skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which was significantly a marketing issue - even the person running the anti-New Coke campaign preferred the new recipe in blind taste tests.

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

Gay Mullins, a Seattle retiree looking to start a public relations firm with $120,000 of borrowed money, formed the organization Old Cola Drinkers of America on May 28 to lobby Coca-Cola to either reintroduce the old formula or sell it to someone else. [....] In two informal blind taste tests, Mullins either failed to distinguish New Coke from old or expressed a preference for New Coke.
I don't have the time to build a site at the moment (curse you schoolwork!), but if you'd like to help maintain/update the docs I'd love the help.
For my sites IE is no longer the 'dominant browser', it's market share has fallen to ~35%, down from >50% a year ago. Of that 35%, only half is IE8 with IE 6 & 7 making up the other half.

If trends continue, IE9 might constitute 10% of my total traffic in 2 or 3 years. I 'm not looking forward to supporting yet another quirky MS based browser.
CrashPlan does better cross-OS support; Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris, including, with moderate hacking, Nexenta. This works out well for my Nexenta NAS, which uses ZFS for multi-terabyte local storage. My home PCs can back up to both the NAS and the cloud, for redundancy and speed of restore.
Designing Website for Mobile Browser
If your backup provider elects to delete your data due to an obscure ToS clause then it is their fault for sure. The article does not say anything new about cloud providers - you have to trust their competence. But this is a critical failure by EMC / Mozy and is nobody's fault but theirs.
My friends and I have actually been noticing this. There's been a deluge of TC links to articles with barely any content, and/or content that simply links to another article.

This is not a good trend. People: please submit original sources.
It's a bit off-topic, but PDFs, with their fixed page size baked right into the file, make for a truly miserable eBook experience.
DEC's rise, fall still echoes
Machine learning in Wonderland
Wouldn't an IE-only modernizer-type shim work? With some kind of redirect on sharp-urls coming from IE. More work for sure, but at least the rest gets clean resources.
I've tried it too. Way too sweet.

Local bottlers will tweak the syrup/water ratio for the local tastes. I've been told it's sweeter in the south than the north. The Mexican mix is insanely heavy on the syrup.

I've tried Coke syrup straight. It'll make the muscles in your jaw convulse from the insane sugar hit.
AWS Management Console now has IAM support
I think it's a pretty good idea, but the ideal solution would be both a CAAS and the opened sourced toolchain that worked on at least one open source platform. Doing that is probably easier than releasing something cross platform like arduino, and for most people is going to be easiest to use.
Bump (YC S09) is looking for rockstarninja engineers and designers.
Are you claiming there are no crash bugs in those other browsers? I can crash Chrome tabs just by creating lots of HTML 5 audio elements in a loop. And I'm sure there's more.
I agree with you, but at this point we're just axe-grinding. It's unfair to fault Microsoft for not implementing it in an alternate reality where it was a good idea to do so.
Not a motor/bicyclist eh? :)

Having access to information without having to dig your phone out of your pocket (not to mention a phone you can't operate with sturdy gloves) is very useful in such situations.

Which reminds me; how "weatherproof" is this thing?
So their profit is somewhere north of $70 million if I did my maths right and Wikipedia is reliable.

Not at Activison level yet I think.
I know that page shouldn't crash any browser, really, but the crash happens as a result of poorly-written HTML (a missing </form> tag) that IE can't seem to handle.
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Undeveloped? I didn't follow every detail of the Hudson-Jenkins story but I thought the split was relatively recent. Have the codebases diverged that much since then? I would expect to still be relatively the same. Or are you referring to future development?
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Aside from the Valve's revenues per employee, what I find interesting about Valve is their Steam platform.

Steam (and other platforms for downloading and streaming videogame content) are a disruptive threat to Gamestop and the videogame sales of other retailers, such as Wal-Mart.

Given that online distribution has now disrupted music, newspapers, books, movies/video, and now tv/broadcast, I'm surprised that investors think Gamestop is worth $3b.
And still no Episode 3.
I sense a general case:

X Rage: when you're inconsiderate toward others.
Just moments ago I finished studying for a quiz on Wednesday over jellyfish and earthworms. I'm trying to figure out why I need to be able to dissect and name parts of small and microscopic organisms instead of writing my report for my Environmental Techniques class. One of the few classes that I actually feel will prepare me for my future career because of the experience I will gain in writing scientific reports vs. essays. I will have also spent time using field equipment that I will most certainly use again in just a few years. I feel that only 10 out of the 25 classes I have to take will directly help my coming career but there is no other way for what I want to do.

