skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don't expect to get a great website for less than $5,000 if it is a small one and $15,000 if it is medium sized. Good design takes a lot of time and iteration.

This is totally true, I paid $12,000 for a top of the line design on a site ~5 years ago, but that was after the business was already profitable and the better design/domain/branding would pay for itself. If you're not profitable, funded, or growing really rapidly, just get a functional CMS and a functional, decent design to start. The better design will help later, but it's the wrong place to put your resources if you have no users and no money.

Edit: Wordpress is totally decent and more versatile than people think. I was introduced to GetSimple recently by Yifei Zhang, it's open source and it looks pretty decent out of the box. http://get-simple.info/

Edit2: Also depends on what your business or app is. Share more details? Maybe a link if you have a rough version somewhere?
So another VC-backed company bribed a bunch of interviewees with free stuff.
A 14 year old boy once found a botnet on an ircd. Instead of going to the ircops on the network, the boy infected himself and found the inner workings of the botnet and posted it on the internet. The internet was quite pleased with the boy's findings, but the boy did not assume that a certain group would obtain the server of the botnet and get access to it. The boy watched as the zombies spewed out all types of information to this certain group who had got admin access in the same way he had put forth in his discussion on the botnet. The boy learned that full disclosure is not always in the best of interests of everyone and still agrees with that in his 25 year old manhood. :(
Don't forget:

695 - Mongoid http://github.com/durran/mongoid

seems to be the Rails/Mongo project to watch. They got a slick looking homepage too: http://mongoid.org

Hoping to try using it on my next project.
Summary:

I read the same trendy business books "everyone" is reading.

They didn't help me.

Therefore, don't read any business books.

(except mine)
Look at the prices of unmetered commercial connections to understand the economics of overselling and burst connectivity.

I have a 15Mbps home connection, which serves me brilliantly when I need to grab an ISO or watch a couple of videos. I have no illusions that this is equal to a business 15Mbps connection, which would be significantly more expensive. A T3 runs $3000 a month, best case. I pay $45 a month.

The original point that I disagreed with was the assertion that everyone should have a unmetered 6Mbps connection. Firstly, I don't want a 6Mbps connection -> I want a 15Mbps burst connection that best accommodates a normal user. Secondly that's enough bandwidth that if you filled it at Amazon's AWS, you'd be paying some $240 a month, and Amazon is at the crossroads of a number of primary connections, pretty much the cheapest place to possibly origin data.

Joe Homebody is many nodes down, through a lot of infrastructure and choke-points, and the cost for throughput is significantly higher: My neighbourhood has a large number of cable modem subscribers, and to aggregate the total sum up through each junction would lead to enormous bandwidth potential.

In the mobile space the situation is vastly uglier. I don't think most people realize how incredibly crowded the data space is.
Watching that video, there doesn't seem to be a reason to suspect the van of being engaged in hostile activities. Your interpretation of that law would allow the military to kill any civilians they please, merely stating that they suspected them. I suspect this interpretation is incorrect.
Sounds like you just indirectly Asked HN.
Stat analysis says Palin cost McCain 2% of total vote in 2008 election
It's a lot easier to refactor a website midway through designing it than it is to move the walls of a house midway through building it.
Given the dominance of multi-core processors, why would a teaching language be single-threaded. Shouldn't you train people to think in terms of multiple processes?
thats not a mockup thats a wireframe

web designers absolutely should use photoshop, because they are essentially providing the "theme" around the wireframe, that may be designed by the UI designer.
In a noisy, communication oriented environment is it any wonder that design has tended towards simplicity. The examples of historical design given all communicate a superior status for the family/institution that had requested it's construction. Granted, similar vanity projects of today also tend towards minimalist design principles. Perhaps this is a reflection of the increased importance that society now places on communication.
You've got me curious: What type of big js applications do you spend that time writing? Anything game related, or is this purely a hobby?
Combining Business Models, Customer Development, and Social Entrepreneuership
Far be it from me to encourage the fostering of bureaucracy, but this is one case where a consortium with a self-governing body might actually be in order.

Imagine an industry-wide QOS board. The board solicits input and transparently sets standards for types of traffic and the priority they recommend giving them. Then providers who have signed on to the charter agree to prioritize exactly according to these standards. The board reconvenes annually to examine current technological trends and review and update their recommendations.

Possible? Palatable?
Marketing? Actually, I think we've been waiting 45 years for a general purpose tablet.

http://www.filmjunk.com/images/weblog/treknobabble50_9.jpg

I think we still need an an optional stylus. Some tasks require more accuracy than a finger.
* Has known bugs that will not be resolved until the newer version is purchased.

* Is developed and delivered in big-bang style rather than incrementally.

* End users and support staff are not involved in purchase or evaluation.

