skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downloads stat is no longer true[1]. Revenue is still much higher on iOS, but the trends have been clear, and cannot be ignored. Before, it was "Android is open, but there are way more iPhones", then it was "Android has more phones but iPhones get more downloads", it won't be long until revenue surpases it too.

[1] http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/07/31/google-play-passes-app...

EDIT: More stats on revenue:

In nov 2012 the gap was 4x

http://www.startable.com/2012/11/

As of Q3 2013 the gap was 2x

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-11-03-google-play...

They're catching up, and fast.
It is the most ridiculous article I have ever read because it doesn't consider the cost of maintaining and support.

The article does consider those costs:

Note that while labor costs are included in the model, I am leaving them out of this example for simplicity. Because labor is a mostly fixed cost for each alternative, it will tend not to impact the relative comparison of the two alternatives. Rather, it will impact where the actual break-even point lies.

and furthermore, those costs would not significantly differ between the two options, or the other option of leasing servers or VPS instances. You're always going to need sysadmins to organise deployment, maintenance, dbs, backup, etc. even if you use AWS, and in addition you have to deal with all the different AWS APIs as well in order to use their services like glacier, and tailor your app to depend on them.

But price is probably the least important reason to choose your hosting solution; AWS, VPS, leased servers and your own servers have very different properties and levels of control - different companies will have very different load patterns and requirements on CPU, IO, storage, bandwidth etc. Price is just one factor in the calculation.
So, first, not claiming this would be for everyone, obviously.

Not necessarily programmer--notice that originally the spec was maker/programmers...extend to diy folks in general. That said, it's a lot easier to livecode together than to meet up and weld art things, so, you know, start small, MVP.

The rough idea is that if you like making stuff, from scratch, you probably get along better with other people that like to make stuff. Maybe it's because they aren't as consumery as most of America, maybe it's because they can talk shop with you, maybe it's because of all the weird sociopsychoemotional baggage/metaphor of getting together with a potential partner and "creating" something--who knows.

Additionally, it gives you a feeling for how somebody thinks, how they talk, and to be somewhat blunt performs a high-pass filter on socioeconomic factors, intelligence, and communication ability.

Later, agreeable people can take it offline to see if they're any good at fscking in person.
Immutability and why it matters
> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia.

Many Ruby developers won't have a problem with this.
Good to see them do this but I'd have preferred if they'd come up with 3-5 different ways to describe gender that we could use across the web. Have 50 different customisable options is a pain to implement for everyone. Maybe I'm wrong though - can someone with more knowledge on this tell me whether that many options is really necessary?
DIY: Auto-Summarization Via NLP, and Image Summarization Via Pattern Recognition
Learning Reactjs the last couple weeks really got me excited. I love the philosophy about writing highly decoupled peaces to build a bigger one. Also i discover that usin with coffeescript make the syntax very declarative, it look like Kivy language.
Do you keep a sleep diary? Are you aware of when your patterns are changing?

One thing that I find helps is a 'mental contract' with my partner.. if she thinks I'm getting elevated etc. then she has a contract which she can enforce and basically frog march me off to the doctors to get a strong sleeping pill for a week or whatever it'll take. Note, she's never had to use it, but having it has given both she and I peace of mind.

7 years and counting here.

And, while I was going to post this on a throwaway account, whatever, my own trigger for bipolar was a 10 day vipassana meditation course. There's audio etc. detailing why I went on the course, what it was like to be manic, sectioned under the mental health act, Depression (with a capital D), and getting better again... at : http://livingvipassana.blogspot.com

Now, 7 years clear, doing very well, and, while I'd not repeat the experience, I feel like I learned a heck of a lot about what humans can go through.

And trying to walk on water was fun ;) (didn't work)
Because it fits. Do you think that Wal-Mart doesn't have rules for vendors?

Perhaps Apple is more mercurial and arbitrary. But the institutional arrogance is the same.

As a manufacturer, Wal-Mart is your best friend and worst enemy. They pay you promptly and order lots of stuff. But they demand steep discounts and punish you harshly if you fail to meet commitments, and you must be able to rapidly ramp up your supply chain when their demand grows.
This change does not affect me, but I don't want to be pressured into referring to a male as female if he really is a male. Part of the transgender agenda is forcing others to accept such "gender identities". I don't want to endorse other people's illusions.
That's fine. I still think one should know how to do sysadmin work before coding.
Ah, ios. Makes sense
SO THAT'S HOW YOU SET ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES IN ALIASES! THANK YOU!

(I'd been making the slight-environment-change aliases into bash functions as a workaround. You just helped me so much.)
For my primer on this question, I look to The Moral Animal by Robert Wright, one of the first popular science books to introduce evolutionary psychology to a mainstream audience back in the 1990s.

