skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Gruber had a good observation about the charts published in Quartz (specifically the last one): "Apple has sold more iPads in its first 57 months than they sold iPhones in its first 57 months."

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/04/27/quartz-chartz-ap...

http://qz.com/392202/were-live-charting-apples-second-quarte...

If Apple pumped out over 250 million iPads, a great majority of which is probably still in use, with the usual Android and Windows numbers the whole tablet population must be in the neighborhood of one billion.

I believe the "slower update cycle" explanation, and I'd guess many are waiting for wireless battery charging, nowadays the obviously missing hardware feature.
I've been a fan since 1992. Possibly the most beautiful video for me on youtube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpeBugHSCnU

Ronnie O' Sullivan Fastest 147 in History - 5 minutes 20 seconds - 1997 World Championship

(mostly because I watched it live, and still remember how it blew my mind, still does)
Relying on Moore's law-like as caling is becoming standard practice in big science. Someday it'll stop working, but there's plentry of evidence to suggest that tooling will continue to improve on timescales of a decade.
> I'd like to hear about large American cities that have been run exclusively by Republicans

They don't really exist; the political split in the U.S. is more urban/rural than red state blue state. The big cities in otherwise red Southern states like Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia are thoroughly Democratic (though perhaps in a different flavor than northern Democrats). People that have lived in those states know that's true. People that haven't lived in those states need to travel around the country more.

You can find Republican cities in the U.S., but you'd be looking at medium-to-small cities, depending on where you care to draw the line. And those cities are either fast-growing (newly sizable) or competitive politically. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-stat...

Like I said above, there are bad symptoms in any political monoculture. But the problems seem to present differently in urban and rural areas for whatever reason. There are huge problems in rural areas to be sure, like I listed above. In especially poor rural areas, drug abuse and the poverty trap is on par with any inner city, if not worse, like I mentioned above.
Why Now? The Internet of Things
"square quantum bit circuit design that is the only physical architecture that could successfully scale to larger dimensions"

There's really only one way to to possibly do things?
Import me
While the article is interesting in its own right, the title reminded me of Frank Herbert's Whipping Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipping_Star
Hi HN! I'm the author. Made this page to try and see if anyone cares about taking me abroad, and actually am interested in anything you have to say about the whole thing: the proposal, the styling, the... name?

If something irks you, do please let me know.
That's a seriously fucked-up webpage without Javascript =/
http://i.imgur.com/Lr53m7u.png
This looks pretty nice, thanks!
Python if looking at a dynamic language! It will get you up and running in no time; the syntax is also very easy to understand and easy on the eyes...If you want a statically typed language then go with Go..it feels like python with types
what I find sad is how much better Sql Server Management Studio is compared to the competition and yet how completely effin' frustrating it is. If They spent 10% as much effort on SSMS as they do on Visual Studio it would be ridiculously amazing.
My observation has always been, tablets; specifically iPads; are too expensive for what they are doing. That and just because its an Apple tablet doesn't mean I need to pair it up against an apple laptop. Hence cost comparison is done against other laptops which are priced even lower than the iPad at times.

Its hard to get excited by technology when every price point is four hundred and up. How many items do they want me to have now? phone, watch, tablet, and laptop? Far too many redundancies
I always doubted tablets, and then I got an iPad (3? the first retina one) for the kids and for development purposes. That was a while ago now, and it never really caught on here. It just kind of sits there, sometimes going months between uses.
That's a different thing. The menu on the Intence page is implemented using viewport.js: http://asvd.github.io/viewport/

The Intence itself is the one which highlights top and bottom edges of the area in case if there is something to scroll.
Because your web app will appear sluggish to your users compared to a native app.

http://blogs.telerik.com/appbuilder/posts/13-11-21/what-exac...
That's pretty damn cool.
A stylus would be nice. One reason I'm seriously looking at Surface (disclosure: Microsoft employee but all iPads at home).
Or a rotary telephone?
I think an average user has only so much time in the day to commit to "screen time" or some time spent in front of a screen for work or leisure purposes. Between my phone, computer, laptop and TV I am already spending 60-80% of my day staring at some type of a screen. The tablet doesn't help me do my work or leisure activities better than any of those devices.

