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Actually, the iPhone is the single best selling smartphone in the world.

Q1: 51 million
Q2: 43.7
Q3: 35.2

That's 129 million (and some change) iPhones. And that's before ending Q4 (we'll get the results later this month) with selling 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices in 72 hours: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/22First-Weekend-iPho...

Sure, more Android devices are sold by dozens of different companies, but no single Android device outsells the iPhone. Not the Galaxy S5, the HTC One, the Moto X.
Hi Chton,

thanks for the feedback. You can click on the "i" that appears when you move your mouse over a component to get this modal view with the usable triggers and actions. http://imgur.com/EdGf9Hz

Otherwise you can click the info button on the upper right corner of settings view of every component http://imgur.com/UpAcLdk

Cheers
I don't think the client-server model is popular because people are behind home routers, but because it reflects the inherent asymmetry of producers and consumers. People being behind home routers is not a cause of that, but a state of affairs that is not-noticed by or tolerable for most because of this asymmetry. This asymmetry is not caused by any technical limitation; even on Wikipedia, which is probably the prototypical crowdsourced site, editors are vastly outnumbered by readers.

I don't disagree with the ideal of everyone being able to serve their own content directly to the internet, I just don't think it reflects reality, specifically the abilities and inclinations of most people. I'm curious how people come to hold on to such beliefs when they are so incongruous with actual human behavior.
No, you are absolutely wrong and I'm not even sure how the links you provided backs up your claims. Android has been outselling iOS way back - since 2013 - and the gap only had been widening every quarter. For world, iOS has pathetic 15% share, Android with 80% for 2014 shipments.

http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/ios-vs-android/
Fair point. You can't really police the Internet. I had more in mind some ridiculous overreactions that have happened in the past in various forums. But you will always have the cowardly, usually anonymous abusers.
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Javascript is hurting the "Internet" (the web really) by encouraging people to write websites like this. No content is loaded. The links at the top don't work because the anchors in the page don't exist. I would much rather the EU outlaw javascript than g+, because that is dying all on its own.
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Creatives, protesters, and drugs data. This week’s Shortlist. 6/9/14
Chemical scans would probably be pretty hard-pressed to detect thermite, which is after all just aluminium and iron oxide powder. Even the magnesium starter is non-sniffable.
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I like http://www.stop-my-spam.com/ much. It's a temporary redirect to your real email.
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Well I’m not in the richest 1%, far from it, but I own a numbered reprint of a Murakami (bought for about €3k). I didn’t buy it as an investment, thus reasoning has little to do with it. I bought it because the original costs north of a million and I couldn’t afford it. And since posters and such aren’t produced for contemporary painters, at least not in the quality of a lithography, I chose to buy a numbered reprint. And I love it every time I see it.

Art has nothing to do with value scale. It’s all about falling in love with a piece. Sure, a guy who pays $70M for a Rothko does it as an investment and possibly to show off, but to most people art is about gut feeling. I had the good fortune to meet people who sold their art through the November auctions. They described the process as a heartbreaking one. Parting with a masterpiece, regardless of the money, is always a hard choice. So no, art may costs a lot but it’s not just about the money.

By the way, I wouldn’t buy a $20k reprint either. I could find much more interesting original works at this price range. There’s a lot of art out there and Internet has worked miracles bringing it to the surface.
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These are euphemisms for 'the right sort of people'.
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If they had that majority, my guess is they wouldn't have had to lie about what they were doing. Or at least my hope.
Small correction: we are not talking about init systems. We are talking about the change from a "distributed" userspace to a "centralized" one. It's an highly political debate while also being technical.
Tempers are gonna flare.
This was covered in Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. It is an awesome book that talks about human behavior in day-to-day life. The best part: it goes on to demonstrate that even the smartest of the folks fall for these tricks in a lot of context.
Rumors are, that the Windows Store in Win10 will feature a lot more content than Metro Apps, including Desktops Apps, and other content.

- http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-windows-store-to-suppo...
Your point might be better made if you weren't anonymous. Also if it had less victim blaming.
Another source of overhead is that fscanf() on POSIX systems (like most operations on FILE *) is required to lock the underlying FILE structure. Even without contention, the overhead is non-trivial.
Not least of which is using 210 to ask your nuts for your password...
Also it’s worth knowing about “%a” format (like %f but in native radix). Properly written, it’ll be damn fast. [If both sides support it of course.]
I totally recognize myself in what you are saying.

