skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't anything dramatically new. Essentially, there is a tension between data normalization and requirements for strong consistency.

If my data is more segmented, I can afford to be less stringent about it. I think that foregoing vector clocks in an distributed database entirely though, is a recipe for disaster, no matter how denormalized my data is.
Hmm, I think a lot of people are missing the whole point in this article. I do around 60% Ruby on Rails, 35% iOS and 5% Android dev. The idea around a "lean" startup being, that an MVP, or each new feature, or even testing a change to a previous feature is usually done in quick succession. This being testing with current users over a period of say, a week, and then from the results, changes can be made and the team have learned from the testing.

So really, Android allows for this quick succession of testing features and iterating as quick as possible, with even to a few hours turnaround. Also, that it would cost a lot in development time to get something "just right" for the App Store for it to be accepted, whereas with Android you can keep on iterating and pushing changes without having to spent a huge amount of time making everything look perfect, and be absolute minimal in terms of bugs.

I love iOS development, and yes, I agree with most people on here about the revenue from iOS, the people paying for apps, Apple's process of helping keep out most malware etc. etc., but for the sake of a "lean" startup, spending extra weeks testing apps making sure it's completely bug free and "looking good enough" for iOS, as well as the wait for Apple to accept the application (and then for users to download the update, in the case of iOS 7, this has been solved), Android is a much better dev option for these changes.

Of course, when the team knows that the app is something that people care for, and they have a decent knowledge of what users want, what features they use, and the kind of value that the mobile app brings to them, then they can go ahead and make the best possible iOS app.

TL;DR

Saving time, money and quick iterations, learning from customers and getting quick data for problem validation, is much easier and faster on Android, than the process on iOS. Think Lean Startup.
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1. With a provisioned iops the performance is almost identical to SSD, but yes probably I haven't done a side-to-side technical comparison. I only wanted to point out that I replaced one with the other and I had a good cut in cost.

2. Maybe it is just me, but I really think that some services like mongodb/redis does not require a big amount of system administration work to setup, I have actually wrote many python scripts to automate most of these tasks. but again maybe this depends on the country and the IT culture.
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There may indeed be a Platonic ideal of the one-size-fits-all school, but does not mean it is discoverable by central planners, especially central planners subject to the political incentives of the education establishment.

So even though "Everyone is different" may be a canard, it may still be the case that the only practical way to improve schools is through a distributed process of trial and error on a diverse set of teaching methods.
After the last article I asked the author for info on which books I should look at reading to educate myself. So seeing this section in this new article frustrates me so much:

> It’s your job to educate yourself. You know how to fucking Google and find things on the internet and on your Kindle and your iPad and all those other things, so do it. Don’t ask marginalized and oppressed people to do your homework for you.

Surely lowering the friction and leading those who are interested in learning more via some recommendations is a good idea?
Yes, standardization, one size fits all, the belief that central planners can determine what's best for everyone. My opinion is that all school administration should occur at the school level. Teachers, principals, and parents are best equipped to know what each kid needs. At the central administration level, accountability is nonexistent and the larger a school district gets, the harder it is to provide dynamic and responsive education.

I'm a fan of the charter school movement mostly in the sense that it radically decentralizes education and that most charter schools are non-union. I've visited traditional public schools and charter schools and the sense of community, engagement, and accountability is palpable at the charter schools. At the traditional public schools, the sense was one of defeatism and calcification.

Now keep in mind that my experience was in a large urban area, so your mileage will vary.
As an aside, I find it disgusting that public schools are penalizing students who bring their own lunches because it means less subsidization for them when it comes to allocating the budget.
For my market, 90% of my app's users are 4.0+. 97% of all sessions are 4.0+.

I still support & test pre-4.0, but I'm starting to consider options for spending less time on Gingerbread support. Progressive enhancement helps (we just don't do a lot of things on Gingerbread at all), but it still clutters up the code. Even a few months ago I couldn't imagine dropping Gingerbread support, but I have seen almost no growth in Gingerbread users over the last 3-6 months.
Except anyone who's gone through high school can tell you that s exactly what a parabola does - it concentrates the sun in a specific point.

