skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. For every Mac sold ~16 Windows computers are sold. 2004 was Apple's worst year VS Windows and even then the ratio was 55:1. It is not now, nor has it ever been close to 90:1. The numbers are easy to find, and there's no excuse for pulling numbers out of thin air as you did above.

If you include tablets with computer sales (a line MS seems eager to blur) then Apple is the #1 computer manufacturer in the world at 14.6% of market share. HP is #2 with 14.1% of combined computer and tablet market share.
>Web development isn't the same as web design.

The one you claim to do on your homepage talks about involving design, which is why I referenced it. And which you absolutely have no idea about.

>Instead of making shit up, you could have just said it's using a lot more gradients.

It's more than just using just gradients (which is just one thing), which was my point. See, you're just proving it time and again.

>I will be interested to know what have you built.

I am not obliged to let you know that. But surely it isn't as shitty as this:

http://i46.tinypic.com/21vfc.jpg

For the rest of the world to see, that's what iRahul has built so far and he's here to critique a designer. And now you know why the search boxes appear the same to him, and probably everything else will, too.

>May be I should have been clear.

Yep, you never are. You like to make vague statements to attract controversy.

>Since you are so cocksure

Please keep your profanity to yourself. You just proved you are worth no one's time. Bye.
Since no-one else has mentioned it, surely the prediction is number 4 (allegations of fraud after the acquisition of a big-data company) and the company in question was purchased by a well-known printer manufacturer with the same name as a popular table sauce?

Edit to add: On re-reading the article I see that I misunderstood a general statement for a rhetorical denouement. Still, the example I gave is a strong one, although not a prediction since it already happened (indeed, it may have prompted this very blog post.)
Fantastic !!!! Just love it ...
This is a horrible invasion of privacy.
I will bet it is neither mystical nor magical down there.
or in stupidly terse Ruby...
f,b=3,5;(1..100).each{|i|s='';(s,f='Fizz',3)if(f-=1)==0;(s,b=s+'Buzz',5)if(b-=1)==0;puts(s==''?i:s)}
There is a central blacklist of IMEIs for stolen phones. This seems to work pretty well (anecdotally, many stolen phones are sent out of the country)

I don't think that the police do anything like this for actually tracing stolen phones though.
Yes, the problem is not the musicians per-se, it's the music industry that surrounds them. They make a fortune copying and selling music, and get all upset about it when other people want to copy music.

I know there's a lot of effort that goes into creating and producing an album, but that's a pittance compared to how much an album will make. And it's not like they lose money investing in lots of different bands and only a few are successful - if they're not 100% sure the album will sell (say it's a new artist) then they only lend the money to the artists. It's a loan that carries interest and has to be paid back.
This has now been resolved! Thanks everyone involved :-)
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As far as i know japanese governemnt debt is bought by japanese savers. So the balance is off kilter sure, but it's not "collapsing". So is this just another internet libertarian ideological warrior anecdote?
That's more true in certain Enterprisey, conservative parts of the financial world, backoffice bank records and that kind of thing. In investment/quant/trading parts there's more experimentation with other languages, both functional languages like F#, and even particularly "weird" languages like K (an APL successor).
The financial world is a big place. There's everything from backend systems at banks to stock exchanges, trading houses, stockbrokers, all with different requirements. I think perhaps the most ancient systems are the backend money ones at banks since there's not much money in scraping speed out of them, but I'd love to hear from someone in the field?
we don't even know what Glass is going to be, how can it have competitors? so far all we know is that it's a network connected display inside a pair of glasses. but that's been available for purchase for a couple of years now (http://www.reconinstruments.com/products/snow-heads-up-displ...).

people have been working and experimenting on wearable computing and HUDs for decades (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/one-on-one-steve-ma...), I'm really curious to see what Google can come up with, being probably the first major company trying to make a general consumer product, and Glass may well end up being an awesome revolutionary product but so far I fear that it's being hyped so much that it may end up being the next Segway.
> Abracadabra. Magic isn't it?

This post should be called "The No Data Blog Disaster" for assuming we are mind readers.
Or, if you look at ghc --version, it's "The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System".
I don't necessarily think being below their cognitive average is a problem though. Advertising to drunkards (altered cognitive state) yields results as well!
Yeah, they're syntactic sugar.
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in case you didn't know, you can get to DDG at (http://ddg.gg). Thats how I get it DDG when I'm away from my desk.
Eventually we'll have enough data on big data startups that we'll be able to algorithmically create better big data startups, so the problem really fixes itself.
That's interesting.

Gabriel, does DuckDuckGo's crawler have a distinct user agent? Can you talk more about how DuckDuckGo observes/respects robots.txt?
I find a slightly different problem: these conversations don't come up IRL at all, because they've already occurred online, and this prevents a more meaningful discussion.

