skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. But beyond that... the analysis of this article is so shallow, it manages to say nothing while taking up pages and pages of information.

Who is "winning" the smartphone wars? How can an article like this rant on for pages and pages, without mentioning that say... Samsung creates over 25% of the iPhone?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/apple-and-...

What about that little fact, that the majority of revenue Google makes is from iPhones?

http://bgr.com/2012/03/29/google-generates-four-times-more-r...

Fanboys can sit around and play silly word games and armchair debates about who is "winning" or "losing". The fact of the matter is... these companies are well diversified and will do well regardless of marketshare.

A long rant without mentioning the most basic facts of this marketplace is not very worth reading.
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Should you take random meetings? Gary V. says yes, @ev says no: https://medium.com/on-startups/ea0b02c504cd
You can lose your top engineering talent by ending free soda and snacks. I think this is an important list for employees to consider but could also serve as a wakeup call to founders that are losing track of the small things that combine to be something significant.

Life is too short to work on something you don't love (unless there are no other options) and the lifespans of most companies are too short to hire people that cannot feel this way about their work/coworkers/environment.
That's one reason to dislike Google. They push free (as in beer) services and standards until they kill all competitors, then let it rot. To me what they do is even worse than going with proprietary solutions from the start and charging for it, at least that's honest and fosters competition. Just look at what they did with Google Apps.

Nowadays I only trust services where they profit (aka. anything that includes advertising), and none of the open standards they push forward.
As somebody who contributes to ClojureScript, I genuinely do not understand the purpose of this project.

If you want a JavaScript with Lispy syntax, there are a few things like http://lispyscript.com/ -- Spiritually similar to CoffeeScript. But if you want Clojure semantics, there is ClojureScript: Very different than a simple transpiler like CoffeeScript. ClojureScript includes a standard library of rich data structures and utility functions.

But why would you want Clojure syntax without Clojure semantics? Especially since Clojure syntax implies several data types that JavaScript can't provide natively. It just doesn't make sense...
MongoDB/NoSQL is not for the type of analysis mentioned in the article and is NOT a replacement for a spreadsheet.

Out of all the nosql options, why pick the one with the most broken default configuration? People complain that MongoDB is has a bad rep when used for things its not meant to, and then its constantly offered as solution.
What is expensive about Dynamo exactly? Read, storage? Something else?
Does Wisp have any facility for namespaces - I didn't see anything about that in the link?
Do you have an example of TastyPie and AngularJS working together? I've got a straight-forward CRUD app (mostly) that AngularJS will be great for, but wrapping my brain around it all and an API has been difficult.
Useable keyboard: bluetooth keyboard.
Office suite: Pages, Numbers, Keynote.
Or copy an existing business, and apply it to the same industry, in the same country.

Competition is proof that the market exists. And if there is an existing service provider, by definition there are customers that are not 100% happy with them.

B2B markets are usually very large, and there is room for lots of growth.
Yes, please, Jason if you're here, for the love of God please go see a doctor --

Step-dad is a firefighter; so many times they get to the scenes of accidents, and everything looks fine on the outside, patient feels completely fine so refuses ride to the hospital, but then 2-3 hours (sometimes even up to a day later) they end up far worse off and sometimes even dead from internal injuries that EMTs are not qualified to assess.
I'm surprised no one's written a bot yet that auto-picks the most appropriate xkcd for an HN post and posts a 'relevant xkcd' comment :)
I wonder if teflon coated shoes would be effective, if rubber are not?

Might have a problem with grip though...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_and_con...
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The problem is simple.

Once you've published it, you're under pressure to remain backwards compatible. But until you've got experience with it working in the real world, you don't know what really works. And then before publishing it, you need to go through a lot of work to make the published spec clear enough that someone else can reimplement from scratch and it will actually work.

For all of those reasons, there is pressure to not publish a spec until after the technology has matured.
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The EFF is correct. Google is in lock step with the US governments plans of the complete erosion of our privacy rights. Google knows a lot about us all and the feds want that info.
"DataNitro is embedded in Excel."
So users need to install something? Yuck. That doesn't work for us.

We use handsontable (like Google Docs spreadsheet) with a MySQL back end. Users just need a web browser to edit data. I wouldn't call it a replacement for Excel, just a way for non-technical people to edit info in a database.
A) Actually, I don't know that it is a zero that is being dropped, even though that may be likely. If numbers were being reported by a scientist, dropped digits would be an indication that the measurement wasn't accurate to any more digits than those displayed, so 1.3 might really be 1.3476 but their measuring device just couldn't measure it that accurately.

