skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was completely distracted by the use of Gartner's 2015 marketshare predictions. They have a terrible track record.

http://www.zdnet.com/why-does-the-it-industry-continue-to-li...

http://www.gsmdome.com/blackberry/gartner-predictions-not-so...

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2012/10/21/three-years-ago-gar...

http://betanews.com/2010/09/13/are-idc-and-gartner-mobile-os...
I seem to see more women than men with really huge phones like the Galaxy Note series. Perhaps because they are more likely to have a bag to carry it around with, rather than needing to keep it in a pocket. Presumably they just use them two handed.

I was a bit concerned when I got my wife her Nexus 4 that she would find it too large, but she hasn't said a thing about the size.
As I said in a sibling comment to this, it's also an incorrect view of history.

That said, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment—if the U.S. had not had a revolution and had instead followed a Confederation model (e.g., the formation of Canada in 1867), I'm not sure that there would be a single nation in the land occupied by what is now the U.S., but more likely a few smaller nations. Other things could have also easily prevented the U.S.’s fate as the most powerful nation in the world, as for most of its existence, the U.S. was powerfully isolationist (at least outside of the North American continent) and inward-looking.
Twitter is just a new business, not a pivot.
Checkout MasterType http://bit.ly/1a03jfe, one of the best selling games of 80s for Apple II, Atari, VIC-20, PC, etc. Sold more than a million copies.

This is same idea with vertical Tetris-like layout with better graphics but little dynamic pacing and learning support.

I worked on Apple II double-res version. Despite bad graphics by current standard, it had two major features:

1. Dynamic learning and pacing
2. Magic Sauce

Sorry "Magic Sauce" is how we described the design factor that made the game much more fun and immersive than it first looks. We spent a lot of time trying to capture and reproduce it in other games but never quite got there.
That moment when you realise you actually don't so much touch type as four-finger type. :/
The old submission title seemed to indicate that Excel came out in 1993 and was 15 mb. Someone has since corrected the title.
embarrassingly simplistic linear models crush expert judgement in terms of predictive power.

This is true in the vas majority of cases (andecdoctaly). But the inflection points are the subject of this essay. The analogue in internatinaly geopolitics, would be 9/11 and the ruthless pursuit of anti-civillian warfare. Which nobody predicted, and which <gamed> the theory of linearity[1] to maximize its damage.

[1] eg, the "expert" advice: 'go along with the hijackers', this has been empirically shown to be the safest/smartest course of action, etc
> Why not have our cake and eat it too? We'll have a very small core application, while everybody can click and install whatever extensions that apply to their specific situation.

That's an operating system.
Or perhaps people just genuinely want larger phones. Samsung's Note series sold very well. I know I personally would love the bigger screen of the Nexus 5 over my current Galaxy Nexus.

I can't think of anything worse than having a tiny screen like the iphone.
You're looking under the flashlight.

A better analysis could be done if it were compared with another password leak from another site.

But even if there's no better analysis, the best analysis may still be severely broken.
Permanently retire daylight savings time and change to two time zones.
Maybe an opportunity for mentioning Simpson's Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
I've also had similarly terrible gmaps results - it seems like only sponsored businesses show up or something. Which as the author says is "ok" I guess, but it's kind of not useful, and if its not useful, people will stop using it.
I found a passage in this article apropos to the discussion last week about "greatness versus family" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601421):

>But for the past eight years I had backed away from business and my firm, AlixPartners, to care for my daughters after the death of my wife. I was essentially “retired.” But GM’s enveloping crisis and my friendship with Wagoner would bring me out.

I mentioned then, what I reinforce now: you will not be remembered widely (positively) for how good of a parent/husband you are. What Forbes published was not this man's struggle with grief and selfless devotion to his daughters. Alix did not write about how great of a father he was or how big of an impact he made on his children and family. The most important thing that Mr. Alix did was literally re-prioritize his time away from his grieving family toward the re-structuring of a massive organization.