I'm waiting to finish my current project (I do freelance contracting) to be able to get back on my own projects and focus on something... but I have the same lake of good ideas lately, or at least I don't really believe in my ideas anymore.

You should consider working on really early stage projects, building MVPs, maybe for equities rather than money.
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God said, "no weights."

I want miracles, not retard A.I.
Unquestioning belief in one solution leads to evil
I tend to rate Mary Shelley as the earliest sci-fi author. Not just for 'Frankenstein', but also for 'The Last Man'.

I would strongly recommend tackling Issac Asimov's 'Foundation' series as one of the all time classics.

Another pretty early one to take a look at is 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was the first book banned by the USSR and was the inspiration for Orwell's 1984.
I don't think he's calling everyone an asshole or decrying all open source communities. He's saying assholes exist, and pointing out systemic reasons for why they're attracted and tolerated and why they're particularly harmful.

Even his personal criticism of Linus Torvalds is pretty specifically about an aspect of Torvalds' "community management style", not him as a person or his moral character or his work in general. It's also not a particularly wild analysis, I've seen that general sort of point made in all kinds of discussions, here on HN and elsewhere.
Obviously, a strong passcode is a must.

But that's a big ask not just for the obvious reason, but also because the Nexus 5 is the first phone I've ever owned which demands that I unlock it first before I can access the UI to cancel an alarm.

And even then, it's a game of chance (especially when the phone is upside down while you're asleep) whether your swipe is in the correct direction (apparently UI designs actually removed the visual cues which would normally guide the user toward the correct action).
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Sure, but why is he specifically calling Open Source communities 'sick places' when this happens everywhere else too, including the real world outside the internet?
If people take it to the level of actually murdering him, then yes, it's insane.
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I reached a point where I have no idea on how to move on. I hope after this is "done" that there will be a mini how-to on how you get to the solution :)
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Exactly. The client and server share the bulk of the same code so the server is able to generate the initial response to a request and then the client can continue where the server left of by binding to DOM events, etc and handling further client-use of the app.
Linus's flames also tend not to be personal: they're more like "this architecture is shit" than "you're shit". They can be taken personally (and imo are sometimes over the top), but they don't seem intended in a more vicious way as trying to "hit" a particular person. When he does criticize people it ends up being pretty measured, e.g. a widely talked about blog post where he "attacks" RMS [1] is not a flame at all, but just him saying he isn't a huge fan of RMS and thinks RMS is a bit of a single-issue, black-and-white type of person. Which is a personal criticism, but a pretty civil one. And he definitely doesn't stoop to starting campaigns to try to drive people out of the open-source community who he doesn't like; he just works with them or doesn't.

[1] http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-and-white....
I'm just wondering: facing such explicitly adverse government, what is the point of trying? Do you think Uber should sit that one out, and wait success abroad to change people's mind, or have foreign tourists used to Uber beg for the service to come back?

I can’t imagine a change in public opinion in favor: the country that has massive official unemployment, systemic black market: the “sharing economy” cannot be more popular than now. One PR strategy would be to denounce the undeclared equivalents, drivers who offer rides without any licence or control; have the obvious accident happen (unceremonious driver, riders running away) and blow it out with a PR campaign; Uber could then present as the savior, and an needed control over the unscrupulous drivers and riders.
Here's a really great resource on how to make your project accessible: http://blog.clojurewerkz.org/blog/2013/04/20/how-to-make-you...

If you only read one link from that page, make it this one: http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation

Those two pages are well worth your time.
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One of the mushrooms is Node Red (http://nodered.org) which you can install on you own machines if you don't like hosted services.

Node Red is free and open source and can be combined with the Freeboard dashboard frontend.
Give it a shot with Vagrant: https://github.com/jsilence/vagrant-nodered-freeboard
Not Google, Google+. In fact those videos are about how good Google is in terms of searching.
Time to harness the potential of sports for international development
Hi Amzil, we're rolling out a developer program but at its fist stage it will be only to add (and sell) App Templates. Components are still on us but we will open that too.
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This is a problem we really shouldn't have. So many smart, dedicated people that we can't fund them all? After they survive how many years of schooling?

