skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that is an issue, but now they can't claim that they just didn't know something or other was under copyright.
Is there an article at that link about partnering with the big and powerful?
The point is you never actually ask for money. Have fine print that it's a donation if they do pay anything, but the program works perfectly with no warnings or anything of the sort, completely free. It's all a clever scheme though, and I didn't mean it in any seriousness.

Now, back to my original comment, people tie prices closely to expectations as well as perceived quality.
I like the "bus factor" discussion. It's #3 in the article. In the projects I've been a lead on, the bus factor is in a sense 1: each hacker is responsible for their own module, and while others might read their code, they don't contribute (except report bugs).

However, the modules are set up so that there is a clean separation between them, with all interaction being through well defined API's. In fact, each hacker typically uses their own server unless/until efficiency constraints force us to do otherwise. So far it's worked well. If one person goes away, the project can continue until they come back or one of the others can learn/duplicate their module.

This allows us to dramatically increase prototyping speed, but may not be sustainable as project size increases.

I'm fairly inexperienced, so I'd like to know what you guys think about this practice, since it's something I think about a lot.
I actually found the entry on the Intel SSD rather exciting. I found it on Amazon but it seems like it's either not shipping yet or just started...couldn't find it on Newegg.
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My first thought: "Hmm, I could outsource note-writing to India, or automate it with Mechanical Turk."

I suppose that defeats the point though. :)
Well if you're a Christian/Catholic, water = wine.
I definitely understand where you're coming from, and can see frustrations rising out of a situation like that (guy is obviously winging it poorly).

but what I said was in the context of working at a job you're overqualified for. what i'm implying is that hackers can perform most non-hacking tasks fairly easily. a minor bookkeeping position because you can't find a decent coding job? I'd assume anyone proficient with basic database manipulation could do it.
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It's sad that both fun and easy had to get worse in order to make it cheap (or is that a side effect?). Bring back the zeppelin!
Wasn't AdWords just a copy of Overture? From what I remember, they paid something like 3 million shares of stock to Yahoo (who had acquired Overture) for the right to use their patent.
I am quite interested in that - do they service countries other then the US (I haven't bothered looking cause everytime I do the answer is no).
When Google bought YouTube, they paid the big content makers money specifically for the right to show those videos. Now most music videos there are uploaded legally by the content producers.

There would certainly be copyright issues if not for deals in place.
I'll be curious to see how much this brings in. It's impossible to tell how much of their overall traffic is music videos, because unlike the rest of their content, those tend to get replayed over and over, which messes up the counting. That's a lot of why music videos are all near the top all-time. (YouTube does do some stuff to not recount, so it's not 1:1, but it's clearly happening a lot.)
The real value of the EOL'ed IE source code would be to see if there are any comments from the developers who knew they would be cocking up the industry for so long.
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No it won't but if you don't know what an integer is, how are you going to program simple math? You have to understand the basics. Programming is implementation, and of course, must be taught well to be mastered, but it becomes a whole lot easier if you understand what you're trying to program. It's not the best analogy in the world, but hopefully makes some sense
4) It's surprisingly inexpensive. US$46, EUR36.

You can also buy the GPS modules by themselves.
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Glad I found this - can think of loads of tinkering applications for them.
I guess all you need is an X10 controller or somethingorother. Too bad I couldn't get it to actually change the filter and stuff.
The one that usually gets me is what I call the interest curve -- the things you've already done a several times at a work place tend to become less interesting, while management tends to assign you more and more of that because you're the expert.
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#3 - Seems to indicate that everyone in your team must be replaceable. This is good from a management and operational perspective.

...but you can't stop people who are just damn good. In fact, often this hampers them - i.e. You're too good at X, so you have to train a whole bunch of people who are bad at it otherwise it's a risk. This is often applied irrespective of the skill/talent of the person involved and the rest of the team respectively.

Sometimes people just are irreplaceable. What you don't want are people who are irreplaceable because of systemic issues.
I'm also fairly inexperienced, but it seems to me that as long as there is a clean separation between modules (which there should be anyway), that it would work rather well.