If and when the time comes to choose between time with your family and time creating your impact on the wider world, forgoing the latter in order to do the former will ensure that your legacy dies only a few years after you do.
I have the same view as you, except I replace "larger" with "smaller". :)
Why put the price in RMB?
I work at Yahoo and I'm a front-end engineer on the YUI Team. My job is to work on a number of open source projects such as YUI [1], Pure [2], and Mojito [3].

[1] github.com/yui/yui3
[2] github.com/yui/pure
[3] github.com/yahoo/mojito
This is extremely misleading and feeds an anti-intellectual notion that scientists are just lying to everybody.

First, it perpetuates a common claim of those who don't practice any sort of science: that the output of scientific studies is an enumeration of true/false claims determined with statistical inference logic. (Science media/blogs really aren't helping on this one.)

Second, the math is just wrong: the space of hypotheses is infinite, so it's impossible to say what fraction of these are true.
I mostly tap on the keyboard? I do use an app that sometimes requires clicking in the top right corner of the screen, but I already use my other hand to do that. Actually, I already use my other hand for the keyboard as well.
What's infuriatingly ignored is that in that very same PLoS Medicine issue is a response to Ioannidis' work by Greenland, IIRC, that notes that by "False" he means the significance is wrong, but what's really of interest is the effect measure.

On a meta level, I've always wondered why we take a paper about most findings being false as clearly correct.
Thanks for the summary. As soon as I realized this was written by the guy who came up with the plan, with him trumpeting his great success, I stopped reading. Was there anything about how bondholders were robbed to pay off the union?

Also:

General Motors, the most important industrial company

What the hell, Forbes? Good god, if GM hadn't existed, nothing would have changed. Ford or Chrysler or AMC or whoever would have filled their shoes. Big deal.
There is a paradox in this article. If the politicians who are re-writing the constitution come from inside a dysfunctional system, how will they be able to ever come to a consensus?
The next-gen of Cloud technologies [Mozilla WebFWD Startup Pitch]
In the important areas, it does check itself. If a scientist has been doing some interesting work, she will soon find herself with colleagues working on the same area. If she has not been doing something interesting, that line of research does not get cited, dies out, and does not get funding.

In active learning, there's a tradeoff between exploration and exploitation. Science does this too, but heuristically.
> Well, unfortunately the price of a nexus 5 is much higher than the price of a nexus 4. (On release - $300 for an 8GB 4, or $350 for 16GB; $350 for a 16GB 5, or $400 for 32GB.

What? You're saying the 16GB Nexus 4 was $350. The 16GB Nexus 5 is $349 for a vastly improved phone. How is that a "much higher" price?

Is the issue just that they don't offer an 8GB model any more? I can understand that. But comparing phone to phone with the same memory, isn't the Nexus 5 a much better deal?
Zombie Runner
Really? I would of figured anything that claims to be "high security" was just making delusional marketing points and was the same bog standard security you would get elsewhere.

You are less cynical than I.
Client-side JS/jQuery is very nearly assumed to be a requirement for all web developer jobs, regardless of server-side language.
Yes this is likely part of the reason but in general the discount arose due to the fed tapering issue since the discounts on all fixed income have widened together since. Regardless, a particular muni fund will be exposed to thousands of municipalities, so default risk is essentially diversified away, particularly if you invest in a managed fund where the fund managers have a track record of understanding the municipalities they invest in. Unless you are a devout believer in the efficient market, one could argue that the discount could in part be due to irrational investors selling their munis to buy equities in a media environment where scary headlines about Detroit going bankrupt are on CNN and Facebook stock doubles since it's IPO.
I never said (or implied) that I prefer the academics give us a replacement. And neither I nor the article claim that the Constitution should be changed or discarded using extralegal means. Your response, in contrast, is exactly the sort of knee-jerk thought-terminating shoutdown response I was alluding to.
I love the "liquid democracy" bit. Sounds like a Silicon Valley startup pitch. Catchy name, tons of buzzwords, and totally incomprehensible.
For what it's worth, it did seem to take about 30+ seconds to load for me. I also almost gave up.
LAX shooting comes amid mounting aversion to the TSA
I don't know if this is a great example, but: http://www.leavenworth.org/

It's sort of a Bavarian themed down-town and city in Washington state. Its allure and attraction to tourists depends on its theme.

