skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how to market size:
step 1: figure out how many people use similar applications or the # of people you could foresee using it
(step 1a: include multiple purchases per product / multiple people per product)
step 2: multiply by the monetization over the time frame, use research/values from industry standards or competitors
The accompanying gif animation is seriously cool.
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My introduction to web world. Your suggestions to accelerate learning curve?
I am starting my initial research work on Machine learning and Data miniing with special interest in web mining. I am doing embedded system programming since last couple of years and can program in C language. I appreciate if you can share youre views and suggestions on few areas :

a)From where should I start by programming for web i.e learning curve involve, language, plateform,books, blogs, open source projects.

b)books suggestion for mathematical (statistics & probability) foundation for web mining, machine learning.

c)How to follow latest devvelopment in web mining and web research.
1. Proper grammar.
2. Proper spelling.
3. Proper punctuation.
4. google
The jewelry of the red carpet. Part II.
Same here, thesixtyone is a very bad name. I couldn't even remember it one hour after visiting the site. Also it doesn't have anything one could Google for (memory hints I mean - you remember parts of the name and google for that, no dice with thesixtyone).
Should remove the oversize dollar sign on the font page or move the pricing details into another page.

Feels like the customer are getting pushed to buy too quickly.

Something like this is less pushy http://macromates.com/.
Amazon's model wasn't obvious when they started. Would people choose to trust and prefer online ordering? Wait for delivery? Would prices plus delivery costs be competitive? Even Bezos probably had no idea how much they'd make by being a clearinghouse (and sometimes fulfillment-house) for others' sales.

Can you make money from mass audiences online? Yes; absolutely.

I have no reason to doubt (Facebook board member) Marc Andreesen's assessment, offered a few weeks ago on the Charlie Rose show, that Facebook could choose to be profitable at any time just by adopting more aggressive, typical web advertising. That they choose instead both user growth and a search for all-new advertising models is to their credit. Andreesen, the Facebook founders and executives, and their investors are not 'stupid' and just 'hoping' to 'figure something out'.
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It might be just me, but I don't like giving out all my info to Facebook. I prefer Twitter because I like the fact that people can see only a limited amount of information about me, and visit my website if they need to know more.

I like Twitter because of its simplicity. Facebook is, IMO, just another social network with a few extra features slapped on. Twitter is like that small, efficient UNIX tool that you can combine with other tools to produce something which has much more functionality than the original.
Can't beat us here in NZ, though.

I wonder if the real Python BDFL okay'd PEP 401 before it was published? :-)
Come on, they have to try harder. Didn't even need to read the title to identify it as an April's fools.
That Facebook will appear stodgy and lose the young crowd even as it conquers everyone else is one of their greatest risks.

One way they're combating it is to make sure everyone sees a different Facebook -- tuned for just your desired perspective. It could become number 1 in nursing homes and retirement communities without "cool kids" ever noticing that fact because there's no overlap of "feeds".

They may need to go further, though -- perhaps even launching a separate brand/subnetwork for HS/College/twentysomethings/etc. (It would draw on the full technology/membership base, but offer a clearly separate friend list and profile/persona -- moreso than the current visibility controls and filters.)

The market is still theirs to lose; they know the risks and have lots of options.
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pretty meh except for "I just returned from Bali and won the lottery"
Ok, so they're not perfect, but "hassle" beats "silently discarded" any day.
GetSatisfaction's open letter to Jason Fried
I used it here:

http://www.squeezedbooks.com

and here:

http://www.welton.it/davidw

I'm pretty happy with it. I regularly tried to do my own CSS, coming up with something I thought didn't look half bad, and people would tell me it looked awful, so I figured it was best to just use something out of the box that looks 'ok' to most people.
I just want to say that this post comports to my experiences when I spent a year on spam boards. (My employer was working on an anti-spam product -- know your enemy and all that.)
Is it possible that Google is blocking it until midnight local time?
That monkey noise when you first load the page is an immediate turn off. Don't do it.
Also worth reading is the article from Garrett Dimon at the end: http://garrettdimon.com/archives/2009/3/31/handling_things/

Makes some good points about what would have been a better way to handle this, including this particularly important truism:

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.
I'm actually not sure what to put there now. I guess I'm kind of a drop out for the time being.

Here's a graph summary of what I've been spending my time on:
http://files.dangrover.com/howispentmyyear_draft_annotated.p...

