skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in comparing the various market shares, a simple bar chart is much easier to understand, just look at which one is taller.

With these rectangle/tree map things, I never know what to think: well this one is wider, but this other one is taller; you have to do multiplication just to compare 2 market shares.
The first is a "it's not a lie because we explain it in the small print" argument. Technically true but practically false.

The latter is just a bare assertion. Got proof? I'd bet not. Which is why you had to say "far, far", hoping that people would just go along with you.

Personally, I'd think that Nielsen's business is to make sure their customers know what's going on. That's not an argument for running the second graph; it's an argument for making a third graph that conveys the correct intuition. Or just to publish a table of numbers.
Groupon puts "recruiting logs" in their Android app
2012 MacBook Air i7 slower than i5 in Windows (Boot Camp)
The new 2012 i7-3667U MacBook Air's are incorrectly clocked in Windows under Boot Camp. Rather than running at a x20 multiplier (2GHz) they run at x19 (1.9GHz) and never go into Turbo Mode and rarely drop down to lower multipliers/clock-speeds. As a result under Windows they are slower than the much cheaper i5 and also sip more energy due to not dropping down to lower speeds.

More here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1394206 and here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4035733?start=0&tstart=0
If there was no internet we could finally fufill peoples' fantasies of an international meshnet!
If a company has a branch in a given country, that country can hold the local branch legally responsible for the actions of branches elsewhere, including non-compliance with local rulings. Unless VISA wants to close VISA Iceland (Valitor) completely and write off the entire country, they either have to win their appeal or comply with the ruling.
On a side note: if you use Google AppEngine, you already have SPDY support (as long as you visit your app via SSL, which usually requires the .appspot.com domain). Of course, if some services you use aren't served via SSL (I'm looking at you, Disqus!), then you get the big ugly 'mixed content' warning.

Moral of the story: if you run a web service with an API or embedded javascript module, make sure the entire stack can be run over SSL!
Anybody tried ST2 and moved back to TextMate?
I grew up in an apartment with 600 square footage. We did fine.

Now, we are family of five with a dog. We live very comfortably in 1400 square foot house. That is less than 300 square foot per person.

Square footage is overrated. It is all about maximizing your usable space. As added bonus, we spend less time in clean up and have less clutter to keep up.
If it was proportional you wouldn't be able to read the windows label in the first place. I like this setup. Works as well here as it does in disk manager, the first example I can think of commonly visiting with log scaled area.
All Rockstars Went to Julliard
I actually just did the reverse, clicking on the link wondering what political context this was going to be in. Relieved to realize my mistake.
Mojibake: character transformation
The square footage for my apartment is measured from the exterior facing of the building to the corridor side of the walls adjoining the hallway to the centerline of walls shared with neighboring apartments, and includes the support pillar in the middle room which is keeping the building from falling down.

It's not even space I could use if I hypothetically tore out all of the interior walls and had one big empty room.
I tried Sublime and it works well, but RubyMine still won me over for Ruby because it finally feels polished and it's fast thanks to new hardware with plenty of RAM & CPU.

For text editing, Sublime just couldn't match vim & emacs because they're widely available on remote servers via SSH.
Android browser supports SPDY but doesn't support SNI.
This kind of anecdote is more useful with reasons.
Since when is a log scale used for market share? Ever seen a log scale of browser usage?
Obviously you didn't actually try what you suggested, if you had you'd have found there are plugins for JSON and XML and probably a few other formats, but was hoping ST2 would have what textmate and eclipse has had for a long time, code formatting, java, XML, xsl, JavaScript, c etc.

I know you're new here, but a little reminder about etiquette, even if you haven't gotten laid in a while, the community here is based on people being helpful rather than trying to be superior. The problem with that attitude is that it backfires and just makes you look insecure.
I don't see how that follows logically. Please enlighten me.
Tower defense games as a psychological metaphor
No, Google, not me, was trumpeting that figure. Google made a publicly-accessible court filing that claimed Oracle demanded up to $6.1 billion. In that particular legal context, Google would not have had to state the number at all (it could have merely referenced it), or it could have redacted it for the general public, but it wanted to put it out.

