skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hit the nail on the had. I think the much larger market is the non-technical user. Most "business people" (for lack of a better term) want access to lots of data to drive their key metrics. But being blocked on an engineering team to make and push changes to a website is a huge barrier to it ever happening.

A/B testing for marketers instead of engineers is a killer value to offer to a business.
That isn't really true. If Microsoft somehow ceased to exist, business would switch away from Windows and products written exclusively for that platform would be toast. The difference is really that for internet/cloud platforms, temporary outages can lead to lost revenue--which everyone developing apps on those platforms hopefully recognizes, especially given Twitter's former reputation for instability.
With the exception of the major western RPG makers (BioWare, Bethesda), most western games are either just as linear as their Japanese counterparts, or their exploration is almost completely pointless.

Also, I've been very disappointed with the "problem solving" in modern western games, which boil down to "we liked Half-Life 2, so move some crates around!"
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What's the advantage of Phrot over competing blogging platforms?
I like that someone is trying to come up with a better SQL syntax, and agree that many existing OO wrappers (and NoSql query syntaxes) end up making it more difficult to write queries. But this proposal seems to make things a little too brief for my taste (what's the difference between < and > again?).

I wonder if there's more to be gained by developing shorthand for more complex bits of SQL. For example, I've always been annoyed by the group by syntax, which seems redundant since the SQL interpreter should be able to determine which SELECT columns to group by (all columns that aren't aggregate functions).
I'm glad someone put that demo back up. I saw it in presentation slides last year but the live site never worked when I tried it. node.js had already changed a lot since it was written so I thought perhaps it had become dead code.

I built something similar recently, also using node.js to power the data collection:

http://www.w3counter.com/stats/demo/1
Clippy sez: "It looks like you are trying to find a 'technical co-founder'".
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Ask HN: Am I too late to get a cofounder?
I've been a developer for a over a decade. From many side projects I have product lines that are starting to earn revenue, but I am a solo developer.

Now I'm concentrating on these projects fulltime and they are taking off (getting popular, gaining press, etc.).

Within my personal network there are some people that I could use (and who have offered to help). I want to bring people in, but given that I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and nobody else has done anything yet, there is an obvious inequity there. So I have no idea what sort of arrangements are good ones.

But I do want to bring other people in (I have two in mind, and am open to other developers as well). And I want to be fair/generous to them without being "bent over" myself.

Anybody have experience with this sort of stuff?

(posted anonymously)
I'm 22 and feel like an ancient grumpy scottish engineer.
Most companies operate on the same ridiculous performance review process that puts the judgement of your value to the organization into the hands of one person, your boss. OR they try to use objective goals that are obsolete as soon as the ink dries, so you spend your time either hitting irrelevant goals or managing up so you can work on the right things. It sucks. It's toxic.

It makes you a less-whole person and that makes you less-good as a parent.
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I work on the Platform team at Facebook and wanted to respond to some of the comments on this post.

Breakup Notifier is an interesting idea and an example of the sort of engagement that developers can get on Facebook Platform (according to our stats this app had ~13k monthly Facebook users).

That said, we've built a number of automated systems that track people’s response to News Feed stories generated by apps to ensure they have a positive experience and to determine if a given app is violating our policies. These systems have worked well, cutting spam by 95% last year alone.

In this particular case, Breakup Notifier triggered one of our automated systems due to an excessive number of negative user reports. The system automatically shuts down access to the app while immediately notifying the developer via email; which is exactly what happened for Breakup Notifier. We take this action to preserve the user experience while giving our developer relations team time to work with the developer to correct the issue. We have been in contact with the developer since he followed back up with us. We hope to get the underlying issues resolved and get Breakup Notifier running again.

We want Facebook to be a great place for both people and developers — and we work very hard to ensure that we are balancing all the factors at play. We think our systems do a reasonable job helping us strike this balance, but we are open to feedback and constantly look to tune how we react to these situations.

Comments, flames, etc. welcomed.
News flash: every highly competitive search vertical is full of this and has been for years.
Ask HN: Advice for splitting up with cofounder?
I think I need to part with my co-founder. I've not "broken up" with someone like this before though I understand it's common. Any advice?