(Later, I'm going to normalize the data and run correlations with sales/traffic, and go totally Tufte on the graph)

I was in school, then I took a sanctioned perfectly-normal break to work at a company making iPhone games in Palo Alto (most students at my school leave every 6 months for an internship). But I was pretty miserable at this company, and realized that I was making roughly the same off of my business (which was <= part-time).

I was trying to follow the traditional path, mostly out of fear. But the arguments for why you should rack up lots of debt in school and let yourself be taken advantage of by employers who pay you much less than you're worth in exchange for this "experience" or some such started making a lot less sense.

It seems like 80% of my time at NU was just spent on meaningless crap that I put up with because I was afraid of what would happen if I didn't get amazing grades and impress some employer. I could have been taking more challenging and diverse courses if it weren't for that. The urgency behind this kind of went away when I realized that I have some sort of fundamental mental block when it comes to the idea of being a "good employee." And that maybe I shouldn't care so much about having a traditional career when I had another path that was getting more and more feasible by the minute.

So, I dunno, I'd like to go back to school, even do some research (I've gotten really into programming language design/implementation lately with a side project). But the most important thing is being happy. And for the first time in many years, I am.

Hmm, I think I've gone and made it more douchey than what I had there. Back to the drawing board.
That was meant as a secret easter egg for when you actually click on him, NOT to happen on page load.

I explicitly turned autoplay off when I made the page, but I guess your browser ignores that.

Removed now.
They still use the 37Signals logo and fail to link to the official 37Signals support channels.
I would bet that this is yet another example of a startup pushing things to the edge. For example, Youtube/Scribd/etc. have hosted copyrighted material in their early days. This clearly benefits them while they make baby steps towards compliance. Startups will do what they can get away with, not that I know anything about this.
I guess this wasn't good enough so they had to add more :(
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/cadie/
Just to add a mild hijack... can anyone recommend a bbcode wysiwyg editor? MarkItUp isn't wysiwyg, but the very last thing I want is to allow people to post raw HTML (DOM manipulation).
no, it really has been redesigned
Do you know where the vim configuration files are in macvim? I'm curious to see how they did that.

http://repo.or.cz/w/MacVim.git?a=tree;hb=refs/heads/master
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Please tell me that this release of CouchDB isn't slllloooowwwww. Like 2-3 orders of magnitude slower than MySQL that it's been.
Just the iPhone app and a corresponding new version of the (existing) desktop app to enable 2-way syncing over WiFI.
Good point. I used to send users to that page to purchase, but now I send them directly to the store. On the other hand, I want users to know what they're getting into if they download a trial version ("wait, you mean it's not free?")
Now THIS April Fools prank must have taken a lot of work! The best part has to be their instructions for viewing it upside down and the images (esp. #2). Bravo YouTube, bravo.
Apparently, using someone's public logo to refer to them is fair use.

Anyway, that's not the point.
Twitter switch for Guardian: Newspaper to publish only on Twitter.
Open Source Opens up for Business
mirror, in case the site gets slashdotted:

it’s pretty simple. we’re tired of people forgetting our name, so we’ve chosen a new one: thesixtynine. it’s catchy, screams “7 deadly sins” (hello max levchin), and, face it, it’s way more memorable than the lowly, often-overlooked “61.” more importantly, the switch has put us at the top of the heap as far as search engines are concerned. chief technical officer sam hsiung says “since rebranding to thesixtynine, we’ve seen a 234% jump in referral traffic. i’ve poured months into SEO (search engine optimization) tweaks with minimal results. i guess marketing trumps engineering.” so remember, we’re not just a number anymore.
Fortunately FIAT would save GM...
A designer’s perspective on a Groovy and Grails meetup
"... I am not a programmer at all. My background is in design and HCI. The thought of a geek programmer meeting was slightly disheartening, as I was worried that I was going to be sitting there with blank eyes, not understanding a word.

But to my surprise, my preconceptions were found to be wrong. I really enjoyed the talk..."
Good work, the product itself looks useful and the product website is easy to navigate and read.
Two April Fool's in one day. No wonder they're making job cuts, they've obviously got no real work to do.
Damn, I got PND'D...
Good points, thanks. The other issue is more interesting to me, the proliferation of equal temperament, which seems to be finding it's way into classical music also. Hopefully I'll have some info up on the web at some point once I've finished refretting my guitars.
Certainly an April fool's joke... however, work like this has practical applications for patients whose physical disabilities prevent them from using the traditional computer inputs. I did some work with mapping shoulder movements to control a powered wheelchair at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago during an internship in 2007, and I had the impression that there is a lot of room for improvement in current devices. One interface commonly used today is the sip-puff switch:
http://www.techready.co.uk/Assistive-Technology/Sip-Puff-Swi...
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were people doing serious work in developing facial gesture UIs.
Amazon deal (Apr. 1): $0.99 for William Shatner album, "The Transformed Man" (MP3 dwnld)
For April Fool's Day, apparently, Amazon is offering William Shatner's classic, "The Transformed Man" as an MP3 download, for $0.99. If you've never heard Shatner's renditions of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" or "Mr. Tamborine Man"--or if you've wished to own them--now you can, for less than a dollar.

