skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shopialize primarily focuses on sharing "post-shopping" updates quickly and frequently like micro-blogging way. Other social shopping networks primarily focus on "pre-shopping social bookmarking" and "wishlist creation" aspects. It doesn't tell if your friends or community members are really buying those items or just recommending it.

Also, I'm not trying to build another social shopping network. I'm looking more towards Twitter+FriendFeed integration. Twitter may-not provide better shopping related feature-set. Similarly, FriendFeed may not add all social-shopping services like Kaboodle, ThisNext, Kirtsy, etc., which I'm planning to add soon.

These are primary reasons. Hope this answers your question.
My understanding of the word "full factorial" means that you have multiple design elements under test at the same time and you're testing all possible combinations. For example, you are testing two alternative images and two alternative headlines. This gives you 2 x 2 = 4 possibilities to show to any given user. As you increase the alternatives for each factor and increase the number of factors, the total number of alternatives grows in a combinatorially explosive fashion and you might indeed need a million page views and 5% conversion rates. (Heck, six factors with 6 options each and even with a million viewers you'd have less people seeing each combination than I did, unless you started pruning them early.)

But I'm still only testing two alternatives of one factor. I mean, yes, that is included in the definition of "full factorial" but it makes an absolute hash out of that rule of thumb. Two choices total means the stats test is simple and does what it says on the tin: 94% chance that new cart outperforms old cart, exact magnitude of outperformance bounded by calculable confidence intervals.

You can consider 94% insignificant or significant -- your call really. If you chose p = .05, its insignificant. If you choose p = .1, its significant. It costs me very little (except opportunity costs) to keep the experiment going but 94% is good enough for me personally to claim a win out of it.
Whatever is causing today's lower fertility rates is a profound pressure on human evolution.
By the way. Did you hear about Orhan Pamuk? He got the Nobel prize in literature 2006? The book called "My Name Is Red". There are much more about project management in his book that in this page. =)

Of course you must be a servant for those, who doing things that you unable to do. Of course, you must forget yourself when you're doing your job. Of course, you must pay respect and attention to the people around you sincerily.
You may or may not be usual, but you are certainly not a usual elementary school English teacher.

I could show you an old heatmap of my front page which had a non-interactive screenshot of the program. There is a BIG RED DOT on the print button in the screenshot.

My customers are not middle clickers.
So is it normal for the graphic to go right-to-left even though the pattern is left-to-right?
No. People need to stop asking this.

As far as I understand it, evolution is not a thing that stops.

I am significantly annoyed at the propagation of stuff like this. It's like this horrible catch-22 where such a small amount of the population actually understands current theory, and the rest just have these really off-the-wall interpretations, with a similarly small percentage admitting that they have no clue what they're talking about - like how the (stereotypical) average american citizen thinks of abiogenesis, evolution, and the big bang as one big lump of a theory.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but saying somethings "evolution has stopped" is nonsense, right?
Devolution is a nonsense concept.
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I basically agree, but there's a certain amount of sense in the statement you're debating — if I design either the database or the UI and then make the other one just a thin layer over it, I get a terrible database design or a terrible UI design. I haven't found a good rapid-feedback way to design them both in a single representation, and so I end up editing code in at least two places when I want to add a field. Do you have any suggestions about what kind of software you use that avoids that?
It's more of a communications medium or vehicle, correct?

The idea is compelling when you extend an API considering the giants of ecommerce tend to close off their reviews, recs or community posts on their sites.

We should talk more offline as I've been working on something that could mesh well with your app throughout the entire shopping experience (pre, during and post checkout).
If someone's already got shopalize.com, then something close would probably be just as good.

And don't sweat it if you can't get the exact domain name you want. You can always be creative and get close with a couple of extra letters (e.g. backpackit.com or campfirenow.com).

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch13_Name_Hook.php
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There's a lot of prior work that is related to this idea. For example:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6469...

An interesting point about their approach is that it is independent of file size: they just need to keep 96 bits of metadata per file.
Here's what happened...

I loaded HN, saw a headline which mentioned "evolution", saw that this headline was sourced from the Wall Street Journal, and thought to myself "Damn, the Journal really is turning into yet another right-wing rag...I wonder what they've dredged up this time"

...then I did something that, apparently, most of the members leaving comments thus far did not do: I read the article.

