skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all very well to say that the market "self corrected" unless you lost a bundle w/ stop-loss orders that were triggered on the down-spike.
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I just started reading Cooper's About Face and by chapter 2 it's already changing how I think about UI design. Granted, I sucked at it, but still...
Unrelated to this particular post, but the video on the About Us page is "No longer available due to copyright...".

This is a great service. I will definitely keep in mind when I have to send a fax next time.
There's no "The way to design" but there is "A way to design".

I would recommend you "Defensive Design for the Web" by 37 Signals and "Designing Web Interfaces" by Bill Scott.

These books use examples of Web Interfaces but you can apply them on anything. Be it a software or hardware.

Also, I would say, when you design something, Dont focus much on visual appearance. First try to make things clean and ask your non-tech friends to use it. See what difficulties they face in using your product. You will learn a lot from these experiences.
You're ignoring that in almost every other instance where you could have had insurance, you receive assistance and pay the price.

This is not insurance, this is a protection racket.

EDIT: By protection racket I mean this: I think in this scenario there is little distinction in letting something bad happen when it is well within your ability to stop it and making something bad happen.

"If you don't pay up I'm not going to be able to stop Vito over here from breaking your legs if he tries to break your legs..."
That's exactly the point seldo makes.
Re: good vs. bad clients -- I commented on part 1, basically saying that being friendly helps me find work, but it also means my clients are friendly/casual which can lead to time wastage. It's like the opposite of the super-type-a micromanager client.

When I feel a client is wasting my time, I try to gently remind them that, for a freelancer, time is money. Also, as Ryan suggested, having two clients/projects going on at once is the best scenario.
I disagree. Craft is skill. Art is expression.
Doesn't contribute anything useful to the discussion. If his intent was actually to provide valuable feedback, he could send the author an email instead of leaving snarky comments on another website.
Very good point. Sometimes minimalism is a lot more expensive.
What seems odd is that he thought Monty Python would be interested in trying to get (the equivalent of) a G rating.

Well, their TV show was entirely G-rated and suitable for children (even with the occasional naked cartoon woman). This was their first movie, so they hadn't really gone into offensive stuff yet (as they would with Life of Brian and Meaning of Life).

Monty Python generally appeals to children, so losing the "oral sex" in exchange for something that you can show your young kids wouldn't be a bad exchange. (I'd keep fart-in-your-general-direction, though.)

When I was a kid my dad used to have a set of Monty Python audio tapes which he'd play in the car on long journeys, but I didn't realise until I was much older that he'd edited out all the swear words.
PopCap: what do you think of my DropZap and upcoming DropZap 2 games?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNaM22Oulwg (DropZap 2)

http://dropzap.com
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To be fair, in big chunks of SoCal, it barely helps to aggressively fight every burning house. The pains of building houses on hills in an ecosystem centered around regular forest fires. :/
No, it's a story about a municipal fire department that had a business relationship with surrounding unincorporated communities.
Not having the dog would be the minimalist solution.
<< If convicted, Doxer faces a maximum penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment, a three-year term of supervised release, a $250,000 fine or twice the gain or loss, whichever is highest, and restitution to the victim >>

The guys's clearly done something bad but that seems a bit excessive.
no reason, this is what I was reading so I posted it.
My family has a Wii, but we hardly ever play it. I would save your money (or buy Minecraft instead).
What's your point? The (fire) victim chose to live in an area that had no fire department; when offered fire coverage at an extremely nominal fee (two cups of coffee a month!), they opted out.

About the most you could change in this scenario would have been for the FD not to have offered the service to residents outside their area, which would have made everybody worse off.
My challenge right now is finding good talent for co-founders or developers. My post on Craigslist got zero response, and my post on eLance got only one response from a fellow down in Uruguay.

I was at CAST 2010 this summer, and the buzz around the table led me to a small development company in Grand Rapids that hosted a bunch of us on a tour. It was great to learn about their business model and generate ideas.

I've applied to founder school in January, and if accepted I am sure there will be lots of good advice to go around. But, I am leading a workshop at eBay in a couple of weeks and thought I could make good use of my free time down there and perhaps figure out how to solve my talent problem.

Thanks for your advice and taking the time to respond.
How to write bad specifications
There is an enormous difference there. The achievements in games like Left 4 Dead are mostly of two types:

1. Recognizing natural progress in the game.

2. Interesting challenges that test or develop your skill.

Neither should be a "grind" in the Farmville or even WoW sense. Some games fail at this, but by and large I don't think the "junkie behavior" label applies.
I don't think companies are going to publicize cases of losing customers due to downtime. But just to turn it around a bit, think of someone coming to a site for the first page. What's the user experience for them if the site is down?
You are half-right, and such things used to happen occasionally - back when there were multiple competing fire departments, some of them veered towards being protection rackets. That's a big reason service is a (local) government monopoly nowadays.
I was going to post something similar, but you beat me to it.

