skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what was the version of Firefox you had these problems with? They made their browser much leaner and faster. It consumes far less memory than Chrome on my machine.
Why would the author count iPhone but have to optionally count Windows Phone?
Yes the translation is not bad at all, but to search that content in the first place? You probably want to know how to type Chinese :) and know how to master search in Chinese.

If you are from HK, people often write with cantonese slang words (it's like someone writing ya'll instead of you all - that sort of thing). Translation is not as good as translating formal Chinese writing :) but that's a minor thing.

I can understand 1/3 of the Japanese websites by knowing Kanji. And if you know English then you have the door to any language share the latin root.
If governed regions are worse, why aren't you living in one of the ungoverned ones? Where (roughly) do you live now, and where would you live if moving were free?

Thanks to government, my landlord can't kick me out without due notice, big guys with weapons can't "protect" me for a fee, and I can travel for free wherever I want on well-maintained roads without paying arbitrary fees.

If your point is that agriculture made most people worse off than their hunter-gatherer predecessors, I probably agree, but that choice is long past.
There's a "Paramut Kaur" listed here:

http://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/POAJournal_Aug2012.pdf
And this is why all police officers should be wearing badge-cams with the video feed removed from their (and the department's) control.
Well, actually, people don't trust these new markets either. So many have been hacked, or been scams, that those with the most to lose have been pretty careful or exited this online game altogether.
My first thought was similar to yours, but reflecting that most of Apple's iDevices cost as much or more than a low- to mid-level laptop or PC, I don't think the comparison is so unfair.

The trend may be even more important than the absolute numbers.
How do you kill a frog? You put it in a pot of water and in very slight increments you slowly and systematically turn up the heat so the frog doesn't feel or perceive the change even as it boils to death.
You can disable the bars to reduce lag

var drawBars = false;
Maybe it would be less annoying to set up a new account that simply forwards to your current one, and post your notices using that new account?
> If you see someone injured, CALL 911!

When the police arrive, stay out of their way. If they don't need a witness, go home.
The Surface runs Windows, but I don't think they sold enough to really move the needle.
I love this idea. Also, the ability to track police abuse-of-power/brutality instances by location would be extremely useful.
> I love Reddit, but outside of certain subs it is not a productive place to discuss complex situations as the crowd naturally wants the story simplified.

That is the brutal truth. It's why the site favors memes over dissertations.
There are certainly fortunes to be made as well as lost. I probably would not put "serious" quantities into bitcoin myself either, but it definitely is more interesting to watch it when you have a small amount in it.
>It's a pretty old page. I'm not sure its content is still accurate

Half of it never was as it is just "ocaml isn't lisp and I can't handle that".
Agreed, but that's another statistic for another day. This isn't a story about market segments, but rather Apple platforms/strategy versus Microsoft platforms/strategy.

Where I think the analysis falls down is that Microsoft should be awarded XBox system sales on its side of the ledger -- surely they're at least as much of a computer as an iPod Touch?
I absolutely agree with your second point but your first point is pretty centred around your personal point of view. I, for one, don't see defensive registrations as a smart way of spending money. your costumers know that if you are a mail hosting provider you are most probably not trading under a .bike domain, so why bother blocking that name on every TLD no matter if it is relevant to your business or not.

We see new regs coming in that go nTLD only. new customer, finds an awesome .guru domain and wants to use it, instead, and that is important, a .com or a regional alternative. We would really like to make it easy for that customer to use that domain but seems like many just missed the whole topic.
> Voting should be independent of opinion, should it not? Voting should reflect the merit of a post regardless of its popularity, right?

If that were the case, democracy would actually work.
> (since I cannot reply directly, apparently)

HN hides these links to prevent very quick back-and-forth. Either wait a few minutes or click the 'link' link.
> I think IE, of all things,

Not sure why it's a surprise that IE would add features that require proprietary markup.
I'm an ex-heroin addict, and you'd be quite surprised. At least here in Australia, that particular "community" is quite anti-violence, at least at the purchasing/dealer level. Move up the ranks and then that will change, however.
Why does it matter? They'd have to mutually agree on the shared expenses, and agree on the splitting.

