skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afaik Shapeways was founded in the Netherlands as a Philips spinout. They later moved to the US, I assume for a better investment climate but that's just a guess. Could be that they somehow re-founded the company there legally and then made the Dutch office a subsidiary.
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I would disable javascript to stop loading social-crap-buttons and overbloated sensless js. it's save my accu on mobile phone.
Similarly for Israel, would CheckPoint really count as an Internet company in the sense you use here considering their product revenue breakdown? If so in USA, you may as well consider many network infrastructure companies there, Or some cellular data companies may be considered within this list.
"Roll over the interactive chart above to see the company and value. If all three datapoints are not visible, it is because one is shrouded by another (ie, America's Amazon obscures Facebook, since both are worth around $185 billion); clicking on the key at the top will remove datapoints."
Hilariously inaccurate because of the focus on "Internet companies", a vague term at best.

Apple is missing at a market cap today of $578 billion, and whilst a lot of that is down to hardware, they have an internet office suite, the largest number of online registered users with credit cards on their DB in the World and probably shift more data than Facebook just in app downloads.

BT Group is missing from the UK despite a market cap of £30 billion. Without them, there is no UK Internet. They were developing hypertext systems in the 1980s.

Others have pointed out mistakes elsewhere in the data for other countries - I sense that without context, this data is mostly useless and uncitable.
Not exactly each country. Mine wasn't there.
> the information density of your typical lecture was such that a semester should be easily compressible to a dozen pages of typed notes. But that isn't to say, I don't think, that it wasn't difficult!

Oh how true!

> Or you can take interesting classes which might be challenging.

Yes. With flexibility comes the possibility of abuse. We shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water.

I had quite a large humanities load in undergrad (majored in STEM fields, but with a BA), and purposefully took in-major, junior and senior level courses in art, English and history. There were pre-reqs but most instructors would waive them because the classes never filled. Others decided to take 100-level communications and business electives to fill the same elective slots. Even after taking graduate-level STEM courses, a junior-level art history course remains the most difficult course I've ever taken. The way the course was taught was a pretty intense combination of "right" and "left" brain thinking.

In retrospect, forcing students to choose to challenge themselves (or not) is probably the single best way to prepare students for the "real world", and probably not a bad predictor at success either.
Same for Just Eat in Britain (second). While it is indeed headquartered in London, it was actually founded in Denmark.

But then again, it lists Yahoo! Japan as Japan's first. And I feel that while Yahoo! Japan probably was founded in Japan, Yahoo! sure wasn't.
The data seems pretty inconsistent, for example Skype is included but Supercell isn't (both acquired). Also attribution to country isn't consistent. Sometimes the founding country is used and sometimes the current HQ location is used.
How can you allow your data to be cited when you have so little clue about the markets you're talking about?
Grexi -

As mentioned in another thread, The World Startup Report team aimed for 100 countries for this research, but realistically we were able to only get good data for 50 countries for this research.

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!
Lukas, World Startup Report team here. We worked together with the Economist putting this together.

We did look at private/public AND also acquired companies (in case of Allegro).

Would you have a source for the acquisition information? Keep in mind that we looked at 3 companies per country in which case it could have only been coincidence. Our goal was to show the relative extent of what is possible in different countries rather than to provide an exact estimate of each company.
The point about fibers is incorrect. I posted a detailed comment on your blog.
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I recently implemented similar functionality in Python, I haven't open sourced it (yet) but I can share some code if you want.
1. We don't know (and the read spike might be an effect rather than the cause)

2. Yes, most of the things after the hashrockets (=>) currently in the doc are TODO's

BTW Awesome to hear that you are happy users of GitLab.
Please let's have less of the Islamist propaganda on HN. The article describes hostilities between Palestine and Israel as "entirely avoidable" while silently ignoring the fact that Palestinian groups have the liquidation of the state of Israel as their goal.

This is the private face of Palestinian Islam, courtesy Memri TV:

http://www.memri.org/palestinian-media.html

Read the translated text books, watch the subtitled TV, and see for yourselves what the Intifada is really about.
I would say thuisbezorgd.nl / takeaway.com is a good competitor? They just raised 74 mil.

http://startupjuncture.com/2014/04/10/contender-for-food-del...
Mostly Android. I was thinking about maybe using Scala just to make something meaningful while learning FP.
A few more can be found here with black-and-white overlays:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219584/Ghosts-war-A...

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-ghosts-of-worl...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/images-world-war-devasta...

