skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does, you know, do this stuff for a living.
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Check out the readme: https://github.com/jaymedavis/hubble

Hope someone finds some use in this. :)
Well - it's fair to say that we are closer to Svpply than to The Fancy. One of the main differences is that Svpply focus on curation and user-generated content, whilst we are indexing stores in order to create a large database. On sites like Svpply/Fancy, I believe the users are more inclined to scroll endlessly looking for product inspiration.

We want Helishopter to become a "natural destination" i.e. when you know you are looking for a "green polo jacket", you go to Helishopter and search for a "green polo jacket". From there you can see all the "green polo jackets" in our database that are sorted by not only popularity but the social dimension as well. One of the fundamental features is that we show you products that your social connections have interacted with previously. For example, if one of your "friends" has brought, or interacted with a "green polo jacket" from gap.com, that product will show up first in the search results.
He isn't arguing that highlighting doesn't carry more information. I think he's saying that it carries useless or wrong information.
This is a very interesting study--nice work! Our company does social research for all types of companies and we've found most automated sentiment analysis to be subpar (at best, 60% accurate). The problem with just looking at words is that there is no context of the whole Tweet and computers are generally bad at picking up sarcasm, innuendo and turns of phrase that may contain negative words in a positive manner (toward the brand or company).

I realize that this isn't the key focus of your paper, but we've found that sampling and human analysis/tagging is far more accurate at judging the sentiment around a brand, company or topic.
> His quote does seem a bit high. In my experience (Rails and iOS developer) ..., you can get an MVP done in the $5k-$10k range in a week or two.

That's because your experience is limited to development only. There's a lot more steps involved in making a successful app or a site. Brand identity, architecture, UX design (mockups/wireframes), and UI design are all steps that have to be done BEFORE development even starts. The cost of that can be 20-30K by itself.

There's also the cost of QA on different platforms, system analysis, professional copy, etc. So yeah, his quote is actually on a low end.

Too many people seem to think that they can get away with hiring a developer only.. then they wonder why their app/site doesn't do as well as they wanted it to.

Source: I run a web/mobile development agency.
What is an app?

The problem with this discussion is that you could be talking about anything from a simple program that displays some content (e.g. for marketing purposes), to some basic social interaction, right up to a full-scale word processor or 3D modelling program.

The amount of time and effort required to build a product can differ by orders of magnitude depending on what that product is. So it's senseless to talk about "$X is an reasonable/unreasonable price to build an app" without any context about what it is you want built.
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You're right, I should have clarified that it's based on the article's premise of "two qualified engineers working full time ... and take about three months"

"At 12 weeks, that comes out to about $60,000"

That's what I'm talking about. I know that I can get two competent engineers working three months for far less, for example the company above.
Having your skin burned by sun rays (with a certain frequency) is worse than using sunscreen. And it is certainly not only 'mild cancer'

Constantly damaging a tissue (mechanical, chemical, radioactive damage) is a trigger for cancer

Not to mention the Ozone layer hole (in the southern hemisphere)
I know. Just what the world needs, another responsive grid system. Still, I think it is a little different, and I had a lot of fun doing the project page. Hope at the very least it gives you a light chuckle.
You have a good point there. The problem is that LaTeX doesn't have a fundamental distinction between 'style' and 'commands'. Everything is really just a command, but by convention some of them are wrappers around predefined styles, like \section and \chapter for example. If you want to change the style of these yourself then you have to dive into the internals of LaTeX where things get messy.
Put your tin hat away. The why of it is really, really obvious. Low hanging fruit, an easy target for prosecutors wanting to score an easy win.
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I didn't mean that every denounce comes from content inspection, just that this is the most common case and that encryption couldn't stop it: if it's public, someone can inspect it.
I worked for a company that just asked people once a week. For a little extra effort, it was 88% accurate (12% of people were filtered out for just hitting random items).
Do you know Ireland isn't part of the UK?
An experienced consultant - that is someone who is experienced in the technical area as well as experienced consulting in that area can fairly accurately estimate the amount of time a project will take. They can because they know how they work and know how to lead the process to match their workflow.

I've been in architecture for more than twenty years. I estimate how much and what resources will be required all the time. Nobody has been developing iOS apps that long, of course, and the iOS app industry doesn't go back to the days of Vitruvius. Reading the article, I am reminded of stories about the early days of building websites.
I would definitely pay someone to handle this and do reporting for me on this.
While I think the first 4 are subjective, the money argument has always been deeply flawed to me.

