skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would anyone want to not sell stuff in some contries?
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or go completely nuts and write a python implementation!

you mean write a Go compiler in Python? i hope you don't mean to write a Go interpreter in Python, since that will totally nullify all of its supposed performance advantages
Stuff like this does happen now and again. One example is putting the wrong value in the wrong fields -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4512962.stm

In the above case the trader got the price and number of share fields confused.
This would also suggest a reasonable chance that some hybrids bred back into the Neanderthal populations instead of ours.
Because it's not by Google, but only using Google APIs.
I love the dubious dragging in of badly understood quantum to justify it. Unfortunately for the argument, the term 'observer' is misinterpreted (as it usually is by non physicist lay people) and actually doesn't show that 'we create our universe' (outside of a purely ontological sense) at all.

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
Perhaps if we look at who bought a country today that might help.

Meaning what exactly?
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so down, i view it as a team bonding exercise
I agree with this. Each platform can be completely different. Banks often have their own internal platforms too. Some are even set to trade in millions by default. So when you enter an order for 15 shares, you're really buy 15 million shares and so on.
"I've been on the team that did this since we staffed up engineers, and did the first functional demos of the new design."

So do you think you could get us a user setting to turn off the new design and get back the classic minimalist one? Right now you have to install browser extensions etc.
Some text in the presentation is not browser-searchable (e.g. looking for "navigate" in Chrome does not work for me)
I agree, but I also think that just getting your driver's license in general (in the US) is way too easy. The test is a complete and utter joke. You could be fucking blind and still pass it. It's pretty depressing. I also think you should be required to take a driving test every time you renew your license (which is every 8 years in most states, I think).

There are way too many really terrible drivers out there, and the government is doing nothing to keep them off the road. It's scary.
That's the kind of research and work that you need to do before applying any job. Not just sending you resume to 50 potential employees.
i'm running a 30" at 2560x1600, but i have firefox sized to 1280x1200.
My guess is it's the 80/20 rule applied to customers and Apple likes profit margins much more than just revenues.

Also, it's stereotypical that third world folks abuse store return policies and customer support in general.
Apple actually has a giant physical store in Beijing.

http://www.apple.com.cn/retail/sanlitun/

I know it because of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vqSJAOC7I

They're also building a big one in Shanghai.

http://gizmodo.com/5279167/apples-massive-shanghai-store-mix...

Interestingly enough they don't sell anything online. Maybe it has to do with Chinese buy everything in cash.
Ah, it's about iTunes? Get over it. I'm pretty sure the record labels are to blame.

For example, I live in Belgium, but I can not buy mp3 files from Amazon:

* amazon.com doesn't sell to people in Europe

* amazon.co.uk only sells to people living in the UK, and I don't live in the UK

* amazon.fr only sells to people living in France, and I don't live in France

* amazon.de only sells to people living in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and I don't live in Germany, Switzerland or Austria.

What's left? Nothing.
When they talk about "the biggest crash since 1987", do they mean in absolute points, or scaled to overall DOW magnitude?
Excellent comment, one of the most informative so far ITT. I realize that this borders on fortune-telling, but you seem to have a decent grasp on the situation, and you say RE: bailing out Greece that "it really is damned if you do, damned if you don't", so I'd like to ask -- in your personal opinion, what impact do you see this (the impending collapse of the Euro) having internationally over the coming decade?

In other words, is this necessarily the beginning of a chain reaction, or is there, in your opinion, some route by which the effects of Greece's economic death rattle may be confined locally?

Also, can anyone elaborate on "they all share a promise that no one will let any fail"? Does this 'promise' have a strong legal basis, or is that simply an implied economic obligation in the face of mutually-assured destruction (i.e., as per the California comparison, is leaving Greece out in the cold even an option, legally?)
iphones are very popular in ukraine/russia, but russian MTS mobile operator couldn't sell as much iphones as they bought from apple. here in eastern europe is all about price. people like overpriced stuff even if they can't afford it. if iphone would cost 200$ with contract noone would bother buying it - there's always expensive nokia:)
define: word still works.
Care to put some details on the India-China war prediction?
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Sometimes, spending a few hours playing a game can really refresh you. It can also cause you to waste a lot of time.

Moderation in all things ;)
super neat. i tried to access it earlier and it was down, but i'm glad it's working now.
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Yes, i can see some problems:

- First, in the worst case users will switch between browsers all the time, but users only want one place to store their bookmarks and cookies

- Second, even worse, if this would become a common practice, every browser manufacturer (especially MS) would just develop their own HTML "extensions", the standard would drift apart even more and the ultimate goal to achieve 100% standard compliant browsers would be out of reach.
I can see how MS would implement new HTML and Javascript functionality to offer developers new features and in the end tie them to their browser
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Nice. Any word on when we'll be able to use this in conjunction with the API?

