skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IBM 370: Not really beaten, so much as made less relevant by a shift to new technology.

IBM PC: Not really beaten, so much as completely took over the world. Most servers are PC descendants, as are Macs and basically everything else that isn't a tablet or phone.

Sony: (Assume you mean the Walkman) Not really beaten, so much as made less relevant by a shift to new technology.

DOS: Not really beaten, so much as replaced with a new product by its manufacturer.

Kodak: Not really beaten, so much as made less relevant by a shift to new technology.

Windows: Still enjoys 90% market share.

AOL: Not really beaten, so much as made less relevant by a shift to new technology.

Netscape: Beaten. But seriously, who thought they were unbeatable?

IE: Beaten. Thank goodness.

Krispy Kream: Who?

MySpace: Beaten.

Real estate: Market bubbles aren't quite what we're talking about here.

Toyota: 20% market share is hardly a lock on the industry.
I think you’re taking it too literally. In the movie “Pumping Iron,” Serge Nubret says to Arnold Schwarzenneger at the 1975 Mr. Universe competition, “You are unbeatable!”

Did he really mean forever? Just that competition? Until Arnold retired? I think the expression “unbeatable” always means “Under the current circumstances, roughly now-ish, for the foreseeable future, &c.” If you take it literally, there would be no use for the word.

Saying “Arnold is Unbeatable” in 1975 meant that the current crop of body builders couldn’t beat him, that either he would grow old, or retire (which he did, and then un-retire to win again), or some new young phenom would come out of nowhere.

Saying “IBM 370 is unbeatable” in 1979 meant simply that nothing at that time would beat it, that only time or the unforeseeable would unseat it, which is what happened.
Absurd. This has nothing to do with what I like or not. The facts are that Taiwan is not Hong Kong, Taiwan is a separate country who's future may or may not involve becoming part of China and that Foxconn is a Taiwanese and not Chinese company.
Although "conscious" is a fuzzy concept, there are many animals that are at least suspected to be self-aware (e.g. several have passed the "mirror test"). Others may not have human-like intelligence, but do seem to display a high degree of awareness and ingenuity, albeit of a somewhat alien variety.
I think people who lose money in media are actually getting what they want: manufactured consent.
I don't get it. Why doesn't he continue in school and use their servers? Most of us can only dream of a situation where we can work on our ideas and have the school/government etc pay us for it.

When he has a product that he can sell and some customers lined up, he can form his own company, license the technology from the school (most Universities are Ok with this) and basically bootstrap.

Trust me its a lot more fun when VCs are NOT involved.

Does he need to buy more servers with the 500K? It really seems like he has the technology but not a product as yet.
Couldn't such LEDs be used as incredibly efficient heat sinks? I presume that once it's possible to deploy those LEDs on large scale they should be much more efficient than traditional cooling devices.

Moreover, they might be used for energy extraction. The heat extracted from the surroundings is converted into light, which in turn could be converted into electricity.
Interesting. There's definitely a need for sales/pipeline tracking tools in small businesses, though I'm not sure the focus on freelancers is quite right.

We're currently using Pipedrive for this, and it's a more mature and slicker product, but that's not to say there isn't room for another player (in fact, there are many!). I'm just not 100% sure that the focus on freelancers is right. Has this been validated with actual freelancers? Are any freelancers on HN willing to come out and say that this is a hair-on-fire problem for them that they'd be willing to pay $7/m for this?
Sounds like someone said, "Make me a language that is hard to reverse engineer using IDA Pro".
I don't know about 'best', but I certainly can tell you what we've done for our latest project, Voost. https://www.voo.st/

Google App Engine cause we hate doing sysadmin work. Objectify. Cambridge Template Engine with JEXL. RestEasy/HtmlEasy. Jackson. Guice to bind it all together. Front end is heavily CoffeeScript, Handlebars, Jquery, LabJS, customized bootstrap and various other libraries. We've got a credits page full of links to the above projects... https://www.voo.st/about#credits

Overall, I'm pretty happy with this choice. We've had to do some weird and semi-complicated stuff to integrate it all together, but at this point, it works quite well.
I found that surprising too. 37signals presumably are supporting both products side by side to prevent people from having this reaction. Im not sure if those people are yelling loud to make sure time tracking gets in to Basecamp Next or because there are just rude and obnoxious people on the internet.
> I would guess that $1-2 of a $7 paperback is paper, printing, and transport.

