skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if the paying 5% are worth $250k, then the they could have made $50m from Google Play! Then again, people grounded in reality realize that every pirated copy is not equitable to a sale without any piracy, and there are many, many things that could account for the difference in profit per market, such as quality of port, rating in market, exposure in ecosystem, inclusion in the top apps list, etc.

The numbers you gave are interesting, but there's very little to show how well they correlate.

Edit: Assuming you are going off the data from techcrunch[1], I'm thinking that 95% piracy rate is not quire right. First, it's mentioned as something they "revealed previously" which means we can make very few assumptions about it, and second, they state it was installed on over 10m total unique devices (including multiple installs from a purchase, family share and unlicensed copies). Considering they list over 2.5m licensed copies sold, with almost 800k of them being for android (and half of that being free amazon giveaways), I'm thinking that 95% number doesn't make much sense. Also, 400k plus free copies given away by Amazon? That may affect sales...

1: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/monument-valley-team-reveal...
I'm comparing "statically compiled redis" with "statically compiled libcontainer + redis container", which appears to be what this is. I can see a lot of benefits for statically compiling something, redis included, I just don't see what the addition of libcontainer provides.
Whatever Google's motive, this does help the internet to fully self-realize: every endpoint should be able to both consume and provide services. I don't care if it's a phone or a tablet, or a smart toaster.
I just hope they don't remove flash support anytime soon.
The Day the Purpose of College Changed
It's extremely bloated.
Several have been critical of Marissa's performance. Can you please briefly explain why? Bonus for sharing what you would have safely expected from a Yahoo CEO in two years.
US, Canada, Mexico. While no one expects hardware or software to stop working after three months supporting it forever isn't really worth it either.
I think Slack is kinda neat but stopped using it. Do any non-tech startups use it? I get the feeling that its usage outside SV is verrrry small.
If you're fine with downloading YouTube videos for playing locally, I've found 4K Video Downloader works well, at least under OS X. You'll wind up with plain H.264/AAC MPEG-4 files.

https://www.4kdownload.com/download
I don't know anything of this case, but this article is biased and propagandistic.

It uses the phrase "rotary phone" to trivialize some secret documents. They may indeed be trivial and improperly classified. However the article does not make this case. Of course it is hard to make this case.

I think this defendant is analogous to a man charged with stealing $10k from work. They search his home and find a power drill stolen from work. Prosecutors want to infer that he also stole the $10k.
With such a small number of bytes wouldn't it be viable to run some sort of optimization to minimize the code even further?
exactly. It looks really well made (graphically), but the camera breaks it. If they fixed that, it really would fool people.
The entire point of the article is that "all the other changes" include security fixes nobody knows about.
that agrees with my experience. Simple.com for example. Super easy and a great service. No paper checks, but there are others with paper checks. No jumping through hoops.

They don't have brick and mortar offices, but I don't miss it.

A while back I even found someone offering business accounts for free.
I basically left off playing video games when I realized I could get the same high, for nearly the same level of social interaction, by writing code instead. And that would help me in many more ways than killing the top level boss in WoW.

My "immersive alternate reality" approach is to use novels, which have a well-defined end.
The only thing that would make this realistic is if open source developers prioritize backwards compatibility very highly.

Of course, there will always be some bugs anyway. And it varies across language (or other open source affinity) communities. But in many communities, developers aren't really even _trying_ to ensure backwards compatibility.

If developers committed to backwards compatibiilty with successive versions for X number of years -- then you could update to the latest release for a number of years worrying less about breaking things, rather than needing to freeze the versions you use for that number of years.

Yes, this would significantly increase developer hours on open source projects. Nothing comes for free.

But wouldn't those developer hours be better spent centrally on ensuring backwards compatibility in the projects themselves; as opposed to every developer of every consumer of the project needing to deal with backwards incompatibility on every upgrade? Or every distro needing to backport patches? (This latter is more debatable, which is exactly why we have the status quo)
Media Source Extensions in Firefox is cutting-edge stuff; you can follow along in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617.
> Any other company that sells like phones at Apple's price range will FAIL.

Vivo and Oppo ( subsidiaries of the same parent ) dominate the high-end on China and maintain their image by selling at ' Apple Prices'. Their Western models are often more expensive...
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Apple earnings, @ $18 billion, are a smidge higher than Sprint's market cap. T-Mobile US has at various times been for sale. It makes you wonder if the major Web ecosystem players won't just start buying SPs so they can break out of bandwidth scarcity as a business model.
I hope you aren't betting too much money.
So I am temporarily running a couple of small ecommerce sites for clients and my own SaaS application. The spend is about $650-700/month for a redundant solution plus bandwidth, backups, S3 etc. I am actually working through a change right now that will cut our bill down to about $400/month without losing anything today. Once the clients migrate their sites as planned then I can likely get my spend down to about $300/month given current traffic to the SaaS. Everything is on-demand no reserved instances right now since most of this is temporary.

