skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed!
And why is it modded down?
It would still be something like 80 mln, Ukraine and Belarus included.
Yeah, instead of investing in a project like the Appolo, which inspired millions and led to major technological advances, the U.S. should have instead used the money to make more napalm to burn Vietnamese civilians, and to support "anti-communist" dictatorships all around the Globe.

Sure, manned space flight might be a bad investment, but when half a million people are working towards the same goal then enormous momentum is created. This momentum allowed and forced various fields of technology to develop at a faster rate.
Why not pass the url the user was trying to visit to your noshortener page? Then you can have a brief blurb and let them click the link to continue. You still don't get full referrer information, but it's better than nothing and the user gets to view the content.
Chickens are better for that purposes, since their excrements are some of the best fertilizer around. They also smell better than the goat.
The Internet browsing is real enough to do gmail, NYT, and my admin interface without a line of modification from this bog standard flip phone. Oh, obviously, hn works too.

Sounds like a feature to me...
Did anyone answer the question? You can do lots of things to distract yourself while away from work, but I think the question is more -- what can you do to remain engaged WHILE WORKING?
Why isn't there a subset of web traffic/application for Adult Content?

Perhaps urban myth, but I remember 5-10 years ago people would talk of large percentages of online content consisting of such material.
Faster strlen(), strcmp() etc. are not so exotic things to wish for.
They aren't traffic intensive, even if the number of messages/connections is vast.

Things can change for gaming if they move image rendering into the cloud (which I doubt would work)
So digg.com is not a typical url shortener anymore. So what? I've never used it that way.
Now if you see a digg.com link it will take you to digg. You know what you get. Use it that way or don't.
The reasons you give are all valid reasons. However, you miss the reason most likely to sway end-users: a shortener service can relate every page a user has seen to that user (or at least, to his ip). The privacy angle is the biggest factor imo.

In your info page you may also want to promote Untiny (http://untiny.com/extra/) as a service which helps bypass shorteners with minimum fuss.
What's the difference between "re-doing x86 as a three-operand architecture" and switching to a different 64-bit RISC architecture?
2x 16Gb USB sticks and TrueCrypt.

I don't keep anything immediately replacable (like media).
Ukraine and Belarus are not Russia :)

EDIT: Usually Eastern and Central Europe are "forgotten" in these surveys and statistics...
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Misleading. Having lived in China I can tell you that an Internet user there is nowhere near equivalent to an Internet user in the US in terms of how often and to what extent they use the Internet.

For a more relevant breakdown of sophisticated Internet users by country see: http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/

Another interesting metric would be open source projects per capita.
> What I'm wondering about is whether otherwise undamaged people who repress their emotions eventually go nuts, or whether people who control their emotions end up in control of their emotions.

imho the opposite of repressing one's emotions is not controlling them; it's bottling them up.

to me, controlling one's emotions means feeling the pain, happiness, sorrow, anger, whatever, and then choosing how you want to act based on feeling that emotion. most people assume that emotion dictates behavior, but you always have a choice about how to react. i.e. you can feel the sting when someone insults you, but you can choose not to punch him even though you're feeling hurt.

bottling up one's emotions, otoh, represses them. you choose to ignore (usually negative) emotions. these are the ones that tend to come up in destructive ways later on.
I copy/pasted this from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=685811, so apologies if it sounds familiar:

I notice a huge difference in how much "stuff" happens in my life when I'm traveling vs. when I have a job.

Home life is measured in weeks and months, and when you ask somebody what's new, they'll say "not much" and maybe tell you what they did last weekend. Or the weekend before that.

Road life is measured in hours. I'll find myself telling somebody a story of this amazing thing that happened earlier on my trip, possibly in another country, and suddenly realize that it was only 3 days ago. A month of travelling compresses so much life into such a short span that it's really strange checking in with friends back in the world that can account for that same month with a single sentence.

There are times when life in the 'states can approximate that (the first weeks of a new startup for instance), but it's so easy to drop back into steady state where life is measured in calendar time.
> The point is YOU would be in a position to say yes or no to their needs

At the point you felt it wasn't working out, you could simply fork it.