I say I don't know if it's a great example because I have no direct evidence about prices, but I assume the reasonable volume of tourists and business must raise prices compared to other cities.
It doesn't seem that Firefox 25 catched the millestones of adding Chrome-like tab. I personally glad of it because I prefer the rounded tab style.
There's much more simpler (and relevant) ways to break date logic than going back to 1927. Take for instance:

var d = new Date(2013, 9, 20);

For 200 million people in the world, d.getDate() will be 19.

Now, are you sure your app doesn't break when that happens?
Looking for cofounders
Me - 35, MIT, MBA, Business guy learning programming. Seeking cofounders looking to build a business that makes money and solves a problem. I like mobile-enabled services like Lyft and Hotel Tonight.

I'm interested in things like the following:

-Uber for lawncare, tow trucks, moving small items (furniture, etc. that you'd buy on craigslist)

-Bundling social services that people add to their app (post to fb, twitter, email, etc) and offer it as a plug in to developers with a monthly cost

Let me know if you'd like to meet for coffee, I'm in San Mateo but happy to meet wherever.

Best,
Russell

russell@adamm.net
www.linkedin.com/in/russellmiller/
(415) 859-8060
it's not coming until firefox 28
What is Will Shortz thinking?
Is there something like this but that could do both (or either) Drupal and Node? :)
Sure, but OSH Park is hardly the best way to offer a production board. Yes, he could make one for himself, but is that the goal?
The Chinese dynastic system lasted for thousands of years, until it stopped working because it turned out to be a shitty system that couldn't cope with the demands placed upon it by a rapidly changing and industrializing world. So I don't even feel that 'time tested' is a particularly good criterion.
Surely they could still visit by train? Why would you want to drive into a city, and deal with the traffic and parking? Copenhagen has deliberately reduced parking in the city center, slimmed roads, and pedestrianized a bit of the core, and people still come, mostly by S-train [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-train
"The more I read Joel Spolsky, the more I realize how wrong he is." -parent

"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true." -Niels Bohr
Curl | shell Considered Harmful?
Here is the link to the source, much friendlier to HN folk that rather read than watch:
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...

EDIT:
To add on to this, the source to the video does make an interesting observation about statistical methods being employed by scientists who doesn't know their pitfalls.

Other thing I take from a more careful reading (as opposed to viewing a two minute highly superficial video) is that the article makes the assumption that all hypothesis will be subject to only one study, if we have three studies denying a certain hypothesis and one confirming it it's pretty easy to catch the false positive on a literature review article (routinely done by people entering academia)
> The fact that you're stomping all over a person's right to own property and use it as they wish?

Nobody is restricting your right to use your property as you wish. You may drive your car on private property all you want: your own property, or that of anyone else who gives you permission. That's what private property rights guarantee.

What you seem to want is to drive your car on property you don't own, which is not some kind of human right. Nobody is required to facilitate your desire to drive around by building you roads and granting you access to them.
Lots of people in thread are discussing about becoming a primary contributor to an open source product. I think there's an easier way, and it worked for me. I found a company that builds an open source product, applied, and impressed them enough to get hired. This seems far more direct.

edit: there is a downside. My job frankly isn't much different than many other software jobs; it just so happens that the output is open source. I still have a boss, we still have company priorities (though I help set them!) and strategic goals, etc. I don't get to just fuck around and work on whatever I want. So you should be careful: if what you want is the latter (work on whatever you want, get paid), you probably need to be someone like Linus. That said, the project I work on is damn cool and my job is better (for me; I don't think jobs are good but rather the tuple <job, employee> can be good) than almost anything else I can imagine.

edit2: I'm unfortunately not listing the company name because there are some real dicks on HN; you can probably figure it out if you're really interested but please don't post it.
But also arguably disruptive, curve-jumping, and paradigm-shifting if it scales and gets wide adoption.

