skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.ie6countdown.com/ has a good breakdown of the percentage of IE6 users around the world. Indeed, China leads the pack in the largest percentage of IE6 users.

This survey from 2007 (I know it's old now) showed 55.2% of corporations used IE6. I'm pretty sure it is one of the sources of the "big companies use IE6" claim. http://www.dailytech.com/Firefox+Makes+Big+Gains+In+Business...

And here's a newer poll showing 29% of respondents use IE6 at work with "no end in sight" http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/03/it-poll-do-yo...
I'm working on gathering more stats; if you'd like you can help out by taking the data available [1] and play with it, as unfortunately these days I'm really busy and this article has already shaved several hours of work ... maybe over the weekend I'll publish more findings.

https://github.com/bionicspirit/AndroidMarketCrawler/blob/ma...
Yeah we use IE6 (on four year old laptops no less!) because there are applications that we Techs use that the company won't replace and the applications can only be used in IE6 apparently.

Waiting for five or ten minutes for a failed Adobe Flash update to try and load (fails since I am not a desktop admin) each time I reboot or power on and then a full two minutes for Outlook to start is not fun thing to do every day.

No thanks to our outsourced IT to a three letter company.
Ask HN: Startup ShopNow (retail store finder)
I have in the market now my iPhone App: ShopNow - it is a retail store finder with store hours. It has a few neat tricks like twitter view of results. What you see is 'foundational' as I'm building towards some future things around product search. Try the app, or see http://shopnow.com and http://shopnow.com/app.html .

Regarding what I can offer now - when folks see this they like the attempt at listing curation and something focused on local retail, but many just go back to using Google or Yelp as good enough.

I'm looking for feedback and suggestions on things that really don't work well with Google or Yelp for finding local retail stores, that I might consider at this point, as well as ways to make the app better.

(I don't have Android right now, I pulled that as I don't have bandwidth to do both that and IOS right now)
How "Master-Newbie" Altruism Keeps Users Engaged
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No growth. Everyone who could possibly use a Windows license has a Windows license and drags their feet about upgrading.

You're either busy growing or you're busy dying. As a potential shareholder, I care more about growth than straight up profitability.
people saying " you shouldn't do it" makes them feel good.Or maybe it's compassion in a lot of cases. But,a lot of times, it's selfish. It's like the people that give to panhandlers so they whether look good in the eyes of others or think that their soul is going to be saved.
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Hey Irvick, I think the timestamps on some content is coming out wrong. I saw a facebook update which had timestamp 42 years ago. I'm guessing Unix timestamp of 0 seconds. Also, I saw another tweet which showed 'a few seconds ago' but was actually posted a few days ago. Great product BTW.

[Edit: Added a missed word]
Did you notice that in the article

- There was 'a' person who self-reported he could not afford the water bill?

- That there were no data at all about who could or could not afford the bill?

- That the number of people now using outhouses in that county was said to be rising but no numbers were given?

It's called propaganda. You fell for it, hook, line, sinker, and part of the dock.
Actually, yes.

http://www.ie6countdown.com/

IE 6 holds a 1% market share in the US. How many corporations in the US are mandating IE 6 if it's only got a 1% market share?

You'll also note that IE 6 has a nearly 28% market share in China. Now, this doesn't say that these are pirated installs, but they are obviously XP or older, and this is clearly where the bulk of IE 6 market share is.
Opera releases 64-bit builds for Windows and Mac
I get the impression you think that electricity is automatically clean energy. Have you ever thought about how that electricity is generated? Ever heard about coal or nuclear power plants etc.? Do you think they're are environmentally friendly?
By this logic, as soon as you saturate the market, you are dying?
WebFaction: app memory quota upgraded to 256MB for everyone
Terse Words: Twitter Streaming API - Almost Useful
This is a massive boon to a lot of my apps, especially ones with low traffic but long lived processes (I'm looking at you Django & Rails).

Webfaction is definitely one of the better hosts out there, the perfect middle ground between $4/mo "unlimited" hosting and a Linode VPS.
Ask HN: An open source implementation of Hacker News?
I love HN and would like to run a version internally in my company. Is there a good open source verion of HN that is good? I don't want an elaborate "CMS"
Can open source save the planet?
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Whats more interesting is that there are a bunch of social networks that are on the Fastest Falling search terms: http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-lists/global/fastest-f...