> it wasn't cost effective to maintain a parallel fork

But it's cost effective to write a new library from scratch. Err, right.
why is opera so popular in russia?
The former could probably be done without a complete retooling of the chip designs.
My take: As we become older, we become more aware of our mortality, in other words, time is running out; therefore time seems to go by faster just like it does when you procrastinate right before a deadline.

If we were immortal, I wonder if we would continue to perceive that times go by faster?
Ask HN: What's the Mobile Browser Distribution for your site?
Bonus question: is your website optimized for mobile?

Here's my data (100k/day), website is not optimized for mobile:

Apple 68%
Nokia 15%
Sony 5%
Well, the physical battery has never been the problem -- it's the drain from the software.

There are Windows Mobile phones that are so bad, the carriers ship them with a spare battery!
Most people give out their passwords to anyone who asks as well (e.g. the "password for a chocolate bar" test.) People just aren't in the habit of asking for that.
Putting as much content in the URL as possible is a common SEO tactic.

A bit silly, really - we're producing readable English links targeted at the machines, and short strings of unintelligible gibberish for humans to look at and click on.
As a user if you did that to me I would just close the link and lose interest in your site....

Yes, agreed, the DiggBar style thing IS annoying and we should stop that. But short links are important.

Several forums I frequent insist you use shortners for URL's longer than 25 characters (you get a warning if you dont!) to keep things neat. Twitter - your isntantly killing traffic from that crowd.

Now, showing a box on the page with some of that info would be useful / understandable.
Indeed.

I guess the main points were:

1) The shortener ought to be owned by the publisher; at least then the document and the identifier are connected within the same organization/entity/whatever. At least that way if the URL is lost, the document probably is too.

2) The shortening is necessary due to design decisions by twitter (and poor ones, at that.) Changing these in the right way could make the entire problem dissapear.

Punishing users is probably not the right way.
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Isn't it about languages, not countries?

When it's about languages, you count language users.
While we're talking about it, here's a feature I'd like to see these URL Shortening services impliment:

- If the "Shortened" URL you are about to give me is actually longer than the URL I gave you, just give me back that URL.

I see this sort of thing on Twitter all the time, and it drives me nuts. "hey, check out:

http://tinyurl.com/mweytn

... which redirects you to...

http://twiddla.com/

Uh... What exactly have you shortened again?
This is the same exact coverage of the R&D lab we hear about every time - the large collection of gadgets (look at us! we can spend money!), the living room of the "future" (if you can build it, so can others. Yet, no one does...hmmm), and the interactive newspaper stand (I've no words...).

I'm generally disappointed with with the NYT R&D lab. Shifd was kinda cool, but, it's nothing groundbreaking. It seems to me all the real innovation is coming out of the nytimes.com dev. team, while the R&D Department shows off it's gadgets.

(Disclaimer: I worked for the NYT for a summer. I got this same exact tour of the R&D floor. They are high up, the view out the windows was the best part.)
Brazil
Number of Internet users: 67,500,000
Percentage of world's internet users: 3.4

India
Number of Internet users: 60,000,000
Percentage of world's internet users: 5.2

Either the numbers are seriously messed up, or an Indian is worth 1.7 Brazilians
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I agree.
For most web services, the REST purity test is unnecessary.

My only point of agreement with the author is that web services that aren't RESTful shouldn't describe themselves as RESTful.
Well, URL shortening has value outside of Twitter. There are plenty of services which generate absolutely enormous URLs which would be a pain to sling around on their own, and being able to get a quick, short version to refer to is awfully handy (think "directions on Google Maps").
Let me point out the obvious; that is, the title of this submission is slightly misleading as this is not a chart of the number of internet users by language, it's a chart of the number of internet users by country of residence. There's no such language such as "US" or "UK", and while there are many notable differences, I wouldn't consider UK English and US English different languages. Obviously, there's also no "Indian" or "Chinese" language.
I have no idea what your beef is, I think you have a stick up your ass about something.

