skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>how does this implementation enhance or detract from the user's ability to do what they're trying to do?

If you're capitalistic about things though sometimes you want to do what will hinder your user's ability to fulfill their goal.

For example at the supermarket - I want to get milk and get away quick but the supermarket wants me to go through the whole store and be confronted with offers and the smell of the instore bakery, etc.. My experience is frustrated on purpose to benefit the business financially.

Similarly with "checkout" offers on a sales website. One particular printer makes you manually leaf through about 12 pages of offers after you've confirmed your purchase - it's a poorer UX (IMO) but will benefit the business.

Others will argue, this last case say, is an improved UX as I get the chance to bag offers I perhaps hadn't noticed. Thus it's subjective.
BRB. Just gotta go copy some content from Cooks Source website to throw up on my blog. An industry veteran editor has just told me it's OK to do.
A Compendium of Design Models
I am partial to IDEO's models. I have a poster outlining their approach above my desk.

Do you explicitly follow an established design process when you are developing ideas? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Starting is easy, Finishing is hard. - http://goo.gl/03XrI

"This is my best piece of advice for any entrepreneur… the first 80% is easy, the next 15% is hard and last five percent is painful."
That's possible but the impression that I have is that by always including such remarks it has the effect of making people who disagree with security measures as wanting something bad to happen. It's sort like the question, "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Instead of focusing on whether or not the measures are appropriate the debate is about whether or not you want to be safe. I think it makes dissenters look bad by making them against being safe.
Based on this, don't take the money. Use your own money instead.
I did tell both when they asked that if they owned 10% of nothing when it was all said and done they would get exactly that amount ... Nothing, neither seemed to see that as an issue or a possibility, I guess maybe that was part of the problem. I want them to realize it could really happen!
I never understand why people automatically assume travel must be expensive.
"If they could use the other guy's monkeys, they would. "

No, they wouldn't, any more than a scientist would use only one monkey. Because animals vary. Hell, my Mom had two uteruses. If you don't look at different specimens, you don't know if what you observe is peculiar to the one specimen, or generally applicable.

Using atomically identical hardware would be a bad idea, because then you wouldn't know for sure if your results are replicated because the experiment was good, or because of some quirk in the apparatus.
what do you do in winter?
HFT relies on colocation, which means, there's only a cage between different vendor's hardware.
"I just applied to YC W2011 and was rejected"..."I do have one relatively small software exit ($1M) in database technology."

If that doesn't underline the difficulty of getting into YC, I don't know what does.
I'm from Austin and I've blamed transplants from other States for the exact same problems. I've decided if I can't beat them it's time to join them and I've got a long plan (years) to move up to Seattle and become a transplant myself!
I am partial to IDEO's models. I have a poster outlining their approach above my desk.

Do you explicitly follow an established design process when you are developing ideas? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
and then make a point of loudly enjoying the pat down.
Even w/ this visa London will be no more attractive as a startup hub than New York, both of which are dominated by over-paid financiers who have driven up the cost of living to unaffordable levels for normal folks, let alone boot-strapping entrepreneurs. And then there's the weather...
You might be thinking about this quote from camping-list?

No, let's not have rules. I don't feel comfortable with having
coding standards or any protocol on Camping. The point of Camping
is to have very ugly, tricky code that goes against all the rules that
people make for "beautiful" code these days. To show that ugly code
can do beautiful things, maybe.

I don't want to demonize anyone here, I just want to express the
ideas that make Camping different. Camping's personality is 80x50.
It is like the little gears of a watch that are all meshed together
into a tight little mind-bending machine. The challenge of Camping
isn't to figure out how to automate obfuscation. The challenge is
to bring new tricks into the code that push Ruby's parser and make
everyone look twice. Not all code needs to be a factory, some of
it can just be origami.
It was simple, but I liked that they used and mentioned things like perl and emacs in The Social Network.
On the contrary, there's just not enough of the right kind of speculation ;-)
I"m so glad you're finally getting some pick up on this. It's really a fantastic effort! Your openness is also truly appreciated!
Makes sense.

I was on the opposite side of things, when I did we last. I had language integrated into the web server, and I wrote my own caching primitives. All optimization went into the request handler, and optimizing a single function is easier than debugging a whole stack.

A decent solution, but it had no massive inputs, so I slept better at night knowing it wasn't being tested.
What you say about averages is very very true.