The only reason I ever spend any time with my tablet is because I love to draw and I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 with a built in Wacom digitizer (and even then I sometimes prefer to just pull out a sketchbook and a pencil).
There are some interactive books/courses/sites that are nice. They don't necessarily use 'layman terms' like that 100 year old calculus book:

http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/statistics-course-detai...
http://www.socr.ucla.edu/
http://cast.massey.ac.nz/core/index.html?book=general
https://www.kno.com/book/details/productId/txt9780983804905
If you have a background on C++ I recommend to try something radically diferent like Clojure: http://www.braveclojure.com
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Kind of the same thing, but in the opposite direction: This morning my girlfriend got a notification that some day next week Uber drivers will pick up donations and transport them to Goodwill.
Do you have any info or a website you could point me to on how to build the image into a virtualbox VM? Running VBoxManage from their guide [1] isn't working for me. I can create the VDI file but on boot I'm getting an error saying hd0s1 isn't found >_<

[1] https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
First pick a platform, are you more interested in native mobile or something web based. I primarily work with PHP but I've also tried Ruby and Python. Either one could be my next. Truth be told, just make sure you keep asking "why" and understand the basics. After that, switching to a different language will be pretty easy and you'll mostly have to worry about learning the popular frameworks and libraries.
Your benchmark is terrible - it's impossible to run it because you don't provide a dataset that you used (or I'm missing some description). It also stresses one aspect of the language (processing strings, in a very specific way) and yet you claim this is representative.

However, we're more than happy to consider it a pypy bug if we're not faster than CPython. Please provide clearer instructions how to reproduce it and ideally also other benchmarks that did not work for you.
Javascript is pretty widely applicable these days, even if it's maybe not a thing of beauty.
Amidst all these verbose vignettes of precious characters, what DOES Even DO? Oh, ok, there's one paragraph in there that sheds some light:

"The app then holds back an “Even cushion” — a savings account it manages for the user. In the demo I saw, the app, drawing on a sample bank account, reported that “if you earn less than $380, Even will automatically boost your paycheck. If you earn more than $380, Even will automatically pay back boosts and save the extra to your cushion.”
Go Ahead, Play Prince of Persia in This Tweet
Also to alleviate the possibility of the stock market at large expanding and wiping out any gains form the QQQQ not doing as well you can sell puts on a broader index(like s&p) and then sell calls for the what you think will do poorly. For more info google stock picking options strategies.
Part of the point I was trying to make is that a political brand combined with at least two realistic options on the ballot makes the party self-police. I don't see the political checks and balances being as strong if any scandal can just be written off as an isolated incident.

I could be wrong, though.
Apple Looking into Built-In Telephoto iPhone Camera Lenses
This is from the magazine, which typically features long-form journalism.
In Holland we've had takeaway.com (thuisbezorgd.nl actually) for a long time. A lot of takeout places, but also some regular restaurants are on there. You can order with an app which takes just a few seconds. Does nothing like this exist in the US yet?
It should be 'headquartered'. The UK isn't physically big enough to host such an array, of course.
I've never had it be particularly difficult. It does generally require a VPN since forwarding DCOM over ssh is challenging.
Bug: Abiword always starts after logging in on Ubuntu 15.04
Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu
I'm not familiar with dosemu. How does it compare to dosbox, or just installing dos on VirtualBox / etc?

Also, it appears to be 6 months since the last release of dosemu2. Is it already abandoned?
[citation needed]. In the minute or so of idle browsing I did not find that claim on their website nor a claim how much python they actually implement.
Dissecting the “Internet Freedom” Agenda
EU countries decided to create the directive, and then implemented this while it was in force.
It is slovak government
would be interesting to add 3d depth on it to show mountains height and depths. No idea how that would be done using paper.
First of all, Gruber is absolutely right that there are still a whole lot of tablets being sold.