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/europe-overlay-photos-2014...

http://petapixel.com/2013/04/02/photos-of-modern-day-locatio...

http://www.pinterest.com/tlwillen/ghost-photos-world-war-2/

http://www.pinterest.com/jarm69/now-and-then/
A great documentary on FidoNet's rise with superb music and universal themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cm6EFYktRQ

A modern tale of care for a bright and reliable future, search: project byzantium fidonet
> In OCaml, one part of the language is crippled intentionally, due to what seems to be ideological reasons.

That's one thing that cannot be claimed for Scala, at last. No matter what concept it is or whether it fits anywhere, it goes in.

It's what is called language design.
The part that LLVM is doing: code generation, optimization, etc. I don't think writing a whole compiler is a reasonable goal at anywhere near that level of effort. But I just pointed out that it's an exaggeration.

Gcc's architecture is split into front, middle, and back end. This corresponds closely to what Gcc calls the front end, afaik.
For sweden I wonder why not Betsson is included? Its market cap is almost double that of Klarna, the current 3rd company? PaddyPower (another online betting company) is included for Ireland.

It might be more missing, but this was easy to spot since Im both swedish and very familiar with Betsson.
I would guess that maybe Layar or WeTranser have higher valuations. Blendle must be the fastest well-known grower, with a very exportable concept but I doubt they have a very high valuation right now.
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Honestly, I'd scrap everything up to $29/mth and change the pricing basis from MB and number of queries (people who use spreadsheets have no real understanding of this) to number of spreadsheets.

I remember working for Deutsche Bank 15yrs ago when one Excel spreadsheet could make them millions of £/day — don't be afraid to charge a decent amount! People who care about data, have spreadsheets, and need some interoperability will not baulk at $29, $50 or even $200/mth. And if they're giving you a decent income, they'll trust that you'll be around for longer.

Would you expect a bank (or accountant, or FMCG company) to trust a critical part of their process to a free or £12/mth service? Hell, no.

But perhaps part of the problem is that you've build a cool thing but don't know exactly who your customers should be. When you figure that out you'll be able to write more compelling copy and price it appropriately.
So we can have yet another standard with weird quirks and edge cases, but also that's proprietary and promises to change in breaking ways to existing email?

The world in which Inbox succeeds at anything is just a world where we have some more webmail competitors and that's about it.
Actually it doesn't matter - either version is correct, and in fact English spelling used organize long before it was adopted by the US.

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/03/ize-or-ise/

In fact it appears more to be laziness on the part of the UK english. Whilst the 'ize' form is derived from the greek endings, certain english verbs had to end with 'ise'. As we were too lazy to remember which ended 'ize' or 'ise' we just took the pragmatic approach and used 'ise' version for all of them.
Recently I was bored enough to code a disassembler for a VM with basically unknown (to the public) internals, that almost nobody has heard of.

Next I'll probably fork it to remove all the debugging-specific opcodes and recompile with the official assembler.
Great point. We had our concerns about Rocket as well. In the end, we've put them as #1, with Zalando on the list as well. It seems that Rocket does not hold a stake in Zalando anymore (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/rocketinternet-sha...)
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They have almost nothing in common, and it's accidental when they do. For instance:

- Designing software in minute detail beforehand is generally neither necessary nor possible.

- It is impossible for someone to be a capable software "architect" unless they are an experienced software "builder".

- It is impossible for someone to be a capable software "builder" unless they are also capable of designing it.

- Software can be reused once built, and this matters while building it.

- Software is rarely "finished", but continues to grow over time.

- Software can be used by an unbounded number of users at the same time.

- Software can be reproduced infinitely.

- Software can be forked and incrementally changed.

- Anyone can design and build their own software, given some talent and a computer.

- The business motivations for software development are fluid, and often change rapidly over the course of a single project.

I could go on and on. As with many (most?) metaphors, it offers some superficial familiarity, but is ultimately harmful to your understanding.

Software is software. Understand it by reading about software and writing software.
The FAQ page for Inbox states "You can use Inbox to replace nearly all the functionality of IMAP and SMTP."

Implying that there is some functionality of IMAP and SMTP that Inbox doesn't handle. Thats OK. In many cases people are willing to lose some functionality to gain other more valuable functionality.

However, nowhere on the website can I find a description of what IMAP and SMTP functionality Inbox doesn't handle.

If I'm going to invest my time in trying out the product, it would be great to know upfront what features it currently doesn't support.

I think the Inbox team would be better served by just being honest and saying "Hey with Inbox you get all these awesome features, in exchange for losing this one feature..."
I guess you agree that "impressionable students" should be taught that collaboration is essential, hence clear formatting is necessary and precise indentation (aka whitespace) is critical.