I just pushed a new build of Twiddla that allows viewing of the new Scribd HTML5 docs. Anybody feel like doing a bit of testing for us?

- go to http://www.twiddla.com/1
- browse one of these urls:
http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5
http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5
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+1 for short description of what your app/website does on the front page:

"If you don’t tell people what to say about your app, they’ll come up with it themselves and sometimes it’s inaccurate or crappy."

I temporarily fell victim to not telling visitors what my site was about and (un)surprisingly they did not understand it from the interface. This happened early on when I was sharing it with people; probably what happened is that they arrived at the site and promptly left because they could not figure out what it did.
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Because they believe the costs (both up front and running) will be too high relative to the expected returns.
i'm so glad don't have a facebook account.

i'm also glad i deleted the account i had with a national facebook-clone a long long time ago.

all this pseudo-social bullshit is getting on my nerves. go out, meet people, exchange phone numbers and email adresses and maybe even STDs, but for fuck's sake don't delude yourselves into thinking facebook means being social.
Because selling media costs money, and some countries can't really offer much reward.
To sell music you have to deal with labels and, sometimes, local authorites, while risking small profits. Here in Poland we have some archaic organizations like ZAiKS, and most people view paying for music as insanity. That means that we have no major mp3 store in Poland at all (afaik 7digital and Beatport sell to Poland, and we have some niche stores, but that's all unless you want to import scrap cards)
Why is it hard to increase the price? Is it harder on the app store than anywhere else? Is there a way to track the price history of apps, or is there a website that does? I'd love to know, I'm considering making an (expensive) app and pricing is a hard problem for any software product.
Yes, that will probably be the case. But note that the usefulness of said data diminishes as time goes by. Eventually your data dies too.
> My guess is it's the 80/20 rule applied to customers and Apple likes profit margins much more than just revenues.

Speculating is one thing...

> Also, it's stereotypical that third world folks abuse store return policies and customer support in general.

...but it's inexcusable when it leads to unsubstantiated claims that tar so many people with the same brush.

Also it's a massive stretch to call any but a very small handful of Eastern European countries "3rd world". (I need not defend Eastern Europe, since I'm South African myself, but it's plain as day that a lot of Eastern Europe is not doing too badly).
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nah they won't. products are dumb on average. you're probably on the right slope of the bell curve and can't fathom how gullible the other side of the hill is.
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"mount" a "scratch monkey"...

i don't think it's such a good idea to mount the monkey that scratches you.
Disco dancing 'fixed something in my mind'
What a happy iFamily
koanarc....very interesting questions. Due to the clearly increasing interest in this topic, I am going to write a series of blog posts on the crisis (according to what I know - not claiming to be a fortune teller or a sage of any kind, but it seems people are interested).

Well, I wouldn't say the Euro is near collapse just yet. The Obama Administration would never let that happen...i.e. assuming that the Eurozone bigwigs (i.e. Germany, France, etc.) want it to collapse - which I don't see why they would - a collapse of that nature right now would threaten the overall economic recovery. So the powers that be, are doing (and will do) everything in their power to prevent that from happening.

In terms of the impact over the long term, i.e. coming decade, I would say that provided that the Euro can get through this it should prove good for the EU. Because the only way they are going to get through it, is if the EU + IMF bailout the problem states. We have already seen the major sacrifices that have been demanded of Greece as a condition for getting the bailout - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8656649.stm

Although Greeks might be pissed at the 'financiers' for imposing 'harsh' conditions to the bailout, in the long term it will be healthy for Greece. They have to go through a bitter, deep, cleansing period (kind of like the bankruptcy proceeding that GM had to go through to get out of their onerous contracts they had with labor unions & dealer network) to get to a more healthy fiscal position. Unless I am mistaking the resilience of the politicians to weather the storm, I strongly suspect that they will persevere through the political maelstrom and do what needs to be done. Then in 5 - 10 years, we could see some strong growth coming from Greece again - however it all depends on what policies (aside from the austerity measures) they implement.

By bailing out Greece and demanding significant austerity measures, they are attempting to contain it locally. The issue is that if they don't take their pound of flesh, the other states/countries will expect the same. So to nip the moral hazard element of it, they (the EU & the IMF) have to be harsh. It's for everybody's own good.

