skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another issue has been their pricing strategy. Do you have any resources on how to figure out pricing? i.e. how to calculate COGS - from both variable + fixed costs.

The more I think about it, is the more I think pricing/volume is the bigger issue.
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The Venture Capital Gender Gap
Ah ha! So here's where you've all been hiding.
http://www.reocities.com/TimesSquare/1266/
Yes, sorry if that was unclear.

In less snarky words: Even facebook told us quite clearly _how_ they screwed up the other day (the config management issue). In contrast this heroku article was disappointing.
HP wasn't the first. In the 90s, there was Lucent Technologies, aka Bell Labs (Unix, C, C++, vi, plan9...): http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/tag/carly-fiorina/

http://www.finnov-fp7.eu/publications/finnov-discussion-pape...

(disclosure: my parents worked there at the time and brought home the internal news every night)
Foursquare did add more MongoDB servers, the problem was that the 5% of records that were migrated off of the full server were small, so the removal didn't result in many memory pages being released, so it didn't help. This article does not address how any of the alternatives address small records and rebalancing with small records.
I have to wonder if Zuckerberg saw the same movie I did. It was crystal-clear that his character in the movie was motivated by the same Wow, wouldn't it be cool if... impulse that he's saying was absent.
Who decides whether it should be forbidden or not?

What if I'm traveling to a high crime area? I might want to install this on my phone, to make recovery simpler in case someone steals it and starts messaging their friend bragging about their great new phone, and to meet them at Taco Bell in five minutes so they can show it off :)
What advice do you have for marketing your apps?
And why are CEOs getting paid way more than everyone else if they have zero responsibility? Seems like an absolutely sweet gig if you can get paid and shirk any responsibility for a company's failure.
The «?» ending is common in (at least some implementations/variants of) Scheme.

In Common Lisp and other Lisps, on the other hand you'll usually see «-p» instead of the «?».
I work on one which gives developers total control of front-end views, and is mainly intended to make it easier to develop new models/behaviour, and add administration UI. But it gets dismissed because of the server-side language (Coldfusion). The framework/CMS is FarCry (http://www.farcrycore.org/).
Excellent marketing gimmick from Reddit
I think there is definitely room in the market.

I myself would not have an issue with it being in Canada, and for some, it might even be a plus.

How exactly could the files on your storage be accessed? I assume http ?
I agree, but in the case of HP I would add that the board has been entirely capable of disgracing itself independently of Fiorina. Fiorina, Hurd, and Apotheker didn't manifest out of thin air, after all.
Also, why Ruby project pages mostly look beautiful or at least like someone tried to make it look pleasant, and every Java project (except Octobot) has absolutely no CSS?
Party on, Offer HN, Party on
Do Sisters Make Us Happier?
I've built a little morphology parser in my spare time, and I'd love your thoughts.

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/3103/morphology-parsing...
Wow, when did those disappear? That phrase immediately brought me back to ~1994. :)
I am the co-founder of http://skyara.com and we're actually building a marketplace for services like 'Teach RoR' or 'Learn SEO'. It'll be launching in a couple of weeks so stay tuned.

You'll be able to offer your services for free (we don't make any money from that) and it's exactly designed for what's currently going on with HN, so very excited about that.

sorry for the shameless plug, just thought it was very applicable.
Barnes and Nobles? No one uses a library anymore?
I understand the gist of your post, but I don't quite understand where you get 1 night from. From what I can tell the 1 night thing was to fix a bug, not improve performance.

Regarding the 5x increase:

> One of our operations engineers, Ricardo Chimal, Jr., has been working for some time on improving the way we target messages between components of our platform. We completed internal testing of these changes yesterday and they were deployed to our production cloud last night at 19:00 PDT (02:00 UTC).
excellent list
Yep I was aware of the page being added. I'm just suggesting however that it gets added to the top nav bar of the site to encourage people to continue posting these items in an ongoing way (although hopefully at a more reasonable frequency than today).
Someone downvoted the suggestion which seems a little harsh. :)
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it's surprising that java is mentioned to be "in demand", however, no Java certifications seem to be in demand. Being a enterprise j2ee developer for about 5 years now, I was thinking about finally getting my certification....but now..maybe not.
First, Apple isn't removing Java from OS X. They will stop shipping their customized version of Java in several years.

Second, every popular piece of software has vulnerabilities. So if this warrants the removal of Java, you should remove Safari and the BSD kernel from OS X as well.
Tough call with real interest rates at zero or negative.