If they get a house they both want, and both can afford, they split 50/50.

Hypothetically, I'm guessing that if whoever made more income wanted a nicer place than the other, they could pay an agreed proportion more (eg, 60/40)
If I see the police unfairly brutalizing you someday, you won't mind if I just cower and slink away, then just forget about it? Maybe you were drunk and therefore deserved it?
There's no need for the tone you're taking.
You couldn't handle being told the silliness of your analysis which is why you closed your comment thread. You are comparing a single product line from a company to Apple's whole armory and have the audacity to call it historic. Shame
> Why is it "unlikely" that you would want your software to support users of other languages?

I was specifically referring to the use case of translating a command-line usage text (ala --help). I'd assume that translating that in Tamil is not exactly common (statistically speaking), or otherwise all getopt()-like libraries would already support this for me.
Not only that, but how exactly does one track sales of Windows PCs, and what constitutes a PC in this context? Do laptops count? Does Surface?

I don't think I've ever met a gamer who didn't build their own rig, and I'd assume, though can't say for sure, that the number of people who did so in Q4 is non-trivial.
How to attack big incumbents and win
"Original" libertarians were French anarchists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology

> The use of the word libertarian to describe a new set of political positions has been traced to the French cognate, libertaire, coined in a scathing letter French libertarian communist Joseph Déjacque wrote to mutualist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1857, castigating him for his sexist political views.
Lets take a step back, fundamentally MS, Google, and Apple are all successful companies.

They all have different approaches to the market and their numbers of units shipped, profit per unit, total profit, and total revenue vary wildly.
Comparing apples to oranges yield better understanding than apples to apples.
Keep in mind it's scary for the individual to call as well for fear of being put on a list. So 89,000 is definitely impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if I was put on a list yesterday after saying something along the lines of "the government's actions are turning people against the government and creating enemies of their own citizens". Oh well I don't care about being on a list anymore. It's time to stand up.
except you forgot xboxs and windows servers probably.
Fuck off, is it not 'unacceptable' to decide not to use your right to be silent.
The whole idea that bicyclists somehow are above the law in terms of traffic signals needs to end. We need to start stopping at red lights and stop signs if we're ever to be taken seriously. Time and again I've had conversations with bicyclists friends of mine who are adamant about how helmets are as optional as obeying traffic signals; it's totally hypocritical and asinine. They knowingly break the laws then bitch about the police. These are, by the way, people who are very adamantly against "1 percenters" which, I don't know if you've heard, also knowingly break the law on a federal level all the time and expect to get away with it. The hypocrisy runs deep.

Anytime I get pulled by a cop I just assume they're already pissed off so I act accordingly. I'm not going to obviously break the law and then have the balls to give them a hard time about what they are and aren't allowed to do. I just broke the law by blowing a stop sign. It's just such a mind-numbingly privileged viewpoint to think I can break the law and expect to just get away with it. I'd expect that out of some white collar criminal or something, but not Joe the cyclist.

All because you blew a red light, which by the way is basically instantly a ticket if you're in a car, and couldn't immediately admit wrongdoing and move on. Sorry, if you were a buddy of mine telling me that story, I'd tell you you were a moron for deciding to "educate" the police officer. Smart move bro.
What I learned from working in office
> Trying to show you are "an upstanding citizen" in some way is an expression of privilege: the expectation that you can demonstrate membership of a group that is not automatically assumed to be guilty.

That doesn't exist any longer. Our elites are corrupt.
Well, in his defense, your Bundy and Armstrong examples are just awful, and the bit about whether X is moral or Y is moral is even worse. You've begged the question of what defines morality entirely and replaced a rational basis for evaluation with the assumption that most people you know would consider one thing "worse" than another.