Did you do something that wasn't imperative to your ongoing survival today? Did it cost you money? WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!

Money is a means to an end, and once you're done with the necessities in life, that end should be enjoying yourself.

That said, the rest of the article reads like a miserable shut in, to be honest. "I hate bars so noone should go to them ever".
Paul,
I would definitely pay for this kind of setup/consultation. Even reporting.
I'll shoot you an email.
If you install ack [1] searching via the command line is really quite easy.

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You'll also notice that part of France is included in the Twitter corpus as the geo-fence used to enclose the UK was a rectangle and so included some unwanted areas on the edges. A restriction with the Twitter Streaming API, unfortunately.
There's some nice effects in there. It would probably help on the uptake if you showed how to integrate it with Bootstrap (E.g. replace the Bootstrap grid with yours)
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I can't find anything about it now (mr. vizzini has deleted his reddit account, so it's hard to pinpoint some things), but I sincerely doubt there ever was such an agreement.
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Great, thanks for the tip! I just switched over to Mint a few days ago, and so far loving it. I install and reinstall Linux so frequently, that anything I can do to make the process less painful is useful.
The issue is that if you are dealing with an inexperienced client, the project you are quoting for and the project another consultant is quoting for is not the same project, especially if it's an "MVP".

I like your comparison to website building during its early days. Gives us the benefit of hindsight. One consultant was going to take a html page from a previous project. Find and replace the client's colours in. Make 5 pages (home, about us, product catalogue..) and then wait 6 months for his client to fax over the "content."

Another consultant was going to use coldfusion to make a dynamically updating copyright notice, & contact form and use templates to make the site "ecommerce ready". He was going to hire a copywriter to work with the client. And (as an optional extra), do CSS.
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Emacs is a great editor for LaTeX and also has spell checking. I don't know what open source Turkish spell checking is available, though.
Not sure about IOS, but on Android, you can go to the Top Grossing[1] section to see which apps make the most money.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topgrossing?fe...
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Excellent article. Most projects treat the client-side like a necessary evil and so I've seen pages with thousands of divs that can cause a hundred reflows for a single click. Not good, although at least it made the backend feel very fast in comparison!

And here's Kelly Norton's example code: http://kellegous.com/media/upload/2013/01/layout.js
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Nice Book, this gives lot of information
An automated response is information. It says 'I won't see this'. It shows you cared enough to set up an bouncer. Which in turn says that you were annoyed. Which is a pay-off. So it will result in a redirection of effort, not in reduced motivation.
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In the absence of other people, cotton-paper would be an unusual and hard to manufacture item too...

Meh.
While there probably are bad developers in Pakistan, India, Egypt or Uruguay, I'm sure there's a huge cost asymmetry which should work out in those countries' favor, and by that I mean good developers over there (and here in Uruguay) that are earning a fraction of what an equivalent U.S. developer is making.

What they need is somebody that can filter the good ones from the chaff (knows the locals), AND has contacts and good standing among the buyers, AND has the project management skills to make the outsourced team deliver.
Very interesting paper. (non-scribd version would be nice.)

I'm surprised the corpus of words is so small and that there is no attempt to provide context. It just wasn't what I was expecting. I was expecting more of a markov chain kind of setup.

In Swedish, for example, there are lots of negative words that are trendy to use in a way that is extremely positive, rather like "wicked!" in English slang.
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I agree that a person who is competent and creative enough to write solid blog posts in a space that isn't his or her specialty is exceedingly rare. They often have their own ideas and projects.

Honestly, most guest bloggers and freelance writers may be affordable (or even cheap) but simply aren't that good. The writing is often bland or immature. Not content I would want representing my brand.

To get a creative and smart wordslinger to run your blog and manage your brand like that would be expensive.
Thank you.

In the context of this study, I found that it was impossible to accurately infer 'sentiment' of a single tweet or person (not just because of sarcasm and other nuances). However, when you take the average of a group (wisdom of the crowd) then the results are much more promising. A trends noticed across thousands of users is also more interesting than the potentially unreliable sentiment of a single person.

In this case, I suppose it is definitely just the words that are being analysed – not true 'sentiment.' I wouldn't rule it out as inaccurate though, it just depends what you're looking for and how you use the results. Compared to other sentiment data-sets, the ANEW approach seems more more detailed (the original scorings are created from human tagging).

