skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be the authoritative source for that number:
http://w3techs.com/

and the methodology:

http://w3techs.com/technologies

"We investigate technologies of websites, not of individual web pages. If we find a technology on any of the pages, it is considered to be used by the website.
We include only the top 10 million websites (top 1 million before June 2013) in the statistics in order to limit the impact of domain spammers. We use website popularity rankings provided by Alexa (an Amazon.com company) using a 3 months average ranking. Alexa rankings are sometimes considered inaccurate for measuring website traffic, but we find that they serve our purpose of providing a representative sample of established sites very well."

I would argue that the numbers should be weighted by traffic - weighting all of the top ten million websites equally doesn't give an accurate picture.
Harvard's entering freshman class in 1976 was about 1,600: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/3/5/harvard-to-accept.... It's target class size this year is ~1,650. In that time frame, the number of people taking the SAT or ACT has increased from roughly 2 million to 3.3 million (65%). The real difference at Harvard, etc, is bigger than that, because in the 1970's, qualified kids whose parents couldn't afford the tuition probably wouldn't have even considered Harvard.

Even leaving aside the increased competition from test preparation, no matter how you slice it there are a lot more people for the same number of spots.
> Then how are any of these an actual implementation of Marxism?

They may not necessarily be an 'actual implementation' of what Marx intended, but even early on, those outcomes were predicted as a logical conclusion of Marxism by other philosophers.

reposting from a branched sub-thread:

"First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. Marx, its founder, concluded that the only way to abolish the class monopolies was to centralize and consolidate all industrial and commercial interests, all productive and distributive agencies, in one vast monopoly in the hands of the State. The government must become banker, manufacturer, farmer, carrier, and merchant, and in these capacities must suffer no competition. Land, tools, and all instruments of production must be wrested from individual hands, and made the property of the collectivity. To the individual can belong only the products to be consumed, not the means of producing them. A man may own his clothes and his food, but not the sewing-machine which makes his shirts or the spade which digs his potatoes. Product and capital are essentially different things; the former belongs to individuals, the latter to society. Society must seize the capital which belongs to it, by the ballot if it can, by revolution if it must. Once in possession of it, it must administer it on the majority principle, though its organ, the State, utilize it in production and distribution, fix all prices by the amount of labor involved, and employ the whole people in its workshops, farms, stores, etc. The nation must be transformed into a vast bureaucracy, and every individual into a State official. Everything must be done on the cost principle, the people having no motive to make a profit out of themselves. Individuals not being allowed to own capital, no one can employ another, or even himself. Every man will be a wage-receiver, and the State the only wage-payer. He who will not work for the State must starve, or, more likely, go to prison. All freedom of trade must disappear. Competition must be utterly wiped out. All industrial and commercial activity must be centered in one vast, enormous, all-inclusive monopoly. The remedy for monopolies is monopoly. Such is the economic programme of State Socialism as adopted from Karl Marx."

Benjamin Tucker, State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
That is a good distinction.

Although if I may digress and make a small comment. The market economy could be argued somewhat "command based" too. The difference being that you are given money to buy the food and shelter you need (rather than being given them directly). And then you have the entire "debt economy" when it comes to "laboring until their obligation is fulfilled".

While I now understand your argument, I saw the issue more as the state at least acknowledged an exchange, and a right for the worker to receive some compensation. Perhaps not the most valuable. But something, in a time were you could easily have slave labor; "payment" in its simplest form without any connotation to specific economic models.

Speaking of slave labor however. There was a part about slaves (in one of the articles I quoted). It stated that more skilled labor (doctors, nurses and teachers) were kept as slaves. Now, in a market economy those kinds of skills would (should) be especially rewarding in the model A you are talking about.

When I think about it, I can't say that lower skill work really would seem to differ in the two models you mentioned. In today’s world you could find lower skill work that pays more than simply keeping a person alive (e.g. in many European countries), but generally speaking this is not true in all (most?) places.

But I digress. Again.
I thought Ruby has all but bridged it?
It's not bold at all, since there are lots of enterprise tablet deployments today and products in the market specifically to serve such uses: http://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsung-for-enterprise/in...

These are not all being deployed as "secondary devices" - in many cases companies deploy them because they're cheaper to deploy and maintain than a laptop, which only makes sense if you're not also providing a laptop to the user.

Having companies run solely on laptops or tablets has nothing to do with whether or not there are enterprise tablet deployments. Your logic is flawed.
True, PHP is a great scripting language.
I'm guessing this: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all
If you've got slated at the beginning and it's had an impact on the web you could always change its name. Which is unlikely anyway as people just aren't going to care enough to do that.