Here's an equally worse argument. If I took a knife away from Ted Bundy, when I encountered him walking around a park at night, wouldn't that be immoral, because taking things that belong to other people is wrong? If I took a syringe of enhancement drugs away from Lance Armstrong, as we both prepared for a race, wouldn't that be immoral.

Your Bundy example implies that the only reason one would or would not kill someone is whether they listen to Ted Bundy. That's a ridiculous mockup. Personally, if Bundy begged me not to kill someone, I'd assume the person was his accomplice. As for Lance, cycling advice isn't moral advice, and it would be perfectly reasonable to refuse to have anything to do with someone, because you found them morally reprehensible. In fact, taking cycling lessons from Lance at this point would simply reinforce the notion that what he did was not seriously wrong and this make one complicit.

In any event, since you are bandying the word "morality" around, let me bring up the issue of "moral authority." If someone's moral authority is suspect, one should not, in general, look to them for moral guidance.
A witty saying proves nothing.
That's certainly a valid criticism, and one that advocates of polycentric legal systems think about a lot. It's pretty clearly that some parts of a "defense agency" would enjoy economies of scale, while others wouldn't. Purchasing weaponry would scale well, while providing local service "on the ground" (e.g. police, detectives, etc.) probably wouldn't. I wouldn't claim to be able to prove that a monopoly couldn't possibly arise, but I don't think anyone can prove that it would.

I haven't developed this thought fully, but I wonder why there are a lot of governments today, despite the fact that one or a few of the largest ones could easily conquer the rest, at least in traditional military conflicts. Why doesn't the US completely conquer and annex Mexico, for instance? The Texas national guard wouldn't have much trouble crippling the Mexican military. But this is only considering the parts that enjoy economies of scale, like weapons manufacturing.

Of course, a more rhetorical approach to this criticism is that even if it happens, you're basically left with a government.
"Sounds great! We want to invest in you too. How about a long term contract that specifies the price increase after the first year? If we do not have X and Y features before the price increase, we will gladly allow you to opt out of the contract."

Obviously, this only works in cases where enforcing a contract is actually worthwhile (think $100k/yr service, not $5/mo service).
I think that's a Zappa myth. It's been told various ways, including yours, but also another in which he encourages the attacker to walk with the group Zappa's with to a lake, wherein they then throw their belongings into it, including the gun.
You think paying taxes makes you the government's customer? That's pretty funny.
Airbnb in NYC: The Real Numbers
So... I know one of the original injured (Rebecca), boy was I shocked to see the blog + this on HN. wow, everything about this is surreal.
Many people really, in a practical sense, do have to have the Internet, and at reasonably high quality. Work and school being two common cases.

The 'rational actor' model is to economics what spherical cows [1] are to dairy farms. It is a simplifying assumption that is useful for certain general cases, but if you ever find yourself depending upon it in an argument, you're working at too shallow a level.

In this case, though, even if the rational-actor model were valid, you'd be wrong. In the case of monopolies and oligopolies, the rational-actor approach is to, basically, let yourself be screwed by the monopolist.

For example, in my case I'm in an area where I pay more money for worse broadband (ADSL) because I hate monopolists like Comcast. From an economics perspective, I'm an irrational actor, because I'm not optimizing for my own interests.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Great...Zed Shaw is here to bestow his wisdom.
Ask Somalia.
As I understand it, this was a problem that was identified over 2 years ago, and fixed for over a year. The problem is that MtGox implemented their own wallet software, and neglected to include bug fixes from the reference client.
They're being hyperbolic, there's no point arguing when someone says there are 'no' good cops.

It just sidetracks the conversation.
If you add some Seriousness as a Service...
Fuck off Zed, its just people selling drugs man, get over it. Not everyone agrees with prohibition.

