skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well you say he's a cofounder suggesting you own an equal stake in the company. Is the company registered and official?
Help me HN: I'm stuck with my graduate internship, need app store data
Hi,

I'm currently doing my graduate internship, on a very interesting subject. I am comparing the Windows Store to the competition (Play Store and Apple App Store) for tablet apps. This means that I am comparing what kind of apps people like on the different platforms, where the opportunities for developers/entrepreneurs lie, etc.

I have some good data on the Windows Store (a list of all apps with their category, price, publisher, etc. etc.), but I just can't find a similar data set for the Android and iOS apps. I have contacted a lot of people with data sets, I googled all there is to google, I searched for research reports, etc. The problem is that companies that have this kind of data (such as Distimo) don't really want to give me this data (they sell reports for €10.000) and the research reports (such as Distimo's free reports) aren't complete or outdated. I could ask my company to pay €10.000 for such a report, but that's just too much, I don't want them to pay that kind of money for my graduate internship.

This is a serious problem for me. I've been stuck for 2~3 weeks now, and it's starting to give me sleepless nights because this could mean that I will fail my graduate internship.

Tldr;
Can anyone please help me find a data set of Play Store / Apple App Store apps for tablets, or point me in a direction where I could find this kind of data? I'm stuck and I don't really know where to go from here.
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>The volume of traffic was sufficient to keep us from handling it in Arc like we always have before.

>Now nginx is helping with some of the work. Ironically the transition was planned for today anyway, except it was meant to happen at night with no downtime. So it goes.

Does this mean that HN no longer uses Arc, but nginx? Or are you using nginx+Arc now?
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A lot of these look great :-) If only they worked in IE 7, 8 and 9 they could be used in real projects...
No, Diatoms Have Not Been Found in a Meteorite
CentOS isn't run by Red Hat.

I wasn't sure if that was implied by your post or just listed as a reference of distribution names. So just in case it was implied... :)
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Yup - just blocks of color for me :)
Yup, if everyone who wants to get at the data already has the skills to do that, we've got nothing to offer. But many organisations have knowledge workers or end users that won't learn SQL, and don't have people available to regularly run ad-hoc reports, or the time to constantly expand the reporting available on their intranet/admin suite.

I'll post again when we have a demo up.
And firefox has Tree Style Tab. Makes it superior to any other browsers.
It is not Kinect itself, but 22 sample programs alone. Please change the title to "Kinect samples open-sourced"
Just sent my request! Hope I get an invite for using this, looking forward to trying it out on stvplus.com
As a technical demo they're great. In practice though, I wouldn't recommend using these techniques because:

- Many are completely broken in FF
- Crashed my FF (19.0.2) and strangely sent my GPU fan into overdrive
- These techniques hurt performance badly. In the case of gradients
the browser has to first generate the bitmaps
from the gradient definitions, apply any clipping/masks
and then composite any other overlaying elements.
This is far more taxing than simply grabbing a
bitmap and painting into a region.
Yeah, count me in the feature-not-a-bug camp.

It is avoiding popularity rather than success. And I parse it rather as "avoid some nasty costs that could boost popularity" not as "spare no costs when actively decreasing popularity".
He didn't say Red Hat is fictional, he said he can't see Red Hat in the graph (and that was only because he was looking at the wrong graph).

I can see why you might have misunderstood him though. "Does not exist" could be read both ways.
When is your data not your data? When it's in the cloud
It's fucking unbelievable to me in 2013 that there are still so many businesses who just don't get it. Y'know your profitable 20th century business model? The internet is coming for it, and you can either get on board or you can get crushed out of existence.

I just can't fathom why these idiot cab companies wouldn't just copy the service that Uber provides, which is a really basic idea nowadays.

Build an app that summons your cab. Problem solved. Competitor thwarted. Stop trying to hide behind lawsuits or you'll end up just like these sad sacks in the music business.
> My mom refers to the Internet as "Google".

that's how she browses the internet then? in her case the application wouldn't matter to greatly if her point of reference is the Google search box
Both IP and TCP where invented by the us government. Just fucking looking at the protocalls makes it clear they where designed for a large global network. I could continue but you sir are an idiot, who seems incapable of accepting when there ideas are clearly wrong.
Or they're pissed that they're playing by the rules and you are not.
As somebody who biked from Copenhagen to Skagen to Amsterdam: I wish you had $12 burger joints! Outside of the big cities, restaurants of any type are very hard to find in Denmark, and the ones you do find often are often very bad ethnic restaurants. If you can actually get Danish food it's incredible, but you generally need an invitation into somebody's home to get it. The exception is breakfast; Hostels generally put on a great spread.
They can't, because the people who own the robots also own a robotic police force.