However, when a language comes around that actively enforces and promotes these rules... you say it's a "Bad Idea". Could you elaborate on why you think it's so bad?
Svip -

The country location for a company in this research was determined by where the bulk of the employees are currently. The intent of this definition is to show which countries are most capable of building big internet companies, not where the founders are coming from.

Yahoo!Japan is actually an independent company from Yahoo. It is roughly 30% owned by Softbank and 30% owned by Yahoo. It is listed as it is the top 3 internet company in Japan.

Yahoo is not listed, because it is not the top 3 company in the US.
> That's one thing that cannot be claimed for Scala, at last. No matter what concept it is or whether it fits anywhere, it goes in.

That's absurd, and you know it.
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Apple has a nice WWDC 2014 video on this topic as well. It's called "Prototyping: fake it till you make it".

You can find it on the following page: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/
Compiling anything under linux without root is almost impossible

This is bizarre, and very much not true. If you have a C compiler and sufficient disk space you can build whatever you want in your home directory. It might take a while, but most things that use autoconf will accept `--prefix=/home/user/stuff/` and target that location.

Not having a C compiler is rare as it tends to be deep in the requirements chain of other packages. For other languages, I believe Python is mandatory on Redhat and Perl on Debian, if you don't mind old versions.
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Initially, we were aiming at covering 100 countries. However, due to lack of data from some countries we cut it down to 50.

We are working with our global community of contributors and we are looking for people who are willing to help us. If interested, just send us an email: hello@worldstartupreport.com
That was an amazing talk that really made me understand why SOLID and small objects are worth the initial hesitancy. Thanks so much for linking it, I think the people at work are going to love it.
You can still do metaprogramming on single character constants and with a bunch of really ugly hackery make it somewhat pretty.

You might be interested in metaparse [1] which can greatly simplify compile time parsing of strings but has a very steep learning curve.

[1]: http://abel.web.elte.hu/mpllibs/metaparse/
come on, the only propaganda here is your link, totally unrelated to the article. Is any critique of Netanyahu's methods antisemitism?
Thanks for the info. I'll have a look at it.
And no Montenegro, which has what I think a pretty big dotME registry operator.
I am sure that requirements like this aren't that unusual (the NIH requires grants to be submitted in one of 3 fonts), but an arbitrary rule shouldn't be confused with a compatibility issue.
The fortress mode tutorial on the DF wiki allows you to build a self-sustaining fortress.

The Lazy Noob Pack is also of great help. One will probably have to wait for it to be updated for the newer version of DF, but one can begin with the previous version of DF and update when it's available.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Quickstart_guide
> not a good match for a dispute like this

I don't understand why everyone thinks MS should have given the notice, then noIP would have sent emails to all their customers "MS is about to take all our domains down" and the C&C's would have had time to reconfigure or transfer domains etc.

Speed and silence were key to the botnets being taken down.

Also it is very naive to think noIP doesn't know that it makes a lot of it's money from botnet hosters - according to previous discussions the abuse@ address does not respond and they don't take action against malicious hosts.
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I bet it's an effect rather than a cause. We had some server incident recently that started with a huge write spike on some machines. Turned out it was the nginx error log and the problem itself was something else.
Why would you need to have the whole blockchain on your laptop? There are tons of lightweight wallets and online wallets.
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Well Xiki has been posted several times here and it's the first time it reaches 1st link just St because of TC....
> I am not mistaking, I am comparing.

Yes apples and oranges. They taste different, because they are.

> In my experience the OPPOSITE is normal. If XML is invalid but still makes sense, you treat it as valid, because if you don't, your competitors will.

If this is a business requirement you would do the same for JSON.

> If you don't think somebody would throw invalid XML at your app and not expect it to work then you've clearly never worked with XML seriously.

Nope, if you have a customer sending you an XML which should validate against a predefined schema, no, hell no.
I've worked for the European office of publications, and the web services were just receiving tons of XML on a daily basis. And you know what, invalid XML were rejected that's as simple as that. If you don't respect the supplied schema, retry when correct.

> docbook IS XML.

Docbook USES XML.

Last but not least, HTML is not XML, HTML is not a subset of XML. Permissiveness has nothing to do with web services acceptance of invalid schemas.

If you call a Google service whether it uses SOAP (so XML) or REST, if the request body is invalid, you'll be rejected either way. The SOAP one won't try to parse more or resolve issues just because it is XML based.
Thank you very much. I will do my homework.
"liquidity trap" usually means the opposite: having valuable but hard-to-shift assets and no cash.