The fundamental research these people do is exactly the kind of research that our corporate sponsors won't do.

Where did the government funding go? Please, don't tell me to start a Kickstarter campaign.
"Why doesn't he address all other evils in the world before the one I feel defensive about? The hypocrite!"

It's probably because he specifically works in and identifies with the larger open source community, and because people who (pretend to?) collect money to get him killed specifically identify with the open source community too.
This is a great idea. My suggestion would be to make it into a MOOC. I think it would indeed work much better as a way of learning than a typical programming course, but there are some flaws:

- Normally if you are employed as a junior developer, you're going to get thrown in at the deep end, but you'll also have a bunch of senior developers and/or a mentor who will help you out if you get stuck.

- Different people will need different amounts of hints or hand-holding. For a complete beginner it would be helpful to actually get walked through some solutions (they don't solve anything themselves, just see how it's done) but for someone with a bit more experience that would be counter-productive.

I think the ideal format would be to make each "story" be a story (or use-case) in the agile requirements sense, that students need to implement. Then you can have a collection of hints available for each story, which if revealed will reduce the number of points available for that story.

Students can also confer on the forums, etc., so the more advanced ones can help out the complete beginners. This actually helps both parties learn, so it's not "cheating" (although copying & pasting answers from forums is).

If you want to include grading then peer grading should work, although it can be a bit tricky. For something like this, I would imagine it could just be based on participation only (no certificate). Everyone should end up with a unique implementation of the game as the main output anyway.

Also, ignore the inevitable negativity about JavaScript. For beginner/intermediate level developers this is aimed at (not necessarily just game developers), JavaScript is an ideal choice for a whole host of reasons.

Starting point:
http://moocnewsandreviews.com/building-your-own-online-class...
When a company hast a 'de-facto' monopoly, that can alter the normal behavior of the society and other companies, you cant let them do what they want, you have to put limits.
Doing what you say is what has caused the big crisis in 2008 that we are still recovering from.
Keep in mind that companies do not want to do what is best for the people, just what gives them more money. That, 'as is', is not a problem, but if the company is powerful enough its just unbearable.
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The C program isn't doing the same thing. It overwrites the array of variables each time it scans a line. numpy.loadtxt returns an array of the parsed lines. So you'd need to do some dynamic allocation to store the parsed values. If the number of fields per input line isn't hardcoded, you'll need to walk sscanf() across each input line while managing input and output buffers (you can call read(), which is much faster, but you'll need to handle partial line reads). numpy.loadtxt has additional capabilities, all of which add per-line overhead. A fully functional clone of loadtxt in C is unlikely to run enormously faster, i.e. enough to justify the programming involved. In any case, this toy exercise isn't testing the speed of fscanf() in a meaningful way.
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you are getting "market familiarity" meaning they aren't beholden to you or your "crank" operating system and any schmo with a CC can bilk/bill them for support.
But wait a minute - didn't risky.biz' Patrick Gray originally report that the AFP clarified that the "Metadata retention" amounts to merely formalizing the retention of DHCP logs?

I mean, there's heaps of shitty things to complain about here (Eg. illegal intelligence activities could send an ASIO officer to gaol for 2 years but a journalist reporting such a thing could go to gaol for 10 years). However I can totally get why authorities should be able to match up an IP address + datetime = ISP user.
It would be nice to be able to find a "sane" taxi-driver in Spain. Many (most) of them drive like crazy and they are all listening to very loud football on the radio.
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React can run both on client and server as well! Would like to see it in the list.
The Foundation series is certainly on my list. I have been giving series lower priority, simply because I want to go breadth-first, but I'm not confident this is a reasonable strategy, especially since I could just read the first entry and decide from there how to proceed.

I had not heard of We, but I will look into it.
I believe that's part of their value proposition. I enjoy pulling out from them how far right-winged they are by throwing out franquist bullshit all the time. They make my day.
No mention of react.js. IMHO it is a perfectly good tool for generating views both client and server side.
More details: http://bensmithett.github.io/going-isomorphic-with-react
Because that's the part of the world he can influence and make better?
Fair point. But as it stands, if it would be such a big problem in the Linux community, there wouldn't be a community in the first place since everybody would be deeply offended by now and have left. This would especially have been a problem early when the project was still small, and as far as I know Linus Torvalds always had this special leadership style. I don't know any of the involved persons personally, I don't know how they are in real life, but personally I found Linus Torvald's rage posts mostly amusing, sometimes even Monty-Python-style hilarious. If I deliver some really fucked up code or design I prefer feedback in the style of 'you badly fucked up, and here is why' instead of some politically correct bullshitting.
I read a book a while ago about hynduism that said that buddists don't get it: Yes, budda achieved "illumination" by "sitting down and shutting up" (meditanting), but that is not, by any means, the only way to achieve illumination.