* Primarily sold by offering decision makers (people with budget) tickets to the British Open, Premier League football, great meals, etc.
I'm on Linux btw, that might be part of it too.
We sort the tweets you'd normally get by relevance rather than chronologically so if you are actively looking at every tweet already then you'd have already seen the tweets we recommend.

It's more useful if you follow a lot of people and don't have time to read every single one.
Thanks! We'd love to hear about any ideas to make it more relevant.
Aren't anti-malware software and similar expenses needed regardless of browser version? This is a cost that can't be avoided so the upgrade isn't going to eliminate that and save money in the long run.
Of course. Personal branding.
Jolicloud 1.0 Netbook OS Released
Google Wave, Microsoft and Engineers Running the Asylum
Yes I suppose the second paragraph is more correct. I was suggesting that the 22% on average does not necessarily indicate that an individual investor is doing great investing.

On that note, just a passing idea, seeing as the 1000 companies do make great return, way above equities, then perhaps there should be some hedge fund or whatever, so a bit like investment managers. Basically anyone can give to the fund however much money they want, the fund is run by some professional experienced people who then use the money to invest in start ups or new businesses. That way, if the fund is big enough, you are much more likely to get 22% return, which compared to equities is really good and of course it greatly serves the economy and enterprenours, so basically everyone.

Is there actually such a thing?
As far as I understand things (which might not be very far - I went to university in the UK) American schools generally aren't something you get to go to without paying. In which case it doesn't seem like the school is giving students iPads.
The fact that you didn't know this is evidence that you've been following your own advice. Bravo!

Personally I'm skeptical of most of the conclusions I've read about ego depletion. I think it's like anything else: there's a balance to be found between self control and self release. And the more you work at it, the more you can yield and still stay balanced.
I do. I also know that a handler has responsibilities towards them.

And that's why the handler should never disclose personal data on the informant. If you can't trust the analysts down your chain, you can't protect your sources and, ultimately, yourself.
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This is more of a pricing strategy than a business model.

This is a good overview of all the elements of a business model: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Business_Model...

That would give a better picture of what you're experimenting with.
Author? Thanks.
Well personally I think it's a matter of 'walk before running'.

All of the basic programming paradigms still hold true when you move to multi-threaded coding, they just get executed concurrently... People new to programming generally have enough trouble understanding the basics without concurrency thrown into the mix..
I was a cofounder of an online spreadsheet company funded by seedcamp, the ui was entirely in javascript(15+kloc), and I have some chat clients + some other things that arent complete.

The game stuff is purely a hobby (for now), they are quite fun to play and to program, and I learn a lot from it.
I'm surprised this thread has gone on this long without reference to the DevOps movement that is looking to address this process problem. One good link: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing...
How Disqus does Partial Deployment with Feature Switches
Thank you are right, updated
A Reverse Auction to Conserve Kilowatts
Important fact: Wikileaks asked the Whitehouse to help them filter out the names of informants and other sensitive people before they released the documents. The Whitehouse chose not to do so.
How to make a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months
You have it backwards. You are looking at the cream of open source developers, and then asking whether they have blogs. But the question isn't whether blogging is correlated with coding excellence (i.e. whether top tier of devs blog or not); it's whether coding ability is correlated with blogging (i.e. is blogging more associated with above median devs or not).

There are over two million programmers in the US alone. My proposition would be true if more people in the top half of that distribution blogged about coding than in the bottom half, and I don't think that's an unlikely suggestion. Even if you think whether someone blogs or not is random, the subject of the blog is not. People's estimation of their ability is correlated with their ability (Dunning-Kruger effect notwithstanding, check the paper's graph - perception is compressed but not inverted), and I think it's conservative to say that people who think they know more about a subject are more likely to talk about it.

To make it clear, I'm talking about blogging as a signal of ability, not ability as a signal of propensity to blog (which is what you suggest measuring). Since there are a lot more people coding than blogging about coding, it would be unlikely in any case to find a high proportion of bloggers at any level of the ability scale.
TechStars Launches 11 New Startups In Boulder
Discipline, as you define it, sounds pretty tortuous. I prefer a way of life where what I ought to be doing and what I want to be doing are the same thing.
I don't understand why the ACM is so perturbed by Python.

I'm only half way through reading it, but these don't seem to be Python-specific objections. A big part of it seems to be contesting the logic behind choosing Python, and they also suggest that there should be a process for having other languages declared acceptable for this purpose. They also worry that differences in versions/implementations of a language may lead to problems with reproducibility
System76's 2nd gen Ubuntu netbook released
Has whatever this problem is been reported on Launchpad?
English, Spanish and Catalan here. All of them as mother tongues.
Yeah... it seemed like kind of an odd article from someone who is trying to sell a business book.
Hmmm. That's like bio-feedback techniques, but cyber-feedback instead.
Keeping Hibernate honest on its maven implementation
It's much easier to install noscript and simply not allow its script to run.
Assertion, assertion, assertion. What was the vote count on that prescription drug plan disaster, again? How many of those same people, institutions and editorial pages are huge deficit hawks now? What happened to "deficits don't matter"?