OK. Every digital book in existence should be $1-$2 less than it's paper equivalent.
If it's not, that's the content creator trying to rip consumers off.
Some people prefer pressing next instead of scrolling.
I would imagine that they (quants) would be highly prized, but you would still need the boots on the ground to execute the strategy.
that guy is such a turd
Nintendo 3DS Reviews
Next was profitable. OS X and iOS are Next. Care to make a long bet on how much of Loopt tech is still around in 5 years?
Why do you think it will be 2 years away? I would not be suprised if by the end of this year, just few weeks after of W8 release there will be tons of apps that will match what 90% of consumers need. There are already lots of developers building W8 apps and they will all be tablet ready if MS plays it right - and they would be completely dumb if it would not be ready when they already did such a huge leap with their W8 UI revamp for laptops/desktops.
One of the main points here is (mentioned a couple of other times):

> I have my namelessness to thank for stopping me from using my moment with Evan to get somewhere with him.

Do you really? With your name covered up you could still intoduce yourself and pitch... and with your name showing you could still introduce yourself with your name and ask him about Nebraska. It just happens that your decision not to reveal your name happened at the same time, and for similar reasons, as deciding not to pitch people - there's no required dependency between them.
My take on the "unkillable" thing: http://swombat.com/2010/12/15/what-will-kill-facebook - matches your data.
Don't forget Rabbi Akiva: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiva_ben_Joseph

"A reliable tradition (Ab. R. N. l.c.) narrates that Akiva at the age of 40..."
The difference with a factory is that they would have invested labor building the physical car you took.

If you're looking for an analogy to cars, it's that your friend bought a Porsche you liked, so built a copy of it.

Also, your assumption that the guy thinks movie editor time isn't worth something is false. Despite my lack of monetary compensation, I appreciate the time you took to write your post, and the much larger amount of time YCombinator took to build this site.
It seems Chris Anderson the author of Free was right. Free is a fundamental principle of the Internet because of its super efficient way to distribute information. If you try to mess with that too much, even something as huge as Google Maps could start losing market share if there's a good enough free/cheaper alternative instead.
I use Play! frequently. Love it.

I maybe be misunderstanding her first point, but I am currently running individual unit tests in IntelliJ for one of my play apps on 1.2.4...

I can't speak to her other issues, I've never run in to them.
$18/mo may not give you all music & movies, but it will give you more than 720 hours' worth of material worth watching/hearing.
We just set up a beta invite for all the HN folks, go ahead and use hackernews when signing up.
Dart on the server
Letting go of your self to be present in the moment is a good thing to practice. Not putting your name on your badge helps remind you of that goal.

I've done this a number of times for various reasons (I should have done it at the RSA conference but alas hindsight). I know its wrong to be amused at someone's discomfort but I admit that I do chuckle when someone is trying to cop a look at my badge to decide if its worth their time to talk try to engage me in conversation. Sometimes when they do decide to I'll ask them what it was that made them choose to engage. That has started some interesting conversations too.
Does it compile jdk bytecode or just java source code? For example can I generate the bytecode with scala and then use it with PlayN?
"They didn't take a patch on one occasion, and then we had a couple never-diagnosed bugs that we think could have been in the framework."

Fair enough, but I wouldn't switch to an inferior framework over it.
I'm not if sure the author understands concurrency.

EDIT: Author of the blog post.
Or sama becomes a full-time YC partner. Either way, it's a win for YC.
We're using Apache Wicket and are pretty happy with it.
I use Play! for my hobby projects and Lift for work. Coming from MVC lift is very bizarre. Having html and javascript inside my scala classes gives me a queasy feeling.