The Fed has created a bond market bubble to replace the last couple that popped. They mean well, not wanting Mom to default on her upside-down, floating rate mortgage. But they are not doing us any favors in the long run by threatening the value of money.
Hello, thanks for the reply and advice. I was really busy today so couldn't check HN until now. I would definitely send you an email soon.
Off-topic: IMHO, this page has a unique and beautiful design (reminds academic papers)
^^ Great idea. A proper iPhone/Android web interface for HN would be awesome.
The user is also alerted when the applet tries to run, and they would need to approve the privilege escalation request for the applet; it has an untrusted, self-signed cert.
Here are some quick thoughts, although I didn't get too far:

The demo video audio didn't work, so I couldn't figure out exactly how to use product. There's also no help section or features section, which left me guessing on how to use product and what problem it would solve for me.

Minor UI issue I noticed, in Chrome, the background images on the signup page show a light grey background instead of the darker page background.

If you can fix the audio issue, I'll take another shot at reviewing.
Cupidtino is hiring a developer
Common sense is also enough on Windows, except when it isn't.
Button design seems disorganized. I see 3 different button styles on home page.

Only the latest news should be shown on home page with a link to the rest on another page.

The wording "There is a free plan" seems confusing. Does this mean that there other plans I have to pay for? I didn't see any on the site, so I'm assuming its all free. Maybe reword or get rid of it.

I answered my own question once I signed up. It would be better to put a link to all the plans up front, rather than showing after I sign up. It might even be better to combine the basic membership and 5 day free trial. Make it so they automatically get the 5 day trial and then have it revert to a basic membership.

On the personal ww.com home page, the icons seem amateurish. Can these be replaced with more stylish icons? There are a ton of free icon sets that would look better than these.

top nav links are confusing, as they all lead to an upgrade page if I'm not an elite member. These should be combined into 1 page with a title like "Benefits of upgrading to an elite membership"

Overall, site design needs to be upgraded as I get the sense this is a scam site. Look for some free templates that can give it a more professional look. Not trying to be harsh, but wanted to give honest feedback.
If you are comparing programming languages and marriage then here is my advice: Stay Single.

Don't get too hung up on any one language or framework. Stay flexible and hold the door open to something new and better if it should come along.

Even python - without a doubt a more elegant better designed language than php - has its shortcomings.

And php, for all its shortcomings has its clever bits too (except, that it didn't so much as go through a design phase as it went through growth out of necessity).
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Thanks for the advice, i tried to keep it short. Do you think writing the benefits as a sentence or bullet points?
In Python land, the clear web framework winner is Django.

Is this really true? Personally, I prefer Pylons by a large margin.
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It's great when people are so helpful. It's the little things that change how you feel about your day.
well, for starters:

Invalid address: sadasaYou must provide at least one recipient email address.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /srv/www/salespanelpro.com/public_html/demo/control/libraries/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php:464) in /srv/www/salespanelpro.com/public_html/demo/control/autologin.php on line 62

I got that by giving you a bogus email address in your "see demo" thing. I understand why you want an email address, but I'm not interested in giving one up. Not yet, anyway.
User action is required; the applet needs permission to get outside of its sandbox, so a standard "This applet wants permission to access your computer and data, Approve or Deny?" dialogue is presented.
But Android is open!
When I joined HP in 2001 out of college, the first thing my boss had me do was read the book "The HP Way." It was by Dave Packard and outlined their history and philosophy for doing business. My boss was an HP lifer and loved the HP culture and made all his direct reports read the book. Sadly, reading the book just made me realize what a different company I had joined since Carly's changes were soon felt through the organization. Even more so when HP merged with Compaq and instilled their Texan-style top-down management approach and booted out the more distributed and democratic approaches towards innovation and decision making. I finally left in 2006 when the Compaq IT management started forcing all IT employees to move to Houston or Palo Alto (I had just moved to Chicago).
It sounds like the question should be do women make us Happier
I rock it old school and still prefer web.py over anything.
LaTex templates and great comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714381

Someone to help you with your CV: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1837767

Some hacker talk about CVs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1518898
On home page, copy above try it now button is misspelled. Should be prioritizing, not prioritize.

Overall, I would clean up home page as it looks like too much is crammed in there. A cleaner look would help to focus on the most important things. Some suggestions: Get rid of the big image of 3 phones and replace with the gallery of images. The 3 phones really doesnt provide any useful info to me, but the gallery does. Take the Find out more page, rewrite and condense what you have there and put it on the home page. Make sure to be more specific about what problem this solves for me.

Everything below the gallery should be moved to a secondary page. If you have more testimonials, give them their own page.

The comparison between your product and Archer definitely should be expanded and on its own page. Include more info if possible about differences, including screenshots.

Its confusing that About Us link goes to your twitter page. I was expecting a page with info about your company. Same with Contact Us link, and blog could be a link of its own.
Where the Facebook 'Friends' icon came from
Oh, and the guy appears to find massive copyright infringement to be a huge joke, based on this video he just made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCzYNctx9Vo&feature=playe...
Not quite what I mean, but that's ok :)

With Feedback Roulette, every submitter is also a reviewer. "Communal review."

