skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is in Polish, so I guess it won't be very useful. I may translate it and post somewhere if I have some free time. For now, try googling "website brief template", it's how I made my first version, then improved it over time. It's basically a compilation of most of the questions I had to ask during my previous projects. If you like to look like a funny guy try adding some "would you like a pictures of your cat on the website". It releases some tension associated with such formal document (which I usually attach to signed contract, just in case), but be prepared to hear "yes, I actually would like to have cats on my website".

It's probably worth mentioning that this approach is correct only for small and medium projects, like things possible to deploy with Wordpress ninja in team.

This may be a good place to start: http://www.methodandclass.com/article/write-a-web-site-brief...
Yeah, I would have a real problem with this. I can't be around those sonic rodent repellers or anything similar.
"Suppliers" said so. That is evidence? Same way we knew retina was coming. They may be unreliable, but it's still evidence.
Software Engineer built his house for £4000
The driving before the interstates happened on dirt roads, country roads, or paved roads in crowded city thoroughfares, with top speeds of less than thirty miles an hour. Automobiles in the '20's sat tall, with lots of interior room (even the low-end Model T had plenty of vertical space); sedans in the thirties began the trend towards lower profiles which continued up through the sporty road cruisers of the fifties. Those sleeker, lower profile designs would have been pointless without highways.

I don't think it's an entirely unlikely explanation.
Well, I visited this link twice to be sure and Safari pitched up a pop-under ad both times.

I assure you, I do not have malware.

It happens when the justin.tv widget in the side-bar loads. It attempts to load something that redirects to http://rts.pgmediaserve.com/03d458/
As I say here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3940595 ...

It doesn't work on my ASUS Eee netbook. The result is that I can read
Twitter, but I can't tweet or reply when I'm computing on the move.
Once again an "update" has rendered an existing system unoperable.

It looks like I'm going to have to write my own Twitter client, if
I have the time. Maybe I should just call this a great time saver.
You might get more interest if you told us a little about your company.
Isn't this the very definition of confirmation bias?
Note this which appears on the last page:

"Several peers listened to our list of topics andresponded by cautioning us that “this is a relationship business,” implying a view that we are better off accepting the status quo and being in misaligned, under performing VC relationships than pursing negotiations for better terms."

"this is a relationship business" is a frequent phenomenon in sales and even in lawyer client relationships. Lawyers become friends of their clients and this prevents the clients from easily doing something that isn't in the best interest of the lawyer. Large ticket salesmen frequently wine and dine clients (including sports tickets and if you believe some accounts prostitutes). Specialty doctors entertain primary care physicians (well at least in the old days they did) in order to maintain a flow of patients. The very clear intent of all of that is to protect a legacy system and prevent you from entering into a relationship with another entity that may actually be better for you. This happens even in cases where the person being sold is spending their own money. But when people are spending someone elses money all bets are off.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3756/2010-value-ssd-100-roundu...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssd-price-per-gb-ss...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

Look at the prices for a given manufacturer over time. These 3 links show 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2012
Nice, but is there a way to permalink an insult?
We are working already on saleasfore integration. NoSQL databases like MongoDB and CouchDB are supported already. Geo coding API used in this example is Yahoo! PlaceFinder
aka Bayesian inference.
They ask juries to rule on all matters of fact they can think of.

They do this to prevent new jury trials, letting appellate courts solve all matters of law.
Neo4j.rb 2.0 released by Andreas Ronge
If you want an approximate count you can do something like to get data for all your tables:

SELECT S.nspname || '.' || relname, reltuples
FROM pg_class C, pg_namespace S
WHERE C.relnamespace = S.oid
ORDER BY reltuples DESC

This is the estimate used by the query planner, so it's updated whenever a VACUUM occurs (not sure how often the autovacuum runs).
Thanks, I'll have our webmaster check with Justin.tv.
I read through the sample on the site and found it surprisingly hard to put down. I'm not a programmer, but I've read TCPL. Your sample made me think of C a little differently, and was easy to understand despite my lack of formal training. This book might be my next purchase.
I've owned 3 Dell laptops in the past 2 years.

First one's screen broke.
Second one's graphics card was faulty.
Third one's sound was messed up, sent the PC in for repairs. Dell technicians dropped it on the ground, blamed me for doing it, then refused to further support it.