Or start off with a codename if you've a name you're especially enamoured with and switch to the preferred name when you're starting to feel happy with it.
Don't confuse her sample with your sample. Your sample are the students at an elite school. Her sample are the children of wealthy Manhattan parents trying to get into an elite school.
I never really go the appeal of unlimited time on tests, unless you actually have a diagnosis that requires it. I saw it around me when I was in university but I am unconvinced that it actually helped any 'normal' student.

I mean, what are you going to do with unlimited time anyway? Sure, some tests are designed to be too long for the allotted time, but most aren't. If you need more time on a test that is designed for the normal amount of time, what is going on? Are you deriving formulas that you neglected to memorize? Possible I suppose, but how many students are clever enough to do that correctly on a test when needed but don't just know the material in the first place?

Extra test time as an unfair advantage makes even less sense to me in subjects other than mathematics and physics. What are you going to do, derive an answer to "Who were Dizzy Gillespie's primary influences?"?

If it wasn't mathematics or physics, I was always fucked if I didn't know the answer within half a minute or so of reading the question. Even with mathematics or physics, if I was spending much time at all deriving things, it was generally a sure sign that I had failed to prepare and was fucked regardless.

Here is my hypothesis: Much of the elevated diagnosis rates at upper-class schools reflects the fact that people with more money are more likely to acquire diagnosis for non-life threatening ailments their children have. The rest of the elevated diagnosis rates is probably just rich people throwing money at the wall and seeing what sticks. I doubt it gives them an advantage, but they have the money so it can't hurt to try.
CodePath launches free Android/iOS evening bootcamps in SF
I doubt that many of the main gripes about PHP will ever be solved without a "breaking changes" version like python had. The PHP community isn't likely to get behind something like that.
I disagree with the comparison with Apple and iWorks because with Microsoft's Office products, the level of support they would have to include for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word docs is significantly greater than Apple. They aren't working from the ground up the way Apple does because their user base is far more complex and large. For Microsoft, support goes deep into supporting their business clients, tech support, and general consumers since Office is a core business for them.
With what? Rails? Doesn't that require generating a whole "project" (whatever that is) with a bunch of directories and files and then figuring out where everything is and...

PHP requires opening index.php and typing "hello world". Obviously that's not going to work anywhere else, but something like Flask (or Sinatra) is much closer.

Deployment, maybe. The biggest stumbling block is that no matter how magical a deployment solution anyone invents, it's worthless unless there are free/cheap hosts that come with it installed and have cPanel integration.
Thanks. It seems we will need to do a second post.
Don't the have anyhing more important to do? like, e.g.(creating the 6M jobs they desesperately need)
> adding ToR into Firefox with support for the .onion domain

I love this independent of any other step. Would make using and running hidden services much more attractive.
I work full-time as a software engineer and in the last 4 years I have taken 4 months of vacation and visited 24 countries. We took some time off when our daughter was born, but she is 9 months old now, and we have a trip to Europe planned for next month. Travel is very important to us so we make sure that we take the time off from work, even if it is unpaid.
I don't say much more than: Look at the footer!
Dear Lazy Developer, Rock On
This is a very common (at least on HN), and very misdirected view of MySQL.

MySQL is a high performing, highly scalable, ACID compliant relational database, when configured correctly.

The "MySQL is not production ready" meme was perpetuated by some well meaning, if ill-informed, fans of other RDBMS platforms.
I don't disagree. I was responding to the sarcastic comment about PHP, not really trying to address using it for a start up. Our start up used it as well. It's not the sexiest or most fun environment, but it works and it's the devil I know.
I can't watch his talk right now, but at QuakeCon he recently discussed Scheme, and the potential for embedding it in a game. I think he also pondered what Quake would have been if QuakeC was based on Scheme instead.

But my basic issue with talking about Carmack with respect to programming languages is that he never struck me as an expert on languages. Or even programming for that matter. The source code to Quake was on the messy side of things. His rationale for switching to C++ always seemed a little on the thin side of things, and seemed more like industry pressure than anything. He's great on concepts, on graphics, and keeping up with OpenGL and whatever NVidia/ATI are doing. But he's just now coming around to Scheme and Haskell. I don't really think his perspective on languages carries that much weight to be honest. But I'll listen to him talk about it anytime.
On topic: PHP gets lambdas and closures; generators; traits.

In other words, PHP is definitely becoming a better, more reasonable language.

Of course it's still possible to write awful code using some old PHP features. But it's now far easier to write good, maintainable and expressive code, as one would in Python, or Ruby, or Go, or [you name it].