First, this is a book review. The only question of accuracy is how well the review represented the content of the book. Second, though the term is not used in the article, the mention of Gould gives away the topic of the book. It's a concept called "punctuated equilibrium", and it's very much an open question in biological research.

The most troubling result of the ID movement is the subsequent balkanization of views on all sides of the issue. What we have here (and by here, I mean this comment thread, not the article) is a prime example of individuals jumping to "defend" evolution without giving much thought or analysis to what it is they're defending.

Modern theories of Evolution are as complete and sound as Newton's laws of motion... I should know, since I'm currently completing a Ph.D. looking into some of them...
Myth #2: People care about your business. Sorry, folks - people couldn’t care less about your new business. You need to earn that attention. I’ve learned a tough lesson with this the first time I launched my web business, we may have had 6 visitors on our first day - and those were our employees and families. The next day, everyone forgot about us.

That helps to get a little perspective. First week I launched www.cuuute.com, I did some adwords and MechaTurk "advertising", I was ecstatic I got 700+ uniques and 3500 page views.

I decided to stop the advertising for two days. I got 45 uniques and 200 page views a day. I was feeling pretty depressed. It's good to know others have been in the same boat, and I should probably be grateful for my 45 uniques and lower my expectations a little bit.
i like the clean css and layout
i like the simple approach to pushing data to the page. obviously i notice many Getting Real concepts well implemented here.
is this a rails app?
If people aim to achieve 666 as their karma, anyone with a karma of 666 has no incentive to post, and anyone above 666 has an incentive to post bad comments just so they can get 666 as their karma. It would destroy the purpose of the point system, as far as I can see.
In your geo-economic estimation, is the Bay area a separate geo-economic region from So-Cal, or are they the same?
Ask YC:  How will the crash reshape America?
After reading this: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200903/meltdown-geography , I've been thinking a bit about the crash and it's impact on the future. I've also been surprised at how small the impact seems to be here in Silicon Valley. I was expecting much worse.

There's a lot of big brains on Hacker News. How do you see the crash re-shaping America? How is it affecting your company/startup? All anecdotes welcome.
I thought the narrator audio was a little weird. I can't put my finger on it but I think it was more than just the narrators syncopation. Some words were hard to hear - I could make everything out, but I found myself distracted by it every once in a while. It might be an issue with compression or editing or being too far from the mic occasionally.

Also, I didn't know anything about your site before I viewed it. The video helped but I still don't know why someone would create a lesson. The end mentions something about "client acquisition" but I have no idea what that means. I assume the lesson creator wants to get email addresses of people so they can try to sell them something? Personally I think you should consider letting people sell complete lessons, rather than posting crippled lessons that require the lesson-master to try to hawk products through email.
Thankyou for this, added to my portable remote node setup.
Ask HN: Does Y Combinator "Create Jobs" efficiently?
With all the talk about the spending bill "creating jobs" I wonder how effective programs like YC are at creating jobs. Anyone know how many people are currently working on YC startups vs. the amount of seed capital invested by YC?
In a startup in the process of building a product, a business guy is the biggest drag a company has. You might as well swim across a lake with anchors tied to your legs. They provide almost no value to the company and instead stand around advocating pulling cash from development (outsource!) and putting it towards something the company doesn't need yet like marketing. (This statement is based on personal experience in various startups from both internal and external viewpoints)

A tech guy can build and run a company, it doesn't take a genius to do it. He may fumble a little bit more and have a bigger learning curve for things like accounting and business law, but even business guys have the same issues. The only time a business guy can make a solid contribution is only when there are both customers and money, not before.

Bottom line, if he's not writing code, he's not helping enough. It's not a 2 way street in terms of symbiotic needs between business and tech people. Business people need tech people or they have no business, tech people only need business people once they already have a business.
I would suggest sucking in Twitters and or features Twitters where people said I just bought this or this was on sale ....could be on the frontpage and you would not have to sign up and the visitor would be viewing deals possibly with links left by those on Twitter.

good luck!
Why did SynthaSite need to raise $25M to get to a similar point Weebly has with $650k?

