skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it isn't apparent is that most people do not have the opportunity to really compare the two phones side-by side, with everyday actions: swapping between apps, swiping menus or notifications, etc, and so VERY few people get to really experience the nice things about one platform that the other doesn't do well, and vice-versa.
Since disk space is not much of problem this day, why don't we just pre-process the images? I know this only applies if you know in advance which sizes you want, but do you really need like 20 different sizes of an image?
Keep spinning it that way, if you'd like. But the people who are (for example) Muslim or Sikh in Quebec tend to not be white. The Jewish population is another matter, but the Quebec nationalists have it in for them, too, and that goes back decades.
I did this when the first palm pre came out and for a few iphones. Came home from the pub and offered the homeless guy blocking the door to my apartment while sleeping money to sleep in front of the cell store instead. Woke up, walked to the store, gave the guy cash and breakfast and sat down at the front of the line. People behind me though it was genius.

Several people thought it was uncouth. Don't see why. Guy got paid and I woke him up earlier than usual so he got into the shelter line super early. Win Win.
Actually, Openresty is both faster and more obscure.
Oh nice. A black screen -.-
So long, Webmonkey. Thanks a lot for the "Sizing Up the Browsers" article from 1999.[1] I referred to it every time I made a website that was best viewed in NN4 or IE5 at 800x600 resolution.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20000302050428/http://hotwired.ly...
I've had great success using protobuf-c https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/
You misread. They make a mobile app that streams stuff from their cloud. Therefore, to calculate actual delays in their app, they must add network response times and touch latency.
I'll second that the ipad is a great creation device but just not for proper stylus based creation - some paint styles, most drawing, and any handwriting. But it is good for more common creative applications - a lot of photo apps, music, keyboard-based writing. If Apple also made a stylus-based product I'd get it in a heartbeat (because ironically it's weakest as a paper notebook replacement for meetings and sketching ideas), but if I had to choose between those types of creative applications, there's more mileage in the ipad.
"Java, a popular programming language." - that's basically best thing you can say about it, but it also deserves a caveat on how awesome the JVM is.
"The important news here is that video games are surpassing other forms of entertainment."

The games segment has been larger than Movies for quite a while.
They use Qualcomm anywhere they need LTE, as nobody else has that properly sorted.
I'm learning from my comment that "completely" is entirely relative to a group and their narrative.
Nice successes indeed, but not $1B in a few days successes ;))
Here's an idea. Let each box 'expand', perhaps to its own page. This way, if you want to dig deeper, you can find more resources in the expanded box. You can let users suggest resources with an 'add' button; users can vote for resources so the best ones bubble to the top. You could take this further and break each resource list into beginner, intermediate, advanced.
the accuracy of prices

The resolution issue on prices is not clear-cut. Liquidity is good, and I'm happy to have it. But infinite resolution (price, timing) trades do not per-se follow. And they ultimately, themselves, have a feedback loop. INstitutionalized front running (changing examples) is not benign liquidity, for example. Dynamic hedging would at least be a legitimate use, but absence its availability should be priced in accordingly in seperate markets.
One can under achieve until well into their thirties/forties and still make meaningful accomplishments.
What do you suppose separating it from academic institutions is going to do? The culture of sports will still be there. You can't hack away basic human nature and seeking social status through acts of physical strength has been part of human nature for thousands, if not millions, of years. All it's going to do is further the class divide.

For example, I played football in HS. It greatly improved my social status in school and allowed me to enjoy most of my 4 years of high school. The previous 6 years of schooling was marked with physical abuse because I was a fat geek. Football changed all that and provided my fellow geek friends some protection as well.

I would not have been able to play had football been privatized. My parents didn't have a lot of money, we couldn't buy pads like the hockey players did. At my school, hockey wasn't a school sport. Too expensive. As a result, the hockey players were even more popular than the football players at my school because there were so few of them.
Check out nerdydata.com?
It can be even easier than that: I wrote a benchmark that allows you to measure input latency for web browsers without any specialized hardware or cameras: http://google.github.io/latency-benchmark

Of course this technique can't tell you the hardware latency of a touchscreen or display, but it can measure all of the latency introduced by software, which can be quite significant (and as a software developer, the software latency is the part you can actually influence).
He seemed to have a great understanding of it, very articulate. I'm going to order something from him. Maybe have him read and write about the long Hacker News thread about him and get all meta.
Good for him. Instead of only Apple getting to make money and participate in the benefits of free enterprise and capitalism, this guy and several homeless people will make some money and benefit from it.
I do not see 2 codecs as a pack.
What's really wrong with BlackBerry [2010]
I always thought codec pack was seen as a pack of several codecs and not just two.
Water-shedding surfaces can be made to last
That's a great point -- this graph is entirely relative to market share. I'm almost certain the market share of either iOS or Android is several times larger than Symbian, Palm, Blackberry, and WinMo combined.
Yeah, these kinds of shenanigans date back to the first 2G iPhone, and they were just as obvious at the time, too.
I'm glad to see numbers on this too. Hardware benchmarks like this are nice because they can capture end-to-end latency, but they're difficult to run. If you want to easily capture some latency numbers yourself, I've been working on an all-software benchmark for input latency: http://google.github.io/latency-benchmark
Resumulus: New Platform for creating cloud-based, interactive resumes
12 Scalable Link-Building Tactics
The 1957 paper, The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System¹, begins:

The FORTRAN project was begun in the summer of 1954.

