skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is this study http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=58 which basically says after you control for LOC most of the other complexity metrics become noise.
For all those who "don't get it", read jsmcgd's link.
For convenience I'll repeat it here
"How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis"
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman...

The very briefest answer is that G.S. created a "long only" investment vehicle based on food staples with no mechanism for shorting it.
If I wanted to risk a few hundred dollars in propping up the Greek government, is there an easy way to this? Or is there a minimum investment way larger than I'd like to commit and/or only open to licensed brokers only?

(Apologies for stupid newbie investor questions... I read about this stuff in the news, but I have no idea how it actually works.)
Quite simply: MongoDB is the most SQL-like of all the no-SQL databases out there. E.g. the shortest transition for developers used to using SQL databases (Mysql in particular) who need a bit more flexibility.
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Yipit is a daily deals site that sells their data to institutions: http://yipit.com/data/pricing/

I was wondering what other consumer-facing sites you know of have a similar revenue model?
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Hello HN peeps.

I would like to invite you to a little experiment.

I have created probably the smallest niche app on the mac app store and I would like you to help me sell and optimize the marketing around it.

Now you might think, "who does this guy think he is? – doesn't he know I have my own business to run?" and you are right it would be unfair to just ask you to help me market my product.

So instead I would like to offer you something in return:

Each month I am going to post all the numbers and the learnings. But more importantly each month you can post suggestions to improvements and strategies and each month those with the highest number of votes will get implemented (within reason of course)

It is my hope that this will be a case study for people to learn from before they venture out into spending money and time on something similar themselves or for people who find this stuff interesting.

The product is done in the spirit of the small butique network weekendhacker.net I started in May So far have +6100 members and have had 150 projects through and is still going strong. And the things I learned from members of the HN community have been invaluable.

Now this is of course just an experiment. Maybe I will break even, maybe I won't. Maybe I will have to cancel it within a couple of months. But none the less I am certain it will both be informative and fun.

Oh and yes you can move the slider on the webpage :)

So what do you think the first round of improvements should be?
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I'm not a Vim user, but like you, I prefer to use several programs, which I lovingly call my disintegrated development environment.
I (stay in bed and) have a dream.

That's different, you're remembering a specific person and what they did. I don't need to remember programmers, I am one and I work with them every day.

It just feels to me like harking after gratitude but the reality is that there are loads of people who do useful, important jobs and who get on with it day after day with no more than the usual acknowledgement.

If you do this where do you stop? Firemen day? Doctors day? Sewage workers day?

If you're a programmer, you don't need a special day to think about programmers, if you're not a programmer, then programmers are just one of hundreds of useful trades you should be thankful for, but I see no reason why we're special.
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It works for me on Android 2.2 on my HTC Desire (nicely, too!), but doesn't even pretend to work on any browser on my laptop.
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Check the site with http://quirktools.com/screenfly/

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The landing page is stunning. Who is responsible for the design?
I have a comparison too: a rather different kind, but no less reasonable for this sort of game, and with all source available -- http://www.hxa.name/minilight/#comparison

It says that languages do not vary by factors of 10. Considered as pure 'lexical structure' the range is about 2 or 3 between small and large. Anything more than that must have some reason -- most probably library support.

Of course, library support is important, and quite fair to be compared in lines -- it represents real work that has to be done. But it seems worth trying to distinguish it as a library matter -- or whatever else.
Because of the dismantling of the unions. I can not see any other factor being much more different than today, save for perhaps the deregulation of the banks where it seems a lot of wealth is concentrated, wealth which, I do think is a zero sum game as, whatever productivity might increase, it is taken away from some and given to some.

Someone mentioned the technological advances, but technology did not start in the 70s. We had the invention of energy before then, TV, radio, aeroplane, car, etc. So, I think that the period where the employees started sharing less of the gains seems to coincide with the dismantling of the unions, which, on a common sense approach also it makes sense as loosing your bargaining power you would expect would mean getting a worse deal.
Going to throw this in the mix - this is definitely something to think about when considering global warming.

Consult Google for these numbers - I checked a couple sources to find rough estimates. Please correct me if I made an error. Obviously, this is a gross simplification...

The atmosphere has 5×10^18 kg of mass. That is 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms of mass for people who like to see the zeros.

