skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am Dutch, so naturally I checked the top 3 for the Netherlands. Number 3 (Booking.com) and number 1 (Marktplaats.nl, the dutch craigslist), I can understand because they are indeed big and well-known sites.

However, the number 2, apparently, is a website called "Shapeways", which is supposedly worth $175M. I have never heard of it and I asked some of my colleagues and they never heard of it either. After visiting shapeways I found that it is a 3D printing community site.
After some research I found that it is actually founded in the USA, and just happens to have an office in the Netherlands.
Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete
what the hell is a internet company, I could not find a explanation?

For example, in denmark the largest company in their chart is unity. Thats a gaming framework company, not really a internet company.
It has an extremely limited scope in particular carefully chosen ways, enabling an incredibly expansive scope in other much more important ways.
What factors are needed for a country to have start-up success. We know SV comes from defence money, but setting that outlier aside, what's the winning formula?

China's success would suggest that a huge talent pool and protectionism towards the big US internet companies is a winning move. Anything else?
The article doesn't go in to whether the lower income for authors is from falling demand for written content (eg lower book sales), increased supply of books (eg same income divided between more authors), or competition from other media (eg sales of ebooks redirecting revenue to middlemen like Amazon). The change in the industry seems to be similar to the changes that the record industry has been going through for the past couple of decades. It's not necessarily a problem per se. We don't need full-time authors. We need books, but if they're written by people who have jobs as well, what's actually wrong with that. The status quo doesn't have to be maintained.
There's like half a pixel you can hover over to the left of Amazon which shows Facebook.
>(both array and linked-list based)

How sad, not that you only do array and linked-list implementation of data types but that you think this is an exhaustive list. Inductive data types?
Check here: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/

There's quite a few mirrors with images. However, they do recommend torrenting the images:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-July/...
Even with solipsism you can easily say that I'm made of meat. On the other hand, saying your consciousness is entirely meat-based is hugely addumptive. You will not know until you are dead, if there's something more.
I was surprised to see Chile and Peru so far below Argentina. All the news pieces that I see make Argentina sound like a communist dystopia.

Anyone know whether the Startup Chile program (where foreign startups basically get a cash handout to physically relocate to Chile) is likely to have an impact on this chart?
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Except one, all those comments are on top of methods and the class. This can quite possibly be interface documentation. For a public API, this wouldn't be a lot of docs.
I made a mistake to suggest it. But the purpose here is to learn something in parallel. Pattern matching/ Types or even lambda calculus are good to introduce with the language. Python is good if you have an algorithms/data structures course, students are not required to optimize for a hardware, only algorithmically.
I'm surprized nobody has provided a link to Dell's XPS 13 "Developer edition" laptop.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

I bought one after using an Asus UX31E for two years and the Dell laptop is better in almost every aspect. To wit:

* 1080p IPS screen

* 5+ hours of battery

* An amazing keyboard (imho better than Macbook keyboards, which are by many considered among the best laptop keyboards)

* Weight is only 1.36 kg

* Comes with Linux (Ubuntu) pre-installed

The only thing I preferred with my Zenbook was its trackpad, which was smooth and metallic, since my sweaty fingers have a tendency to stick on the XPS trackpad. On the other hand, I _hated_ the Zenbook keyboard, and would choose a good keyboard over a good trackpad any day.
Respectfully, I think you're wrong on your conclusion.

There's a lack of alignment between a person's explicitly declared preferences and the things which actually make them happy. This is so ridiculously true when it comes to dating on and offline.

I think this is the real, society advancing problem on which dating centric startups should focus. I'm all for indulging people (and making a buck), but sites like this one generally are useless, depressing, and alienating to a good number of their users.

Edit:

There's also a really harmful cycle of addiction which a lot of people get into on these sites. Quite often the proprietors design their dating sites to promote such cycles, and it's more than a little depressing.

To see what I'm talking about, read Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker post [1], and then imagine that the daunting chore of participating in the "social game" is directly tied to your self worth.

At the very least please don't do that to your users.

1: http://bogost.com/writing/blog/cow_clicker_1/
I don't know whether to depressed for Canada or not given some of the other countries relative performance. I didn't expect Argentina to be so close though.
GitLab B.V. CEO here, please let us know if you have any questions (you can also leave a comment or suggestion in the doc if you want). This whole real-time postmortem is something we thought of to contribute back after having downtime. Feel free to let us know what you think of it.
Ask HN: How can I do an offline Demo of a web service?
For sales / investor meetings I would like to be able to switch to an offline demo of my web based service. I try to embed my servers on a VM but the result was laggy.

What tools / technique are the best?
I am shocked that The Economist, a publication I respected in the past, would use a single source without performing further fact-checking.