My story: I'm 8 months into a new B2B SAS business. I invented our product, built a prototype good enough to land a $200k seed investment from people who know my previous work, and then spent 3 months looking for someone technical to join, get founder's shares and a small salary, and be our CTO while I take care of marketing, design, sales, and money as CEO.

I found a guy who came highly recommended from people in my city. We spent 4 months building the product out. I designed it and he built it. I found us two customers and we put things into production in early 2011. We're now making just under $1k/month and stand a good chance of hitting $5-15k/month within 6 months.

My partner has always been kind of hard to work with, but my patience has worn out and I'm done trying to save the relationship.

I am the sole director of the company and own the vast majority of our common stock. He does have some though, and I was naive enough to just grant it to him up front. Our lawyer says its lamentable but there are ways of dealing with it.

I do not have an immediate replacement lined up. Mutual friends of ours have offered to help keep the lights on for a few weeks, but I'm looking hard for someone to formally step in for the short term or long term.

Tips on how to unwind this relationship in the best way possible?
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Looks like they have put some warning before using the test account.
"One of the most difficult decisions that a CEO ever makes is whether or not to sell her company." — why "her company", is it about female CEO?
I think the author makes the mistaken assumption that everyone is cash-rich and time-poor. Plenty of people are the opposite, have plenty of time, but a limited income.
You really like that word, don't you?
See Zynga.
Prioritize:
1) Health
2) Family's health
3) Marriage
4) Reputation
5) Education
6) House
7) Savings
8) Job

That doesn't mean there is nothing left for the job. Just don't fool yourself into thinking you can support one of these when anything more important is threatened.
love it. as engineers we tend to think in terms of solutions. just ask my wife. but thinking in terms of users, of the consumers of our work, will always get us closer to the right solution.
GIL isn't really relevant for blocking IO-bound code, because the lock is released (and not contended) when blocking. For nonblocking single-threaded code such as Tornado's event loop, the GIL also doesn't matter. Not to mention that the real speed concerns had nothing to do with interpreted versus compiled, because Tornado very clearly held its own, and web.py+flup (etc.) have architectural issues with regard to performance, far beyond mere interpreter overhead.
I'll include the interesting details since there's more to this subject than simply being present on HN and having a CompSci degree.

Self-taught and proud.

I can regale you of the set theoretic basis of SQL JOINs, or of n-base arithmetic all you like.

1 decade of MIT OCW and as well as various books goes a long way.

Been programming since I was about 11 years old. 8 if you count AT&T GW-BASIC.

22 years old and working as a dev for the past 4-5 years. Moving to San Francisco for work in 2 days.

My way of becoming a dev is not the easiest or the best. I will do my damndest to get any potential children of mine into a good school. (It wasn't an option for me.)
I don't assume that I'm smarter than anybody. I also don't assume that people on here are just trying to be funny (recent influx of Reddit'isms aside), hence me trying to point out instances where Microsoft wouldn't be holding a Non-Compete against Elop.

In what market are Microsoft and Nokia direct competitors?

They had a partnership with Nokia for Symbian (Microsoft was developing Silverlight and allegedly a version of Office, although I don't know if either really existed).

Nokia's competitors are hardware phone manufacturers, which Microsoft isn't.

You might argue that they are "indirect competitors" because Microsoft makes a smartphone operating system, and Nokia uses smartphone operating systems made by someone besides Microsoft. This ignores the fact that Microsoft's customers are phone makers, and Nokia's customers are consumers.
I wish I could make this comment longer, but it's only the high price stopping me. It needs to be cheaper than the market leader, the iPad.
I believe, and think I do so based on reasonable evidence, that the "Greatest Generation" was in fact particularly good, and the Baby Boomers were quite possibly the worst cohort in the US of all time. Gen X was probably on par with the Greatest Generation in many ways, and Gen Y/Mill are too soon to tell, but certainly appear better than Baby Boomers.

