skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Market share is only meaningful if the lack of market share makes a particular product untenable. For example, if someone came out with a new platform that was incompatible with everything else- a lack of apps in the beginning is a huge hurdle to overcome, and the platform may die before achieving a critical mass of third-party support.

That is clearly not the case with Amazon. "Just increases their profits" is pretty much the only thing that matters. Dominant market share comes much later, if at all. Dominant market share might even be a bad thing, if attaining it requires a race to the bottom. Most companies would (and should) prefer to sell a million devices with decent margins than 10 million devices with little or no profits. Amazon is known for pursuing market share at the expense of profits, but that's often not the best strategy and they can be excused for not taking it this time.

It's also better from a risk management perspective. For the first iteration of a device like this, it's less risky to try to sell a few of them at reasonable margins then to try to sell a gazillion of them at razor thin margins. The price of failure is far less, and depending on how this one does, then the next time around they can start adding cheaper models and gradually expand the user base. Or not, their choice. It's not always worth it.
Not google's method, but I am very happy with it. Eclipse's automatic incremental builds. Libraries checked in to source control directly.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7781117
I really disagree with you here. Sure, the codebase is a mess, that's not a surprise. It's over 30 years old. While some may see it as a hack on top of TeX, I see it as a development. The ways to make packages is, in my opinion, what makes LaTeX so great; all my needs so far could be found within a google search, which led me to tex.sx and a nice answer involving a package that does exactly what I wanted.

LaTeX is not only very extensible, but also, in my experience, very stable. Even typesetting hundreds of pages filled with figures (both rasterized images and vector graphics made with TikZ, which is wonderful by the way), equations, tables, references and stuff, just works.

I do agree on the error messages though. However, so far a search on tex.sx have solved everything. Sure, spending 30 minutes on a bug only to discover a misplaced closing bracket sucks, but to me, that's a tradeoff I can live with.

If anything should ever replace (La)TeX, my bet would be something like Markdown. However, I think it'll take a while... LaTeX has a HUGE community and a large array of packages written for all sorts of features.
Why JavaScript Crypto Is Useful
It is pretty easy to do get a job offer in our industry.

And employers know that the visa/work permit process is easy, quick (typically a few weeks) and predictable, so there is a lot less bias against foreign applicants than in e.g. the US.
The kind that are completely incompatible with an open, democratic society, obviously.

The fundamental problem is that any secrecy sufficient to hide weakness from an adversary can also hide corruption from the beneficiary. We literally cannot tell the difference between the cost of running a legitimate defense operation and the cost of all the director's cronies buying beach cocktails all morning, country club fees all afternoon, and hookers and blow all night.

If you look hard enough at just the publicly reported budget items, you can see worse! Corruption does not become less prevalent under a thicker layer of obfuscation!

And, obviously, if you write down on your budget that you need tax money to intentionally give Southern black men syphilis and then leave it untreated just so that you can see what happens to them, some people might have a problem with that. But then again, you might ask for tax money to kidnap and imprison people with Japanese ancestry until the war with Japan ends, and people would be too busy to notice it.

If giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys, adding secrecy is like putting a teenaged girl in the mix. Any rational parent would, quite sensibly, attempt to ensure that the boy only had access to, at most, one of those three things at any given time, because any two in combination inevitably results in utter disaster.
AWS console breach leads to demise of service with “proven” backup plan
Thanks a lot everyone for your help. I'm going to go with PHP to start of my freelancing business is that a good choice?
The visa process is straightforward and startlingly efficient compared to other countries in Europe. The train can get you to the immigration offices very easily. The appointment system effective and gets you through the process much faster if you are aware of it. Research the Schengen visa because it is a really great opportunity if you aren't in love with the idea to committing to one country in Europe; the additional career mobility it affords is really fantastic.

The aspect which provides the lowest barrier to entry is that English is spoken widely and well in Stockholm. One somewhat funny and repeated experience is thinking you are being greeted with a friendly American-English "hey!" when entering a store or restaurant, but in fact it is the Swedish greeting "hej", haha.
Eh, I suppose.

Personally, I have a very much love/hate relationship with Amazon and I blame them, not the vendor.

I've had to issue a chargeback because of Amazon's incompetence...which most customer's probably haven't. It is literally the second chargeback I've ever had to do in my life, so it tends to stick with me more than it might for other people.
This could be a plus for some people, but average low temperatures are at or below freezing for half the year. source: http://www.holiday-weather.com/stockholm/averages/
What about when they attribute it to "Europe"?

Africa is a place, and the countries there are more similar to each other than to other countries, so combining them is natural.
Stockholm is not much more expensive than London really. Try Oslo and the rest of Norway for expensive - ~30% higher prices than Sweeden, Norwegians make shopping trips to Sweeden on weekends.