I wasn't even first to pick it up: Reuters reported on it before I did.

My reporting was nonjudgmental. I just informed everyone of what Google's filing said.
> I'm not sure that helps much when it comes to recruitment, though.

I've gotten a cold-call email from a recruiter who started the email out with "I found your github account…" And all I have in there are two tiny personal apps I wrote to scratch an itch I had.
If you just want push notifications from ZNC, I wrote a plugin called ZNC Push [1] that can interface with many popular push notification services. I personally use NMA, and have a full writeup about my setup [2]. If there's a service you use that isn't supported, I would gladly accept requests if it's something I can test on my own Android devices.

1: https://github.com/jreese/znc-push
2: http://noswap.com/articles/irc/
Shortcutfoo.com Adds Mortal Kombat Blood Code to Home Page
ECommerce Menu Design with JSON Data and jQuery
I found it hard to read past the first paragraph after that sentence, to be honest.
Note that you don't actually have to wait for the delay to start writing. If you press <Esc>O and just start writing during the delay, vim will "cancel" the delay immediately (but of course, if the first letter you type is, for instance, a C, Vim will think you pressed the right arrow key and so on).
good points, but new construction in SF wouldnt be a good thing. New buildings stick out like sore thumbs in SF, as they arent made of wood. People want to live in the old, creaky wood buildings with the over the top bay windows. Not in plaster boxes, they can get that anywhere else in the bay area.
And it will also become slow and bloated and people will move on to the next fast, lean editor that only needs feature x & y.

Wash & repeat ad infinitum.
> Except that somebody will come along and just use it as a proxy for some unit they care about. And that will probably be time. Tada! You're right back where you started.

That can happen. But it doesn't have to. You can get adept at giving people the raw data and then reminding them that any interpretation is their data.

But there's something subtler at work. If you have a new version of the product ready every week that stakeholders look at, and if you allow them to adjust the plan weekly, then they will start to change the plan. As they recognize the feedback-driven nature of things, they stop pretending that their math on points can predict anything. Instead they use the points to control outcomes. E.g., by cutting scope and fending off nice-to-haves to make the dates they want.
What Comes After The Internet...A Simple New Technology
>I read feature lists of editors like this and wonder why people just don't use a good IDE like IntelliJ. It does everything in this list and a lot more with minimal configuration.

Because we don't want a slow, Java based IDE, that goes over the uncanny valley in all platforms.

I do use Eclipse, which is not much better than IntelliJ, for Java editing. But I wouldn't bother with it for JS/PHP/Python/Ruby etc...
Brings back so many memories of my windows 95 screensaver...
I liked using IntelliJ IDEA for Java development. However the reasons I now use Komodo Edit and ST2 over PyCharm/IDEA for Python are: IntelliJ has slower startup times, does certain things slower, takes up a lot of memory, does not look as nice. I do not need most of the functionality it provides and prefer having something snappier.
Peaks and troughs of startup life
> It seems farfetched that an international company as large as Visa would actually follow these orders, seeing as they probably want to protect themselves from leaks involving their own interests.

Not at all. It is just about which is most valuable to VISA. Not losing the Icelandic market or complying with the wishes of the US government.

This is the reason why not just European companies pay up when fined by the European Court. You have the choice to either comply and pay the fine or to leave the country (perhaps getting all your assets there confiscated).

It might be worth leaving Iceland since it is a quite small country. It all depends on how much complying with the US government is worth and how big the PR hit of leaving Icleand is.
Sorry? My response was tailored for your comment -- you didn't mention plugins and you weren't (and still aren't) clear on the features you're missing. I.e., from your comment I inferred that you are new to all this, and so I treated you as a newcomer. I guess that hurt you feelings? If so, I didn't mean to :)
It's quite funny that he complains about the icon (quite bad, I agree) that was made by the Iconfactory, and then links to a replacement, again, by the Iconfactory.

