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Ask HN: What are must have and must not have features, in a website?
This question is for hackers and designers.

When launching a site, there is a debate of what features to have and what features not to have. Some features/flows/pages are specific to the site. But, there are common features/pages all sites must have. And some features are definitely a NO.

First time launcher can make a mistake of having or not having a feature.

Can you help identify the list of "MUST HAVE" and "MUST NOT HAVE" features for a site?
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That really does depend on your code base. If you have some large 1 million line C++ codebase that your computer fails to index half the time and compiles that take 20 minutes minimum; you need the 27" resolution to view all the panes of a running program at the same time; a better machine and larger screens are very useful.
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I'm not sure economics is the right angle. This is an (re)election year, and these newspapers are all in "Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida." Think what you want from that.
I see little evidence people have learned from it. (And the main lesson seems to be: if you give the national archive office a disc, they will lose it. If you painstakingly reconstruct the disc and give them a fresh copy, they will lose that too)
Where here does it say Turkey is "killing school books"? Even if they were replacing all schoolbooks with tablets, I find that idea kind of bad seeing as it makes it difficult to flip between exercises and the chapter or the index and the rest of the book (or other functionality that a textbook is supposed to support). Ebooks are fine for novels but I just can't use an endless scrolling touchscreen tome for learning something
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You keep using that word. I wonder if it means what you think it means.
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They spend so much time and effort proving that they are not affected by their wealth it's embarrassing. Just goes to show that the industry is made up of some very immature people who care far too much what other people think of them. Naturally this doesn't apply to everyone and the story needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Oracle and DB2 are at the top because no other solution is mature, it does not mean the ACID transaction approach is the best.

Can they make ACID transactions scale? They make bold claims and I'm afraid it will be hard to live up to it.

Is it worthwhile to make ACID transactions scale? Perhaps it's more efficient to switch to a new model for massively parallel processing?
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This activity is ultimately underwritten by deposits.

Yes and no. First of all, deposits are created whenever a bank gives out a loan. So it is not the deposit that makes loan creation possible, but rather the reverse: creation of loans is where money in deposits comes from in the first place. Without loans there would be no deposits.

Now the outstanding loans given by the bank are on the asset side of its balance sheet and there must be something corresponding on the liabilities side. For most banks, deposits are indeed a large part of liabilities.

However, the liability may just be a loan from the central bank or from other banks instead. It's not strictly necessary for banks to have deposits at all (and there are banks which specialize in such a way).

The only reason why it makes sense for banks to attract deposits is that they typically pay less interest on those deposits than they would have to pay for other refinancing options.

And again, all this doesn't say anything about the dynamics of the system, i.e. it doesn't say anything about loan creation. It's not like there is some process where the banks say "Look, we have X more deposits than loans, so let's give out some more loans". Some banks operate with more deposits than loans, others operate with less. In the end, they give loans whenever they find a creditworthy borrower.

In the overall system, i.e. when summing over all banks, the sum of loans is roughly the same as the sum of deposits, because loans are where deposits come from in the first place. (I say roughly because owners of deposits can transform them into other types of assets such as bonds.)
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Because a newspaper is not a bunch of dead trees. It's the brand, the community history, the reporting. Take those, + scalable internet model and you can probably do decently.
I just hope that some of that money will help to build at least a few startups that are actually useful (i know, usefulness is subjective but i'm sure you get what i mean).
In the Pilot they used a US based Android tablet manufacturer (General Mobile) and Samsun Galaxy Tab. Initially they were going "only Android" but after some MS-Nokia lobbying (This is my guess, Both are very strong in Turkey) they had to change the requirements and they invited Nokia to the bid.
I applaud this post.
I love the irony of @dcurtis complaining about twitter dirty tricks while trying to get "Kudos" using a scammy widget.
As someone else said here: counter-signaling. One of my first job was to be a valet at high-end events and clubs. I would often see people driving Ferraris while dressed with shorts and flip flops. Or I would see a guy driving a dirty old car while wearing a 30K$ watch. I can't say this is what's really happening here but it seems like a probable hypothesis.
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And so the Valley demonstrates its fixation on wealth through deliberate contrast to "those other places". Just demonstrates that pressure to conform to behavioral expectations associated with financial status affects everyone, even if in different ways.
That's a great point.

Are there any startups tackling the local news problem?
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Uh what? Palo Alto does look like a sleepy suburb for a billionaire town, but you see 911 turbos parked in a row beside each other like nothing. People aren't conceited about it.
Hehe. In the end, the Karma is the main reason in either scenarios. Maybe PG could check these articles and the posters to extrapolate out some possibilities.
Is there so many HN readers out there?
I feel for you, especially with the looming "when is the next lot going to be let go".
I'd say the "every man for himself" mentality you embody is what's child-like.
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This is almost word for word how intern mentorship works at Microsoft. Except usually "mentors" are referred to as "coaches" but they seemingly serve exactly the same purpose.