Linus Pauling once said "If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away."

which can be extended to:

"If you want to have good HN comments you must have many HN comments. Half of them will always be below average, and what you have to learn is which ones never to post."
Using virtual currency that you can earn in-game, but also purchase with real money, seems like a great idea. The users don't feel like you're hiding the good stuff behind a paywall, but you still give them a way to pay for it if they want to. I like it and I'm glad to see it could actually work.
With people like you who have never had a real conversation with him judging him based on a single action, how can he be expected not to act defensive? Was part of that psych degree learning how to form opinions of someone based on one piece of his writing, without even seeing him in person to see his body language?

And who cares if you're self-centered, anyways? The world you see is your world. You can take control of it and make your life what you want it to be, or you can float along on the tides of fate and call the ones who don't self-centered.

The funniest part, to me, is that you call him self-centered, but at the same time you expect him to write his article in a way that gives you value.
I think it's worth talking about. For half a century, nearly the whole country has been glued to the TV and told (sometimes more subtly than others) what to think. That we are breaking free of that is newsworthy.
If someone knows how to do with with OpenX, let me know. I've read using iFrames is a solution, but don't know the disadvantages to this.
More than one. But it takes quite a few swallows to make a summer. (I am working in the Cambridge Science Park.)
Ridiculous, but inspiring :)
You can do some A/B testing to try different things and see what works. Try http://www.optimizely.com/ [YC].

But with 250 visitors/month converting to 1-2 sales/month, my advice would be to focus on acquisition instead of conversion. Increase the volume of visitors a bit, then focus on improving conversion.
It's funny sometimes people think the internet is so big, no one will notice, when actually its the other way around.

Not only does the internet do a good job of exposing things, it catalogs everything, so it's hard for you to just remove something without someone or something saving it.

I once had someone wrote some crazy shit on their blog about my friend. My friend approached this person, and she denied it, and apparently tried removing her blog post. Luckily Google cached the entire thing.
"Oh yes... A bit to the left, that's it!"
btw in regards to confidence, the only thing I have ever been accused of is being too confident. I did everything I could to keep my last startup open including making hard decisions like toothpaste (so I could look clean for a meeting) or macaroni and cheese (so i could eat something). That was not because I could not do anything else it is because I believed in me and knew if I hung on it would work, in the end, it did.

I refused to ask for any money back then and/or noone offered it (largely because they thought I was crazy i think) soo I have never been in a situation quite like this one where people come out of the woodwork wanting to hand it to me.

It does not exactly help that I am a semi-celebrity in the city I live in (only about 250k people) even the new mayor-elect called me "possibly the smartest young man in the united states" in his acceptance speech the other day lol.

Obviously that is not true, but I think those factors contribute to people wanting to bet on me.
From the types you give, I can't see how it works. Would you please elaborate?
Then "creativity" kind of misses the point of software engineering, doesn't it? I respect _why's abilities and contributions - he's done a hell of a lot more for the Ruby community than I have - but I don't take much truck with the "coding as art" mindset. It's a field of engineering with creative overtones. It should be treated as such.

Of course, I'm a nobody, so no one cares much what I think :)
he had 8.5 million of his wife's money to spend.
I'd tell my father that chances are that you succeed are one in 20 and that unless he sees that money as investment in his son's education he probably will feel like it was a waste.

I know my family and friends don't understand odds very well so I refuse to accept money from them and go instead with professional VCs and angels who know how it works.
TED - Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain
I played Balance of power for too many hours until I finally figured out the only way to win was to not play.

I also wasted tons of time on Eastern Front 1942. A great game because UI was so well thought out
Nope.

I'm saying that the models should fit the past data. I think I misunderstood lzw. :)
For women, there are http://www.flyingpasties.com
Massive shifts in TV usage haven’t happened yet. It is increasing or stagnant, even among young people. While some countries show very coy declines in TV usage among young people (on the order of one or two percent) you have to consider that TV usage only ten years ago was way down compared to today.

Multitasking seems to become the predominant usage model. Americans use media on average for twelve hours per day, that wouldn’t be possible if they weren’t using some things at the same time.
I really enjoyed "Guns or Butter," it really taught me something about economies and infrastructures
"Can't work under those conditions"?

What, having to use "git svn dcommit" to do pushes is a huge deal?

If you're going to be a religious git adherent, learn to use ALL of git.
Transformers. "Maybe it's a precaution, because isn't that what we're doing? The signal pattern is learning, it's EVOLVING on its own, and you need to move past Fourier transforms and start thinking quantum mechanics..."
A war between China's largest IT companies
"According to the companies' websites, the number of active QQ users in China has reached 1 billion, while Qihoo 360 also claims to have had at least 300 million users prior to June 2010."
No one has any room to complain if they prefer git and the shops repo is in SVN. The git-svn bridge is Excellent.
My guess is the option of opting out is likely going to be removed in a year or so. The most effective way to remove freedom and privacy is incrementally.
I'm surprised Al Qaeda hasn't used the DC snipers as a model.
The guy was afraid of flurries. I'm sure he considers all of Canada to be a horrid ice box.
Shoreditch is anything but cheap. It'll fall off pretty quick by the time you get to Stratford though.

