maker. There's a limit in market share you can reach with just one phone because you can't please everyone. Heck, even with a single brand there is a limit in the market share because you can't build a brand image that appeal to everyone (in particular you'll never appeal to the "I don't want to go mainstream" people). This is why car makers sometimes create entirely new brands - like Lexus from Toyota (luxury cars) or Dacia from Renault (low cost cars).

Android, on the other hand, is dozens of phones from dozens of makers. Just like Windows on desktop PCs. So it can reach a quasi-monopoly status. Now that Android have this market leader position, the only thing that can displace it is not a slightly different system (like Windows Phone) but a full paradigm change. That's why Linux failed to displace Windows as the market leader, but tablets are in their way to do it because they're completely different beasts.

...And by the way, for the same reason iPhone can't hold a monopoly, the iPad is losing its market leader position to... Android.
This is why I keep a pfSense router between my LAN/DMZ and any consumer or telco boxes. It's just not worth the risk.

TP-Link make money by selling fast cheap boxes. They cut corners on the firmware and testing.

Other manufacturers may be more expensive but I don't trust they aren't also cutting corners.
I've got a Windows desktop product that does something similar for file activity. The plan is to expand the triggers out to other areas http://www.folderagent.com
Never thought of that - great suggestion :)
I know this isn't quite the place to ask, but is there any Singapore HNer out there willing to take a self-taught Rails neophyte under their wing? I have a site running but would like some proper experience and exposure to best practices.

(I'm also signed up for RedDotRubyConf already)
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I think http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8&qpcu... is more believable based on correlation with other sources of data.
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Developer Auction requires the companies to actually offer what they say they will. If someone offers you 120k, that number won't go down after you interview on-campus.
always use your name@YOURdomain.com. Google, yahoo and MS can always cut you off in a heartbeat. With your own domain, you can forward it to a new provider.

That's why I will 'never' embrace cloud that tightly.
if a web application does not count as an "app" for you, then I have good news: Feedly has a web application. A good one. http://www.feedly.com
It may not necessarily be inefficient. YC has an established brand. Initial YC investors know they will get the best possible terms, so they would be wise to offer the max value. The start-up it could take this "max" valuation to all future investors.

The alternative would be a low initial offer which would essentially keep anyone else from paying more. In essence the YC start-ups are giving the initial investor a money back guarantee on the difference between their offer and the lowest offer.
Ok, so if the other smartphones were not smartphones, we need to have a robust and objective measure of what a smartphone is. Any analysis based on features will degenerate into a nitpicky fight about which browsers count as proper mobile browsers, what it is about the iOS app store or Google Play make them proper app stores unlike Ovi on Synbian, etc.

So lets not get bogged down with such minutia. Lets just look at how phones are actually used by actual users. If they are used as smartphones, then they count otherwise if they're used as dumb phones then lets count them as dumb phones. So, how do iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, etc usage statistics pan out?

Well, actually, it turns out pretty badly for Android. So yes Android leads in sales, but the vast majority of those are no more used as smartphones than the old Blackberries and Symbian phones. Also, they make their manufacturers no more money either. It;s only the flagship phones where any of the action is. So ok, if you want to rewrite the rules about what counts as a smartphone go ahead. Make Apple's day.
So they feel great, don't need medical treatment, but can still spread it to others... so great, maybe here we go with AIDS becoming as common as the flu (and mutating more, and killing poor people who can't afford the expensive therapies)
I would say join the industry, start your company, work on some cool stuff. Figure out if you would like to try your hand at research. If yes, apply to a masters program.

If you have the patience, time and the skill needed to comprehend advanced research papers or the time to learn more about machine learning / advanced graphics / distributed systems / compiler optimization and other cool stuff, don't join a Masters Program. If no, may be consider joining a Masters program, you'll not regret <-- but do this only after you have worked for a few years.
One example is Linux asynchronous file I/O versus Windows'.
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My impression is that procrastination may have multiple causes. Some of them are fleeing difficulties like overcoming procrastination which is a vicious circle.

My perception is also that the first cause of procrastination is fear of X, where X is most probably specific to you. Another term of the equation is that avoiding something that we fear, increases the fear of it. And this probably closes the loop.

I found out by experience that a way to get out of this loop is to inhibit any (negative) thinking about the task at hand and just focus on doing the task. Then praise yourself when you achieve the task with "good work Harry", something you probably didn't hear enough when you were young.