For example, migme is headquartered in Singapore (and listed on the Australian stock exchange), so it's surprising that they're featured under Indonesia. There are probably more discrepancies to this chart that should be corrected.
*passport not password!
Netanyahu government knew teens were dead as it whipped up racist frenzy
> This is a fundamental design flaw of Python, and it's just a Bad Idea.

That sounds like a gut reaction and not a reasoned argument. I was skeptical of it at first, but after coding some Python I decided all my reasons for hating it weren't valid. Turns out it's very practical and makes the code prettier. I don't like the language for other reasons, but the significant whitespace never gave me any problems, headaches, or weird spurious bugs.

The only negative thing about it for me was that hitting TAB in Emacs doesn't indent to the "proper" place (since it's impossible to actually determine the proper place). Instead, it would alternate amongst the valid tab points from most likely to least, which felt like a reasonable compromise to me.

Interestingly, I never hear anyone whine about Haskell's use of significant whitespace…
Not a very good point, since I was able to read it anyway with only a minor slowdown.

Supposedly uppercase in English was initially used as a word separator and there were no spaces. (Caveat: I've heard this, but I'm not certain if it's actually true.)
Also, size limits. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603?hl=en

It seems as though you offer double the 100M file size limit on your free plan?
EC distorts market by refusing to break free from lock-in
The British list would appear to have some omissions. E.g. online real-estate site Rightmove (LON:RMV - has market cap $3.76Bn) is bigger than JustEat and Wonga.
"First, we want marginalized people to feel welcome, not like they have to defend their presence."

I believe this is wrong. Catering to marginalized people do not make those people less marginalized. In fact, it can make situation worse: http://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Affirmative-Students-Intended...

I think that one should provide insistence on some important criteria evaluation instead of banning something outright.

This is from basic psychology - provide positive idea to focus on.
"...almost nobody builds native programs anymore."

Outside of the HN echo chamber there are thousands of companies building native applications, which are used by millions of organisations around the world. Not everything is delivered via the web.
What do you mean by unicorn club?
-The whole common internal market thing is taking it's time.

-While it's much easier than elsewhere to live and work in another country it's still a hassle and there's lingual and cultural issues in the way as well.

-Crucially, the jungle telegraph usually ends at borders. News of great startups or whatever don't really spread well because of language issues and the fact that people tend not to have cross-border social relationships. There are programs like Erasmus that try to alleviate the issue, but not everyone goes on exchange, especially asocial types and the Brits.
I will try to play with it as soon as I can. I was wondering, I didn't find any method to render a given as a PNG or JPG, is it currently supported? This is our main use for PhantomJS as it is. And thanks again for the hard work.
I happen to like this comment, it gets the point across.
Surprised that Facebook doesn't make it to the top-3 in the US
Interesting data! Thanks for sharing. Two questions:

1. Do you have more data on eg US?

2. What do you mean by the unicorn club?
Standardized assessments are an inadequate way to measure outcomes at the higher ed level; the methodology discussed in the article is terminally flawed.

I propose that you fundamentally cannot measure what a given person learned or didn't learn in college from a major-agnostic test. Learning at this level is far too specialized.

College is NOT and never should be about getting really good at basic skills. These tests treat college as an iteration on elementary and secondary education.

For example, I majored in math and now I'm in grad school in a related field. I'm sure I would score about the same -- if not worse -- on a standardized mathematics test now as I did in high school. The tests are generally a combination of calculation/arithmetic and Euclidean geometry. Real mathematics has very little to do with calculation, and I was definitely better at churning out Euclidean-style deductions in high school than I am now (I could trivially recover a lot of the useful clever identities I had internalized in high school, but I haven't looked at that material in years).

To conclude that this means I didn't improve tremendously in mathematics during college is just sloppy.

In fact, I would be highly unsurprised to see a negative correlation between actual outcomes (number of top tier grad school admissions, desirability in the market place, professional success 5, 10, 15 years after graduation) and institutions which score very highly on these standardized assessments. Iterating on high school is an absurd waste of the college years.

edit: computation -> calculation.
What sound card(s)?

Pulse audio on various old Thinkpads (X200s, X60, X61s) seems fine (Debian Wheezy and CentOS 6/pre-release 7) with built in sound card and a cheapo USB microphone as 'input'.
unicorn club = companies over $1b in valuation.
Less of a problem than described in this article, and now fixed, but rather incongruous nonetheless: a couple of years ago (as far as I could make out) Google maps editing was available in some territories and not in others.

