skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the actual report, not the venture beat blog spam: http://appglimpse.com/blog/

> We built simple, optimized apps to flash the full screen white* as quickly as possible in response to a touch. The apps contain minimal logic and use OpenGL/DirectX rendering to make sure the response is as quick as possible. Since these are barebones native apps doing nothing more than filling the screen in response to a touch, this benchmark defines the Minimum App Response Time (MART) a user could experience on a mobile app on each device.
For comparison, here's another set of benchmarks from a guy who appears to use the same methodology (240fps camera, count frames between input and screen response in custom lightweight apps).

http://www.collectingsmiles.com/news/measuring-latency-in-co...

iPhone 5: 81 ms

Galaxy S3: 104 ms

Galaxy Note: 71 ms

Nintendo 3DS: 23 ms

PS Vita: 49 ms

And, to add a tv game console into the mix, apparently the latency between input on a PS3 wireless controller and home screen interaction is also about 50 ms.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3725/measuring_respons...
This has fuck all to do with Obj-c vs. Dalvik.

Android's input system is in C++ anyway.
Sure, that's stable, but it doesn't have a unique solution. Many solutions are stable. How do you pick from the stable solutions in a way that doesn't just recreate the problem?

For example if you say, "a random trader gets to be the first proposer", then the firms with more money just flood it with trader entries, increasing the chance that they get to be first.
How does one cover a history of comments on the net and skip over Usenet?
This is really useful. It would kinda cool if you made this into a command line app. Still, good job!
You're saying you excelled academically despite always being the youngest? That's the point of the linked article.
Just in case anyone doesn't realize that this is a terrible idea, this is a terrible idea.

It's certainly a reasonable position that self signed certs should not have such a scary warning, but if you install the lolroot root certificate as a trusted certificate, you will now be completely vulnerable to MITM attacks.

Anyone can pretend to be, for example, your bank, by generating a lolroot self signed certificate for your banks domain name. You've said you trust them, your browser won't put up any warning.

I'm sure most people realize this but in case you didn't, don't install it.
According to this test WP8 isn't any better than Android. Well, specifically the Lumia 928 isn't any better than the Galaxy S4. Need to be specific about which device, since we're almost exclusively talking about hardware here (touch controller, GPU, and display controller) - the OS isn't doing much.
Interesting, I just bought a Samsung smart TV and I noticed during the setup that when you switch between fields the focus selector moves just like this does.
You should actually constrain volume to 1-100. I'm currently listening at 2000, and I tried 1000000 and it was painful.
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> If ECMAScript was the same thing, then why would Mozilla bother licensing Javascript from Oracle?

Trademarks are basically labels; what Mozilla licensed from Oracle (actually, as I recall the history, what Netscape licensed from Sun and transferred to Mozilla) is the right to use the trademark "JavaScript". It has nothing to do with the actual language, just the label.
Its interesting that the Wii U touchscreen has 53ms latency while the 3DS only has 23ms.
I went to a very small rural primary school when I was a kid. The entire school was only 20 or so children.

There was one full time teacher, and a second who was part time. That's actually a pretty good student to teacher ratio compared to the overfull classes of today.

Perhaps half the days activities were done in a single group and the other half we would be split in to two groups to do academic work.

I think that having mixed age group was very positive. It allowed kids to learn from the older ones but in addition everyone moved forward at their own pace. The school had to be designed to handle each student being at a different place in their education by it's very nature.

When I moved to a larger secondary school at age 11, I was miles ahead of my new peers. It was at least a couple more years before any of the content being taught caught up to what I had learned in primary school.
A detailed look at Pixar's OpenSubdiv
How do we chat in the repl? I'm getting messages I'd like to engage with.
Oddly, I can play most stuff, but not drum & Bass. It just says

Searching genre..
Found! Playing 'Drum & Bass' genre, yay!

-----------------------------------------------------------------

The song is ended (but the melody lingers on)

-----------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome to cmd.fm!

Use 'help' command to see available commands
>

It's rather odd...
Are you just here to be an argumentative dick?
Very cool app. Few thoughts:

- If a track doesn't start buffering quickly enough, maybe automatically skip it?

- Running 'clear' also clears the current track, but it should really be persistent.

- This might go against the popular opinion, but I'd like to see "now playing" pinned at the top, so when the window scrolls, it scrolls under it, instead of effectively hiding it.

- Consider setting a cookie to track preferences.

- If you could link to the source (the current song's soundcloud link) that would be excellent. At the very least, a permalink or something.
If I had to reply to my own question I would answer that perhaps this happened simply because of the huge number of bloggers around which for a big part are not that much tech savvy, making them more exposed to the appeal of a "better, easier than wordpress" blogging platform.

I think that such big revenue came exactly from the stress devs put on the "simplicity feature".