Had they used a hyperbolic shape or essentially any other curve, this problem wouldn't happen and the building would still look the same to the casual observer.
Interesting that the most preferred logo was not one of the choices. The logo in the choices that is closest to the preferred one is different in some key ways, and a better logo IMO. I wonder which of the two logos users were actually asked to judge.
Get a Stick-N-Find and put it on your power cord. If you walk away from it your phone will remind you.
And some of those social skills can be learned through other organizations outside of the home - sports, church, interest groups, etc. And some of those social skills are social skills that you might not mind delaying - such as how to deal with bullies. That's a skill that's needed in the broader world, but your kids will be just fine if they don't have to learn it at the age of 5.
Or maybe even candidates who have meticulously constructed fake histories for themselves from a young age.
What kind of "unexpected reasons" could possibly cause this problem?

Perhaps they did a simulation but there was a bug in the software?

If you read the article on the Las Vegas building, you'll see that they expected some kind of window coating to counteract the problem but found after the fact that it didn't work.

There are 1000 different reasons why the actual outcome might not match up with initial projections. I think it's naive to assume that they didn't think about the problem at all.

Edit: after reading some of the other comments, perhaps I'm the naive one. Interesting thread.
It would be great to see a demo of the app being built. Either a couple of minutes of video or an actual link!
If people are so different and have such different beliefs, why do you recommend forcing them all into a regimented uniformity?

Because people are different and hold different beliefs. I know some of my beliefs are upsetting to certain people, so I hold my tongue in regard to those beliefs around those people, because I care about those people.

Also, I didn't say "let's force people into regimented uniformity". I said, (perhaps not directly enough) being able to silence yourself is useful. Some people simply do not know how or when to stop talking. It's always painful to watch as they dig themselves deeper.
I have a Pebble, and charging my watch isn't too bad. I usually charge it in the morning while I'm in the shower. I've been trying to sleep with it on for the vibrating alarm. Although, with the Pebble, I can get almost a work week of usage before it dies. I'm not sure how I'd like charging it daily.
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he distilled the part that contains the meaning while he left the auto-generated meaningless and tautological fluff ("longer-term solutions to ensure the issue cannot recur in future") out.
I have an HP LP2475W and a Dell U2412M; generally, among the IPS class, the consensus seems to be that HPs have more outputs and a better UI. Some of them are wide-gamut, however, which turns off a few purchasers. Research as to whether or not wide-gamut is important/detrimental to you.

I'd say go for 24s or a 30; if you have the 27 you'll just wish you had the 30 :-p but definitely go IPS, they are fantastic. I haven't read much about the Korean monitors as they were nonexistent when I researched the market 4-5 years ago.
Yes you do make a great deal of sense. I guess my initial worry was that if the book would make any sense to me at all. It comes with a reputation of its own. I didn't seem like a good idea to spend 5000 bucks on a book that I might end up staring at for a few weeks and then give up.
Now I understand everything in the book, but do not trust its content. Regret that.
Users in China don't have access to the Play Store and aren't even counted among the activations that Google reports. The reason that there is more piracy in China is because of no access to the Play Store.
Most javascript code is actually synchronous. It is the event loop (xhr requests, timers, timeouts, etc.) that is async. TLDR, some parts of the language are sync, some are async
All this talk about process, but not a word about the quality of the SDK itself. Android is quite frankly still very far behind when it comes to really basic things. Here's just one example: iOS has had easy support for custom fonts in native UI elements since the early days, meanwhile here is the situation on Android:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2973270/using-a-custom-ty...

(Yes, the thread was started in 2010, but scroll to the bottom to see more recent comments -- things have scarcely gotten any better.)

Anyone who has actually deployed a non-trivial app on both Android and iOS knows quite well which one is the "better" development environment.
Exatly. A major argument used in the debate about new data retention laws in Europe was just this: That in face of changing subscription types like prepaid cards, the police needed data retention to still have access to the same data as before.
Holy hell, if you think people brains all work in the same way, you live in a different world than mine.
It's true in lots of work situations besides the military. Also, taking turns to let other people speak and doing things in an orderly fashion is the basis of legislative and court proceedings, as well as more basic things like not driving your car on the sidewalk or ignoring red traffic lights. My personal opinion is that humans in groups tend to engage in lowest-common-denominator behavior by default, and hierarchical structures are useful for preventing crowds from degenerating into mobs.
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Both have an advantage with one promotion, so it's not really this for that.

Both have the same advantage, but to different people.

Google shows KitKat to other companies (Here is a business active on our community - ecosphere) and KitKat is shown to other people (hey look, we love Android to and we are social - looking at their page, they really are ;-) ).

I'm actually curious about any difference in KitKat's sales because of this action...

I hope that KitKat would show that in the future, as a return to Android enthousiasts.

