skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
85% of the Microsoft Business division that is responsible for Microsoft Office comes, not unsurprisingly, from businesses:

http://www.tannerhelland.com/4993/microsoft-money-updated-20...

Edit: The point I was trying to make is that I wonder how important personal use of Office is to Microsoft. Arguably people either want to use what they use at work or they use something other product (in the past one of the competing office suites, probably one of the online offerings these days) - I wonder if the size of the latter category has actually changed over the years?
The share link doesn't work!
Halliburton buys oilfield rival Baker Hughes for $34B
This bunch of 'mid-twenties' is probably gonna drive your future growth for the next 10-20 yrs, and probably the next generation after that as well (think their kids).

Think why Whatsapp/Facebook is really valued at such 'billions' of dollars? They are going to have user-engagement for a decades!

I am not disagreeing with your point, but lots of tech companies target this 'mid-twenties' and 'early-thirties' bunch, at least today.
hillarious maen !!! epic
yes. absolutely. haha.
Hardware by the Numbers (Part 1: Team + Prototyping)
I have this theory, a companies culture is essential to being successful in a particular market... but that same culture also is the reason why it is not able to excel in another seemingly related area. The hard part, is that they seemingly are capable of participating in that market as it transitions, but they are probably not optimized for this new market, and in this winner takes the majority way of technology, they will get beat 100% of the time. Let's consider the history of companies, and technology.

When computers were large, and only government and fortune 500's could afford them IBM was a dominate force. When they got cheaper/more common. They still participated, but Microsoft came to dominate this new particular market. As Bill gates himself said, the hardware was now a commodity (but not for IBM's customers) it was the software that was valuable. It took a different company culture to rule that market.

In mobile, hardware has not been successfully made into a commodity. Apple as a mobile company looked more like IBM as a mainframe company. So far they've done a great job at sticking to their niche. They excel at making consumer friendly hardware devices, with supporting software.

Google obviously has mastered building free cloud services for consumers, however they seem to fail in every endeavor that's different. They struggle to understand people as people, and really haven't developed a company culture to build great products for them.

I think Microsoft is making progress on reducing the scope of sub optimal market's they are attacking, and is currently in the process of defining a culture to attack this new narrower scope. They may just be successful.
hahha.. eeepiccc
super duper lol lol...
I've said this earlier and as an iOS developer, I am excited for the new Microsoft. Some of the best minds in programming (ScottGu, SHanselmann, etc) are behind this new face of MS and they're well know for their contribution to opens source.

I think this is a win-win-win situation for Developers, Enterprises and Microsoft.
Hilarious! awesome depictions.
>The brightest minds aren't programming on Microsoft platforms if you look at colleges and conferences worldwide. This cannot be reversed; Open Source products are now technically superior, the community is very well organized, and it is free.

All I see at colleges and conferences worldwide are Macbooks. How is OS X Open Source? It actually seems to be worse, since it's legally tied to expensive hardware.

Also, Open Source products aren't really technically superior for a number of categories. I am sorry but Photoshop, Office, Exchange etc. are definitely technically superior. Software like Windows Server and SQL Server are competing with free products and still doing very well.

Imagine how much marketshare they would have if they were free of cost and MySQL/PostgresSQL and Linux cost the same as SQL Server and Windows Server now. How many would buy them instead of the free MS products? How many would pay the same as Office costs now for OpenOffice if Office was free?
How is this technically superior?

Also, Azure runs Linux and other open source products quite well.
China is an insanely complicated marketplace (No offense meant).
You cannot judge a company or predict its downfall, just by failing at China. I think its still a market that needs a lot of studying. Lots of companies have failed there, and changed their strategy.
US marketplace is the backbone for all of these companies.
Can't stop laughing on it.
Azure was launched 2010, and if you don't count Windows Mobile, Windows Phone was also launched in 2010. You could argue that one or both were not "significant efforts" but they certainly didn't start this year.
> Let's keep the hate aside and forget MS's past.

Even if that past is very much part of Microsoft's present? Such as threatening companies with patent lawsuits at a rate that has never been seen before in Microsoft's history, or its continuous collaboration with the NSA [1]? (especially after it bought Skype, and built lawful intercept technology for Skype [2] - before actually buying it).

I'm almost certain Microsoft keeps some vulnerabilities on purpose to the help the NSA, and only patches them when other parties report those bugs. In fact, I think the recent "WinShock" or whatever they're calling it, with the remote execution for its TLS library was known by Microsoft. This sort of thing is so much easier to use as an "effective backdoor", than something nefarious NSA would have to implant into Windows such as a key escrow or whatever (not saying those don't/won't exist in TPMs).