Between you and Miguel Icaaza there's enough 'Bitcoin schadenfraude' to power a small town.
They're not. I think it's more difficult to make the argument that an XBOX is used for general computing purposes (and would therefore warrant a great level of activity, activity which overlaps significantly with what you would do on a laptop/desktop) than you would for an iDevice.

Though even amongst iDevices you can make distinctions. It's pretty blurry which is why I think the OP seems to be right (though not at that extreme), but I don't think including the XBOX would be a good enough offset.
I for one enjoy this trend despite being a fan of Microsoft more than Apple. I can now envision Microsoft as the scrappy underdog fighting the Apple hegemony. Ah, to become a hipster Microsoft fan.

(I'm only half kidding. I've had friends suggest that their kids see Windows Phones are more appealing than iPhones because iPhones are for adults. These are probably oddball kids, but it made me laugh. Microsoft? Hip? Surely you're mistaken.)
All of the police I know are in favor of this. They want cameras on at all times that they ideally couldn't interfere with. Not only will those cameras protect the public from police misbehavior, it will protect officers from frivolous lawsuits and an alarming amount of people calm down when they're informed their actions are being recorded.

Other than the logistics of making it happen and ensuring the entirety of the video from an encounter is available, I can't see a problem with the whole idea. The only people that lose out are crooked cops and members of the public wanting to file unwarranted abuse claims.
Don't need to be cynical: that has happened with multiple other markets. I think that's exactly what happened here.
Oh yeah?! Well General Electric sold more toasters, conventional ovens, microwaves, light bulbs, refrigerators, washers, dryers, and ovens than Apple did Macs and iThingies! So take that! Hah!
> And fiat currency starts looking better all the time. The fact that the most powerful security mechanisms aren't even applicable to digital currency should be a huge red flag.

You could make similar arguments about security on the internet compared to physical security in the real world. The recent Target credit card theft, for instance - it's unlikely that the thieves could have appropriated 40 million credit card numbers by physically taking them!

> Short the exchange rate + significant DDOS attack on the exchanges = millions in free money. That's just a for example. It doesn't even require explicit crime on the bitcoins themselves, and can be done at a safe remove through multiple cutouts.

Sure, but you could achieve a similar effect by attacking an internet retailer and shorting their stock. It's also a lot easier to short stock, which is a shame, as shorting typically reduces price volatility.
I think this was very important for them to publish. With the articles yesterday coining the term "The Day The Internet Didn't Fight Back" and even personally feeling like we failed a bit after seeing the initial numbers. This changes my perception that we had a bigger impact than I initially thought. Definitely a strong step forward.
Slightly OT but quite interesting: http://petesmart.co.uk/rethink-the-airline-boarding-pass/
> I don't know how other similar languages deal with GUI. It's always sort of hairy, obscure code when you look at it closely.

The best languages for GUIs I've seen are specialized declarative DSLs. Things like QML, XAML, JavaFX FXML, XUL, and even HTML. Anything else very much sucks, in my experience.
> My opinion is that where there is no market mechanism to effectively communicate customer satisfaction, you will see abuse.

That's a great criticism of government in general.
NumPy didn't help much on the Raspberry Pi, though I admit that I could probably learn more about how to use it effectively. The routine has a weird bunch of branching inside the inner loop, so I can't just let NumPy whale away at an array unless I come up with a bright idea.

I ended up putting my numerical routine in a C program. Nice and snappy.
This post made me realize how infrequently we've been seeing HN posts about CoffeeScript in recent months, and the data seems to back that up: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=coffeescript I guess we've passed Peak CofeeeScript.
This is totally off-topic however I really like the graphic at the bottom of the page. The graphic really sums up the challenges developers have in creating secure communication channels. There are so many threats now a days it seems overwhelming.
> White America welcome to black America.

Try living in a minority majority area.

Most of your cops are non-white too.

If you get your fingers broken, it's likely an Indian or Hispanic cop with a grudge.