To use the example from TFA, if someone tells you that their ex got in contact with them recently, you might ask them how they feel about it, what [s]he's been doing recently, and so on: you'd have a conversation. If you've already seen this online, it's likely that it would never come up at all - and you probably wouldn't ask those questions on your facebook wall, as it's not private.

Facebook is particularly bad for this, because it ostensibly covers almost every aspect of your life: replacing conversations with data points.
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Ain't my site. I just posted the link and expressed my opinion on it.
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But then it turns files in too a gibberish mess of fixed styles, or constant churn cluttering the VCS history as people reformat each file they touch.
It's relative to the population size in a few cases, though. Here in DC the homicide rate was 21.9 per 100,000 in 2010. We also have a extremely restrictive firearm policies - city law prohibits carrying guns either openly or concealed.

Despite policy, DC also had the highest rate of homicide by firearm: 35.4 per 100,000 in 2005.

http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_05.html
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> ... few others realize are worth doing.

Pursuing. I'm pretty sure Paul meant "pursuing."
I decreased the rent a bit and the list disappeared, even though the map shows matches. When I reload the page the list shows for a split second before disappearing. (Chrome on OS X, this is the link: http://www.openrent.co.uk/properties-to-rent/london-united-k... ).

What's the difference between the gray and blue markers on the map?
"window.top.location.href = "httx://www.jqueryc.com"

Is the "httx" a mistake by the malware-authors or Sucuri Malware Labs? I find the second option more likely.
No offense taken. I think your comparison is exactly on point: nail gun vs. framing hammer.

Since I love woodworking and enjoy doing remodeling projects around the house I know exactly what you are talking about. My son and I just finished turning a loft into a bedroom and had the pleasure of dusting off our nail gun, which made quick work of framing-up a new wall.

Pay attention to what you said though. Nail gun vs. framing hammer. The transition delivers a huge improvement in productivity and probably quality as well. Every nail goes in faster, easier and maybe even more accurately.

So, yes, if I had a crew of framers instead of programmers I would go out and buy a bunch of framing hammers. I would then stop all work and make sure everyone learned how to use them. Then we'd be able to fabricate structures much faster and with better quality.

That is not the case with a transition from Windows-anything to Windows 8. In fact, it seems that the experience might just be exactly opposite. Almost every report I read (and my own experience) seems to show that the first-touch experience is one of baffled confusion.

What would happen if you had an office with 100 workers and surprised them with a transition from, say, Windows 7 to Windows 8 on Monday? Right, your office would grind to an absolute halt. It might take hours for different people to figure out how to do what they were doing just fine the prior Friday. Compare that to the transition from Win XP to Vista or Vista to W7. No real issues whatsoever. People would show-up on Monday and, for the most part, go straight to work. That is the difference.

W8 isn't the equivalent of a transition from hammer to nail gun.
Anyone got a transcript?
Congratulations, I'm interested to know how easy it is to raise money from Seedrs. Glad to hear a startup kept going after rejection and hopefully will continue to do so.

I'm guessing you provided much more detail in your pitch and product than I can see on the public page. As all I see is "Discussion boards. Like tumblr, for forums." Which sounds a lot like Branch. Example: http://branch.com/b/freelancers-small-studios-what-s-in-a-na...

They're working with publishers to create branch discussion sub-communities on popular publications.
The real world is crappy, and we're depending on these academic types to free us from the drollness of it, because we don't all have time to invent an STM. If I wanted to write CRUD apps all day and say that's real-world, I suppose I could, but I would rather enjoy enlightenment.

Function invocation overhead, you say? Why would I want that?

How about Garbage Collection? It'll never work.

It's their responsibility to create foundational research, and it's ours to filter through it and prove the good bits with fire.

'Practical' is a red-herring, I think. We have no way to predict the future, but we all care about progress.
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Maybe I'm wrong but I think PG's article was focussed towards startup founders. And this article is more towards investors.

From a founder perspective, it is not just enough to know which market has the biggest potential in near future but also in which market can I execute my idea successfully. Just getting into a good market is not enough but you should be able to have the arsenal to execute an idea. And this is where organic ideas are way better than thought-up ideas. When you have actually faced a problem, then your path is a lot easier and you know where do you want to take your product/service.
Does it actually mean Haskell is going to permeate into Facebook's stack though?

Simon might just be looking for a new challenge, with Haskell as his side hobby.
No other social network successfully kept a lid on who could join like FB did in the beginning.

