skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DevHub vs WordPress as a Commercial Web Publishing Platform
Let me start out by emphasizing that I really do like WordPress for my blogging platform, but to actually attempt to compare WordPress to the expanded capabilities of DevHub is like comparing apples to oranges. Simply put, there is no comparison. WordPress is very good at what it was designed to do, but at the end of the day, it was designed for blogging not website development.

Some may attempt to push WordPress beyond its intended purpose in an attempt to make an ecommerce website. This would require programming new templates and plug-ins and gaining access to affiliates and other monetizing agents. In the unlikely event that you can find a WordPress template that basically meets your needs, you will probably have to pay for its use. Then, if you wish to change how it is formatted, you will have to reprogram the elements you wish to modify. Also as another glitch in the WordPress application, templates and plug-ins designed by others may become incompatible and cease to function when the base WordPress software is upgraded.

With WordPress you also have to invest in domain hosting, and once setup it may not bring in enough money alone to pay for the hosting fees. So even if WordPress meets your needs now, will it function as you need it to in the future?

DevHub on the other hand is specifically designed to be a website development platform with full monetization capability, and as an added benefit hosting your domains for free. It is simple to use and requires no previous programming knowledge. You simply drag-and-drop the module elements you want in your pages and effectively build a useful, robust, and content rich website.

With the DevHub development platform you can quickly build out all your domains into high-quality, fully functional websites. You have direct access to a multitude of established revenue streams and website elements, and there is no limit to the number of pages you create.

Since DevHub is web-based, software updates are automatic and more often transparent to the user. You have control of your own creative content, while taking advantage of an array of automated content and revenue generating components. The pages you generate will automatically update as new products and automated content becomes available, minimizing maintenance while ensuring your content is up to date.
IS this article real or just a good attempt at sarcasm ?!
I agree, or add a note about whether you're a mathematician.

I personally found this submission to be very exciting and interesting. I guess even with calculus, linear algebra and computability theory under my belt I still find number representation interesting. I don't think I'm alone. I'll use this idea later when tutoring kids in an attempt to share mathematical and programming excitement (would make for a fun script).

This submission may not be significant in advanced mathematical theory, but getting distracted for 20 minutes doing arithmetic or programming is no less important, albeit at quite a personal level.
I loved it too. People either love it or hate it.
Something that insightful makes me upset at how pathetic the media is. Millions of dollars spent creating hundreds of hours of coverage, and all of it together will not be as informative as a blog post some guy wrote in an hour. Can't the networks get someone like him on the air?
I could write a long list of stupid design decisions they made with the Kindle (it leaves nasty marks in my hand when I hold it in my preferred way), but... the utility of it is amazing.

And I live in Europe so I can't even download stuff over the wireless. I have to buy it on Amazon.com and then copy via USB. (Which is painless, even tho.)

I use it to get American / English books near instantly, at 1/5th the cost of having them shipped from Amazon DE.

I use it to travel -- which I do a lot. I can read upwards of a book a day, since I read about 80-100 pages an hour, even non-fiction.

Do I still buy paper books? Yes, I love them.

Does the Kindle free me to buy books I wouldn't otherwise, because of the weight, size, expense and time involved? Absolutely.

I bought the Kindle 1 in November and I already preordered the Kindle 2. There's no turning back for me.

As for the DRM, I don't really care. Say I can pay $8 for a novel or $12 to see a movie in a theater.

The novel is cheaper, even if I couldn't read it over and over and over again -- which I can. After seeing the movie in the theater, I can't watch it again without paying again.

I look at the Kindle as a kind of movie theater convenience for books, with the built-in ability to read anything I want again, as long as I want. Works for me.
BREAKING: Twitter files to become a bank holding company, in line to receive TARP funds. MORE TO COME /siren
It's an ancient troll. I've flagged it.
If they added drag n drop, it was after I used it.