That said, sales have plateaued at best and there are probably a lot of contributors:

- Slow upgrade cycle as you suggest. I have a 2nd or 3rd gen iPad and I have absolutely zero reason to upgrade at this point.

- They are probably being squeezed to a certain degree. I find that, even with just an iPhone 6 rather than a Plus, I'm often more inclined to just read on my phone than go grab my tablet.

- I've probably become more quick to grab a Chromebook or some other laptop I have laying around than do anything half-way complicated on my tablet. So there may be some realization that tablets are sometimes more trouble than they're worth even for more complex mostly-consumption tasks.

- I suspect that we may end up with some sort of tablet and laptop reconvergence even though tablets took off in large part because the convergence between the two devices was broken.
Ease of use and discoverability.

For people accustomed to IDEs, the fact that they don't have to remember "n" means "next," "s" means "step into," "info breakpoints" will say which breakpoints you've set, etc. is a big deal. Yes, you can use DDD for that, but frankly, it doesn't look as nice.

Additionally, if you want to see what value a variable has, simply hover over it with the mouse pointer. This works for ints, but it also works for std::vector<std::map<int, std::string> >. You can get the same functionality in GDB, but it takes a little work to set it up.
Does anyone believe they've actually stopped?
Top Techniques for Effective Upselling and Cross-Selling [Infographic]
I expect better from the front page of HN. I like PostgreSQL and MSSQL Server and to a much lesser degree mySql and Oracle. But in my experience I use the tool that exists and makes sense for the project. Since most of my work is enterprise its MSSQL or Oracle. For personal projects I used PostgreSQL and got on quite well. None of the tools prevented me from getting the data I needed. There may be scaling issues or use cases that can favor either platform. If so, pick the tool for the job, move on. If you feel compelled to do so, you should document your use case to help others out.
This is really very nice! For me, seem like it might scratch an itch, on which I have had to rely on RStudio (which is also awesome for iterative exploration and display, but a "heavy" context switch if R is not your favorite language ).
looks alot like the databricks cloud notebook.. looking foward to taking for a spin
Postgresql have such an amazing documentation and CLI that I prefer to use it over pgAdmin.
You don't need to "sell" bitcoin to me :) I use it almost daily since 2011-2012 ;)
Real World Examples of GoF Design Patterns
I got "You must restart your computer to apply these changes" in Windows 8.1 just by moving my mouse to another USB port a couple of weeks ago. I guess some other non-critical update was queued up.
Would it be possible to use this method against something like a Java app loaded in tomcat where as to test for bugs within a certain library? Say, for instance that I wanted to see if certain malformed xml posts were able to cause unexpected behaviors in a passing endpoint? As I write this I think that in some cases some kind of httppenetration tool might be more suited but I think im wondering what would happen with a tool that isn't necessarily confined to a ruleset and pattern matching.
I'm a subscriber of the slower update cycle explanation as well. Everyone I know who owns a tablet is happy with what it does for a longer period of time. Have a look at iPhone refreshes versus iPad refreshes and you'll notice that the iPad follows the iPhone, so it should be no surprise where the iPad falls in the growth trajectory of the company.

Following that same line of examination (looking at refreshes), consider the impact of each refresh. What does a new iPad include?

Thinner and lighter? That's a nice to have, but is it cost-of-upgrade nicer?

Touch ID? How important is Touch ID to users who use the iPad casually. With an iPhone you're frequently operating the device with one hand, so Touch ID simplifies the authentication process. When you're using your device for payments, Touch ID is pretty damned incredible. Neither of these apply to the iPad. I'd love to have Touch ID on my iPad, but it's not worth the cost of an upgrade.

Better camera? I'm an outlier here — almost everyone I know uses their iPad as a camera, except me — but I'm just not sure this alone is enough to push people to upgrade. In the iPhone environment, all of these new features act cumulatively to make an iPhone upgrade worthwhile.