I also think Lift is dead. The creator of the project left, the documentation isn't great, View first model isn't popular, very little activity in #lift, very little activity in the lift framework google group. Not good signs.
> Sam and Chris are both brilliant guys and great BRANDS [...] Guys like this attract A-players and attract PR.

What about the minor things like, you know, making money? They took 17 million in funding and failed. But that's OK because they're buddies with the VC's and can try, try again.
Ya I'm starting to see that too, minimum wage is about all that can be expected for a contract below about $1500.

In fairness, they have not asked for anything outside the original sketch. But if there are 10 GUI elements, they want 8 of them to work either in a desktop-fashion or a way not supported by iOS (check out some of the UIScrollView discussions on stack overflow to see how difficult it is to do things like intercept touches on subviews and have them work with gestures). So tasks that sound easy can quickly become days-long to implement.

I hadn't considered giving them their money back, that's a good idea though. We just bought an appliance from a repairman on craigslist that turned out to be a knock-off and the guy wouldn't accept a return. I considered that unprofessional, so may need to keep a stash to pay back milestones...
You forgot 2010: The iPhone is unbeatable

850k Android activations per day according to Andy Rubin last month. Turns out decentraliztion wins out in the end, just like it did in the 80s with Apple vs MS.

Actually, I'd argue that the ipad is probably unbeatable, but only because its a peripheral in the Apple ecosystem like a firewire cable or white speakers. No one wants a competitor because its not an apple product. The ipad isnt a new class of product, its just a dumb interface to Apple's various stores and services. Its like saying there's no competitor to AppleTV. There's not, my Tivo can't buy from iTunes, thus AppleTV is unbeatable.
I hate slideshows masquerading as articles. I hate them so much.

- Raymond Chandler, author

- Harry Kroto, chemist

- Anton Bruckner, composer

- Mary Midgley, author, scientist

- Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's

- Jean Dubuffet, painter

- Marco Olmo, runner
This confirms my bias against frameworks in general and in fact against reusing more code than necessary. And no, I would not write an encryption library myself or re-implement the HTTP protocol.

But the disparity between what web frameworks actually do for me in any particular application and the amount of layers and dependencies they introduce boggles my mind.

[Edit] If you use maven try mvn dependency:tree
For me, it's something that would have served me (and I would have paid for) in my freelancing days, and it's something that has been working great for me as a small business owner as I've been using the early builds.

I'm obviously incredibly biased (I'm one of the creators), but I agree small business will be a large potential market in addition to freelancers. There will be some freelancers who won't want to put down $7/month, but most busy freelancers would certainly get $7/month of value out of the service.

Here's my blog post about how Stride came about, which has a bit more: http://blog.strideapp.com/post/18976926872/origin-story
What is a weather underground type?
gotcha. I am not pushing him; to be clear. Otherwise I wouldn't be making this post, I would be pushing him.

If he follows on his path he will exit academia in the next year or two and push full steam ahead and and raise his cash and you will all know his name in the next couple years after that. I would literally bet a body part on this.

Of course you take what I say with a grain of salt; I could (and am statistically likely to be) in a pipe dream.

My assumption is basically this: if someone with a lot of cash:

- Saw the accomplishments of this person

- New the 4 year plan of this person

and

- Talked to this person for 20 minutes

They would eagerly give him money. I know there is no way to prove or disprove my assumptions. So my question is how can i drop a hint to someone?

I would be happy to hear what you think is defensive. I am fully aware than I am an anonymous schmoe on the internet. If I am defensive it's because I am looking for the answer to the question I seek just assuming that what i am saying is true.

No need to convince me I am wrong in my assesment or my friend isn't entrepenurial material. It doesn't matter. Just assuming he is, and that it is clear as glass to anyone who talks with him that he is; how do I nudge someone to talk to him.
Didn't read the article, but as far as I can see that doesn't disprove his assumption.