In terms of the strong legal basis...I will cover this in my blog post. I believe there is some legal basis for it - but I am drawing a blank right now. I am going to do some research and include it in my post. Stay tuned, will post on HN once I am done. At the very least, even if there isn't an explicit legal basis for the bailouts, there is a strong implied economic obligation - because it is in everybody's best interest to bail out the weakest state. Just like it was in America's best interest to bail out the banks - as annoying as it was to do, with them paying record profits - the alternative would be significantly worse. Emphasis on significantly.
"She was smiling."

It sounds almost if she became happy again. Scary stuff.
Stylish plugin to the rescue!

First I hide all the left column sidebar nonsense with adblock.

Then I do this:

#center_col {margin:0 !important;}
.gl,.sla {text-decoration:underline !important;}
.tsf-p {width:65% !important;}

Problem solved. Back to wide.
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The official documentation on the web http://docs.rubygems.org/read/book/2 should really be updated.
Pure genius. :) I wish I could do this too, but I don't think my teammates are starcraft fans.
Another question is why is apple merchandise so much more expensive in Europe? Most european countries have around 20% VAT, but the prices sometimes are even 50% higher.
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I'm wondering on only one thing at the moment. How long does it take for people to realize that most of their productivity/business software can be used on iPad as well.

I can imagine people traveling (sales people?) with iPads 3G checking their inventories in real-time, doing their forecast reporting, sending emails, reacting to on-line customer enquires...

Do you think this is something that will happen or my imagination just plays tricks on me? :)
The survey did seem to use a fairly biased set of questions for economic literacy, though, as even one libertarian blogger (who would otherwise agree with the sentiment) noted: http://volokh.com/2010/05/07/ideology-and-economic-ignorance...
It's been my experience that taking notes on a computer in math classes is generally a bad idea. Even if you're able to capture all the necessary equations, there's no way you can embed diagrams on the fly, even with a good, dedicated editor. Though using the computer to take notes could certainly work in, say, a history course, I find that paper and pencil are still the best tools for the job of taking notes in math class.
It's not just eastern europe; I still can't buy movies from the Netherlands, but there's no other service I can use here either.
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A 20% conversion rate? Man I'd give up my left pinky finger for that. Maybe even the right one if every conversion (university) brought in enough users.
Among Greeks at least, there's a significant feeling that Greece won't come out ahead, and that these measures are being imposed for the benefit of: 1. other EU countries; and 2. bond investors, some of whom are the same as #1 (e.g. a bunch of German banks). May or may not be true, but there's a large sentiment (maybe even a majority) that the average Greek, especially those in, say, the bottom 75% of wealth/income, would be better off if the government just defaulted on the bonds. They point to Argentina, among others, as a successful example of taking that route.
I can't remember where or when I heard it but I do recall that the number of accidents increase when the driver believes that they are good enough to avoid a crash through emergency manoeuvring.
Safe driving is being aware and driving in such a was so as to prevent getting into that situation in the first place and if someone is trained to recover from a skid/drifting etc... then they're more likely to take risks.

That being said, if you can handle a car in emergency situations is a good thing as long as that doesn't encourage you to cause those situations.
On a related note:

In India:

http://smokingapples.com/india/apple-support/

http://smokingapples.com/india/apple-india-sucks/

http://smokingapples.com/india/demystifying-iphone-3gs-in-in...

Apple completely ignores India.
- No Flash, no multitasking, no Camera!

- Just a big iTouch.

- 256MB RAM!? Pfft.

- WTF, not widescreen?!

- LCD bad for reading.

- $500?? Overpriced.

- Can't see why anyone would need one.

- Fills a need that isn't there.

- Looks uncomfortable.

- You have to pay $99 to publish on it.

- Yeah, if you like to peck and type.

- It's gonna destroy the culture of content creation.

- Fine if you don't need to get real work done.

- Only fanboys will buy one.

- Give me a netbook so I can program.

- People who are buying iPads are sheep.

- It would not sell if it weren't for the marketing.

- Sure it's selling well now, but what about in 6 months/1 year/2 years …

- Sure it's selling well now, but no true intelligent scotsman …

- Just a toy.

- I can't believe people are buying this without being able to articulate why.

- Look, someone says they stopped using it! I was right.

- No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

28 days and $1,000,000,000 in revenues later, still reasons Apple doesn't give a flying frack about, and maybe a sign that some of us should reevaluate how much we know about the buying habits of the non-comic book guys, and that there might be something there that warrants more than a knee jerk cmdrtaco response.
Just wanted to add that the same is true App Store as well. In Eastern Europe you can buy iPhone in Apple Store and activate it and sign 2-year contract, just like anywhere else and then you're denied to buy applications at App Store! It just displays a message claiming basically that "App Store doesn't work in your country".