2 - m3.large hosting nginx/node apps with mongo running on them (each in different AZ)
1 - m3.xlarge has mongo and ElasticSearch running
1 - Small RDS Multi AZ instance, 5 Wordpress DB's (only 2 are really active right now)
3 - ELB's each handling a specific domain/site.
Great, now my mattress can get hacked.
I have an iPad 2. Since upgrading my iPhone 4 to an iPhone 6 Plus, I barely use my iPad. I doubt I'd bother taking the iPad on trips either, as the larger iPhone screen is fine using hotel booking sites or for general research.

They'll need to reinvent the iPad for me to buy another one.
More than half of those employees are retail workers, the profit per knowledge worker must be immense.
Twitter exploit
Watch the video and try the exploit here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxfH3F9O5Zw
I don't think iTunes is bloated, per se. I'm actually on an older version because they're removed useful features in 11 and 12 and there's no way to extend the program.

The bloat is probably integration with the store. That should be split into a separate program and iTunes should just be a music library manager. Of course, that won't happen since not many people care about having a persistent music library any more.
What key part is closed-source on Windows/Linux?
The problem with the Monument Valley numbers is that they expected a hit game on iOS would magically translate in to a hit game on Android and that's really not the case.

The two stores are completely separate, your popularity on either will not help you on the latter unless you're bringing a big marketing budget with you or have something truly unique and viral.

There are plenty of popular Android games that have virtually no player base on iOS.
GeoIPing billing/shipping is always a good idea, but there are plenty of use cases (particularly depending on what industry you're in) where that will throw false red-flags. e.g. corporate card, registered to corporate office, etc. Unfortunately, it's also very trivial for a carder " " to find a SOCKS that geolocates back to the card's billing address.
Oil-rich Saudis find new help in struggle to delay action on climate change
Thanks! Here's a secret, they don't actually care if you have a CS degree or 5 years experience. You can ignore that on any job description. If you can prove that you are able to do the job, that's what they are looking for.

Another quick point, those CS concepts will come with practice, and you might not know every aspect of what is happening in the CPU when you use .sort! on an array, but I assure you that you will not be required to rewrite sorting algorithms in any job you should be applying for.
Very nice to see that the RSi guys (who I have been a fan of since the begin 90s; especially the Amiga stuff was very impressive, both in skill but also art) still take challenges like this one. Disadvantage here is that whenever I click a Pouet.net link, I can pretty much say farewell to my productive day...
Charter's lowest tier has been 30 or 60 down (depending on your market) for a long time now. Were you on some old plan or something?
Very heard. I'm quietly pushing for this.
How does that solve the problem of videos autoplaying when you access the page?
Unfortunately this only reinforces the mystical nature of SEO.
1. Why does Webmaster Tools tell you duplicate titles are a problem but changing them has no impact?
2. Why does repeating pin descriptions improve traffic drastically when we're told not to duplicate content?
3. Why do some changes have a lingering impact while others revert back to pre-change behavior?

That said, I applaud the scientific approach to coping with the black box.
If this had transpired, maybe our idiot Prime Minister would've made Rafael Nadal a caballero on Australia Day this year.
Google has been expanding into southern/western cities where the government is willing to play ball. If you try to build fiber in SF, people hold it up because the cabinets are ugly: http://stopthecap.com/2011/07/27/att-installs-first-of-495-u... if you do it in New York people turn it into a civil rights/social justice issue: http://www.speedmatters.org/blog/archive/new-york-mayor-bill.... Seattle: http://crosscut.com/2014/12/29/business/123222/google-fiber-....

Places like Kansas City and Atlanta are much more development-friendly. In Atlanta, it doesn't matter how ugly your development is--we're talking about a city bisected by a 15 lane highway. Moreover, these are "up and coming" cities who see fiber as a competitive advantage. San Francisco doesn't feel the need to offer fiber to get tech workers to move there. Heck, they're trying to get the tech workers to move out. A place like Atlanta is the exact opposite.
If you -- or anyone reading this -- needs any help on identifying fraudulent transactions, preventing fraudulent transactions, etc., I'm always available. It's the one bright spot of having the history that I unfortunately do, is that now that I'm on the "good side", I can help companies prevent this from happening. Since I wrote the book, I can help better than, say, MaxMind can (I'm biased).
Seems like I'm too late for the first 5, but if you do decide to do more: http://bulkresizephotos.com
Question for the creators:

I have small children who wake me up almost every night at inconsistent times. Am I going to get much benefit out of a Luna, or are my broken sleep habits going to render Luna less effective?
> Are you trying to say that I'm implying government mandates of paying employees unfairly discriminates against companies that are mandated to pay employees?