IMHO when you're in a foreign city you don't know where to shop cheaply, so it feels more expensive than your home.
> It still might protect you if you won't access server while it's compromised.

The end user can't know when that's the case.

> Also you might serve files that do the encryption from different server that's smaller, better protected, more stable, that less people have access to.

That doesn't provide any assurance to the end user that the JS isn't malicious.

Remember, "compromise" doesn't just refer to a drive-by hack. The site operators themselves may become compromised (or start that way), and deliberately serve malicious JS. Users can't know when that's the case. When it is the case, the strategy you suggested offers no protection, because the "more secure" JS server is still under the control of the bad actor.
uses Nokia Here maps apparently.
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The Google Panda Algorithm: What Makes a Site "High-Quality"?
How do they expect people to buy the car if they don't allow test drives?
A great city to live in indeed. But as someone who's stayed here for over 20 years the winters are still unbearable. Mind you, all of the perks in the video are something I appreciate each day – but the cold and lack of sunlight 8 months a year takes a toll on you – especially if you enjoy being outdoors more than indoors.
Amazon Prime Music is in no way, shape or form a comparable feature to Spotify. It's 1 million songs versus 20 million.
> so people can learn to use it properly.

That's the part to which I'm objecting. As I asked above, what is the proper use of JS crypto? What real-world application do you have in mind where JS crypto's level of security is adequate?
Yeah, I agree it's pretty easy if you want to move to Sweden to work at a tech job. But I think it's a reasonable caveat; some people might want to move to Sweden for other reasons, like starting a company or as a base of operations for freelancing, and that's considerably harder.

IMO Scandinavia is actually a great place to be a freelancer, even for foreigners, if you can build a modest network. High cost of living, but no worry about health/benefits being tied to your job, very English-friendly, and a lot of part-time/freelance tech work that pays well. But it's very hard to get the formalities sorted out for that, unless you first get an EU citizenship or permanent residency via another route.
Skype is not Swedish. It was developed in Estonia and incorporated in Luxembourg.
3. Promo codes is good but you need to think about a way to store them and locate quickly. May be an app that you can get people to install? Though it would require some integration with offline store regiesters which might be non-trivial
I think you might have gotten it wrong. From what I recall, the discount for no-contract that they give you is more like 15$, not 25$.

In any case, I'm with Aio Wireless, now Cricket Wireless -- same network, but much better deal, plus unlimited everything.
Cry havoc!

These crazy, bicycle riding, northern European hippies talking about recycling, 'health, safety & security', exceptional quality of life! You communists!

Give me my car, suburban house, gun, and private healthcare. Give me my freedom back!

</sarcasm>

Good for Stockholm and Sweden. I only wish cities and companies valued these as much as many of us do. Focusing on making cities more liveable, easy to move around, safe, etc are big problem/concerns off people's backs; and there is a direct economic benefit to all of these.
Bitcoin has always had plenty of unsolved problems, leading people to either give up on Bitcoin or apply wishful thinking.
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"The seller never needs to meet the person who buys the car."

Honestly, this sounds like a HUGE risk to me.
I have been learning about mapping. Using leafletjs to incorporate mapping elements in web applications. Building check-in operations based on current location, placing markers/icons and modifying the icon color to represent data values and making it easy for users to contribute location data that is currently missing from the data set.

I am also exploring options for efficiently storing sparse matrix data, doing automated statistical distance/similarity analysis and storing all-to-all distance measures back into a database.
Here is your tangle-free: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_11?url=search-alias...

Go to town.
Meanwhile, in the real world...

Don't come to Sweden without a job. Even then, Sweden is one of the most difficult countries in Europe to migrate to. Society is extremely conservative, and social opportunities to "get to know" Swedes are limited.

Without a solid job offer, you are in trouble. Sweden is having a job crisis at the moment, and only Swedes are being hired. Are you a working professional with a solid CV? No-one cares, there are no jobs for you. Have 10 years experience in a sector? Sorry, you need a Swedish qualification for that job.

Please note that I am employed, integrated, and super happy here. But I have met 100s of expats whose dreams have been crushed by the Swedish system and by the limited social opportunities.
I've had great success with org-mode compiling down to LaTeX for Crypto 101 (https://www.crypto101.io).

I think the original author's points have merit: for example, the error messages are horrid, and in my case it's certainly not helped by adding another layer of indirection. But, I also fully agree with you: it's still better than everything else!
I don't see how you ever get java working without jni. Which will be remarkably slow.
> Or, more precisely, we don’t know if they obey laws.

Do you know that any agency in the U.S. obeys laws? Do you verify this everyday, across the entirety of the USG?