Larger size? Oh, wait. That's iPhone only, and it's probably one of the biggest drivers of iPhone 6/6+ sales. It's irrelevant to the iPad.

Tablets, as a product, involve a slower upgrade cycle because they're actually the more traditional product when compared to a device like the iPhone.
This HN comment thread is unintentionally funny because of all the people talking about a thing that got removed in a version after the one they have, and saying "well I don't know what you're talking about!" Yeah, you don't. Sheesh.
My biggest frustration with MS is their licensing is infuriating. Doing cleanup during the audit took a ridiculous amount of resources and every company gave us a different answer on what needs to be licensed differing by 1000s of dollars sometimes.

The other is the barrier to entry. I was trying to get NAV2015 working for a demo using some data for a project, I spent at least 20 hours trying to figure out who to pay (Azure comes with it installed but no license -- why not just sell a bundled license into the hourly cost?) -- eventually gave up and set up OpenERP in like 30 minutes, spent 3 hours adding the feature I needed and was done. NAV is unquestionably better for this project, but I'm not going to enter into a support contract with a company just to get a license.
The internet hates people who don't run javascript.
Maybe you aren't the intended target for this, then?

I tried to learn electronics with 555 timers and leds about 10 years ago. Failed miserably- there was a ton of back-knowledge I didn't have. Systems like Pi make it a lot esier to work with and debug systems to gain the level of confidence where you can assemble a 555-based system.
It’s a man’s world – for one peer reviewer, at least
Seeing what he ended up with, I don't think he would have been happy with how much of these maps are graphic design, not map.
Great product, hard to believe its free!
Code is only using 20MB on my Win8 box.
It's very click-baity, but to provide some anecdotal evidence I've never had corrupted data/tables in Postgres, but dealt with it very regularly in MySQL under almost identical environments.

MySQL doesn't do a great job of protecting your data compared to Postgres, MSSQL, Oracle, etc.
There have already been two other Red Hats, and Red Hat bought them both: JBoss and Cygnus.

If there's ever another breakout in enterprise open source, Red Hat will buy that firm, too.
My Nexus 7 is basically a glorified Reddit + YouTube device. It works quite well for that, but I've never really seen the appeal for using it instead of a laptop for most of what I do.
Actually, upon closer inspection, in Chrome it starts in a buggy state where the sound is enabled but the speaker icon (at the bottom of the page) is set to mute. In Firefox, the buggy state doesn't occur: it's initially muted and you have to click on the speaker icon to enable the sound.
7 Awesome Pods for Your iOS Projects
Tons of discussion and nobody mentioned this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_User_Datagram_Protoco...
Reason for using TCP is that using UDP requires application specific implementation and making it good and efficient would require more work than making rest of the software. That's why the applications only use UDP where it really does make difference. Others just won't bother.
Same from me. Brilliant, funny, I love the echo, this is really just way too funny. Too bad it hogs the cpu so incredibly.
Lessons Learned from Sponsoring an Open Source Developer for a Year
Oh, do you work for SO Brent?
Why don't you start by taking a waveform, rip it from a CD or something, and start looking at the time-domain signal to see how many of these repeats there are.
Seems legit! I'm not sure it's hugely accurate, but it gave me a pretty close estimate for my salary.
The iPad is a strange beast from an upgrade cycle. We were upgrading pretty fast at the start (upgrade ours, give our to others) particularly because of the iOS compatibility problems with older iPads. That changed in the last 18 months, we don't upgrade as aggressively and it seems like we can keep using our older hardware longer. The iPhone is an every two years item (buy, skip next, buy), and that doesn't seem to be changing.

I would bet on a bump with a bigger screen model which will put some distance from the phablet iPhones. I really see no reason for both an iPod touch and iPad mini.
I was in the same boat. Then I took the iPad on a vacation and got used to it – it's now the exclusive devise for the hour or so/day I spend browsing.
> I must agree with even though I don't want to. Microsoft seems to legitimately changing its behavior.

