skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IE8 is at 33% share now. IE7 is about 7%. I expect most on IE6 are still on XP. So I'd expect that we'll see similar uptake rates for IE9, if not more given the HTML5 benefit (IE8 doesn't have much clear benefit over IE7 from what I can tell).

So I'd say expect IE9 to be closer to 27% in 3 years.

Of course this ignores two big questions:

1) Is IE still hemorraging market share?
2) Does IE9 actually reverse the trend of people using Chrome?
Well, depending on the details of what you're doing, you may find it very straightforward to use Apache Solr[1]. It's basically a search engine in a box, other than getting the content indexed. It'll be up to you to figure out how to take whatever content it is that you're searching, and get it into the index.

If Solr is overkill for what you're doing, you can easily build a simple search engine using Lucene[2] directly (Solr builds on Lucene).

Nutch[3] might also be worth a look.

There's also a really good free book on Information Retrieval available[4].

[1]: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

[2]: http://lucene.apache.org

[3]: http://nutch.apache.org/

[4]: http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.h...
I'd have thought that the state would have more bargaining power to get a monthly cost substantially down from $34/month. Then again, I don't see why I need to pay for these people's cell phones. Jobs that require constant communications, like emergency services already have alternative systems in place. its just convenient for many other employees to have a cell phones.
I must say that the ogg video samples i have seen are not as good as the h.264 samples. But good enough for probably 90% of internet video.

Anyway, i think WebM comes very close already (i actually don't see differences): http://www.quavlive.com/video_codec_comparison

Instead of embracing the patent encumbered codec we should be thankful for Google to actually buy a codec (VP8) and release it _for free_. I couldn't imagine this from any other company.

Still many people just want their h.264 no matter what. It's bad for a free and open internet, that's my belief.
Firefox has got some kind of auto-installer for Flash (and notifies you if it needs updated, for security reasons).

They got accused of the same hypocrisy when they announced a royalty-free codec only strategy. They had some good responses, that I can't find right now but boiled down to "WebM is a fight we can win, removing or banning Flash is suicide".
I write the same way in my blog as I do in a diary and leave it open with my name attached. I prefer it.

Other than that I'm not sure what we're arguing about. Though it is interesting you have things to hide.
I skimmed through the whole article and found all sorts of problems. For example:

"Weil's writings are ambiguous about the conflict between science and alternative medicine, as they are about many other issues in alternative medicine."

What conflict between science and alternative medicine? How is his writing ambiguous? How is this a problem? How is his writing ambiguous about other issues in alternative medicine?

"[weil] thinks that all healing methods ought to be tested; and yes, modern science can make useful contributions to our understanding of health and disease. Yet the scientific method is not, for Weil, the only way, or even the best way, to learn about nature and the human body."

What does Weil actually get wrong? Is there actually some error in either his epistemology or what he is advocating?

"Many important truths are intuitively evident and do not need scientific support, even when they seem to contradict logic."

Where does he actually say this? What's the context? There isn't even any inherent problem with this statement, so it doesn't make any sense to criticize him for it unless you're going to actually go out and find something wrong.

"Weil is not bothered by logical contradictions in his argument, or encumbered by a need to search for objective evidence."

What logical contradictions?

The typical Redditor could write exactly the same article without even reading any of Weil's books. And it really only gets worse from there, e.g.

"According to Weil, many of his basic insights about the causes of disease and the nature of healing come from what he calls 'stoned thinking'"

Again he can't find any actual problem with what Weil is saying, so he's just poisoning the well.

He does eventually make a couple of points that appear to be solid, but there is so much other crap in there that it's hard to take seriously. If there are cases where Weil is wrong then by all means he should be called out on it, but this article is just nonsense.
Good. This is why I hate asking my nice friends what they think of my web app design. They always say it looks good. I want to raise the bar to epic, and the only way to do that is to stop asking for preschool-era "everybody wins" criticism and start asking for Chef Ramsey servings of brutally honest opinion.
Homeopathy may have been cutting edge in the 19th century (I doubt it), but this is the 21st. Science has moved on.
> Java simply refused to learn from previous language's mistakes.

You probably never programmed in C++ before. Trust me on that, Java was a breath of fresh air and it was obvious to everyone that it learned a lot from past languages.

> No, because it's not like Java was the first language to ponder about these, and it did not learn from previous languages (mistakes or successes). Pretty much all of Scala's improvements over Java predate Java itself by decades.

Maybe, but if these features had been put in Java in 1995, it's very unlikely it would have met the success it knows today.

Sometimes, the hard part in language design is knowing what feature not to add. Java did great in that respect.