Makes me wonder, why SL2 icon is so bad. Maybe the author had some unreasonable requests to the obviously talented designers?
>By default, the scope of autocomplete is only for the current file. “All Autocomplete Package” extends the scope to all open files in the current window.

Slightly buggy (alas, so many Sublime packages are), but even so, I'm really glad to see a plugin that tackles my only major disappointment in ST2.
Lessons for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn from the death of Digg
The more I read about the housing market in SF the more it looks like a disaster

Because it is. I submitted this article a while back: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... and it generated this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4032046 , but the issue is simple economics: supply for a place is being held constant through political rules (as Matt Yglesias, the author of the linked article, likes to say, housing costs can be kept down through complex technologies like steel and elevators) while demand soars because the place is a highly desirable one.

The result is higher prices.
Same here. I found that having Esc in the home row is really, really convenient, not only for Vim.
> the community here is based on people being helpful rather than trying to be superior

> even if you haven't gotten laid in a while

> it backfires and just makes you look insecure.

what
This is precisely why I wrote this article on why ecosystems are what's important -- not a fancy new handset. Nokia and RIM are near almost certain death in the next 18-24 months.

http://subprint.com/blog/its-the-ecosystem,-stupid
Ecology and Professional Growth
- Chrome 20.0.1132.57, Win 7, works

- Opera 12.0, Win 7, nothing 3D displayed

- Safari 5.1.7, Win 7, nothing 3D displayed

- Firefox 13.0.1, Win 7, nothing 3D displayed

- Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421, Win 7, nothing 3D displayed, instructions screen doesn't work

I know it shouldn't work in some of these, just noting to elevate awareness of how considerably unsupported by the industry these things are.

Also, all browsers are basically out of the box, no tweaks.
ASRock launches Extreme11 x79 motherboard Gadgets
In New York City, heat isn't something individual units control. All heat in every apartment I have ever lived in or visited is generated by a boiler controlled by the landlord. Consequently, the laws in New York City aren't mandating what individual homeowners must do, they are mandating what landlords must do, namely, that when the temperatures drop below a certain point, they must provide heat to their tenants.
Oh apple.. You ran out of space on your.. Microsoft server..
In Defense of the Scientific Paper
Or maybe it's just the cold climate? Where appropriate.
Thoughts on Travelling with your Startup
PHPGOLD.com - Domain Name For Sale at Afternic.com
I wanted to design an icon replacement for it. When you think about it, "Sublime Text" is really hard to describe as an object.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1394206 and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4035733?start=0&tst...
Muscle Car Artwork of Carsut
I think that's unlikely. ST2 is already exceptionally fast and complete as an editor. As an IDE, ST2 requires plugins. These plugins are written in Python (which can use libs written in C) as opposed to vimscript or elisp. Moreover, these plugins aren't required for editing text files (or having SublimeClang isn't going to significantly slow down editing python files).
I wanted to try making an HTTP request from Telnet the other day. I tried Wikipedia, using the Host header. I got a 403 for not including a user agent, so I tried again with User-Agent: Telnet and it worked!

It's one of the most important headers for clients, since if you don't include it you might not get a 200.
I took a go at a replacement icon found here
https://github.com/tw12lve/sublimetext2-icons

Feel free to submit your own as a pull request
Can you point out what it is? So far I'm happy with it.
Personally, I'd think that Nielsen's business is to make sure their customers know what's going on.

In my experience, that is not the case. The information they provide is generally used by middle managers in large companies in internal powerpoint decks with the intent of waging intra-company warfare. The use of the the info is highly political and opinionated, not rational and academic.