I think the author was that Osho guy...
I don't use taxis very often but I've never found a stereotypical taxi driver in the 10-20 times I've used them (I live in Madrid). They were all polite, their cars were clean and had no music/radio or it was set to a low volume.
Stereotypes.

I've used MyTaxi or Hailo many times in the past few months here in Madrid and have had 0 issues with taxi drivers. I'm not saying there are no taxi drivers like the ones you described above, but I think it's a minority.
Ask HN: If you were 20 again, what country would you choose?
I'm curious, if you were 20 again and could choose any country on earth to start from scratch, what country would you choose thinking it would best enable you to build an "empire" for the next 10 generations after you?

As people from different countries and backgrounds will try to answer this question, I would really appreciate a detailed answer as to why you pick any country. The goal here is to find out more about how people see things and find out often missed or unknown facts about the great countries of the world. I'm especially curious about some contrarian views. Another way to put it would be, what countries do best satisfy the criteria below, but are not so heavily marketed and kept under the radar?

I think these would be the most important factors I would take into account:

- Friendliness toward entrepreneurship/businesses/startups
- Serious intellectual life
- Good education system
- Good healthcare system
- Good quality of life
- Beautiful landscapes

Please also see the list below before you answer:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where-to-be-born_Index
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_liveable_cities
- http://www.economist.com/news/21566430-where-be-born-2013-lottery-life
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I found the project very intresting to follow up (now and in the future).. And since i use HackerNews as my bookmarking service StamPlay just needed to be here ;)
Google's ability to indexing content is only part of the story. Google cant link to your content if its not deep link friendly and will rank it poorly if you content loads slowly. Both of which SPA are often bad at delivering.

I demoed how big the performance difference can be at Manning's recent powered by JavaScript conference https://speakerdeck.com/markuskobler/react-the-importance-of...
Wrong. AFAIK Twitter doesn't pay that low in cash.
There's more to isomorphism than SEO; one code base that allows for both the initial html to be delivered without needing to run js and responsiveness of a client-side app is my favorite feature of isomorphic javascript apps.
I usually do the same. I wonder if Madrid cab drivers think all their clients are right wing enthusiasts.
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While the NSA could probably figure out how to attack Apple's key management infrastructure [...], doing so for all the people would, in principle, be fairly noticeable to Apple.

Maybe that's why Apple's warrant canary has disappeared[1].

[1] https://gigaom.com/2014/09/18/apples-warrant-canary-disappea...
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I think short form scifi is where it really shines:

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
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Yes, Open Source communities can be bad. But there are also good ones. And if you think Linus is bad, read some comments from Theo de Raadt.

The first opensource project I tried to contribute to when I started coding has been a horrible experience. When I asked about some directions regarding some details, the only responses I got were not nice, to say the least. f.i. they complained that i mixed british and american english, and that was the most constructive response. Well, stuff like that can happen if your 13, from austria and never had a proper english-teacher before ;-)

OTOH there are also the good experiences where people help each other out and aren't afraid to teach someone how things work. there are a lot of good FOSS communities out there.

For me personally the guys around the Aboriginal Linux project stand out. They have been really helpful on IRC and the ML is also refreshing to read :)
You have to bear in mind that Amazon was not in Spain until just a couple of years ago because you know, the law here is very much pro-publishers. This move is not a surprise for us Spaniards. A real pity.

On the other hand, taxis here in Spain are nowhere near the chaos they seem to be in Manhattan or SF. They are usually rather clean (not necessarily shiny but decently clean) and drivers tend to be agreeable (there are exceptions, as in everything).
Anecdotes.

I've booked a single taxi journey in Spain, and it was one of the most frightening experiences in my life. The guy was chasing pedestrians and would have run over several of them had they not jumped. He got us to where we were going quickly though.
Sigh. I think I'm losing this fight. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6714666