skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, it is true that even insignificant results can help you concentrating on how to make it look better. But insignificant results are disappointment if your goal is to increase conversion rate.
85% of Indian economy runs on black money because 85% Indians do not have any bank a/c
I wouldn't call them failed tests. In science a null result mean that you didn't learn anything but in this case who cares if p is 0.6? It is still more likely to make you money.
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Without inspiration designing a logo is not easy. Every designer needs inspiration before designing any thing. That’s why we have continuously posted article on inspirations. Any ways many people think that heart is only used in a logo of dating or match sites but i think they are totally wrong. Today i have featured 35+ best logo designs using heart as their symbol.
I'd be wary of concluding too much from other people's A/B tests. Yes, they serve as a good starting point but doing A/B tests yourself is still imperative. Case in point: Noah found out headlines didn't matter to his audience. But for many of our customers, a small change in headline does produce significant results.
I like how it implements "418 I'm a teapot" as well :)
This is a fantastic post. I just happened to be thinking about dashboards and data visualization earlier today and ran into this link. Thanks!
You are asking as if synthetic pop stars are a creation of the past two years.

It's only the marketing channels that have changed.
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I'd argue that this is simply a matter of the nature of money and investments. When you're a regular Joe cashing a paycheck, the numbers on your bank account seem like absolutes. But on the scales that large companies operate, things are a lot more fluid. For instance, banks don't have direct access to all the money their account holders have deposited, the exact value of a large investment is subject to all sorts of market conditions, inflation and currency fluctuations changes the actual value of things over time etc. Even if you look at the economy of a single person, this phenomenon becomes apparent.

Remember that "reported cash balance" is just a number. The actual assets backing that number can always be tracked down somewhere.
Sorry. Just saw this now.

Our code is built on top of their gem. We focused on the rebilling logic, which replicates some of their own vault / rebilling code, which most people here would say was a waste of time / money. (Probably was?)

When it comes to billing stuff, though, I really want to know what's going on behind the scenes ... hence ... rolling our own.

As we work out the bugs, I'll try to get a gem together. Would love to have people dig into it and make it better.
Even if Watson doesn't win, the fact that strong players think of him as a worthy opponent is a huge step forward for the popular perception of AI.
You make a good point. The solution is quite simple though, look at what they did with the non-mainstream language and ask a few questions. In my case, it would take me a couple of minutes to find out if someone just read "Programming Erlang" or a few online tutorial or if they have indeed built an OTP app.
Is there a way I could try out chart.io? I'm looking at a bunch of options here and what you guys seem to offer looks pretty compelling.
Also:

http://nokiapland.com/

http://nokiaplane.com/
If not a dashboard, then it's periodic reports... Or reports pullable on demand.

There's got to be a way to measure things and plan for the future, and reports/graphs/etc help a lot with that.

I think reports are necessary, but a dashboard really helps everyone see at a glance how things are going.

If your up-time graph looks like a heartbeat monitor, everyone knows what that means.

Likewise for active customers being a downhill slope when viewed weekly.

Most of the time, those graphs are just going to give you happy thoughts, but sudden spikes or dips, or worrisome things like those above... Well, you can SEE them and they mean more, especially to non-technical types.
Very nice :) Perhaps add links to other useful testing services on that page?
I'm now 100% convinced that you are just trolling. No reasonable person could come to the conclusion that you just came to without ignoring nearly all of the evidence because it doesn't fit some arbitrary criteria that you've decided to use to make sure your contrarian view is right -- in precisely the way Monsanto did in ignoring the evidence thrown up in opposition to him.

The opposition is strong, they cite references to the language (a few cite references to the software, true), but all are summarily ignored because, just like you, Monsanto decided they don't fit into whatever arbitrary set of requirements you woke up and decided to use today.

And, as of today, it turns out you were wrong anyways since the page has been reinstated.
Finally Google accepts the elephant in the room. Just a few days ago a friend while being interviewed had mentioned about search being ineffective for content farm sites and the Google employee was like "No Search is fine. Nothing wrong there".
Finally e-how, about.com, expertSEXchange.com can RIP, atleast for me.
I also hope that over time, Google will use this data from users via Chrome to somehow incorporate crowdsourced search results in it's results not just for one user but all of them.
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Here is one scenario that comes easily to mind:

I publish an article at only-original-content.com. The article has some images that are served from only-original-content.com/images. Now only-copied-content.com takes my original article and republishes it. Since only-copied-content simply copied the HTML, the images are still served from only-original-content.com/images.