So, yeah, it would be preferrable to put out an immaculate chart with perfect proportions, good design, and clear text. But often it's just easier to cram the words in and make it fit. The bottom line is that the intended target of these charts just does not care about these details. They have an agenda of their own, and will use the Nielsen data to advance it. For Nielsen to spend time and money obsessing over these sort of things woud go largely unappreciated.

Is it great? no. Even good? no. Does it meet their customers' standards and needs? Yes.
Ask HN: Does anyone here advertise their app?
I'm trying to find out where people purchase advertising space to promote their apps. Any indie app developers here that spend advertising dollars on a regular basis?
Unfortunately human psychology dictates that all human organisations must have some form of hierarchy, and 'CEO' is a label/shorthand for the person at the top of the hierarchy.

This is unfortunate, as having a CEO assumes having a board of directors which many smaller startups do not.
We need something other than an S key.
I am in two minds about this: One hand, it does preserve the historic beauty of the house. While personally, I wouldn't want to live in a Victorian/Edwardian house because I like central heating, tiled floors too much, they are beautiful and so many people enjoy living there. I guess one possible solution is to attempt a urban renewal project of one of the more shadier neighborhoods (Hunter's point e.g.) and build high density buildings there. Of course, this would have to be coupled with enough percentage of the units being available for low cost housing so that it doesn't become the usual act of gentrification.
OO purists actually frown upon the kind of stateless Manager objects you suggest.

Yes, but pure OOP has been proven impractical many times over the last 20 years. What we are looking for here are practical rules that will help us organize our code in an OOP framework.

So the date format formats the date. Why is that? Why is date subordinated to date format here?

Actually the name "DateFormat" is unfortunate. It should have been "DateFormatter", because it is clearly an actor object - while a date is a data object. Suppose you have a fire in your house, you want help to extinguish it. So you call a fireman, and you basically say to him "here's a fire : do your job". In the present case you have a date, and you want to format it. So you "call" a DateFormat(ter) and you say "here is a date : do your job". That's exactly the same, natural principle of delegation. If you need something to be done, call an expert to do it for you.

Of course it gets quickly tedious having to explicitly call the actor objects for everything. So it might be useful to add "convenience methods" to the data objects, which would simply call the appropriate default actor and pass themselves as arguments to the work operation. So here you would then be able to call date.format(DateFormat.LONG), which means any date would basically become able to format itself. It has good and bad sides, and there is no clear answer (that I know of) to determine in which cases it's okay to do that or not.

s = format(date, date_format) makes a lot more sense to me

That's because you see formatting as an action, and you're thinking action => function. In an OO environment you should rather be seeing formatting as a responsibility, and thinking responsibility => class.
i just read your article after having some austrian wine and absinth73 and it was very funny
It's a combination of both, but definitely more strategy and framework-centric than case studies. We're still working on figuring out the positioning for it.

Thanks for the feedback!
This diagram is a collection of bar charts. One bar chart running horizontally, showing OS, the other bar chart(s) vertical, showing manufacturers within an OS. It could be disassembled, certainly, but then doesn't as readily show the sets and subsets of who has how much relative share of the whole.
> Furthermore, the case in question is hardly an example of poorly managed outsourcing. G4S were, by all accounts, the most suitable firm for the Olympics security contract. That said, it is a largely unprecedented event, and not unsurprisingly they underestimated the task, and couldn't get enough staff trained in time.

Yes, it's not as though this event happens every 4 years...

In fact, G4S managed to spectacularly mess up the security of the recent Jubilee celebrations, as was widely reported. When you add that to the utter mismanagement or the (despicable) asylum detention centres, and on and on... they're as qualified to provide services in the same way Capita are qualified to provide IT consultancy.

But on the poorly managed part, Teresa May claimed the contract was routinely monitored. and yet this is still a surprise to her, 3 weeks from the start of the event!
In the province of Quebec you can specify a "no pet" rule in a lease. You can even be more specific and allow for a certain number and type of animal (e.g. max 2 cats, no dogs).