Do you do code reviews on each others modules?
I couldn't agree more. I think the distinction is that inherently irreplaceable people are irreplaceable no matter where they are put. Some people are irreplaceable just because they're the only one that knows anything about X.
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We defer DOM manipulations to the end of each "run loop" where we coalesce them, removing redundant operations

That's very interesting. Can you give examples of redundant operations that you coalesce?

I'm wondering if this approach might help in my case. I'm frequently repositioning/resizing thousands of little divs. Any suggestions?
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Why did I get downvoted? It was probably too short to be meaningful.

What I meant that this can be good because it can show to people the "human side" if you like to open source. I see many people think Linux is only for slightly crazy fanatics and I believe that LT can do a much better job at representing the diverse movement than RMS and ESR (don't get me wrong I kinda like both of them).

On the other hand LT can be a bit insensitive and turn people off (do you remember that GNOME controversy?)
In a Q&A at UNC in 1996 (part 1 of which is linked below), Warren Buffett noted that doing the math from the Wright brothers all the way through 1996, the airline industry overall had yet to make a dime of profit.

The silver lining is that perhaps that failure is wiped out by the amount of unrelated profit-making that flight has enabled. But it's still quite weird that flying passengers around is so hard to build a business around.

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These are some very good points. It sounds to me like he has effectively been your employee for some time. If there is a third party that both of you trust perhaps you can have a three way conversation where you focus on the current situation and the best way forward that's fair to everyone. The key is to focus on "going forward from where you are." That's the challenge you are faced with. Why do you need to buy him out completely? Are you going to need him to help new employees get up to speed? Find a way to keep the conversation going and reach an amicable solution.
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I don't personally see anything unique about how the site operates. It seems to be more or less a clone. In its current state, my answer would be 'no.'

Please correct me if I am wrong on this.
Maybe or maybe not. Yahoo buzz has the scale but it lacks many social network features such as: comments, friends, etc.. The article below proves my point:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/has_yahoo_buzz_lived_up...

However, buzzup.com is just a another clone of digg. It all depends on how good users feel when they visit those sites. Many tech users are abandoning digg.com because it now covers a broad range of topic and some users can even have low quality articles on the front page by gaming the system.
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Yet another reason to really re-think being "anonymous" online or the supposed safety in numbers of "aggregate data". Smart folks like you understand that we have digital fingerprints that extend beyond any one platform.
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> You may not like that someone thinks its a depression and not a recession. You may not like that someone thinks its 3 years, not 1 or 5. But hey, their guess is as good as the "pros" at this point.

What I don't like is people pretending it's anything but a wild guess.

You're right that the discussion of how the downturn will affect software and open source is better. That's because it's something Nat clearly knows a great deal about. He should have stuck with that.
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There's a free A/B testing app offered by Google

http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/
Wufoo makes such ridiculous gobs of money. People barely pay attention because they're located in Tampa and don't brag about it all the time - like other subscription based revenue companies we often hear from.

What's worth noting is if a big company (99% of them anyway) tried to copy off of WuFoo they'd seem so disingenuous and fake they'd fail. Unless your AMEX, of course.
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Bridging the gap is always a pain. As a freelancer, I find that often I need to steer clear of "better" (though perhaps technically complex) solutions at times because I know it may create a panic when I leave. It's frustrating to "play to the crowd" but I have also found it can be just as bad to leave companies with elements their in-house employees can't figure out.
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Architecture astronauts should take careful note of points 7 and 9. I've read some obsessive-compulsive discusions regarding RESTful design around here lately. You don't see much focus on the customer.
Some good points, but I'm not sure network duplication is really an issue here. If 100 people want to try to create an entrepreneur network and see if they can get a real user base going then that's fine. I doubt many users find networks to join by browsing through them on ning.com anyway, but instead probably come across them from elsewhere online. In that sense ning is somewhat similar to a hosted blogging platform. It obviously wouldn't make sense for blogger.com to try to merge similar blogs...
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How about some real books?