[1] - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2mWqX0CQAAqKxP.png:large

[2] - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2509604/data-privacy/mi...
From another comment http://pathod.net/docs/pathoc
haha this is so funny
Ikea: Experience the power of a bookbook
I just released a Ruby customer facing template language, please be kind ;-)
This article is 10 years late, honestly.
mind breaking ! oops
hahaha. This is lovely.
lol :D :D
The problem with any service like this is that you'll inevitably get a bunch of calls meant for previous users of that number. And from an article I read a while back they tend to be johns trying to get a hold of prostitutes.
Fortunately for both Google and Microsoft, most businesses are willing to pay as you typically can't get decent support for a free product or service.
Great Writeup! must read for all startups.
rolling on the floor laughing !@
Indeed, I recall benchmarking and being shocked how the same program ran slower and use 30% more RAM in 64 bit vs 32 bit mode.
This is fun fun fun.
rofl xD
I think this is an excellent approach. The only problem is finding clients that are both capable and willing to sit down and hammer out this type of informal spec.
oh well i want this for microsoft man !
Microsoft clearly isn't alone (on both sides) in the software patent fiasco. I'm curious, what companies approach software patents correctly in your eyes?
3-D Printed Fabric That’s Made of Yarn, but Can Stop a Knife
this is EPIC
Myself being an Apple user, I find this a rather intesting way of leveraging existing marketing methodologies in a completely different context.

Happy hacking, Ikea!
On my laptop, to view something while offline. On a server, to install something that is not in a package manager.
Great work, only a startup guy can understand.
funny indeed and so try expressions !!
Considering just this summer there was that "male only" Hearthstone tournament controversy, I'd say it's not just GG but the gaming community in general...

eSports might be getting better at it, but it's definitely not there yet...
Dr Matt Taylor’s shirt made me cry, too – with rage at his abusers
Mashallow: create your own battles and quizzes
bahahahah
Prevention is better than Cure, So better to find alternative solution. There is a secure storage software called basefolder (http://www.basefolder.com)
Sweet Memories!
> I'm not so sure about that.

It's easy to verify by looking up some dates. The law against homosexual propaganda stems from June 2013, and has been widely criticized ever since, including calls to boycott the Winter Olympics at Sochi, in February 2014. The protests that led to the Euromaidan revolution started in November 2013, the actual revolution took place in February 2014, and was soon followed by Russian intervention.

If you didn't start to pay attention to Russia until after the crisis started, I can imagine you might think the homophobia criticism came only after the crisis, but it actually started half a year earlier.
The losses are happening all over, not just China. In China they've seen the biggest loss though, at a time when Apple for example is doing very well, and of course Android has like 90 percent market share in China already. The Chinese market has rejected Windows Phone.
Or, as Peter Drucker noted : "the only valid purpose of a firm is to create a customer"
Those numbers...

F if i know how Norway manages to spend that much on military, when there is a constant complaint about it being underfunded.

Btw, i think you need to roll the next 7-8 into one before matching the US troop numbers. Nuts.
startups are fun indeed ! lets go build the world
damn hilarious xD
Microsoft has been "dying" for as long as I can remember.

The truth, however, is that they have continued to be a very healthy and well run business for far, far longer than any of their peers can ever claim.

The "Microsoft is in crisis" meme has always been popular but has never even remotely come close to being true.
Indeed. The difference may be that classes in the iOS frameworks are general more coarse grained than classes in the Android frameworks.

When you only need one class to do something in iOS (and MacOSX), you might need ten classes in Android (and other Java frameworks).

For example, compare the number of classes to parse xml on iOS (one class: NSXMLParser), vs. the number of packages and classes to parse xml on Android: (javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConstants, javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConstants.Field, javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory, javax.xml.datatype.Duration, javax.xml.datatype.XMLGregorianCalendar, javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext, javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder, javax.xml.parsers.DocumentFactory, javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser, javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory, javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException, javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError, (I'll skip all the javax.xml.transform packages and classes, since assumedly they wouldn't be used to read xml), javax.xml.validation.Schema, javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory, javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactoryLoader, javax.xml.validation.TypeInfoProvider, javax.xml.validation.Validator, javax.xml.validation.ValidatorHandler, javax.xml.xpath.XPath, javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression, javax.xml.xpath.XPathFunction, javax.xml.xpath.XPathFunctionResolver, javax.xml.xpath.XPathVariableResolver, javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants, javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory, javax.xml.xpath.XPathException, javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException, javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactoryConfigurationException, javax.xml.xpath.XPathFunctionException, amongst a lot of other classes).
Currencies are government made artificial stores of value.

If money doesn't lose value fast enough, people, companies and banks invest in government sponsored fiat instead of the real economy. This distorts the markets.

Money should be there to allow transactions and contracts without having to do barter. It has no choice being a store of value to do so, but it should not artificially keep value at a rate that makes it desirable enough so that it replaces private markets for investments. To do so is a subsidy to economic idleness and a promotion of investment in fiat instead of the real economy.

