skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks HN: For reviewing my site. Now, some light into the app.
Thank you to all you guys who visited the app, and to those who commented.

What I did not want to state and affect your judgment is that unlike most of HN readers I am not a programmer. Wait, I did code the application. But I am not the average HN user. I am the marketing guy.

I have been hanging out here for quite some time. That business guy who partners with others who build stuff while he does the business stuff: that's me.

But I know that no matter how good you are at marketing or business "stuff" it is extremely hard to have a startup without knowing how to code, or at least understand programming.

So 3 weeks ago, I said "Fuck It, I am going to learn how to program". Now, I fully understand I am not going to be an engineer, but I still thought it will be good for me to learn. I had zero programming experience, so I started with php for the simple reason that most engineers I could rely on for feedback are php/java developers.

At the end of Day 11, after 23 hours of learning, Doxela came out as my very first app, but it will not be the last. Simple simple humble start, and let's see what I will be able to do in 12 months. Meanwhile I would like to push a simple app as often as possible.

So there it is. I am not making excuses for Doxela.com. I will definitely improve it based on my learning and the feedback I am receiving.

Thanks again for all the feedback. HN is a great community, and I am glad I am part of it.

PS: If you are that business guy who cannot code, let's make it a challenge to learn and build stuff. We may never be engineers, but we can certainly appreciate more our co-founders.
You're not dead yet.
Would you give any weight to a testimonial from 'anonymous'?

Email is probably a toss up. Are there legal requirements if the business wants to use the reviews in, say, advertisements? Perhaps some contact information is necessary.
OK, some of these are really meant for technical users (hosting solutions, bug trackers, automated testing tools) but are the companies selling them actually doing badly because of oversupply? Or comparably worse to companies addressing the general public?
Sure, you can just Google for "Delaware registered agent". The first page of results returns plenty that seem to offer their services for $50-$100/year. Many will even do the transfer paperwork for you.

The transfer process basically the same as changing your corporate address. I believe that many registered agents don't do much other than accept mail and legal service.
Take a look at your tab order, it goes from the review field to the name field, skipping the email field. Also, it isn't very clear to me how it will look at my own website. Do I embed the big box? what about customizing to fit my layout? etc.
Alas, I think the editors are the infighters and politicians.
id Software was always pretty darn profitable; you may be thinking of Ion Storm, John Romero's infamous exercise in cash-burning.
Something that you might be able to do:

If you friends is an idea guy just like you, try to get a programmer friend to see how he/she thinks about the deal. Do the opposite if your friend is a programmer.

We have no idea what your idea is, so, it is really hard to judge whether a 50/50 split is fair or not.
I meant worse as in faster growth than geometric. It's quite possible, particularly with feedback taken into account.
Denver Search Engine Optimization
Drupal Web Development and Search Engine Optimization in Denver - New Media offers varied services such as Denver Web Design, Denver SEO (Search Engine Optimization Denver), Denver Flash Design, Drupal Consulting, Application Development and much more
Hi Ryan, yes yes I do appreciate you taking the time to highlight some concerns.

1) Yes, ideally our brand would be "trusted". But as of now I don't think it necessarily requires our brand to be well-known. I'd like to think that a "These reviews managed and verified by <link>PlusPanda</link>" would be sufficient enough as a research tool for concerned customers to be able to click on and read a short description of our program policy.

2) I agree in that a service like this entails that the customer actually commit and put in effort, in order for it to actually do its job. It's not something you necessarily set and forget. So if your business is poor, this isn't any type of remedy in and of itself. I am taking your point to be that relative to feedback, pluspanda suffers from self-selection bias. But actually the whole secret-sauce of customer reviews is actually mainly for marketing purposes, which are two fold:

1. Customers always believe 3rd party opinions over 1st party opinions. So even if they are less likely to believe in the full-validity of reviews on your site, they'd still likely believe them more than they would any first-party marketing copy on the site. And as stated by others, at worst, your reviews wouldn't be so much as "reviews" but "testimonials" (i.e. they are all praise) which tons of sites successfully employ.

2. Customer Relationship Management via email marketing.
Simply put, everyone that bothers enough to leave a review, has a stake in your business, and you should be communicating with them, thanking them, giving them loyalty rewards, rectifying poor experiences, and encouraging repeat-business, and word-of-mouth etc. So customer reviews is really just a way to manage an effective email marketing campaign. It's a "platform".

This is the angle from which I am basing my value proposition. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks again for your time.
yeah like spaming (which its not) its more important that a 3,000 deaths which investigation was blocked by the White House for a year
Good perspective on different length of life-cycles; some areas repay careful investment; some don't.

I've found many of the common wisdoms don't quite apply to what I'm doing (in some ways it's analogous to DB's relational model; it's experimental, theoretical and practical)... and so my hard-won lessons aren't applicable to other areas.