If. :P
Jclouds is an Apache Top Level Project
I know, right? We need more staffing for initiatives like healthcare.gov, and honestly, the security organs aren't doing enough. A larger NSA will, undoubtedly, contribute to a more perfect union.
Hadoop is like raid for servers.
Take a look at the Moto X... go put one in your hands. It has a different form factor and it feels much smaller than it is. Holding it I was (and still am) strongly tempted to move off my Nexus devices, and being so close to Google I am hoping it will get updates very quick.
Actually there are loads of scientific papers only reviewing other papers (usually a set of them), trying to infer conclusions and criticizing them on methodology and rigidity.
Scientific careers advance both in quality and in quantity of papers published. Not everyone gets featured on Science or Nature.
They were recently selling the N4 8gb for $199 (and sold out AFAIK) and the 16gb model for $249. I was about to buy one until I got hit with ~$1500 in veterinary bills last month, and now it's too late.

I thought it was interesting that Google chose to set a price floor by withdrawing the old model from sale completely, in similar fashion to Apple's removal of the iPad 3/4 from the Apple store and maintenance of a relatively high price to the iPad 2. I haven't seen companies exercise this sort of pricing strategy as much in the past.
How about just a good and reasonably fast commuter-rail network? It's faster to get to many suburbs of Copenhagen by public transit than to drive, because we have: 1) extensive commuter rail; and 2) not many freeways.

I don't think it's only that American cities aren't actively discouraging driving (e.g. by banning cars from city centers), but that they are spending huge piles of money actively encouraging it, by building 10-lane freeways and the like. If you build rail and not freeways to all the suburbs, most people take rail for routine trips.
Isn't the space of already enumerated and studied hypotheses finite?
You are absolutely correct. You will need JS and JQuery on the front end. I was really only talking about the back end, though I was not clear about that.
Forgotten Twitter Co-Founder Noah Glass
I cannot understand what service distillerylab provides.
Did you get any leads from your web site?
The constitution has the ability to modify it built-in. The main problem seems to be that we no longer view that as a viable option.
Sorry, why are we leaving it to the politicians again?
I'm loving the amount of teens in development there are, considering that I am one myself. This sounds like a great way to get into the industry early on, and I think its awesome of Resig, Guido Van Rossum, and the others to support such a cause. I see that you are a young developer as well, so I'd like to invite you to a teen developer community (similar to how HN is structured) currently in pre-alpha that I've been working on to create a stronger community of developers our age - http://teen2geek.com . Nice job man :)
An amendment eliminating the Electoral College would go a long way towards fixing the problems outlined in TFA. The Constitution is largely very good, but it unintentionally created a de-facto two party system. With the executive branch free from that sort of nonsense, it may be that the legislature will right itself.
...Are those the numbers you meant to post? You've got the 16GB 4 and 5 priced exactly the same.
My company sells solutions to intercept any application playback and recording at the Windows OS level and we have a specific product targeted for Skype and other VoIP applications: http://www.nektra.com/products/audio-recorder-api/ we also sells binary instrumentation tools for companies who want to speedup their own implementation http://www.nektra.com/products/deviare-api-hook-windows/

Our technology is being used in the security field in companies such as BAE Systems stratsec, CyberPoint International, and for other uses like recording YouTube videos in http://www.jaksta.com/

Feel free to contact me, even if you just need some guidance.
Semitones fall so neatly into fractions that I can't imagine it's a matter of culture. When microtones are used I suspect tone deafness or intentional deviation/dissonance are the main actors.
Absolutely love this game. My only feedback is it would be nice to have an option to stay on the stage you died on so you could keep trying to beat it and get further and further without having to start from square one over and over again.
This is one path: http://www.mozilla.org/careers

Partial proof: https://github.com/mozilla/repositories
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/repositories

(that's 30 _pages_ of github repos, not including the stuff we do that's not on github: http://mxr.mozilla.org/)
This is the first I'm hearing of this shooting (I live in Australia), but as an extensive traveller, I have to disagree with the general tone of this article.

