skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is excellent. i was immediately able to integrate dygraph with my firefox extension.

thx for the docs!! (i'm also using g.raphaeljs.com for pie and dot charts....could definitely use some docs there)

a couple features that would be cool, in order of priority:

* log scale
* date format
* pan (and more obvious zoom controls. cursor changes to pointer over graph...still not clear how to zoom out, though)
* more than 2 lines (right? i can't make more than 2 lines show up)

keep it up!!
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Which part of "itunes" specifically? The network/distribution architecture? the security model? the social aspects? the business processes?
yeah, it was something very cool.
Yes.

Most American households buy around 1 book a year.

Roughly 50% of books are sold to just 2-3% of the market.

There's a power law at work (with, admittedly, a cut-off at the high end). I know quite a few folks who typically buy and read 50-150 novels a year. To make a runaway best-seller, you need to reach out to the 1-book-a-year folks, but to stay in business you've got to keep the 50-books-a-year people happy, because those are your core market.

Regularly reading fiction for entertainment is, these days, a niche market.
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To be fair (well, and a bit cynical), github is also catching a bit of the hype wave. There are plenty of solid projects hosted elsewhere that work just fine.
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I've noticed that new submissions only make it to the front page when they've received a few upmods, and once an item is on the front page it gets many more. The Catch-22 is that not every worthy submission get those first few votes needed to send it to the front page to get the attention it deserves.

So what's your method of finding things? Where do you start? Personally, I start with the "newest" page, then glance at the "news" and "comments" to see what's getting the traffic.

Where do you start? Reply with a strategy if you think it adds to the overall picture.
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http://proudlyprocrasdonating.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/project-management-and-motivation/

the number of hours i put in each week has increased (charts are just so damn motivating for me), plus the whole team is more focused. it's an awesome tool. i want to hug the developers.
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Pure wisdom. The entire article is so enlightening. I didn't know I should do something during the day and then go home and relax. I always thought it was quite the opposite.
Yes, maybe they have heard about Twitter in other countries. But maybe in France things have not gotten to the point yet where not being on Twitter is considered some kind of a grave personal insult that requires an angry rant. I actually hope things have not gotten that far in America either.

Oh, and by the way, I wonder did the Chinese have an opinion on foursquare?
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He seems to hint at some awareness of this in Part II, but doesn't really address it explicitly. It seems more likely to me that the transition was due to existing (but very real) discrimination in the higher-status jobs combined with automation (in the form of compilers) of the highly feminised lower-status jobs.

The author's thesis, if I understand correctly, is that there was some sort of new discrimination that drove women out of the industry. I'm more inclined to think that there was never any particular shortage of discrimination.
I tend to borrow little things rather than the whole. Sort of 'thats a nice effect - how do they do it', 'ooh that file upload progress looks nice, I could use that'

Which is when you find that they are just using a standard library that you have not heard of or some technique that the whole world and his dog already knows :(
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"ten of the top mobile companies use Funambol"

"greater than 100-percent sales growth every quarter"

Wow, I was aware of the Funambol software (pretty much the only free/OSS SyncML server out there... shame it's Java), but I had no idea the services company was doing so well.

Data point for the "can you make money from open source?" conversation.
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Too bad I have already ditched Firefox for Chrome then. Now that plugins are developing nicely I don't think I will ever go back to FF.
Scoble, no disrespect, because I actually quite like you. You're one of the most successful "Me, Inc." people I've ever seen. But what do you do all day?

I'll tell you what I do. I develop software. What do you do? You're a PR hound - a very good one, I must say.

You're a PR hound trying to underline the importance of PR hounds like yourself. That is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. But you must understand that many, if not most, startups simply do not have the manpower to do that kind of thing.

Diverting precious resources to assign someone to read and respond to 500 twitter feeds seems like the worst thing a startup could do. And it's a bad sign, of no product and all marketing. That might be great for some companies. But it's not a panacea and should definitely not be a blanket recommendation.
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Re #3: It's also annoying that the right-click menu isn't the system menu. I regularly use the right-click menu on the task bar to move stuff between virtual desktops. Doesn't work in Chrome.

I wish application programmers learned to leave the system part of their windows alone. It messes up my work flow at no benefit whatsoever.
You're right. Not many. And it has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter or any of the other points you mention.

Word of mouth remains the absolutely most powerful marketing force and as far as I can tell will remain so for a long, long time.
While your summary is technically correct, just look at any of your bills. What does it say? "Federal Reserve Note". Your money is not printed by your government. With all the implications that carries, including your government lending it from FED on interest.
Cloudera (http://cloudera.com/) is doing pretty well. Canonical too, although it's not clear if they're actually making any money.