6 out of the 10 are social networks.

Has Facebooks total dominance of the space finally taken hold?
I don't see it either. There is nothing in that layout that I don't know how to implement, so unless I'm missing something more subtle, I don't think it's anything new.
Gmail has become nearly unusable on my 11" Macbook air. I wouldn't mind it so much if you could A) minimize the top bar or B) have it not scroll with the page. However, as far as I can tell, these aren't options.
Here Here!

Why?
1) Lower Barrier to building Nuclear reactors (No Not-in-my-backyard in China)
2) Government fast-mover advantage. China's government can ram through approvals in a year for what would take a decade in the USA.
3) Highest DEMAND. Energy consumption is SKYROCKETING in China.
4) biggest environmental benefit- shift coal burning heaters to electric, reducing pollution.
5) Stabilize region energy competition. The more renewable/sustainable energy available, the less likely they are to conflict over resources with neighbors or the global market.
it's a matter of course to read the amended bill into record before they proceed. everyone sitting there is presumed to have already been familiarized with the textual revisions
So I wonder...should I point and laugh or sit down and cry. It's not my country, and I would never want to live in the US. How a country treats it's least fortunate says a lot about the country in general.

You did notice that this was bout 'a' county, in 'a' state. And that there was no data in the article about how many people this problem affects.

Thinking this is representative of the country as a whole would be a big mistake.

The article was long on emotion, short on facts.
They forced an externality on to the rest of us.

The marginal cost of sending updates to pirated machines is probably negligible, and pirates adapted to WGA within a couple weeks.

So – they managed to convert a few Western users who didn't know they were running a pirated copy. I would place a good bet that the total volume of pirated licenses remained the same, though.

More recent experiments have shown that piracy is really more about customer service than straight up cost [0]. As a result, we have large hordes of unpatched machines that are easy to convert into zombies and running outdated software the rest of us have to support.

[0] http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economic...
Can .NET make PHP run faster than the official PHP implementation?
If you are getting 100's on everything it means you are gaming the spirit of the learning, overfitting the memory. Plop that guy in front of a computer with specs and a deadline and you will learn why grades are not an indicator of success.
Interaction Design - Response Times: The 3 Important Limits.
I think that there will be a significant number of driverless cars operating on the road by 2020. I would be very surprised if they're banned, but only mildly surprised if by 2020 there's a mandate or serious talk of a mandate for driverless technology on all cars sold, like emissions legislation now.
WordPress 3.3 is Sonny
In watching the live stream there is some young-ish woman speaking so fast in order to get through the particular amendment she is (I'm assuming) required to read verbatim, and in such a monotonic tone, that I can't understand the reason for doing so. The people listening surely can't be retaining what it is that she is saying. It would be much more prudent if (gosh forbid) everybody involved had done their homework, read up on the appropriate amendments prior to this hearing, and came prepared to discuss and debate merits.
Ya know...kinda like what we all had to do growing up. Do your homework.
BTW, there's a woman furiously typing away on a blackberry with an iPad in her hand and a man on an iPad who are both on camera directly behind this woman speaking. I rest my case your honor.
Noir is not bad. I've been using it for a side project. Its no Rails, but its the best option I've found for Clojure at this point.

http://webnoir.com/
"To conclude, programmers work at night because it doesn’t impose a time limit on when you have to stop working, which gives you a more relaxed approach, your brain doesn’t keep looking for distractions and a bright screen keeps you awake."

-- and everyone else in the house is sleeping and can't bug you.
Ye gods... Mr. Gooolatte speaking now. Basic gist? Illegal foreign sites steal intellectual property and it gets back to US consumers, removing all motivation for those content owners to create new material... and jobs.
Perhaps one of the reason why people are still capable of getting an acceptable Internet experience from IE 6 and 7 is because Flash 10 (and 11 for IE 7) supports them.

Thank goodness that there is a strong traction behind HTML5 stack, and the industry as a whole is less reliant on Flash to deliver good UX.

Without Flash, the capability of these older browsers will be reduced, and I'm sure they will get abandoned at an even higher rate.
My understanding was that her reading could have been avoided if a member who opposed the bill removed their objection. Basically, this was a way to stall progress on the bill and nothing more. No one was meant to really listen, I think.

On an unrelated note, today I discovered I definitely do not have the patience for congress.
I'm not sure there was a browser that did standards better at the time of IE6's initial release. Maybe Opera.