I had the service initially when it came out, and for years, the text box was the only option.
It's just satire.
There is more info in the original Wired article. The author responded in comments:

"As for how I was broke while making a great salary working at Sun, it was primarily due to medical bills after a my family had series of emergency room visits, a couple of emergency surgeries, and we spent a year taking care of and financially supporting a mentally ill relative. Sun had also discontinued all bonuses due to the financial climate, which didn't help."

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/shoot-is-iphone.html#c...
you know Zed worked at Bear Stearns, right.. on in house IT stuff? I was one of the people at CUSEC urging him to get the hell out of there. Ultimately BS went out of business while Zed was there, so I guess it's moot.
He is using both digits and the nubers that sequence of digits represents in that equation.

In base 10, 7641 - 1467 = 6174.

In base 11, 7641 - 1467 = 4808.

Finding tricks that work in base 10 is interesting, but it's a much more fun to look for patterns that work across several number systems. A simple example is for any base > 3, (base - 1) times x where base > x > 1; you get a 2 digit number [x - 1],[base - x]
That post is a joke. The author later clearly states that he is not "Reginald Gibbons", but someone else. Here is his apology (3 days later):

http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.5.152712.125.html

Notice the date: This was published more than 7 years ago

This is not "Hacker News".
Considering most people mortgage their home over 30 years, it is not unfair to use this fact and build onto your math a bit:

2.50 / 30 years = about 8.33 cents per year in 'storage rent'.

Seems pretty cheap to me, when you compare relative costs of storage.

Of course, I'm typing this with some sarcasm, because the whole metric is bad. Your analysis assumes that: A - somehow you have unlimited items to store in all the empty places in your house, B - ignores the absolute cost of having empty space (you've already spent on the house, but if you leave that space empty, you have opportunity cost becuase you COULD be storing books), and C - ignores any utilitarian value you get from having the books around. :)

Here's a hint: C is most important. And it references back to the point the article is trying to make.

It is clever though, so I'll give you that.
Downvoted for implying there's anything mathematically special or interesting about base 10. Okay, I can't really downvote, but you get the idea.
> March 5 2009, 1:30-3:30

You're going to get through that whole program in two hours?
YouTube Kills TechCrunch Video Download Tool
This is utterly impossible. To move the body with enough speed the energies involved are huge. The initial acceleration would brake bones, and after that you're left with a good part of the body moving at supersonic speeds. What do you do with all this kinetic energy?
Ordering on inline edited items in Django's admin with jQuery
Not sure if it's a reboot for newer consoles, but it's definitely the replacement for the Nintendo DS, PSP, etc.
Lynch's Dune doesn't belong in the 'mindfuck' category, but perhaps it needs a category of it's own. Something like 'Random nonsense about leather boys and sand worms interspersed with recognizable incidents from science fiction novel of same name'.
I think this is the first thing I've flagged due to "excessive age". I remember reading this when it was originally posted.
At least now this classic troll can't be resubmitted
i understand that this is satire, but whats with the "lunix"? all other links seem to be functional...is this some kind of inside joke?
Why would you avoid 12345 and geometric progressions?
Santa Sangre is my favorite movie of all time. I've probably seen it about 25 times since I always make other people watch it and end up watching it with them. It still gets better every new time I see it.

I think this is the only Jodorowsky film that qualifies for the 'mindfuck' category (the others are more just surreal and weird), but it really is mind-blowing once you understand it.
For this particular office, the min age is 18 (the other 2 quals are to be registered to vote and live in the district). But yes, I'm more than 2x that, and the guy who won is even older than I am.
IIRC, twitter not too long ago acquired a 3rd party company who offered better searching. It may be an integration issue as well.
http://twitter.com/intellicode
Assuming you don't split a pot with someone else, of course.

That's an assumption you can't make in a parimutuel lottery, which is the usual lottery design. Mathematician Ian Stewart, author of many good books on mathematics, gives one example of a lottery in Britain that had more than seventy winners.
Or it will thrive like Blogger, which given the players involved is a much more apt comparison.
> takes just 58% of the time

Whoopee fucking doo, really.
No, you no can has bold.