The TC article offers up one clue; SynthaSite intend to innovate by acquisition. If that is the case, the funding is probably well timed given current low multiples.
Ask HN: how can I generate youtube style id?
Given sample URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqvObyU2ITs, any availabale algorithm to generate youtube style video id (xqvObyU2ITs)? Thanks!

-Jack
Why are you submitting summaries from Slashdot?

The title is sensationalist and articles on these ToS issues have already been posted here.
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Your right. I think ASP.net is the 98 Honda Civic of web development. Its boring, its ugly sometimes, but as it goes, its reliable, easy and modifiable. Solid.

Its not great nor poor.
Yes! Exactly, it's geared more towards communication aspect rather than just bookmarking aspect. Yes, API is definitely way to go, so that people can build awesome apps that I haven't even thought of yet. I'm interested to talk to you offline. Email me at aditya.kothadiya@gmail.com. Looking forward to talk to you.
My thoughts (with the obvious grain of salt)...

The background sound is distracting

When you first create the course you copy and paste the info in. I've found this can be confusing to users (though I don't know why). I'd put in a small part that says "I've prewritten this text and am just going to copy it in to save time". It just spells it out for the user and lets them know they aren't missing anything (You do it perfectly during the "creating a lesson" part, I'd just move that up to the beginning)

At :48 you move forward only to move back. I've found that it's best to stay linear with the steps. Don't move back and fourth. Refer back later if you have to but when people are watching a demo they expect to see it step by step not jumping all around.

Again, when you add the remaining lessons I'd personally put a hard pause. So say something like "I'm going to pause the video for a second to add the rest of the lessons"

Overall I'd slow down the whole presentation and ditch the recap at the end. It's a video that people can rewind so they don't need a recap. At the same time you do speed through a lot of the demo (you have to on some level sense this since you felt the need for a recap to begin with).

Anyway, hope it helps
Thanks for the kind words! No, it's not a rails app. It's a PHP app.
Is that the jParallax script in the background? Please kill it! Haha
Choice a is what normally happens when a company is insolvent, choice b is what actually did happen.
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The background sound is very distracting.
Sure, will figure out some ways to integrate it seamlessly with Twitter.
uh, in python:

import string, random
''.join(random.sample((string.letters+string.digits), 12))

I hope that's what you were asking for. If not, you might want to clarify your question.
The answer is simple. Back then, they did not have the fancy computers required to calculate exactly how strong a bridge must be. So an architect made a bridge very, very strong

That's not the entire reason. In the Roman Empire, an engineer was required to stand under his bridge while a Legion marched over it. That was their beta testing. His interests were therefore fully aligned with those of his end users. On Wall Street, the interests of the bankers were not correctly aligned with their investors. In other words, they didn't have any of their own skin in the game.
You guys understand that acts are essentially patches to apply to the US Code, right? Literally, they read "insert, in paragraph 5a, after 'is the domain of', 'Hacker News and'

The GPO, however, only prints the full code once every six (six!) years. They've got a room full of people reading and double-checking that they're writing exactly what's in the bills. Very archaic. Someone should apply a modern versioning system so the code is in black and the effects of bills are in red (and blue and green, like alexa or Google Trends does graphs, but with text), so the public can see not just the bill, but what the changes look like in real time. It's shouldn't be hard at all.

I'll bet someone could do this with GitHub by this weekend and have a site up by the end of the month.
Agreed.

Please join me in flagging this.
This is about ownership of your posted items - including videos, pictures, and words... amongst other things.

Not so much about privacy -- it's about claiming ownership of your files.

Consider Facebook is really just a web host. You upload your files to this webhost... except this webhost (facebook) tells you they own everything you upload there... forever. Even if you delete your webhost account, and delete all the files on there, they own it all forever.

Would this be acceptable if it was your webapp being hosted... and the webhost said from now on, 'all your files are belong to us!!!! 4Evar!!!'?
Hm. I suppose they could be editing out the stuff from .htaccess.
And that's why you are seeing developers find different buyers. There is no point in making games for people that are broke, cheap, or pirates.

As a result, developers are moving away from making games for the traditional demographic.
A new response from Zuck - http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54746167130, one that should satisfy a lot of people.
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I cannot agree more, actually I wrote a similar post weeks ago

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First thought is that they're generating a globally unique video ID number and base-62 encoding it to keep the URL shorter. Maybe not though?