Money doesn't have intrinsic value. It should not artificially be made to seem like it keeps so much value by governments. It should be made stably declining and just valuable enough to allow for low friction transactions and contracts. More than that and you are throwing a wrench in the gears of private markets.
Open Source products are now technically superior

Name one open source IDE which is superior to Visual Studio. Or an open source database that is better than SQL Server. Not to mention C# which imho is the best language out there (arguably .NET though isn’t that good). I won’t argue that there are aspects of the ecosystem that can’t hold a candle to open source solutions especially in the administration tools area.

As for community, have you bothered to take a look at MSDN? There is an insane amount of free information online for their APIs. In terms of documentation MS is light years ahead of everyone.

Lastly, the “Windows/Microsoft is irrelevant” argument is very prevalent amongst our ranks but only there. MS might be irrelevant in our industry but in the enterprise, where by the way the big bucks are, they’re dominant.
Michael (& Altay) continues to do a lot of me to excel in my other life goals. They provide advice, outlets and scheduling (via assistant) for me to take my art and science career ahead just as much as my software. If they weren't interested in my best interest of being happy on my own standards above all else then I wouldn't be with them for ~2yrs now.

I want to also note here that I leverage 10x to do less recruitment for jobs and more with purely figuring out which are the best opportunities to pursue at that time. Personally speaking, I want to spend as little time on the planning / business side of my tech career as possible so I can use that time to focus on my other pursuits. I trust (& they've proven) to be able to make the most advantageous choices for me professionally with long term goals in mind.

M
i feel orgasmic after watching this
I really like the flow/UX. Congratulations! Nice job!

What is the roadmap?

I am really inside scraping, it is one of my daily job. I could consider to integrate it in one of my architectures
> How is OS X Open Source?

It isn't, but a lot of people develop on open source environments running on OS X. E.g. Python/Django. Because OS X is a Unix, moving between it and Linux for web development is easy.

> Azure runs Linux and other open source products quite well

This may be the case, but there is the perception (possibly an unfounded one; I've never used Azure) that Linux will always be a second-class citizen on Azure.
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I'll be disappointed if you tell me that I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that Google has been stellar with respect to patents.

The only thing I'm aware of is that HTC used Google patents to counter-sue Apple a while ago, but that seems to fall under the "defensive" usage.

At one point Microsoft was vocal about its patent portfolio being only defensive. Then mobile happened. I'm not sure if Apple, Samsung and others also did such an about-face.
Bomberbot, the Review
Some people are not intended to be friends
Someone wrote a good bot... Should work on the comment formatting.
How I used Tinder to promote my website
Clearly they've been around for awhile – the Zeugma Mosaic Museum opened in 2011 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_Mosaic_Museum – but it looks like there were some recent releases:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/2682-141104-turkey-zeugma-ne...

and the pictures appear similar to the ones in this article covering social media complaints about the mayor & other dignitaries walking on the mosaics:

http://www.todayszaman.com/national_mayor-of-gaziantep-walks...

This older 2012 article is worth a look if you want to know more of the history of the site:

http://www.archaeology.org/issues/44-1211/features/252-featu...
Nothing JS-based can be awesome, because JS is inherently disgusting.

There are some clean slate attempts, done with much better languages. See Patoline, for example.
Well, MacOSX and iOS don't have a BSD kernel (or even a BSD-like kernel) at all. They have a Mach kernel. They have howewver, a BSD-like userland and kernel personality. But I guess we can assume that the Mach kernel is also more frugal than Linux. In any case, AFAICS, Apple takes some care about this, because of the performance and user experience consequences.
Furthermore, what you mean with `Javascript pages supported`?
Could I just specify where it has to click or do I need to make a reverse engineering of the ajax calls?
I'd like to see usage statistics. Spain deployed DNIe (mandatory national ID with an embedded certificate) but less than 5% of Spaniards use it due to lack of marketing and a very poor implementation.

Would love to hear a success story :)
#True_Story :P
Why are comments not allowed in JSON?
Thinking of going nomadic? Reality check from a nomadic designer
You could (try to) write coarser grained classes in Java too (granted, with static typing, it may be harder to do).
Or rather, instead of putting more money into their economy by printing it, which was working extraordinarily well, they instead decided to pull money back out with a huge rise in a regressive tax.

"Real GDP" is some kind of economic truther term. If you can sell debt at a low interest rate, whatever paper you've generated is "real" because the market is still buying it.
China is absolutely dominated by Android, even more so than most markets. Microsoft is used to playing the long game (it paid off with the Xbox division, for example), as long as their phones remain competitive, and their app ecosystem continues to grow, it's just a matter of time before more people see them as a strong option.
nostalgic with my expressions !
> As of 2012, the federal government provided 60 percent of U.S. academic research and development funding. By choosing which projects to fund, grant-giving government agencies influence what research takes place.