Nope.

This is clearer if you consider another government mandate which also has entrepreneurs running scared: minimum wage.

Is the government discriminating against companies which cannot pay minimum wage to its employees? Or are companies that choose to do business in a jurisdiction where a minimum wage is written into law simply failures?
Pretty dumb move to bet against Apple.

Apple can and likely will release an iPhone 6s mini after they've exhausted their component supplies for the iPhone 5. But the very fact you bought the iPhone 6 (with its higher margin) just shows they know what they are doing. As for growth in smartphones they haven't even made a tiny dent in China, India or African countries.

As for revenue drivers. The Apple Watch and future versions will sell and they haven't really done much with AppleTV, Beats, Primesense etc.

So there's your 5 year roadmap.
Ah, no, serfs didn't have the right to leave their manor. They could (and did), but they were breaking the law to do that. Serfdom is slavery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom
I easily believe those numbers-especially if they include the "electronic payments" made from my bank's website that actually just involve the bank cutting a check and mailing it. I don't actually know how the payment is made in each case but I'm pretty sure that payments to, say, my trash collection company are ultimately via paper check from my bank.

I probably write 2-3 physical checks a month (housekeeper, random other service people, personal payments for various activities) and another 2 to 3 from my bank. And that's with doing all the automatic payments for utilities etc. that I can.
Troubleshooting and identifying data storage performance bottlenecks
Which is why I'm attracted to the idea of municipal systems or regulated monopolies.

There's no money in building dumb electric lines or dumb sewer lines or dumb phones lines either, so the solution there was to guarantee customers in return for regulating the service.

This would create a common platform upon which video service providers could compete equally. As it stands now, integrated companies like Comcast have no incentive to make sure Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Sling TV, etc. work well for their customers. Quite the opposite, actually.
Oculus Story Studio
Both Google and Yahoo Finance already adjust for splits. Yahoo has an 'adjusted close' value that reports the price adjusted for dividends, but these adjustments don't change the stock price so much that it would make comparing unadjusted values 'not meaningful'.
Their competition is Samsung. Something tells me the whole large ships argument is lost on Korean chaebols.
I've had this happen twice with ideas I was actively pursuing. Both turned into YC companies, both successful, the latter meteorically so.

How you should respond often is dependent on the situation. The hard part is that the only person who is truly acquainted with the relevant facts is you (and your co-founder, if you are so fortunate).

The first time, I was blindsided by the launch of a startup I should have known existed. Despite doing tons of market research, it somehow flew under my radar, and the result was that I ended up wasting months of my time.

In that case, deciding not to play catch up to a company with more traction, funding and resources than I had, in a space with very little room for differentiation, was probably the right call to make. It burned, but in hindsight the decision to move on was almost certainly for the better.

Using that experience as a catalyst for the idea that followed, the second time there would be no blindsiding. Instead, I became aware of the other startup almost as soon as it came into existence. While not a threat initially, I watched over the course of a year as it became more and more similar to what I was working on, gaining incredible amounts of traction along the way. It felt like my product was dying in slow motion before even being born.

The only difference this time, was the particular space allowed for quite a bit of differentiation. While that's a good thing, it also makes the questions you have to ask yourself that much harder.

After agonizing for quite some time, I came to realize most of my fears were irrational. Internalizing what it truly meant to have a second mover advantage helped tremendously on this front.

Now I think in terms of celebrating their success, and building off of it every way I can (in an ethical manner). The more successful they are, the more successful my product will be.

For anyone in a similar situation: chin up, don't torture yourself, and try to build off of it in a positive way. It might have been that you were only in competition with yourself.
The joystick camera work distracts from an otherwise beautiful scene.
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This is not a game. It is a virtual tour of a faraway (from me) place.
13 weeks
These are failures to parent. At the end of the article, Dad laments his kid being the same after Wilderness Camp (which should have fixed everything!!!). What his kid really needs is some involvement.
This article examines and compares the anticholinergic effects of antihistamine drugs. It seems that loratadine has an anticholinergic potency greater than chlorpheniramine which is one of the experimented drugs in the study.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15627436
General Assembly, Los Angeles. I feel like a relatively competent developer, but I had to work my ass off. I wanted to do a bootcamp to get polished. To learn the right way of doing things. I found it much less immersive and instructional and they have flooded the market with subpar developers. I don't want to say much more publicly, but if you are interested we can talk more privately about it, and my experience.
In that case you could store a hash of the IP instead.
What's Opus like for day-to-day use? Do you notice any battery hit on Android from it being decoded in software? (assuming AAC is done in hardware - could be wrong)

What kind of quality/filesize do you use? If I'm used to ~170kbit VBR AAC/MP3 for headphone use, what settings would I need for Opus?
Sprayable Sleep – Sleep like you were meant to
I liked the idea initially, and for people struggling with hypo/hypersomnia or bad sleep in general it's probably going to be very useful to objectively measure the effect of lifestyle/dietary/medication changes.