And in my opinion, the bigger problem with IE6 was that it was buggy -- both where it purportedly followed standards and where it had its own way of doing things, behavior often didn't match spec or had unexpected side effects. It took devs years of trying to figure out where all the bodies were buried before everybody understood how it worked.
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International iTunes Match Launch Stumbles
Wow, it's only being made worse. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), from what I can tell, is adding the payment processing blockage suggestion from Google in the last hearing, without removing any of the terrible, terrible components already in it.

The entire speech, too, was full of equivocation and mass confusion: sawdust breaks have exactly NOTHING to do with SOPA. Equivocating on physical goods and digital goods, when it comes to safety, is asinine.

Edit: HOLY HELL. Melvin Watt (D-NC) just said almost exactly: "A free and open internet is not unduly compromised by these changes to stop theft and piracy online." . . . "Trusting private rights-holders against foreign infringing sites will allow us to stop the compromise of US citizens and the influx of compromised goods." . . . "We need to be just as aggressive on the internet as we are with brick-and-mortar stores." . . . "This bill allows us to get into the internet." . . . "My perspective, as an old country boy, we need parallels on the virtual world to what we have in the real world." YOU ALREADY HAVE THEM!!!

Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is up: please save us. YAY! "The integrity of the Internet is very much at risk." . . . "Especially disturbing given that today is the anniversary of the First Amendment." "The internet is not lawless. Breaking the law can already be punished, just like the physical world. But we have shut down illegal conduct at the source. The government has never tried to use the network itself to prevent illegal conduct . . . This will be historic, and not in a good way. Once the government has a taste of this power...expanding it will be irresistible. The US Government has never tried to monitor mail to prevent some sort of illegal content from being sent." Support this congresswoman!

Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) reminding us all that NOBODY was qualified to comment on DNSSEC issues. Good scenarios, including phishing-style attacks mimicking SOPA-takedown-esque redirects.

Howard Berman (D-CA) argues that "we can't stop the foreigners from stealing" argument. But that's always been the case, whether physical or otherwise. We can't stop a foreign company from making, say, fake Nike clothes and selling them in South Africa. You can work with foreign governments to shut them down according to their own laws. And once again, Zoe Lofgren nails it in her response: "This is the beginning of the balkanization of the internet."

Chaffetz (R-UT) says, "Let's get some nerds in the room." "How can you support a bill that will dramatically change how the internet works without understanding what it does?"

Alright, back to work. But this doesn't seem like SOPA's being fixed in ways that are important.
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good. but what happens after the holiday season?
Just as an FYI to the right wing nuts here, I actively voted for Obama knowing that internet rights would be an uphill battle. I followed Biden's tech trends over the years and knew going into it that this would be a significant challenge.

So no, I didn't go into it "blindly", and I didn't follow all this "hype" about "change". I knew what I was getting into by voting for those two.

That said, the combination of other stances and policies led me to vote for them--and so far they haven't disappointed me.

Also remember: SOPA is in a House Committee. Keep this in mind before bashing the President and VP.
At the beginning of the session, the chairman stated that he expects the meeting to continue into tomorrow.
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Yes. You need to find/create more markets.

Look at Apple. iPod -> iPhone -> iPad.

If I invest 100 dollars in you, I want to receive a percentage back after a certain while. You need to be able to give me 103 dollars back the next year just to beat inflation, i.e. for this to not have been a complete waste of my time.

In real terms, this means you need to grow your business by at least 3% in order to give me that return.

I'm not the right person to talk about this, as my knowledge is thin and my metaphors are poor, but even if you're the sole owner you start to lose money if you don't grow at a reliable rate.
I really didn't want to seem bitchy about the issue. In fact, aside of voting for it on their userecho feature request page and writing that comment, I haven't done anything else - surely no trolling.

If my post came over as bitchy, I apologize. I really just wanted to tell the world that there's one missing feature preventing me from using Sublime more - also in the hope of maybe getting a good hint on how to solve it.
The course is devoted to creation of 64-bit applications in C/C++ language and is intended for the Windows developers who use Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 environment. Developers working with other 64-bit operating systems will learn much interesting as well. The course will consider all the steps of creating a new safe 64-bit application or migrating the existing 32-bit code to a 64-bit system.