To boil down a lot of interesting reading (on a subject, which it is fair to say, generates a lot of controversy): income inequality produces social instability, primarily as a result of a lot of economically (and, by extension, sexually) disenfranchised young men.
Seems strange to shut-down the business after only four months post-public launch.

It feels like in this space your best options are to go free and push for scale or to go after premium markets.

Writers tend not to have huge budgets, but professionals such as PR teams and lawyers also need heavyweight tracking/collaboration tools and have the money to pay for a solution.
Fair enough, I could see that. I was mostly thinking of it in terms of learned skills, rather than human relations/leadership/politics skills, which I've always felt are more of a thing that people have, or do not have.

I probably shouldn't say its a low-skill or brainless job (in general... though I do often get that feeling from mangers), but I just personally never put it in the class of highly-skilled jobs.

Edit: I guess that I've always just placed it as more of a 'ladder climber' type of job than a highly skilled worker type of job. But to be totally fair that is likely due to my experiences. :)
"there are some times when it's ok to not pay them"

No. No, there are not. If someone is working for you, then you pay them. It's that simple.
I'm torn. Syntax-wise, I find that many programming languages are similar enough that moving from one to another is pretty straightforward. Even Objective-C makes some kind of sense to a Java/PHP/Python/etc programmer.

But CoffeeScript doesn't feel this way to me, which makes me want to stay far away. Yet so many smart people are building cool things with it, which makes me wonder if I just need to suck it up and get familiar with this new syntax.
So if I understand correctly, the pidigits test in this case this isn't a self-contained, fully ported microbenchmark, but rather a test of some random Rust code vs. an optimized library[1]?

If that's true, then what's the point of including pidigits if the entire algorithm isn't going to be ported into all target languages?

[1] GMP, The GNU Multiple Precision Arithemtic Library: https://gmplib.org/
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7232956
Any number that disagrees with your premise is just wrong? Well, your world view is unassailable then isn't it?

So tell me, what do you want? Lower taxes on corporations? They don't seem to be fleeing the US, and are reporting higher profits than ever.
Did you stop reading there?

> If someone dies on the operating table because the surgeon accidentally nicks an artery that's different from them actively trying to kill someone. The act is identical, only the intent is different.

In one case, there was a crime, in the other there wasn't.

> Circumstances, which can only affect the punishment, not the judgment that a crime has taken place. But I already said this.

The circumstances which change the crime committed. Not just punishment.
Looks a lot like http://www.plexisearch.com/
>Sweet. Like they say in the article, this won't matter for a lot of people, but for those who use it, it matters a great deal.

That is one of the most elegant ways of putting it I've ever read. Nicely done.
Yup. Matz immediately came to mind. Also, to the question of english but not native would be Salvatore of Redis fame.
The simplest solution always wins
I've never written anything in Ruby and I know Matz
That is a small quibble indeed :) Have to say I actually prefer underscores as well.
> We do want as much centralization as possible

Yup, totally centralized. Spent half an hour figuring out where my question should go (StackOverflow vs Programming vs ServerFault vs SuperUser vs Ubuntu vs Unix-and-Linux). Ended up not asking the question at all.

Shall they open some foreign embassies, I guess users'll spend 10 minutes more deciding in which language should they ask (i.e. whenever they prefer native language or bigger community) or duplicate the question.
I have strongly mixed feelings on this. When I was a kid my family moved to Brazil for a couple of years and I learned Portuguese. When I was about 20 I moved to Chile and learned Spanish. Speaking the language of the culture you are in is hugely important - and not very easy.

So on the one hand if the culture of programming is in English (is it?) then I would strongly encourage anyone wanting to program to learn English. On the other hand, helping inject a programming environment into another language seems a worthy goal as well. On balance it seems like stackoverflow is doing the right thing.
Matz came to mind the second I read that. And Russia? Alexey Pajitnov (Tetris).
If you can build it (ie if you're a techy), stop looking for a co-founder.
I've seen early stage startup's team shatter due to co-founder breakups, including mine.
I saw my first 4 startup die, because I either couldn't stand my co-founders or we just didn't have complementary skills.

Don't force getting a co-founder. Instead, LEARN TO CROWDSOURCE YOUR TEAM.
Have as many 'advisors' as you can in as many areas as you can. They are your 'team'. They don't do the work for you, but they guide you. Hire the rest or do it yourself.

With a team, you risk having constant fights and eventually breakups. It HURTS. Your startup can't afford it.
Solo, you face an attrition war, as it takes you more time to build it. Its survival of the toughest, and if you have what it takes to survive, you will make it.