Strauss and Howe's book "Generations" or "Fourth Turning" seems pretty reasonable. (http://www.timepage.org/time.html)

While I might not push the "redact the boomers" button (maybe...), it would pretty much fix all of the major problems in the US. Their outsize numbers have imposed a lot of costs on society, so even if their politics and economics weren't also destructive, they would have seriously stressed medicare and social security. Couple that with that seems to be the worst of both conservatism (lack of investment) and liberalism (lack of discipline), and they're a serious threat.
When you set up a blog on a traditional platform like Wordpress with the intent of looking for feedback on an idea, to share a story or just to start a conversation, or even just to share an idea with a large amount of people, there's not really any immediate way to do it, unless you market your blog and actively advertise it to get readers, and if you want to keep the interest of those readers, you generally have to commit yourself to your blog.

A lot of people just want to write something without having to spend time marketing it. It doesn't make sense, why would you want to do that, when all you want to do is write one or two blog posts in a year? Phrot is a very community centric site to blog with. It's designed for the person that wants to write about something, and wants it to be read, but doesn't want to have to go through all the hassle of promoting it.

This isn't designed to replace other blogging platforms like wordpress, just to provide a more suitable alternative for people who want to do things a bit differently. I hope this answers your question :).
That's an interesting one -- sitting very neatly between EE and SE (or CS, if you will).

What are your thoughts on it, now having gotten the degree? Happy with it? Would do it over again if given the chance?
How do I go about finding a technical-co founder? 
I have an idea that I would like to make real but have none of the programming capabilities necessary to create.

1. How do I find someone that can help me with my idea?

2. How do I make sure that they are really capable of doing what I am asking them to do?

3. How do I ensure that they don't just take my idea and run with it?

4. If someone is found, how are these sorts of partnerships usually split monetarily?
Your experience with Japanese video games is extremely limited, and extremely outdated.
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Our original site: http://wheremyfriends.be

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I'm sorry, but which grammar rules in Perl 5 are inconsistent? I've taught Perl 5 professionally, and while I certainly do acknowledge that Perl isn't optimal for learning, "inconsistent grammar" is not on my list. It does have a more-complex grammar than, say, lisp, but it's still an extremely consistent grammar, as far as I've been able to tell.

I also disagree with the claim that a large vocabulary in Perl is a notable issue. The size of the Perl grammar and language is sufficiently smaller, in my experience, than the size of all of the library APIs that I have to deal with when writing Perl programs.
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I think you've proven beck5's point.
Please good sir, help me, me program doesn't run. You make me program run, ok? I need implementaton of program for work, you must write me back very soon, sir.

(Wow, was that politically incorrect).
Does anyone else find is amusing that a framework named after a human being is complaining about someone else sorta-not-really using their name?

Lame. Who cares.
Yes, the answers' quality seemed very variable: the most critical answers were the most useful. I'd also be willing to pay a premium to get reviews from the "meanest" soldiers ;-)
Nice work -- Looks slick. How do you differentiate from ChartBeat?
Here's the combined rules. The security rule starts on page 38.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/privacyr...

>they mostly piss on open source

At the top, they guys with stars who sign off the contracts, yes. On the other hand, I was just on the phone yesterday with a Navy cryptographer who is working with Google on NIST certification of Mozilla's Network Security System (NSS) for FIPS 140-2 compliance. I think getting the network changed will ultimately come down to smart people like yourself continuing to beat the drum.

BTW, I'm military too! I know CHCS and AHLTA all too well. email me: niels.olson at gmail
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As a gay guy, I've got to say that "Phrot" is the worst name imaginable.

[NSFW] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frot
I meant his. Jeez, guys :-P
Yes, US only. I prefer to use a lib/tool that already exists.
While it's still a good idea, you may have missed the original intention of my post.

If you look at the facebook blog post you mention (http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/35/
), the person who posted it was Charlie Cheever, the co-founder of Quora.
W3Counter is a 7 year old web stats service where that dashboard is just one feature, whereas that's their whole product.

I really built it because it'd be fun anyway, not to compete. It doesn't do half the neat things Chartbeat does.
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BA Economics. Dropped out of EE, thank god.
> 13% of physicians have iPads?

anecdotal evidence from the conference of 30,000 orthopods in San Diego last week, that seems very plausible.
I think the more accurate term is self-hosting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting
I would never under any circumstance go back to college. However young folks definitely should.