And there are scores of other, smaller companies which are doing well.
I guess they are all hyping and wasting time

I know you're trying to be sarcastic but basically ... yep.
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Much discusson: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986967

Also lunk to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986075
I'm puzzled by this (and their recent blog post about Chevy's use of Posterous) . I almost used Posterous for my company blog, but didn't in the end because their terms of service very clearly say "It is available for non commercial use only, with the exception of being used to Autopost to blogs on Shopify.com."
And also don't forget Protovis: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/
JBoss is another one that comes to mind.
Nice trick, I never use the close button but never had the idea to remove it to gain space.
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I have trouble reading just about any recent criticisms of Google from Mozilla as anything other than a crybaby's temper tantrum. It sounds like they are disappointed that Google acts as an independent company rather than merely a money train straight into Mozilla's coffers. It also sounds like they are more than a little upset that Google managed to put together arguably the best-in-class web-browser on the planet in a very short time frame just when they were getting comfortable with the idea that inevitably Firefox would be not only the best but also the most popular browser.

It seems that the Mozilla corporation was quite satisfied in its leading position in the special olympics race that has typified web browser development (Netscape under AOL failed so hard they killed their own once dominant brand, Mozilla took years to achieve reasonable quality, Microsoft is still putting out versions of IE competitive to the browser market in about 1999, Opera is a permanent bit-player, and Apple loathes the idea of writing a decent version of any of its software products that runs on windows). Now that there's some honest to goodness competition (in speed, usability, robustness, standards compliance, cutting edge standards adoption, and security) it's nothing but whine, whine, whine.

Dear Mozilla, stop whining, Firefox is an excellent browser, keep the effort going to make it even better and you won't have to worry about what big-bad-Google is doing because it won't matter.
Meh. I don't have a Mac, and I want automatic regular backup.

(I know they have an API and I could write my own, but wheels, reinventing and all that. Also, it looks like the obvious solution - cron job pulling /api/read - gets posts, but not settings or theme customisations etc.)
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A time series example - http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/time.html
The same phenomenon occurred in regards to the word "calculator". At one point it meant a person (someone who would operate a mechanical 10-key calculator or such-like) then it became inextricably tied to automated machinery capable of computation.

I wonder what terms today will be similarly affected in the future. Driver? Pilot? Soldier (though I hope not)?
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I never thought I'd see a Mozilla exec recommending a switch to Microsoft products. It's funny how fast things can change, and kind of scary that Microsoft is considered the best alternative.
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As someone who has cataloged all the big spammers of HN, by hand; I skim /news then hit /newest. I flag mercilessly since I am in Australia and work U.S. hours, that I way I tend to see more spam than anyone cares to.

There are a lot of HN-worthy stuff that I don't care about myself, but I still vote them up so others have a chance. Sometimes I will come across an extremely interesting submission and make it a point not to up vote it, just to see if there is someone else out there who "gets it".
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I have trouble reading criticisms of Mozilla from just about every person who jumps on the "Google can do no wrong" bandwagon. There's a definite benefit to the user to have a separation of control over the data that various tech entities have on it. Firefox isn't selling anything; it is the only browser that truly allows users to decide what data websites gather from them as visitors.

Google developed Chrome because, for some reason, they thought that there's just _not enough_ "Google Advertising" online already, and they wanted to make sure that people can't easily disable advertisements, tracking cookies, etc. I tried Chrome on Linux, and really . . . was not that impressed. Firefox revolutionized the "tabbed browsing" concept, and that's the main fancy feature of Chrome. In a way, Chrome kinda just stole all the great things about Firefox (things that have taken years to develop), put those things into a shiny blue curvy-cornered UI, and slapped the Google name on it.
For Mac OS X you have clicktoflash for blocking flash but it isn't a browser add-on, rather a plugin (similar to Flash, Silverlight etc.)

Technical details:
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I'd love to see a similar plugin on Linux for Firefox, Chromium etc.

http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2009-01-29/how-clicktoflash...
Firefox is not what it used to be. Remember the days when it was called Firebird and Phoenix? When it was actually a fast browser? Decisions at Mozilla now made with politics and not the user in mind. I'm hugely disappointed by Firefox's poor codec support for the HTML5 audio and video tags. This will make either the audio/video tags or Firefox irrelevant but there's one thing it won't achieve; making Ogg Vorbis and Theora popular. Seriously, what they're doing is pretty much an abuse of their market position. Firefox might be popular and mainstream now but if things don't change it will lose its relevancy really quickly.

I think at this stage the best solution would be forking Firefox. Remember when they forked out Phoenix from Mozilla to create a lightweight and fast browser that offers features that users actually want? I think it's time to do it again.
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Even if you overestimate ridiculously, it seems perfectly reasonable to keep the entire dataset in ram: 1 TRILLION tweets, at 500 bytes each is a data set of less than half a petabyte. A quick search shows I can get 4 GB of ram for $66 USD. Assume no redundancy, no bulk discount, and all other hardware is free, that is a cost of $8M or so (about half of their last round of funding, iirc).