The paper is worth reading in full. The compiler was probably the first in the modern sense (and the term was not used for such — the paper refers to it as a ‘translator’) yet was remarkably sophisticated, including things like common subexpression elimination, strength reduction, flow analysis, and register allocation for the 704's three precious index registers. On the other hand the section on expression parsing shows its age; it's trivial today, but recursive grammars were not then yet understood.

¹http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Fortran/10...
You don't seem to understand fizzles. A fizzle would not be expected to release even a kiloton of yield. A fizzle is not merely some malfunction of the bomb that causes it to achieve very low yield. Moreover, because of the two stage nature of thermonuclear weapons a fizzle of the primary would result in the secondary not going off at all. The nominal yield of the secondary, which makes up the vast majority of the explosive power of multi-megaton bombs, is thus not even remotely relevant.

A fizzle in the Tsar bomba (a 100MT capable device) would not be expected to release 1MT of energy or even 1/10th that, it would still release likely very much less than even a single kiloton.
As much as I love my iOS devices, they still have MASSIVE latency compared to my Wacom tablet. There's just no comparison. I guess the touch processing had a lot of overhead.
What a great fucking quote. I remember being totally inspired by this essay. Makes me feel like my dreams are within my reach.
Source Control: Git + Phabricator

Development stack: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Backbone.js (Coffeescript)

Testing: RSpec, Konacha (continuous integration using Jenkins)

Server: SaltStack for provisioning, nginx/unicorn

Deployment: Capistrano

I think that's a good overview. Then there are a lot more 3rd party services like S3, Sendgrid, etc..
Is that the human eye with good vision? Does this include people with poor vision?
I don't understand the link between vision and audio. Can you explain what you mean?
I think you have valuable insight here and you've got some helpful anecdotal evidence, but the whole dollar sign before the ticker thing made me immediately think of the "M$" people.

I'm assuming you're giving the ticker syntax, but it almost made me question your post, especially considering you're speaking against the iPhone. Just a knee jerk reaction from a passerby.
In case you didn't know, Org-mode in Emacs has support for export to Beamer. It frees you up from needing to use LaTeX at all:
http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html

Probably not reason enough to learn Org-mode, but good to know if you know the Org-mode basics. (Basics of Org-mode are simple but it can get pretty complicated b/c so many features.)
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Charge rent. Serve free coffee.
This is one of the main reasons I switched from a Droid to an iPhone. I also had an iPod touch at the time and the difference in lag when surfing the web always frustrating on the Droid.
I remember reading somewhere that the DS homebrew "pressure sensitivity" was merely a hack. Since you hit more neighboring pixels when you push the stylus down, you get more "pressure". (This could be outdated information, though.)
This is very interesting to me because I had the opposite experience - my parents had me start school early. I went to a private grade school that allowed me to start kindergarten while still 4, a few weeks before my 5th birthday (I was born in mid-September).

I don't think it was an issue at all academically - I was able to skip another grade, starting 2nd grade at 5. However, the school and my parents decided to stop it at that point, which was probably a good idea. However, I ended up starting middle school at 9, high school at 12, and college at 16, which made things difficult socially. Although things worked out, being any younger would probably have been detrimental to the experience.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Being able to choose your own adventure has been captivating even without the visuals. Zork was captivating using ASCII, this even more so.
This is sort of a side note, but that 17 mile kill zone for a 3.8 megaton bomb would depend on it exploding in the air, which would allow more of the energy of the bomb to hit the ground rather than be forced out along the ground or be directed into excavating a useless crater or up in to the air. A ground-level blast would have a much shorter radius of lethality but it would also create vastly more radioactive fallout.
Looking at the numbers a bit more closely I'm guessing the source was comparing iPhone 5 to the pack of Android phones where it's 2.1 to 2.3. This source said 2.0 to 2.5 which seems accurate with that so maybe it's Venturebeat playing up the bigger number.
To split hairs, not infinite---instead, minimum size = 1 pixel
Chips are just rectangles, and softwares are just bits.
Don't know if anyone else noticed this but I see the page template briefly before the content is loaded in.