In no way am I condoning that TSA officers be assaulted in any way, but this article makes it out to be the fault of the general public because they disagree with the practices of the TSA.

The TSA weren't the target because people ride them for no good reason. The TSA was the target because so many people disagree with the actions of the TSA. The TSA needs to be reformed while this article asks that the general public just shut-up and do what their told.
you mean any political process that happens to threaten someone with a big enough mouthpiece to declare it terrorism
I am all for aesthetic improvements, but I often wonder if the Firefox team have their priorities right. I would much prefer they work on implementing multiple process much like Chrome does (each tab is a process) it would go a long way to improve the speed and reliability of Firefox than rounded tabs would ever...
It's not standalone sadly; it's part of a basal body temperature monitor. Yet somehow they got right what actual alarm clock manufacturers couldn't…
I've always loved date-time problems because it's one of those things that seems straightforward and simple, but when you drill down into it, turns out to be devilishly hard. It's made me think twice anytime I want to jump to the conclusion that something is "simple".
This is just an adjunct to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6566915 (article and HN discussion).
AirBnb
ebooks
hosting reseller (singlehop)
Sucks?! No way! I played this game for a little over an hour today and love it!
Seagate's Kinetic Storage
If you wait too long (1 min < wait time < 10 mins, I think), the link will 'expire'. Some other sites like hckrnews.com (for articles that made the front page(s)) and hnflood and others perhaps (for /newest) address this if you are sick and twisted and like to go back into history into the raw submission feed.
So every time they introduce a new model, they have to change the screen diagonal? This doesn't seem like a well-thought-out naming scheme.

Yeah, I know, when they run out of numbers it'll just go to "Nexus Awesome" or "Nexus Super Alpha" or something. You've got to at least give Apple credit for giving each generation of mobile hardware a clear, distinctive name. Oddly enough, their laptop/desktop hardware does the opposite--the new MacBook Pro is officially just "the new MacBook Pro," and it's left to the fans to figure out generations.
You might not be able to get the "all in one place" part, but there has never been a better time to become self-taught. If you haven't programmed at all yet, immerse yourself in some JavaScript till you can "walk", then track down the rest of your stack of choice.
The Man Who Became a Billionaire Through His Fight to the Death With Barbie
I get 20. Care to elaborate?
Pasting in a custom word list would be cool. Also, making sure you don't have two words starting with the same letter on the screen at once. This way you don't accidentally target the wrong ships.
Voice, Exit, Leverage and Competition
I love simple and affordable alternatives to otherwise expensive solutions like this. This is a fantastic idea.
I think the American mess of healthcare precisely showcases the advantages of a simpler, government-run system. Ever since moving to Denmark, I have not been missing the bureaucratic mess that is the American health-insurance system. Also, much stuff here is built in-house by competent civil servants, not bid out to private-sector contractors like the ones who screwed up healthcare.gov (though that is, alas, somewhat changing).

I do think streamlining things would be nice. A large but simple government: everyone gets automatic healthcare coverage by right (like Medicare, but without age limits), everyone gets a basic income rather than some complex web of welfare, etc. Less bureaucracy and maybe even smaller government in terms of pages of regulation/etc., but larger "size" of government in the percent-of-GDP sense.

The American approach seems to prefer complex but low-benefit government, with huge piles of eligibility rules and private-sector provision, instead of just simple blanket benefits.
Yeah but just think about how quickly they were able to release the software, by using 50% of the CPU. Isn't that what really matters? :)
http://talky.io, http://vmux.co, http://vline.com
it sounds fun, but is this sell pitch overly insistant...