Works very well there and I completely 100% back the points made by this article.
That's a good point. Worst case, in 9 months I'm sure we'll see the details in the shareholder's letters (http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html).
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Here's an inside story about this project: up to this point the government has been running a small scale pilot which has been hit with all kinds of problems. For example, the kids who have received these tablets have been selling them on the street to buy candy instead of using them to study. Further, there is no centralized management software for the books and other tablet content. As a result, kids just delete books on the tablets and tell their teachers that tablets don't work because they are missing books. The data center that the gov't has been using is not equiped to deal with the volume of service requests that the tablets are sending to the DC. There is a real sense amongst participants that despite all the investment on part of the Turkish government the project will be a huge failure.
jedberg, you're not working at reddit anymore.. you have to use citations now in internet discussions. ;)
This seems like a pretty good deal if you go beyond the headlines of Berkshire investing in a declining industry.

1. All the newspapers Berkshire Hathway is buying are modestly profitable according to Poynter Institute. They didn't buy the Tampa Tribune newspaper which is struggling.

2. Berkshire is also loaning $400 million to Media General at 10.5% interest. And providing a $45 million credit line. The interest on that loan will go a long way towards paying for the newspapers.

3. And on top of this, Berkshire is getting stock warrants equivalent to almost 20% of Media General. Media Generals stock prices are already up by 33%.

In essence, Berkshire has put in $600 million which will earn them about $60-80 million per year (from newspaper revenue and interest on the loan.) Gives them 20% of a media company with a market cap of $90 million and room to rise higher. And leaves with a $400 million loan which has to be paid back to them eventually.

This is a bloody genius deal.
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For you guys wondering how it is even possible to fire 30k people at once:

In every organization of that size there is cruft. Mind-bogglingly large cruft. Working with those behemots will teach you that you could fire entire departments and no one would notice. There is so many people simply tasked with completely non-customer relevant things like reviewing HR review forms, etc. - they get their pay, produce no tangible value.

Now mind you, every company needs people to keep the whole structure going. HR, IT are never profitable, of course. But at some point during the growth phase of a company these start to metastasize - they are cancer, feeding themselves, leeching of the company that hosts them. And not just money, but also power. Suddenly managers of those areas have a say in company direction. Block innovation because of 'processes'. Have never seen a customer, never produced anything in their life, have no shred of idea of the core business of their company.

And just like cancer treatment, past a certain stage you need to cut deep and wide.

Prahalad and Hamel laid a bit of groundwork for more effective org-cancer treatment with their core competency definition.

You know your cuts were deep enough when a few months in you notice pain. People not being able to service customers effectively. And you'd be surprised just when this really happens at places like HP. 9% is laughable. If you have lots of layers in an organization, every employee laid off has a ripple effect. Need less HR, accounting, IT, etc to service less employees. Even less layers of management as you can combine teams.

Looking at certain country hubs of HP here in Europe I'd wager you could easily cut 50% of the current workforce without any negative impact on customer relations.
There are but it is quite difficult.

The other thing is that the bigger newspapers made a lot of money through national advertising, sales sections and deceased notices. These things are becoming less relevant. With Craigslist and Facebook etc.

He's probably hoping that investors dump their whole newspaper portfolio and he can pick up all the profitable smaller papers while selling the bigger ones such as the Tampa one at a short term loss as part of the long term plan.

He wrote a good article about end of life businesses and how they can be a good investment, but not to reinvest money into them. I'll have a look and see if I can find it.
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Disclosure: I'm currently in Istanbul.

This seems like an idea that could go pretty wrong.

1. I have doubts to the quality of screens they will choose, for cost's sake. This is a country that still has a lot of poor people and doesn't have the tax base to use iPads exactly. Is a poor screen better than a "Retina Display" paper book? Now, while displays will be cheaper and better by the end of the 5 year rollout, and (barring more Europe recession) Turkey is still growing at a respectable rate, giving them a better tax base in 2018. I'm still not convinced what they can reasonably afford.