B) I think it's pretty unusual to offer up a side-by-side comparison of numbers that aren't showing the same number of digits after the decimal point (hence, not a major stretch to call it sleazy). Do you ever see prices quoted as "$12.3" instead of "$12.30"?
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the blog has been updated with some pypy benchmarks added (just as a gist)

from the blog:

https://gist.github.com/ahmadia/5638980

Update:

At the request of several commenters, here is a test script and benchmarks that we ran on PyPy and Anaconda Python (with Numba). The results are not tuned (I am not a PyPy expert!) so we did not post them in the blog. We’d be happy to look deeper into this with the PyPy developers. While PyPy is not currently installed on Wakari, we are looking at a number of ways we can install and support the PyPy community.
>> Apple's 4:3 screen for tablets are outdated and completely unusable.

Is that a fact or an opinion?

>> 4:3 is terrible for watching HD videos or browsing websites -- all of which are made with a 16:9 screen in mind.

I also prefer watching videos in a widescreen format.. however, I prefer browsing the web in a portrait view. More often than not, the "side" of the web pages are used for navigation and ads. When it happens, I usually zoom on the content in the middle and read that in a portrait view.

----

I think your opinion is valid but not the way you express it. It sounds very aggressive and also comes out like if it was a hard fact. (Which is not, it's your opinion)
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> It's these type of posts that make it to the top of a thread that make me not want to check into HN.

> Can't we celebrate a company, that was called out as a bad stimulus target during the presidential debates actually paying back all their loans ahead of time? If there was one place I hoped I could go to celebrate an innovative company's success, it would be HN.

It's right there in black in white: "I don't like that we have posts that aren't strictly celebratory in nature" (at least about Tesla). For the record, I'm most definitely a fan of Tesla and have utmost respect for the company, but that didn't stop me from appreciating the critical view of this story that was offered by noname123 (in which I learned some things I didn't know about).
This one is even more relevant:

http://what-if.xkcd.com/16/
Is the implication here that Google would like to do this but cannot because it doesn't have enough time and resources? If that is the case and they care for openness, why not just wait to kill their open product until they are able to do the right thing according to their values with the new product? After all, Talk already exists and works.

It is hard to say whether Google as an organization is something you can characterize as "nice" or "mean" but the actions taken here have clear implications. They are deleting the open protocol and replacing it with a proprietary one. Whether their heart is in the right place or they just have some rotten circumstances to deal with doesn't matter really. Perhaps Microsoft with Skype might say that they are closed on purpose but Google will say they are closed by accident because, well, you know, of all the things they can do, this is the one that is too hard. But it doesn't matter. It is the exact same effect.
If someone knows this guy, please tell him to consult a physician. Sounds like he may be experiencing rhabdomyolysis. When massive muscle contractions occur involuntarily, the fibers tend to break down and those proteins spill into the blood. This spillage may not peak for 12-36 hours. This can clog the kidneys and lead to acute kidney failure, which can then lead to acute heart failure, all told potentially 48 hours out. HN user arn is a nephrologist, he could comment more intelligently.

If anything, he should make sure he's on somebody's radar.

Edit, source: I'm a physician.
Where do people shower when they live out of their car?
There are places where people want to use their computers where there's no internet, or very slow internet, or a fee for using the internet. For example, on airplanes.
iPad does not have MS Office, but it does have iWork version for iOS.
I disagree. I think people SHOULD be more concerned with screen area, but generally aren't.

No one really reports screen area. I can tell you the diagonal off the top of my head of most hero phones, but I couldn't tell you the screen area. In general the same could be said for TVs and Monitors.

It's a hard explanation to give to most people: "Yes, our diagonal is larger, but due to the aspect ratio, the total area available for the screen is actually smaller." We get this on HN, but I guarantee that this would not make things substantially less complex for most people.

That said, they should have asterisk'ed it.
I'd suggest SQLite unless you had a ton of users interacting all at once (if it's something involving editing excel spreadsheets, I doubt you'd have a problem with this).
Watched video, still not sure - it's enabling things and there's space - what do I do on Loom? Can I do this? Can I do that? One screenshot or even a conceptual one would have done all that...
No kidding. If every coin carries its immutable transaction history with it, Bitcoin is the antithesis of "untraceable."
One of my co-workers was working with some radio equipment years ago. A storm started moving in and he decided to go turn off the equipment and unplug things. Just as he got over to the equipment, lightning struck.

He woke up on his floor, could smell something burning, and found electrical components all over the place -- some embedded in the wall.

What happened afterward was kind of amusing. He went to the ER and signed in. The front desk nurse said something about their being a long wait (this was before they wrote down the reason.) Him describing the doctor running into the room moments later saying "You got struck by what!?" was pretty funny.