Just by breathing, the human race produces about 2.2 trillion kilograms of CO2 annually. However, humans are only a fraction of the earth's CO2-producing biomass, about less than 1/1000 by some estimates. So that means that earth's creatures probably produce over 2 quadrillion kilograms of CO2 annually! Human technology (cars, power plants, etc) produce 27.2 trillion kilograms of CO2 annually. Let that sink in for a second - just by breathing, we produce a magnitude greater amount of CO2 than fossil fuel ever will. Wow. So where is it all going? My guess is photosynthesis is doing a pretty good job of keeping things in balance, but I am open to suggestions.
Why is your mode switch a slider between 1 and 2?
> _I think this is the current problem with mobile web apps today; too many are trying to feel native. Instead try to make it feel smooth and responsive, as a web app._

I think this is exactly what OP has done. It doesn't feel "native" to iOS to me, but it does feel like a well-made little web app. I don't have an Android device to test it on, but it does seem like it would fit in just fine on one.
I don't have a mac, but nice idea :-)

Feedback: Key mode 1 or 2? Whatever happened to nice labels that don't require looking up in a manual, like "hold" and "toggle"?
Interesting questions, indeed. But i feel they miss a point by not mentioning a single remedy to a low score. The conclusion doesn't make sense to me:

"(...) by asking yourself these questions and by scoring well on at least some of them you are very likely to substantially increase the long-term competitive advantage of your business."

Wouldn't you need to actually increase the score to increase competitiveness?
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Are any of those paid apps?
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Why should we be surprised that the company whose business is in shipping and selling a wide range of physical products has more revenue than a range of companies whose income are either service fees or advertisements? We're not comparing like with like; Amazon's revenue is counted against by buying and stocking the physical products they sell to derive that revenue. None of the others on that chart have physical product to worry about and so retain a much higher percentage of revenue for themselves.
At night I have the brightness set to its lowest level, 10%. And then in the e-reader app, Aldiko, I set it to nightmode (black background/off white text). It's actually quite comfortable to read, but going from the ebook to a website was like setting my retinas on fire. It does stop me from being distracted and lets me focus on the book.
Thanks for your work on this, it looks great. I'd love to use python end-to-end. Any plans to support some parallelism?
This is definitely worth putting money into. Building these kinds of tools is so key to user adoption and yet it is such difficult and (hopefully not in this case) thankless work. Even if you aren't a CCW user, there are plenty of potential workplaces for you that might consider clojure in as much as it fits into their current workflow (ie eclipse).
I did myself. And thanks :)
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I think that game will make a tidy profit given the attention it's about to get.

I'm have absolutely no idea if Apple is going to pull it. I wouldn't be surprised either way, yet I think whatever happens, I'll be surprised.
It's a bit misleading to say this is an Anti-iPhone game when it's drawing attention to how most electrical items are made.

Also, I'd imagine Apple would've been slammed for rejecting an app which claims to be donating proceeds to charity so it'd be less controversial to let it through.
Not in the article, but they open sourced the specs http://opencompute.org/
this was the first thing I noticed as well. I think the extra space required for words is worth the lack of confusion.
Thanks for the feedback. And yes it's one of those things that might or might not work out.

I figured since the app is so simple and there is practically no features I could get a way with the user figuring out how to use it.

If it gives problems I will change it. But so far those who have tried pretty quickly found out.
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See the "Getting in" section of the article. Full details there.
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nice catch re-donation..don't see that unless you click "more".
I just though what I would be willing to pay my self as a designer. If I am wrong I will have to change it of course.
Wow, great job on getting the gorilla legitimately in 5 days! Now I've got the gorilla I think I like the ape with the Fez a little more too! :)
It'll be pretty bad because regulators have dealt with failing banks before but the EU has never had to deal with a member state defaulting and does not really have any institutions to deal with it. I'd says this disaster will probably end up being about 10 Lehmans in magnitude, though the fall of the Lehman brothers was only part of the financial crisis.
None of this changes how much Greece has to pay (unless they issue new debt). The actual Euro yield is based on the face value of the bond, which doesn't change. This is just the market saying that the bonds are worth considerably less than their face value.
Good luck. A small comment: "precision speed" is a slightly misleading term, especially when combined with a percentage measurement."Mouse speed" or "Movement speed" or just "Precision" are best? If the latter, then you can just invert the bar (i.e. 100% precision is super slow movement). As it is now, without reading the description on the website there is no intuitive selection for the user (much as with your "key mode" drop down).
Briefly, and off the top of my head, if you are trying to persuade, you want people to only consider the information you present. You are trying to show people a single line of reasoning that leads to an outcome that, by the time you get there, will seem "obvious." It actually works in your favor if they can't keep all of the argument in their head, because then they'll only be focusing on what you are saying right now (and jumping to the conclusion you've compelled) and not looking for ways to examine the veracity or any limiting conditions of what you are saying.