I don't care one way or the other if anyone else buys Dell; but there's no chance in hell that I will ever again.
Running SUSE 9.1 on a Dell Precision M70. Huge screen works fine in Suse, and as I use an external PS2 keyboard, no chance of accidentally tapping the mouse pad. Wifi works fine on M70's internal wifi card. Great cheap Linux laptop.
Facebook MySQL Compression Improvements
OSE: re-focusing on bootstrap funding
Shitty compared to my reference point of "fit for purpose".
I fully expect it to be $140 cheaper than a comparable machine running Windows 7 Pro.
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But you wouldn't know what's in the file unless you buy it. So you can flag it after the copyright is infringed and the seller has money in his pocket.
People can develop on 13" screens?
Actually, that's really a rather good idea. I'll be sure to Show HN when it's done!
I am curious that if apis are solidly found to not be copyrightable, would this have any impact on gpl3's 'anti tivo' exclusions and/or gpl vs lgpl linking exceptions?

It would seem to me that providing an api compatible 'shim' layer would then not fall under copyright if apis are not copyrightable. Although linking is clearly, in my mind, the creation of a derived work.

My understanding of the many facets of copyright law is not very extensive though, so enlightenment is definitely
welcome.
What I really want is to write functional code in a way that looks like OOP. OOP is so simple and straight forward in comparison, it just results in code that is not scalable or easily maintained.
I think the point of the report is that system as now does not force "lame" firms to improve.

In other words, top VC funds will be top VC funds - the improving rules will not influence them.
The question is: Is there a better system to force bad VCs to improve (or to make them bankrupt faster so they can be replaced with better ones)?
anti-google or not he correctly predicted that the jury would find that Android infringed on Oracle's copyright and that is my point. whether I agree with the jury or not or if I hate or Mueller is not the issue.
> Why can't we just fix this part?

Insurance companies. They lobby. They make it very, very hard to do anything useful.

If you think it leads to "massive conflicts of interest and corruption", then you obviously think relative to the current system. Can you find one example of a country with a more corrupt, more prohibitively expensive medical system than the US?

If you look at the various implementations of universal healthcare, of which there are dozens, you'll find varying levels of corruption, efficiency, and effectiveness, but the current US system is by far the worst in virtually every category. It is the worst possible outlier.

People shouldn't die of easily treatable medical conditions, not in this age. Most countries agree with this in principle and provide medical coverage for their people regardless of income or age. It's expected because people have worked hard to provide it for themselves collectively.
What is interesting is how little code it took.

in riak_mongo/src

33 riak_mongo.app.src
42 riak_mongo.erl
342 riak_mongo_bson.erl
176 riak_mongo_message.erl
197 riak_mongo_protocol.erl
214 riak_mongo_query.erl
471 riak_mongo_riak.erl
56 riak_mongo_server.erl
38 riak_mongo_sup.erl
74 riak_mongo_worker.erl
38 riak_mongo_worker_sup.erl
1681 total
Ask HN: Has anyone done anything interesting with Email Analytics? 
It feels like there's a great start-up that could simply analyse my email and offer me certain data that would be insightful. For example: Who do I email most without receiving a reply? Who am I worst at responding to? When do I send the majority of my mails etc.

Even if restricted to work with GMail.com this would still be killer.

Anyone know anything in the area?
"Configuration as code". In other words, "configuration as plain text files". Another innovation that's actually been in *nix since forever.

As a result of this, I can turn any computer into a me-friendly machine in about an hour. Install my favorite Openbox-based distro (Crunchbang), copy over dotfiles I've already customized, and install every package from a list that's been exported from my main laptop.
I agree with your point about the drifting; the mostly flat structure of it means it can be easy to lose things if they aren't strictly organized. It seems like they've done very well with the capturing & sharing aspects but all the structural work is left to the user.
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I don't think it can be fixed. Insurance operates like Las Vegas, but minus the benefit of entertainment value. They have really smart math people (actuarials) help design things and the payments have to cover the costs of running the business plus the occasional large pay out. When the payouts get too big, they find excuses to deny more. That is how they make their money. They are not designed to take care of people. I really do not think they can be.

Example: My medical diagnosis is an automatic disqualifier for many of the policies my former employer sold. Working at the company did not change that. Why? Because there is no gamble involved. It is all down side. Someone like me is guaranteed to have high healthcare expenses. There is no hope of making money off me. So they don't bother to offer coverage.
If it were, would it matter?
> The area in which I learned the most is promoting the blog via social media and other avenues, such as Reddit.
Interview with the man behind Comantra, the "cold call virus scammers"
Is Internet censorship in schools legal?
Is Internet censorship in schools legal? What is your opinion on web filtering in private education institutions (pre-college, college)?
Ported to CoffeeScript:

GoogleGuilty = APICopyrightable and GoogleViolatedCopyright and not GoogleHasFairUse
thanks for pointing that out we are not doing that on our end so wanted to let you know that..it might be coming from another source...i'm investigating

john
(founder of the site)
The first polar orbit was supposed to be Discovery, about six months after the challenger disaster.