With this regard, PHP's evolution is not unlike C++'s.
Rocket man
“I was going to do physics and engineering at Waterloo, but then I visited the campus … and, you may not want to print this,” he says with a laugh, “but there didn’t seem to be any girls there! So, I visited Queen’s, and there were girls there. I didn’t want to spend my undergraduate time with a bunch of dudes.” - Elon Musk
There is something almost endearingly quaint about the author's earnest excitement over a verbose closure implementation and a procedural incarnation of the map method, like hearing a hunter-gatherer describe in awe the magic pictures in a box which is in reality a junked television set from 30 years ago.
I'm pretty sure w3techs is just measuring who has what in their `Server` headers, so even a static site that happens to have mod_php available would still ping as PHP.

For the same reason, Python is virtually nonexistent—because nobody uses mod_python.
A roundup of the tech used at the US Open Tennis Tournament
Event driven programming seems tacked on to php. I don't know if I want to run php as a daemon and then do some hackery to get IPC. It's not made for that...
As a differing example of scaling - Facebook works very well using MySQL at a very large scale; implying that you don't need to move to key/value stores to scale.

Both technologies have their place and reasons to exist, but it's not solely for the ability to scale.
This is where I'm at with Go.

Go seems to have been used in lots of networking-related scenarios, but I have yet to see either a major graphical application or even well-known open source game written in it yet.

I would love to see what the architecture of a 3D renderer looks like in Go, as an example.

Like you, I also share the same interest with Haskell.
Looks great but your #navbar-brand link is broken.
and what will you say when you're wrong? either scenario is just as likely from the information available
What's the magnitude of the discrimination within categories of whites? Do white British make twice as much as white ethnic Polish? Do white British barely ever associate with white ethnic Polish in private gatherings? Do white British cross the street when passing by a white ethnic Polish at night? Are their schools that are 90% white polish?

Do the info pages for individual schools in London prominently display "country of origin" information, so white British can ensure they don't accidentally send their kids to a school that's 90% white ethnic Polish? http://www.cps.edu/Schools/Pages/school.aspx?SchoolId=609951.

Or are Poles in London seen like say Jews in the U.S.? Sometimes the butt of a mean joke or nasty comment, but otherwise not situated fundamentally different from the majority group?
If this was recent, and you are white/Asian and in a major state, you must be G*dlike smart. I salute you.
I agree that this is a political problem, and needs a political solution. In the meanwhile, a couple of years ago, I started working in a team to work on this: https://register.blib.us - It lets your software/server manage your friendships (social network), and lets the hardware sit anywhere in the world. At some point, we plan to go open source, so that backdoors are patched (or known openly). Uses openid for auth, and provide enough providers in different countries. Its not adhoc, just point to point encrypted between trusted parties. I would love to hear ideas on how to make this rock solid. And of course nothing better than users who care.
Fair enough - you don't need them too soon. But in this instance, the starting point is the founder deciding (in hindsight) that spending all of their time in Sales would be good.
Are there any articles in the New York Post that aren't likely to be low quality?
I think you're suggesting that unless a choice has no consequences, it's not a free choice.

So because in this day and age it's convenient to have a cell phone, the choice to do without one is not a free choice. And because one doesn't have an unlimited number of carriers to choose from, that choice is also not a free choice.

I'm using free choice in a different way, perhaps. To me, unless someone puts a gun to your head (so to speak), every choice you make is a free choice. That doesn't mean the choices are without consequences, or that they are necessarily good for you.
They must have some awesome ANSI art.
The guy creates Linux and Git. A true hero.
I'm congratulating them; hence the winking smiley-face. What the hell?

This is an online prank. Have you actually decided to treat it as a serious political protest?
Africa ain't exactly paradise, either.
I see lots of strategies for dealing with noise, so here is one of mine. I got a pair of one of those industrial ear protectors, the kind that carpenters or construction workers wear. Then I use simple in-ear buds and listen to ambient music or jazz. Anything without vocals.

I use this setup pretty much anywhere I am around annoying sounds and it's pricelessly quiet. I've tried numerous noise cancellation BS headphones and none of them can come close. On airplanes it's like entering a warm cocoon of sound that allows me to forget I'm there. I can listen to an airplane movie soundtrack at the lowest possible volume and hear nothing else. The only problem is when the captain pipes up and blasts me away with some stupid announcement. So I keep my hand near the socket to remove the plug and when I hear the click of the captain's mike I immediately unplug.

