skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an American who lived in southwest Spain for a year, I can say that the market down there is garbage, and that your clients will be friendlier and respect your skills more elsewhere. I left with enough personal and secondhand knowledge of bad experiences working in the area that I would never work for any Spanish or Portugese company. I know Americans there that love it but have a strict rule against doing local work.

The good news is that's still a wonderful place to live, and just about everywhere else pays rates that let you live the good life down there. Work your github, work your twitter, work your blog, and get remote work. If you're good, or even mediocre and professional, there's tremendous demand for programming talent.

You're not crazy. Your area is screwy.
Maybe a grad student has those things ( ;) ), but once you realise computers aren't the hard part about building software, you realise that there are a whole host of skills you need to be a successful programmer, that have nothing to do with algorithms or computation.

If all you have is a strong understanding of algorithms and computation... your just a computer geek. Doesn't make you a good 'programmer' (in the sense that you can produce something someone wants).
Presumably, the companies paying big dollars to NDP to buy their market research data. I'm sure that includes those other 5 companies the report is about.
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make jazz more popular? did you ever go to a big jazz fest like in Montreal or Newport? I think it's big enough personally. That's the funniest thing I heard in a while. It won't be more popular. You re talking about culture not a boys band, prefabricated ideas. It's like wine, it's a taste you develop through the senses slowly.
I don't blame you for not carefully reading my rant, but I addressed your point somewhere in the middle of it: when the article went up for deletion, there was a big link on the article itself saying how to vote on the deletion.

The thing that this guy writing this post didn't do that any reasonable person could have been expected to do: click the name of the admin who deleted the article and ask him on his talk page what to do about the deletion. The admin would have answered, because if he hadn't, one of several rival admin factions would note his failure to follow process and bankrolled it as ammunition in some upcoming admin war.
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It's absolutely retarded that you have to learn Wikipedia policy before debating whether an article conforms to Wikipedia policy?
Facebook makes profit.
End of discussion.
As John points out, this analysis also excludes the Nook.

if you want to write an article about the number two tablets, the only way to do it is to exclude the ipad.

Not at all. You can show, and write, exactly what you just said one sentence earlier: "The iPad has 90% market share, and the other companies split the remaining 10%, with five companies each taking 1 to 2 percent of the market."

What about that is so difficult for mortals to understand?

Even if you never mention Apple more than once, it's important, when (e.g.) pointing to the fact that HP has almost twice the share of unit sales as Motorola, to recognize that you're comparing a 2% share with a 1% share, not a 20% share with a 10% share. There's a big difference between 1% and 10%, both qualitative and quantitative. For example: Smaller numbers are closer to the noise level, and therefore more subject to fluctuation. 1% could really be 2%, and could easily jump to 2% in the next quarter, but it's unlikely that 10% is really 20%. And, lo and behold, this turns out to be relevant to this very case, because in fact HP's numbers have probably been goosed by a one-time money-losing giveaway of Touchpads. That's a fluctuation.
Or, it is now that we can see how flimsy the article itself turned out to be. By the way: it appears to have been written by Jessie Stricchiola herself (classy move, that).
> I really shouldn't dignify your comment though

You could try to comprehend my comment first, instead of interpreting it as an indirect ego-attack. Wikipedia's software and community aren't magically immune from criticism, especially from a usability standpoint, just because they produce a lot of useful content.
While your first point may have merit, lets just consider your second point for a second.

You say that it's ridiculous that to revert a community decision on a major international knowledge resource, someone should have to learn about their policies.

Is it really that 'retarded'? I actually went and followed the instructions while actually paying attention, and I found that the header of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review fully explains the situation, and within 2 clicks you can be instructed on what to do and where to do it.

This process is only opaque or difficult if your attention span is such that reading two paragraphs is a strain. Given that the writer of the original article didn't even bother to read the email he was sent then I think we can assume that the fault lies there.
That eloquently summarizes of my take on Wikipedia, and the reason I stopped participating several years ago.
Held hostage by your own friends.

At this point, facebook is becoming a universal service on many levels, and at this point, even though it's an apples and oranges comparison, it's probably more worthwhile to have a facebook account than a landline to your home.
"If it wasn't for those damned laws of physics always screwing up my plans..." basically. Mesh networks have a pretty hard constraint of k/n^2 bandwidth total where k is an average node's bandwidth and n is the number of nodes. You quickly get down into the 'bytes per second' range.
people don't know what they want until you give it to them.
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Care to share the lesson learned?
Your argument would almost be a good one if NPD had not used quotes such as:

“According to NPD’s Consumer Tracking Service, 76 percent of consumers who purchased a non-Apple tablet didn’t even consider the iPad, an indication that a large group of consumers are looking for alternatives, and an opportunity for the rest of the market to grow their business.”