That could explain a few things about how demand has developed, and how technologies for products have been shaped.
>In practice, experimental evidence tells us that this theory is complete rubbish.

Please, provide us with examples of a sustained deflation that didn't harm the economy.

The supply of money has to grow at the same rate as the real economy, otherwise you can end up with "problems" associated with having "too few dollars". In other words, we need to keep increasing the supply of dollars to buy the growing output of goods we produce. This is common sense. Because it's impossible to hit that growth target exactly, we err on the side of caution and produce some inflation, which has the side benefit of preventing the hording of currency, as it naturally diminishes in value over time. For whatever reason most governments have decided on ~2% to be a safe, stable target.

One of the common misconceptions of deflation is that the lower prices should be good for consumers. Which is true, if terms of consumer goods. But keep in mind that wages and debt are also affected, which is where the real pain from deflation for the average person stems from.
> Name an open source database that is better than SQL Server.

OK I'll name two: SQLite and MongoDB. I suspect that both of these are better than SQL Server on criteria I care about: ease of deployment on Linux systems, lack of issues around licensing.
I'm no apple fan, but Apple does contribute a fair amount of resources to open source. If you're running a typical GNU/Linux distro, go to http://localhost:631/ for fun.
This is a good way to put it, especially since people tend to use them analogously.
this post made my day :D
From his Wikipedia page:

Rosen believed that the contemporary model of physics - which he thought to be based on an outdated Cartesian and Newtonian world of mechanisms - was inadequate to explain or describe the behavior of biological systems; that is, one could not properly answer the fundamental question "What is life?"

"Mainstream biology" isn't particularly interested in the "What is life?" question (ADDED: rather, it's an interesting philosophical question brought up when viruses are seriously taught), and is quite productive with its current reductionist approaches. That would include, for example, MIT's Biology department, infamous, as of the '80s at least, for not looking much above the level of the cell.

I'd look at two things: there's a semi-joke item or two about how mainstream biologists would never understand a radio based on their methods, and look at the ones trying to understand the brain, or why MIT created a Brain and Cognitive Sciences department (http://bcs.mit.edu/aboutbcs/history.html) or some of the reasons why e.g. Jerry Lettvin was in the EECS department instead of biology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Lettvin).
Submitted many times, and yet it never gets any discussion. The only comment on all the previous submissions (from a quick, desultory search) is this:

========

How it was made : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA4QWwaweWA

What are the ripples? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ6Hv_du2Zo

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Similarly, it never seemed to get much attention, judging by the severe lack of up-votes. Here are the previous submissions I found (some deleted):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8258631

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7242743

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5648856

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5645372

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5643518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5642074

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637191
The Land of the Setting Sun
My first customer was someone I knew from the Internet, who had a clearly achievable path to a programmer making him money. Without spilling his beans: he ran a decently sized business doing something on the Internet and was not a developer. There were some fairly obvious things about that arrangement which I could fix. I fixed them.

Thomas' company was, IIRC, my 2nd or 3rd client. He knew me from HN and the ability to talk about a topic of interest to his business over a cup of coffee. Take a look at his writeup of our conversation. You can reasonably assume that our consulting gig involved humming similar bars.

As to who in general buys programming services: go to meetups or events. Talk to people. If they buy, problem solved. If they sell, ask who (in general terms, if you're uncomfortable) buys from them. To a first approximation, everyone who has ever hired a programmer will again, at some point in the future, again hire a programmer. Same goes for consultants, etc.

If you just want to learn about realities of industry work passively, doing it for a few years is also an option. After you've built CRUD apps in a non-tech employer for 6 months you should have a 98% accurate mental model of which businesses routinely buy software in a fashion other than available-totally-off-the-shelf.

Another heuristic you can use is that one white collar employee represents $200k a year in revenue and that anyone with $10 million in revenue probably could benefit from custom software development.
I have "organize the code using a single top-level package".
ladkey hi ladkey !
Thanks for the reply!

About the hires, it depends on your business and where you are I guess.

In my case the idea was a new way of marketing new constructions online.
I managed to get 23 new home developers as client. That along with the 900+ prospects I've qualified and followed up with during the year.

Combine that with the fact that I was the only one working on the website and our system in general. kept me extremely busy and I needed someone part time to hold the books and do the small monotonous tasks.
Sex ratios in criminal justice systems world-wide
Maybe a deal that is neutral could be made? Example: no registration to vote, require id, election on Sunday/holiday.

If you include voting rights for ex-convicts or even voting in prison you'd more than counter the effect of voter ID (this I assume would not be a popular opinion among R?)
Legend wait for it.....ary! When our competitor launches a product better than ours.