Can't say I've seen this for long enough to notice before.
`play dubstep` works though
Sole motivation? Primary motivation? I don't see the evidence for it. From "The Bishop's Boys", pg. 164:

"Wilbur was thirty-two years old in the spring of 1899. He realized that now was the time. He needed a challenge, a measure of himself—a problem that matched his skills and abilities. The recognition that flight was such a problem did not come in a blinding flash of insight, but grew slowly during the years 1896-99."

He'd been interested in flight since he was a boy.
Severance: Blade of Darkness (2001) for PC[1] was pretty good. Sadly, it suffered from two fatal flaws: horrendous bugs (even by today's standards) and no strafe. The sword fights were awesome, though. You could cut off a goblin's hand, pick it up and beat him to death with it. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tbcZvGSgVk
Yeah, C should give you 2x Java
Opencms.org: OpenCms, the Open Source Java Web Content Management System
Thanks for the shoutout javiercr! We've been so busy we haven't pushed this forward but given how much interest there is in these types of tools, we may just need to put some time on the calendar and polish up the product. Would love to hear more about what use cases people have besides product tracking, competitive monitoring, etc.
I figure that without the Wrights, the problem would have been solved within 5 years or so. But still, the Wrights did it.
Exactly which part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics methodology do you disagree with? http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpi_methods.htm

Which part of the Billion Price Project's methodology do you disagree with? Its measure of inflation agrees with the BLS's pretty closely. http://bpp.mit.edu

Which measure of inflation do you prefer over those two, and where can we examine its methodology?
Does an article of only a few hundred words warrant a summary?
How much difference does sporadic malloc make these days? What is the loss in performance compared to the overhead of virtual memory, randomization and whatnot, assuming OS is also trying to optimize?
ARM just comes up with the instruction set. The cores are still designed by Samsung, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc.
I'm having a tough time trying to find the answer to that question.

Most sites just repeat this date as a factoid, with no context.

I looked at the videos mentioned at http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/index.h... as well as some of the documents linked to elsewhere from that page.

One of the more interesting was the specification, dated November 10, 1954, at http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Fortran/10... . It's interesting because of the level of detail in the specification

The most relevant description I found was http://www.combat-diaries.co.uk/diary29/whirlwind.htm .

> It was a modest effort. At first, it consisted of Backus, an easy-going young man with a master's in mathematics from Co­lumbia University, and Irving Ziller, another programmer. By the summer of 1954, three more programmers had joined the team, and they began running test programs on an IBM 701 in the IBM complex at 590 Madison Avenue, in Manhattan. From the begin­ning, the group concentrated on the compiler. "We simply made up the language [the commands that make up a user's program] as we went along," Backus recalled.

> We did not regard language design as a difficult problem, merely a simple prelude to the real problem: designing a com­piler which could produce efficient [binary] programs. Of course one of our goals was to design a language which would make it possible for engineers and scientists to write programs for the 704. We also wanted to eliminate a lot of the bookkeep­ing and detailed, repetitive planning which hand coding [in as­sembly language] involved.

> Backus and his team began writing the compiler in early 1955, after a year and a half of preliminary work.

This tell us that the first FORTRAN program (1954) was not run on the compiler that didn't start until 1955, and which was eventually shipped.

What I remember from Richard Waychoff's "Stories about the B5000 and People Who Were There", which concerned Burrough's ALGOL development in the early 1960s, was that in that era people spent a lot of time in analysis, before getting to the actual programming.

Waychoff proposes that the best schedule is "A. Design of the language complete. B. Design of the Scanner complete. C. Design of the Statement Parsers complete. D. Start of programming. E. Project successfully completed."

That model fits what I read about the FORTRAN development. That is, I think the IBM people spent a lot of time developing the language, developing algorithms for things like parsing, fleshing those out, and only then getting to what we would consider to be the programming part proper.

All the research though, and I still can't tell you if the first FORTRAN program was hand assembled. However, since Backus had already developed Speedcoding, which was more like an interpreted assembler, my guess is that the first program was processed in the same way, through a limited FORTRAN interpreted that handled the subset of FORTRAN that they tested.
What is 'effort'? Why is it required? Why can't we learn freely with our own time and interest? Why should that be considered 'not being lazy'? Why are you judging children?

In our culture, laziness and curiosity are considered two of the three virtues of a programmer. (Hubris is the other, but I don't think that's as important)

Anecdotally, I know I for one got away with being lazy in school years. Generally I would do work in class only until I understood what was going on, then stop. Homework was avoided wherever possible. Requests from teachers for repetition of essentially mindless acts was considered a form of condescension and actively subverted wherever possible.

However, my curiosity meant that self-directed learning in my free time outside of school (computing, photography, geography, history, etc.) more than compensated.