Thanks for your thoughtful and kind replies. :-)
1. create an onclick for the share text-box so that it auto-selects the contents making right-click for copy easier. Don't bother with auto-copying the text. Many browsers don't support that function anyway.

2. the Manage link didn't work for me.

3. the delete button loads the doc viewer again with an error message that it's no longer available - You should only make it show the "this has been deleted" message, not the viewer.

4. Your app seems pretty pointless. You're better off directing people to docs.google.com and teaching them how to use it instead.

5. You'll probably run into a brick wall (disk limitations at Google) well before you reach any sort of critical mass. So, again, I don't see why you're doing this.
We are in the real estate and have been pondering this problem for years.

It is not a technical problem, and there is no technical solution.

It's easy to make a better database, but it isn't useful if it isn't full of data. And you won't get lots of data because the network effects are too strong. It has been tried many times.

Besides that, you must realize that MLS's make most of their revenue from MLS fees; if they didn't run the MLS then they wouldn't have a very big budget, and many people would lose their jobs. MLS's have strong relationships with their members (agents and brokers). There is no incentive for anyone close to the data sources to support such a thing.

To your point about making something "so much better" that they'd use a new system anyway, read this: http://www.inman.com/opinion/guest-perspective/2009/11/10/th...
That's pretty cool man, congratulations.

Learning the basics of programming is no easy task, so it's great to see that you're diving into it, giving it a try, and putting something out there. That takes a ton of work, but also guts. Way to go.

Good luck as you move forward, and enjoy the ride!
Really? Those emails specifically mention realclimate.org?

I care when it was last updated. There's been a lot of extra data, and lots of scientific papers published in the intervening two (probably closer to three) years.
Actually it might be worth charging people to use twitter - then they wouldn't post so many status updates that are basically useless.
John M. Crisp: Husbanding resources: moon's water
This is the type of stuff that just degrades the quality of HN. I'm not making this comment to spur a reddit vs hn argument,etc. I'm asking people to not post stuff like this as someone who spends a lot of time here because I truly care about the community/quality of articles. Thank you.
Thanks for your comment. Ah yes I checked and its because I floated the fields in the opposite directions! I'll fix that. Thanks.
Tickets for brad paisley tickets
Get the detailed information about tickets for brad paisley and browse tickets for brad paisley tickets for up coming events at Ticket Luck
Didn't work for a pdf I uploaded

http://doxela.com/view/1214130930.php

Good start, though it's not working quite right yet.
This really made me laugh. That he would take the time to make pie charts and a logo describing why he won't make pie charts and a logo for him is very amusing.
How Xanadu Works: technical overview
I think your real goal is not immediately obvious. At first it looks like you're just providing a way for businesses to get feedback, but I see that is not it at all. It is, however, a great pitch.

I would put a little more on the home page about the trust aspect (which to me seems to be the real goal).

I think you are almost certainly going to be dealing with the issue of owners wanting to delete reviews for a very long time, but I think your position, once properly understood, makes sense. When I first read it, however, I was taken aback, so I think some warning (in the form of a few comments about the trust aspect) on the front page would help prepare users for this.

Really, I think you have an awesome product and idea here. This is the kind of the thing that once it was established, customers would start to expect and even judge sites based on whether or not they had it (think Carfax).
Thanks Chris for your feedback. Yes I plan to have a small logo for that exact reason, which would be linkable not to my home page, but to a clear outline of the program policy and assurance of at least "intended" credibility.

Matt addressed some of the concerns about why relying on yelp is probably getting to be a bad idea. I do not intend to outright accuse yelp of anything since I don't have empirical evidence, but whether or not its true at least brings up the potential drawbacks in letting another company manage your reputation.

Matt also brought up that its a tougher sell to have users give you feedback on a third-party site which IMO is especially true of yelp. Yelp is actually a reviewing "community" so you have to set up and account and jump through the usual hoops. Not all businesses cater to web-savvy "i-want-to-be-a-prolific-reviewer-online-" types of people. There are plenty of traditional businesses who's customers rarely go online, but if asked to submit a review through an email, would probably be ok do doing it. Hard to see an older 50-80 year old demographic signup for a "yelp" account, yes?
Thanks Cscotta.
Very entertaining read . Almost seems made up, until I realised that I too have met people like this.
Sivamayam
I just tried your link and saw the document: The linear Algebra. Can you explain how you were expecting it to work?
I've had my wikipedia account purged and renamed so I can't provide the exact talk page link. However I did happen to talk to another editor who actually had the exact same thing said to him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Grimjaw

Apparently he has since quit Wikipedia too. My guess is we were both arguing with the same mod. And the cat being an animal argument was a metaphorical argument we were having while discussing an edit.
I would get a Dell 27-inch 2560 by 1440 LED display if there's one too. Just wish that Dell can manufacture one with great energy savings. That will be the deal winner.