I base this on the fact that I've been solo founder and bootstrapping Beepl (http://beeplapp.com/) for the past 7 months. I don't have to deal with other people's drama. I face my own depression and that's something that I can solve easily.
I can speculate on three motivations:

1) A nation-state activity to destroy the credibility and usefulness of such currencies before such currencies become entrenched and their ability to track criminal activity through money transfer is seriously compromised. (depending on who you ask, 'following the money' is either #1 or #2 on the stop/solve crime toolbox)

2) A crime-syndicate increasing their 'profits' by getting the system to pay out in unanticipated ways. Because, at its heart, crime is all about the benjamins[1] so finding ways to increase profits without increasing risk is an ongoing activity.

3) Idle mathematicians/cryptographers/hackers demonstrating their skillz against what they perceive to be a dangerously flawed system. In the hopes that it will {die|improve|humor them}.

[1] US slang for currency.
Bignum math isn't optimized for performance yet.

See this discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1xcq1q/c_gcc_vs_rust_w...
There are also already some patches making rust a lot less worse: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12209
Are you saying that these are the modified transaction IDs?
Normally the "Write a kernel and come back when you've won" is a bullshit argument, but the GNU Hurd kind of predates Linux, and would be an acceptable candidate to that argument...and has lost.
IOW, Chrome affects the selection of ads I'm presented on web pages where I am going to see ads no matter what browser I use, Firefox shows additional ads.
Adoption of English language is one of the major reasons, why 3rd world countries like our, India and Pakistan are thriving in IT. I feel sad for nations, who are stubborn in their adoption of English language, merely out of political reasons. Even from a political perspective, this is sad, because you can't convey your point of view to others.

Oh and by the way, India is 2nd and Pakistan is 3rd largest country by number of English language Speakers, 1st of course is USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-sp...

Moreover, Do I need to name key Google and Microsoft Employees, who were born and bred in India too. :)
I'd rather they just remove the box altogether.

But I'd also rather we just do away with the concept of gender. Sex is a thing, and is also non-binary. But "concept of gender" is something strange altogether.
printf ("Olá, mundo!");
> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia.

Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.
Create another local user account on your computer for being at work. Change the desktop background to big work logos. Don't configure your personal instant messenger accounts and whatnot. Set up the email client to only check the "work" account so you don't fall down personal email item rabbit holes. Configure the WasteNoTime Safari extension appropriately (more strictly than your personal account's config, with sites like reddit, facebook, HN, etc on unconditional block).

Added benefits:

* easy default correct ssh key use (~/.ssh/id_rsa in work account is not my personal key)

* different browser cookie jar

* different dropbox/gdrive login

* different bookmarks

* different shell history

* faster homedir backups (my personal account has ~300GB of aperture in its homedir, my work account is <10GB)

* privilege separation (both my personal and work accounts are unprivileged, so unless there's local priv escalation being used, rogue user-priv software in one can't steal keys/data from the other)

Then, finally, disable fast user switching. (You should do this anyway, as having it turned on enables a Firewire/Thunderbolt DMA memory-dumping attack that can steal your FileVault2 keys while your screen is locked.) This means that you have to consciously choose to "leave work" by logging out and then logging in to your personal account you use to browse reddit/HN/etc.

This is the single biggest productivity gain I found for enforcing the "I am at work now" discipline. (Being able to use a non-personal dropbox account for work stuff is almost worth the price of admission itself.)
They arrest the guy and sentenced to ten years in jail with just a screenshot of a Facebook comment as a starting evidence.

I don't believe he has been sentenced to anything. He was given an offer of 10 years probation, which his lawyer bizarrely spouts off against as if deals are not the common actions in the justice system.

In any case, he confessed to what was stated, and despite the spin now that it was a false confession, in earlier versions of reports about this he freely admitted that he said what he said...but that he purportedly followed it up later by an lol that made it all okay.

It is actually interesting seeing how people sway in opinion about things. In the whole Flappy Bird fiasco, many were calling for the heads of those who "threatened the life" of the author, even though the threats were almost universally clearly absurd or satirical. Yet in this case it is an outrage that the police followed up on threats against children (shortly after Sandy Hook), and then when they discovered a confluence of concerning behaviors (suicide threats, restraining orders, bizarre behavior) they pursued actual charges.

Should people be raped in jail? Of course they shouldn't. No criminal should. Though it's interesting that many on here believe that he is not like those other criminals, when the jails are stuffed with non-violent offenders who likewise shouldn't face sexual assaults.

Should people face absurd sentences about thought crimes? Of course not.

But what you say matters. Words have consequences. This whole fallback on some rote "Freedom of Speech!" thing is devolving from a civilized behavior.

EDIT: I see that we're not looking for a rational, mature discussions. More of a rah rah rah mass outrage.
This is actually not possible with this particular system right now. Because you will need to send to particular outputs for messaging.