You opened this thread saying "yeah but if we figure the calendar this way i can put all of the 2008 stuff on Obama". You advertised that you don't give a crap about reasoned conclusions, you're just going to attempt to twist the facts. You said out loud, "I'm doing this". Deficits don't matter in 2003, they're the most important thing ever in 2010. Whatever.

It's your right, freedom of speech and all that. But I'm not going to take you seriously.
Yes, we need to pay attention to our international users. Unicode is too much fun to ignore. :-)
Why tie identity to encryption? Just have a self signed certificate not show a lock icon, or some new icon that represents encryption but not independently confirmed identity.
Common, they not in the business of burning people for - - - reading! You know they have a war to fight and that probably keeps them very busy. Also, by freaking burning a person is a sure way to make enemy of the entire village, so they better go and find some other village. And I think they probably depend to a great extent on the goodwill of the village which probably shelters them and does not hand them over to the soldiers. By burning someone for - reading - is a sure way to vanish that good will and turn it into hate.

Now, burning someone as some sort of revenge or punishment for perhaps being and informer might make sense.
Is it okay if I love computer science and programming but don't like being called a geek? My activities and interests bridge several cultural divides. I don't like being simplified.
A Robot That Climbs Walls
Do you think compiled languages have reached their EOL?
You need some amount of identity checking, to tell you that the https://uncesnsored.citadel.org/ you're talking to today is the same one you were talking to yesterday and last week. SSH handles this by remembering the key used on the first connection; Perspectives goes one better and checks from multiple parts of the network.

Tying these online identities to physical-world identities is what can be separate.
We've used both MongoMapper and Mongoid, and are very happy with Mongoid. It has nice ActiveModel integration, so it works quite well with Rails 3.
While this argument sells to the crowd, it's facile and doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

It does hold up, the math is all there. However what it does NOT provide is much room for burst capacity.

What I am saying is that the carriers could simply set reasonable expectations, and provide the consumer the option to choose what kind of connection to the Internet they wanted. They might even be able to provide priority routing to a specific content provider, if that became worthwhile in the future.

IE:

You can get a 15Mbps burstable connection for $50/mo. For this you might get 15Mbps, or you might get 6Mbps, but we'll guarantee you never get less than 2.5Mbps. It might also be a 95th% style billing scheme.

You can get a 5/5 symmetrical dedicated connection for $65/mo. We might even be nice and let you burst to 8Mbps if the capacity is there, but you'll never get less than 5Mbps, and you'd likely never get more than 8 either.

For an extra $10/mo on either plan you can have a "friends and family" routing concept where any traffic to the content provider of your choice (Hulu or Yahoo or Google, etc.) is guaranteed to never be less than 4Mbps.

Instead, it appears that what they are driving at is selling you a gob of bandwidth for $x/mo., unless you want to use that gob to connect to a business deemed a competitor or threat, then it's 2x.
I'm sorry, in the interest of brevity I may have been unclear. I don't think that I'm "interpreting" the Geneva Conventions. I reported what the convention said, and explained that to know whether the US had violated the conventions, we would have to know whether there was "suspicion". It would be up to a court to determine this. While the video is one piece of evidence, we have no way of knowing what other information was available (e.g., did the daily intel briefing warn crews that Taliban forces were using white vans to transport fighters). My point was that the GC does not make all civilian deaths illegal.
Well, it is a group for languages enthusiasts, a demographic which seems to like functional programming more than others do.
Predictalot Brings Wall Street to March Madness
My favourite out of the group is RentMonitor [1].

As a student I saw how much effort it takes managing a house with multiple tentants. This has a clearly defined market with customers who have money.

It's good to see many of them have business models baked in from step 1 and are not web consumers plays that I've frequently seen come out of Techstars.

1. http://www.rentmonitor.com/
They normally don't, but if you're a smart, hard-working developer, then I'm sure they'd consider it (even if your programming expertise is in a field that doesn't match what they do).
"Honda is a one-trick pony; it makes cars." - a tad bit ignorant. Heck, even Honda's competitors advertise their lawn mowers.

// that GM commercial pretty much ended my buying of GM cars
"They not in the business of burning people for - - - reading!"

Maybe not. But they hang 7 year olds to send a message to his family.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/bloody-taliban-revenge-...