For example, when I'm about to write an essay or review it, I might think that I'm not a writer, or that I'll be ridiculed if anybody see this text because they will see I'm very bad and presumptuous to think I could write, etc. This thinking take place in milliseconds and generate a sting strong enough that when I see the text file I fell like an electrical shock keeping me away of even touching it. I took me time to understand that it was fear from my own imagination that kept me away of it. Every time I just focused on the task itself, clicking on the document, just read it for my self and see what I like and don't like for my self, inhibiting any thoughts on what I might do with the document, there was no procrastination.

This type of procrastination can be diagnosed if one is frustrated by not being able to achieve what we really want to do.

One can feel the same for a startup project where we live a frustrating paralysis in front of the project. This paralysis comes from all the fears generated by our imagination anticipating all what could go wrong. But this is like the Maserati problems where you imagine you could crash your Maserati. Just do it, make the MVP software for your own pleasure, focus on the creation of it, polishing of its interface and UX just for yourself. Inhibit any thoughts on the future which are the source of fear and paralysis.

Regarding procrastination in house and cloths cleaning and food making, I think it might also be as simple as fear if one has not learned and has been put in confidence to do it when he was young. It is bad parenting if kids are not familiarized to do it when young, thought it may seam the opposite at first look where parents take care of all the needs of their kids.
I'm quite partial to LeechBlock for Firefox, personally. I can set certain times of day when my 'procrastinating' sites are available, give myself 5 minutes per hour to slack off, and (sort-of) prevent myself from disabling it too easily.
You may find this useful, also in python:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/437932-pyline-a-grep-lik...
Sorry, but didn't someone release one of these all of two weeks ago? Sad times...
> The patterns in .gitignore and .gitattributes files can have /, as a pattern that matches 0 or more levels of subdirectory.

Mercurial had this for ages.
The article seems to skip between "X therefore Y" and "Y ... Z!!" with little more than conjecture at times.

We try to minimize baby-making but we’re still highly interested in sex, and so for humans sex obviously serves another extremely compelling purpose.

That purpose is to bring us closer, to cement social bonds.

Without arguing which is the correct reason, surely an alternate explanation could be "That purpose is to cause our bodies pleasure".
well written, up my street
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> Gupta is commenting on the market's bet against Apple.

If the market has bet against Apple, how come Apple's market cap today is double that of Samsung? In what universe is pricing a company as being twice as valuable betting against it?
Ask HN: Do average people think A players are weird?
Do they? Is that why so many A players are banished to spend the rest of their lives in specialized communities like Silicon Valley?
This bug is not yet completely squashed in the wild:
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This is a wonderful example of false advertising...

He's talking about very general "code reading" on the whole article and then, at the bottom, he lines out which languages he knows - and it suddenly gets disappointing for anyone outside the Ruby/JS world.

He has to be more clear about that in the headline.
Parent wasn't suggesting to keep full stack frames, but something like (file/function name/line number) tuples, that's not the end of the world. By making it a fixed-size list, you can ensure your memory usage won't blow up.
I'm going to go on a small tangent here and warn strongly against parsing the output of `ls` (cf. the examples given in the README).

Parsing `ls` is inherently fragile[1] and it will break at some point. Please don't do it.

[1]: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
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Totally with you on that. Great hospitality ventures weren't built by architects, or construction guys, or even L&T. It takes a huge variety of skills, understanding (and experience) of markets, user empathy (have seen so many products/startups fail just because they don't really get the real world user out there), etc. Respect is important. And it might save your skin - the same one you put in the game.
Short, worst-case answer: Google web calendars no longer syncing with Microsoft or Apple's local ones. There are finer points and some exceptions, but that's the basic bottom line.
You mean reported publicly.
Applicative and Monad and their operators are really something I would consider required Haskell knowledge. It's not surprising that you can't read Haskell code if you don't know what those are, because they are everywhere by virtue of being such useful abstractions.