The NYT quote is talking just about the videos with ads, and then only discussing them in terms of views (not in terms of percentages of actual content uploaded, which is something like 24+ hours of content every minute).
There seems to be a confusion between the terms representation and voting rights.
I do tethering, remote computing, play games, do not use maps - or phone that often, do social sharing and run A LOT of web searches. And no I am not on iPhone.
Very valid point -- though I question how that applies to other country's TLDs. Will investigate!
I use dvorak with vim with (mostly) standard key bindings. It's not too bad. H and K are not far from their respective QWERTY positions. J and K remain next to each other.
Capturing the first sounds of deep sea creatures
Let the haters hate. Just like you might have shrugged off other, bigger downs during the 7 years of running Loopt, just shrug off the haters and savor the success, no matter how small or big it is. Very few people can lay claim to running a company for 7 years and coming out successful on the other end. Congrats and good luck for whats next.
>It's that simple.

Not always. Not everyone lives in the US with access to amazing services like Netflix, Google Play and iTunes.
It's not that silly when you work it out. You have a ship holding 2-3 million barrels of oil and a 20-40 crew. It looks like the market price of light sweet crude varies by as much as $1 per barrel per day. Which means a difference of 2-3 million dollars if you come to port today instead of yesterday.
Maybe they could use a key derived from your password but you're probably right.
Neil deGrasse Tyson pushes exploration in Space Chronicles
Why you would use libgdx and not andengine (for example)?
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&...

latest test entry is mentioning that - i also encountered it - before i used last stable from fedora - that worked well. I would have to dig buzilla for reports, but i wouldnt be surprised if there are no reports for it.
Microsoft will allow Windows and Office on the iPad—but it won't be free
Working at Nokia UK tech support, we had people calling up and pleading for us to sell 6310is. There's people out there who have stockpiled those handsets so they can keep using them as their existing handset fails.

Some of those people loved their Nokias entirely too much.
They added the course as one of my graduation requirements, so I guess I wouldn't have graduated.

The lesson I learned is to not try to make others' lives easier. :P I definitely won't shy away from scraping whatever data sources I can get my hands on, but I probably won't share the results with large groups of people.
Given that the Olympics is ostensibly rooted in long tradition, I would say no, enhancements should not be allowed.

I'm all for allowing drug use of any kind into professional sports. I think it's silly that we watch rather grotesque caricatures of humans swinging bats or tackling people, then pretend to be shocked and admonish them when we find out they're "cheating" by using chemicals. As if the health risks associated with steroids and HGH somehow outweigh the simple risks of broken bones and mutilated joints that are a direct consequence of pushing a body to its limits and beyond on a daily basis.
I believe that subtitle is referring to, for example the iPod's dominance, where since its launch the only thing that competitors have managed to do is claw back scraps of market share to bring it down to 78%, from its high of 90%+ in the past.

Is the iPod unbeatable? Well, no, of course not. It's losing a sales, but mostly, from what I've seen, to smartphones, and of those, most are iPod Touches or iPhones. It's possible that soon, the iPod's sales will dwindle to minimal numbers, but it may still hold the majority of the market of MP3 players. Apple's MP3 player competitors didn't stand a chance, and the way things look they never will, not until something changes pretty dramatically in the market. That's the key issue.

The iPad isn't 'unbeatable'. Something better will come along eventually. My question is, is that 'something better' going to be from Apple's tablet competitors? Or from another Apple project that renders tablets in general obsolete for the majority?

I suppose a better title would be 'Apple's tablet competitors can't beat the iPad', which seems true to me until they change something to improve their chances.
So, are you saying that content creators should not be able to sell their content at all?
I would appreciate further explanation on the fact content creators whether it be a movie studio or a software developer are simply taking "your culture" and as such you should be able to reclaim it at no cost?

I do agree with your sentiment that IP law is inherently stifling and increasing futile, i.e. Apple v Android.