But I have this kind of feeling that I would like to be shown the part of the picture I am ignoring so to be proven wrong (which hasn't happened so far...).
Comments are taken from SoundCloud, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6421446
I think these are the comments from soundcloud.

Though it would be really cool to have a chatroom for each song. My first interpretation was the same as yours and I was wondering if there is a char room per genre or one chatroom per song.

Amazingly useful app!
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I had almost this exact same scenario happen to me. As a developer, I was excited to see what new fun things at the time (2009) were coming out of RIM. To my dismay, like yours, I couldn't even get a hello world to run after much tinkering and configuring. After I learned that they didn't even use the SDK they released into the wild in their own development, I knew it was a lost company. Dogfood and all that.
I've has the opposite experience as a US citizen.
I haven't had cable in nearly a decade now. Does the media still use that old canard?
Lacking belief in an afterlife, many early civilizations instead strove to achieve immortality in "kleos": the fame that does not decay.
Author makes a pretty infographic that doesn't actually convey what she was aiming for (BB lost market share? Palm devices are still in use? Windows mobile lost out and never recovered? )

Between that, and the opening line, "BlackBerry stocks plunged 22 points this afternoon... "[1] I almost stopped reading.

The conclusion makes me wish that I had: "every major smartphone platform from early 2007 has become a practical non-entity since the rise of Android and iOS."

Is it just my imagination, or do the other platforms have a combined total of 15% of the market at the end of that graphic ? Individually it doesn't break down well, but collectively non-entity doesn't seem a good fit.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/04/043004.asp
This is potentially a bit of a loaded question, since compare the following similar question:

"Does Apple use any components which are best-in-class and unavailable to competitors?"

The answer there is "yes", at least according to a bevy of evidence from the AnandTech review/benchmarks: http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review.

edit: To clarify, I mean this because the A7 is a custom design that just happens to be fabbed by Samsung under contract, rather than an off-the-shelf component, like the M7, that has simply been granted a marketing buzzword. Other OEMs will not simply be able to integrate the A7 in their products for this reason.
Perhaps the iOS app they built to test its responsiveness is more efficient than the Android app they built to test its responsiveness?
well, sshd denying requests isn't a performance cost, in itself.

But having a script like denyhosts or fail2ban that analyzes auth logs for IPs to block requires memory for the interpreter running the script, as well as however much of the log gets read into memory.

Blocking external ssh connections can avoid that performance hit, however large or small it ends up being.
Logically, the most gifted and smartest kid will advance faster, and be placed in higher levels, resulting in them usually being the youngest in the class.

For example, if your school told you your 5 year old is smart enough to start 1st grade, you'll likely enroll it into 1st grade, making it younger than the average 6 year old 1st grader.

Unfortunately this has the problem of straining the kid, and rather than seeming and being exceptional, it'll appear average. Later on in life when grades, extracurriculars, become important for college admissions, the kid will be disadvantaged because of this, since age is usually never considered.

Moral of the story: it's better to be a big fish in a small pond.
Just because ports and refreshes of games exist, it doesn't mean they sell in meaningful numbers.
It's also fun that they found the M7, considering that the initial teardown left iFixit with the impression that it was just some marketing buzzword for a part of the A7. As has been mentioned in the thread, it is still an off-the-shelf component, but at least we know the truth now (that the "M7" really still is a separate IC).
My age was less of an issue at the grade school level, where students of multiple grade levels were in the same classroom (because it was a small school). However, things were not so easy socially once I moved to a public middle school, where everyone else in the classroom was of around the same age. The article refers to both social and academic benefits to being younger - my experience was the opposite for the former. Things were a lot easier when my classmates didn't know I was younger than them.
Doesn't work at all with the "Vimium" Chrome extension [1]. What a shame.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
Seems a bit of an extrapolation, no? I never read Ozymandias in school, but I'm certain I've read very worthwhile literary works you've yet to read also. The notion that not having read some arbitrary, singular work implies general cultural ignorance is, well, about as silly as the statement sounds. It's almost as if different places and different times have different things in their English curricula! ;)

Going from "has not read a particular work" to "prefers the teat of the entertainment industry" is a bit of a leap.
Android runs on x86, and Bay Trail could put Intel right back in the game if they get vendors on board:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7314/intel-baytrail-preview-in...
Obvious statement of the day: Some people obsess over Apple products.

"Though Apple’s technical specs claim both the iPhone 5 and 5s weigh exactly the same, the 5s feels lighter. It’s very, very subtle, but I can tell in a multiple blind tests (I don’t have a scale)."

Apple says they weight the same, yet the 5s feels lighter.

This is why Blackberry is going out of business. Nobody compares the size of the home button to the size of the icons to the size of the holes in the included case.
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Quickly learn what? We can't eliminate worry or fear whatever we choose to pursue. I think what prevents you from succeeding is not business related at all.
The headline speaks for itself. And the author's posting of it here with the suffix of 'Yellow journalism?' certainly implies a conspiracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
The Touch ID is really neat, and he misses on of the key interactions. At the unlock screen, you can just touch the home button (without pressing) and it will automatically unlock. No more slide to unlock.