I lived in Tower Hamlets (ie, the area in question) for 10 years and loved it. A lot of native Londoners look down on it as it has a reputation and is kinda rough around the edges. I understand a lot has changed in the last few years with the financial collapse and them dumping money in to the area in the build up to the Olympics.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html < Doesn't require much fighting at all.
For those interested in scientific frameworks and existing packages: Scientific track of EuroSciPy 2010 [1]. Everything from seismology to visual programming.

http://www.euroscipy.org/track/870
Eliminating Political Parties (Scott Adams)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique_(graph_theory)
The message in this piece isn't new, but needs to be listened to more often. Success is measured in terms of months or years, not minutes or hours.

One quick extension to the post:

Consistency doesn't come by building a cage in which you are forced to get something done. It is far better to consistently build positive motivation. There are dozens of ways to do that, but however you do it, motivation will win out over restraint every time.
Who's going for the end of November? I'm building a new business right now and I'm aiming to ship it before the end of November. I have my MVP live already (landing page & pricing page), and I'm collecting some metrics which are showing promise so far, so now I'm working away on the actual product. I'll likely do a Show HN sometime soon to get some awesome feedback.

Love the idea of sharing and aiming for this target with others, bringing in accountability. Let me know how I can get in touch.
You get the same thing with any developer using git-svn...

You can just train the "new tech tolerant ones" in git-svn and don't worry as well.
Well how would you ever know? You never get to see.
So... what happened to that $1m exit? Have you already used it all on your new company? Why are people trying to give you money if you already have a ton?
lol my thoughts exactly ... I really wanted YC for the contacts and opportunities, so I was a bit bummed about that. i would have gladly given the percentage of the company and done the program for free simply for the chance to meet the types of people I would have been able to through YC.

But clearly you are competing with the top caliber of people in tech and the reality is I am just another 23 year old college drop out from a private liberal arts college with a big dream.
"According to the companies' websites, the number of active QQ users in China has reached 1 billion, while Qihoo 360 also claims to have had at least 300 million users prior to June 2010."
WarGames is far from having the most ridiculous hacking scenes. In fact, if I had to write a list of technically accurate movies I would have it on my list. It showed:

1) War Dialing - Dialing phone number sequentially in order to find machines that you could connect to.

2) Redbox-esque recording of tones from the locked door and playing them back to open the door.

3) Shorting out the coin mechanism of a payphone in order to make a free phone call.

4) Attempting to login with common system accounts and brute-forcing passwords.

It was obvious to me that someone involved with the movie was pretty familiar with phone phreaking and computer hacking techniques.
I only say it is desirable to be able to replicate results. Nowhere do I say that science must consist ONLY of replicating results. It actually is a bit weird to me that so many people leap to this conclusion when it is obviously falsified by other existing sciences where results absolutely can be exactly replicated and yet scientists do not deliberately discard that ability.

Replication of results is merely a step in the process. Once you establish replicated results, you proceed from there. Maybe you observe that the results are irrelevant because your monkey is weird in some way, and you test it on another monkey to establish that point; others can then examine their copies and decide whether you've got a point. Maybe you build on the experiment with a standard test bed. Maybe you take apart the apparatus to demonstrate how a bit of impurity corrupted the results, and then everybody else can do the same disassembly. Maybe you shuffle in some new monkeys and hardware and run the test again to be sure. Not being able to precisely replicate results is a handicap that the various sciences proceeds through anyhow because it has no choice, not a desirable part of the process. Sure, there's a small amount of danger that you might overfit your results, but there's no guarantees anywhere; it's less than the danger that you face from non-replicable results.
Not having replicability only throws away options, options that smart people could use to further their science, option that when missing can only slow progress down. That dumb people might misuse it really isn't a very interesting point.

And again, I reiterate that to the extent possible animal researchers do in fact try their best to get animals identical as possible, so I give you not only the theory I outline above, but the practice of biology as well, where carefully controlled standardized gene lines are used.
The whole invasive pat-down is just a way to intimidate and humiliate people away from that choice.

This is the last straw for me, personally. I'll just be vacationing closer to home now or working old-school road trips into my plans. Maybe if the outraged take a few less flights a year, the vacation, airline and union lobbies will take up the cause.
All it reminds me of is the person who actually had that idea, on this site, five days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1849311
Not to mention always having a signal on their phones.
> Similarly, if you read the MySQL code looking for magic words to say to the server to get it to give you data, saying those words is not copyright infringement. It's "learning", not "copying".