My advice to children is this: Spend time on what you feel like (but don't waste opportunities to learn, and don't tread on other people's toes), feel free to ignore authorities (with modes of peaceful resistance), do something physical if you get the chance, but use the internet to satisfy your curiosity about the world. Never let it die. Most adults you see have let it die, and sometimes they are like husks of true people... never a free moment, never an idle thought, never a playful tangent. Avoid that fate, and you will always be knowledgeable, always be fed, always be respected.
Good Karma
Similar experience. My parents enrolled me in a private kindergarten for a day so that they could re-enroll me in the public kindergarten on the grounds that I'd already been in kindergarten, so couldn't go to preschool. I turned out (academically) pretty good. In middle school, I was taking math classes with high schoolers (my public middle school and high school were merged), so that can maybe attest a little bit to the benefits of mixed-grades, in my case..
Ah. Gotcha. Valid point. I think that is a school by school thing. Not much you can do about that unless the state starts mandating how individual schools glorify different student accomplishments.
Really! How new is this? I ask because there were some people trying to do this to little effect last time I seriously worked with Play.
I agree. I feel like I see this posted all the time (in comments on various threads) and there's always a large group that is shocked and/or don't understand.

It's silly.
Ahh, youthful optimism! While work is obviously useful, the fact is, PG's business model relies on others doing lots and lots of work, very quickly, to get a good return on his capital. In reality, the hardest things to come up with may be the ideas, and he solicits those for free. It's a bit of scam, really. What holds true for some tiny percentage of people engaged in Silly-Valley startuppering is not that which holds true for most of us in most of our lives.
Though it should be pointed out that GTA V has launched without any DLC to speak of. I'm sure they'll do it eventually as they did for GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption, but the DLC for those two games was more akin to an expansion pack.
I'm not entirely convinced that the pain of dating apps is actually scheduling the date.
Definitely not status quo. One big example is when Twitter moved away from that back to server side rendering for performance reasons [1].

There are basically three aspects of website performance - server performance, network performance, and client performance. You can control server performance and network latency (CDN), but you can't control what's going on on your users computers.

For example, if they're tab-abusers (guilty as charged) with 50+ non-trivial tabs open, plus other apps open and stuff running in the background, then your beautiful high-performance UI could start chugging (as many do on my abused laptop).

So you really have to think about what your main userbase will be and whether you need to put the rendering chunk of your app's CPU usage on your own servers or on your client's desktops/laptops/tablets/phones.

[1]: https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-twitterc...

- http://openmymind.net/2012/5/30/Client-Side-vs-Server-Side-R...
Like a co-working space?
No comments - a history of online commenting on the web
Apparently this is important: References Make Commits Reachable.

[EDIT] Actually this is a great resource. Very clear thinking and explanations.
Honestly I'd like to run them with vanilla Maven. There's play2-maven-plugin that's trying to get there and that'd be a great thing, I wish them well.
There's a certain amount of lag I can get used to with Android. I noticed that upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2.2 didn't eliminate the lag, but it reduced it to being much more usable. I used a WP8 phone for a while, and I found that even though the swooshy animations can take a relatively long time to complete, it was so responsive in starting an animation that it was hard to go back to Android.
there are still people using palmOS?
"it's trivial today, but recursive grammars were not then yet understood"

I like the parenthetical line from http://rules-of-the-game.com/com002-memoir1.htm , which describes some people who are trying to understand the FORTRAN compiler based on analysis of its assembly code. I quote more than that line to give context:

> As we read the code, we flow-charted. As the flow charts grew, we Scotch-taped page to page, since we didn't know enough yet to be able to identify distinct modules or procedures that could safely be relegated to separate pages. The code didn't lend itself very readily to such treatment, in any case; this was, remember, a vast, undifferentiated torrent of assembly-language code, whose main organizing principle was not "while" or "until," but rather "Oh, and another thing!" (If you take this as a dig at the FORTRAN designers and implementers, you are badly mistaken; that would be like criticizing Lewis & Clark for not taking Interstate 80 when traveling west.)
> Compared to what, since, according to TFA they have the smallest touch latency?

Drawing apps can easily end up with significantly higher latency than the baseline if they aren't careful with how they do input smoothing and such. It's really easy to get that wrong and bloat your touch latency.
Lean Startup in the US Air Force (with Steve Blank)
Right, but since then, we've attempted to give everyone a liberal arts education. But many are resistant to that and prefer the teat of the entertainment industry.

Nothing wrong with hearing about something on TV and googling it (Wikipedia has revolutionized instant knowledge in this way). It's the people who don't dig deeper and don't realize the prior reference and deeper meaning to begin with. And so it seems like they're missing the subtle reference to the real world in the TV show.
Designers: Get Paid by Being a Primadonna
Wow, outstanding read. Considering this guy worked for Apple, Apple may hopefully (for the sake of their stockholders) already know this.

Nevertheless, this is quite an intuitive research trend this guy has put together, and makes a lot of sense.