skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks interesting. If I were critiquing the display, I'd say sub out the various browsers and os's with icons of each for readability, with icons for bots and the like as well .if a non-unique user accesses the page while his last request is still within some time period, increment a counter on his next request. Each log entry's display definitely needs to be simplified, and the real-time stat box in the upper-right should update, and give a 'since' time, as in (33 unique visitors since midnight) with an option to reset. Also, you should allow users to pause or slow down the display of traffic with a bar across the top of the log display indicating how many requests are pending display.

As for monetization: your target audience is fairly narrow, though if you cleaned it up somewhat, it could not only serve the needs of a given web-strategy team (who'd like the real-time stats), and it could be an effective alert method for folks who don't have that built in. I'm not sure what an annual revenue stream would look like, given the size of the target audience. If you don't have a potential revenue stream, your options for getting investment capital are limited.

(If it were me, I'd sell to interested parties.)

The most important thing is the business model. You provide a service: that of seeing real-time updates on website traffic, by page, with a clear and intuitive display, allowing a company's analysts to get an instant sense of their traffic.

That's your core business. Graphs and traffic stats are covered in the market, focus the business model on what isn't covered yet. You could do quite a bit with the display, making it more 'game-like', and even provide comparisons with other sites that you track.
People love Google Analytics. They can't get over the amount of information it has. Sure folks do want to see there information and they might enjoy the real time you guys give them.

BUT, they aren't going to waste away their day doing something unproductive... Looking at visitors is unproductive. The average real blogger only looks at stats once a month or so. I know from experience that it gets old to look at stats and the live stats might be something cool, but over time the people that look at the live stats will also get bored and move back to something like google...

I hope that helps. Its a good idea though... I do like the concept.
What is the world coming to? If you can't trust information about controversial topics posted through anonymous accounts on the internet then who can you trust?
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I was thinking the same thing. The article does say at the end that there will be another court hearing in 2009 to decide whether he is personally responsible. I assume that is to cover the excess.
There's Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org/). I didn't get a great feeling about it when I tried it a couple years ago, but I really haven't used it much or know enough about it to pass judgement. It sells itself as "builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk", so it seemed pertinent to this thread.
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Exactly. Now that I have a Mac, Mac fanboys all assume I'm one of them and come up to me in the coffee shop to say, "hey, aren't we so much better than everyone else because of the computers we bought?"

I proceed to rant about all my little pet peeves about Mac OS X and say that as soon as I get around to it I'm installing Boot Camp and putting Linux on it.
2007 GPD in millions of USD:
(1) United States	13,843,825
(2) Japan	4,383,762
(3) Germany	3,322,147
(4) China (PRC)	3,250,827
(5) United Kingdom	2,772,570
(6) France	2,560,255
(7) Italy	2,104,666

Hey Spiegel, why don't you come back when Germany's GDP hits double-digit trillions.
1. I think adding faux-classes in JavaScript is pretty nasty, and is a fundamental design choice in jQuery. The fact it doesn't have it is a good thing in my eyes. I simply don't understand what you mean by "jQuery's SQL-like syntax" at all, but it's probably a matter of taste.

2. I think jQuery smells, feels and tastes like regular JavaScript, but I guess it's a matter of opinion. Even if you don't consider it "regular JavaScript" it's undeniably simple to read.

3. Speed is debatable, but in either case, they're quick enough not to matter which is what you need.

4. This is available in jQuery UI and was formerly known as the Easing plugin. I'm not convinced it's the sort of thing that should be in jQuery core since it's used by a minority of people.

5. $("<a />").attr("href", "http://juliocapote.com");

6. jQuery is only 15kb for the whole thing - 15kb is nothing these days. jQuery contains very little unnecessary bloat anyway, and the bigger jQuery UI lets you choose which modules you want.

7. jQuery's documentation in general is excellent.

8. I don't know enough about jQuery plugins to answer this question - I've had a quick glance at the docs and it looks simple enough so I don't really understand the criticism.

9. It's a matter of taste, but one of the reasons that jQuery caught on so much is because it took a namespace-based approach that doesn't coillide with anything else now or in the future (this has been an issue with Prototype) - this allows you to use jQuery in existing code safe in the knowledge that it won't clobber anything else. There's one other core advantage to jQuery's namespace - you always know where to look in the documentation, plus if something changes you can easily identify which bits are what. I think namespaces are a good idea.