Anyone who started a social network at the time wanted as many people to sign up as possible but could care less who they were or where they were from. This resulted in lots of random people signing up but few connections that existed in the real world translating to the social network. Consider Myspace (or many others) where your "friends" were often people you did not know. Sometimes you didn't even know their names!

Facebook did the exact opposite. They wanted to transfer the real world connections to the web. By getting almost everyone at Harvard on the service they were able make this happen. They repeated the success at many other schools. It was a long time before just anyone could join FB and at that point so many real world connections were already in place that when a person joined there were already people they knew on the site.
As I doubt I'll ever learn C# I won't assess your tutorial by its actual intellectual content, but visually, it looks great. Too often, tutorials and guides on programming don't use enough visual aids, which at the very least, help break up the dense text.

To echo what others have said: don't do video. You're right to guess that unless you're a skilled video editor/producer, it will eat up far more time than producing screenshots, and have marginally more effectiveness (if any).

What are you using as CMS? Octopress/Jekyll?
Over a nibble ago, when I was going through my Java love affair I remember a book I was reading, it prophesied Java in taosters. I Believed it back then because I was 11.
Previously, jquery.it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2734138
I suspect they've done it deliberately, to avoid having a malware link on their site. With the link as given, a reader would have to consciously change the 'x' for a 'p' to visit it, making it unlikely that anyone would do it accidentally.
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Well I opened with "I don't understand". I'm not saying that they could, I'm saying I don't understand why they can't.

I'd love for you to elaborate. As far as I can tell they are not using PostgreSQL as a relational database, but rather, as a column store. So why not use Cassandra or even Redis (if the amount of data can totally fit into RAM easily, maybe it can't)?

In fact I think Reddit moved to Cassandra... anyway, I am not an expert, I'm asking.
An option would be to connect via websocket to a server and react on the disconnect event (doing some simple ping-pong to keep the connection alive). That would require an always-on websocket server though, which is a different story. Still could be good enough for a gimmick like this.
I remember seeing steeltoe on reddit. I like the fact that it's simple and does its job. Care to share any more?
I'm in Startup Chile over in Santiago, and I can say I get the feeling Argentinian entrepreneurs are trying to get the heck out of Argentina. The situation doesn't look good there. I'm obviously biased here, but Santiago is fantastic both culturally, safety wise, and for entrepreneurs.

Not to mention the seemingly rampant theft. It's one of the reasons I took it off my list of places to visit while I'm in S America.

Not trying to rain on your parade, but a different perspective. If you do end up in BA, be sure to make a trip into Santiago to see what a thriving, safe, entrepreneurial S American city looks like.
That makes sense, and would also explain why they chose to put it in a <textarea>, I suppose. Still, it feels as if the apparent intended audience would be aware of the risks without them having to go through the trouble.
The issue with the OP's implementation and yours is that not all browsers implement navigator.onLine the same way.
For example, if you run the jSFiddle on Firefox, you would see that the status does not change even if you pull out the cable or turn off WiFi. This is because of how Firefox chooses to interpret the spec. However, if you enable offline mode in Firefox (File -> Work Offline), you can see that the status changes.

This issue is described in greater detail here - http://schalk-neethling.com/2011/05/navigator-online-and-the...
Apple Looking Into 3D App And File Drawer To Extend Mac OS X Dock
It does show the compliance rate of the request which I think is really high in some countries considering Google may not have been legally obligated to comply.
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I listen to a lot of news radio programs as podcasts. I love that I don't have fit my schedule around the program, and I love that I'm not tied to a specific program but can listen to the most interesting stuff from various stations. Including a few that aren't even in my country, such as This American Life.

I've also got a few things subscribed that are "genuine" podcasts. My observations mirror your own (a few good ones/almost all are terrible). But if it works, it works really well, I've had podcasts that went on about a topic for 3 hours without getting boring.

But almost none of the stuff I get this way deals with technology per se. It's mostly politics, science, sociology, history -- anything but pure tech.
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I think it's pretty safe to assume that most (if not all) of the copyright insanity worldwide stems from the RIAA/MPAA. It would be willing to bet a lot that if they became sane, most of the rest of the world would, too.
Many people seem to associate AWS with EC2, and make comparisons with that assumption. For us EC2 was a small part of the decision.
As stated in the article other AWS services (ELB, SQS, Route53, DynamoDB,etc), multiple locations, all through APIs were the main factors for selecting AWS as well.
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I love the idea of Elon musk travelling to Russia trying to negotiate a price on ICBM's. I wonder if the Federal Government was watching him :)
Yes, it's very easy to armchair quarterback. But I also have experience actually doing what I'm talking about - for example, I've contributed patches back to Haml and MongoMapper that have improved their respective speeds by ~25% and ~40% on average respectively. I've profiled and optimized multiple production apps to eliminate these kinds of issues, written tools to aid in memory profiling, tracked down and fixed memory leaks in various gems, and have yet to run into a mysterious "unsolvable and unexplainable" performance problem. If you can't explain it, that means you just don't know where to look.