This is great.

I suspect I'll start removing my phone from my pocket with my thumb on the home button. As I grasp the phone, I'll hit the home button but immediately release it. Touch ID will read my thumbprint and unlock the phone just as it's coming up in front of my face.

That's a half-second and a gesture I'll save, every time I reach for my phone.
Now I want to know delay of trackpad on a Macbook Pro.
But how is this misleading on Bitcoin, as you claimed in your headline? If I say that a person earned $6 when they earned $0.60, does that mean I'm making misleading statements about the US dollar? Of course not.

To the extent that the article was misleading (ie trivially) it was misleading about the amount paid out for clicking on videos. The fact that payment was made in BTC rather than USD is wholly incidental to that.
What a hilariously irrelevant, tangential, presumptuous response. You must be fun at cocktail parties. Do you also tell people about how they shouldn't enjoy their shoes because they were stitched up by some poor sap in a sweatshop? I hear that goes over like gangbusters too.
Passwords have always been a weak point. This has been widely discussed for the last two decades of security research. Solving the password dilemma is not his or her intention.
These kind of cheat sheets make order in my mind and motivate me to start doing something, or at least reinforce the thought that hopefully sooner or later I will!

In either case, thank you.
I made a one-tap Citi Bike app that doesn't suck
<rant>
I'm hoping the Nexus 5 (slated to be released in mid-October) is good, because I've completely had it with Apple's crappy iPhones.

* The App store ecosystem is toxic compared to Play.

* I'm absolutely sick of waiting for Apple to put in features that should have been included 3 years ago.

* The iPhone 5s/5c improvements are pretty minor and unimaginative. Dcurtis's list of minor changes further confirms that the new iPhone is _boring_.

* Each iPhone refresh since the 4 has been less and less impressive.
</rant>

I'm certainly looking forward to moving on- Cheers!
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Fuad Malikov of Hazelcast built a complete functional peer-to-peer 48 node cluster complete with pooled memory and symmetric multiprocessing built entirely out of LEGO and Raspberry Pi computers, powered by Hazelcast open source in-memory data grid.
Somewhat related: I was a huge fan of Webmonkey. I was also a regular at http://funkychickens.com.

They haven't updated it still. Awesome.
I bet having coffee on the menu for some exorbitant price would piss people off more than its apparently inexplicable absence
I'm curious, what about the iOS App ecosystem is seemingly toxic in your opinion?
Sure it does. Just press i to enter insert mode. You have to do this for a couple of things to work (ie direct links to .swfs). It sucks to do, but I'm not going to give up Vimium to avoid having to enter insert mode every now and then.
You've misunderstood me. The part I've found motivating was that these seemingly amazing people are also regular people. I'm also more interested in bootstrapping my business without funding so I was never part of "PG's business model" as you would put it.
Yeah, the third largest city in the US with 2.7 million people. Perhaps you've heard of it?
ImpactStory monitors github, which is pretty cool. Example:
http://impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger
Well, yeah. It's not a text box; it's reading the input directly, so vimium doesn't know not to interpret it as commands.

You can easily work around this by hitting 'i' (insert mode) or disabling vimium for the page (hit icon -> exclude url).
> The state exists only in your application, not in the test.
> Your given sets up the environment in the way you want, the
> "when" manipulates the environment and the "then" checks
> that the environment exists in a particular setting.

Err, are you asserting that that is what I am doing, or what I ought to be doing?

And yes, time-dependent code is evil. I should probably add commentary to my style-guide to explicitly call that out, but thankfully we never ran into that despite testing of distributed-job-queue functionality, by virtue of having a queue so simple stubbing its main loop to work in-process in a deterministic way was trivial.

Your example should be in violation of the style guide for precisely the reason you state, among several others (blurring of concerns, etc). If my style guide isn't clear on that point -- that a When should NEVER follow a Then -- I need to clarify that. :)

I recall a Gherkin-based testing framework that handled the actual step definitions MUCH differently and much more cleanly but I never got around to fully switching us over and don't recall the name... :-S
Why are you typing $AAPL instead of Apple?
That's not unlikely, and it's not insane either. Processes are getting bigger, frameworks are taking more memory, and things take longer to fetch back in on app transfers. So if you want the apps to be snappy, you have to make sure they're in memory. Android devices have settled on clubbing the problem over the head with 2G of RAM (basically keeping stuff from being paged out to start with), while Apple went with 1G and has to play more subtle tricks.