The media hasn't caught up to that yet, but when do they ever?
Yes Nicholas Weaver made a bit of a mistake there.
Yeah, it's ridiculous, even to this American.

The best way I can explain it is that it's putting the accent more on "free" than on "market", and it's a 14-year-old's definition of free: "You can't make me do anything! YOU'RE NOT MY DAD!"

However, I worry that the more accurate explanation is that it is a neofeudal structure cloaked in free-market terms.
@tapfame writes a weekly newsletter - check them out.
More awesomeness with the HTML5 desktop access aka Blast
Exactly. "iDevices" include iPods. What exactly is the point of comparing iPods to PCs? If you're going to do that, you should add in Xbox and Windows server sales on the Microsoft side.
I'd like to point out that Microsoft has sold more copies of Win8 than Mac has sold of OS X since it has been released. However, I do like the idea of Microsoft as being our last hope of fighting the Apple monoculture.
Designer's Secret Sauce
Well... if you ever have the opportunity and feel like risking 90K, withdraw it from one account, and deposit it in another.

See exactly how much paperwork you end up doing for the next 10 years of your life.
I had three iPhones (3G, 4, 4s) and my Windows Phone Lumia 928 is the best phone I've ever had.

As for iPhone, it really is the grandparents that are buying them now. Between Android and Windows Phone, there are a lot of great options.

Although I am currently trying to think of a way to get the Lumia Icon while I'm still under contract.
You could do something with the API provided by http://www.emailsherlock.com/
Hi everyone, Chris here, I've been working with Max on Keybase. I can't help but feel this ended up scooped a bit early. (Crap!) Not a surprise, because HN is quick.

The alpha site's changing every day, and we're working on the documentation now. I don't use the term "alpha" loosely. There will be extensive security details published, explaining every aspect of the identity proof system, client sessions, etc. They will be on the site before we open general access or turn beta. Right now only a few friends are on there. All that said, Max and I can answer questions here.

My profile on the site is https://keybase.io/chris if anyone wants to look. My profile demonstrates early examples of how identity proofs will work, including both twitter and github. We'll of course be adding other public identities in the future.

The site design is also very iffy at the moment; I was about to move into firefox bugs tomorrow.
How is this in any way related to the parent comment? He did not contest the traffic offence at any point. He did contest the requirement to carry ID and was then punished for raising his rights.
Actually, Vista has a higher market share than OS X 10.9:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
Author here, sorry about that.

It's not supposed to display on engineering posts but something must have changed/been broken recently. We know you guys aren't interested in marketing content.

Again, sorry about that and thanks for bringing it up.
> The whole idea that bicyclists somehow are above the law in terms of traffic signals needs to end. We need to start stopping at red lights and stop signs if we're ever to be taken seriously.

I would like this too. I've seen multiple accidents caused by selfish and arrogant bike riders, motorcyclists and pedestrians.

This is in addition to the single persons -- it's always just one in the vehicle -- who drive gigantic SUVs and assume that it's my job to stay out of their way, even when I have the right of way and am trying to do something like drive from point A to point B down the street. Silly me, I should be second-class to them because I didn't buy a giant SUV.
Let's all build private roads and railway systems for every corporate entity while we're at it.
Shamefully public lack of empathy and holier than thou attitude, "bro".
> There's also this: http://www.podval.org/~sds/ocaml-sucks.html

I also mostly agree with it for base OCaml (and I write OCaml every day), but it's worth noting a lot of the complaints--even the ones outside of the 'standard library' section--can be fixed by using a better standard library. (Like Jane Street's Core/Async, which is what I'm most familiar with.)

I do disagree with several of those complaints though (not auto-converting between numeric types is a feature, not a bug!), and several of them are the kind of things that seemed like a big deal when I first started using OCaml and now no longer do. (Like the record field names issue...if you're writing well-organized code each type almost always has its own module anyway, so this doesn't matter much.)
Single Page Apps Access Handling With AngularJS