Scala... not so much, if the language complexity is any indication.
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FUD. All the Tegra 2 stuff at CES was hardware accelerated and the Motorola Atrix even played video @1080p over the hdmi port
I think you may have misread something there. The link clearly says:

"Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for other high-quality open codecs in the future. "
There's a fantastic video on What Motivates Us. Link is [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc .

One of the things they showed an inverse correlation on amount someone gets paid and what they produce when it's anything above menial labor.

Highly worth a watch.
> I'm guessing they will strip back their huge international efforts (which IMHO are waste because MySpace is really a US-orientated service)

Really? They're in the top 100 sites in 17 different countries; I mostly encountered them while living outside the US, specifically for music stuff.
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Great article. His observations of location polling strategies and battery life are spot on, so if you are interested in location-based services, read them carefully. When developing Jaiku Mobile (always-on rich presence sharing with location and other data) we learned same things.

There's actually two strategies that you've to manage: polling of the location (GPS usage) and sending it to the server (network usage). In 3G, there is a significant energy consumption cost, when you send small amount of data regularly to server, because the network stack has to be changed to higher-energy mode each time you send something over TCP/IP.

Even if you stay in a same location and the location data doesn't changed, you might need to send the data to server. Why? To indicate freshness of the data, server has to pinged to indicate that location data is still fresh, even if it hasn't changed. Indicating data's freshness can be important in tracking situation (e.g. Geoshare).
Surely when it comes to government-sized budgets, it's about tweaking an old proverb: look after the millions and the billions will look after themselves.
wait a second, so none of the existing apps do this?
is it because they have not thought of a simple thing like texting location url to a contact or they tried to lock in new users using twitter, facebook, etc. contact list import thing?
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Ask HN: Naming my startup, should it end with "app"?
I'm working on a new startup/project for GAAP compliant accounting software, competing directly with QuickBooks and Peachtree and am at a creative loss for naming it. I want to come up with a name as clever as EverNote. Obviously, domain availability is key since we're bootstrapped. There are varying schools of thought when it comes to having a domain that is the exact name of the company.

Despite what 37signals says, I think basecamphq.com is a horrible name. I have had dozens of people to which I referred Basecamp, give up because they couldn't figure out the domain. I don't blindly trust everything 37Signals says as gospel. Notice how they never admit to any mistakes they've made? Anywanys... </rant>

Lighthouseapp.com is another example of a postfixed name, but my market isn't tech savvy developers.

One name I love is RunRate. The domain isn't available. So what about RunRateapp.com?

Anyone have any killer ideas?
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http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2010/12/the-tech-behind-the-new-g...

http://wanderr.com/jay/technology-stack/2010/05/06/
A quick glance at Read the Fucking HIG and it's very clear what they're mocking deserve to be mocked; not a single one validates based on the HIG.

Vulgarity is immature and childish but it's a tonality the Internet has adopted. You can participate or choose not to, sermonize about decency or not, but this insistence--beyond the scope of this article and RTFHIG--that everyone does things on your pace, your schedule, your needs, your preferences, on you... is just so whiny.

Care less, it'll make you happier.
I don't see an execution in the picture. Politicians would know better than to make him a martyr.

Could he wind up in Gitmo? Potentially...that's certainly a valid concern.

Should he? I'd rather not get in to that. To some he's a hero, to others a villain. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
i wonder, if you broke down their revenue, if the majority of their viewers are children, thus the diminishing returns of making a blockbuster vs churning out crap make their decision rational? pure speculation obviously.
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I'm saying you can justify a near arbitrary amount of acquisitiveness in the name of your kids lifestyles.

Generally I think acquisitiveness is fine as long as it doesn't come at society's expense. But, I also think a lot of benign-seeming acts by acquisitive people come at a subtle significant cost to society; e.g., supporting the repeal of the estate tax.
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Best of luck Scott :)
If YouTube goes exclusively to WebM/Flash, who wins that game of chicken? Apple or Google?

I actually think Apple wins it as someone creates iTube. People will switch browsers. They won't give up their iPad (at least not until there are some better Android browsers on the market).
On Github, they say they'll eventually remove the dependency on PrototypeJS. The library is only ~10k now, hopefully that change won't increase the size too much.
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Because it locks people out of Apple mobile devices.
I'm not really sure what you're talking about.

A market participant will choose which exchange to execute a trade on based on their analysis of those exchanges. If for a particular trade they decide that out of all the exchanges, darkpools and this new lightpool available to them that the exchange that is most suited to that order is the lightpool, then they'll probably route it there. What do you expect them to do? If you're going to buy or sell something then there's an associated cost to doing that whether you do it on the NYSE, in a darkpool, or in this new lightpool.