But if you do it with OP_RETURN then yes, you should be able to do that.
Thanks. Can you recommend a pure-Python SASS compiler? The ones we've found seem to struggle with relative imports.
Eric Schmidt was on the board at Apple.
No, all it shows is that there is a physical component - and probably for only some people. It is hardly the same as something like diabetes. On that note, I am now going to a therapy group for people with diabetes, because the NHS has realized the psychological aspects of dealing with diabetes are important enough that giving people support (in that manner) are cost effective over the person's lifetime - i.e. they learn how to deal with the psychological stress of it and so the long term consequences are lessened at a lower cost for the health care system. Thank god I do NOT live in the US anymore!
Ya that's one thing I would like to avoid also.
So I need two wallets? One that I keep with a <bitcoin-bank> for small purchases that need to clear quickly and one that I keep for larger purchases. That doesn't sound practical.

Also, if I understood patio11s first post correctly, that large-purchase wallet would still need an hour after each purchase to clear properly [1]. Now, I don't run around and buy a couple of cars one after the other from different provides but it quite often happens that I need to book flights, hotel accommodations and rental cars for a business trip and I can't wait an hour after each step to go forward to the next one. More wallets here? Am I missing something?

[1] The ideal case seems to be to wait until a transaction is in the blockchain before sending the next one from the same wallet, but that could in theory take even longer.
I have similar mixed feelings (Spanish is my native language, but I work on an English environment)
More than moving in the pain points have always been the services for me. "We have your Time Warner Install will be here between 10 am Tuesday and February" Etc
Not sure if Igor Sysoev is famous or not (his name wasn't remembered!), but his product certainly is.
I disagree. If you have a flawed business model, or a product that's simply not that desirable, then execution doesn't matter. Junk ideas remain junk, regardless of how well they are marketed.

In this case, it's my opinion that the startup in question was just never a good idea to begin with. No solid business model and no good reason why it would be widely adopted.
It may be worth considering how much discomfort you feel when referring to a trans person by the gender identity they prefer, versus the discomfort they feel being referred to by the gender you prefer for them. I can just about guarantee you that the latter trumps the former by a long shot.
Will a Nicotine Patch Make You Smarter?
Bitcoin stolen while laptop was in Apple store
This is a sad story how I got robbed for $8500 while my laptop was in Apple Store.

I dropped my laptop at Apple Store, the Falls in Miami to fix minor cooling system issue on Feb 2. And picked it up on February 4. Cooling system was fine, but when I launched my Bitcoin wallet, I realized that over 10BTC (worth $8500 at that moment) has been transferred from my wallet (https://blockchain.info/tree/111322425) on Feb 3, 20:25, when my laptop was in Apple. It was very stupid, but yes, my wallet was not encrypted.

I checked Mac system logs and it says that my laptop has been booted on Feb 3, 20:36, only 11 minutes after my BTC have been stolen. Looks like someone has connected my laptop as external drive and scanned it before booting it up.

I never used my wallet on other devices.
I never download suspicious stuff from the Internet.
I never hand my laptop to anyone else.
I have not been using my wallet for about a month before I dropped it at Apple.

Nevertheless, I downloaded latest antivirus software and performed full system scan — no viruses.

I filed a police report and talked to the manager at Apple Store. It's been a week and there is no update.

$8500. Nobody cares.
I wonder what else people copy from laptops when you drop it for service.

The moral of the story — encrypt your drives.
Do you mean to say it's representative of social activism in favor of transgender rights and respect? You're right, most people don't understand that, because it's simply not true.

But please do illuminate us.
You should have offsite backups anyway, no matter what service you're using, and a quick way to deploy to other providers if whatever host/datacenter you're using dies. That applies no matter what sort of host you use really, which I think is what the OP tried to say - not that self-hosting is bullet-proof, but that AWS is not bullet-proof either.

AWS outages in one zone do sometimes affect other zones too, so it is not disaster proof:

http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-web-services-the-hidden-bugs-tha...
Maybe gender is more complicated, but sex?
I wonder if they will expose it on the public graph api?

This will make it really interesting to better infer parts of some peoples personalities with the rest of the data people want to share on facebook, and serving ads to demographics who are going to want to click on your ads because it conforms to their views.

Well played from a data-mining perspective.
Thanks, but:

http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ - allows only two locations. What about scheduling a conf call across NY, Dublin, Berlin and Moscow? What is the best time for all 4 locations?

http://everytimezone.com/ - awesome interface, but doesn't allow any customizations, e.g. pick just the locations I need. This was on HN, I remember I made some suggestions which the guy never implemented.

http://time.is/ - shows only current time, or otherwise compares times only in two locations. Useless, just like thousands of other similar web sites.