However, I fail to see the difference between someone who produces an item for sale in the form of something that can be captured in bits of data vs a more tangible object. Aren't both parties entitled to the ability to monetize(if they so desire) on the time and effort put into creation of their final product?
It's neither. It's a tech-demo. A tech-demo with a well written and well acted story, but still a tech-demo.
In case the people running this are reading:

My first reaction (feel free to ignore it) is that advertising the number of hours you are willing to donate to a project or an example of how complex of an application you're willing to make would be helpful. I'm a software contractor (not web apps, however) and even I'm not sure what $100K would get me in central Ohio.

(and I do like the concept... I hope to hear how it goes.)
Aha. Reading your blog post, I notice that you developed this for yourself while you were running a web design shop with 3 other people. That counts as small business rather than "freelancer", in my book. If I were you I'd go and furiously hunt down bona fide freelancers (who have no interest in hiring more people) and corner them as to whether they'd find something like this useful.

I don't think the price is an issue - in fact, $7 is too low, if anything - but whether or not this is worth paying for at all, for a freelancer. It's definitely worth it for a web design shop - but then you need to market to those rather than to freelancers, and make sure you build your product for the right market.
They do not have bugtraq or full-disclosure?
I'm not sure I follow?
I read the comments first, then I watched the video. I didn't find anything sexual or weird about it. No overtones of domination. I think these people are nuts.
Scandal In Brazil, Blogs with Embedded Youtube Videos are Charged Monthly Fees
Has Wicket changed to not require so much code? I wrote a handful of apps using Wicket 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 before realizing I was writing thousands of lines of code to update UI models and backend models that shouldn't be taxing me so much.

Used Play for a few projects, but don't like that 2.0 is more or less getting rewritten... don't like Spring... not sure what is left (JEE6 and JSF2? God I don't want to use JSF again unless it changed significantly)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

The name came from http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-187835137/bob_dylan_subterr...
Do you have a link to it? I'd like to see the discussion on the post.
If that shop is stuck with debugging into a method in HashMap, then they aren't qualified to evaluate whether or not it's in the framework. That said, the developer community needs to address the problem though education, if it's user error (most likely) or come up with enough manpower to be more active in support.

After having seen their video, I have to say that the Play! framework folks seem very insightful in their design goals. They hit the nail right on the head in terms of the major usability problems of most Java Web AppServer software.
Why the focus on time tracking? There are plenty of other Basecamp features I'm sure other people want to be ported too. For example, my company relies on the Textile writeboards to provide pretty tables and lists. It was much disheartening to see our carefully constructed pages get devoured into an ugly mess of unversioned code when moving a project to the new system.
Anyone know if you can get transit directions with OpenStreetMaps?
Play is really not a large amount of code though and it's all in one source tree. It generally doesn't have a lot of "layers" compared to even something like Tomcat; the stack just doesn't get as deep. I've had an easy time digging in to the Play source code when needed.

Just one experience fwiw. Sure, it's still a framework.
40 seems like about the time you've got enough experience under your belt to build something extraordinary and enough comfort with money (or access to money) to realize your vision.

Steve Jobs would be an interesting one for this list.

He didn't change digital production history until he was 40 years old w/Toy Story in 1995.

He didn't return to Apple until 1997 and turn it into the world's largest consumer electronic's business.

Everything before that was marginal by comparison.
Your article compares the number of browsers shipped, but batista was talking about mobile data traffic. He's asking, "How many people actually use the 'smart' in smartphone?"

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri...

iOS originates 61% of mobile data traffic vs. 19% for Android.
You seem to be saying that given the option of pirating and purchasing, you will always pirate - if that is the case, then you are part of a very small and militant demographic.

I cant think of a single movie, album or piece of software that cant be pirated as easily as it can be bought - yet people still buy them.
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linus has charisma, which trumps politeness. people love him for his rudeness.
I'm switching to Play 2.0 (which is yet in RC3, not yet released) and I think it's a great new framework and I understand them wanting to dedicate more resources to the new framework.