10. I don't understand what you mean by this. People have rallied around jQuery because it avoids cloberring anything else so can be used in all projects, solely makes up for the gaps in jQuery, and is fast and small and has good documentation. There's no conspiracy - it's become popular because it's good.

Everyone has their favourite, but I've looked through all the libraries recently and decided jQuery seems to be the nicest in general. I personally think MooTools feels dated - it seems to be designed to be a prettier Prototype and despite succeeding at that goal other libraries seem better.
I agree with the sentiment (wouldn't it be nice to not treat computers, particularly full of nasty chemicals, as items meant to be thrown away every other year).

Unfortunately you will find that this isn't the way it works. Manufacturers will keep rebundling the same general parts in slightly different arrangements, with fresh design, and sell it to the disposable-product loving public. Even beyond the core processor, a PC is made up of a ton of little accessories that require drivers, and these are going to keep shifting around for the next couple decades. Linux is arguably better than Windows at supporting old outdated hardware, but good luck finding current OS support for anything but the most popular 1993 (now() - interval 15 year) products in the latest kernels.

In my opinion the precedent was set by the auto industry. Sure there are a few people who collect any given type of car and daily drive it 40 years later, but for every one of those there are hundreds of people who keep their old car only as a curiosity (i.e. show car), and for every one of those there are probably hundreds of cars that are trashed and sitting in junkyards or have been recycled into new ones.
I am no Buffet expert but know he is a value investor and buying distressed assets has been a way for him to obtain value. He likes to keep existing management.
working for an MMO company, I've come to the conclusion that there are a significant number of people who enjoy the current MMO model. I compare it somewhat to crack cocaine (yeah, real creative, right?); you can complain all you want about how addictive it is and how it ruins peoples' lives, but while they're smoking it, they sure do feel good. Some people do it for the high, while some people do it to numb the pain and hardship of their real life.

There are a large number of people who agree with you, including me, but the bottom line is that the MMO grinding model works for the objective of keeping subscribers. Some people get frustrated, some people just hate the mechanics, but you can manage to keep the several hundred thousand subscribers you need to be profitable. You can't please everyone, so why not just please a particular niche market? The only downside is that MMO gamers are very, very, very, very, very whiny and hard to please, you could blame this on the fact that most MMOs are cookie-cutter clones of each other and thus gamers can easily get in a fit when their class is nerfed and join your competitor's game, without having to worry about actually playing a different game.

Some people just really /do/ want a 'second job' doing raids three or more times a week and dumping hundreds of hours of their life into a game.
"Also on display is the end of arrogance. The Americans are now paying the price for their pride."

Pure schadenfreude, most of it. Kind of sad, really, given that Der Spiegel has a reputation for serious content. Most of the criticism of US policy is valid, as far as it goes. And, yes, those policies have produced a ton of bad blood among trading partners.

But this article just drips with glee at the plight of the poor, dumb 'mericans. That's just beneath them. Terrible journalism.
Perhaps America should check behind its Couch. These sorts of articles are reddit-bait.
Here's a link to a better version of the story:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081001-blizzard-award...

Most important part, in my opinion:
"This is troubling and creates a chilling precedent. It basically says that the copy of the software created in your system's RAM is okay under the license, and when you break the EULA by using software like MMOGlider the license is revoked, and you are suddenly left playing an unlicensed copy of the game."
You might want to try your hand at iPhone games. There's currently a lot of room in the industry for new players. It has low barriers to entry, yet people are seeing a huge return on investments, and you can get projects out the door in a smaller time frame than most games take to develop and market. To me, it seems like the perfect space for a new business with little capital and lots of skill. I'd even say its perfectly suited to you. You can learn a new language and practically make yourself golden when it comes to being employed if your venture doesn't work out, because there's huge demand for iPhone programmers.
Old money fears new money. I was going to say old wealth fears new wealth, but with PG’s input on wealth… I think it would be better to say money. Or maybe even perhaps large money fears small money that has ingenuity that may become large money. Buffet knows where to stop his competition before it becomes a serious problem – Monopolist, or should say cartelist or oligopolists always have… sometimes I wonder how many wealth creators by innovation understand, or even think this as true.
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It's kind of a good lesson: don't base yourself to heavily around something that could easily go out of fashion/get replaced by something better.
Will there be a 3.0 for VMS?
A lot of it depends on what you're interested in. There are Meetup groups for most technologies out there: Rails, MySQL, LAMP. And, then there are Web 2.0 groups, "New Tech" meetups, general entrepreneur groups and business groups. Each one tends to have a focus and a slant. Some are sponsored, some aren't.