With the paid editorial service, submitters only pay pre-authorized editors.
http://tabtrick.com

Much Appreciated :-)
I initially thought this was going to be some rogue app that looks like a game, fart machine or something innocuous but behind the scenes sends your text messages to the developer. That would definitely be unfortunate and is a risk. Although if a fart machine app asks for access to your text messages and that doesn't cause you alarm, that's a separate issue.

This is more of an issue of identity / authentication. The phone doesn't have any way of knowing that the "you" which installs the app isn't the "you" that is the primary user of the phone. The phone tries - it offers you a swipe code lock, you can even install other locking systems.

Imagine if the app was not described as a marital eavesdropping tool but rather as a way to help you keep a record of your text messages that you can view via your account from your computer. It doesn't install an icon because there is no on-phone UI and the icon would just clutter the apps menu, a convenient feature to be sure. Same app, different story. The Google Voice app has a very similar idea.
Well, let's think about it.

So a bakery is basically a big box where people visit and purchase bread (which is usually made on site).

So the price per loaf * number of loaves sold = Revenues
The food costs (flour, yeast, ingredients) and packaging costs = Cost of Goods Sold.

But then restaurants have a whole host of other costs which might be somewhat fixed.

Interest expense, Restaurant Wages, Rent, Restaurant Operating Expenses (utilities, maintenance of the building, repairs), General/Administrative (corporate level costs), Advertising/Marketing expenses.

So the key is to figure out what is going wrong. If you have a bakery housed in a location where the rent is just really high, you'll either need to raise prices on bread (could hurt volume), increase volume, or reduce rent.

If the interest expense is the issue then you need to either restructure the loan or pay the loan off asap.

If they are not profitable, they will want to determine how to become profitable. That's either going to come from increasing volume, increasing prices, or reducing costs. But any of those strategies could have their own drawbacks. Price hikes can reduce volume.

If you switch to inferior ingredients you might reduce volume if it alters taste. If you increase volume you will be baking more bread which will require more by way of labor.

They need to first establish what their problem is, then they can analyze potential solutions.
Hmm, I actually don't get that if I enter the same input. Do you get it consistently?
Site looks great. Is there a way that you can combine the sliding copy on the home page. Its great, but I have to click 3 times to see your guarantee. Its below in smaller text, but easily overlooked. Always the best price, gimmick free pricing, and satisfaction guaranteed could be combined as they seem redundant.

On the get started now page, why does it say to enter 4 or 5 numbers for zip code. Should be 5 and with no default zero added. It just makes it confusing as I have to think extra and only enter the last 4 of my zip code when I'm used to entering all 5 digits.

Model of cars should be alphabetized on step 2

On step 3, can you reverse the order of Google Checkout and PayPal. PayPal is the most popular option and should come first. I've also read articles about how Google Checkout doesn't help much and lowers conversions in some cases. You might want to research this more and possibly get rid of this option.
All I am trying to say, it only makes sense to do/know effect analysis of your changes, before actually doing it.

I fail to see, why they need to revert a piece of code, and then realize, OMG... this version of code does not fit well with the rest of architecture, now change it back.

1.) I do not expect Google (or even a small shop, like my place) to revert any piece of code which is not affected.

I, HOWEVER, expect to know what changes I am EXACTLY doing, and what to EXPECT after the changes.

(It should not be black magic, for historical code).

2.) I fail to understand this, why should this the case for older code? I can understand some tricky/edge/minor cases, but whether the architecture/database etc. (major compatibility) is compatible or not, should be possible to calculate BEFORE doing the changes.

I hope I am not over-trivializing the issue, but I still cannot get my head over the approach.
These are great questions. Exactly the ones I am asking myself right now as a non technical guy trying to work out which piece of the puzzle to start with in building out my project .
If I clear my cookies and reload the home page, then I can consistently repro it.
Was under construction the first web meme? All these people couldn't have arrived at the same metaphor individually (as obvious as it is).
If true, this is a huge omission from the article. Got a source?
(instead of made money, as you suggest)

I apologize if that's how you read my post; I certainly didn't intend to suggest that or to belittle the amount of work and money that you've put into this project.
Vulnerabilidad Crítica  en Firefox.
Free book idea, which I got close to writing a few chapters of during the height of my ActionScript programming heyday: Flash for Programmers.

Getting started with Flash development is difficult for CS-trained programmers. Most tutorials seem aimed at designers or animators. I haven't seen a good description of the end-to-end tool suite for flash or a list of best practices (e.g., using Flash for animated assets, exporting to a SWC and importing symbols as objects).
How is rolling back one of software component, without knowing/calculating whether it will "play nice" with the rest of the architecture/services is acceptable/reasonable?