This is absolutely fantastic advice for any startup, and something every startup should commit to doing before they spend months building a product. If you gauge interest before committing to an idea, you never risk ending up with a product that can't find a market.

I hope you flesh this out more and turn it into a blog post, it could benefit a lot of people on HN.
Yes.

(And it's funny how the American's have bent the word liberal to mean something closer to social democrat.)
You don't know what you are talking about.

A) You can't ping the market with "orders never placed." You can place orders which may or may not be filled. In this case, they were filled.

B) They are talking about trade volume, not order volume. Further, "200 additional contracts net". Thus means the HFTs immediately purchased 27,000 contracts and later resold 26,800 of them to someone else. Lastly, your laptop can probably process 27,000 trades in less than one second.
Very nice work!

I'm seeing a bug in the drawing demo on the front page. I can draw the first line and it works as expected, but if I release the mouse and try to draw a second line it's not working correctly. It doesn't show the shape that I've drawn until I release the mouse and it connects the end of the first line to the start of the second.
I'm not saying that many people have too much stuff -- I certainly do, and I'm not entirely happy about it -- but throwing out stuff you haven't used within the last week is easily one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Which is really saying something.
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I like Luke Wroblewski's advice a lot (http://www.lukew.com/ plus his two books on form design and web usability)

I have to worry about form design mostly, so two links I liked were

http://www.uie.com/articles/web_forms/ and
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/07/label-placement...

I also stole some ideas from here:
http://developer.fellowshipone.com/patterns/

Those are the ones I've read and somewhat followed.

I also bookmarked this framework to try out:
http://gantry-framework.org/

There are also several eyetracking services (some provided by Ycombinator companies I believe) - I'd love to have eyetracking studies on the company website, but the current management doesn't mind that it looks like crap since it will be outsourced anyways.
We have an internal, formal process. I think it works well if you have an established SDL; if you can point to your team and say "we're in the design phase, and this is the deliverable from that phase, and this is how it will govern development", then threat models are a valuable addition to that process. But unlike training, code review, and testing, threat models are actually closer to a project management tool than they are to a technical safeguard.

I wouldn't invest in it until you feel like you've got a groove going with code review and testing.
This is the heart of the matter. The firefighters were within their rights to refuse to let him buy their services, but it would have been better for everyone involved if they had put out the fire, then billed him for the cost.
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A few guys I know are working on a little project. It's nothing big, just a clever little idea. They plan on using the Google custom search to create a new 'Search engine' which can search for not only images but forum posts and music. While the site is only just getting underway (And has a temp domain) we still think it's a great idea for you guys to go check it out. Here's the URL :

http://googlewhite.comyr.com/

They would more than appreciate it if you had a look, after all, it's only a quick peek right!
> that are then restricted to being exclusively used from one of the world's most awkward and obtuse programming languages: javascript.

This is just flamebait. Javascript is just as capable as python, and these days, it's a lot faster too. Sure it has some boring idiosyncrasies, but so has python (one line lambdas are gonna be fun with heavily evented code such as DOM code).

There is room for everything in this world of technology, and i like the idea of this project, but please remove those corrosive and pointless statements from the main project page ..

EDIT : Well, downvoters ? Do you disagree with anything i said ? Because you are particularly silent at the moment, i can't see any of your replies. I stand by anything i said, calling javascript an awkward and obtuse language is flamebait, and implies a very shortsighted view of the technology the very individuals working on the project should know well. If you disagree with me, at least have the courtesy to explain why
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Maybe where you live.
This is awesome. We use diigo right now for tagging pages and sharing them but it is pretty weak. The ability to login & keep a history of your markups to share with others in your group would be tops.
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or maybe stop baiting Aron Wall?
4321 on OSX 10.6.3/Chrome 6.0.472.55 beta

4394 on OSX 10.6.3/Chrome 7.0.517.24 beta

(It told me to update as I was checking version numbers.)
Very true. If you made the problem worse by placing "sell at any price" orders, you lost money. On the other hand, if you (as many HFT's did) tried to buy at the bottom and push the price back up to normal, you made money.

This is why the market tends to correct errors quickly. Fixing things == making money, breaking things == losing money.
You're ignoring what I just wrote.

