skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure how good this data might be, being that it originates from software that might not be widely deployed. That said, it is always prudent to look for other sources and compare:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

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

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

The most surprising bit of information for me has to do with Vista. I didn't realize that it lost out so much ground to W7. We are still running Vista 64 bit on a number of machines because upgrading to W7 would also require upgrading a number of engineering packages that don't play well with W7 unless upgraded. That would cost tens of thousands of dollars and it simply isn't necessary. Aside from a few "features" Vista 64 has been rock-solid as a platform. Some of these workstations see heavy FEA work 18 hours a day, 5 to 7 days a week.
Microsoft is driving off of a cliff in a hurry. It's not good in the worst possible way.

Not only do they have to win the next generation console wars for XBox to remain a viable platform, but they have to simultaneously fight for their very survival in the post-PC era where they're being absolutely thrashed by Android and iOS.

If they just circled the wagons, stuck to their core competencies of Microsoft Office and Windows Server, made their services play nice with everyone, and lived in quasi-retirement Computer Associates style, they'd do quite well for themselves, remain a viable company for decades to come servicing the enterprise.

Instead, trying to position Windows 8 as more "friendly" or whatever they're going for with the new look and feel is just going to piss off Corporate IT while simultaneously not really catching on with a fussy, increasingly savvy general public.

They're also burning their relationship with their OEMs by making their own hardware. When HP and Dell decide to go with Android or ChromeOS instead, Microsoft will undoubtedly report a billion dollar loss in one of their quarters because Windows everything sales will have dried up.

This is also coupled with their complete inability to understand what the cloud means to consumers and corporate users. You'd think by now Microsoft would have, for instance, a world-class desktop management platform, that you could pay Microsoft a fixed fee, per PC, for a complete managed solution, but no, they don't do that. They leave it to their highly dysfunctional ecosystem of independent vendors and certified consultants, most of which are barely more competent than your average Geek Squad or Taco Bell employee.

Microsoft's success comes largely from being able to dupe and deceive various organizations into doing their bidding. The bait-and-switch with IBM and OS/2 is legendary, not only sending IBM into the weeds for a decade, but ensuring they came out on top with Office, as many of the competing products were porting from DOS to OS/2.

They also scored a huge hit with DEC (now HP) and SGI by convincing them to switch to Windows NT instead of shipping their own proprietary OS. That's largely why Windows Server is such an embedded part of enterprise. If DEC was committed to doing it, it couldn't be bad, right? Those days are over. Nobody's going to be fooled twice.

Fortunes can change quickly in this industry. One day Novell was the undisputed king of office servers and in less than four years they were almost completely displaced by Windows NT.

At best any company is two purchasing cycles away from complete irrelevance.
Gaza is not a sustainable state: 1.6M (2M) on narrow 40km strip.

Interesting that population of Gaza exploded from 40K to 1.6-2M in just 3 generations. How many of them refugees and how many migrants from Egypt/Sinai?
How would you say Knockout compares to AngularJS? I've looked at both and Angular seems really really clean as well.
His attitude makes more sense if you've read the follow-up book, The Innovator's Solution, which describes the dynamics inside of companies facing this dilemma.

However I think that he missed a bigger point. His theory is based on companies competing on a clear value proposition. But I cannot think of a single product where Apple under Jobs ever tried to compete on the same value proposition that its competitors were using. For instance consider the iMac. In theory it was a desktop computer, competing against a plethora of others. However it was the ONLY desktop computer that came in your choice of pretty colors. Competitors laughed, but people bought them.

The Macbook had a very different look, but again was distinguished from competitors by its appearance. (The specs were similar to worse than direct competitors, the price was higher.)

The iPod entered a market with established competitors, but was differentiated by its extreme design simplicity.

The Macbook Air changed things up in a different way. You had another laptop, which was severely underpowered, left out expected features (like a DVD player), but offered extreme lightness before anyone else did.

Whether we're talking about Apple's new product lines, or product lines that were in existing markets, there seems to always have been some unique value proposition which Apple offered that its competitors did not. I think that this fact is integral to its success.
This is kind of cool. I'd love to see a demo. I'm in Palo Alto.
C# can be used on other platforms so don't think they have much lock-in here.

Unity 3D (http://unity3d.com) uses it as a scripting system. You can author on Linux, OS X and Windows just the same.