Software is deterministic. If you can't explain why it's doing something, then it's not leprechauns fiddling with your bits - it's something that you just don't understand yet, and will have to dig a bit to find it. I'm not speaking from armchair quarterbacking here - I'm speaking from experience.

I am exceptionally dubious that you were encountering problems that were just not solvable, let alone explainable. Doing the handwavey "nobody can explain it" has a particuarly bad odor to it.

If you want to do a full writeup on the problems you encountered and what you tried to do to solve them and why you eventually gave up on them, I will be first in line to read it.
I wonder how the links to these fake sites are injected into the infected sites in the first place. Is it through some other vulnerability and the fake sites are mainly needed to make the hack less obvious for a human auditing the code?

Or do they hope that somebody finds the fake jQuery site on Google or through a typo in the URL and then includes their fake JavaScript file instead? That seems unlikely to me.
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Seems odd to quibble with being a thoughtful netizen.
That's an awfully specific area to not have satellite data for...
The inherent flaw in both arguments: citing exceptions.

Facebook, Google, Amazon et al succeeded _despite_ being bad/unknown quantities on paper. They specifically should _not_ be used as examples of "how to do it right."

Look at smaller sustainable startups that are flying under the radar to unearth proven, repeatable best practices. You can't establish patterns in methodology by citing exceptions.

For a $10mm company to become a $1bn company, know what you need? Luck.

EDIT: To those below, you're both validating my point. Luck isn't the sole driver of success, but it's the difference between a modestly successful company and an insanely successful company. The other skills the founders have to exploit opportunities are already there. The x-factor is luck. Nobody says "okay, all we need is 500 million users and we're successful!"
Very, very little actual facts - but maybe I missed something?
I never stated I advocate state intervention. I said search is not a natural monopoly and as a result we as a market need viable competitors. As the perceived cost to us for both is zero, those competitors need "charitable" use to improve because the product is the activity. You can only improve human search by analyzing human searches. One might argue I suppose that there is enough capital to throw at the problem (say, pay me to use ddg until it catches up or pay Google to provide data), but I question whether that can be the case due to the network effects of the integrations you mention.

The Internet was not designed to provide highly-available redundant backups of data. It was designed to route packets across disparate peer networks in a manner to minimize congestion. Is there an ietf rfc you have in mind that illustrates your assertion? [0]

I do not follow; what does fluctuations in Starbuck's stock price have to do with the discussion? It was used as an example of a brand latching on to a public resource, libraries, in the hopes of becoming indistinguishable from the activity, namely reading.

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1958
Does anyone know what "Bode" is? He referenced it as something related to node but a quick search on DDG and github show nothing.
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This reminds me of the most frustrating conversation I have ever had:

This summer my startup, located in Virginia, was in final talks to join a large seed fund/accelerator in SV and both sides were trying to decide if it made sense. Our only issue was our lead software engineer was still in college and needed to convince his mother that taking time off (or dropping out if things went well) to do this program was a good idea.

His mother was, shall we say, less than receptive to the idea. She decided to have her brother, an executive in the valley, reach out to his VC friends to see if this accelerator, an extremely well thought of and prominent accelerator, was worth doing.

He reached out to a former partner at KPCB who said he'd never heard of the accelerator, which is in itself insane, but also that our startup wasn't doing something "differentiated" enough to even justify continuing to do.

I reached out to him to clarify, and he said "you've got to find something that truly stands out, that nobody else sees. For instance Google didn't win because they built the best search engine, but because they figured out how to sell those little ads better than anyone had ever sold them before".

I stared at my screen reading that sentence over and over again. I couldn't believe it. There was a former PARTNER from KPCB that led a round of investment at Google that did not know that Google actually got the idea for Pay Per Click advertising from Overture and Adsense from Applied Semantics. This person thought that what made Google great was they had an idea so different from what everyone else was doing, NOT that they just out executed everyone by a country mile.

I was so dumbfounded by that, it barely even registered with me that a partner at a huge VC firm had never heard of the largest seed accelerator in the world. I never responded to that email, I get too sad every time I try.
"it's clear that it's essentially useless"

Completely wrong. If 98% of the time (or even 50-97%)(i.e., reality) being connected to a network means also being connected to the internet, then it is useful. And it is also does not throw false negatives.
Almost all the young of the middle class (almost all the city of BA) can speak some form of English, if you can speak some sort spanish you should be fine. Contact me if you need advice.
If you're interesting enough, you can find something more interesting to talk about!