Lesson 01. What 64-bit systems are.
Lesson 02. Support of 32-bit applications.
Lesson 03. Porting code to 64-bit systems. The pros and cons.
Lesson 04. Creating the 64-bit configuration.
Lesson 05. Building a 64-bit application.
Lesson 06. Errors in 64-bit code.
Lesson 07. The issues of detecting 64-bit errors.
Lesson 08. Static analysis for detecting 64-bit errors.
Lesson 09. Pattern 01. Magic numbers.
Lesson 10. Pattern 02. Functions with variable number of arguments.
Lesson 11. Pattern 03. Shift operations.
Lesson 12. Pattern 04. Virtual functions.
Lesson 13. Pattern 05. Address arithmetic.
Lesson 14. Pattern 06. Changing an array's type.
Lesson 15. Pattern 07. Pointer packing.
Lesson 16. Pattern 08. Memsize-types in unions.
Lesson 17. Pattern 09. Mixed arithmetic.
Lesson 18. Pattern 10. Storage of integer values in double.
Lesson 19. Pattern 11. Serialization and data interchange.
Lesson 20. Pattern 12. Exceptions.
Lesson 21. Pattern 13. Data alignment.
Lesson 22. Pattern 14. Overloaded functions.
Lesson 23. Pattern 15. Growth of structures' sizes.
Lesson 24. Phantom errors.
Lesson 25. Working with patterns of 64-bit errors in practice.
Lesson 26. Optimization of 64-bit programs.
Lesson 27. Peculiarities of creating installers for a 64-bit environment.
Lesson 28. Estimating the cost of 64-bit migration of C/C++ applications.
Governments around the world have been given the excuse to create overreaching and piracy laws because we let them. I'm not surprised this has happened but we should be asking what is the bigger problem. Is it people pirating and distributing copyrighted materials or is it us, the downloading public, that should be punished for not being able to resist the lure of pirates.

I personally feel that if all of us as users realized that we're handing them excuses to censor the web on a silver platter we would quit downloading copyright materials. There is such a fine line between sharing and piracy that it's hard to decide which side any person falls on. Now, a person who records a movie in a theater and puts it online is guilty. No doubt about it. But what about the person who buys a CD, rips it to his computer, then wants to share it with some friends? If he sends a few copies to friends via email or other non public way, is he doing wrong? I'd argue no. But that's what makes this whole thing so scary. On the one hand there's a clear case we are the reason these laws happen. Our inability to resist the lure of free, pirated media. But then we also cannot restrict our right to share our own property with some people.

So I'm wondering, when does it stop being sharing and turn into privacy. Never is not the answer. Whether you support or think it shouldn't exist, the fact is that copyright laws have been in effect for a long time. So considering that, where does the line get drawn?
I wonder how Google's Android would fit into this?
Why I switched from drupal cms to wordpress after 6 years
I would be satisfied.
MixRank (YC S11) is hiring engineers
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At MixRank, we're:

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Wow, a guy admitted that he doesn't know if he wants to use modern technology, yet he's expected to make an informed decision about this. We're pretty fucked.

I rage-quit watching the video after about 2 minutes.
Well, I believe that if the republicans loose again, they will have to readjust their positions anyway. But as you said about Romney, this is the primaries and they are try to find the center of the constituents who will vote in those primaries. So judging them right now is not a very good barometer.
I'm sure that's how you'd go about doing it using ListView. But isn't the new Twitter app just a wrapper around their mobile browser UI?
the "pull to update" pattern was invented by the maker of the Tweetie app, who was hired by Twitter.
The more likely case is that they had their legislative assistants read some or all of the bill, and have made a voting decision before this hearing even started.
The HN source is part of the Arc language download, as an example application, so I hear.
Development of 64-bit C/C++ applications (28 lessons)
Okay - how about some criticism? What am I doing wrong here?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3356415

Everything's on the table - the site, the concept, the HN submission, even me. Tear it apart.
This is simply not true.

Pull to Refresh was invented by Loren Brichter, author of the Tweetie app for iPhone, and he filed a patent for it (http://gorumors.com/twitter-patent-drag-to-refresh/2754292). As the article states, the patent application was submitted the day before Tweetie was acquired by Twitter, so we don't know for sure if Loren or Twitter own it, but it sure isn't Apple.
Change will likely not happen within the current electoral system. Don't get forced into a "lesser of two evils" choice. Think outside the box. Think outside your current broken political system.