That was always the striking thing to me about these leaks as compared to the NSA investigated by the Church Committee, is that in this case you see an NSA actually trying to comply with the law. This is why MUSCULAR is only overseas, or why only phone metadata was being collected, and only after legal approval by FISC and the FAA by Congress in 2011, and why all their slides talk about "USPERs" and non-USPERs.

If you want change in what NSA is permitted to do then the law is a great place to start. If nothing else it would make it clear to the rank-and-file NSA employee (the same ones Snowden went to bat for on his NBC interview) that there are new, clear boundaries instead of reliance on court orders and Supreme Court precedents.
Whatever routes you can't cover with electricity, you cover with natural gas or biodiesel.
Yes, this is Stockholms weak point, the weather is not very nice a large part of the year.
The phone comes with 1 year of Prime at no additional cost. So it only costs you an extra $100 if you stay on the same phone plan and would pay for Prime anyway.

If you wouldn't pay for Prime anyway, the phone isn't very competitively priced.
The gestures, especially auto scroll, seem to lend themselves to phablets especially well.

Market fit is really interesting and confusing (see nostromo's comment at the top for great discussion).

I'm a little tired of the tech giants trying to convert every digital thing I do in my life to their platform. I like my iPhone with my Amazon Prime with my Dropbox thank you. I realize they're trying to include more people on the platform and just want another point of entry, but I hope people still standup for their own choices instead of going all in on one of the big players.

Lastly, what does this continued push on custom android oses mean for Android development? You already have a host of operating system versions and screen sizes to deal with when developing for android, now there are more and more custom OSes with different features. You'll submit to different stores and have different apps? Blagh..
> The Capital of Scandinavia

A slogan invented by... Stockholm. :P
> I'm speculating that it is really only different from more dire authoritarianism in degree.

If that's the case, then everything is authoritarianism (to some degree) and then Syndrome's quote from The Incredibles applies.
Small correction: you get a year of Prime free with purchase of the phone, and if you're already a Prime member, they extend your existing membership by one year. This is way down the page though.

I'm really surprised that they didn't feature this information in the price displays themselves for existing Prime members.
Does anyone know why TeX Live is so huge compared to other typesetting programs & office suites?

It is even bigger than all of the Web browsers, which can perform all the tasks as Tex and many other once.
Fair enough. Still, Amazon is already making money. Amazon making money isn't news. The question on everyone's mind is whether this will actually make a difference in the smartphone market.
Who is the MC?
If you think improving education with tools backed by years of unix wisdom is interesting, we're hiring! https://clever.com/about/jobs#engineer-full-stack
Show HN: HTMLing – Polymer/HTML5 compatible templates for Node.js
Their core business is that monetization, by definition. Making services that people like to use is what they do to feed that core business, not vice versa. They are constantly scrambling to find different ways to make money because they are a company run by extremely wealthy and intelligent people who would love for all of the great things they do to be in service of some core business other than selling targeted ads. So far they haven't had the same level of success in any of those other endeavors, but I completely understand why they keep trying.
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They can, but they're unlikely to compete in any meaningful manner against multi-million dollar mining ops.
To quote an older hackernews comment:

"I love when people rediscover basic unix utilities and have this light bulb moment and realize that people have been working on the same problems as them for much longer and basically solved it 20 years ago."
Slava @ Rethink here.

The relationship between RethinkDB and Firebase is based on conceptual/philosophical agreement about where the world is going (realtime json sync), and that developer tools should be delightful. That's how we know each other, and decided to co-host the event. There is no software integration or anything.

I don't think the companies are really competitors -- Firebase is a service, Rethink is a product, Firebase has much more hands off ops and smaller query language, etc. So the use cases where you'd pick one or the other tend to be quite different.

We just want to give demos about building realtime apps, and get to know people who care about the subject!
It's mindblowing that there's no modern LaTeX replacement. I've seen talks about it at https://hackpad.com/New-scientific-markup-language-utAjFcYuv..., but nothing came out of it.
Something with a saner syntax (think markdown), a modern interface for nontrivial tasks (maybe pythonic), better extensibility, cleaner codebase, better error msgs.... There would be millions of users instantly, but it's probably a gigantic task. Someone do it, please
Presumably because there's a lot of starting capital needed to start mining on the proverbial other side of the world. Once you have high-end power and maybe cooling taken care of, the price of an individual piece of hardware is pretty low.
People are starting to discuss that. If you create a difficulty/N block you could get a reward of 25/N BTC. This would lead to runaway blockchain bloat, though.
You're looking for a class of trike called the velomobile : http://en.velomobiel.nl/fietsen/
> Is it like saying that a tank made of paper sheets is insecure

Yes, I'd say it's more like that one. The technology is insecure against threat models it is almost certain to face.

> or is it like saying that a heavily-armored tank is insecure (against a nuclear weapon)?