- Narziss & Goldmund, by Herman Hesse

- One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marques

- Crime and Punishment, by Dostoievsky

- The Trial, by Kafka

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If you want to build your character, read the real stuff: fiction.
The marriage ceremony is expensive - especially in the Middle East. And in countries like Egypt have low economic growth and huge inflation in marriage prices, so males have to work long and hard into their 30es to get married. And they can't just get a girlfriend and marry her in a inexpensive ceremony with only a civil unions - the religious leaders made sure its illegal (they have a interest in preserving the expensive traditions, you see).

Most men in the Middle East can hardly afford a single wife. Only really, really rich men have harems.

Of course the reasons are way more complex.

I'll recommend this excellent article from Fareed Zakaria:
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How did this make the front page? A list of mostly basic advice (Semantic URLs? Really?), riddled with spelling mistakes, and a smattering of django-specific stuff thrown in for padding?
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It seems a lot more likely that they will import water and women.
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1. i'm confused about the branding
2. did yahoo register buzz? is this why you're changing the brand?
3. the color doesn't have enough contrast. i'm squinting on my monitor to read the text.
4. what's the distinction. your little paragraph is horribly written and didn't explain it.
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Google has released Google Forms as part of their Apps For Your Domain offering. It feels very impersonal compared to Wufoo, of course, but let's not underestimate it.
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What do you guys think? Is a lot of SEO traffic a good thing or something to be concerned about?
maybe the answer lies in the facts that a) django isn't a company, and b) the DSF has these members: http://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/
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Ah friend of mine said, he needed the Procrastinator's clock as a calendar with 15 days instead of minutes ahead.

By the way, I never wore a watch. It's always funny when you ask people for the time, and they tell you "It's quarter past", but do not tell you the hour and that's what you are interested in. They just assume you know.
I found this to be an interesting read for the UK consumer perspective: http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-money/savings/2008/10/07/ice...

Personally I have a significant sum of money in an icesave, part of Landsbanki, account. With the Icelandic government talking about every-country-for-itself the guarantee they have in place on the first £16k doesn't look that secure any longer.
Excerpt from the html sourcecode:

I managed to crop the video in 4 and having the first one with the audio.

At first I though FLV decompression was going to be hard for any CPU and having 4 videos playing at once was going to be hard, but in the end it wasn't too bad. ...

Anyway, the next day, I removed the audio from the first video (i,e cropped it again with virtualdub but without the audio), and then created a new video (black) with the music and if you take a look at the code, you'll see that there are 5 youtube players. Well, video0 is the one that plays the music, but as you can see on the styles, it's hidden. So if something goes behind the rest will be the music, and well, neither in the original video the music was 100% synced so I guess it does properly it's job.

.

By the way, it is a Rick Astley video, but not the usual one.
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I find it hard to take an article seriously when it misspells entrepreneur.
To me, that's like asking, "My customers that pay with $100 bills tend to spend more than the ones who pay with $20 bills. What do you guys think? Is a lot of $20-bill-paying customers a good thing or something to be concerned about?" It just doesn't make sense to me.

Traffic is money for you I would assume. You don't appear to sell directly to subscribers so you need traffic if you are going monetize your site.
It's not bad for an angel to focus on one subclass of business models that he feels capable of understanding and judging.
How about timesvr?
>- "in a poor economy, companies really need to find better, cheaper, and more efficient ways of operating."

The economy isn't that poor, though. Ignore the headlines. Watch GDP, GDP per capita, and unemployment. If those things aren't going negative, then people are still going to spend money.

Politicians live by demagoguery and fear. Businessmen should look at facts.
It's really important and not at all negative, it just means people are searching for something specific, and will most likely move on once they've found it.

For retailers, these are the 'gold' searches. The more detailed the search phrase, the more likely the purchase.

Think about it: 'Digital camera' is far too broad to determine the mindset of the searcher, but 'sony cybershot offer black' shows a far greater purchase intent. Add on a specific product name / number and a sale will be imminent.

For NewsCred this stuff is equally important. You can minimise bounce rates by doing more to keep these users onsite, be it related content, UGC, improved usability / navigation, etc.

Besides, traffic is traffic...
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A telltale sign to me that a person is slimy is if he uses the phrase "build character". Funny--I had never been aware of this until now.
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