Also, a "protection racket" is when some thugs retaliate against you if you don't pay them, not when people refuse to provide a service you've previously refused to pay for.

I also have a dim view of the laws of the Alaskan city, but there's no call to throw around accusations of "intellectual dishonesty" and such just because you're angry, too.
No, in this case Calacanis had a point. Facebook shouldn't be allowing force joins to sketchy groups.
Definitely, that's why i said i agreed with the general sentiment. I generally reason in exactly the same way so i understand from where GP is coming from.
A computer screen is like a perfectly precise lightbox.

Gradients are tacky in print because they were expensive to execute on paper. ("Tacky" here used to mean counter to the Modernist dogma of purity, precision, truth, and generally "going with the grain" of a medium that dominated a large part of the late 20th century. YMMV.)

On a screen, gradients are not only beautiful, but useful in creating the perky faux-physics that have come to dominate almost all of consumer UI design. Part of this may be rooted in the measurable "effectiveness" of illusionistic UIs, but I have the sense that it's also about wanting desktop computers to be a cute little robots.

Also: grade.tumblr.com
A protection racket is when you pay to avoid damages, lest someone from the vendor incur those very same damages to you in retaliation for not paying. The fire department didn't set the fire.

Words mean things.
Not to be pedantic but it's more like a piece of functional message passing software with many agents each with their own immutable state (the final record is the ticker tape and it's generally immutable).
Inadequate phone support is possible failure point.
"We have a very flexible work culture that is focused on putting good, smart people in positions where they have responsibility and trusting them to do a great job. What the ‘work’ actually looks like is much less important to us."

Wow. Can't put it much better than that.
I'm usually the opposite. I highly doubt my abilities and usually forget that most other people don't have the same knowledge as I do. I first noticed this after graduating with a marketing degree, now I'm starting to notice this about software.
Just because he commented on the feature doesn't mean he's using it.
Um, no. They will take your stuff and sell it. If you then try to use said stuff, men with guns may come for using someone else's stuff.
If you want to understand the psychology of design you need to look for books on "human factors" and not web design books. Human Factors is a scientific discipline that is a subset of IO psychology.

While many of the books recommended on this board are good books, some of the authors learned through trial and error without the guidance of the scientific rigor that is provided by Human Factors, while others are just plain wrong.

The mind works in particular patterns, understanding those patterns will help you conceive of interfaces and test those conceptions, while verifying that it does indeed improve whatever metric you are trying to improve, not just emulate something that worked for someone.

Now I am not saying you need a PHD in Human Factors to design good interfaces, but a little grounding goes a long way. It will help you understand why something worked for someone in a book and determine if it will also work for what you are trying to apply it to.
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How do companies use Twitter or is it just for individuals?
Which other Social Medias are popular for Companies?
A CA system is simply one which is not available at all during a network partition, since it is partition-intolerant.

This lack of availability is different from the availability in the A of CAP, since that availability holds only so long as the network is not partitioned (by definition in a CA system).

Such a system might not be considered a distributed system at all (although it may still be distributing load), since a partition-intolerant system is effectively one system as far as the CAP theorem is concerned.

So it's essentially a special case of the CAP theorem, but it is still useful to describe it as CA.
The original StarCraft would almost be too easy: if you look at the system requirements, it's clear that the whole game could be ported to javascript and still run smoothly on modern systems.
I'm from Spain. We do refer to São Paulo as San Pablo. I actually never heard a fellow Spaniard say São Paulo.
When buying insurance for providing a service (especially a dangerous one), there are often conditions about the place these services may be performed and under what condition. It is pretty likely that their insurance policy will only cover them on homes that they are paid to protect. It might also be the case that a certain percentage of each yearly payment goes to insurance.
Nice. Some ideas (that you probably already have): typable sticky notes; a library of icons/images to overlay; audio notes; have some gestures (double-click like an iOS double-tap?) auto-select containing DOM elements.
Maybe so, but they're the ones who speak proper Spanish, just like only the English (specifically the Queen) speak proper English.
Which would those be? Even the most moderate islamic countries are still way behind modern countries on the status of women, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, and other such democratic values.

Granted, many of them limit shariah law, such as in the case of Jordan, which limits it to "matters involving personal law such as marriage, divorce, inheritance and child custody." But they still have it.
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I think the author, like many recently exposed to the CAP theorem, is confused about the meaning of partition tolerance, leading to ridiculous conclusions.