Currently, I'm using a 2006 Mac Pro. It's still freaking powerful but I really can use with more pixels on my screen.
Looks good from here...
There was a fantastic post by someone about the many waves of search engines, and how he thought he was too late each time, until finally Google came along and it really is too late ("...or is it?") [It was tremendously inspiring, but can't find it again. Maybe it was by the guy who founded tripod... anybody know?]

Another point is that your way of doing it will be slightly different - in emphasis, in design, in features, in performance. It's even possible that an "defect" in your approach is actually benefit in some niche. So you are never in direct competition with anyone. It can be hard to accept not being the "best" or the one-and-only (for me, anyway), but if you're doing something that helps someone, something needed and/or wanted, then you're doing something worthwhile and valuable. And if you're doing something valuable, it's natural for some of that value to come to you.

Personal experience: after I made the first prototype of my product, I discovered that several other people had the idea (it was kinda obvious), and had launched products. If I'd done the research first, I would have been discouraged, to some extent, and maybe wouldn't have started. As it happens, I totally killed in that market.
You've Gotta Fight for Your Right to... OLPC
Very nice.

3 issues:

1) What are the 2 lines of code?

2) I took about 5 seconds to find the "Add review" form, as it was hidden behind some button.

3) I your site design, but not the title font size (too big, or too many points) and the pitch text. It's good for consumers, but I find it a bit dumbed down.

Your target customers appear to be sophisticated website owners (after all, your first paragraph reads "Now you can manage reviews on your website just like http://yelp.com but completely branded by you, all with just two lines of code", and you use words like "utilize").

Instead of "big headers and lots of text, for consumers", you might try something like:

Customer Reviews Work.

Amazon.com, Apple, Borders books, Best Buy, Walmart and other big-box retailers use customer reviews on their websites, because it works. With Plus Panda, you can do the same, with just 2 lines of code, and for a very low cost.

Don't take our word for it. Read our reviews and then Get Started Now!

With just 2 lines of code, you can:

* Build trust and credibility with new customers.

* Encourage customers to give you feedback.

* Respond quickly and openly to customer complaints.

* Promote new products (WTF, is that a COMING SOON feature??)

* Help customers spread the word through Twitter, Facebook and Myspace (coming soon??).

A world class customer review system (like Amazon's system, yelp or Panda Plus) could take months to build if you started from scratch. But all this, and more (including a 90 day guarantee, and a data export API) is available from just (What does it cost??? Don't you know yet? OK cool.). How cool is that?

Anyway, it's a nice site and a cool product idea.
Thanks for your feedback. Good suggestion. After reading some more, I think the best thing would be to have the default be null, and then cause an error if its unchanged. That way the user is forced to consciously select a rating.
Thanks for pointing that out!

As for the email, aside from anon reviews being implicitly less valuable, the secret-sauce of gathering customer reviews is so you can engage with customers loyal/concerned enough to leave reviews!
I've heard weightlifting dramatically decreases testosterone. What type of exercise are you suggesting?
Raw climate data in New Zealand tells a different story than “official” one.
The Future: When the Editors Hire the Publishers
It's not a value judgement, just an observation. Clearly there are successful bug trackers.
The National Association of Realtors will and has done everything to protect the MLS, which they manage and make millions of dollars from. The NAR is the largest American trade union and 3rd largest lobby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Realtor....
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
Thanks for taking the time to reply. The tab order is semantically incorrect because I floated the two fields in opposite directions! Thanks for the catch, I'll update it.

The css is sent separately so it is fully configurable and can be "professionally" skinned, but there will also be some basic themes to select from and alter basic color schemes. As of now this is the MVP so theming is not addressed!

Do I embed the big box?

If I understand that correctly, no, the code you would embed is just a div wrapper and then a script tag. The script tag loads everything via javascript, and then builds it on the page within the wrapper. If javascript is disabled, a link is displayed to your "standalone" version which actually works completely without any javascript =)

Hope this answers your questions and actually if you have any requests regarding being able to customize it to fit your website, I'd love to hear them from a users perspective. Please email me! Thanks again.
I guess this Simon fellow is a real person:

http://www.naymz.com/simon_edhouse_864677
Drop.io already exists. And it's way, way, way more robust than this.
Daniel, thanks for taking the time to leave feedback. I am all for becoming as necessary as a Carfax =]. Also I will take you up on that idea of dedicating some copy to highlight what trust means and how its managed from and to owner and customer. Thanks again.
What about the idea of making it easier to sell a house using a "For Sale By Owner" then let more ppl list their own homes on craigslist or wherever they want. If I was trying to sell my home I would want it on every single site out I could get it on. It seems like what would aid this is if there were about 10 standard contracts that everyone agreed to use. You could research it and know all about the type of contract you were going to use - about like learning a software license. Then any more give and take is just worked out in the price.
Maybe responsiveness; quick acceleration; "Road feel"; admiring looks from nubile women; defeated looks from men; knowing that you have more power available than you need; etc.
patio's comment made me think of Google Wave.

from everything I've heard about it, I still don't understand what problem it solves that isn't already solved. It feels like a really esoteric use case for hyper-geeky people who for some reason aren't smart enough to use one of the 1000 other hyper-geeky fluffy techno-web-gizmos to do the same thing with already.