They ran tests and thankfully everything was fine. He didn't take a direct hit, I guess. No crazy scars or anything... hearing, heart, et. al were fine.

Anyway, my main point is, lightning is some crazy stuff.
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People are irrational, especially with their favorite brands. However, it is the de facto to measure screen size by the diagonal length. Apple does, too, or they use height and not area -- you'll have to compute that and "no one" does. Should we go on and on about how Apple has deceiving marketing, where their height-width ratio is not "good?"
Double upvote.

I suspect that someone raised in a Western educational system simply cannot comprehend what a typical rote-memorization-driven Indian school education looks and feels like. Because it's insanity.

I worry that the US is moving in the same direction, with all the focus on testing-driven "standards." (Not to mention the use of calculators in math class.)
Especially when combined with an accurate numerical reference.
There is insight here which people are missing. Look at the PC graph. Honestly, would you rather be Apple making Macs with 8% market share and 45% profit share, or Dell, Asus, etc?

Unlike with social software, there are diminishing returns to market share in physical devices. Chasing market share and hoping profits will follow is the wrong game to play. It's taking the wrong card out of Microsoft's playbook: Windows might have huge market share, but it was always a very high margin product for Microsoft!
To my knowledge, keywords are actually functions in Clojure, which do have an equivalent in JS. "Looks more like Clojure" seems like a good enough reason to me.
IIRC, they won by suggesting single-word search strings. For very easy searches, Bing slightly edges out Google, but no one cares, because both of them have the thing you're looking for on the first page. For those awful long-tail searches, Bing completely flames out, while Google often does a decent job. For a more interesting test, try describing things as if you know what you're looking for but can't remember the name (movies, products, etc.).
Let's use this to keep a client in sync with the server. And also keep multiple instances of server in synch with each other.
Um,... no. Why would you want full jQuery and load additional X kilobytes of javascript when in reality, Angular enables you to develop same functionality that many jQuery plugins (via directives) with ease, and way less code. It's a bit more work, no argument there, but I end up with more maintainable code, organised as I see fit. Faster and easier debugging, less dependencies and faster load time.

And Angular isn't made to be used with jQuery (or not to be used for that matter). In fact, it's advisable to completely remove it in order to fully understand, appreciate and use Angular's internals. Otherwise you're using two huge frameworks (in terms of KB and complexity) and only use small parts of them.
One possible reason: Numpy arrays are generally strongly typed, which allows Numpy's custom C implementation of sum to work while only dispatching types once instead of for each element.
For all of you wondering about the doctor thing, here's his answer from the comments on that page:

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>Onerunjunior wrote:

>I don't understand how you can justify not going to the doctor for testing after you've been hit by lightning. If not for yourself, go get checked out for your wife and kid. It's incredibly stupid not to.

No I agree and do plan on going - was going to try and get in today. I probably should have just cruised with the guys yesterday but they were so nonchalant about the whole thing I was like "welp, guess only losers see the doc when struck by zeus".

Edit: from another comment

I should be better about these things, but have had some fairly unimpressive attempts at diagnosis for various issues over the past few years. I feel a bit like if you don't have blood squirting out of your eyes, it's assumed that you're either a) trying to score meds or b) seeking attention (why not both?). HOWEVER, I have scheduled an appointment for tomorrow morning. I'll update the post if I die :)
I don't know why the parent comment does it but with nginx you can leverage things like caching out of the box. (Would mostly be used on static files, either generated or pre-made).
GR and QM reconciled? Roll over Einstein, meet Weinstein.
....is handy, I used it myself for my startup and liked it a lot better than MySQL. Regardless, you're going to face annoying schleps whatever you work on.
I'd like a copy-paste of that email as well! I'm learning Go by following the Tour and making some dumb 'university' level examples to get a feel for the language and I'd like to actually build a website with it.

Sent you an email
Obviously much depends on your specific program and use case, but it appears likely that Go may be faster and more memory efficient than Erlang for many uses: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

As always your program is the best benchmark.
I don't know, I think it's honest. In the eyes of many business users - myself included - the lack of Office is a legitimate shortcoming of the iPad (albeit one that I personally don't care much about).

It would be equally honest and fair for Apple to claim that Windows 8 doesn't have say, iMovie, or Flipboard. Again, some users may not care about those apps but at least it's a legitimate claim, unlike what's mentioned in the article.
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GoPro cameras provide a hint about consumer interest in Google Glass. They clearly have a lot of traction and there's a reasonably large market of people who to record their POV while they live their lives. Multiple that demand for POV recording with all of the other smart, heads-up-display abilities of Glass and you can see why people are excited.