Computer Engineering was new 25 years ago, and exactly what I wanted. Circuits, thermo, statistics, CS languages, OS, microprocessors. All useful, got me my 1st job and many afterward.
So if my business relied on airfreight I am leveraged by the airlines, the airport owners, the aircraft makers, the pilots unions, the oil companies ....

So logically anyone who wants to ship a physical product should start by developing their own oil well and aluminium ore mine.
If it only lasts a year, and he's a GM, and he knew or should have known that the non-compete would be upheld in the state in which he signed it, then he would presumably also have considered his compensation package to be adequate to cover him for that year (or arranged a golden parachute, etc).

(and also add the argument already made about other jobs he could do)
I like the idea, and really hope this takes off.
Oh dear, thanks for pointing that out. I've never heard that term used in conversation though, is it common?
Finally a way to totally nuke a facebook account. I thought that it was impossible.
If you've done a lot of work already, someone you brought on now would, if they were reasonable, not expect to get the same amount of equity as you.

Beware, though, because empirically founders tend to overestimate the percentage of the value of the company represented by the work they've already done. Founders tend to overestimate past work and underestimate future work, and they also underestimate the distance between a good product and a successful company.
I studied music at a conservatory, took night classes in CS at UC Berkeley and hacked my way to startdom!
Well, if Facebook unblocks you, you might want to look into adding another feature: relationship creation notifications for specific users.

Target user: People like me that don't check Facebook everyday, but would still like to receive an email when their friend finally makes it Facebook-official that him and the girl he's been talking to for weeks are dating.
Is there a "acquired all the credits for a CS degree without humanities distribution requirements before dropping out" option? =)
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yeah, the medical coders will occasionally have coaching sessions for their doctors on how to drop more valuable words in their notes, but I haven't seen docs get much more in the weeds with the money.
R is a language that also plagues beginners. I am well versed in nearly a dozen languages ranging from procedural to functional but I find R as mysterious as LaTeX. Those languages are incomprehensible.
Computer Science from a prestigious school, but I've learned more on my own outside of school than I did there.
I am currently working on my CS Degree.
So, I guess I should go check "Computer Science degree".
The founders are formidable. But that's not something one can change as rapidly.
I was in a similar situation, but I received some angel funding as a solo entrepreneur. This let me hire rather then bring in equity partners.

I'd talk with a startup lawyer to research some equity arrangements, and definitely incorporate in a "good" state like Delaware where you have some flexibility wrt corporate structuring.
We were to poor for a real computer, so I actually first taught myself basic on one of these babies http://www.mervderv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/precomput...

Later I picked up Visual Basic, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Java and more recently Objective-C and Scala.
How is this any different than what hacker news essentially is now?
The sane among us think that 99% of developers here in the States are mediocre at best. The EAST is no different. Does this answer the question?
>you'll have to go around the heavily entrenched IT groups

The fattest IT guy I ever saw worked database administration for a university hospital. He had his own elevator to his own floor of the building, and you needed a key to get on the elevator! In 2009 that hospital was still using meditech, and still using it on dedicated terminals with orange monochrome CRTs.
I'm the author of Hummingbird. I originally built it for the flash sample sale site Gilt Groupe, to visualize the gigantic traffic spike that happens at noon. (from 20 req/s to about 2000 req/s then, probably at least double that now)

Since then I've been slowly building out some features that are more useful for smaller sites, like the map view. The awesome mapping library is PolyMaps, using CloudMade tiles.
Just to play devil's advocate here: let's say Phrot takes off and becomes wildly popular. Then, isn't it harder to get attention for your posts, since it'll be lost in the crowd? Basically, then you're back to having to market your blog posts heavily on Phrot to get it notice, which is the original problem Phrot is trying to attack.

At a higher level, I disagree with your point that you can get away without the "hassle" of promoting your content. You'll always have to do some kind of promotion of your content, even if it's really good. And, if it's bad, no amount of promotion will get it anywhere.

IMHO, the main point I'm driving at is that there is no "free lunch". You'll always have to promote your content in order to gain a followship. It's just a fact of the web.
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