In that case it should be simple to determine who is the original publisher. Of course, only-original-content.com could simply be a CDN that only-copied-content.com uses for its static resources, but, again, it should be easy to determine whether that is the case.
Cross the bridge when you come to it. You only need a handful of programmers in the first couple of years of a startup's life. The better they are the better. Worrying about whether you'll be able to hire 20+ Clojure programmers is best left for when/if the company is successful.
I am a humble cs undergraduate student too but I can already tell that PhD != Bright.
http://www.nokiaplane.com (seriously!)
"by now" != 2 years ago.

Pretty much everyone = most people, not everyone.
Yes but obtaining a digital certificate requires paperwork as well. And not to forget, renewing it every year (or two).
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No apology needed, no offence meant by me either. (And: downvoted?)

As for the screenshots: I much prefer them on the homepage instead of a video. Video takes time, screenshots don't. :)
Completely off-topic, but there is: e_e

Use your newfound powers of exasperation wisely, my friend.
A lot of these "no results" are just bad statistics. When a test shows no result it does not mean there is no significant difference. It means that the test cannot reliably tell given the available data. Technically, this is because as you decrease the probability of a type I error (lower the p-value) you increase the probability of a type II error. To lower the probability of a type II error, and hence have null results actually mean there is no significant difference, you needs lots of hits. Under assumptions that are reasonable for most e-commerce sites (e.g. 5% conversion, you want to distinguish changes of 5%) you need about 100'000 hits. Very few people have this much data, and hence their inferences are flawed. You can do a lot better than A/B testing with better maths. More here:

http://untyped.com/untyping/2011/02/11/stop-ab-testing-and-m...
This is all true, but I was referring to the financial accounting distinction between cash flow from operating, investing and financing activities.

Some banks count the influx as gains from financing, others as from operations.

In both cases the cash balance is not an asset, it's a liability because the bank can be called on to produce the money at any time.
Cheesy advice is the best advice :)
there still is a rule where you can't entering the country twice within a certain number of days without getting prior permission

This is by far the stupidest immigration policy in a large list of stupid immigration policies that have been passed. I know a lot of people affected by this crap. This affects tourist visas and so, in foreign high commissions, the visa officers will literally tell you how to cheat the system (by applying for a different type of visa, mostly).

IIT students were arbitrarily limited in the number of hours they could spend online because some administrator thought they should get out more

Whippersnappers. Back in my day, we had to cycle out to the nearby village to a cybercafe to get internet access. :)

(I actually graduated just the year before they wired all the rooms)
They might also want to test a link to an FAQ or Details page. I was trying to see if this was only for iPhone or Android but there's really only one option : give us your email.
My first thought was it would prevent Madonna, Moon Unit Zappa, Pope John Paul II from registering as well.
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I assume people who have run these "no results" A/B tests only gave up after enough traffic to establish no significant result was found given pre-determined X power and Y statistical significance cutoff. We have a calculator here to help determine what is the maximum number of visitors you need before giving up on a test: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ab-split-test-duration/
JSONloops: real-time, multi-user audio sequencer for node.js and the browser
Tell HN: Alice ML, Factor back up, Nemerle to go
Most of the programming languages deleted on Wikipedia yesterday have been restored. A few are still awaiting reinstatement.

Back up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(programming_language)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_programming_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioke_(programming_language)

Still down

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemerle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Nemerle

Hanging on by a thread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_programming_language

Any others?
Unfortunately flashblock and stop autoplay both prevent the viewer from starting at all, and once you click to start, it plays the unmutable music.
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There's not too good a way to get around that, is there? You do need to establish your identity by some means initially. Perhaps they can let you renew at less frequent intervals (like they do with passports), but other than that, what do you propose?
Credit for this submission goes to saraid216's comment.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2219348
Just signed up to say this is awesome! I'm teaching this at the moment to middle schoolers and I'm sure they're gonna love the game. :)
This is a great read.I have submitted it independent submission here.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2220912
If you type http://httpstat.us/1000, it returns:

100 Unknown Status
That's a pretty big assumption to make. I've seen people doing A/B testing w/ a few thousand hits max, which is not enough for most scenarios.
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A few thoughts and requests:

1) I'd love to use this tool but because of my job still need to look at the "official" search results from time to time. Is it possible to allow &pws=0 override the blocked sites so &pws=0 both session-based and browser based personalisation?