Then I read that the bed will be listening to my wife and me. That's really creepy. Together with all these 'AIs are going to kill us all articles' it reminds me of the Amazon Echo thread [1]... it carefully studies your sleeping habits, switches off the lights, locks your doors, and waits patiently for you to fall asleep...: http://youtubedoubler.com/eqOJ

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569219
Is Redis not already self contained?
I live in Austin. Can't wait until they make it available to me. Some day. Years from, probably.
Ah, things were better back in my day! The kids now, they don't know what they've got. GET OFF MY LAWN! ;-)

But seriously. I sometimes find myself slipping in to this sort of mindset; I sometimes even long for my iPhone 5 for exactly the same reasons as you. But this is the inexorable march of progress, right? As if the iPhone 6 we have today is the pinnacle of smartphone design. We'll look back in ten years -- twenty years, fifty years -- when our phones are vanishingly thin, when we lick them and stick them to our arms, or when they just are our arms, and -- no offence -- your comment will look a little ridiculous.

And this is why Apple does what it does; it must be at the forefront, it must be the one at the bleeding edge. If it isn't, it dies.

And if it isn't, well, how boring would everything be if the iPhone 6 was "the end". That future sounds really boring.
Right from the 'Atlassian' in the very top left corner, Hipchat is completely and utterly devoid of personality.
Or perhaps simply gzip of the / partition before upgrading. If insuperable problems, zap new / and restore old known working one?

Assuming data/sites are on different partitions.
WHOEVER IS FILMING HAS NO REFLECTION!
This is amazing work though.
Sorry but my experience is the opposite. Here in France most mobile phone contracts give you unlimited sms + mms. I never felt the need for whatsapp personally, neither do I know anyone using it. (but Viber over wifi is often used by people traveling/working abroad)
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Isn't she acting in best interests of shareholders in this case? Isn't that why she is there, to create shareholder value? Personally, I think that so far she has wasted a ton of money with little to show for it.

Selling the stake and incurring 35% corporate tax on an amount that large just to fuel a war chest seems abysmal to do. That would be ~$13.5bn of destroyed shareholder value, and frankly, probably the end of her tenure as CEO.

I can't believe for a second her job is to turn Yahoo around. With hedge funds on the board, I'd assume her job to be to deliver maximum short term shareholder value. They just need a friendly face to do it. Maybe she hasn't realised that yet.
> nor do I see another product category being as big as the truly personal computer that is the smartphone

I think these sectors will merge with solutions like Ubuntu Touch (though probably a MS/iOS/android version) creating a bigger smartphone sector but smaller overall combined sector.

Also re: apple sales growth, they just have to maintain market-share as the developing world becomes wealthier the volume growth is there. The big risk is margin. As the $200 almost flagship phones proliferate its increasing difficult to justify spending $800 on a phone. At some point Apple will have to take a smaller premium.
Netcaptor that invented tabbed browsing didn't have a custom new rendering engine either.

It looks like this browser is a continuation of classic Opera, which pioneered a lot of stuff we take for granted today:

- Speed Dial — the start page you get in every browser these days

- mail client with filtered views, later known as "folders like in GMail"

- page modifications with user-supplied JS and CSS (later known as Greasemonkey and basis for browser extensions, which ironically Opera didn't have for a long time)

- address bar history based on full-text search of visited pages

- bookmark sync across devices

- pages rendered by a proxy server (like Amazon Silk browser)

And they've tried plenty of things that didn't catch on: built-in Torrent client, built-in web server (like node.js) and Widgets.

There's plenty of UI R&D to be done.
Not when the predecessor also doesn't meet those rules.
My extra 2 weeks of vacation after 10 years was nice. If I was in charge I'd just gong the entire gift idea. And the silly wall plaque things advertising that your a lifer.
Mozilla is working hard on this, but I don't believe there is a published timeline for EME (using Adobe Access DRM) that supports Netflix yet. Getting closer, though: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=10158...
Thanks. I know I can do most of the stuff asked. Most of these places want flat designed applications with animation, a nice UI and CRUD functionality. Maybe a token based api and a few forms. Im going to get a job, i am disappointed in the lack of brand strength of the institution I attended, so I am doing a few side projects and contract work to prove to employers I am competent and can learn. Thanks