If anything C# is becoming more popular because it's like Java but not from Oracle, one of the few companies that is less liked than Microsoft.
> why Pincus alone seems to bear the brunt of the backlash against him and Zynga

Because that is how Zynga was presented to the world - as Pincus' company where he runs everything. Pincus and Zynga can't be separated, he is the public face and persona of the company.

It was the same with Jobs and Apple, and is the same with Zuck and Facebook. With success the founder is praised, but the downside of making a single founder the focal point is that when things go wrong they are completely associated with the faults of that single person.
actually, most of the people at the top of the bootlegging chain in China are not mainland Chinese, they are of Hong Kong, and Taiwan origin. They just use the mainland as their base of bootlegging, and exploitation of labor. bootlegging gucci hand bags and hollywood films did not start in the mainland. it started in hong kong, and taiwan. not much has changed. it's still the same guys doing it. theyve just relocated. no, you will never hear about this in the mainstream media because hong kong and taiwan are used as a staging area by western governments to destabilise China as a whole. and you cant make your lackeys look bad, because subversion must be rewarded. as far as quality goes, China has sent a few space ships up into space without one ever blowing up. on the other hand, the united states has had 2 of them blow up already. keep in mind that the u.s. hires the top scientists in the world to work on their space ships. while, China relies strictly on Chinese scientists because they are under sanctions from the rest of the world. Despite these odds, China still built their own space ship using their own technology. you should also know that if the u.s. did not bring foreign scientists in, would they be able to go as far as they do. google, and microsoft both hire foreign engineers heavily. take a walk around the silicon valley, and see how many Asians you see. i find it very hard to accept what the shills are pushing. and that includes you hnriot.
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Size of the company is insignificant. You need a winning solution.
Didn't say I couldn't find what I needed, but thanks for wasting your time and missing the point.

Oddly, I may have done the same in your shoes.
word up. and no freezing your account for signing in from the different ip address, or whatever reason ebay decides is worthy of taking your money
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Just longer, not faster than its rivals nor lighter with faster internets and better battery life? It's not like the iPhone 5 has been getting rave reviews across the the board or anything.
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It sounds like people are describing what are caller diaper sprayers:

http://www.amazon.com/bumGenius-890077002003-Diaper-Sprayer/...

But I wouldn't want to use these on a person, the water pressure and flux area are too large.
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Why is it harder? Concatenating the files is literally all that's necessary, as long as you build them intelligently:

(function() { /* your code */})()

I'd argue that's significantly easier than most languages. But still - this can easily be a single bash line in your deploy script, or you can run `make` before copying the files over FTP. It's not easy, it's trivial.
>Because nobody had taken the time to reverse engineer it

You can very easily get the raw file using Wireshark. Ever heard of protocol analysis? You don't need to reverse engineer anything to get the file.
I dont' remember this being very simple to use. Compare it to noscript in FF where you just click a button in the lower right corner, or upper left, and get a list of that domains JS so you can block or unblock with yet another click.
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Yes, screwed is a strong word.

Crappy analogy: I was sold a watered-down soup while Apple had the real thing plated in the kitchen. Now I'm neither hungry nor satisfied.
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The only mention of Android Google could find is here: http://www.defold.com/ref/render#render.enable_state

But it seems like as always Android is not being treated like a first class citizen.
So apparently you wouldn't print a car, but movie producers would.

Oh, the irony.
I'd upvote this but not for a sellout.
Oh hackernews, i knew if i came here I'd find people bitching about some inconsequential detail.
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This make me remember Sword art online (anime) a little bit.
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Well, I was implying a few things such as a secure channel already being set up and running.
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The existing craze associated with socializing right now has taken the actual well-known micro-blogging site known as Twitter in the present reputation; this kind of points out the reason why a number of people are prepared to twitter marketing.
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> It's my belief that you'll sell more than 4x the copies at $1 than $4.

That's a horrible thing to believe without testing. There are many experience reports of profit boosts when changing price from $1 to $3, for example.
Very well articulated. I recently had a series of frown filled meetings with my manager where the best I could come up with was essentially "you're giving solutions to implement rather than problems to solve"
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I feel exactly the same. I tried to make something simple with bacbone the other day but I just couldn't wrap my had around it. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I too would like to know if there is some article that would explain things more clearly.
I'm not a big fan of the Everett interpretation. It seems too contrived. I prefer to think of spooky-action-at-a-distance as the nature of the wavefunction is such that its domain is all particles in the universe (which it is, since splitting it up for single particles is an approximation). Problem solved.
I'm well aware of the complications, however, I've found a lot of it comes down to priming your audience. I used subtle orbiting motions, slow transitions and reference grids to let the audience see where the depth was at all times. I haven't tried adding real shadows or SSAO, but it would only enhance this. There's also 3d displays to consider.