2) There's a lot of talk among startups about ignoring what users want because they don't know best. I worry that this move from Google might actually be detrimental to user experience. If you end up blocking a bunch of thin sites then the chances are high that you're not going to get better results for your search query, you'll just get fewer results (since usually Google only returns these thin sites when there's little else to offer). Also - as users get trigger happy and block a bunch of sites they may well be harming their own search experience. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how Google can mitigate against this? Especially when this rolls out to your average user rather than just the tech-savvy HN crowd.

Tom
Please show me a piece of software you wrote, with UI as simple as the interface on 3310/6310, but also packing as much functionality.

it was simple in design

The design was anything but simple.
You only need to take a look at equivalent phones from Ericsson / Motorola from that time.
I would be wary of that, given people's incredible facility with fitting a conclusion on top of collections of inconclusive data and then, worse, fitting new data into that conclusion. I have probably done it myself.

Two thumbs up for metrics and startups and startups for metrics, but I hear "delta Twitter followers" and start seeing subtle distinctions teased out holistic evaluation of the arrangement of chicken entrails.

(The difference between Twitter followers and chicken entrails? Chicken entrails have measurable value - people can at least eat them.)
One of the joys of travel is the disconnect. Frankly, the more connected we become, the less time we have for ourselves. I hate it that now I can go to just about the most remote place on earth and no longer have a good reason not be answering emails or phoning home.

Anyone who NEEDS this level of connectivity must be losing all power of imagination, of self-reliance, of self-sufficiency. One of the joys of being abroad is that sense of discovery, finding stuff out for yourself, and more often than not meeting new people in the process. Where's the fun, the romance, in having your phone recommend you a restaurant?

I don't have a smart phone, and am not sure I ever will. I'm in front of the internet all day long in the office, and often at home. Being out and about is a welcome break. And if I need to find somewhere to eat, I'll go find it myself. I'll take in the city, absorb my surroundings, and discover new things in the process.

I have seen the future, and I am opposed too.
What's the big assumption? We are using math here, not heuristics. There is no thumb rule like thousands and hundreds of visitors needed to get significant results.
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Right, but the problem is MeeGo doesn't even exist in a final or mature form yet. As Elop said, they could probably only get a MeeGo device out next year!

As for the native code argument, well I don't entirely buy that. Developing for WP7 is easy and accessible enough - as evidenced by the flood of apps the platform has already.
>And, as of today, it turns out you were wrong anyways since the page has been reinstated.

If you read what I wrote you'll note that I argued that if a sufficient argument for notability was pressed that this would be a reason for inclusion.

So, by your account that I am wrong I'd have to assume that the article was reinstated without presentation of evidence of notability or logical argument for such?
He's using the nginx full-page cache mechanism, backed into memcached. This way nginx does not touch PHP at all. It goes straight to memcached, which keeps data in RAM, so it serves pages in 7 ms.
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http://nokiaplanx.com/
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http://www.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/MythGeniusProg...
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good :) No doubt once you are plugged in their engineering talent is top notch.
Collaborative Design
I'm not sure that iterating more would have helped Wave. The basic concept of a live chat/document editing platform was too far removed from what people are familiar with, so finding a clear use for it was hard. I don't think Google could have changed anything in the product to fix that, although they could have iterated the marketing process to pitch it to whatever audience were using it most and spur uptake in that community, perhaps.

It would be interesting to see if a Wave-like collaboration platform would be widely adopted if it grew organically over time out of an existing Google product -- like Gmail.
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It seems obvious to the HN readership that integrating Maemo and Moblin would be a difficult and risky task, but I'm not sure whether the Nokia leadership understood that one year ago.