I do agree though, that automated approaches can be inaccurate if you're looking for fine-level analysis.
Rackspace offer an email service, though it is paid. Also, despite it being hosted in the UK, it is a US company.
Ok, when I start development of my app here in Uruguay I will :) .

My guess is that we will find the normal troubles of any other development project.

It's kind of cheating though, since I'll be here to supervise and collaborate, and that eases most of the communication problems.
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I said "VM languages", not "JVM Languages" :P
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Brightbox are a UK company with a pretty decent cloud offering: http://brightbox.com
The little pop-up bubble in the lower-right corner showing the reader how long it took the page to render is pretty sweet.
Sure - although the amount of upfront work required varies with your definition of "Minimum" and "Viable".

I've done full-cycle apps with branding, architecture, UX, QA, promotion, etc. and yes they start at $30k - but they're finished polished products, while the discussion here seems to be about MVPs.

As I said above, the biggest conflicts I see between developers and clients are over the meanings of "Minimum" "Viable" and "Product".
Little known fact: Duck hunt is a 2 player game.

Control pad - Used with Game A for second player to control duck's flight pattern.

Source: http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/duckhunt.txt
That actually was better than I thought ... I had to double-check on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_gun#Sequential_targets) but I didn't know about the sequential-targets approach.

I guess that's because my first exposure to light gun tech was with Commodore hardware, that had already taken the leap to cathode ray timing. Nice to know.

The decline of lightgun tech with the introduction of flat-screen TV:s is something that sometimes makes me sad. The replacement "passive/dead-reckoning" techniques just don't feel as satisfying, or elegant.

On the other hand, keeping a tube TV around just to play Time Crisis is hard to motivate, too. :)
And I only found out after starting to manually block connections with a firewall... Authentec's TrueSuite became a must-install for some reason if you want to use their drivers and device on Windows.

One connection is for the software updates, and there are 2 other that I have no idea what they're used for. The TrueSuite app has an app store link and the features to export and import the fingerprint scans... So much for security...
Interesting- I've recently been trying to do something extremely similar for the time period of Obama's inauguration. I downloaded 300,000 tweets, but the overwhelming majority were positive.

Good news for the country perhaps, but it ruined my visualisation plans...
Having a Terminal application will make the Phone more appealing to coders and old school Linux users. I fail to see how this will make the Ubuntu Phone more appealing to the average user.

EDIT:
Apparently saying something that goes against the current on HN will start a shit storm (downvotes, obviously).
It's not silly if you never paid attention in any of the classes and you're learning the stuff for the first time. I know that's happened to me before, especially for a lot of the easier courses. Some knowledge that has a high probability of not being retained is better than no knowledge. :)

This is of course a stupid solution to a completely different problem, but those courses didn't inspire me to try my best... if I had another chance, I don't know if I would try harder. I know that sounds bad.
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The author is arguing that because the measurement is noisy, we should ignore it.

Not quite..

Indeed - if 1/3 of my salary was determined by the number of kids in my class who can read better than when they are predicted to read at this age, I'd definitely try to make sure that reading skills improved.

Keep in mind that "score on a reading test" and "reading skills" are not the same things. For instance, one would be significantly improved by spending valuable class time teaching students tricks about how to succeed on the standardized reading test. It's similar to the incentives you'd get by determining salary by LOC - even if LOC correlates with performance, basing pay on it encourages all kinds of nonsense that doesn't actually benefit anyone.

So in that context, we have a metric that very loosely correlates with this clearly flawed marker of success. And we're supposed to spend ungodly sums of money implementing this strategy? Come on.

Conversely, if a stupid metric such as student/principal opinion were used, I'd focus on jokes and friendliness over education.

Well, they do propose to use student and principal evaluations..
He wrote his own editor. It's not that acme doesn't happen to have syntax highlighting, it's that he explicitly decided against it.
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Not everything has to be for the benefit of the "average user" whoever they are.
Non-scribd version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5r3nfol818s4qna/People%20love%20a%...

Context is sacrificed with the ANEW approach, though that's not to say that accuracy and results are compromised. It just means that you need to look at the output in a different way, after understanding the limitations of the input.

In ANEW (the data-set used), words that imply multiple meanings are likely to receive more neutral values (it's all coded by humans).