Read about the album here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transformed_Man

Get it here (and/or read reviews, check out track-samples): http://amazon.com/The-Transformed-Man/dp/B000W223LU/

Liner notes: http://www.diversionprojects.org/static.php?page=static070903-152832
The Tamborine man track in particular is ... memorable. I think it can be found floating around the internet along with some of Nimoy's albums. It's really spectacularly awful stuff.
> I only wish that you hadn’t implied inethical motives with words like “extortion,” “mafia shakedown,” etc. The fact is, many people hear those words and nothing else, and it compromises years of work by our small but committed team.

Well, at least now they know how Jason (and potentially thousands of other committed teams) felt.
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April Fools Roundup so far
as a matter of fact, i attended wwdc07. i waited in line many hours and was in the audience when steve announced iphone web apps. i didn't get the impression then that steve was saying there'd never be a native sdk, and i don't get that now, reading the press release. in fact, i got the feeling that it was inevitable, from the vibe at the conference.

apple doesn't talk about things that aren't available yet. some people interpret that as "secrecy." i'd call it "savvy marketing." why get people all riled up over something they can't have yet? and expose yourself to negative sentiment if it turns out you have to cancel the project for some reason?

when steve lifts the veil on a new product, it's available for sale right there and then. all that early excitement he is so good at building translates into sales, rather than frustrated longing.
This function doesn't work for me. :-( I use Emacs.app compiled from CVS (maybe a week ago). Anything I need to get this working?
The question is the veracity of those involved. Given that Morrow's complaints are financially motivated, he has admitted that he had no right to be in the room, he never left (i.e. he did not fear for his safety), and he has perjured himself in a number of cases - it is entirely unclear if a crime actually took place.
Job Community & Product Manager US - German Startup Remote work
Hi I know I shouldn't exactly post this to Hacker News but we are a bit lost.I thought maybe somebody

A german startup I'm working with, is looking for a product and community manager in the US this is a very entrepreneurial job. Full time, remote.

Responsibilities:
Building US Community, Partner Relations, Community Management.

Skills:
Experience with social networks and community management

the startup
http://www.bookrix.com
catz wrote:

Setting up a car manufacturer is not that impossible in the market. Over the past years there were 10s of new car manufacturers that started (and some failed). A good example is some Chinese companies such as GWM, Cherry. There is also no reason why existing car manufacturers can not grow to fill the gaps that GM leaves (as they have done for a long time – e.g. Hyundai, Honda, Toyota, etc...).

Historically, downturns have been the best times to invest (obviously!)
IANAL: Depends on whether it causes marketplace confusion.
Yes--"Mr. Tamborine Man" was quite a discovery! Quite... memorable, as you say--I think more interesting than the more well-known "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" track.

And: I think we may be able to draw a line from the final moments of the "Mr. Tamborine Man" track to Shatner's most famous line (from Star Trek II).

Interesting to be able to trace and artist's work in that way :-)

But, in fairness, it's worth reading some of the reviews at Amazon which take the album seriously, despite its reputation, such as this one:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3NIGHVETHM5FE/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe...

To paraphrase this reviewer's conclusion, whether you take the album humorously or seriously, you'll get your money's worth. (Especially true if you buy it today, for $0.99) :-).
Really? The way they were using the logo on their page made it look like it was an official 37s service. That isn't fair use.
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Users visiting Web sites that contain adult content sometimes make unconscious facial expressions. If Opera keeps opening Speed Dial and Zooming In and Out, please be aware that this not a bug. It may be useful to disable Face Gestures for a better experience. Also remember that wiping your cache is recommend after visiting untrusted websites."
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance."