Two years ago when Mubarak told the Egyptian army to spray protestors with bullets, and the soldiers refused. That's because he didn't have a robotic force. The future is probably going to be horrible.
The company isn't registered at the moment.

If we would agree to share equity later on, couldn't he just start a new company if he doesn't use any of my IP?
Yeah, systemd and grub2 are Haskell-ish way of making everything in a "proper way", "not for everyone".)))

But, see, you can almost type-check your tens of grub2 confs!
So now what happens to Silverlight? What a mess.
> HTML5 video and audio are still too early in their life cycles to supplant flash.

What are you missing? I've been working with HTML5 video/audio for a few years and features are on par now with Flash on all major browsers. It's a pity Firefox doesn't support H264/MP3, but that will change in the near future.
From what I've read, the taxi companies are mad that Uber's cars are acting as taxi's, but aren't paying the upfront cost to get a medallion, use a meter, that sort of thing. It's not the app that is causing problem, it's the unfair playing field.
Thanks for signing up, looks like some really interesting data to play with!
not working for me with css supplied.
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CentOS has a huge community in so-called third world - Russia, etc..
in the Pro plan, will I be able to connect 5 custom domains to my 5 sites?
Performance is far worse because this is the equivalent of a procedural texture. With a tiling bitmap the computer simply fetches the file, then paints the pixels into a region.

With a definition such as:

- radial-gradient(closest-side, transparent 0%, transparent 75%, #...

The browser first parses the CSS, then generates the actual bitmap data for this definition in memory then finally paints the pixels into the correct places. The in-memory bitmap generation is far more taxing than simply tiling an existing bitmap.

Then there is the issue of dynamic CSS which may cause reflow which will in turn probably require more dynamic bitmap generation.
Uhhh, New Zealand was never conquered by the British as far as I'm aware. They had to sign a treaty with the Maori no?
I did the exact same thing. Awkward.
I generally only add people in Linkedin that I have a personal or professional interest in. I try and make sure that I actually meet, in person, the most important contacts on my Linkedin. I try and add people who are high up in the companies I want to work for WHERE they are also connected to people that I personally know.

You need to get out there and grow your network in person as well as online. Online should supplement what you do in real life.

I also only add recruiters that work in the specific technologies that I use, I also try and call these recruiters for a casual chat about the state of the market. Only recruiters that I get a good vibe from remain on my list.

This has resulted in me never being out of contract work for a few years now and my network now includes CEO's and MD's at very good companies who I have personally developed relationships with.
Ah I see, that's where the terminological differences came from.
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I'm often taken a bit back by how bad text looks in screenshots of Windows whatever. I really wouldn't want to look at that all day. Just my preference...
Well, they spent a lot of money buying the rules.
Thank you very much for your great comment.

My first objective is indeed to find some clients. I'm reading some books on it and I read the same advice you summed in your first two points.

How do you manage 4 clients at a time? Did you agree to work on the projects part time or you are working longer hours to cover them?

I'll try the other options you mentioned. Thanks a lot for the tips.

EDIT: I wonder why the parent comment has been deleted. It was a very valuable one.
apparently on 3.2 yes.
Saying "We're going for 1% of the market" is a top-down estimative.

And they usually are very off the mark

Rather, try to estimate from the bottom up. Your first realistic estimate should be 0.

Then start adding up, how many lemonades can you sell at a lemonade stand? (apply to your case)
Ever tried to order a cab in Boston/Cambridge? I've missed two early-morning (i.e. before the subway starts running) flights because the cab I arranged 48 hours ahead of time never showed up, apparently because they didn't feel like it. Uber isn't "unfairly" replacing a functioning taxi service in Boston. They're simply the only game in town if you actually need to get somewhere.
I'm totally down with that part of the argument, but wouldn't it be a complete non-issue if it were as easy to hail a normal cab as it should be in 2013?
While I am all for internet enabled disruption, what about the local laws that Uber and other IP/Mobile-web services do not follow?

Private sedan services are still limited by the local cities regulations, and this is not a bad thing. Localities deserve the rights to regulate themselves.

Where we obviously get into mud, is where the local commercial establishment thinks it's income is a prerogative of participating.

Local regulations worth adhering to, that do not break contract law:
What about maximum fares?
What about legislated accuracy of meter/GPS for billing?
What about posted signs for reasonable health precautions,
like smoking?
like the local licensing board for complaints
(oh wait you don't have licenses....)

Not that I am establishmentarian, but it is completely unreasonable for a market disrupting services to NOT follow local regulations for said given commercial activity.