The SentiWordNet data-set is probably a little more like what you're expecting: http://sentiwordnet.isti.cnr.it/
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But a general purpose device like a phone should be able to cater to different audiences. There is no problem to include applications that will be used by only a subset of the audience. Plus, installing and removing applications is easy, I suppose.
How did you analyse them? Most rough or basic approaches result in overwhelmingly neutral or positive outcomes.
So a single tweet's analysis will be inaccurate, but an aggregation of many inaccurate results becomes meaningful? Obviously you can find interesting trends in large pools of data but how do you find an interesting and valid trend in a large pool of inaccurate data? How do you know you've found a trend and not an artifact of your algorithm?
>Then you're not adding anything to the discussion.

Nonsense and this is a cheap way to try and manipulate me into satisfying your curiosity.

The fact is, my statement probably applies to most (all?) of them in some form or another. As written I'm sure some people will assume I mean someone they know some dirt on and others would pick someone else.

The whole " still don't know what he did" is exactly the kind of politics I wanted to avoid while making my point as anything I would point to in my example is likely to draw out apologists and start a big fight about "what is evil anyway?". Exactly the kind of thing this site doesn't need.

And in any case I was probably specific enough for most to correctly guess who I was thinking of, as it is.
Let's hope it is at least their software that they wrote that tries to make the connection and not something riding piggy back.

Fingerprint readers would make for a pretty good tool if you want to apprehend people on the lam, especially since you can lift their fingerprint, their location and a date/timestamp all at once. And they're self selecting in that the kind of people more likely to be doing naughty stuff would also be more likely to invest in such things as fingerprint readers.
Fair enough. Did you include that in the paper? I can't find it.
In software there is a correlation between spending money and getting good quality work done. However - it's only a correlation.

Yes - some people get their nephew to build a modern, well coded, SEO-friendly and accessible, ajax-driven, e-commerce site for $800 but they probably just got lucky. A lot of nephews get out of their depth and never deliver.

And yes - some people spend a couple of million on the project with the same specs and get given a piece of crap in return. But on the whole - like good whiskey - the price tag is a good indicator of quality and a good way to reduce risk.

So - like many areas of enquiry - anecdotes aren't incredibly useful. If anyone has got any tips on finding the magic nephew, however, I'm all ears.
That's a pretty common trope - supposedly Steve Jobs was the same way.

I wonder how true it is.
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And again, out of the user's real control... Sure, the security seems sound, but you still put all your eggs in someone else's basket, so to say, with any such cloud service.
Past history of Cisco.
It'd be interesting if that page listed jobs at partner organisations.. I'd love to be involved with a project like that, but it's difficult to get involved.
Damn, I gotta read Watchmen again soon.
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If that simulation would be conscious, wouldn't it be just as bad (if not worse) as performing experiments on animals ? and if it wouldn't be conscious, wouldn't it conflict with the beliefs of most scientists on the origin of consciousness ?
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Why are the low hanging fruit / easy win points "tin hat"?

The wrong part was the nonsense race point.
That's really nice. I haven't written C++ for a while, and certainly not since std:tie<> became widely available. But I'll keep this in mind if I have to go down that road again.
Want to have a look into their mockups? https://ubuntu.mybalsamiq.com/projects/ubuntuphonecoreapps/g... (found on the link)
This is indeed true. What is needed for a long term solution is to fix incentives. In the sense that it shows patent trolls that there is at least some risk involved to their dirty game, the Newegg verdict does that a little bit. Real reform must come from (a) Washington and/or (b) multiple companies banding together into industry associations to fight the trolls.

The patent trolls have made tens of billions at this point - around $20B last year alone in fact. They have deep pockets and will not go away easily. It will take a real fight to change things, and it will require the support of many industry players.
... wherein mr. vizzini is the hero who personally wrested the term 'gaymer' from the evil claws of the bigoted internet. there's enogugh references from before 2003 to prove that this is a load of bs.
Completely agree--we always start our analysis with basic questions the client wants answered. I also appreciate how in-depth your piece was--we need more research and case studies like this. If I have to listen to one more social monitoring tool salesperson tell me how amazing their sentiment analysis is without ever showing concrete examples and results...
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I think there's an evolutionary advantage to this. If you don't commit new memories when sleep-deprived, then you don't remember how rough the first few months of parenting a newborn can be (you get very little sleep during that time) and you're more likely to have more children.
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u fail to see this isn't an announcement from ubuntu on declaring their strategy on getting average users and so fail to see that on HN, mostly hackers usually like to hack their device.
Any idea why? Are they linkable? Can you provide an example url?