On the other hand, when teaching anything with a conceptual framework (that is, not just showing people how to install Wordpress), it's good to show not only the result, or examples of "truth," but also counterexamples. It's often useful to help define a concept by also saying what it is not. You want people to see all of the evidence and to be able to provide their own reasons as to the conclusion. You are clear, open, and even emphatic about assumptions or limiting conditions (at least to the point where it causes no harm to leave out and would only increase confusion if included).

If you happen to be so lucky as to have a room full of people who all share the same conceptual framework and vocabulary, then standing up and telling a story can also be an effective teaching tool. Mostly, however, we are being introduced to the vocabulary as we are being taught, and multiple channels of reinforcement are very helpful.
The app's creators describe it as anti-iPhone

http://www.yeslab.org/project/phone-story
nice site. there is a small typo you can fix in the "Manual" section.

> "Precision Speed
The lower the percentage the more accurate your mouse become."

should be:

"Precision Speed
The lower the percentage the more accurate your mouse becomes."

the "become" was missing an s.

You also might consider making the toggle switch, for the key mode, more self documenting.

Nice presentation overall.
He probably never used Delphi and thinks it's slow.

I've worked with Delphi for many years, and its not far from the speed you can achieve with C++. Delphi is one hell of an underrated language for native programming.

Also, Delphi's standard library, the VCL, is great, and you can learn so much reading the source code, which comes with the IDE. Or does it? Delphi 7 was the last version I used.
Their entire business is based around this browser engine. The better the desktop version is, the better their mobile and embedded versions are. It's noticeably faster than webkit in resource-limited environments.

At one time a company spokesperson said that they'd considered open sourcing the engine, but they didn't think their development process or income model made it a viable choice.
Can't you just buy a mouse which has a dedicated dpi switcher button for basically the same amount of cash?
Or your target audience (artists, designers, CAD?, gamers?) may be familiar enough with DPI that you can just use that.
I've become a big fan of Beyond Bullet-points.

I had a large client where I was doing a lot of Agile training. As part of that, I created a series of workshops around putting together a backlog when starting a project. There was no text -- it was simply pictures and me telling a story with them.

Two very interesting things happened. First, the students loved it. I'd talk/present for ten minutes or so, then we'd do stuff. Repeat and rinse. There was never a big wall of text for them to absorb, and I never read from anything. They were always doing stuff. And since it was stuff related to their specific project, even better.

The second thing was completely unexpected. The customer had a very mixed response to my material! It seems that they wanted something with a lot of text so that they could "teach" it themselves. A narrative, story-focused presentation that was integrated into the team's work was simply too difficult. They wanted a presentation that read like a textbook.

As far as being a good consultant goes, I'm not sure if I did a good thing or a bad thing in terms of the customer's long-term goals. But as far as the people I'm helping? I'm sticking to pictures and stories. Nobody wants to live through another Powerpoint hell, and I have no desire to put anybody through it again.
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nice app, I don't have a mac, but still impressive. btw, small idea: I got the idea of precision vs speed, just format it so that precision is on one end and speed is on the otherone
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Fair enough, though they don't mention that in the App Store description.
A great idea, both the app and this post!

Unless the unobstrusiveness is the main selling point, I would drop "A small unobtrusive app that allows you to" from the description and just go with "Achieve unrivaled precision with your mouse". You could list the fact that it is unobstrusive further below.
Mozilla used to welcome each employee with a little knicknack and say, "This represents your million users. Try not to abuse them too much."
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Perfect domain name!
Actually in the US it is not illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation. There may be laws in New York state prohibiting it, I don't know. But in most of the US it is totally legal to post a job listing saying "Programmers wanted. No fags allowed."