We are all aware of a multitude of things, but it would be nice for a corporation just to share something... (and like it or not, that's the most used action on my Android phone :-P)
Maybe a different section would have printed it. I'm kind of interested.
Because that's the only way most people will ever hear about your app, but if you can get in front of them through press or optimizing your text and images plenty of people will pay.
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Awesome, thanks! Still wish I could be there in person. There's nothing quite like it.
"2 weeks later..." "[NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@ who?", result];"
And there will be many people for whom those clothes don't really fit (feel, appearance, etc.). A lot of people will simply make do. But many other will alter the clothing or switch to tailor-made clothing. . .or a different pattern with a different range of sizes.
For a while in college I had one of the Timex Datalink [1] watches. That was a funky setup. It "synced" with your calendar by holding it up to your CRT. The CRT then flashed a bunch of lines that the watch read with a sensor. You could sync almost anything to it, but the watch itself had a one line display. It was handy for calendars, but really cumbersome. And I still got crap for wearing it, even amongst my nerdy friends...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink
I highly doubt that malware could brick a phone.
LOL, apparently I suck as a parser. I read them as just swaps of the numbers, I.E. 23 4 + vs. 4 23 +.
I was thinking the same thing. They should have included the old logo in the test also.
Yes, but again this is measuring via NTP. A 0.1ms offset in a GPS signal would be a failure state, but the same injected by a gigabit switch (for example) would be virtually undetectable and persist in the market. Having great underlying hardware doesn't make the problem NTP is trying to solve any easier.
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I was pretty hyped when I saw the product here and instantly wondered, "why did I get a Pebble if this exists!?".

But then there's not even a release date. This is a concept page, not a product.
Perhaps the best is the most familiar because when people see Yahoo they expect and want to see Yahoo.
One can tell that Apple have sent invites for a town hall event, the negative stories are ramping up.

> Nor is the iOS-centric HN echo chamber...

Read the comments here. The significant majority are pro-Android. The whole 'plucky little Android' schtick is extremely tiresome and frankly devalues your point. The "psychology" that you cite is basically confirmation bias, so beautifully illustrated by your comment.

Whilst Android is making gains is some markets, so Apple is in others. Apple is up before a hardware update in the UK, France and US, taking share away from Android.
If I had spent a million constructing a virtual pony, and I could give you a copy of it without any additional cost, I'd give you a copy of my pony.

However, the pony in this analogy is the device, not the software. The software is more like the saddle -- and Google are selling ponies with their own custom designed saddle, making it hard to ride it any other way than bareback if you don't use Google's saddle - so that they can sell adwords printed on the saddle, and take a cut from everyone that sells Google compatible stirrups.

At any rate, I didn't say I was entitled to it, just that I couldn't see any reason to keep it closed. I do see many reasons to keep it open.
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You may want to take a look at http://www.cloudfoundry.com/ for that extra layer of abstraction.
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> But you have no real architecture details, only a small
> number of bullet points on how it's supposed to behave
> and a simple but not horribly descriptive API.

And WWDC presentation.
the geocities / facebook comparision is pure gold. And yes, I really hope the whole real-name social network trend will be overcome again.
In general high profile labs get there by having high through put (lots of experiments, lots of papers). The lab PI becomes a publicity guy, giving lots of lectures and wheeling and dealing with funding agencies. The actual bench work is done by postdocs and graduate students. Many labs begin to resemble departments with the PI as chairperson. But not in a good way. The PI loses touch with the science, no longer fulfills their role as mentor to an apprentice and the quality of the work is a crapshoot - depending entirely on postdocs. The PI becomes a brand.
Not only that, but in the breakdowns by attribute, users actually preferred serif logos in general over non-serifs, which suggests that they would actually have preferred the current logo over any of the new ones.
Yet again, though, this is confusing revenue across the platform with revenue per app/developer/development-hour/etc... The contention in the linked article is that you can get a "bigger slice of the smaller pie" by being an early mover on Android. That may not be true, but you can't argue against it by shouting about the size of the pie as a whole.
There are 46 indefinite detainees at Guantanamo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#D...

There are 200,000 in North Korean political prison camps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea#Political_prison_ca...

I think reasonable people can distinguish which is worse.
They are refering to Android - as sweet as chocolate - so that is a referral to KitKat as a company / product.

So they should have some permission / permission about it.
Your comment actually is a good example of anti-Apple comment type, and that's it.
Sorry, but this is not a good article.