And how narrow-minded is that? They're loosing a lot of money on this market.
That's very impressive. Any idea how these guys achieved the rendering of all those math symbols so flawlessly?
Same subject, more "folksy" write-up, no comment, more entertaining.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321659
Because Apple products sold in the US are made in China while products sold in Europe are made in Ireland. Labor cost in Ireland is obviously higher.
I don't think he is referring to facebook aboption as an indicator here, rather the fact that someone clueless said that there are so many people using it and millions can be made
[citation needed]

"Experts" are overrated. The whole notion is fundamentally backward-looking.

You might as well consult a historian.
come on.. don't rub it in
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People would only switch to Opera Mini if that particular app's feature set (a method of low bandwith browsing) appealed to them. People would only be able to switch to Opera Mobile, an actual browser, if Apple allowed people to write apps using the basic technology elements that underlie browsers, but they don't.
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Just tell the author, politely...no harm in that.

I'd be thankful if someone did this to me (actually they did last week - i'd been staring at the screen that long that i let one through!)
The demo videos are hosted on Vimeo. They've embedded the Flash player but also provided the links for you to click through and watch the same video file via HTML5. There's a link on the right hand side of Vimeo that says something like "Switch to HTML5 player" but it remembers your preference if you've already switched it.
The answers to this are often vague and non specific; “Oh, err, umm, well I read Slashdot. I just go to articles. I don’t go to any specific sites.

Kinda sad, really. The author decries the death of reading and yet doesn't understand the utility of a news aggregator.
Facebook launched in 04 and grew quickly. Then as now, people were saying it was dead, that Twitter would overtake it, that they would run out of money, that they would be the next Friendster, MySpace, AOL. It hasn't happened. They're closing in on 500 million (yes half a billion people use it!), and still there are nonbelievers.

My not so witty prediction is Facebook will IPO and probably fetch a 200 billion valuation in 2 years and yet still the naysayers will persist, like flies in China. Some things never change.
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Apparently I'm an old fart now, I used Godzilla every day and I only graduated four years ago. And I scored some neat stuff off of triangle.forsale, too -- but even five years ago, the Duke Usenet server was having stability problems that indicated OIT wasn't taking care of it.

OIT has been going downhill ever since they contracted out email a few years ago. They have been absolutely the best-run IT department I have encountered, in any public or private sector.
Minor point, do the "copy" buttons really need to be flash still?
"Disney and many other parks recognize that keeping it clean and refreshed, with all of those little details that you don't notice until they are missing, are important to the park's success."

This is exactly how I feel about writing software.
That also tests something like innate RTS skill. You could do the same challenge with a FPS.
I totally agree.

Let's face it, we all hate facebook, but there are no good alternatives yet. Orkut and networks like friendstar are hopeless still, and whilst I'd love to remove myself from facebook, the reality is that most invitations people receive to do things are by facebook these days.

I can hardly wait for better alternatives though.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ is a good place to get an answer to this question
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I am assuming here that you have checked that there is nothing you can do legally.

All the best.
Not sure but it probably involves Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madson, Michael Ironside and John C. McGinley, i.e the greatest movie cast ever assembled.
You go and tell that to all the people I know in real life that use facebook - the mothers in the school playground for example.

Facebook is so big most of its users don't care about any of that stuff. For them it has one simple function - its a good way to interact with friends and family.

These are people who probably couldn't program the VCR to record a program in advance, who shrugged their shoulders when our (uk) government left all their children's records on a train, whose technical knowledge is minimal.

Facebook is doing just fine - just techies who worry about the details who are going off it. For the mainstream it works just fine.

(and as an aside - one of the weirdest things ever is hearing people who would have thought that me and my mates playing D&D when we were younger was geeky and strange - talking about things like farmville in just the same way)
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Trends are fleeting. Lock in is forever.
The usual case is that people cannot distinguish between the bodily feelings under a mild stress and the feeling of hunger. So, they eat to become calmer, while actually they don't need additional calories this time.

btw, most of word's religions praise the fasting as the method to improve self-control and health.
Everything is sold with the same price but a different currency sign. Just replace $ with € and you're done. Games, consoles, hardware...

Example:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/47700/?cc=US

http://store.steampowered.com/app/47700/?cc=DE

(I know this isn't true for everything, but it certainly feels that way)
People will downvote you for that comment, but man I laughed.
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Fahey has held the title for 16 years, but it's been hotly contested since 1740.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_real_tennis_world_champ...