But you don't think they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, right?

This is just Microsoft doing whatever they think it takes to maintain or perhaps even enhance their position in the IT industry. They're still evil, just like always. It's just that now that MS is teetering on the edge of irrelevance, they have to pretend otherwise.
Is Red Hat still primarily funded by US Military contracts? That's what worries me most.
Unsupervised Learning Algorithm would be fun.
Nice animation. Agree, but all the useful info is below the fold.
I'd second this choice. Especially if making money on the side is a factor in your thinking.
Java. Despite what you may hear about it, this remains the number one or two (depending on who you ask) language in use.

It has a HUGE amount of libraries available and the standard library (SE and EE) cover a lot of ground.
Unintended Affordances (or why I believe encrypting everything is a bad idea)
Tablets are content consumption devices first, and productivity devices second. I love my iPad, but I see very little reason to upgrade it considering its perfectly suitable for reading books, browsing the web and watching the occasional movie / show on Amazon video, Fios etc...

I am also very jaded by how much performance degrades with every iOS update and refuse to get caught up in the "upgrade every year" Apple cycle.
I'd agree with you to some extent but postcodes (the UK equivalent of ZIP codes) were actually introduced before ZIP was in the US. If you were given an address in 'rural England' like that at any point in the past >40 years then it was most likely the addressees choice rather than the actual postal system. The postcode also makes everything apart from the number irrelevant in the eyes of the post office - you can address items to 10, GL10 2AB and it will end up where it needs to go.
Amazon Webstore Is Closing. Are You Ready to Move Your Business Elsewhere?
How to lose a client in 10 ways
AMD and PC Gamer Bring the PC Gaming Show to E3
Mercurial: Onward and upward
Super Strong Tiny Robots
This company is in a inherently interesting space, directing large numbers of people using software for stuff that happens outside of the computer and also offer lots of jobs for people
So then what's the point? Since I deleted my account my relationships with my real friends and family has definitely improved. When I see them in person we actually have things to catch up on and talk about and those in person interactions have much more value for me.
There was an awesome comment at the end by Stephen Heard:

Agreed! Much of the "problem" with P-values comes from
them being expected to do too much; they aren't (for
example) indicators of effect size or final proof/disproof
of an effect's reality. And careful attention to the
P-value can't overcome problems at the earlier steps you
lay out here. I would differ in one spot, though: a
P-value should not be "the last of these [inferential]
steps" but rather closer to the beginning of critical
thought! (More about all this here: http://wp.me/p5x2kS-Y.)

I like the "p-value should be the beginning of critical though", I'm going to remember that one.
yeah he should've used the dymaxion with the continuous ocean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map#/media/File:Dymax...
The problem is it is harmful to others. There is always someone who is willing to work for less or worse conditions which collectively affects everyone.
How about retrofitting DNS to do this? Encode a persons GPS coordinates in a TXT record. Now instead of writing my address on an envelope, I write me.example.com. The mailman/post office can then look up someone's coordinates via a DNS query. The benefit of this is that when I move, I can simply update my DNS entry. I could either host my own address or 3rd party could. Local government could grid up their own regions and assign address to fixed locations. You could choose to CNAME your address to the government allocated address or use the government issued one for the plot.
python might be best for a non-technical person to pick up.
Ah, thanks for digging that up. I was not aware that they didn't support fractions in exponents; I don't think I had ever tried them for that. Luckily they do give warnings, though only if you have already set the precision (via "bc -l" or something like "10 k" in dc).

Sadly, since dc doesn't have a math library, it looks like you can't use the "e" function workaround unless you implement it yourself.
You wouldn't perchance know a good online resource for recommendations on automating SQL Server deployments would you? Yes, you can google and piece things together, but I've yet to find a well written fairly comprehensive resource. (As the author notes, one would think perhaps MS would provide such documentation, but afaik they don't.)