One of the things that was to enable the polar orbit was a new set of solid rocket boosters, the 'Filament-wound' models that had a lighter weight outer case, and more propellent.

The book Riding Rockets was written by an astronaut who was in the middle of prep on that discovery mission when Challenger happened, and has a few details on the proposed polar orbit launch.
> Adding capital to a fund doesn't impact the return of the fund.

You know that, I know that, but the folks who do the investment want to see the dollars returned be greater than the dollars invested. Otherwise, they also look like they are mismanaging money.

And separately, I think you're factually wrong.

Why?

(aside, I'm an entrepreneur funded by sequoia)

You think they'd advertise such things to you?

Edit: Apparently they do --

Leone noted that Sequoia has never had a fund that has lost money. There was one time when things were looking like they may go that way in 2002, so the Sequoia partners got out their checkbooks so that no one could say that they lost money investing with Sequoia Capital.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/doug-leone/

Yes, that's right: That's Leone saying the partners needed to bail out the fund, because their investments were negative. I give him points for honestly admitting that they blew it bad enough to kick back money. Of course, subtract points for the way in which he stated it, requiring carefully parsed words Sequoia has never had a fund that has lost money.
I'm pretty sure the term "tax" is meant as metaphor.
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There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be?
Maybe they can do this for their actual main homepage as the load time is horrific at the moment.
The future according to films {infographic}
I cannot duplicate the error..sometimes i've seen providers have f'd up dns where some bad stuff happens..
I like it, but I think a cooler color would be better. However, I like cooler over warmer, and some people are the other way. I think that's just personal preference.

Otherwise it seems fresh and clean.
It is written in Go.

:)
Ask HN: Free technical books in epub format
Looking for free technical books in epub format to try out on my new ipad. For example, I found "Pro Git" at http://git-scm.com/2010/05/17/progit-for-the-ipad.html
The source code is a treasure trove for those looking for an example of a larger Backbone.js application with a Rails backend and Faye for push notifications to the browser.

Backbone code - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/tree/master/app/assets/j...

Faye (on the Backbone side) - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/blob/master/app/assets/j...

Faye (on the Ruby side) - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/blob/master/app/models/a...
from TFA:

"After the partial copyright verdict was read, Judge Alsup launched right into the patent phase without even giving a break. Right now, the jury is watching a video about patents and patent lawsuits produced by the Federal Judicial Center, which is commonly shown to patent juries. Court will probably adjourn after opening statements today, and witnesses will begin testifying tomorrow, possibly including a repeat show by Jonathan Schwartz, the ex-Sun CEO. The patent phase is expected to be concluded in as little as one week. "
>Project Sputnik, a product of Dell’s new internal incubation fund, features not just full hardware support for Ubuntu on the XPS13, but a notion of “profiles” for developers

They could have stopped at "full hardware support for Ubuntu". Nobody cares about their crapware.

Just two weeks ago I bought an HP ProBook for a colleague for the sole reason of being Linux certified. It came with a Suse license but he's using it with Ubuntu.

The one Dell laptop I could have bought came with an Ubuntu version from 2010.
the payments have to cover the costs of running the business plus the occasional large pay out. When the payouts get too big, they find excuses to deny more.

How could it be different? How could any corporation or government operate differently?
I think this thread is a great example of why developers are notoriously tough customers (myself included)
Things aren't going to get better until the law changes. The reason for software patents is to encourage research and innovation, they do nothing of the sort today and should be ended.
My guess that the answer to that will be "past performance".

But as the cliche goes, "past performance is not indicative of future results".

Additionally my guess is that creative accounting could make that data near worthless in many cases.
In the Spring of 2011, I quit my high paying job as a management consultant
It's more like Bayesian inference.

In confirmation bias, you specifically seek out information that confirms your views and avoid/ignore information that might contradict it. The criteria you use to filter information is "do I want to believe this?" To use the example from the article, you might choose to only read articles from homeopathy sites, or to relentlessly nitpick articles from critics.

In a Bayesian framework, you compare the strength of information that contradicts your views to the strength of the information that supports those views. The criteria you use to filter information is "is this good evidence in relation to the rest of the body of evidence?" In the homeopathy example, you'd study science and then note that there's a lot of strong evidence against it, and therefore require that evidence given to support it be stronger than "5% of placebos would give this same effect".

It's the difference between ignoring contrary evidence and giving it the proper weighting.
Yes, they both seem unlikely. But I never expected an MMORPG or a mash-up of foursquare and mafia wars to turn into photo sharing websites... or for a group of people who want to put art galleries onto the web to end up building retail stores.

Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but at this point I'm not convinced that the words "internet startup", "unlikely", and "pivot" belong in the same sentence.
I think your answer is a lot more readable, though. I have to squint at jontro's version for a while before determining that it'll actually product the string "fizzbuzz".
Can you find one example of a country with a more corrupt, more prohibitively expensive medical system than the US?

I'm not advocating doing nothing! I just don't think universal healthcare is the only (or best) solution.

the current US system is by far the worst in virtually every category. It is the worst possible outlier.

Exactly, even other non-universal systems have better results than what we have now. I'm not sure why "universal healthcare" is being promoted as the only possible answer.
Ah, blogs. Accuse someone of stealing from an old magazine, and while you're doing it, take some pictures from that same magazine and slap a huge version of your own logo on them.
Agreed. I just came to the comments page to ask this.

I'd like to send a link to this insult to a certain someone...
That seems to be mostly a semantic argument, and I think your proposed usage is not a very common one. Fair use covers things like journalistic coverage of copyrighted works, use of copyrighted works in education, and criticism (e.g. literary criticism). I don't consider those things infringements on copyright. Rather, I consider fair use to be a limitation on copyright. As far as I know, that's also how US law treats fair use.
IIRC, the stuff about kids is in Gary Kleck's "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America" although there was probably some stuff in Philip Cook's "Gun Control".

I stopped reading the research 10-15 years ago, long after it became clear that the research didn't have any effect on people's positions.
Software KVM
This is not a DNS issue. This is the justin.tv widget doing something fishy in the background.

I have Little Snitch installed and locked down so it can't make any connections, but it tries two different sites over SSL in an attempt to fetch content for the frame.

Curiously it works with AdBlock enabled, too.
HN Link:
http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing...

Takes you here:
This webpage has a redirect loop
The webpage at http://www.joezimjs.com/500.shtml/ has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
Learn more about this problem.
Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.

Instead of here:
http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing...
No one is this thread is complaining about themselves working at Apple because they don't believe in the company's treatment of their employees and their general business practices. They all already work somewhere else because of this.
I'm one-third of the way working through Manning and Schuetze www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Language-Processing/dp/0262133601, so when I saw Latent Dirichlet Allocation as the top ranked paper I headed straight to the index to see what they said about it, and discovered it was not referenced. Turns out the publication date of this paper is 2003. I knew this field was fast moving, so I've just added the first paper I have to read after I get through this book.
My bad. It just hasn't been so far.
This would not work in a multi-dog household.
Facebook Social Readers Are All Collapsing
Agreed that I don't want/need their crapware. It'd be great if companies that make hardware had a clue what people wanted, but that's why Apple is going to be the biggest company in the world while IBM lays off seventy-some percent of their workforce, HP has 100 models of notebook that all do the same thing, and Lenovo forgets what made their older laptops so nice.
Can anyone find a Wikipedia article about him? It sure seems he's notable enough to have one.
A social network without your social network is pretty useless. In the end, that's all that matters.
Josh Bloch testified that he copied this function. http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120419221941...
It is a semantic argument, but I'm pretty sure US law treats fair use as a limit on copyright rather than as an excused copyright violation.

rgoddard seems to be implying that all copying of a copyrighted work is illegal, which simply isn't the case. His claim is analogous to claiming that driving at any speed is in violation of the speed limit, but if you driving under the posted limit you can use that as a defense in court.
iCloud Reminders in Org-mode: Talking to OS X with Emacs
Was April 10 doomsday for Washington Post, Guardian Facebook apps?
A wordPress plugin to play any Youtube video as background of your page
It used to be that the vast majority of media was controlled and shaped by very few people.

The internet is gradually changing that.

It's a pretty big deal. The internet is simultaneously an incredibly powerful publishing/distribution platform, and an incredibly powerful consumption channel.

So, take the title:

> I’m an Article About the Internet That You Repost on the Internet

It could be said, "I’m an Article About [Internet Consumption] That's [Published and Distributed on the Internet]"

Which suddenly comes across a lot less witty and clever.

Yeah, the internet is a big deal. People are going to keep talking about it. And the trivial noise? That was around before the internet; it's just no longer in the hands of a select few publishers/distributors.
I'm using Ubunutu 12.04 (and learning to love the bomb, err, Unity) on a Samsung 15-inch Series 9, and those things you mention work fine. Small irritants include a screen of less quality than I expected (vertical viewing angle is minimal), a keyboard that is more noisy than I wish, and a touchpad that I can't get to disable during typing. But it's fast, quiet, large-screened and has more than enough horsepower for development (using it for Google App Engine work right now).
I've been wondering that myself. I just wrote my website so that once I turn it on, people can just sign up and start using it. It just seems weird that virtually no startup does it this way.
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