Consequently the various colleges and attractions of Oxford, UK were labelled in Japanese (and some of them in the wrong place) even when viewed from Google UK and/or in the UK, because Japanese tourists and tourist companies could edit the maps and users in the UK couldn't edit them back.
I haven't read it but I like the idea in general. One question: aren't you concerned about accidentally exposing security critical info over the doc?
Yes, perhaps type theorists are best talking to other type theorists and not people who actually program.
How about having your client cache the results? I am working on a project that uses an external customer database service, and in order to speed up the service i cache the lookups/REST responses in a 5 min retention speedup cache and an eternal failover cache that allows us to continue to function if the external service goes offline. I use Ehcache.
Oops, thanks, I've resubmitted with the correct url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7999289

I can't delete or edit this submission now.
Couldn't see Switzerland in that list. Am I being blind?
My bad... it actually comes in at #3 and is hidden under amazon. You can filter using the legend to see it.
Patent abstract for the method used: http://www19.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/PA1/cgi-bin/PA1DETAIL
nearly every American is spelling it wrong then, no surprise there though.
For the people missing one or two of the top three for each country, they are underneath one of the others because their data points very close with similar valuations (Facebook and Amazon in US).

Use the nifty filter buttons at the top of the graph to see first, second and third companies separately.
Could be this?

1) We found 39 companies belong to what we call the “Unicorn Club”
(by our definition, U.S.-based software companies started since
2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market
investors). That’s about .07 percent of venture-backed consumer
and enterprise software startups.

2) On average, four unicorns were born per year in the past
decade, with Facebook being the breakout “super-unicorn”
(worth >$100 billion). In each recent decade, 1-3 super
unicorns have been born.

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/unicorn-...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club...
wow, that's really hostile. Why are you so angry about this?
It's only after I saw the "B.V." I realized Gitlab is a Dutch company, cool! :)

Just one question, I saw a lot of logs being copy-pasted, aren't you concerned about any security sensitive data leaking out?
The graph is misleading. South Africa Naspers owns Allegro (1st Poland). Secondly, Allegro, which is polish Ebay, has almost whole market share in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc. and possibly that contributes to Naspers value.

There is no nk.pl (polish facebook, 50% market share). It was sold for 200m a few years ago.

Hard to compare valuation of private and public companies, especially in different places. Better graph would with revenue, profit, growth.
It's just as doomed as all the other attempts - recruiters don't generally care about machine readable versions of CVs (even though they should because it simplifies searching and matching).

(I've worked at three recruiters, two of the biggest in the UK)
it's a shockingly bad metaphor for software development.

I used to work for a top5 consulting engineer - architects some times just do the very high level design the consulting engineers actually turn this into a practicable design which is then built by the contractors and the navvy's.

And I am sure that my dept boss Dr Shair (one of the pioneers of the cable stay bridge design) would consider him self an engineer and not an architect
Interesting. My "smartest" and "un-smartest" tweets together give an oddly accurate picture of me.

Smartest (grade level 17.1): Am I a bad man for buying Pepperidge Farms Holiday Entertaining Cookies (repeatedly!) even though I shall do no holiday entertaining?

Un-smartest (grade level 3.1): THERE IS A MOTHER FUCKING LIZARD IN MY MOTHER FUCKING HOUSE!
Post the link to the ISO you installed from.
Glad you like the idea. We're worried about exposing sensitive information. In general we're pretty careful about credentials so that will be OK and our setup is not a secret (a lot is open source and we share the High Availability details with standard subscribers). But it could happen that we share user information such as projects names in the log-files by accident. We think that there are also benefits of working out in the open and thing that the trade-off is worth it. We hope that people let us know if they see anything sensitive in the doc so we can quickly remove it.
No, it appears to be missing.
We're building an app in AngularJS right now and have had to think about this.

What we concluded was for our use case, if they weren't happy running JavaScript, they probably weren't going to be happy with our content which is live video streams.

We also took a long hard look at browser compatibility and decided we didn't care about anything below IE9. That's a ballsy move to some people, but we are a modern tech firm developing modern tech.

We're happy to build the best experience we can using the best technology, and letting the market come to us. If they can't access it because of technology reasons, well, somebody else can pick them up as an audience. If they can't get a modern browser running on their Windows 95 box, they're probably going to be happier installing Linux and something a bit more modern anyway.

The one area where there is some pushback is accessibility. I'm not just talking about screen readers here, but colour blindness and navigational coherence.

You don't get to choose what technology and capabilities your audience have, but you do get to choose if you care about them.

In our case, we have decided the cost of supporting the 2%-5% we're actively excluding would actively harm the rest of the audience in a noticeable way - so we have chosen not to do it.
Thanks! We are based in the Netherlands but we're mostly a remote company https://about.gitlab.com/2014/07/03/how-gitlab-works-remotel...

We're worried about sensitive data, see my other answer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8003800
General observation: Log scale!