Italics are allowed because they allow you to annotate emphasis without making the text stand out more than normal -- you only notice it inline. Allowing bold would lead to asshats writing like Jeff Atwood.
The original post, reprinted here verbatim:

A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss
certification and I advocated an organization to set guidelines for
what the characteristics and measurements that set apart a successful
and disciplined Rails shop apart from the unwashed masses. Rather than
trying to certify individuals (too easy to game!) I think it would be
useful to have a certification process for organizations that involved
an actual extensive interview process and audit of code and practices,
with associated scorecards and registration in some sort of official
directory. Yes, you would have to pay handsomely to get this
certification, and the result would not necessarily be what you
expect. The details for this is all very rough and frankly I don't
know the value of it, just an idea that's been in the back of my mind
for a long time so I'm putting it out there for debate.

The name and concept is somewhat influenced by CMM, which I suppose is
anathema to most Agilistas. I'm the first to admit that I don't know
much about CMM other than it provides a scoring system for
organizations.

In a Rails context, you would establish a scorecard that categorized
your shop on a scale of 0 to 3 (or whatever, just thinking out loud
here)

RMM0 "aka Cowboy level"
- No formal development process
- No test coverage
- No standardized business practices
- Static analysis failures

RMM1 and RMM2 would have to be something in-between. RMM1 is
considered negative. RMM2 is considered positive.

RMM3 "aka Master level" (Purposely exclusive territory here, I can
imagine that only a handful of shops in the world could achieve this
level!)
- Agile software development practices
- 100% test coverage WITH THE APPROPRIATE TYPES OF TESTS (For
instance, at Hashrocket lately we are doing much less unit testing at
the MVC level because automated acceptance and integration testing
with Cucumber is so powerful and effective.
- 100% pair-programming (muahaha)
- Formal and standardized business practices
- Institutionalized continuous learning and process improvement
- Positive customer testimonials
- Successful deployment of Rails application(s) with substantial scaling demands

Incidentally, I'm bringing this up for discussion, but I might be
interested in a joint-venture along these lines with an out of work
senior Rails developer that feels like taking the idea and running
with it. (Rick?) In fact I can envision the idea expanding to the
point where being a RMM auditor could be a profitable little part-time
gig for Rails freelancers with the right personality type and
enthusiasm.

Obie Fernandez
CEO & Founder | Hashrocket
904.435.1671 office
404.934.9201 mobile

Hashrocket, Inc.
320 N 1st Street
Suite 712
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250

http://hashrocket.com
http://obiefernandez.com
http://www.pivotaltracker.com
Agreed. This is the sort of stuff that Twitter is great for and I suspect that someone smart will find a way to use it as the vehicle for citizen news reporting. But it's niche, like a lot of folks are saying and even then, the kinks would be plentiful and I'm not sure that it'd be particularly useful during "dead times" and it'd be hard to sift through what's important except in bigger places or centered around certain niches.

The technology itself is useful, just a question of whether it's something someone would pay for and I'd say no in most cases.
I assume it's because more people will have those numbers than other numbers so the pot will be split.
It's not what he's good at that's bad for Microsoft. Microsoft stores will need to be more than data-driven: they'll need creative inspiration if they're going to help rebuild the brand, and that's a very different task from running Wal-Mart, even the entertainment division. It's not clear that Porter would know how to pull this off. Especially since he spent 25 years with Wal-Mart. This doesn't suggest a breadth of experience with retail experiences.

Incidentally, there used to be a Microsoft store at the Metreon in San Francisco. It was fairly swanky, but it didn't make me think any more highly of the brand or their products.
I was also very skeptical, but finally I found one good use for Twitter.

If there is some real-time trouble (e.g. you couldn't access your Gmail account, or Hacker News), Twitter is the first place where you can confirm your suspicions (and sometimes even find a solution/explanation).