What would happen, if the protocol would require sending a picture of a picture of Mickey Mouse with each request (or some copy-righted novel)?
Group video chat!

One less reason to use iChat. Phew.
I lived in DC for 7 years. Some of these are redundant.

pros:

1. public transit. Metro is pretty good, bus is fantastic within the district. A car is a liability in the district. Outside the district ... well why would you want to go there anyway?

2. Diverse neighborhoods. Gentrification has been creeping west to east across the city, but between lily white Georgetown and what remains of "Chocolate City" in Southeast are a number of incredibly diverse communities.

3. I think the food is pretty good. The K St/downtown area it's pretty lousy, but its not hard to get good eats in Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Dupont, U St, and parts of Northeast. If you can find the real thing, the half smokes are damn good.

4. Ambitious people who give a shit about interesting things. Bars are packed with 20 somethings who work for nonprofits saving the gay ostriches of Namibia. Yet almost everyone is cynical enough that they don't actually expect to change the world.

5. Exceptional parks. Decent hiking in Virginia national parks. Not far from decent beaches.

6. Surprisingly good biking despite the dumb fucks on their cell phones. The city is packed with bike messengers who are aggressive and keep the cabbies in line. Traffic is bad enough that cyclists are more worried about hitting a car than vice versa.

7. Not nearly as dangerous as it's made out to be. Crime is for tourists and dealers. Take a stroll through some of the Northeast neighborhoods and you'll get mugged. Live in those neighborhoods and you'll be fine.

cons:

1. The rest of the country sends their most ambitious lawyers to DC. Fortunately, most of them live in NoVa or never leave Capitol Hill so you probably won't have to actually interact with them.

2. Crap tech scene. Mostly gov and large contractor stuff who have piss poor standards.

3. Rent. Although, if you aren't a prick you can find some decent places in the "rougher" parts of Northeast.

4. Southeast is a little bit of Beirut circa 1980. No, you will never have to go there, but knowing that it exists is kind of a constant bummer.

5. Local politics is ridiculous. Marion Barry is a national punchline, and he's definitely not the worst of DC politics. Congressional control + the landlord lobby makes for a giant clusterfuck.

6. The weather is disgusting.
"half-a-pack of certs?"
In any team larger than 3 actively working on code, git is a far superior local client than svn. The speed of checkin, pushing, and merges are phenomenal. Even if you use svn as your backend server, git-svn is still a stupidly good local client to use and gives you a huge number of the benefits of using a pure git solution.

Now remote git repositories (akin to svn repos) do not have a good locking large binary file solution. But other than large binaries, git is very nice in comparison (You could do hg or bzr if you prefer and gain the same, although their git/svn bridges are not known to me).
"What about a drinker? what about a skydiver? Lets take it further what about a homosexual? oh no that would be wrong. OK what about a swinger (they are high risk sexual lifestyle)?"

Like I said, it has the potential to affect workers. If I caught someone high on the job, I have a feeling someone would be able to successfully use this law to tell me, as a business owner, that I wouldn't be able to fire them due to "discrimination". If getting high or drunk did nothing to your work performance, I wouldn't really care.

How does swinging or homosexuality do anything to hurt the performance of a worker? It doesn't.

If you were the only developer at a company and the business would be pretty much screwed without you, do you think it's fair to the company to be involved in high-risk behavior? This is why from the company's standpoint, everyone should be replaceable. It equally balances power.

"I respect the personal freedoms of the individual far more than I do the personal freedoms of a business, because when it gets down to brass tacks, it is the people that are the reason that he is in business in the first place."

Now we are getting to the truth. You are self-serving and only believe in something that will benefit you. Customers are the reason the business is there in the first place. Workers are getting paid and are provided a living. You act as if starting a business involves no work. It involves sacrifice and most workers just aren't willing to go through it. Would you spend all your free time working on a business? Or partying with your friends and relaxing?

"if an employer discriminates against people based on personal choices made in their personal life they are an asshat"

Banks don't hire felons..and neither would I. This most likely is a personal choice. Businesses only hire people based on personal choices. You might have decided to major in computer science and write programs for fun (all personal choices) that led to having the skills to work for a specific company.

"I love how business owners feel that they have become the masters. It is the reason for the term corporate slavery."

I love how employees feel that businesses should be forced, by law, to hire people they don't want to hire. Corporate slavery is an insult to people that were actually slaves. You have the freedom to leave at any time, you just choose to stay and complain about how you are a "corporate slave". This, by definition means you are not a slave.