I believe college degree plans contain large amounts of fluff that do not advance a students needs to get into the job field. It used to be that a student took college courses to make them a better person. But I've seen over the years in my own school years that teachers no longer seem to care or bother. My biology teacher is a self identified lazy ass that frankly hates teaching freshman biology, my geology teacher speaks exactly from the notes, and in the only class I care about, Geographic Information systems (a computer class) I know more about computers than the teacher does.
Even doubling the battery life of the battery would barely give it a week.
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This reads like the Firefox team desperately trying to sound relevant, as the realization sets in that they're probably going to fade away from most people's consciousness pretty soon.

Internet Explorer is, and always has been the browser that comes with your computer. It works fine, and most regular people will never bother to change it.

Google Chrome is the better browser that your tech-savvy children or friend might install on your machine, and that you'll immediately notice is better in several ways and start using.

Firefox used to hold that 2nd place, but now it's been relegated to "the browser that people who were really passionate about Firefox five years ago still use". It was a great alternative to IE6 back in the day, but its time has come and gone.
Yes, I am referring to future development. While it's possible that some development will continue on Hudson, the main contributors are sided with Jenkins.
Valve don't release pricing information for the Source Engine, but they say it's competitive[1]. One of their competitors is id, who charge $250k plus 5% of wholesale[2] for id Tech 3. I'd say it's probably nice side income. Epic charge $350k plus 3% of wholesale[3].

For 18 games (if I counted that wikipedia list correctly), that should be a fair take, but it would seem like more of a side income when compared with Steam :)

[1] http://source.valvesoftware.com/SourceBrochure.pdf

[2] http://www.idsoftware.com/business/technology/printdoc.html

[3] http://udn.epicgames.com/Main/Licensing.html
I don't live in too crowded an area so pedestrians can usually be avoided and/or alerted with an, "excuse me" or two. There are enough people, though, who are aggressively inconsiderate that I do occasionally have problems on foot.

What really irks me is that these same people, who feel entitled to monopolize any given thoroughfare, are just as common in motorized vehicles on the highway. The problems there are much worse though. Honking is considered rude and is usually illegal for non-emergency use. There's no such thing as a gentle but assertive shove with that much kinetic energy involved. In the worst case, some self-righteous offenders will intentionally congest traffic if they feel others' driving is 'unsafe'.
We tried using Wave for our startup. Really, we did. We tried using it as a collaborative tool, as an communications tool, and as a toy.

The bottom line was that we found we'd rather share a Word doc via DropBox, or send an email via gmail, than try to use the clunky, slow, confusing interface.

In my experience it was the product that failed. YMMV.
I'm a huge Apple fan, but I admit there's something about this which doesn't feel entirely... right, and that's concerning.

That said, however, there's decent and non-evil reasons for them to think like this - at least in terms of subscriptions, IMO.

One issue is that subscription-based apps are almost always free in the app store. Apple loses money on free apps that don't include iAds. If the subscription fee itself is also outside of Apple's control, they're hosting your app, getting you "shelf space", driving people to your app, etc. and they get nothing in return. With such an app, the content is basically replaced every month (or week or day or whatever) which makes the process a bit like a scheduled purchase of a new version of an app - hence the 30% cut.

On the surface, I disagree that Apple should get 30% forever for a subscription - especially if the publisher is providing all the infrastructure necessary to deliver that content. What if, though, the subscription system allowed publishers to upload the content once to Apple, and Apple hosts and distributes it to the apps and users? Now the 30% starts looking a bit more reasonable. If indeed it works this way (or will eventually work this way), you could be a very small shop and still manage to support thousands or, indeed, millions of subscriptions with virtually no support infrastructure of your own. That's certainly worth 30% IMO.

The flip side, though, is if you already have your own content delivery mechanisims in place, Apple taking 30% each billing cycle seems unfair. IMO, they should offer the subscription products in two flavors - one where they host and distribute your content, and another where you are doing that work. In the second version, Apple could easily take 30% of, say, the first billing cycle and take diminishing amounts for as long as the subscription remains in effect - perhaps even going all the way down to something like 2% just to cover the payment processing. That would seem a lot more fair to me than taking 30% forever.

Sadly, though, I haven't yet seen anything that suggests that either of these situations are even true. For all I know, Apple might not be offering any distribution or hosting services and might not even have an API to allow apps to easily take delivery of subscription content, and if that's the case, taking 30% forever seems excessive.
One can think of the entire IRC history as a kind of collaborative information resource. (A limited append-only doc.) And yes, there are programming groups who use the history in exactly this way. Some of them post to HN.
Well, a good middle manager does a couple of useful things:

- keeps track of schedules and workloads
- insulates his team from clients' and upper management's requests
- does whatever his team needs him to do to stay productive

Watson can do at least two out of three.
When I started in my role at developer support at Google, I was actually a remote part-time contractor with no access to internal code, mail, or tools. But, I was still able to provide decent support by being highly communicative between the engineering team and the developer world, using emails, forum posts, and weekly phone calls.