You could do that easily by just base-62 encoding your table's auto-generated primary key.
You want to use an ID that can predictably be unique for something like this. You shouldn't use a random string.
I don't really think the way it was implemented works. There could be stories in the new category that few people read that you comment on. And just cause nobody saw does not mean it was a poor comment.

My two cents.
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California seems overpriced and the state budget is in bad shape

i live in california and love it...i think in so many ways it is the best place in the world to live...but i must admit (with trepidation since i hold so many state bonds)...that the state is doomed.

the size of the fiscal crisis here is not "state size", its "nation size". but california cannot engage in printing money, deficits, or anything else a nation can do to temporarily ease through. tax revenues are dropping like a rock in every city in the state as EVERYONE lines up to get their house re-assessed to get lower taxes.

california was crushed in the housing bubble and prop 13 makes revenue collection even more inflexible. i personally intend to have my property taxes cut in HALF, which is actually accurate and fair given that houses on my street are now...half off. whatever happens i will be paying less in taxes by some amount. now repeat for tens of millions of people...

and there's no stock market windfall to offset the gloom. google and apple are just high-salary employers now. that won't save this state. suffice to say i think the state finances are in doomsday mode. thankfully my kids do not go to public schools...
Sorry, should have been more specific: I meant that you use absolute $ values in your sales-by-month graph -- that must also be dependent on traffic. Obviously the A/B test is not.
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Tech people can sell fine, once they realize that sales is an engineering problem. (Or it can be, if you set out to make it that way. I suppose you could also do it by believing in magic and hoping magic works for you.)

See also: marketing, PR, and customer support.
there is a reason OHV engines can't perform OHC engines, mass. With OHV engines you need pushrods, which add mass to the valve train, these aren't needed in OHC engines. Generally to get more performance out of a given displacement engine, rpms are increased. When rpms are increased with OHV engines, you run into problems controlling the valves because you have a much larger mechanical system, which requires larger springs, pushrods also flex. All of this ends up mattering in a big way. F1 engines have overhead cams for specifically this reason.
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Thanks Tom. I appreciate the feedback.

>> When you first create the course you copy and paste the info in. I've found this can be confusing to user

Makes sense. I'll make this clearer in the next version.

>> At :48 you move forward only to move back. I've found that it's best to stay linear with the steps.

Agreed. No argument there. I would have changed it but it would have held me back other day so I just ran with what I had.

>> Again, when you add the remaining lessons I'd personally put a hard pause. So say something like "I'm going to pause the video for a second to add the rest of the lessons"

Good idea. I'll add in the next version.

>> Overall I'd slow down the whole presentation and ditch the recap at the end.

It does take up about a minute and a half so maybe you're right. I'm not entire convinced since I feel like I'm showing them so much that I need to recap... but maybe that's the problem. Maybe I'm showing too much... or too much detail. I'll sleep on this one.
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Hey, you can never be too careful when it comes to economic recoveries.

For instance, what if Bernie Madoff is secretly plotting to use a frozen donkey wheel to make us travel through time?

Yeah. That's what I thought.
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:nLCrsouWRTsJ:blog.faceb... because it's getting hammered.
Where is your target market? If it's the US, then I'd suggest using American names in the images/collateral so that the target audience can connect with the message.
How long before the US Code is on Github?
The effective DDOS whitehouse.gov launched on frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov today highlights the need for better IT systems in Washington, but it also highlighted the general deficiency of Washington's software. Specifically, why doesn't somebody host the US Code on GitHub, so people can see the differences between different versions of the bills before congress?

Acts of Congress, at least the important ones, are directives to the Government Printing Office to make changes in the US Code. In a very real way, they are patches. Even without a formal API, couldn't someone extract the content out of the existing ASCII document representations of the US Code, and then extract the contents of the existing copies of bills before Congress, and literally show the diffs in line? Compare this version to that version, etc? It seems like a lot of the information is technically "transparent" if you read a chunk of the Federal Register, but what we need is better version control. I hear there's a pretty good version control system available for this kind of stuff. And I'll bet GitHub could handle surges in site traffic better than the GPO.
I guess people did care. I thought it would only be alpha geeks, and people would whine for a few weeks, and then we'd all go back to playing scrabble.