What if something can't be adequately explained by ignorance?
Perhaps it should be, "Assume ignorance before malice".
Then you'll have to find another explanation. Was this question really necessary?
Yes, I know. I was responding to "By default, F11 is an Expose keyboard shortcut on OS X", which is not the case with every released Mac or keyboard.
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I think it takes a malicious amount of ignorance to come up with the text they did.
And this is hardly an open letter, reads more like PR spin.
I was half expecting a "Chrome for Linux" release today.
For the past few months I have been having problems driving at night after a day's work in front of the computer. I am not able to cope with the bright headlamps of oncoming vehicles, esp. in places where there are no street lamps. On weekends though I find the problem not to be that acute. All doctors I consulted told me that I have perfect eyesight. They suggested I wear anti-glare glasses. But that solves the issue only to an extent. Apart from this issue of driving at night I have not yet experienced any other issues with my eyesight like reading or even driving in daylight. I am curious to know whether anyone else is experiencing the same problem.
Granted it hasn't been updated in a while, but I found iTerm's full-screen mode quite workable.

http://iterm.sourceforge.net
Please. Grabbing someone's logo and making them pay you not to write "[company] has not committed to open conversation about its products and services. Encourage them to join and support the Company-Customer pact" on a very official looking page with your logo on it?

I'm sorry, but them's fighting words.

At a cursory glance, it isn't entirely obvious that Get Satisfaction is unofficial. Further, particularly for new companies, Get Satisfaction might end up with better PR than the official support forums! While there is value for the consumer in having off site forums that a company can't control, compare this to reseller ratings. On the latter, there is no chance you'll think you're on an official company page. Get Satisfaction seems to me to go to lengths to give that impression.
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Gall's book (Systemantics) is a brilliant and whimsical classic about the unpredictable nature of complex systems. It deserves to be far better known.
I'm willing to bet that most of the people on the GS side didn't realize that someone could see their actions in as sinister a light as Jason Fried obviously did.

It's interesting the extent to which emotions and self-control are the deciding factors here; it's clearly important to be seen to feel, but also to be in control of your emotions.
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Given that one guy could do it to everyone using his wifi router I'm guessing Google can pull it off.

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
I usually stick to that in day affairs. But for people who are essentially in the business of thinking my intuition and judgment is usually that ignorance is almost as bad as malice.

Another way of seeing it is that if you make ignorance "totally OK now", you just make it way too easy for actual malice to get away with more.

Grown-up people, and certainly companies, should be held responsible for their actions regardless of their motive or lack of it, so that they act responsibly towards themselves and others.
This is the first time I've heard of this site and I have it bookmarked now so I guess their April fools marketing is working.
Thor Muller wrote:

You were angry, and honestly I don’t blame you. We all know what it’s like to feel manipulated. And while I would have preferred you sending us a note, or even posting it somewhere less trafficked than your popular blog, the fact is that Get Satisfaction is a huge proponent of public airing of grievances. You were right to bring it to our attention any way you saw fit. I only wish that you hadn’t implied inethical motives with words like “extortion,” “mafia shakedown,” etc. The fact is, many people hear those words and nothing else, and it compromises years of work by our small but committed team.

"Inethical"? That's not even a word!
I read the first paragraph, watched the video and thought it was real (didnt even occur to me it was april 1st)

Tweeted it. Went back and read it properly. Realised it was april 1st. Do'h
Given the nature and number of crimes committed by the plaintiffs (as they've admitted to in or committed during the grand jury) and the fact they're essentially being given a pass because it is politically beneficial to help tenants and harm property owners, I am unable to share your faith in the inevitability of the "correct" outcome.
It's quite ironic given their business name how unsatisfied many people are with them. I certainly felt this way, but thought there was nothing I could do about it.

Thanks Jason I say.
here is the link to print 3d glasses http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/cadie/glasses.p...
You walk on a very thin rope here. I don't at all buy the 'slight misunderstanding' thing concerning the case they had.

The damage to 37signals image could have been very real. Even if it wasn't done purposedly.

What is more important is, i don't get why you see 37signals as the porentially harmful actor here. If i had a startup i would be very happy that 37signals did the job to stop this company to potentially harm My work too !

Also the argument that this public response is gonna 'harm' getsatisfaction in anyway doesn't hold up at all. At the very worse, this is bad publicity, and if they're smart they can still turn that around easily.
I think they've missed "Internet Explorer 8.1 leaked":
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/breaking-internet...
Though technically that would be March 31st fools…
YUI editor seconded - but we have extended it a bit to use my XHTMLPurifier (http://github.com/biilmann/javascript-xhtml-purifier) to clean up the HTML.

It's based on a partial implementation of the algorithm for parsing HTML specified in the HTML 5 draft - so it handles even really scary HTML from Word pasting, and spits of clean pretty printed and validating xhtml.

For our use we do put some pretty strict level on what markup people can include, though, so it might not serve for everybody.