2. If these tablets are too good or can do too much, they will be stolen. Kids will drop them. Dropping a paper book isn't as problematic as dropping every book you have and the tablet shattering, or a kid stealing another's tablet/submerging it in water out of spite, or adults stealing the tablet. It will happen.
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Less likely: something is wrong with this site's configuration. Usually this happens when accounts have been signed up with a partner organization (e.g., a hosting provider) and the provider's DNS fails.
The funny thing is, there was a time when this article could have been written about Goldman Sachs employees.
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Could be a bad buy or a good buy. I think the good buy angles come if he can help ensure that all those local newspapers make sure to get a web/mobile foothold. Combine the best of both worlds: the boots on pavement and faces-in-faces they already have, and the focus on the local communities and culture, combined with making their content available both in newsprint AND on desktop web and on mobile web. It'd be relatively cheap to build and operate a per-newspaper website these days, especially at the kind of traffic levels those newspapers would likely have. Salaries for news staff and the cost of print operations would prob be so much higher the web/mobile parts would be just noise in the cost structure.
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I am afraid they have taken away books and given them a new distraction device.
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this developer was at Yahoo, which burst long ago.
I definitely think an "about-us" page is the most important part of the website - it introduces the who, the why and allows us to get the voice of the people running the site.
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I wish mint.com was usable in Europe :(

/rant

The bank here in France are HORRIBLE. For example the weekend transaction don't show up on the website, like if they had to input them by hand or something. Fucking terrible.
Unfortunately, even if illegal, there is a way around it. So what some of the teachers where I studied did (one of the eastern European countries) was to send her/his students to visit tutorial classes of the other teacher (for which you pay) and vice versa.
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Nowadays everybody is talking about Bubble 2.0 especially after Instagram acquisition. And the rumors of this acquisition related to Facebook IPO.

And here comes the Facebook IPO.
People are asking whether or not it is really worth 100 billion dollars, or if you would buy Facebook stock, for how long Facebook's popularity will last, etc.

Since most of the people agrees on Instagram does not worth 1 billion dollars, i started to think that the IPO is the exit strategy for Mark Zuckerberg. Maybe not for the moment, but in the near future...

Like all popular things, eventually Facebook will also be beaten by another popular service.
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> Palo Alto, a suburb so expensive that even a small, no-frills house easily goes for $1.5 million these days

Still remarkably affordable compared to Vancouver, Canada.
Facebook is pretty much virtual. It doesn't have factories, hardware testing labs, R&D labs, physical presence in as many countries as HP, business sales / contracts, support people, etc. It's an apples to oranges comparison.

One company provides a website, the other provides so many products they wouldn't fit in this box.
Do you mean visualising the tree by citations? All of these help, but papercube has a good following.

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Be serious. You'll see that nobody is planning to kill school books, if you can read between the lines. That could have happened if the ministry had restructured the educational system to use tablets effectively. All they've done is scan the books and slap them into feature restricted tablets.

Unfortunately, this is just a public relations move and nothing more IMHO.
(Oh and the site is down I think? It only gives me a "1" when I click on the address.)
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So... Facebook applies the Jantelagen?
Correlation is not causality - most of the Muslim nations you're thinking about were also coincidentally victims of colonialism - after which they were used by us as pawns. Afghanistan for example, started as a British colonial buffer zone to protect interests in India - and then was carved into by the Soviets as part of the Cold War, after which the Americans aided, encouraged, and outright armed radical fundamentalists and told them to go kill some Russians. Is it any real surprise that they ended up with a brutal, fundie dictatorship?

(By the way, Afghanistan's history of being a warzone stretches back waaaaay further than just 30 years, way before the Soviets)

And Iran, that most favourite of whipping boys now that Afghanistan and Iraq are off the map. They were doing just peachy with a liberal, relatively secular, democratic government until Mossadegh kicked out Western oil interests. After that the gloves were off, and the Americans engineered a coup and installed a radical fundamentalist puppet instead. Turns out he wasn't so much a fan of America.

(though to be fair, the Shah kind of had it coming. He had a particularly nasty case of murdering political dissidents... though after Khomeini it became unimaginably worse)

Note: this is not to mean that the Middle East was not without its own problems. It would be entirely unfair to pin the blame solely on Britain and the US for the national failures that litter that subcontinent. That being said, where you see a dramatic failure of government, British or American interventionism is never too far away, and the current woeful state of Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan (disregarding recent wars, i.e. <2000) can be traced directly to Western interventionism.

And furthermore, traditionally Islamic nations such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE are doing just fine for themselves. In fact, if you put all of these nations side by side, it seems that "crossed the US/Britain" is a greater predictor of misery than "is Islamic".
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> You know your cuts were deep enough when a few months in you notice pain.

There is always a layer or two of cruft in any large organisation, and I'd throw numbers like 10% out of thin air so 9% seems pretty reasonable. But cutting yourself until you bleed doesn't seem a healthy behavior.

Added to that, in an organization where power games are all the rage and completely unneeded divisions have gained a say on important matters, the 9/10% you are cutting might not be the ones you really wanted to get rid of.

P.S: At the exception of cutting an entire location or activity, It feels to me like you won't see much companies successfuly cut 10% of their workforce and turn the ship around. Not that it's a bad move, but it feels like you'll hit the bottom anyway when you come to this point (now once you touch the bottom you might actually be able to come up again, who knows).
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