The Hackers and Founders group I host tends have about 1/3 to 1/2 of members read Hacker News on a regular basis. I'm also running it to simply build community. I'm not getting any financial return on the deal. I'm really just doing it to get to know other Hackers and Founders.

There are also non-Meetup.com groups like super happy dev house: http://superhappydevhouse.org/ and various and sundry Tech Crunch get-togethers, Digg parties, etc...

My advice would be to try a couple out. Worst case scenario, you're out a couple hours of your time.
Statistics, statistics...

European Union: $16.62 trillion (2007 est.)

United States: $13.84 trillion (2007 est.)
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I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. I've been in their irc channel for hours at a time, and all the community seems to be doing is helping people with their javascript noob questions, even if they aren't related to Mootools.

The documentation is rather straightforward as well. It's pretty easy to figure out what something does.

Perhaps your contempt is outdated?
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Great comment!

Thank you.

Can persistent effort increase intelligence?

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Agree that "Brief History..." is a great book.
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You can deny statistics all you want, but the US is still a dominant economic force–even with a financial crisis (and partly because the crisis affects the EU and the rest of the world).

Europe may have a centralized bank–but they _don't_ have a centralized government.

So, if/when they have a huge financial crisis, what government will intervene?
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Not related to the cosmos, but "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters" is a great book. It presents information in a story format that allows people without much scientific background to understand and appreciate the genome.
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Ron Paul supporters claiming Warrent Buffet has a vested interest in the bailout

First, Buffet does have a vested interest in the bailout. I'm not sure why you would contest that. I'm not even going to bother citing it, as his massive investment in Goldman is well-known to everyone actually paying attention.

Second, the "all banks should be liquidated" bullshit is a pathetic straw man argument.

Third, the Pearl Harbor analogy is wrong on two counts. A) The similarities between one country attacking another and businesses failing are...tenuous, if existent at all. B) Even if the analogy was sound, the United States lollygagged for many months after Pearl Harbor, and then sprung into action by...invading Africa. Okay, we still won the war, even though something like 80 percent of our resources went to Europe. Had we busted the budget going full force to Tokyo, Germany would extend to the Urals.

Blame, putting culprits in prison, figuring out how to stop this from happening again, all this will come.

I'm sure your prophecy skills are as good as Paulson's (who a few weeks ago claimed the system was "sound". That's a 700 billion dollar miscalculation. The greatest error in the history of the world?) But, I'm inclined to believe that the bankers' next instruction to our leaders isn't, "Now put us all in jail." Just a hunch.
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He'll profit because he just bought dollar bills for 20 cents (or whatever amount less than a dollar). That's what he does. Like he said "It’s the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don’t have 700 billion. Maybe we could go in it together."
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There is nothing that beats seeing someone's actual code, or having them do a live coding exercise. Even if it's pseudo-code.

Playing the quiz game is unrealistic, and you'll only end up with developers who are good at taking quizzes. I haven't really seen this be a good indicator of the developer's actual skill.

Now, if you're just looking for replaceable cogs, then I guess any quiz would work. Personally, I prefer that I work with developers who have good critical thinking skills and are able to elucidate their intentions when it comes to writing software.
A more positive way of expressing the sentiment might be "manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize on than clock speeds or core count". Either way, given that the industry can't survive selling old products, they will find a way of selling us more stuff. We can only hope that we actually get some benefit out of the new products.

On the plus side, notice that today, with a computer that is 5 or so years old, you can get on the internet, watch flash video, play music, etc. etc. Compare that to using a 5 year old PC in 2000, or even worse, a 5 year old PC in 1995.
It's a good quote here by Buffet, amazing one can repost in the thread like that word-for-word and cop 15+ Karma points for it. All the non-Geeks here mod this one up?

Using Buffet's analogy, why bother innovating when one can just imitate? On the extreme, the imitators resent the innovators and hate the idiots. The innovators see the imitators as an unfortunate evil.
the background has been a point of contention amongst us. it seems to be polarizing, either you like it quite a bit, or not.
That sounds about right. Only don't take this too literally:

stick the tip of my tongue to the roof of my mouth

If I do that, it gets stuck. What I think you want is the hard palate (behind the teeth), not the top of the mouth, and keep it relaxed.

I guess I should add that I'm neither a native speaker (though I've studied more than one language with rolled r's) nor have I any experience teaching this skill. I'd bet money you can learn it, though.