So, I do think it's possible to outsource a certain level of support without codebase access, provided that there is a good communication line setup.
Microsoft has had plenty of time and more than enough resources to get their browser right. But for whatever reason, they can't seem to get it up to par.

IE struck out a long time ago and I think it would truly benefit mankind if they were benched permanently while letting one of the big boys take its place at bat as the default Windows browser. Sadly the chances of that happening are slim to none... without consumer action. ;) And that's why I'm upvoting this. I've wanted a browser revolution for a long time now!
So far the most votes are for "IE can and should be killed". Should is debatable, sure. But I'm interested in how. Because I'd argue it can't be done by anyone not named Steve Balmer at the moment.
It just worked out that way. This company used to be one of my consulting clients, and they talked me in to staying full time to fix some quality and process issues as well as tweak their sales process. It's been very satisfying to see the progress for sure.
Google Chases Computer Criminals to Search-Engine Competitors
Ayn Rand, welfare queen.
You forgot at least one "and":

...and if Firefox weren't open source. Why look at disassembled asm when you can download the C/C++ code?
ZTE introduces 7” Tablet PC with Pixel Qi’s Sunlight Readable Low Power Display
Show HN: Interactive Google Doodle [HTML5]
Has the nano been successfully jailbroken? Last I saw was that some of the images/text could be changed but I wasn't aware of anyone getting actual new code running...?
Like SEO, sales suffers from an adverse selection problem. Effective salespeople are money generators and don't really need to market themselves. There is a good chance that any salesperson who has the time and motivation to market himself to the whole world isn't strong enough to be worth it.
Come to think of it, I probably could have chosen a better example, as Firefox is open source...
I'm impressed with the price point. It's about what I'd expect a device like this to run if it were a higher-volume product selling through mass-market channels, rather than a low-volume, enthusiast product selling only through the manufacturer's website.

Are you guys courting retailers like ThinkGeek?
Protected Instance Members in Javascript
Small nit re the landing page:

I started reading the three columns "Copy", "Support", and "Blog", and by the time I got to "Blog", I expected it to be another service that you'd offer (i.e. writing blog posts about the supported service). It took me a second to realize I was reading about your own blog posts.

Maybe it's just me, but I think I would relocate the blog section somewhere else.

Cool site, otherwise!
Many colleges have internship and co-op placement programs that require 2-4 semesters worth of work, usually during the summer semester, but often in large contiguous chunks. Often students start into the program after just 2 semesters. If 2 semesters is a year of college then many do deliver it. I went into the co-op program at my school and found another programming job myself for about 3 semesters worth of work total.
This looks like a follow-up to one of her previous statements,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village
After having to handle email validation and deal with QA finding corner cases in my validators, I prefer the approach of minimal validation as mentioned in the article (has an @ sign with something before or after) with the ultimate validation depending up the email servers, e.g. if it doesn't bounce, it is valid.
Err, sort of. The taste tests were flawed (and also the reason Pepsi repeatedly won blind taste tests over Coke around then as well).

New Coke was designed to be more Pepsi-like in that it was sweeter. In smaller quantities, people readily preferred the sweeter of the two drinks, whether it was New Coke vs Coke Classic or it was Pepsi vs Coke Classic. But what the taste tests overlooked was that people preferred Coke Classic to either New Coke or Pepsi in larger quantities (e.g. a 12oz can).
" High on the roadmap are faster aggregation capabilities, full text search, better concurrency, and easy large cluster setup and administration. A general focus right now is assuring the product is suitable for mission critical production applications."
This is why Richard Branson is so successful
sure it could: if even a handful of major sites decided to simply block IE, it'd be dead in the water. that's EXTREMELY unlikely to happen, but it's certainly possible.
That is the thesis of Jeremy Rifkin exposed in the "The End of Work"
Or more completely: because Pepsi is sweeter, a small quantity of Pepsi tastes better. However, if you asked people to rate based on an entire can of cola, your results would change. Dunno about that, I'm a Pepsi man, because the first place I worked was a gas station that only stocked Pepsi, so it was the first caffeinated beverage I drank in quantity.
Even on sites that claim to be serving XHTML, actual adoption is pretty low. You have to set the content type in the HTTP headers (no meta tag — the actual header) to "application/xml+xhtml" or you're actually just serving quirky HTML, and most sites don't bother, because HTML turns out to be perfectly sufficient and they don't realize they're doing it wrong (+ the old IE bugs with XHTML).

For example, look at the source for W3Schools.com. Then use Firebug or curl to look at the headers. That is an HTML page that thinks it's XHTML. The poor thing is addled.

At any rate, we've done without XHTML for quite some time now.
"Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm." -- Erik Naggum
Benevolent dictator
I can say that it has led to at least one lost sale of an iPad. I was getting ready - essentially money-in-hand - to buy an iPad. I will no longer be doing that. From a purely consumer perspective I don't believe this policy benefits me at all and there are some pretty exciting alternatives on the horizon. Notion Ink's Adam looks pretty good to me and with Honeycomb on the way and being optimized for Tablets, iOS is no longer the only choice.
> the realization set is that they're probably going to fade away from most people's consciousness pretty soon.