That America is fighting a foolish and unwinnable war and instigating a witch hunt for Assange doesn't mean the Taliban aren't sadistic psychopaths.
The Proposition 8 Ruling (in simple language)
How about going to a different browser than IE? E.g. Links does not rely on any service packs as far as I know.
Poll: What type of device are you using right now?
What are you using to view this page?
Definitely getting huMongous - looks like it's used by justin.tv and foursquare - good enough for me.
By the way, there is a MongoDB shell on the homepage for tryruby.org like mini tutorials => http://www.mongodb.org/ Convinced me enough to get interested and download mongoid as well :-)

Hmm, now all there's left is an online hosting solution like Couch.io
Can you elaborate? Why would this present a problem in particular for doctors?
Thanks for sharing your top words. We are looking into using bi-grams for the top words. When you say "look at multiple words" are you referring to how google and wave are not together?
Mongoengine is pretty tight for python/mongo
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Anyone here with multiple irons in the fire who is satisfied with both the quality of their work and their income from it? I am trying to answer some hard questions for myself in this regard and hoping that examples will help.

EDIT: Or, alternately, people who failed at this and want to tell their story of how focusing on one thing worked. Pros and cons can be equally good food for thought.

Thanks.
What's wrong with that? With the sealed battery, you can spill blood all over your iPad and wipe it off, it'll work fine. After two years when the battery only lasts three or five hours, erase the device and send it in for a replacement. As long as they don't charge more than the battery + minimal labor, it seems like a fair tradeoff.
I did... http://prgmr.com/xen

I'm profitable.. does that mean design doesn't matter? or does that mean that a minimalist, web 1.0 looking design can lend credibility in some markets? I don't know.

I used the YUI css and layouts, and probably spent maybe an hour working on the design, including setting up ssi include files to pull in the content. (haha. xbithack on!)
Maybe he already sold his company?
It's really difficult (and really, really expensive) to recruit developers in Cambridge (even for Red Gate, which has a fantastic and very friendly company culture). We're talking upwards of £10-20k PER developer...so the innovation is finding and hiring 10 developers for a fraction of the normal cost (they interviewed hundreds of applicants and were still very picky about who they hired).
Joy of Clojure – In the Books
The System Wasn't Designed For That
Related:

Verizon has also moved to dismiss the story. "The NYT article regarding conversations between Google and Verizon is mistaken," the company said. "It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability, and incorporates specific FCC authority, while maintaining investment and innovation. To suggest this is a business arrangement between our companies is entirely incorrect."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/05/gogle-denie...
This is yet another comment that reminds me of what in my mind is a related problem. I encounter more and more sites, including major ones, that include insecurely delivered (http://) assets into their secured pages (https://). My understanding is that this is another vector to get at e.g. forms and cookies, or basically anything on the page; by intercepting the insecure asset, you can inject yourself into the secure parent page.

I always wonder "what's up with that"? Is it that the particular assets don't lend themselves to injection, or an assumption that items delivered from a server under their control can't or won't be intercepted? If the latter, particularly once the traffic hits an unsecured wireless segment, I'd be inclined to say all bets are off.

EDIT: Nit: HN linkified the bare protocol designations.
> It's just easier to get critical mass in the cities.

That's absolutely true. I have some personal experience trying to get critical mass around a local-social application, and I've seen a number of others, and it's very hard in most places. What isn't clear to me is how starting such a service in New York teaches you anything useful about achieving critical mass anywhere else.
Folio is nice, but it's missing what for me is the killer feature of GoodReader: the ability to crop the white margins for all pages of a PDF. This immensely improves PDF readability in portrait format.

The Folio Fit-to-width functionality (only available in landscape mode) is already able to detect and automatically crop white margins at the top and at the bottom of pages, so why not create a mode that automatically crops all 4 margins in portrait mode?

Another much needed feature is text highlights and text notes. Since Folio already has the ability to select text, it should be no big deal to add this to the app. Make the highlights and notes syncable a-la Kindle, and I'm sold.

One minor nitpick: Most apps seem to place their Back/Up button in the upper left corner. The Folio "Library" button should be on the left and the search button on the right.
I think there was an article on HN yesterday about the Justice Dept threatening certain school for their use of kindle which were not adapted for people with disabilities. This might trigger the same response.
Just a guess: sensitive medical information may persist on the device when it's shipped back to Apple.
If your truly trying to setup peoples thought process, then thinking in parallel from the start would probably be a good thing.
for reference, my personal record: 693m
Ok fine. Seriously though, this is silly.
Tell HN: Hiring a great, remote front-end developer for a Django project
Hello Friends, please email me (mattculbreth at gmail.com) if you're available to do some front-end development work on a Django project.

This is remote work, using Django 1.2.1, JQuery, CSS, etc. There's a working application that needs some help with the UI. I think there's about 3-4 weeks of work to do.

Looking for more of an HTML / CSS / JavaScript designer and programmer rather than a Django hacker, but if you know Django well all the better!

Thanks!