Partition tolerance does not mean your distributed system can't be consistent and available because your network dropped one packet, or one node failed. What would be the point of such a definition? Instead, the CAP theorem implies that while the network is partitioned, consistency or availability must be sacrificed. In the case of the dropped packet, once it is retransmitted the partition is healed and progress can be made. Or in the case of the failed node, nothing says that the rest of the system can't be consistent and available, so that the system as a whole maintains that property. There is no requirement that the unavailable node be available.

Truly partition tolerant systems are those that continue to function in the face of a prolonged partition, and those are the systems that must sacrifice either consistency or availability.
Come on, it's a movie where the hero uses Emacs! Unless you are vi bigot, you're going to love it.
There is another option.

Cost Per Fire = Fire Department Budget / Number of Fires per year

Looking here: http://www.ci.bloomington.mn.us/cityhall/dept/fire/budget/bu...

They've got about 1200 fires a year and a $3M budget

Which actually works out to $2500 per fire.

So actually, they could charge $2500 to put out the fire and end up at the same place.

So why not a tiered system.
1) $75 per year - no charge for fire extinguishing
2) $5000 - per incident cost to extinguish the fire. This can be taken out as a lien against the property for those without the cash to settle up. Perhaps a property owner does not legally have the right to refuse this service.

The "original spawn" for this post was an article where a fire department allowed a man's house to burn to the ground.
Which killed three dogs and a cat.

Allowing three dogs and a cat to die for $2500 doesn't site right with me. In fact it feels downright evil.

I'm sure it doesn't sit right with the firefighters. I'd imagine that they actually have quite a bit of "psychic turmoil" and possibly even "POTS" (post traumatic stress) symptoms because of their being forced to allow animals to die.

What if it were people?

Hopefully hindsight will fix this for the future.

Compared to the actual cost of the fire, the actual numbers paid out by the insurance company, and the actual losses, even $10K would be a deal.

Maybe if you have fire insurance you shouldn't ALSO have to pay the fire department. Maybe your insurance premiums should cover that (from the article, he does have coverage).

What is the price of life?

In short: this is a major Eff up by a bean counter. It makes me angry.
Great message, but one thing threw me for a loop. "got me validation of my idea" <-- why? 50k impressions to 200 surveys is a 0.4% conversion rate, and I'm sure at least some percentage of those respondents were not entirely positive. Where did the validation come from? Or was it the $0.50 CPA for your "users" (survey completers)? (Which seems low, assuming you can muster something like $1 revenue per user on average.) (edit: Or maybe you can think of the CPA as $2.00, since only 50 out of the 200 people signed up for the newsletter.)
How about building houses made of stone?
Just a suggestion, maybe you should consider a freemium model. I typically use faxzero when I need to send faxes since most of my faxes are less than 3 pages and they allow me to send my faxes for free in exchange for putting ads on the cover page.
I just don't like the contrived marketing of the film. People should be able to draw their own conclusions from the characters. Instead the conclusions are shoved down their throats "punk, genius, billionaire."

Honestly, I didn't find anything "punk" about the film nor do I think he was a genius.

The lottery is proof that millions of dollars doesn't make you smarter.
This is amazing the tool itself is intuitive and easy to use, but powerful. The only thing I would say needs a bit of work is your website. Declutter it, and make it more like dropbox.com, where the user has no other choice but to try it (rather than read about it).
Famous logos and brand designs simplified
the best way i've heard it phrased is 'given the presence of a network partition, you must choose whether to maintain consistency or availability'. this does not mean that any network partition will make data unavailable if you choose C. it only means that some network partitions will make some data unavailable to some machines. picking A does not guarantee that all data will be available to all machines in the presence of a partition either. given a CP system with 3 way replication requiring a quorum to make progress, i would argue that the set of partitions in which data becomes unavailable yet would still be available had AP been chosen is very small and not worth worrying about. in systems designed to be up 100% of the time where partitions are the exception rather than the norm CP is almost always the right choice. in systems designed for network partitons, like replication to mobile devices or laptops or whatever, AP is almost always the right choice. the problem with trying to apply the CAP theorem to the real world is that the CAP theorem's definition of availability is not the same as most people's definition of availability in practice.
Thanks a lot for the answers!

1. Can you tell me approximately how many unique visitors you had during the shows? I'm kind of curious...

3. We're using cloudfront... So you'd advise on using Akamai instead? or would cloudfront be ok?

6. For payments, we're using Authorize.net (with the CIM feature to capture credit card information)... Hadn't thought that they could be a bottle neck but I'll definitely at least check up with them...

7. Makes sense, I'll suggest that...

It'll be a fun few months preparing... I've been meaning to play around with Varnish, now's my chance :-)