Basically, none of them were software people. The CEO, Mr Kallasvuo, was a lawyer who had been at Nokia for decades. He had seen the company's meteoric rise thanks to a combination of hardware expertise and logistic superiority, and his actions suggest that he couldn't see any other path to success.

At Nokia, software was at best something extra that enabled specific features of the hardware, not an integral part of the product.

At the end of 2009, they must have known that there's a problem on the software side, but didn't know how to go about solving it. For a leadership team of lawyers and career managers, a "strategic partnership" is a natural solution. They probably thought that they will solve the integration problem and accelerate Meego development by simply throwing another few thousand contractors on it (failing to notice that this approach was meanwhile killing Symbian).
Just because you aren't a fan of a particular technology doesn't mean that you are actively "anti". I actually went back and watched the original Wave demo on Youtube just so I could reconstruct my original reactions, where were basically:

- That looks really cool

- I wonder how they do that (the synchronized live edits)

- I can't really think of any scenario where I would want to interact like that

Now I can see how some people might like it, but I really didn't - and I still find it a struggle to see it being used.

Perhaps the gulf between email and instant messaging isn't just a technological one, but actually corresponds the way most people are happy interacting?
I simply said that a particular strategy is unlikely to work for men. That's a positive claim.
I mean the whole thing. The advice given to Nick by his father (in his younger and more vulnerable years), the statements he makes about how others seem to see him as a confidante, and also the way he characterizes Gatsby ("a romantic readiness for hope"), and definitely the last sentence. Additionally: Nick's statements about conduct ("Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes...") and the "fundamental sense of decency". There's so much here.

When I taught "Gatsby", I did so in a Language & Rhetoric course. Instead of doing the standard New Critical Theory thing, we evaluated the statements Nick presents as factual, particularly those he makes about himself and about Gatsby, with the larger goal of 1) building a broader understanding of character as it relates to language and the presentation of the self, and 2) looking for inconsistencies (the end of Ch. 3, for example: "Everyone is guilty of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine. I am one of the most honest men I know." (paraphrased slightly)).

I can't speak conclusively to whether or not this was the best possible approach, but I will say that I had more than 30 students (out of just over 120) come up to me and say "Mr. E, this is the best book we've ever read in an English class." I'll also say that class discussions were livelier and better informed than any of the college literature courses I took (students were required to use quotations to back up almost every evaluative statement they made, and by the end of the 3-4 weeks we spent on "Gatsby" knew the book almost as well as I did. I cannot say the same for even my senior/grad level literature courses in college).
If you double click a few times on the game screen, that usually straightens it out.
I did a similar experiment a few years ago. It's based on GAE and you can find it here: http://httpstatus.appspot.com/

source code: https://github.com/arthurk/httpstatus
I certainly would not argue that there is explicit value in knowing delta Twitter followers, and wasn't what I was suggesting. If you're trying to retrofit causation to a clutch of assorted metrics you happen to have lying about I totally agree you're going to come up with some misleading conclusions.

What I would say, however, is taken as one - albeit low weighted - input into a system (my brain) that might x-ref against some other indicators of different significance might lead to the conclusion "there's unusual activity afoot". The # of Twitter followers doesn't tell you much about what's happening but might indicate that something is happening.
Hint: he founded the company and named it after himself.
You do not need to type in /s/blah/anotherblah, it is already enough that you just hit the 'Up'-key on your keyboard. You then can edit previously written text!!!

It is really interesting that nobody points this out ;)
...what advantage would that sort of psychology provide the woman?

It leads her to believe your genetic material is of a higher quality than she could normally gain access to.

Eventually the woman is going to go elsewhere to obtain the security and stability a healthy relationship provides.

Sometimes. But that's a better outcome than if she stays with you and goes elsewhere for higher quality genetic material, which is far more common than most people believe.
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Information asymmetry. Obvious for a local, unknown to him.
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Just wanted to say thanks for the great comments on this topic. I'm just working on optimizing page speed for a client, and there's a wealth of suggestions on this page.
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if the guy re-formulates his question like

"is 12000 requests the norm for a popular web site"

would it be better
Sure, but I wouldn't sacrifice my position as the world's leading commodity phone OEM to try to compete on features and brand with Apple; that sounds far more obviously suicidal than gambling on the Win Phone 7 platform