Credit Suisse don't 'own' any customers, people who trade on this exchange will have no obligation to trade there, it sounds like you think that there are people who are forced to trade through Credit Suisse and so will be forced to use an exchange run by Credit Suisse. That is not the case. If they don't like what is on offer at Credit Suisse then they can trade directly in a market, or they can use another broker.
Imaginary happiness = sqrt(negative expectations)
I switched to Emacs after 10 years of Vim because of it. It is quite amazing how good it is.
Guess there's not enough cool startups they could be reporting on!
No no, they've had feature patches on top of the UI they've already got. If you take my original first-gen iPod Touch and compare it to iOS 4, the differences are largely hardware, plus multitasking.

I would like a rethink of the icon grid, of staticness (like how the Calendar app doesn't actually show the correct date) and the like.
I just implied that to really make it (in context of this thread mind you), to get into top 5% of income you have to corner a market (existing or new).

That means risk. East German swimmer or Chinese gymnast kind of risk. For each billionaire there are such and such number of people who "got to grow as people".

In my humble opinion the swing towards egalitarianism was an anomaly in human history. Can we make this anomaly into a new status quo? Recent developments show that very unlikely.
I will apologize for my lack of faith when he makes meaningful cuts in benefits for unionized state employees, or starts cutting headcount. Let's call it 5% and add the proviso "and cutting future increases doesn't count, and cutting a buck today in return for a buck every week for forever doesn't count."
I used to obsess over monitors. Read THG on every one, check the color profile range, &c &c. It took me embarrassingly long to realise that if it looked fine to me, that was all that mattered. I'm a lot happier with purchases now :)
Shameless plug: I'm working on a HTML5-based high fidelity mockup tool called jMockups [1], which is intended to be an alternative to Photoshop and HTML for creating website mockups.

You can't link the mockups together yet and its still a bit buggy, but long term I want to make it effortless for even the most design-challenged developer to design beautiful websites.

Let me know what you think: matt@jmockups.com.

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Not entirely true. Languages with strong static type systems like Haskell and OCaml go a long way towards being provably correct without test suites. Dynamic languages like Perl however have no such guarantees.

The fact that the cross product of several generations of interpreter, several platforms, and tens of thousands of distributions is generated automatically by a handful of volunteers is a strong argument for CPAN/Perl being unique amongst the dynamic languages in it's testing and compatibility.

Additionally, people who aren't in the right circles probably never know how much grepping through CPAN happens when new features and syntax is suggested for the core Perl5 language. All done by the porters to be sure that new syntax won't break existing code without some fore-knowledge. This is on top of the automated testing.
I didn't like Cars 1 and it doesn't look like I'll like Cars 2. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that the studio is losing integrity.

As another commenter pointed out, Pixar rarely pumps out sloppy sequels -- while the motivation to make Toy Story 2 or 3 may be money initially, they make sure that the sequels have legitimate stories and are generally enjoyable. If they didn't, they would quickly become just-another-studio worth only the length of time they can trick parents into buying merchandise based on their intellectual property holdings.

Pixar doesn't do the straight-to-DVD sequel gig. Even when they continue a franchise, they aren't sloppy about it. Even if we aren't really big fans of the "Cars" style or humor, it's evident that there's at least a cohesive storyline and technical quality. Let's remember that Pixar makes cartoons -- usually, they easily skew to adults, but the more 8-year-old oriented Cars doesn't necessary mean that Pixar is losing it; it just means they're targeting 8-year-olds.
On that topic, did they drop mp3 support too? I didn't see any mention of that either way. It would make some sense.
I used to be like the engineers you saw. I burnt out pretty hard, now I'm like you, I need my sleep! (Well, I obviously needed it before, I just wasn't feeling it)
Newspapers advertise. Magazines advertise. Radio stations advertise. TV channels advertise. Why shouldn't blogs advertise?
But it is not sure whether Apple will adopt them. Could the competition with iPhones have influenced this decision?
This is almost cause to speculate that California may eventually become solvent without additional bailouts.
i try not to be a cynic, but if they had even an inkling of their potential, their commitment was economically rational.
I wouldn't call Android a "re-skinning"; it uses no traditional GNU userland, no X11, nothing from GNOME or KDE, etc.
That's as annoying as a pseudo-intellectual and inauthentic hipster.
Thanks for feedback eclark.
I will definitely get to work on these issues/enhancements.
Appreciate all who helped.
So I can't make a post about how awesome the company I have stock in is and profit from it? I thought I just had to disclose that I was a owner of that stock to avoid problems.
Firefox overtook IE in Europe recently (38%), and it wasn't at the expense of Chrome which is higher in the EU than in the US (15% v 12.5%)
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I keep a Moleskine journal in my rear jeans pocket. It's small, and contours to the curve after a day or two so you don't even notice it's there. I keep it with me like I keep my keys and wallet, without exception.