Observations regarding Germany: Rocket Internet (#1) specializes in copying foreign companies, like creating the "Zappos" clone "Zalando", which is #2.
Yep. A "Software as a service" hosted email system is not "next generation". It's last year's thinking.
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More information about TerraTech's AI Fleet
Unicorn club = companies over $1b in valuation.

We've been tracking all of the billion dollar (unicorn) companies around the world. Here is our internal list of all 212 unicorns that we've found:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhQqM-Mu96XQdDN...

Please note, we stopped updating this list since January 2014 because the list got too long. If anyone wants to lead this community effort moving forward, we'd love to speak to you!

email us: hello@worldstartupreport.com
This is just a cynic view of game industry (and the world). Of course some people get a lot more that they deserve. But I have seen a lot of great professionals getting promoted thanks to their abilities and hard work. The world is not so black and white like this game. If you don't like it remember it and when you have a management role fight injustices and congratulate the people that deserve it.
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Side note - I was surprised by the number of trackers that ghostery showed on the economist's site! http://imgur.com/LftipWr
I haven't finished it yet, but Linux Networking Internals was really amazing. It is a bit low-level, but even though I never really wanted to code low-level Linux, it taught me a lot about Linux's ways to handle incoming data and forward data, etc.
FAT32, the only file system which can be read and written from OS X, Windows and Linux without third party software and warnings you'll lose all your data.
Hi, WSR team here. Great comment!

The Netherlands have an interesting situation. Even though everyone would say the startup ecosystem is booming, the country has not managed to produce BIG success stories. We selected Shapeways as one of the top 3 companies there. They've raised almost $50M to date (http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shapeways) and we put our guesstimate in a range of $150M - $200M. The company is actually founded by Dutch founders and they do have quite a big number of their employees in the Netherlands (close to 50 but should double-check on this one).

With that in mind, it'd be interesting to hear what would you put as the 2nd (or 3rd) most valuable Dutch internet company? Thanks!
Thx, I couldn't be bothered to find the cause.

Now i just Flag it.
Is it desirable to be an environment that focuses on being absolutely massive rather than just huge? Lots of smaller companies might imply better competition (or companies being bought up before they get even bigger...)
Aaaargh, holy distortion. Try a projection like OSGB36/EPSG:27700 for a less weird image. ;)
One detail I always look at are the repair of buildings. e.g. the church in the picture still bears the damage (by the different color of stone), but is otherwise in the same state.

In Berlin, for example, a lot of the damage of the fights on the museum island visible or repair is very obvious.

This post has 2 good examples: http://planet2.de/netzlog/?p=2093 (Text is rather uninteresting)
Many people prefer the English-like syntax (including myself).
Hey, designer of the game here. hackthisuk posted a link to our TerraTech Kickstarter here a few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7936828), some of you seemed pretty interested so we thought it would be good to post an update on what we have been upto. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the game. Cheers!
Amazon Launches
Thanks, I've now read it. Very nice. I guess having your architecture out in the open is liberating in that sense.

So now two specific questions: 1. So why did you have a big read spike? And 2. are you going to share the TODOs as well? :)

BTW We're using gitlab internally (at EverythingMe) and are very happy about it, especially the flow of fixes and features implemented.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but, right now, at home, I visited that site. Hardly suspicious at all, since it's on HN front page. I could write down the .onion url on a piece of paper (or just print the page, as reference) and then later follow the instructions posted there, at a semi-anonymous Internet cafe, without having to visit that page, right?
Isn't FB actually 3rd at $183bn?
This is because of lexical issues. You can define aliases for mapM_ and putStrLn and get something more approachable to the lexically challenged.

repeat print ["foo"; "bar"; "etc"]
Wow, I totally didn't expect to see this headline. This version has been in the works for years and the updates have been infrequent as of late.

I remember waiting for the very first version of Dwarf Fortress. I think it wasn't even known as Dwarf Fortress back then, just "the dwarf game". Bay 12 Games was virtually unknown, with several quirky games to its name, and a dozen or so fans on the forum. There was a thread where screenshots and videos of the upcoming game were posted. The full scope of the game wasn't revealed back then: the fact that adventure mode even existed was a total surprise, and so was the fact that it's a sequel to Slaves to Armok. The first announcement was posted on Usenet. Good times.
Adam, thanks so much for the information. Indeed, our World Startup Report was not aware of this company. We will update our data (can't promise that the Economist will change their infographic though). Thanks again!
Where is Austria?
Hi all -

The World Startup Report team aimed for 100 countries for this research, but we settled for 50 as we didn't have enough local support from the smaller countries.

If your country is not on the list, and you would like to join us for the next World Startup Report research as a representative for your country, please email us: hello@worldstartupreport.com

We'd love for your help to participate in this community research!
"United Kingdom" seems to be listed as "Britain".