Instead of telling me what to do based on a small dataset of evidence, I'd much rather read what you have done. What worked for you. I don't think the author knows what he is talking about.
If you're interested in timing systems, then this article about upgrading the clock system at JHU APL, which is one of the UTC ensemble systems, will interest you. It's pretty damn stable since the upgrades.

http://techdigest.jhuapl.edu/TD/td3201/32_01-Miranian.pdf
Nice job! I like it, and this is a lot easier then sharing screenshots or raw TeX :-P.

Also make sure you sanitize user input, you have a XSS issue.

https://texpaste.herokuapp.com/n/bj1jknil
> This seems to be the central issue with Uber- it has solved a San Francisco problem, and is now trying to apply the same solution everywhere.

Dealing with taxi dispatchers in Seattle is awful. They're rude, they don't tell you when your cab is coming, sometimes they just don't pick up.

Some taxi drivers aren't much better. They can be extremely reticent to accept credit cards, and I have been refused service before because I wanted to pay with one.

The introduction of Uber (and especially UberX) in Seattle has made deciding whether or not to drive a total no-brainer.
If all statistics were required to be rigorous, there'd be a whole lot less to read about in the newspaper, that's for sure.
I have my own company and wanted to do the same. Sadly for Swedish companies you have to be a "Aktiebolaget", you need to be on the stockmarket, to be able to have your company name in the App store.

My options waere to either invest about $8000 to become a AB or open a LLC in UK while living in Sweden. After half a year of trying and failing I just gave up and stopped developing for iOS.

Now I just started developing for Firefox OS and hope for the best. My first app is even on the Marketplace already: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/feedmonkey/
Where did you get the impression that the book was counterfeit?
But are you adding new features to the old codebase? The challenge is when the rewrite takes longer than planned (e.g. Netscape) and your old product is no longer competitive but the replacement (which, as a rewrite, may not include any new features) is not ready.
You don't really have to have an education degree or even what I think you mean by an education mindset. But many people do feel like they're stepping outside their comfort zone, at least initially. When I did it, I felt pretty comfortable. And my financial resources were limited at the time.
Thanks for the suggestion -- I'm going to consider it. Here's the problem, I usually silence or turn-off my phone at these meetings, and so if I'm walking away, I may not hear the notifications. I usually only remember to un-silence or turn-on my phone much later.
BTW, the algorithm used in example 2 is not the true Sieve of Erastosthenes (although there is a long tradition of getting that name wrong...)

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
Honest question, does 4K and up really make sense for private use?

It's a good question, but my answer is definitely, Yes.

My ideal work station would be a room with a wall-sized 8K touch-screen monitor covering the wall in front of me. I would have an adjustable table with a comfy chair and treadmill looking over the table and across the room at the wall screen. Lower the table and sit in the chair. Raise the table and use it as a standing desk or step onto the treadmill. Step out from behind the table and pace around the room, examining the code and how it is running in the four browsers open in windows beside the code. Walk up to the screen and use the browsers via touch. Step back, look at the code, walk up to it and interchange two lines by dragging, then say, "Macro! Run!" and watch it go.

Walk back to the treadmill and turn up the speed for a victory lap as you watch your code finally doing what it is supposed to....

I want that 8K touchscreen on the wall.
I don't have any of these issues, but your description of how you used the 1st gen Kindle is hilarious. Thanks for an unexpected laugh.
It is dishonest to ignore it, and it is dishonest to hold it up as representative.
Because they can pay the substantial premium involved. Collectively, our interest in having as many people as possible moderately well-educated rather than just having a few who are outstandingly well-educated imposes constraints.
I hated maths and wound up with an Economics major and a job where an above average grasp of stats is greatly beneficial. Go figure. I suspect the proportion of adults for whom some form of mathematics assumes at least some basic importance in adulthood vastly exceeds the proportion of kids that would voluntarily turn off MTV to do arithmetic puzzles.

Put another way, if you drew a Venn diagram of "stuff that would be useful for adulthood" and "stuff most kids would study until they were at least adequately skilled entirely of their own volition", the circles would barely overlap.

Sure, this doesn't apply to the average Hacker News reading autodidact, but one of the first things you learn in statistics is not to make judgements based on outliers.
Perhaps familiarity is in fact part of the definition of the "best "logo. After all, a logo serves no other purpose than recognition. Companies routinely spend a great deal of money ensuring that their logo, colors, interior decor, etc etc, all make people go "Oh yeah! That's [X]!"