No, I don't think it's like that one. A tank could realistically participate in a nuclear conflict, but that's not necessarily what a tank is intended for. Whereas, JS crypto is presumably intended to protect users when the remote server can't be trusted. (What else would it be for?) It can't offer such protection.
That speed was paced behind a vehicle, which is not the same record we're going for. In fact, that record has very little to do with the power of the human or efficient engineering design.
I thought the 1.7GB memory limit for v8 was lifted? This bug[0] seems to indicate that was fixed.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=847
Glad they found a solution, but wonder how the initial planning went when they started up.

Was there a conscious decision at the beginning to avoid a database? If so, why not? It kinds of sounds like they'd like to go in that direction now, but it'd require a re-write.
Sounds like a plus to me.
True, though it was founded by a Swede and a Dane (and with some of its initial capital being from Sweden).

But I partly agree, saying it's a Swedish company is a stretch.
Agreed. If they initially brand the Fire phone as a high-end device it will seem more valuable when they ruthlessly cut its price=).
>See, I'm not interested in what Flash could do. I'm interested in what Ableton, Garageband, etc can do.

If you're coming from the angle of an Ableton user waving that kind of attitude around, why on earth would you even bring up Garageband, the novelty of which was solely in that it was baked into the operating system. It otherwise was far behind the capabilities of any number of DAWs you, I, or any number of folks here could list.

If you want envelope-pushing audio generation and processing, obviously that's not going to happen in a contemporary web browser. However, reducing developmental roadbloacks so that curious people can more easily dip their toes into the realm of audio DSP is always a wonderful development.

My own personal path went from Screamtracker (free) to Impulse Tracker (free) to Rebirth (affordable) to hardware synthesizers to drums, guitars, amplifiers, modifying analog drum machines, microphones... If it weren't for the taste that I got from an inexpensive gateway (Screamtracker) I wouldn't have plonked down for a cutting-edge Dave Smith Instruments Tempest a couple of years ago. Learning how to do things like flanging, chorus, and delays in the limited environment of mid-90s tracker software helped lay a foundation of understanding for the tools I came to use in the future. I do not still use Screamtracker when I'm recording music, but I continue to build upon what I learned because of Screamtracker.

If you're not impressed by this development because you want to push envelopes, please go back to the music you're making in Ableton and Garageband, which I'm sure is incredible.
We use stackdriver and pagerduty. Replaced all other monitoring tools.
This is a very interesting topic, but unfortunately the information is marred by a very poor presentation.

Is that really the best way he could think of to present that data?

Both the chart and the map are virtually unreadable if you want to get an idea of the movement patterns in relation to education.

And it doesn't help that it's not scaled by the size of the cities, instead showing the absolute number of the change.
I really meant hobbyists who already live in low-electricity-cost places.
I'd only recommend moving to Sweden, if you have a family and want a stress free 37.5 hours job. Practically free, but very good healthcare and education for your kids, high pensions and unemployment benefits.

But on average you'll have to live in a lot smaller house/apartment, make less money after taxes, suffer the cold climate (unless you love winter sports). The startup scene is 1/1000th of the Valley.
Andrew, thanks a lot for sharing your feedback and personal experience attempting a similar service.

You mentioned that "It's a stinky idea at its core because people don't like selling their friends and acquaintances." Was the biggest challenge finding people interested in making referrals?

Your caveat is well-taken. It seems like quite a number of startups, unsuccessfully, have tried to get this model to work. Most notably Top Prospect, which I believe is now defunct:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/15/top-prospect-connects-with-...
> But I have met 100s of expats whose dreams have been crushed by the Swedish system

I am assuming that the expats had job offers first and then they moved to Sweden or do they just show up and start looking for jobs.
You use ByteBuffer, which has methods for reading numeric primitives of various sizes (int, long, float, double, ...) from specified offsets.
Damn, just when I was starting in gamedev again. But was there really ever a bubble? As long as I remember it's been insanely difficult to succeed. These sort of complaints have been going on in indie developer forums for years. w.r.t Steam, it sounds like the Apple App store all over again (or at least played out in slower motion). Enormous/easy profits for the early adopters, then diminishing returns as competition increases. For different reasons; new technology (iOS) vs careful curation (Steam). I'd say actual game quality improved as a result though. It's all good for the consumer!

Making games is just fun, everybody and their dog wants to do it. To succeed commercially a game can't just be good, it has to be insanely polished, deep, or unique. (Yes, or lucky... and preferably all of the aforementioned.)
Or hold it with one hand and scroll with your thumb. Either way, not a compelling argument, you still need to use your hand.
Fair enough. I know that there is a lot of bad blood between Moroccan people and the right-wing Dutch. I see this in light of that rather than that the OP was trying to make any sense at all and even though I disagree with everything he wrote I can see that if it were motivated by frustration that that would be a legitimate excuse.

But going on what was written you are absolutely right.