Am I missing something here, please let me know?
"The learning curve these days is not a new language (it takes a proficient programmer just a few days to get her arms around the basics of a new language). The learning curve is with the framework."

This is my main problem with this line of thinking. Developers aren't actually developing anymore. They are mashing together frameworks.

I've looked into frameworks like Django. It's not good because it abstracts away the functionality of the database. It's nice that everything is an object, but if you want to do something more complex and go around the framework, things get messy and start to feel hackish.

I am a PHP developer and I generally don't use a PHP framework. I have my own set of classes that I wrote (and improve on). I have also used the smarty template engine in the past, which works really well for keeping HTML separated from the actual code (and it has built-in caching). Jquery is also great for the front-end.

I started development with pascal, then moved to c/c++, and finally PHP. I like PHP because it is a high-level enough language that makes development easy, yet it's still powerful enough to allow for complexity and lower-level functionality. The c-style syntax doesn't hurt either.

PHP 4 and below had many security issues (what were they thinking with register_globals?), but 5.1+ has made some major changes.
It is possible to kill the evercookie
Fancy mumbo jumbo words to differentiate somebody from somebody else.
Changing times - a glut of lawyers in the marketplace stymies recent law grads
Suck at planting trees and baking? Save the children via programming
I just recently volunteered my time to start building a website for a charity called "Friends of Himalayan Children" The team are doing great things for child labor issues in the Himalayans.<p>The founder is only 25 and his persistence and caring attitude was truly inspiring.<p>There is a campaign starting for November that plans to build heaps of renovations before Christmas, it would be amazing if the kids could have a renovated hostel and school to take into the new year.<p>The organization takes orphans off the streets and gives them homes and best of all an education. A small donation is priceless<p>Edit: http://nepalesechildren.org<p>Anyone who donates gets a private mention on the sponsors list<p>http://www.nepalesechildren.org/friends/<p>A email I got from them<p>"Hey Thomas,
WOW!!!! We are so so excited, it is the best website in the world, we absolutely LOVE it!! We cannot thank you enough for your fantastic work, you truly are making a massive difference to the lives of the children in Nepal. This website is going to make all the difference, I cannot count the amount of times that people have asked us about a website and it was always something that was being planned but now you have made it a reality, how GREAT! Your work is inspiring Thomas,we are so grateful.Many many people have promised for the past two years to develop a website for us but you are the only person who has followed through with it, you are fabulous! We will start getting word out to our contacts about the website tomorrow morning.
Thanks again Thomas for your hard work. You must come to Nepal soon, you will be well looked after there!
Som and Susan"
I'm not questioning the validity of the data point, but why would RDBMS have a cost of 10 times per unit of storage? I haven't heard this reasoning before. Anyone know where this comes from?
Does no-one in the legal system see the injustice of current copyright law?

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Other idea:

If I owned a blog hosting website, could I register as the DMCA contact point for $105, and cover all blogs I host AS WELL AS THEIR POSTS?

I could start up pressword.com, host 10,000 blogs with user comments, and charge each blogger $10 for 'legal fees'.
If you put up half of the money that went in to it sight unseen then we'll call it even , deal ? ;)
I'm in Melb. It'd be great to have a chat, bump heads with another HNer. Can you contact me via the details in my profile.
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Having kids makes you wiser.
Google does. It seems pretty clear that it violates the Android Market Program policies, specifically the sections on impersonation, private information, and illegal activities: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/android/market-polic... I would expect Google to remove the app from the Market and any Android phones it was installed on.

While your use of the program would be fine, the promotional video linked in the New York Times article makes it clear that the intended use is to spy on your significant other's cellphone. There are much easier ways to recover stolen phones than to install a program on it that will forward text messages to your non-stolen second phone, but good luck with that.
"You may throw something back at me about reaching influencers... yes you can try to do that.... but to a certain degree you're at the mercy of society's whims."

You are right about this. But, the amount of companies that became successful due to this sort of luck are the exception rather than the rule. It doesn't happen that often.
Unfortunately this is one of those things I can't speak to very well, because I wouldn't consider my marketing efforts for my own apps to be successful. For me, it's been trying to build the best apps I can, and then send them along to friends and other developers I've met and hope they get some use out of it and spread the word. So far, nothing has taken off, but my focus is mostly freelance at this stage anyway so I haven't pushed much. My free to try "Safari to iPhone/iPad" app, Previously, has about 10k downloads, 5k active users, and a substantially lower number of paid upgrades to the full version.
Thanks for the advice. Noted the points.
Alright, I see it now. Made a temporary fix that will cover most usual input.
I'm going to add a design and manufacturing guide for consumer electronics. Stupid question but to add a thread do you use the submit or is there another way? I know stupid question but my connection is acting up and I want to make sure it's just me. I keep getting http://news.ycombinator.com/r.