Why you think you're some sort of web "expert" is beyond me. A real expert wouldn't be using javascript for this for a start.

Punishing third parties because of some moral crusade is dumb.

Slows down the web hahahah jeesh.
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Wow, that typing break thing sounds really cool! Does anyone know if there's a similar application or system preference for OS X?
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It would have been appreciated if the author could have compared his technology against CEF+CBQ. Suggesting that routers process switch each packet and don't treat different classes of traffic differently when avoiding congestion with packet drops is like suggesting we divide IP spaces using classful addressing. True in 1993, but...

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Express_Forwarding
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service
Well he's just spelling out the steps to explain HTTP Digest.

In the real world, any HTTP client library worth using already implements HTTP authentication transparently to you, the API consumer.
escapepod.org is another great "read-to-me" site. It's not full-length books; it's sci-fi short stories instead. In my opinion, it's much harder to write a good short story than a good novel.

EscapePod is also great for the commute to work, road trips across the country, and exercising (if you have a routine, anyway).

It rarely fails to keep my spirits up. (Even the sad stories are pretty cathartic.)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring (It's a Canadian thing.)

That's one of the coolest things I've heard in quite some time. Perhaps software engineers in the US should wear some visible reminder of "Microsoft Bob"?
RESTful interfaces should NOT be ptotocol independent. While REST can be implemented over multiple protocols, a RESTful interface is by definition tightly coupled to the protocol it goes through. For instance REST specifies that we should use a uniform interface, but HTTP tells us what that interface is, and a REST over HTTP interface (the most common RESTful interface) has to respect that. I would be interested in where you read this fielding quote as this 'protocol inependence' and its problems is a common charge he makes agains WS-* if anything.
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So long as one has options, I think it's okay. A few years ago, I was at the point where I was going into this "deep down" mode daily because social interaction just wasn't very accessible to me, and I got pretty depressed.

I've read recently about extreme social deprivation (like solitary in prison) and I've begun to wonder a bit about similarities.
Putting as much content in the URL as possible is a common SEO tactic.

Are there any controlled studies that shows that this does anything useful? Or is it an imagined effect? ("We think it should work this way, so it does!")
This is exactly why I use noscript.

But anyway, why not a standard API, similar to robots.txt or favicon.ico that will let each site control shortening? Requesting http://foo.com/shorten?url=http://foo.com/long/url/goes/here will return http://foo.com/lkjdhf or whatever.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I think majority of Ukraine and Belarus people speak russian only as a second language.

So we then we should count ukrainians and belorussians separately.
I don't quite understand what he has to gain from going, nor why your language shows you have moved past it more than he has. If he wasn't friends with anyone in high school, what's the difference between going there and going to some other event and meeting people? Some of them might be nice, and so might some other people he could meet--people nearby that he might actually stay in contact with. It just sounds like a waste of money to me. I don't think he's holding onto anything: I think his point is 25 years after being abused people who didn't apologize are pretending nothing happened, and asking him to spend a decent amount of time and money on reminiscing. What's the point?
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Nice comparison. Sad though.
But you can do that on pretty much any western smartphone, and it's not a particularly new feature. Whether it's good enough to encourage mass adoption is another thing entirely. The Japanese phones do not have a new amazing browser that makes Opera Mini and the Webkit-based browsers common in western phones look like crap, nor do they have bigger, high-resolution screens. The mass adoption webbrowsing on cellphones in Japan is due to widespread use of cellphone-friendly layouts (single narrow column with minimal graphics) on Japanese webpages, and cheaper data plans.
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I think it's an accident of human history that we went to space so early. Can you imagine landing on the moon with computer technology circa 1969? It's an amazing accomplishment. It would have made more sense for the information technology revolution to come first. It's only now that more widespread space travel is even beginning to seem reachable.
Most APIs are not restful because their designers had more important issues - Would you say the same for most web pages breaking web stanards or is that another matter entirely?
The fact that for however many years TinyURL served a niche purpose hiding goatse links somehow means the recent explosion in the use of these services is positive for the web? And: what good is a shortened link to a dead site?
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Couldn't you say that about anything?
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"You would find no shortage of volunteers," said John Olson, Nasa's director of exploration systems integration. "It's really no different than the pioneering spirit of many in past history, who took the one-way trip across the ocean, or the trip out west across the United States with no intention of ever returning."