Edit: one more thing - you may find it easier to try words that end in a rolled r. The words that begin with a rolled r are a little harder (to me).
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i still want a beach with flamingos. :)
OS X is prettier than linux? When was the last time you tried linux? It has come along way in the past year or two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-ye1oa4N8&feature=relat...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=934741
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He also was saved 6.5 billion from the bail out of Fanny/Freddie. He also has made his fortune from insurance, which one might say is like banking, a big benefactor of the ‘game’. Would you buy insurance or food first if prices fall and you are out of work? He would lose in that environment, too granted, (did you notice he switched into food lately right around when he went on a buying spree in one of the safest of fiat currency:-) but the real gain is in the upside of knowing what society will need and having it with less competition:-), it only gets better…. Giving him credit he did offered to buy one percent of the 700 billion, (though not first lost position) or without his friends picking which ones...
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Also not a fan. I saw this comment and thought "eh can't be THAT bad", then I clicked on the link.

It is that bad. Ungh. The "flames" at the bottom in particular just bug me personally.
I think that it's too early to say that America has lost its dominant economic role.

When it's true, it won't make such a long news story because it will be obvious and uninteresting.

The length of the news stories shows that it is still early. So far, the only one who says America is about to collapse is the crazy president of Iran.
I consider the values of a program's variables to be part of its state.

It's somewhat odd (read "probably a mistake") if a variable can be visible before it is bound in a functional language. If the execution model does anything other than block until a variable's binding is available, its bind state is mutable state, with all of the problems that entails.
It _looks_ like it's going to be great, however, without actually using it myself, it's hard to tell if that's the case. I am looking forward to getting an invite for the beta.
Wow! This is a cool idea!

Some of the art could use some changes, but the core idea looks like fun! Perhaps you could also add something along the lines of principle components analysis so that you don't only use random groups from your area - you want to have a netflix kind of thing going on mixed with some truly random ones.

Good luck guys!
"There is nothing that beats seeing someone's actual code", completely agreed. A good way to see this is to let some problems to be solved and sent with the curriculum, like those acm-icpc problems.
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So we match people based on demographics (age, ethnicity, children?, etc.).
We also match based on the Media you include in your First Impression.
After you have been through a MingleWeek, we have data about who you rated highly and so we can compose groups based on common affinity.
This looks really cool. I was just listening yesterday to Adam Curry totally saying how awesome his Nokia e71 (or close to that) was awesome. Before that, I never really thought of Nokia smartphones since they aren't very popular here in Blackberry central (waterloo, ontario)
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Is it right 8,000 daily visits = 15m?? I think is very few people for that much money.
The soft-focus effect that the glowing creates is really disturbing.
I haven't created an account to try it out but I have spent some time browsing your main page, features page, and sign-up form.

Your information is presented cleanly and looks good. I wasn't sure about the background at first but after a few minutes looking at the site I've decided I like it.

Heres what I really love: "We want you to have a date next weekend" and "Start on Monday, have a date by Saturday". That's a very powerful message, almost a promise, and if I had come across the site whilst actually looking for a date it would definitely make me spend some time there.

I like your idea too - it seems to make sense that spending more time sharing messages etc with a small group of people over time is more likely to yield a connection than searching a database of thousands of people and spamming them with requests to hook up.

I have bookmarked your site and will refer back to see how you do over time. Good luck :)
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Der Spiegel -- and Germany -- have been anti-American for decades. I know, I lived there in the mid-seventies. After East Germany was reintegrated it only got worse, as the East Germans had even more anti-American propoganda pumped into them than the West Germans. It's only going to get worse, as their economy has had almost no growth over the last 15 years due to heavy regulation. It's unemployment rate is 8%. Schadenfreude is right.

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Also, Dive into Python (http://diveintopython.org/) is excellent, and the text is free online.
> this article just drips with glee at the plight of the poor, dumb 'mericans.

Perhaps that is a warning sign that we should heed? When even our allies are glad to see us brought low, that suggests that perhaps maybe we have not been as well behaved as we should have been.
the name is incredibly unappealing.
k, no more glowing.

your eyes can rest easy now.
Statistics, statistics...

European Union: 500,000,000 people

United States: 304,000,000 people
Ah I suspected you guys were using a more complex algorithm than advertised on the site ^_^. Good luck!
1 person for 15 million. Jealous...
Are you being sarcastic? Have a look at the link provided if you are not.

EDIT oh, I see: you thought I was asking you a question, but my question was an introduction to the linked article.
It's misleading to phrase it like that.