Defining "worthwhile" as "has positive return that can be captured" is the business definition, but very limiting for society as a whole. We could do with some Fordism returning money to the public.
A) You don't need the whole blockchain on your regular PC.

B) If you're talking about running a node, even my shitty cheap VPN has a gigabit connection. It would take only (20GB/1 Gbit/s) = 2 minutes 20 seconds to download it.
It is interesting how Social Services is vilified here, but her own organization's failure to help everyone is obviously because they lack the resources. This person's loathing for Social Services let her get through the day, provided an enemy to fight, but completely prevented her from getting any insight into the problems that they face and the reasons they are forced to make so many denials. She offers an explanation (they like denying people things) but even she seems aware how ludicrous that is.

Meanwhile in just a few months of dealing with the needy and not having the ability to help them all she is ground down into bitterness and cynicism. I think the subtext here points to much better reasons for the Social Services people giving her a hard time. She's just some dilettante college chick doing some good works before going off to her real career. The people who she's railing against do this for a living, and don't run away after a year. They've been working at this for their entire careers, and see people like her every day.
Right now it looks like 1 was caused by an extremely large repo (18 GB) being pushed. Only 0.1% of repos are bigger than 1GB. We're still investigating.
I agree labour is undervalued. Particularly in developing parts of the world, compared to equivalent labour in developed parts of the world. I think with remote work and access to education online, globalisation is only getting started in many industries. At the moment it can be arbitraged but I guess the opportunities will disappear as differences even out over the next 10 years.

Some labour is also overvalued - where a small group can basically push the price of their labour upwards by manipulating the system. For instance, executive pay with share buybacks.

As far as revolutions, pressure will definitely mount but it won't spark, not within the middle class, unless things get really bad. By bad I mean bad enough not to being able to afford things like food. That's how the arab spring started - food prices spiked beyond affordability. If you have responsibilities like family, people value their (relative) comfort, even if it's dwindling, over the risk of physical injury and chance of losing everything.
> abuse team

Every domain provider must have an abuse team or at least an address to send abuse notices too [http://who.is/whois/cloudapp.net/], that PR statement from No-IP states no facts or figures of many abuse notices they combat - which I would cite if my abuse team actually did stuff "look how amazing our team is - we had x,000's requests and took down x00 of malicious hosts just last month."
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No, it wasn't me, though I did let anybody in my FIT2004 tutorials (the second data structures and algorithms course, for those who didn't go to Monash) do their work in Python. I only had one taker.
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For those that want to learn about the whole stack "Building a Modern Computer from First Principles" is quite good.

http://www.nand2tetris.org/
If you tell us what your stack is I suppose.
I don't know, though recently we've been merged with Engineering, so I'm sure there will be more collaboration.
Then I'd say: What you expect is required and what is actually required to complete the task to a client's expectations could possibly be two very vastly different things.

Besides, most of what is being asked of four-year-degreed individuals is not really worthy of it. Which is why I keep mentioning stuff to the effect of "to a client's expectation" to most of my comments on this.
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No - criticism of Israeli policies is entirely valid, and there are many valid criticisms that could be made, including over this issue. In addition, to clarify my own position, I don't think taxpayers money should be spent on aid to Israel (or any other country for that matter, but that's a different story).

My objection is to the "electronic Intifada" source. I don't think we need to give Jew-haters and would-be ethnic cleaners any publicity on HN. Or, alternatively, we should publicize resources like Memri equally, so that readers can get a clear view of the ideology behind the Intifada.

Also, re my link bring propaganda: it contains translations of Palestinian media into English. If you think that constitutes anti-Palestinian or anti-Islamic propaganda, perhaps you should take the matter up with the Palestinian Muslims who produced the material in the first place.
> I guess you agree that "impressionable students" should be taught that collaboration is essential, hence clear formatting is necessary and precise indentation (aka whitespace) is critical.

Not particularly, no. Or at least I think that should be the IDE's problem.
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Yes, there was a zero chance of Swartz ending up with 35 years. The judge could have sentenced to 3500 years as easily as 35 years, but both of those would have been turned over on appeal.
Agree. I have some complex code that I revsit once in a month, and I cannot afford thinking though it again and again. Therefore my comments are getting larger and larger and more chapter like with many images inbetween. (I use locco for that, see http://speedata.github.io/luaqrcode/docs/qrencode.html for a different but similar example.)
I like front end work and find it satisfying and easy.

I remember not having javascript debuggers, hand rolling html/css myself and dealing with NN 4.0 and IE 5 back in 1999.
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Didn't seem to work so well for me. "Good news - float textures have arrived in iOS 8 beta 3 WebGL" doesn't seem all that 'um-smart'

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