I think part of the problem is that we haven't had good tools to do this with. My mental sketchpad is in 3d, mathbox is what it looks like.
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this is not because China isn't trying to market itself outside, it is because if China expands overseas, then it will threaten the interests of amazon, ebay, facebook, twitter, yahoo, gmail,cnn, and fox. if people had a chance to try out the Chinese version, 50% of them would choose the Chinese version instead. facebook, twitter, amazon, ebay, cnn, fox, gmail, and yahoo would absolutely retaliate by launching some kind of trade war, including all kinds of dirty tricks, sabatoge, etc. this is what China is afraid of, and this is why China is afraid to expand. why do you think most of the world uses gmail, yahoo, facebook, ebay, and twitter. it's not that they are unable to develop their own, it's that they don't want to break the unwritten rule, that is, do not threaten the business interests of american corporations. this is why the u.s. spends so much on military. if they had no military to back up their corporations, then people would simply go in their own direction, and the market would be up for grabs, but for now, it will stay firmly in the grips of the u.s. corps
It's poorly phrased in this case, but gender-neutral facilities are coming of age. They appear on universities, for example.

This ties into trans* acceptance as well. Basically, don't dismiss it as too crazy of an idea.
I have the same impression. Windows 7 is very solid. People still think that "windows is crashing", while the application is working incorrectly. Microsoft people do what they can (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html - The Two Forces at Microsoft part). I understand that "normal users" might not see the difference, but people who attempt to perform "statistical analysis" should do.

BTW without knowing what is "Based on Soluto community data" we can't really judge if their analysis has any sense.
especially if imports over http in a browser aren't a solved problem in Python either and would also require language extensions
I am surprised that there is no Netflix for Boxee/Android reverse engineering taking place. Both Linux devices with fully working Netflix clients and no WINE.
This is a rare webkit bug I reported 9 months ago and which still hasn't been fixed. A refresh should fix it.
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For anyone tempted: keep in mind, how trivial this example is.
When time comes to nontrivial things knockout will bite and bite you hard.
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> ./configure && make && make install

Don't do that. Particularly don't do that on Ubuntu, this is a pretty sure way to break something. Build a Debian package, it's not that hard. For example, use "checkinstall", it'll build automatically one for you.
What are the benefits of a contemporary monetary policy? There was a piece I saw by George Selgin lately showing that modern monetary policy has caused the economy to be measurably less stable than in the old days. I haven't followed the responses to it, though.

The Milton Friedman/John Taylor position is that markets will adapt to pretty much any monetary rule as long as it is stable and predictable. Bitcoin's monetary rule is about as predictable as you can get.

The one part of the Keynesian story that I find compelling is the part about inflation being needed to address the problem of sticky wages. But wages in web sectors tend to be much less sticky. Free money's time has come.
Like you, I'm more a back-end developer and attempted to pick Backbone initially for my SaaS, but I wasn't very successful with it.

Later I discovered Knockout and in 2 hours, I was up and running, and it never got in the way so far.

I can only encourage people to at least try the tutorials, it will be time well spent:

http://learn.knockoutjs.com/
Maybe they should stop advertising with Facebook?
And now it's filling up with garbage data and more shitty attempts at humor. I genuinely had no idea that if you removed the possibility of a down vote there would be that many dicks on HN.
> It seems like there's too much complexity

Backbone helps you to do the things you understand. Knockout let's you do things you don't necessarily understand.
Sometimes black-box approach is OK. Sometimes not.
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I'm looking at AngularJS to handle some more advanced cases; my understanding is that AngularJS provides roughly what Knockout.js provides, then more features around (but please note I didn't dive very far yet in AngularJS!).