Granted, Haskell people seem to have a sometimes unhealthy attraction towards having operators for everything. The Lens package in particular is rather awful in this regard IMO. (Fortunately there are non-operator equivalents to everything)
Here is the blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/rocybird
Use Google Translate to read it (or Chrome).
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This guy is on a role!
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Is there a reason why you think that? It will probably still be sexually transmitted (so it can be avoided more easily than the flu), and it already has a much worse impact on poorer communities. Also, you are assuming that the treatment will remain expensive forever and that there won't be any preventative treatments available in the future.
@Metapony: you're hellbanned, for quite a while now.
Used eBooks are an interesting problem. It'd be a shame if they managed to patent the idea of each book being limited to X resells as a way to degrade the value over time. It's pretty obvious if you think about it for a little bit.
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And it will sync with Akregator, sweet!
Is it mainly app or web based? I'm not interested in apps generally.
The major vuln aside -- are they seriously running Apache the router?
"/usr/bin/httpd" sure looks to me like Apache (but could of course be anything). Heard of Nginx or Lighttpd (or countless other lightweight web servers)?
For one reason, Google has a paid enterprise offering that they sell under contract and dropping support for this is the second shoe to drop in breaking one of its most important components for commercial use. Not every small business has the resources or inclination to DIY their own hosted calendar service, especially when they're already paying for one.
OK. I think we all struggle with procrastination. I seriously doubt you are alone in your level of procrastination. If you ever get a chance to flick through "The Procrastination Equation" you'll get why we, as humans, are programmed to procrastinate. So don't worry it is perfectly normal behaviour.

There are no magic pills to get over this, and I speak from experience, but the first step for me was to stop being too ambitious. The next step was to set very very small tasks, one at a time. Resist making a list of all the tasks to complete the goal, just list the first and smallest task that comes to mind. Then do it and iterate.

Lastly, you don't seem to be happy with the subjects you are taking, is there any other areas that gets you properly interested - don't just do the science stuff because you think it's what to do.
How, if "for most of human existence, it was not normal for a man to know which kids were his", would it then follow that, when the concept of private property came about, "[t]he most intuitive arrangement was for a landowner’s offspring to inherit it"? Wouldn't that be totally unintuitive if it was normal to not know lineage? Which begs the question - if his first postulate is true, what caused a total reversal of the situation?

The author makes enormous logical leaps with nothing but conjecture (corin_ pointed this out very well in another comment), practically inventing narratives for huge amounts of history with little to no actual evidence to support his suppositions (the concept of property didn't exist until agriculture; primageniture and inheritance came about because they were "intuitive", despite the fact that paternity wasn't normally known; etc.).

EDIT:
Just as a disclaimer, I ascribe to a Christian viewpoint on history (yes, I'm a young-earth creationist; yes, I've looked extensively at the evidence; no, I don't really want to derail the discussion with an argument about it) and morality, which includes sexual and marital monogamy, so I disagree with pretty much everything in the article. My point here isn't trying to convince anyone of that - I don't think the article stands even on its own premises, and is a terrible mess of conjecture and inconsistency. That's the only point I'm making.
Well there's human papilloma virus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus) which can result in the development of cervical cancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cancer).
This is a good opportunity for all you smart developers around here to come up with an open source self-hosted thing to replace gugl reader.
While it may be more believable, the sample sizes and methodologies behind the two sites appear to differ.

marketshare.hitslink.com lists that they track "approximately 160 million visitors per month" to "40,000 websites" [1][2]

statscounter.com lists that they track "15 billion page views per month" to "3 million+ global websites" [3]

This seems to imply that there is a bit of difference in which traffic is tracked by the two, and that statscounter.com is probably tracking a larger share of global traffic. I'd be hesitant to say that marketshare.hitslink.com is 'more believable' - perhaps it simply tracks a subset of websites more similar to your own?

In addition, with statscounter.com tracking page hits rather than 'unique visitors' as marketshare.hitsink.com does, it seems to imply that each Android user would use their web browser more heavily than each iOS user?

[1] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/mobile-methodology.aspx
[2] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/faq.aspx#Methodology
[3] http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#net-apps

EDIT: Indeed, filtering statscounter.com by USA market only gives figures very similar to marketshare.hitslink.com:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-US-monthly-201202-20130...

I'd argue that the global stats are far more important than the USA only ones, but you're free to disagree! And just to try and tie this back to the original point a bit: all of these stats are a very long way from 80%.
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This is exactly what I want. I know what I want to read, I don't need some algorithm telling me what I might like.

All my feeds are carefully chosen based on site reputation, article quality, journalism quality and my of course my interests. When I want a little bit of everything, I just browse HN (often from Reader).
The problem with Microsoft is that they're turning into IBM. Wealthy yes, profitable yes, but dull as ditchwater.
The current top thread on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5378462) is about procrastination. I think you may find it helpful.
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Show HN: my spare time project, an on-site QR image decoder
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Google Reader as a “Be careful with the cloud” tale.
Spot on. It never occurred to me this was essentially a localisation issue. Blasted annoying one though.
I also have a problem understanding why people bother with a CS degree but don't want to go into programming or don't even understand it. Why don't they major in something else?
Leukemia can be caused by a virus (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142595.php)
The virus is transmitted through the same ways as HIV.
Create a separate profile or close _all_ open Chrome windows first.