On Twitter you can find out in minutes if there is anybody else having the same trouble as you, instead of hours till Google indexes blogs with complaints.

Searching Twitter is now my default reaction to figure out what's going on:

http://search.twitter.com/
Calling all scientists and mathematicians
MySpace Ad Revenues Closing In On AOL's
Brilliant satire. I had probably seen it before, but it was still a good laugh :-)
Browser benchmarks: even Wine beats Linux Firefox
hmmm... community management

1. Nightclubs are an intesting example of the steady rise and decline of new ideas. They attract copycats and their followers and the club dies, because the initial 'intellectually curious' crowd gets run over. Meanwhile, clubs that are overly elite and gated just don't have the style and communication culture. I've seen this, as a music fan, in Munich, Germany, over a period of 10 years. Often places that look like a dump are able to maintain their fans (that's one of the strategies).

2. Gated communities become stale quickly. Silicon Valley culture developed, because it was beneficial to work together with others as the pie was growing for everybody. (That's also why the industrial revolution created a middle class). The academic community is a stark contrast to this, because there is no tenure position out there for everybody. IMHO (5 years work at university) the communication culture is probably in the order of 50% toxic intimidation games (noise).
This has happened before. In November 1997, the New York State Lottery ran a promotion where all the prizes were doubled every Wednesday. Players had nearly a 20% edge over the house.
http://catlin.casinocitytimes.com/articles/1226.html

MAA: Math Horizons ran an article on it February 2007.
You can still sell and distribute your applications through your own channel. There's nothing to stop an Android device owner from downloading and installing an App directly from the internet.
If true, I find this more amusing than anything else.

I'm considering sending a letter once a year, requesting my file. I'll randomly include odd references, and maybe the occasional Haiku. Sometimes I'll type using all caps, other times I'll hand write in my admittedly poor cursive. Should be amusing to someone 20 years from now, or if I ever commit some interstate bank robbery. Its very important to plan for potential conspiracy theories.
Many in the Rails community are finding this to be exceptionally worthless and stupid, for the record.
Free And Instant People Search
Ok, he just invested money into company's because they are like other companies, that don't make money, in a recession. That seems like a really stupid thing to do but if the odds are 1 in 5 that it sells for as much as YouTube it might be a good bet.
Fart fight: One iPhone fart app takes another to court
Why is it in our society the people in power who abuse their authority always get slapped with a smaller sentences than a regular citizen would get in the same situation?

It should be the other way around, these people should get harsher penalties, simply because they abuse the public's trust.
"Twitter is a new type of media property, pure and simple. He (conveniently) puts it in the same category as YouTube or Facebook."

Common thread? Huge web properties that don't have a business model.
A4 vs US Letter
dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480631
Indeed. I thought calling twitter 'a new type of media property' may be hyping it up a bit too much. A more appropriate description would be 'a really popular web app'. This investor may be getting ahead of himself. +$35 million will buy the twitter team time to devise a business model, but how successful that business model will be remains yet to be seen.
I was wondering out the meta-phenomena of community members complaining about decreasing quality. While it may be valid, doesn't it make more sense to make a more concrete argument about why the quality is going down.

More along those lines here: http://www.discerniblepreferences.com/2009/02/dilution-of-qu...
Maybe throttle the number of advanced functins or calculations unregistered users are allowed to do per day (or session, or other time period) and have a countdown/tracker displaying the number they have remaining along with a link to register.

Buy the desktop version, get unlimited access to the web version.

Put an identifier cookie on their machine and display the number of calculations performed over all time along with a link to the purchase. You know, guilt.