There's one thing that this ad does which makes it explicitly NOT an add for Glass - it show people holding the phone. I know people criticize glass for "looking strange." However, it's socially acceptable to hold a camera phone up and take pictures without anyone giving it a second thought. Walk around town with Glass on and people will stare at you. Once a cultural shift happens there won't be a stigma, and then you can see kids, grandmas, and non-techies walking around with them.
Let me try to be clearer:

The CPython implementation is very slow. There are many language implementations that are much faster (e.g. O'Caml, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Java, Lua, C, probably Rust). Any one of these is likely to produce a system about as fast as the Go system with about the same amount of effort. Thus dwelling on Go being faster than Python is not interesting.

What is interesting is the properties of Go that make it better or worse suited to particular organisations and problems. This is what I tried to get at in the second paragraph.

The precise implementation strategy of Go/Python/V8/whatever is interesting in its own right but irrelevant to my points.
> Jobs and co are using the viewing angle of a 3d graph to have the Apple share be closer and 'larger' than the farther and now 'smaller' Other section

Actually, the tablet _is_ bigger in the diagonal measurement as they claim, which is the standard measurement of screen sizes.

They're both subterfuge. Don't raise one above the other.
I don't ever plug my iPhone into my mac anymore these days after icloud sync came into existence. My question is, can I use this just on my phone and sync it with my other iDevices? The great thing about icloud for me is that I take a picture and never need to worry about when it'll get synced to the cloud. will Loom be able to run seamlessly in the background like icloud?
I really don't like this article. I'm not saying that the author is right or wrong, but what is the author trying to accomplish? They aren't helping change the ecosystem or bring new conversations to the table.

I feel like this feeds to pettiness and bitterness toward fellow entrepreneurs that you don't feel "deserve" it. Who cares what they raised? Who cares who they sold to?

If you're doing what matters to you, it shouldn't matter.
Funny. I posted this and didn't catch that. Good eye. Karma point to u
As an alternative RStudio [1] offers a decent GUI on top of R, which can load data via SQL. It doesn't give you WYSIWYG editing of data, but you can manipulate data frames as if they were SQL with the sqldf package [2]. The learning curve is very steep though so it's not a perfect alternative.

[1] : http://www.rstudio.com/

[2] : https://code.google.com/p/sqldf/
A) I was just assuming that your numbers were correct. Regardless, though, the numbers aren't being reported by a scientist. They are being reported to consumers in an advertisement. I wouldn't call leaving off sig figs, or even rounding, sleazy in this case. But we probably just disagree on that.

B) $12.3 isn't a very good comparison because in the context of currency, the numbers after the decimal really signify number of cents, not a fraction of a dollar (although they are equivalent).
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I used to be against drone attacks against US citizens. But then I asked myself, "If Abe Lincoln had used drones at Gettysburg, would that have made him a war criminal or unconstitutional assassin?" Maybe, but not for killing Confederate forces. Who, even though they were rebels, did not actually lose US citizenship.
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You've just given me a new scripting project to undertake over the weekend. :)
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I might be laughed off of HN for even suggesting this, but why not use Access and VBA for something like this? Most computers that have Excel installed will already come with a copy of Access. Plus Microsoft built the three to work together pretty seamlessly. It might not provide all the same advantages of Python and other database software, but it is easier to pickup and is a huge improvement over the old Excel as a database solution.
Men are often discouraged by society from seeking first aid or admitting any sort of ailment or weakness.

Plus Emergency Rooms are known for very long wait times, especially if you are otherwise looking in good health. (triage favors the folks bleeding out).

If you are presented a bill, it's not just an ER charge but a charge from the ER, from the doctor, the anesthetist, and seemingly everyone staffing the ER seems to have their own bill and billing agency.

That's above and beyond the high cost of ER care.
I think that the reason that these aren't contradictions is because Google isn't a person. So if they do one thing that is open and a second that is closed, we aren't using it as evidence to search out a human being's soul or true intentions. An organization of this size can do both things at the same time. If there was a master plan, you could say that the openness is great PR that allows them to do closed stuff without getting as much of a backlash. But again, that is just anthropomorphic BS. In one case people within a personalityless organization are doing one thing. In another case different people in the same organization are doing another. The two cases should be treated separately.
Note that the cruze turbo diesel gets 46 MPG highway. Diesel prices fluctuate often but in recent history it's been more expensive [1].

The gas cruze gets up to 42 MPG highway -- Finally a modern car matching my 1990 Toyota Tercel, which until recently I could not replace without sacrificing fuel economy.

The plausible excuse for worsening or at-best-similar fuel economy is the added weight for safety equipment. Engines have been getting better but cars are getting safer and therefore heavier.

[1] http://www.factcheck.org/2008/05/diesel-fuel-and-gasoline-co...