Forget about these overpriced over engineered noise cancellation whatever devices. My low tech solution is way better for concentration and it costs only around $50-$70. I've actually had people ask me what kind of noise cancellation headphones I'm using when wearing my ear-muffs. I even had a guy in a datacenter ask me if they were USB enabled ;)
Sad but predictable. Maybe the gullible deserve their fleecing.
It's a little presumptuous to say why they changed a private (emphasis on PRIVATE) api...
My comments are as a reader of Friedman's writing (his books and via his subscription-only website).
This is awesome! Is it possible to have a light background, while still having strong accents?
Why learn clojure?
To be glib: the remedy implemented in the market for buying a device in a retail store that doesn't quite do what you want is just to return it and get your $35 back.

Once you get to prices this low, the idea of "service" becomes somewhat different. It does what it does. We won't get traction with Google by whining about this sort of thing.
I am by no means expert of particular EU laws, but as far as had been explained to me, the laws adopted in member states do not specifically point out cookies. They are more general. To simplify, they state that users should not be tracked without them consenting. The exact technology used is irrelevant.
What is iTunes Home Sharing?
Thank you facebook. It was really annoying anyway.
Excellent !

Are there any apis for other languages ? tried to query using
unicode strings and it worked but I only got English content.
Xbox 360 update replaces Microsoft Points with real currency
They will probably end up buying a company that specializes in selling physical products (TheFancy, Cosmic Cart, Luvocracy, etc.).
Create a block of social media icons in a widget
This is my situation too. I mean, I know PHP and I know CodeIgniter. I have tons of already ready to deploy code based in those idioms, so why port everything to laravel? or Ruby? Maybe down the line or something... but not when speed matters.
It is illegal when it comes to lending. See the section on disparate impact.

http://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/fair-lending/i...
This article is important because there are still so many people who talk about how bad PHP is, based on their knowledge of some version from years ago.

There was (another) recent Ruby vs. PHP Bashfest some months ago that was essentially:

"PHP sucks. It can't do X...oh, it can? Well, it can't do Y...oh, it has been able to since 3 major release ago..well, it can't..."

PHP is far different than you probably think it is. I also can't help but feel that a huge number of they people who naysay it are only parroting things they don't even understand - I rarely hear them explain precisely why such and such quirk in the language is bad for programming
> First, students with shockingly blue blood tend to keep company with other upper-crusters, frequently in exclusive fraternities or sororities that seek to carve out new depths of exclusivity

From what I have seen: true. (Dartmouth alum here.) Much of the benefit of going to an Ivy League school is the chance to socialize with and develop interpersonal relationships with "other upper-custers." (Not something I did.)
http://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/fair-lending/i...
Porting a library from non-namespaced to properly-namespaced code is fairly significant, and there should be little-to-no backwards incompat. issues between pre-php-5.3 and post-php-5.3.

The difference is a fairly large undertaking both in code size and technical challenge.
In the tradition of Dijkstra...
There's enough of a genetic difference between subpopulations that if you spit in a cup and ship it to 23andMe, they can tell you where your ancestors came from. Also, there's enough of a difference so that if your ancestors aren't from West Africa, you'll never win an Olympic medal in sprinting[1].

FWIW, people that study population genetics sound shockingly racist. Science is science, whether or not we want it to be.

[1] http://m.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-u...
USAbox.com: handle with care
How does one store that a user opted out of cookies?
I was not really impressed by Ries' book. I don't feel I got much that was actually practical or useful out of it that I hadn't already gleaned from blogs or sites like HN. It seems more like a high level look at what "lean" is.

The book that continues to be the one that has given me the most practical value is "Start Small, Stay Small":

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YH9MMI/?tag=dedasys-20

It is not a "classic" - twenty years from now some of it will look really dated, but right now it has got lots of great advice for someone trying to bootstrap a small business.

One bit of advice from someone who is very much a reader is that sometimes, yes, books can give you good advice, but you've got to take the time to go out and do as well. Lots of stuff you read won't completely make sense until you try and put it in practice.

I publish my own reviews here, although I just mix everything up, so they are not startup specific:

http://davids-book-reviews.blogspot.com/

The Fremont one was fascinating - that guy really got around and happened to be in a number of right places at the right times.
Ugh, I just groaned out loud thinking about that. Freemium, closed source, just get enough users in a proprietary social graph and then ???? and then profit!
Google did some videos asking the general public what browser they use (before they released Chrome). It might be informative for you.
Interesting. I've often gone to colorschemedesigner.com to generate some base colors, then tweak my Bootstrap template for those. 1pxdeep seems to merge the two.

Suggestion: give some good example schemes for each category (e.g. "example good tetrad scheme")

Good examples would help because when I played around with several colors, I couldn't find anything that didn't remind me of hot dog stands or MySpace pages.
What I am wondering about is: would Einstein be a good start-up founder?
Anyone else feel like this article was describing what Facebook has become over the past few years?