If you overlay this argument on your South American analogy it would read something like:

Economic conditions in South America are improving, an indication that poverty has declined.

If you think about it, this does not make sense. Improvements in economic conditions may have no effect on poverty at all if the money is not trickling down.

NPD was probably targeting this report at some PC manufacturer that was looking to invest in the tablet sector. It is probably 'market research' reporting such as this that creates bubbles such as Groupon.
Don't despair too much. Once there is actually a viable business proposition for "next generation" energy, it will take off.
that's a very good point. never though about it that way.

yahoo should just raise the price for the next round of the deal instead of selling then.
Maybe you're right on 20% but I'll tell you that 100% of the article was a temper tantrum. Had the author looked into why these rules are necessary and suggested a more efficient process maybe he could have been taken seriously. Instead he rattled on about how it was hard for him to nag people into seeing things his way and upset that all his effort went to waste.

People who argue about the campaigns to tarnish Wikipedia's name and repeat the fact that Wikipedia still manages to be respectable and successful are right! The same things the author rails against are the very things that keep the riff raft out.

The author didn't get his way after a lengthy, well reasoned, and obviously thoroughly thought through debate. Not every website needs a reworking of their user experience. Sometimes we make you jump through hoops for a reason. This process weeds out the people who would use Wikipedia to advertise. At the end, despite the author believing his submission was fitting of its own Wikipedia page, the community still disagreed.

I call sour grapes.
This topic reaches the frontpage on HN at least once a week. Can we avoid rehashing the same arguments? Maybe just vote these up when something original comes up.
or just stop using google - at least that would be an option if they took more agressive steps at censorship, which I don't think they will, these seem obvious.

The key is that it is not written into law.
I wish the people who downvoted me would tell me what software they work on, so I can avoid it...

The kind of personality dysfunction required to deprioritize the authority and autonomy of the user in favour of machine concerns is enough that I don't want them involved in software I use. Such user-hostile malice is common in open source (due to the intrinsic incentives involved); IMO it's one of the primary reasons Linux fails on the desktop. Everybody is always eager to please the machine, forever creating new "consistent" abstractions, but not so happy to compromise even if such compromise lets the user win.

It's a serious problem. These dysfunctional people are far too numerous.
His "contribution" was arguably wrong, his effort was minimal, and his attitude was poisonous. If you want an encyclopedia where the opinions of "domain experts" trump consensus, then use Citizendium.
Great link. Not surprising actually, considering the demographics of iOS users and that iOS includes iPod Touch and iPad.

Google usually talks Android numbers vs. iPhone. Apple usually talks about total iOS devices and often emphasizes the install base since they were out first and built a 100 million device install base before Android even launched. In this case, it's in Google's interest to talk about total iOS install base so that's what they did, even though they don't really compete with the iPod Touch directly.
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My college roommate ran several BBSes but ended up being pretty dumb with computers in college. It always made me scratch my head.
I'd modify that to add in the words "in recent times". There was a time the HN community was reliably smarter and awesome than average.
Wikipedia's current UX produced the optimal decision in this case. That's what I'm trying to say. It's goofy to deride it as "absolutely retarded" when your case study is one where the system appears to have worked rather well.

But of course, I don't think this is actually a UX discussion at all; the participants here are:

* An SEO consultant who may have written her own promotional article on Wikipedia

* Her friend, who was upset at the experience he had attempting to convince Wikipedia to keep that article

* Hacker News, which is convinced that Wikipedia suffers from "rampant deletionism" (despite --- for the most part --- never having seriously participated in anything at Wikipedia) and viewing every story about Wikipedia through that lens.
The only point that Gruber disagrees with is the contention that PC manufacturers are dominant in the tablet space.
Wouldn't the pagerank algorithm work as a first pas for notability? I can guarantee that more (and more important) wiki pages will link to Turing's page than mine.

There would still be policing, but now it's of the form "This article on Bletchley Park shouldn't link to this random guy's page" which is more objective than giving me a notability score.
That's the crazy part! I completely agree with you--it's a massively gamified process and ideally, I'd like to believe that just letting people get to work without too much crap in their way would produce good results just as well as the status quo does, but maybe that's too idealistic and this is just how you make the sausage.