Knockout.js is great to get started at adding interactive UI on a JSON back-end, and I think AngularJS is the natural progression.
well, i'd say that the unfriendly business environment lies in the usa, and europe. i look around China and see different car brands from throughout the world. however, when i go to western countries, the choices are limited to europe, usa, japan, and south korea. the same goes for other products. for example, there are abou 20 different tablet brands in China, however, in western countries, only a couple of them really dominate. China allows just about every brand of tablets, and mobile phones you can think of. however, the west is extremely limiting when it comes to the choices of brands. there are probably 5 different shoe brands in China that are the equivalent of nike, and adidas. they are called lining, 361, anta, peak, and xtep. in addition to selling these brands, China also welcome brands from the west, and throughout the world to be sold in China. my conclusion is that the west is much more business unfriendly than China. sure China does have some protectionist measures, but overall, after i have compared the two places, i find that i have much more choices in China than in the west. by the way, skype, ebay, and amazon all operate in China, and have millions of customers. on the other hand, how many taobao, 360buy, and uu customers can you find in europe?
Maybe the problem lies with the laptop? I never have issues with 7, but my experience is just as anecdotal as yours. Have you tried XP on it to be sure?
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It is spyware on G+ too:

"""
Triple Town is requesting permission to:
View a list of people from your circles, ordered based on your interactions with them across Google
"""
Nothing happens for me (only the youtube video plays). Firefox 16.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8). JS Error:

[08:42:30,567] TypeError: this.yt_player.playVideo is not a function @ http://media.soundslice.com/scripts/soundslice.min-f58020e4a...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Secure_boot

"Concerns were raised that secure boot could prevent or hinder the use of alternate operating systems such as Linux."

"Microsoft's certification requirements eventually revealed that that UEFI firmware on x86 systems must allow users to re-configure or turn off secure boot, but that this must not be possible on ARM-based systems (Windows RT)."
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This post is an excellent explanation why Linux on desktops is as rare as unicorns.

Imagine average computer user (consumer?), who see such post.

Breaking news! Yada, Yada. And then

./configure && make && sudo make install

From the PR point of view it would be better if such Netflix port was never done, such news would never be written.

Someone potentially interested in installing Ubuntu would come accross such news and I bet this person would never look again at Ubuntu or any other Linux.
Care to provide some more information / collaborating evidence?
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How so?

If we were still on a gold standard, would investing in new mining techniques signal similar about our currency?
Adding ads or sending videos to be accepted by a copyright central are not very far away. Youtube already does this. If the video editing tool was bundled exclusively with youtube (a extreme an absurd concept I know), the examples would be instantly true. So far, I don't know of any video editing tool directly connected to youtube, but then I haven't checked on every video editing tool on iphone and android. I would be surprised if there didnt exist at least one.

Hidden watermarks already happen by printer software and some screenshot programs. Some digital cameras also do this. It not a really a big leap to say that a proprietary editing tools would/could auto-include watermarking if there was a business case for it. I would imagine that a photo editing tool bundled with getty or flickr could very easy find a business case to know when a image get posted outside its domain. Actually, there might already exist some photo-editing tools on iphone/android that do this already.
ive used both ebay, and taobao, and i have been ripped off once from taobao, compared to about 5 times on ebay. i am not including ebay the corporation themselves ripping me off. they froze my account, and took all my money. i've also talked to someone else who had her account frozen with about $10,000 in her account. ebay is now using the excuse of "security" to freeze your account. they say they want to protect your "online safety", but the truth is, they just want to take your money. many ebay employeees have come forward and exposed the dodgy practices of ebay. China will always come up with the better stuff because people are constantly criticising China, so they strive to be better. on the other hand, anyone criticising ebay, or amazon will be met immediately by 100 shills who say that ebay, and amazon are great. thats why ebay and amazon will never improve because instead of spending time to make themselves better, they are spending money hiring shills.
Alternative title: "Learning to agree with my opinions which are morally and intellectually superior to yours."

One of the most condescending, pontificating and self-righteous pieces of drivel I've ever read.
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It's not a dick move.
Setting up a HackerNews button server
Online sales are booming in China. But where are the profits?
is the map half-user-localized ?

I get data for USA, Australia, China, Hungary and Romania, which seems like an example of "find the odd one" unless they detect my position somehow between HU and RO
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taobao also allows you to list contact information like qq, and cell phone numbers, whereas on ebay's totalitarian platform, you cant do this
2 million murdered in Darfur and South Sudan - nobody cares.

1 Hamas terrorist killed - CNN breaking news.

Make your own conclusions.
...uhm, is it just me or is this just a very successful way for them to promote their products via publishing more or less relevant statistics to have something under a link bait title? (dunno how much traffic this brought to their product site but I think this little scheme really worked for them :) )