I write on it on a semi-regular basis. The purpose of keeping with me is so I have something to write on as ideas come up, as girls give phone numbers, or ifI have free time to write down the thoughts of the day. That last part is the most important: I never liked sitting down and braindumping my day in a blog or a big book; I write a lot more when I can do it at any moment, sentences at a time.

I've been doing this since September 2007. 3 years, 3 months later, I'm on journal 14.
Been looking for this. Wonder why that doesn't happen more often.
I bet the 5% is largely from credit card processing fees. Hopefully you guys can work out a deal with the processors at some point...
Hmm, I agree about the links. I am on a desktop and the sign up link is right at the bottom of the screen. On a laptop it would be hidden.

Other than that, I like you art and design quite a bit more than a prefab theme. If you do try it, don't throw out what you have :)
I saw comments in an article here on HN a few days back talking about what 50 did. Some speculated that he could be reported for it and possibly legally challenged, is this correct, has be broken the law?
Isn't the key to being a hipster never using anything marketed at hipsters?
What exactly is the incentive for reducing high-frequency trading? People are offended that computers can make investment decisions better than humans? Computers making trades is not "really" investing?

Markets are based on trading. If there are no trades, there are no markets. If you want to buy 1000 shares of ABC company, and nobody has 1000 shares, guess what, the trade is not going to go through. This is what will happen on a restricted market.

Similarly, high-frequency trading means price corrections occur more quickly, meaning that when you buy or sell security foo, it is more likely at the correct price. Now you can argue that nobody really knows the correct price, but that is orthogonal. (Computers make mistakes, but so do people. There are some markets that are still not made on exchanges, and they are subject to the same whims that the equity markets are. Computers are buggy. People are irrational.)

My guess is that this market is for people with a lot of money that like to talk on the phone with bankers. They will get a "safe" investment (or so the dude on the phone says), and Credit Suisse will get a nice cut. Hint: whenever a bank invents a product, the main idea usually revolves around them getting a cut.
>Vital for sending images to the printers.

Not entirely, I get away with it as the publications ultimately use low quality reproduction and so they don't match anyway. It's certainly better but the main issue for me sending RGB is brightness and I've learnt to adjust for it. The consumer doesn't know what it's supposed to look like colour-wise, they're probably reading in non-optimal conditions, possibly colour-blind.

Given what gets put on the cover of professionally produced work (http://www.psdisasters.com/) this almost seems the least thing to worry about (yes I'm exaggerating).
another helpful site for keeping a journal: http://www.inboxjournal.com. i like that the site sends email reminders where you can post entries, and that it has a clean interface.
Thanks for the link. Just signed up.
And why will that happen? Because people like to pay license fees so much they will be all too eager to pay the fees for both h.264 encoding and flash?

Yes, businesses that already use h.264 and flash will probably continue using them. But the bootstrapped websites and startups will opt for the free stuff at least initially, and of all those bootstrapped startups some will be successful enough to make some noise. And then some of the established companies will have cost cutting rounds and will look at those license fees and think about whether they really need to pay them when some of their brand new competitors aren't paying them. At this point the iPhone will start looking bad for not supporting the newest and coolest video startups that are supported on android and Jobs will eventually cave too and add WebM support to the iPhone.

Everything in the web thus far has gone towards the lowest cost and easiest alternative that is still effective, and this will not be different.
i don't care. neither do all the people who voted up the original post. there's a lot of stuff on the front page - funny how you just couldn't avoid spending time in this article.
5 things Physicians can learn from Pilots
That's pretty slick man. Nice work!
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I remember being in the theater when I saw the trailer for Cars 2. First was the Pixar splash. I gripped the armrests and sucked in my breath with anticipation. Then I watched the trailer and was a little disgusted. My reaction afterwards was "I didn't like the look of that trailer one bit. If it was anyone but Pixar, I would have covered my kids' eyes so they wouldn't know it existed. Since it's Pixar, I'll see it opening weekend." That's how much I trust them.
This whole post is just giving excuses for bad writing. Even though some subjects can be very difficult, a knowledgeable person, who knows how to teach and how to write can produce something useful. Personally, I tend to keep trying different books until I find something that makes sense to me. But I admit this is not always possible with more esoteric subjects. A good text book, like a good teacher, makes a big difference.
That concern would be valid if Toy Story 3 wasn't the 2nd best Pixar movie ever (in my opinion, a hair behind Ratatouille)
No you don't. Not even Facebook was first. I like to call it validation.

Ever notice how a lot of web pages used to suck. Nowadays a lot of apps are like that (present app excepted :-). Keep going!
Maybe if you mod down my comments even more this story will cease to be true as well.
Ah, so the problem is that he should have disclosed that he owned the stock?
10.10 works fine on the MacBooks. But I didn't bother keeping OSX.
Just want to say Doug is doing a nice job answering questions via email about the service behind his decidedly blank landing page. Thanks.