Now that I've said this, I'm sure in a year I'll be wave-ified. :)
69.COM
"Make this extra-easy via functionality that auto-populates MLS when an agent lists a property on OSLS."

This violates my local MLS' TOS. Pretty much everything violates the MLS TOS. Did you know that agents can't put their contact info on their MLS listings?
Studies like these are a joke. Everything in biology is give and take so measuring something without comparing it to some other marker is completely useless. When testosterone levels go up, invariably other things go down and it is much more useful to know how internal variables covary instead of just "oh look, fast cars means more testosterone" <- stupid.
Conformity at school
Are you by any chance talking about Wikia sites???
I would say online interactions consume energy, too. Not on the same imminent level as in-real-life interactions but they do.

Generally if I don't feel like going online to "see" my friends I generally don't feel like going out to see them either. Sometimes I might chat with someone when I wouldn't do that physically but often the said discussion is then less connecting and more shallow.
You are still thinking that an 'exit' is necessary. Most public companies went public because they were too big to stay private forever. There are many huge private companies in existence.

The need for an exit is basically a result of the fact that tech companies are virtually never built with the intention of making money directly.

If you hate article like this, you probably should hate exit thinking. If you hate exit thinking, you should probably hate many funding structures which require it.
I have used Google Doc viewer (embedded version) in another project and it is far more limited than the Doc viewer that is part of GMail, which may result in hitting a brick wall development wise.

Edit: Are you using the proper embeded version or a hack of Google Docs - its prompting me to login from an iframe.. this is a definite! problem. Email me for advice neurofog <at> gmail <dot> com if you want the details.
Your demo should look like a real site, using PlusPanda for a real purpose.
if the performance is acceptable, sure, why not.
The Back to the Future Timeline was removed, but the diagram can be found in the discussion section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Back_to_the_Future_(film_s...
There's a typo in the front page : "A Powerful, Easy Customer Communicaton System."
Booknotes and Combisets
We have a hunt group in our phone system for on-call that forwards incoming calls to an individual based on a schedule. It can try multiple numbers and also send e-mail alerts. No SMS functionality though which is a downside.
That's already going on at the Reddit post, e.g. an import into MySQL for querying, filtering out the numerical-only posts, and so on.
Quality and Price of Windows 7 Festival Icons Pack
With the debut of most fascinating Windows 7 OS from Microsoft, it is needless to say that Windows 7 icons are the need of the hour.

Icongalore.com has always strived to provide the latest requirements with impeccable quality. This Windows 7 festival icons pack is no exception to it.

Our expert icon designers have designed them with utmost care to exceed your expectations in terms of quality.

While the original market price of the pack is $169, icongalore.com offers the entire pack for just $77 as Christmas bonanza.
I understand our best forecast is that the enhanced greenhouse effect will increase global rainfall.

The local effect in the Amazon river basin is just as likely the result of local deforestation as the global carbon dioxide level. As someone else pointed out Tsunamis are known to be caused by earthquakes not weather. So it seems that your examples may not the best ones.

Now the effect of rising sea levels on my pleasant vacation on a pacific island is much less in doubt, some low lying areas will be underwater if the Antarctic or Greenland ice melts, which seems like it will take quite a while.

The greenhouse effect makes the biggest difference at the poles in the coldest time of the night. So people will be able to live and farm further north in Russia and Canada.

The cost of global warming seems to be about the cost of change, and the cost risk, rather than the cost of a definitively less hospitable climate.

Paying attention for the last decade includes a cooling for the recent past associated with short term patterns. Global warming is not about the cost of what we have seen, it is about what we will see if we emit CO2 at various levels in the future, which we don't know. And not knowing is not a reason to do nothing, but it is also not a reason to claim calamity is certain.
My compilation of the Web's best advice for entrepreneurs
12 Curious Facebook Fan Pages ? 
Some of you might recall my post, The 13 Types of Friends on Facebook, and,
There are lots and lots of interesting articles on Wikipedia, but I do not find the majority of these interesting.

I'm a bigger fan of the random, but interesting, articles you can use "in class".

Ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro
A couple news organizations are reporting their own internal communications are included. Seems legit.