That being said, one does not have to be a big business to be able to give a random a ride. However, cabs of today are shaped and outfitted with specific hardware for obvious reasons.
This is without question the best lecture I have ever seen.
That's because we haven't yet produced a general-purpose quality AI which can do everything humans can do and more cost effectively than they do it. But when this happens, pretty much everything, even creative work like graphical design - everything will be cloudsourced.
My plan is indeed to get some clients first. I'll write about that soon.
As a regular HN reader the number one thing I've learned about business from the comments people post here is that every business is so nuanced that applying sweeping generalisations without any domain knowledge is ultimately pointless. HN has so many smart, knowledgeable and experienced people in every business you can imagine that you should take the opportunity to learn why Boston Cab Dispatch are doing this. Furthermore the issue Boston Cab Dispatch has (as explained in the article) is not that Uber has an app, it's that Uber is breaking cab regulations that Boston Cab Dispatch must abide by if they want to continue to operate.

Barenholtz pointed out that Boston Cab also has a smart phone app,
but nevertheless has to comply with industry regulations.
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Cloudbase.io updated documentation
It would be fairly easy to just scrape the data with cURL. I'll whip it up for you this afternoon.
Especially when you consider that they're not going after Hailo, who are operating in Boston. Hailo's drivers are licensed taxi drivers.

I find the two companies to be really interesting: they're both competing for roughly the same space (especially now Uber switched to a meter rate model in Boston), but Hailo takes a much more 'softly softly' approach. I suspect one reason for this is that Hailo's been co-founded by taxi drivers, so they're probably more sympathetic to existing market concerns.
I am often at MIT and after being burned a few times I completely switched to Uber for all my travel there and it has been nothing short of awesome.
Remember that you still need to explain the Fermi paradox [1]. If you apply the above logic to life & civilizations in general, you conclude that it's actually quite likely for them to survive long enough and become widespread. Yet, our experience contradicts that assertion, for we don't know any other race at even comparable level of technical development

Of course, this (i.e. civilization quickly become extinct) is just one possible resolution to the paradox, but the arguably simplest one. If the actual reason(s) we don't see advanced life are different, the Great filter hypothesis holds less water. We don't know that yet, though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
I do like Opera because you can switch tab to the left natively. But where are my Firefox shortcuts ?

Ctrl + 1,2,3... let's switch between tabs. Do you know the equivalent? I'm going to try using it for a while if you say you can run that much tabs and it still runs smoothly. I usually have 40+ tabs open at all times.
For an article that prefaces it's dialogue with a desire to "leave the right-thinking reader with an impression of calm, reasoned rationality", it reads like opinionated tosh. How the author arrived at these six criteria as a reasonable litmus test for the applicability and usefulness of a text editor absolutely boggles the mind.
One interesting thing is done while building iOS app: png images are reencoded to make them more efficient. What is done, that alpha value is premultiplied, but the more interesting thins is that bytes are rearranged from RGB to BGR . This is done to match the layout of the iPhone display, so mapping from image is even faster.
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True, but if you're tracking users, you'll normalize for that (tracking cookies, bot exclusion, IP, etc.). It's somewhat nontrivial, but most web analytics packages will give you a decent first cut.
How does Uber compare, price-wise, with taxis?
Why do people bother with ddossing, it just always goes away anyway. I can't imagine that it would be anything other than kids since it achieves no aims in particular.
Is there an open source script witch scrolling page effect like in Strikingly?
Does this mean that old content will be permanently inaccessible? One of my (rarely exercised) pastimes used to be typing a few random five- or six- digit IDs into the address bar, then following the chain up to the top-level article. I found some really interesting stuff that way.
If all of them do it, then 20 people times the number of lots might find a place to live, except it's no longer the kind of place where they want to live.

If that were true, why would people bother building so many apartments? Are investors just a bunch of idiots?

People want to live in Palo Alto because there is a cluster of a certain type of people there. If you allow more people to live in Palo Alto, those network effects become bigger.

Manhattan is the limiting case (at least in the US), and your scare story has not occurred. Rich people like living in NYC.
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Milton Friedman also advocated a universal minimum income.

The thing is, he advocates a minimum income, not a minimum set of social services. There's a huge difference in the economics between goods or services that are (ideally) competitively purchased on an open market and good and services that are delivered by a monopoly (whether the monopoly is in the market or is government itself) or monopsony (in the case of some govn't welfare programs, which can be thought of as single entities that negotiate pricing for arrays of goods and services).

A hybrid between Milton Friedman-style minimum income and more socialist notions of welfare is something like the US food stamps program, where you have to spend the money on food-related goods, but where you can shop at a larger set of providers and still deliver the benefits of competitive purchasing to the food market.
> switching back to Firefox with NoScript has made a huge difference

I don't understand why you had to switch to Firefox to block JS, that's possible with Chrome as well. Check out NotScripts, for example.
If Ubuntu wants to succeed on tablets & smartphones, the waiting game must stop
An appliance :)

It might be a completely worthless idea, but I would consider offering a "USB Stick" version rather than an appliance. It is much easier to replace, costs close to nothing, yet it can still be implemented as a self-contained blackbox with no customer serviceable parts.
Can you tell everyone a little more about yourself? It might help in getting some leads. Might want to include a fb/tw/gh link as well. Let me know if I can help. I'm @dpg on twitter or you can reach me at dan.p.gailey@gmail.com
I disagree. I believe that among the things given for free some would be missed less or more than others, like free water compared to free tv if one happened to live in the sahara. Things we are dependent on for daily subsistance are more basic than the ones we easily get used to their absence.