How do you support this statement? It looks to me that Firefox still has a significant market share and I don't see it declining.
On the contrary, it recently overtook IE in Europe:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2066540

> Internet Explorer is, and always has been the browser that comes with your computer. It works fine, and most regular people will never bother to change it.

Here in Europe Microsoft is compelled by antitrust to let people select a different browser the first time (I don't know if they are already enforcing it though).
"It works fine" is of course subjective, but it's true that when people start with it they usually do not bother changing (also because they don't know they can).

> Firefox used to hold that 2nd place, but now it's been relegated to "the browser that people who were really passionate about Firefox five years ago still use".

I don't think so. I see a lot of people still using it on it's merits and not on "passion". Where do you take this statement?
Yeah that's what I thought, too. I'm in the Netherlands though, Land of Cheese, Clogs and Worst Customer Treatment Ever. Credit card companies cannot be contacted directly here, cc's are issued through banks, who then do the customer 'service' for these cards. So I called them and they basically told me that I could a) cancel my whole card, which would mean that I would have to change all subscriptions etc. that use this card; or b) file a complaint, but the lady at the customer service desk basically told me I wouldn't stand much of a chance 'because it's a subscription'. This doesn't make sense of course so I'm going to file it anyway - this is all on a card in someone else's name though (company card) and only the person whose name is on the card can make a complaint. So now I have to get my boss to call, wait for god knows how long to actually get someone on the phone, and all for getting a freaking cc dispute. Ugh.
I've tried it too. Way too sweet.

The key, for me, anyway, to Mexican Coke is to keep it at room temperature and serve it over ice. It's always cold enough, and the slight dilution from the melting ice makes it perfect.

Also, the Mexican mix isn't heavy on the syrup, it's heavy on cane sugar.
In a bubble I'd be even more wary about working with other companies (I'm pretty wary as it is).

I rely on a lot of other companies to run my business. I have a web host, e-mail providers (for personal and bulk), multiple analytics providers, a cloud backup service, an open source content management system—and that's just naming a few types of businesses that I rely on.

In a bubble, it's more likely that any of these companies could disappear (but it could still easily happen in a non-bubble). I'd be even more diligent about having my data backed up and an alternative plan for if one of these companies goes out of business.

Another risk is that a company that you rely on will become too successful. Etacts is a perfect example. I loved their product and used it a lot. Now it's gone because Salesforce bought them.

I'd also be more aggressive about getting paid for advertising. Right now, I'm pretty relaxed about invoicing companies after I run a sponsorship campaign. I want to ensure that they're happy first. If I was really worried, I'd make them pay up front.

There are some things that I probably couldn't overcome. Google disappearing would be one. I'd lose 80% of my traffic, my e-mail, my analytics, and a bunch more.

You should always be wary of whom you work with. There are a lot of sexy startups for startups right now. They offer some great services, but what will you do when they disappear, kill the product you rely on, or get rolled into a bigger company? It will happen, bubble or not.
MaxLenght of the input field is 2048, so you can put lots of domains in it. Of course, it's not a complete solution but it works to some extents, specially because it filters out stuff on server side and not with a css' display:none.
Typically 2-3% is considered average/good. You're doing great at 10%.
Or perhaps to comply with the letter of the rules, Netflix and Amazon will provide different pricing packages depending on which mobile platform you want to be on - that $9.99 Kindle book will come with free Android and Blackberry compatibility, but will have a $13 "Kindle + iOS" version. Netflix could be be compatible with other platforms by default but charge for iOS compatibility like they charge for Blu-ray. Etcetera.
Retailers like Amazon already take a cut of all transactions. The only reason why Apple's cut stands out is because it is the same as Amazon's. In effect, Apple is saying, "if you sell stuff on iTunes, you should be the producer, not the middleman, or, if you are a middleman, you better be damn thin."

Again, seems fair enough. Booksellers won't give a toss about whether it's Amazon or iBooks that takes the 30%, so long as users buy it. And Amazon doesn't deserve 30% just for syncing books between the kindle and the iPad (unless they're the one making the sale).
Kik's defence to RIM's infringement lawsuit
When I used to sign up for insurance face to face through a local broker, their system was logging into a ISDN line, then connecting to a VMWare session that opened up a hosted desktop that they then used to open a TN3270 emulator to the insurance (in this case, Allstate) text-based interface.

I have a feeling independent resellers of services, brokers of any kind, and management companies of all verticals are seeing this type of abysmal computing and are crying out for someone building that next Quora knock-off to give their industry some love, likely at _any_ price (because they're probably paying a fortune for their kludge solutions anyway).