Still, there are some useful usability critiques to be made. Even an ugly sausage-making process should let you ramp up into it at the very least, and at the most, should have useful methods of collecting and processing input from novice users rather than rejecting it unseen or outright discouraging it in the first place.
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I'd love to see Wages = b0 + b1 * Bachelor's degree dummy + b2 * parents income + b3 * IQ + b4 * [thing I can't say] + b5 * [other thing I can't say] + b5 * work ethic measure (HS GPA?) + e There are a million things wrong with doing it this way but it would be an interesting addition to looking at that graph by itself. I half-heartedly tried to Google a decent paper but didn't have much luck with anything newer than the 70's
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I don't find this to be particularly surprising or outrageous. If someone types in "thep", what are they supposed to suggest "thepiratebay.com - download free..."? I think it's a little misleading to say that Google is censoring anything. They're just modifying the Instant algorithm so that they're not suggesting infringing content to their users.
And, again: he could simply have clicked on the highlighted name of the admin who deleted the article, prominently displayed on the Wikipedia landing page for the deleted article, and then, like a human being, asked what to do next. He would have gotten a straight answer.
How else can you pull this off unless you design to image to be as close to organic results as possible ? But I wonder what happens if the site owner decides to change the styles, the image would then foolishly look fake.

The rating stars however are a different story and are definitely in the dark gray area (say at #333). The "rated by lots" will make users draw a comparison with the other unpaid listings without realizing it is fake, atleast in the sense the other stars arent fake.
Someone at Wikipedia recently requested speedy deletion for the article on Ilya Zhitomirskiy, two days AFTER he died. The vote was to keep:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

I was an early user and editor of Wikipedia. I greatly dislike cliquishness and clannishness so I didn't last. The above treatment of a dead young coder only solidifies my decision to cease my association with the place.
This might be true if the phrase "pc manufacturers are dominant in the tablet space" weren't included in the report.
You can certainly be a programmer in 12 weeks, but you will be different programmer than what we are expecting here.

You can also learn programming by reading 'Learn programming in 30 days'. But that is a very different kind of programming than what most people are expecting in this thread. You can learn enough programming to begin to understand how to work with software. It gives you a start. It also works if your job is extremely trivial. And I think the target audience for the book is those kind of people.

Coming to programming as a profession, in that case there are a lot of aspects that influence your full time profession, among that is giving your full learning every detail of programming and related ecosystem. Other aspects are productivity, management, analytical skills, UI design, requirements gathering, people skills. Also there are many other things required to win in practical software environments like working under tough deadlines, learning to deal with frequent stress and burnout. Keeping in touch with rapidly changing tech scenario, tools and languages. The list goes endless. I haven't covered even a percent of what I wanted to write.

Your regular data structure and algorithm sauce is probably 1% of what is required to win in practical software development today. There are 99% of other things which are not taught in books, colleges and universities. You have to learn them through experience, by working.

So just in case you think you have spent 10 years learning all the secret recipes in computer science books but are not good in other areas. You are no better than the 'Learn programming in 30 days guy'. Because if has problems in a set of areas, you have equal number of problem with another equivalent set.

This is something I have seen among so many bright, people with great academics, who don't make it big in the industry. They just don't understand so many practical aspects of the industry. Just like how 12 weeks programming guy doesn't understand all aspects of practical programming.
Legal is what happens when the other functions of your company throw an exception that you've got no event handler for. Its the default handler that returns a meaningless "An error has occurred" as your program crashes.

If legal has to talk to your customers directly, your business is broken. Its an unrecoverable runtime error. Gurus are meditating.
I actually don't use adblock and the like (although I do actively block flash) for that reason: as someone developing for the web, I don't want to experience a different internet. I want to see it as my users do.

Also, if a site is covered in ads, I click away. If I kept reading the site the person reading the analytics of the site would think I approve of what they're doing. I'm not going to get into an arms race with my content providers. I'd rather find and support better content providers.

I suppose it's similar to the GNU 'don't use non-free software even if you pirate it' stance although I'm by no means dogmatic about it.
I own the first edition. It's a decent, high-level overview of the changes since HTML 4. It assumes that you have a good understanding of CSS and JavaScript also. However, I don't know CSS or JS and I still learned quite a bit from the book based on the fact that I understand programming concepts in general to have a decent idea of what the JS code is doing.