> The moment some of our basic needs get taken care of, the new ones replace them.

No, the new ones add up to them. The basic needs are still there and it is a priority to take care of them first and before the "new ones".

And what would be wrong with a society that would be able to provide basic sustenance to every citizens AND a free internet/tv/car etc. ?
That information is in TFA, but you have to click over to the second page of it to read it. That pisses me off just as much as the taxi companies using protectionist tactics to protect their outdated business model.

Decisions to bury important information like the legal reasons of why the taxi companies are suing is why I think that most media companies are fundamentally broken.

I'm no student of journalism, but shouldn't best practice include guidelines like: "Make the best case for every side of an argument as soon as possible in an article. Do not bury important points that could be made early on in order to force the reader to turn the page or give the impression that one side is being favored."
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This article probably isn't actual,but that module become useful for me.
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Trust is the limiting factor.
@slmt - you are shadow-banned.
They should have included a t-shirt size question [1]

[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DnNIRkWn-Pg/SW-sUKlnLBI/AAAAAAAAAQ...
Thanks for the advice. I've been working on facebook integration with comments. I'll add this in at the same time.
When you are talking about large markets 1% is not a short term goal. It is important to specify how you plan to keep your company running as you grow, but I don't see how saying if we reach 1% market share we will make a lot of money does that.

Also I'm not saying that using 1% and explaining what makes your product good are mutually exclusive. Just that more often then not people who use a 1% pitch tend to focus less heavily on the why it is a competitive product. This is just the trend I see, although I may be wrong and if there is any hard data on this I would be interested in seeing it.

Maybe "faith" was a bad word to use. What I ment was that by using 1% it seems like you don't have confidence in your team to produce a competitive product.

When it comes down to it 1% is often used as a place holder for arbitrary small number, and in this case it is a complete fallacy. 1% of a large market is hard to get, and if you can get it then why can't you get more? Basing your math for a pitch based on this arbitrary number kind of renders the rest of the pitch worthless.

Finally 1% is never a good metric to aim for. If you wouldn't accept it for retention rate, conversion rate, profit margin etc why is it ok for market share? My point is you should always be aiming higher then 1% so why use it in a pitch?
My brother was driving his beater as an unlicenced hack in Baltimore for a year. I observed a number of issues.

I think a barrier between the passenger and the cabbie is generally good.

I think a meter system or a zone system that is externally verifiable is better than some dude's cell phone.

After you spend 40-60 hours in one week schlepping people in your un-designed hack, an understanding will form of why modern cabs have fairly universal accoutrements.
Also, Russian translation and discussion - http://habrahabr.ru/post/172403/
Individually SSL takes less CPU time, but in aggregate there is an awful lot of SSL traffic in comparison to Bitcoin. I suspect that overall the cumulative amount of CPU time spent on more conventional cryptographic security far exceeds the CPU time spent on Bitcoin's blockchain.
Take the results with a large helping of salt. Self-selected user surveys are very highly prone to sampling bias.
It's the first one
Not true - it can be used effectively to distract from a primary more targeted attack...
Yes. This is a pet peeve of mine, too. I've got an instagram-style comment drawer that I'm working on which will fix the position of the action buttons.
DTR conversations can be awkward, but you'll need to have them long before you seek funding. VCs won't want to even talk to you if you haven't sorted out who owns what within the company. If he'd be pitching investors without you, it's likely he sees you as a contractor already. If so, that's fine, but you should be getting some sort of compensation for it. If he does see you as a partner in this, it's as beneficial to him to iron out all the details before you move forward as it is for you.

You don't need to make it antagonistic — start with an e-mail: "Before we get further in the development cycle, I want to make sure we have a clear understanding of what our roles are, what expectations we have of ourselves and each other, what investment of time and money we'll put into this (and where it's coming from), what equity we'll have in this business, and what our vision is for the next six to twelve months." Then, have a conversation — away from computers, but with a pen and paper — and make sure you're seeing eye to eye. Write up a "memorandum of understanding," print two copies, and both sign both copies. (Keep your copy somewhere safe. Also, scan it, and e-mail it as an attachment to him with a note: "Just a backup copy, in case both our houses burn down.") You'll probably need to revise it down the road. That's fine. But before you get too far into it, get it sorted out. Better for it to fall apart now than after you've sunk months of work into it.