It is pretty despicable.
Now, I'm not very knowledgeable about the world of finance, but what I'm curious about is, what happens if Greece defaults? Like if you default on a bank loan, the bank takes your house. On those lines, if (when) Greece defaults and I have some government bonds, I would get like a government office desk or something? (or some physical object that is of equivalent value to the amount I have bonds for)
Unfortunately the Greek currency is the Euro, and the Greeks can't print more of it. A moderate amount of inflation at the start of this whole mess could possibly have headed off the looming disaster, but it would certainly take way more than the Germans could ever tolerate now.
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I think they would have difficulty in getting that in to the store. However, if you look at the screenshots, the Pear Store is a clear parody of Apple Stores.
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The "P&G Memo" is very similar to Toyota's "A3 Process". The whole idea is to clearly and concisely explain (with visuals) a complex technical point. In Toyota's case it's so that at a meeting everyone can just spend a few minutes reading the report, instead of 30-60 minutes in front of a presentation.
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If I'm presenting my research (which is what I do almost every time I present), then I need to do two things: teach the audience about what I did, and show it was worth it with performance results.

As dhimes points out, teaching is different than persuading. If I'm going to teach something, I need figures. Words alone are not enough. In high school and college, my teachers would fill black-boards with figures and equations while they explained things. The first thing my intro to physics professors would always do is draw a picture. That's what I'm doing, except I don't draw my figures one-the-fly as they did. Think about when you first learned the various sorting algorithms. Would you have understood them without watching someone work through examples, moving numbers around as the algorithm progressed? This is very much the same thing.

As for performance results, I need to show multiple graphs that test various aspects of the system to give the audience the impression that everything works as advertised. (Just an impression is enough - they'll read the full paper if they're interested in being thoroughly convinced.) Just showing the graphs isn't enough, of course. I always take the time to explain what the experiment was in the first place, what the axes are, what each plotted line means, and which direction is "good" (for example, if it's scale-up, high is "good"). Finally, in case none of that sinks in, I explicitly tell them, "What we learned from this graph is: ___."

These things are probably going to require more than three slides.
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> The word is "layman's". Lehman Brothers is the investment bank that collapsed in 2008. Cute typo.

Maybe a Lehman has become a measure of the scale of financial failure.

"Greek defaulting would be 12.72 Lehmans."
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Sounds like a neat app!

The tooltip on "Support" says "Got problems. We got solutions". You might want to turn that dot into a question mark. Also, the support page has 3 P in Support at the top
We're not all that confident about where there's water in our own solar system. We seem to discover 'possible' water on the moon or Mars every week. And yet we know this planet is warm and watery? Oh, did you not notice the constant use of the word 'may'.

So I call Utter Bollocks.

This is the worst type of science. It's like the old archaeologists, 'China had Bronze making, therefore everyone got it from them'. They were wrong and we had to wait till science developed carbon dating to prove them wrong.

It's pure speculation dressed up as science. A wild guess based on our own solar system. A population of 1 does not a survey make.

And the artist's impression at the top really makes me cringe. Who is giving these plonkers money to spend on artist impressions?

Unfortunately this is all a direct consequence of the way scientific funding works. But as someone who has a scientific mind it makes me die a little inside when I see this kind of thing.
The Greek government doesn't currently have have enough tax income to pay for all the spending it does. If it defaulted nobody would be willing to lend it money so it would have to reduce spending even more and the politicians would get lynched. However, as a sovereign state there would normally be no other downside to defaulting except that people won't lend you money in the future.

However, I believe that one of the requirements for membership in the EU is that you promise that you won't default on your debts. How this will play out in practice, I have no idea.
Government debt is almost always unsecured.
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Lisps make it fairly difficult to reason about resource consumption based on code size. And in general, is not a good metric for such a measurement.
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education in software design. At my present school, I have come to despise slides for anything but short presentations. In particular, the use of slides as the main ingredient in lectures is a disease. It is a general rule, rather than an exception at this place, that lectures consist of flipping through slides being almost verbatim copies of the material in the used text book at a rate of 0.75 slide/min on average during 90 minutes of lecture. Lectures add no value this way, but it seems like lecturers use "producing" slides as an alibi for having prepared a proper lecture.
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How about this for a simple guidelines?

"Be conservative with your down votes; be liberal with your up votes"

Based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
You'd need to get a brokerage account that allows you to trade sovereign bonds. (I think TD Ameritrade might do). And from there it should be a straight shot.

The only problem is that if you invest only a few hundred bucks, trading commissions (~$20 to buy and sell) eat up a big portion of your (potential) returns. For example, if you invest $200 and come out of your trade even (selling bonds back to the market for $200), you still pay $20 in trading commissions, so you'd be already down 10% on your trade. In other words, you'd need to be up 10% on your trade (which is very nice) in order to just compensate for commissions.