"c:\path\to\chrome\dir\chrome" --user-data-dir="c:\path\to\chrome\dir\User Data/test" --record-mode
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My point is I think they're breaking the terms they set out.
It doesn't record where you click or what you open, just every request as it moves over the wire.

I am getting quite different results - it records http requests and user input (keyboard/mouse).

Windows 7 x64, Chrome 25.0.1364.172 m :

# navigate to chrome directory
cd C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\
# run chrome with a new profile
chrome --user-data-dir="../User Data/recording_test" --first-run --record-mode
# use the new chrome profile to browse around
# close chrome
# launch it in playback mode
chrome --user-data-dir="../User Data/recording_test" --playback-mode
# watch disaster ensue as it locks your mouse (not keyboard),
# replays all activity (url bar input, navigation, mouse cursor movements...),
# and doesn't even stop when you alt-tab
# to a different application

It feels unpolished - mouse scroll wasn't recorded, the "translate this page?" bar wasn't showing up the same way as in the recording, and most importantly, I managed to switch to a different application and it continued sending input to that application. HTTP requests did get cached as promised, and non-cached requests (due to missing scroll event, it clicked on a different link) resulted in a cache error.
Pleasure is just the carrot evolution uses to make you do what benefits your genes. Pleasure in itself is not a end evolution optimises for.
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Yes, until it runs out of memory and you need to reboot it.
Obviously true, but not relevant to what he wrote. When saying "that purpose is" did he mean from a point of why did we evolve like this, or did he mean why do we individuals act like this? If the latter, pleasure is a valid reason. If the former, surely evolution made it pleasurable because it helped create offspring.

(Also: the fact that pleasure is there doesn't automatically mean it evolved for genetic benefits. Why do people get pleasure out of class A drugs?)
You don't need to be socially awkward to be an "A player".
I have the same problem, but I have found a solution that works pretty well for me. Whenever I find myself procrastinating, I do a short workout routine - 10 burpees, or as many chinups as I can - about a one minute high intensity routine that gets my pulse up but stopping short of breaking a sweat. I find that the increased pulse and adrenaline rush makes me less fearful of failure and gives me a bit of "what the hell" attitude.

Noting though that I only do this when working from home, since this is not really socially acceptable behavior in an office, let alone a café... perhaps I should work from a gym! :)
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What's the use case for this? To annoy spammers?
wow! A lot of things hit home. I am glad OP posted this. I wasn't aware of the psychological aspect and always thought my procrastination was just a form of laziness. I esp agree with the "hit"i get of letting myself off the hook, only to be in more stress. Thanks a lot again.
No, but it might not have optimised out all the cases where pleasure is not in direct alignment with evolutionary success either.
Oh, Block's grid system looks sweet, I've got to take a better look at that.
No, you are wrong.. Everyone needs sympathy. I hope when you feel down or in trouble, you could reflect back of what you said here..
Debug I suppose.
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Cool. I recently build a similar thing for Magento to provide demo data and for anonymization purposes.
Some parts of faker.js needs sure refactorings ...
ok, besides the fact that this is the most non-existent use case in the history of QR codes ever, i would love to take a look at the source code if he really managed (and how he managed) to get a QR decoder in 1.5kb. sadly this is not (easily) possible because the script is base64img/canvas encoded, which is (his good right but non the less) very annoying.
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Looks like this is a feed reader that I can run myself: http://feedafever.com/

Not free though.
Wouldn't that be totally unintuitive if it was normal to not know lineage?

It works if you expand the concept of "offspring" to mean basically "the person(s) that you want to be your inheritors". This is what the Romans did, at least -- it was common for an adopted son to become the principal inheritor.

It does make sense that if you have a substantial fortune and influence and you're not really sure about who your genetic children are, then you'd want to pick your heir rather than simply having your children split it up evenly after you're gone. Romans even had the concept of posthumous adoption: Emperor Augustus became Julius Caesar's adopted son only after the latter's famous assassination. In turn Augustus passed his wealth and power on to an adopted son, Tiberius.
I did not find that on the paper, are you referring to randomly switching off neurons?. I would be surprised if this would not be a technique of the original neural networks wave.
This is fantastic. I was actually looking for something like this to test some APIs with dummy data.
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