NASA's John Olson compares such missions to pioneering sea voyages of past ages to explore new continents.

The article also hints at 'multigenerational space arks' for very long voyages, which raises some pretty profound ethical questions for children born and raised into these missions.
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>I'd say that if Japanese phones ever become a hit in the west, it's because of the cool and different designs rather than features.

And that is, according to this article, exactly their problem: the Japanese are just too focussed on features.
I guess this is a somewhat interesting chart, but it's got nothing to do with language except one unqualified prediction about what languages will dominate a future Internet.

Please title your post more appropriately.

Now, about the chart itself...

How did the authors fail to sample Russia - the most demographically significant userbase between N.A/Europe and China/India?
What percentage of the economy is VC funded?
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Popluation density doesn't completely explain it. For instance here in Sweden we also have 100Mbps Internet-connection for about $20-$30/month and flat-rate 3g data-plans and we aren't exactly densily populated (#192 in the world according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population...). Here I think it has a lot to do with the fact that government has been pushing a lot for better IT-infrastructure.

I'm personally I strong believer in the free market, however sometimes the market is too short-sighted to make investments that will benefit society in the long run. Infrastructure and education are good examples of that. It's hard for private investors to get good ROI on things like roads, IT-networks and schools because it takes many years to get any return and it's hard to charge people as much as it actually benefits the public.

I saw and interview with Bill Gates where he basically said that this was his rationale behind the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The market simply doesn't maximize the amount of lives saved per dollar and you need non-profit organizations to do that.
Yes, it's called gerontactivity ;)

No, I meant if time as such speeds up causing all events to happen faster and faster.

Young and old would experience the same "speed" of time and feel that "speed" accelerating with age.
Ok, this is the kind of nuanced information I have been craving instead of the yes/no black/white gibberish on the news.
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That's actually surprising, that the default behavior for a HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() method would be to parse the response and decide to send off a second request automatically. I would expect some developer involvement would be required.

Regardless, assuming I'm using your library, I'd still need to do a request, some XML parsing to discover the right url, followed by a second request, just to get back the response I want. Compared to 1 request, that's still 3 times the effort for no added benefit.
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Would that primarily affect imported goods and in effect boost the US internal economy at the expense of the import economy?
Russian is also an official language in Belarus, so you should count them in.
Ukraine is a different story.
"Most importantly Apple announced in early 2009 that all music sold via the iTunes store would be free of DRM."

I don't think that is true, strictly speaking. Isn't the name of the buyer still encoded in the audio files? I think that still counts as DRM, it's only less intrusive.
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I would like to see this test with some info on how badly they wanted the fore-knowledge.

i.e. they can choose: know in advance, or get a better drink.
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Also: 67.5m is supposed to be 26% of Brazil's population, which would make it 260m. The CIA book's 2008 estimate for Brazil's population is only 190m.
And before Twitter, that's the only kind of thing these services were used for. They were hardly prevalent, and they certainly weren't "necessary" in any sense. The downside just didn't really matter that much.

Now that's starting to change. By analogy: there's a legitimate use for DDT, and when I go camping once a year I happily buy a bottle of it, but that doesn't make spraying it out of a firehose around cities a good idea.
He also went to the moon before then, a circumlunar flight, on Apollo 8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8 I did not know that.

I thought Apollo 11 was the first to the moon, and it struck as odd to accomplish so much on the first go. But it turns out NASA was sensible: one step at a time. A great example for me! And I wonder what else I don't know...
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The feedback mechanism is priceless here.

Becoming increddibly good at something nobody wants is somewhat useless.
Having no Spanish speaking countries on the map makes that woefully incomplete. There are more native speakers of Spanish on Earth than English.

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