Overall, the first edition was a little lean on content, but I saw today that the second edition was out and is about twice as long, so that may be improved.
MongoDB really sucks at count. It's a problem I've run into repeatedly with games that automatically submit highscores (ie without a name field/submit button) using an API call of ours that saves then returns the rank by checking how many scores are higher or lower than X.... on games that get millions of plays.

My solution ultimately ended up being to put the leaderboards that are doing that particular thing into a special "truncate" list that periodically deletes everything after their 50,000th score.
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1) yep, everything, the code can hit an environment and run based on that environment. No configuration is provided with the code. That being said how you implement it can be pretty flexible you could separate them all out into separate variables or just have one variable with an XML string as the value and parse that string to get configuration, the point is to have the configuration injected into the application by the environment. The details of what those variables look like is the prerogative of the development team.

2) there are several options, a developer (gold CD) virtual is one, where a virtual is set up and configured based on updated configuration and an automated script, or having a environmental script that sets up the development variables on the developers workstation (just make sure it stored in version control independent of the code). Each works well, it just depends on preference, there are a lot of ways one can set it up to work in their environment, just try a few and see which one best fits your development culture.
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You missed the AfD discussion, trivially easy to find for that article but helpfully provided upthread for you, where a Wikipedia admin considered each of those sources and took them to pieces --- those citations were superficial quotes attributed to Stricchiola in articles about click fraud, not coverage of Stricchiola herself, and the book appears to be a step away from vanity publishing.
My blog has comments. My email address is in my HN profile. If you wanted more information you could've asked instead of insulting me.
Considering that Ice Cream Sandwich addresses most of the negatives from early Kindle Fire reviews (e.g UI lags, disappointing browser, screenshots, etc.), I don't think Amazon's "wrench" is going to last that long. At least one tech journalist has claimed that they have a source that says Amazon is already working on the Fire's ICS upgrade.
"the GPL is too restrictive and dogmatic to be usable in many cases"

Does anyone else see the total irony in this? Considering that both Ruby and Git (two of the core technologies GitHub runs on) are both GPL. People can use whatever OSS license they want, I certainly have no gripe with him using the MIT license, but I could do without the dogma.
Ha! You were right! You totally got downvoteed. I tried to help you with an up vote.

It's probably true that Wikipedia is a big game of politics but that's just a side effect of community involvement. It may suck sometimes but what other way is more democratic? Do we give one person the ability to be the Decider or do we put up with a lot of ego games? I go for ego. At least in that scenario there can be some people to challenge decisions.
Yes, but that's what the safe harbor clause is for. If a user uploads something, the site owner is not liable provided they comply quickly with takedown requests. It's why YouTube can allow users to upload videos, and a similar principle is the reason 4chan is still in existence despite the hundreds of thousands of child porn pics that have been uploaded to it.
Use ghostery. :-)
Erm, they were already beaten to the punch by every other photo sharing app in existence.
> Had the author looked into why these rules are necessary and suggested a more efficient process maybe he could have been taken seriously.

Suggesting more efficient processes for Wikipedia is a never ending tarpit that doesn't get anywhere, no matter how committed you are and how established you are in the community.

Any hidebound culture filled with red tape has horror stories and experiences that seem to justify every broken thing they do. If your answer to a usability critique is "they should learn the last several years of Wikipedia history, which isn't documented anywhere, and understand where all these rules came from", isn't that just a concession that you might as well not even bother unless contributing to Wikipedia is going to be one of your primary hobbies for the foreseeable future?
Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.

It was largely inspired by xmonad and dwm. Both are fine products but suffer from things like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH. Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code was borrowed from it. On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C.
Awesome. I wish I was doing this at 17. Ten years later I'm making up for lost time. Congrats for getting after it early!
and buying yahoo helps that how? most yahoo customers are being redirected to adcenter anyway.
So WP let him do a bunch of things he wouldn't have been able to do if it had a decent interface and/or couldn't find things buried under a pile of acronyms and bureaucratic opaqueness and that's supposed to be your evidence that it's not a broken process?
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Per the guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized."
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Seems a bit like a Yankees fan complaining bitterly about the press covering the National League too. It's not like there is any shortage of coverage about who is number one in tablets. There is obviously real competition for the #2-#5 slots (witness all the blood in the water) so why does it matter if an analyst report focuses on that?