There's a lot of stuff you can't discriminate on, but animal ownership isn't a fundamental right.
This is the most pretentious thing I've ever read.
Thats ridiculous. If you had a big apartment and a big dog, wouldnt it be just as bad on the dog? 700 sq ft with no yard and a 50 lb dog would be miserable. Your argument doesnt scale at all.
Since when is a log scale used for market share?

At least since the appearance of data sets that lent themselves towards such visualization. For example, how better to compare the growth of various platforms, from TRS-80 days to the iPad while the entire industry grows exponentially?

http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-person...

Edit: But I guess that's really market magnitude over time, not quite what you asked.
It seems like the absurdity of the local public transit forces a lot of the high density construction downtown. When MUNI isn't halted (it regularly is) it often takes me 25 minutes to get to SOMA (Ballpark) from the Mission on MUNI even though straight line distance is less than one mile. Each MUNI ticket are is $2. The total system cost is $750MM and fare revenue is $150M which makes the real value of a MUNI fare $10. $10 to go less than one mile for half an hour!
I'm guessing they're prioritizing the low wage earners first?
Can someone explain how a log scale could work for this sort of stacked graph? (Serious question, not rhetorical question.)

If the X axis is a log scale of market share, what would happen if Apple and Android both had 40% market share? Both bars would overlap.

If X is cumulative market share, the bar width would depend on order and the two hypothetical 40% companies would have different widths.

If each bar has area proportional to the log, how would that work? The logs of market share are negative unless there is an arbitrary constant in there. Also the vertical breakdown doesn't make any sense in that case, because the areas of the vertical blocks don't add up to the OS total. Also small market shares would have negative width?

So can someone explain how log scale could even theoretically work here?
I reported this earlier, I think (unless this is a different Icelandic Visa Wikileaks case): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235397
> I must have a differing understanding of 'support'

One which makes no sense apparently.

> Yet no version of IE supports it

Which is why global user support is 52%: 48% of users have browsers which do not implement typed arrays.
By default, the appropriate syntax highlighting will be set on the file the first time it gets saved.
But weren't these things new precisely because the only way to describe them was using already existing words? If the telephone wasn't a new thing, why didn't we have a word for it yet?

Also, I think you are undervaluing the worth of that discovering a use for some combination of things that have existed for ages.

I think that even can be true if that combination, in hindsight, looks like a simple continuation of existing developments. A cride analogy: in hindsight, many problems appear to be in P, while they actually are NP-complete.
Maybe it's just me, but it almost seems like the 'S' is bigger towards the top, contrary to the perspective.
I assume HN reaction to the headline is "Julliwhat?!"

But maybe they go here first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juilliard_School

Edit: wrong info about an Alumnus, but there are plenty of famous artists from there
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If only settling with Microsoft indemnified ODMs from future litigation risk!

This is not about providing a cheap alternative to patent-related legal services, it's about a dynastic enterprise using the threat of a flawed patent system against it's partners and former partners to regain lost competitive advantage in the market place!

The silver lining is still a silver lining just for Microsoft. Sales of Windows phone 7 speak for themselves (and the ODMs)
I think you're playing a game of semantics while also disregarding the extraordinary value of ideas that drive arrangement and purpose which thus define created/evolved things as "new".

Semantically, who expects that something "new" has to be made from some exotic arrangement of Higgs Bosons doing something in extra dimensions that we had never thought possible? New is whatever people tend to agree on is different enough to call it that.

In terms of your disregard of arrangement and purpose, think of it this way: The atoms that make up a human being and give him all the range of thought and emotion that he has can be copied chemically and put in a big jar. That jar of chemicals is cheap and practically valueless. The particular arrangement that makes up a human being is something completely new and different from the sum of its parts. A cynic would say, "But a living human is just a rearrangement of pre-existing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and some other common chemicals."