Maybe have a few of the more esoteric but ridiculously useful functions disabled and only enabled either in the pro or just by viewing a nag screen - click sin and get a popup (the first time this session only) that says "We're glad you like this, hey there's a free version). Only nag them a very small percentage of the time, but every now and then nudge them a bit.
Here's how it's done folks: http://flickr.com/photos/ttrueman/3277754052/
You understand that with a 250M valuation, the sale is going to have to be at 500M minimum. What "VC backed site with no business model either" is going to be able to afford that?
ruby -e "loop{tn=Time.now.to_i;puts\"#{tn} (T-minus #{1234567890-tn})\";sleep(1)}"

I nearly forgot, and literally finished writing that ~10 seconds before 1234567890!
The blogger is a former CNN reporter.
Wonderful Ideas... I'm thinking of trying just a nag screen to start that shows "buyNow", "free trial", and "continue using online"... If people still don't purchase it, then I will have to punish them more....
Cyber Security Community Joins Forces to Defeat Conficker Worm
And in 2012 it'll be 1333333337 o'clock ;)
http://www.twitter.com/darreld
It's too bad that the US didn't switch to the metric system and A4 paper. It isn't so much about imperial vs. metric (though the metric system's design feels more natural); but it would be nice to have a worldwide standard format.
First ever collision of two commercial satellites
I remember reading a comment here recently to the effect that "citizen journalism" could never really be taken seriously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430819

I remember thinking at the time that this was wrong, and that I'd seen several instances where people publishing online had clearly done their homework better than journalists writing for print publications. This article is the sort of thing I mean. It seems unlikely the big newsmagazines will do as good a job when they write about this.

Incidentally, the reason I put "citizen journalism" in quotes is not because I dislike the idea, but because I don't think this name is good enough for it. At its best it doesn't need to have any qualifiers appended: it's simply journalism.
Wow, ThomasVail, account created 9 days ago with 1 submission. This is an impressive rant.

I like Wordpress, I haven't tried DevHub, and I'm sure the things you're saying are true.

It might help to let folks know your stake in this as:

Thomas Vail
Company
PR
1128 Beltis Dr.
Modesto, CA
USA 95352

From: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/web-publishing...

I have no problem reading a pitch about a product on this site. That said, I do feel you should make it clear you work for DevHub when posting this kind of thing.

Good luck!
The color you would get on an E-ink display would be pretty crappy. Because of the limitations of technology, you wouldn't be able to get any better color images than what a newspaper has. E-ink displays are also pretty slow to refresh. They would have do something that doesn't use rasterization.
A nice example is the divisibility of numbers, by rearranging the digits and performing simple operations on them you can quickly figure out if a number is divisible by a certain other number without actually doing the division.

for an example see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Numb...

or google for 'eleven check'.

A snippet from a yahoo answers page:

"a number is divisible by 11 if and only if when you add the digits that are an odd number of places from the right, and then you add the digits which are an even number of places from the right, the difference of these is divisible by 11."
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I have had quite a few opportunities b/c of twitter. I will be speaking at GlueCon in Denver b/c of Twitter. I am much more deeply connected to my local tech community b/c of Twitter. And there are friends that I have a deeper relationship with b/c of Twitter.

Now, having said that, there is absolutely no reason anyone should have down voted you for answering the question.

Do you need it? No.
Can it be highly beneficial? Yes.
http://twitter.com/jaxn
that's interesting but why is it on hacker news? what has it got to do with anything hacker newsy?
The level of conversation on Reddit didn't decline because the founders were apathetic. They still care a lot about the site. But they are committed not to censoring anything, either comments or stories, and that tends to make the site something of a free-for-all. A massively successful free-for-all, incidentally:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+ycombinator.com/...

For most users the change in the character of Reddit couldn't accurately be called "decline," or their traffic wouldn't still be growing so fast. It just seems like a decline to the small minority that includes us.
New Hampshire Law Threatens Leaving the Union
Unless everone thinks like the parent and those numbers become underrepresented.. and you can take it into the Nth level like a Keynesian Beauty Contest.
http://twitter.com/ericwan

don't twitter often, but try to understand its appeal and user dynamics.