Consider now that you don't need to keep non-recent tweets in ram, bulk buyers can get it significantly cheaper than individuals, and the dataset is far smaller than that, then throwing hardware seems far less impossible. I'd imagine that they could keep the last month in ram trivially.
You might as well suggest learning COBOL. Yes, it's lucrative maintaining all those old apps. But where's the satisfaction?

And really, companies are going to look at you strangely if you say "1 year Perl experience". They'll think "why on earth is someone learning Perl in 2009". No, go with one of the newer languages - python or ruby.
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Reusing open source code from another open source project is not "stealing". This is very much in line with the spirit of open source.
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This confirms that they had no contracts - Arrington's "exhibits" are some blog posts and emails. This guy seriously used to be a lawyer?
The initial price point was just an attempt to hype it up by Arrington, so this whole device would never be much anyway. BTW, Techcrunch is deleting any unfavorable comments on their blog, just as they have done many other times previously.
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I posted the following comment on the techcruch blog but it got deleted. Not sure why exactly, I think it's a fairly valid question to ask.

"So you apparently found out that your business partner was pretty shady last summer but you chose to not reveal that obviously newsworthy information to readers, why exactly?

Just wondering why readers should be considering techcruch a newsworthy source if such an obvious conflict of interests results in you coming down on the side that benefits you the most?"
Seems pretty obvious. He had a partnership with Fusion Garage, why would he air their dirty laundry? It's not like he did anything to hide the relationship between FG and TC.
Point 7 is... interesting. Like the whole post really. It lists a lot of facts about TC helping in CP development, working out some details, assuring commercial support. But that's pretty much it. They have some emails, but that's still not really formal.

I may be mistaken of course, but it looks like they do not have any formal document that says anything about their ownership of the project. Sure - they helped out the project, or even produced the blueprints, but do they have a proper contract saying what do they get in exchange? Afaik there's no law stopping me from creating a device based on someone else's not patented blueprints (otherwise people writing RFCs would own a lot of software they didn't write).
I'm certainly not a Google fan-boy (read some of my other posts if you want to check, I'm very skeptical of google), but Chrome really is a great achievement and it's silly to disrespect what Google has done with Chrome considering the difficulties so many other development teams seem to be having with browsers.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with stealing features from a competitor, that's how progress is made. Chrome is not some sort of anti-consumer "forced ad consumption" monstrosity that you seem to make it out to be. By every measure it very much seems to be an attempt by Google to raise the bar for web browsers. Key indicators of this being: they have leveraged existing open source software (webkit); have put a lot of effort into standards compliance, javascript performance (v8), and forward looking standards adoption (html5 and css 3 features, web sockets, etc.); a drastically open development process (even more so than firefox, with much easier access to dev builds); an incredibly fast development pace (Chrome is barely 1 year old); and have made the vast majority of their work open source with the Chromium project. To every indication they want to prove what can be done with browsers and very much hope other browsers copy them.

If you look at Chrome and all you see is yet-another-tabbed-browser then I question whether or not Hacker News is the correct community for you to hang out in.
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While clickabilty is nice, it makes me a little sad you have more points than the parent.
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I'm in Norway, not freaked out.

Altho I enjoyed Adam Curry's crackpot theory on it being related to the large hadron collider and the Obama visit.
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Um, does Mozilla have a similar revenue share deal with Bing as it does with Google Search?

Because last I checked Mozilla gets nearly all of it's revenue from Google.

If they have a better deal with Bing, then it's in Mozilla's interest to push users away from Google towards Bing anyway...
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While I've started to lean more against Fusion Garage in this battle for the CrunchPad, I still think that TechCrunch is equally to blame for choosing such a shady group to work with.

Arrington states that he has known for a long while (as steerpike pointed out) that Fusion Garage has been in such shambles, and claims he isn't "just a blog" and has made significant (and/or the majority of) contributions to the CrunchPad. If both of these are true, why the hell didn't he pull out on Fusion Garage early on and go with someone else?

You supposedly have the idea, the investors, the retail channels lined up, etc... so why is Fusion even an issue? I call shenanigans here...
What they won’t have is cash flow to build the devices.

FG have said they have devices built or building haven't they? I wonder which is true - my guess is a small inventory, hence the pre-sale.

Chandra and Fusion Garage have shown a long term pattern of deceit in their business dealings.

Dear god.... why oh why did he deal with them? (or continue to deal with them)

If the lined up investors, guys who make a living in picking horses to back, were worried why didn't Arrington listen to their concerns

And after a brief scan through I dont see any/many mention of contracts or agreements between TC and FG. As we said before that is a basic mistake - and it looks like it is one that was actually made :(

Personally I am coming down slowly on TC's side: Fusion Garage are screwing about.

However the one thing I am certain about now is that I would definitely never go into business with or invest in Arrington. He's destroyed any reputation he had as an investor / businessman for me.

Shambles.
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Outright misleading, linkbait headline; it implies that he insists all Firefox users switch from Google to Bing.

What he actually says is: "[...]if you care about your privacy, remember that Bing is better than Google, at least in that department."
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