Performance is about tradeoffs. The stuff measured in the article is response time of foreground apps. Getting the app into the foreground to begin with isn't free.
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At a guess, the Wii U touchscreen is bigger so the scanning frequency would drop if they are both using the same tech.
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This is great on so many levels.
It's Q theory to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The one guy just multitracks himself over and over, but superbly.
Illumio, The Stealthy Security Startup
But the screen is larger than three point five inches. :(
I don't need to rely on official figures. I can see from the lack of significant changes in my bills and household expenses that inflation is low.
We homeschool. My son spells words fairly well and my daughter spells like a cat.

We've worked with both of them on spelling, in about the same way.

I wouldn't really call this a cause, but my daughter doesn't really believe spelling words correctly is anything she needs to get fussed over. She thinks it's funny to spell words wrong. Me too, sometimes--though I still hope she grows out of it eventually.
"The exclamation point regulatory icon on the back of the phone appears to be about 2-5% larger on the 5s. I assume this change is to make the circle a mathematically perfect fraction of the other circles used throughout Apple’s new design language."

No. Stop.
I think they would have had to drive two different product lines, their traditional BBs (I know a few people who still cling to theirs) and some kind of AndroidBB. But marketing that and differentiating the two lines would have been a royal mess.
Hmm... Illumio might just be searching for business model.

CloudVolumes is a product that exists now: opaque overlay volumes, fs magic and infrastructure that talks to AD & hypervisor/s. It's what AppV / Softricity always wanted to be.

The gist is that it's easier to audit known good images and have each living vm be a thin layer on top of common stack of images. No more looong install-fests or library of golden images, just mount whichever components are needed.

Boom.

The meta is that enterprise-scale VM volume manageability cuts all kinds of problems (including de-dupe, security).

Sorry Illumio, but CV is just way better in so many ways.

Check it out: http://cloudvolumes.com/technology/
Can you not use thumb print to unlock? The reason I gave my ipad to my brother, was his 1.5 year old could press the button and slide to unlock.
If you're going to include Laravel, which is built entirely on top of Symfony, you may also want to include Symfony.
Help me get on the same wavelength as you. Maybe you can tell me what is "sporadic" about Tny's malloc usage? I don't understand your second question at all.

Optimizing the usage of malloc and free is no different than optimizing the run time of any algorithm. The only difference is people believe they can just abstract allocation away and rely on somebody else's code to handle it.
We do it because it's practical and because it's scalable. We do it because we're a society that loves standards but doesn't really understand how they work. So we're comfortable painting everything as a bell curve.

The outcome is something resembling a lowest-common-denominator education for all. Outstanding students don't pull a class upward, but unproductive or struggling students do slow a class down. That sucks for the student who's ahead of the class, because her potential is being wasted. It also sucks for the student at the bottom of the class, because he shouldn't be there. (That sounds harsh, but it's true).

Solving this problem will require implementing a scalable way to aggregate students by some level or set of criteria other than age. We need to organize them somehow, because it's currently impractical to teach them all individually.

And it's tricky to organize them by any "potential"-based criterion at an arbitrary age, because the brain is changing almost continuously throughout childhood. Plucking a group of "gifted" students apart from the pack at, say, age 2 is poorly predictive of who actually turns out to have high potential later on. So we need to do better than that.

These are nontrivial challenges, but the solution would represent a giant leap forward in our society.
The lack of automatic app updates is unforgivable, and if they're included with iOS7, it's still too little too late in my opinion. Clicking 30 times to update 30 apps is a bad user experience. Often some of the updates don't start or finish, and the app becomes unusable unless you go to some lengths to fix it.

Then there are also the lengthy approval times for new app version submissions. Having to wait a week or more (and when Apple doesn't misplace your submission in their queue) is outlandish compared to the [more open] Google Play App Store where updates can go live in just a couple of minutes. Apple's walled garden is not fun to develop for. Every step along the way is painful compared to Android.

At SendHub, we have both Android and iOS apps. They are both updated very frequently (usually weekly), and the process for Android is a joy by comparison. If something went wrong with the latest release, it's not too big of a drama to roll it back. With Apple, we've ended up in nightmarish scenarios where something slipped past our QA and went live, and we had to call in special one-time favors to get the bad version rolled back.

The bottom line is that Android, while far from perfect, has a more developer friendly ecosystem which allows devs to do what they're good at: writing code, creating apps, and pushing out updates without a lot of fuss.
I thought this was going to be about the digit 5 in typography. Yet another article about someone anxious to talk about his new purchase.
reading that, I got to point 5 before I was struck by how unimportant all of this is.

given the problems we face in privacy from our own governments and the almost infinite need for real innovation, why are we fixated as a community on sizes of circles.

it really made me sad. is it a form of escapism?
> This is why Blackberry is going out of business. Nobody compares the size of the home button to the size of the icons to the size of the holes in the included case.

They are going out of business because _they_ didn't compare the size .... etc.
Django but no Drupal?
You can turn Touch ID off, no problem.