skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think if you really want to know why your customers aren't buying, you're better off asking your customers.

That's more effective for sure.

I was part of a renewable energy community for a while and we found out that one member had built a whole business around picking the brains of the community members to re-sell the solutions as his own for a pretty penny.

When we finally found out about this we pulled a pretty elaborate prank on him causing him to never trust us for advice again ;)
I think the condescending that you're reading is being inserted during the act of reading, not in the writing.

(I could also stand to lose several stone.)
It's called horrible management.

Also, this is what we get when companies only care about quarterly earnings reports. If a company only has a 3 month vision, it has to come up with schemes like this.
Retention by being a good provider of products / services => great. Retention by force => bad.
Calling it sloppy assumes carelessness.
It looks fine to me? What are you talking about?
It looks like this to me: http://i.imgur.com/qxjaDqP.jpg
When I go there now, I see the same site that's been there for a while: https://web.archive.org/web/*/gimp.org

So maybe it was returned to its owner?
It displays http://domainnamesales.com for me
You could also regularly check Yelp and put a post-it on the fridge (or even a marker on your GPS app/device) with the current best. If the difference in distance wasn't particularly great, I'd consider doing so.
Expansion costs money, running operations is cheaper. So when growth stops, profit happens almost by default.

Simple math. Suppose opening a city costs $10 (once) and returns $1/year in revenue.

Year 1: Open 1 city, loss = $10.

Year 2: Open 3 cities, loss = $29 (spending $30 on new cities, gaining $1 from year 1's city).

Year 3: Open 9 cities, loss = $86.

Year 4: expansion stops, profit = $13.
Thank you; that's an excellent resource! A couple of other good ones:

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/five-simple-steps-to-be...
http://webtypography.net/toc/
I see a domain registration site.
Thanks for links here and under another comment, I learned something new today :).
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for me it shows the page of domainnamesales.com. maybe someone forgot to extend the domain, so poached might be a little premature.
I use to not give money and just give food. However now, if I see the same person out there in subzero temps, I usually give them a $20. I just think, hey maybe someday that will be me.
I doubt there has been research specifically addressing your question.

However, growing up bilingually has been shown to be beneficial to mental development in multiple studies, and before that there has also been considerable debate over whether or not is good or bad for the child (the idea being that it might overload their developing mind). So if growing up bilingually would prolong the vulnerable phase, I would expect the negative consequences of that to have been observed statistically.
Not quite what you requested, but NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day[1] is very cool. It has an archive dating back to the 1995!

[1] - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
All other things being equal, a plumber or mechanic isn't better because his/her customers are returning every 3 months instead of every few years.

Likewise, I'd rather use a dating website to meet a long-term partner (and cancel my subscription) than go on a bunch of unsuccessful dates leading to short term relationships (keeping my account open).

A dating website that is delivering what customers want /should/ have low retention. A dating website with excellent retention has probably decided retention is more important than getting their users into long-term relationships.
Looks more like someone forgot to pay the domain fee
No I found that, but it switches back pretty often. Can't find a pattern, it's annoying.
That is important though in case of low maple syrup production as they export a lot of it.
Updated Date: 2015-08-06T08:16:07Z

Name Server:NS1.DOTSTER-EXPIRED.DOMAINPARKINGSERVER.NET
Name Server:NS2.DOTSTER-EXPIRED.DOMAINPARKINGSERVER.NET
Here's an interesting post about being a successful dating site: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/working-for-a-dating-website
It's a class II medical device, so federally in the US, you need a prescription.

That issue aside, they're readily available used on craigslist, and you can buy "kits" online to replace the parts that wear or touch "gross parts" of the prior user, so if you don't care about the prescription issue, CL is probably better than traveling overseas to get one.
Actually DSCOVR is a satellite that was supposed to be used for climate change research, but then Bush was elected... Though, this whole Sun monotoring thing is something that was added twelve years after the sattelite was done, an apparetly what got it flying
I always thought that hacking 4G (and/or 3G) was done by jamming the signal and thus forcing the phone to switch to older, already cracked protocol.
Google’s $6B Miscalculation on the EU
Or maybe you are using the old IP from your DNS cache?
Gimp.org domain: Created 1997-08-04 Expires 2015-08-03. So expired 3 days ago.
Desktop notifications for your Electron app
I get the correct gimp.org site too. whois seems to indicate Shawn Amundson as the owner, which sounds about right.

I wonder if we're part way through DNS propogation
Any bridge between an air gap poses a risk.

I am not sure why you would need access to the system that controls the breaks/steering/engine. Perhaps to pre-heat the car, or the sat-nav may feed topology to suspension etc.

If they introduce over the air software updates I would be more worried :/
So if the server is under the control of the attacker and I use TextSecure expecting to "just work" (not already having the private key of my contact) I can actually communicate with the attacker instead of with my contact? And if I already have the private key of my contact, why do I need the TextSecure server at all?
How the Internet sees us
The User Experience of Creative Sprints
"Pricing is based on device minutes, which are determined by the duration of tests on each selected device. AWS Device Farm comes with a free trial of 250 device minutes. After that, customers are charged $0.17 per device minute. As your testing needs grow, you can opt for an unmetered testing plan, which allows unlimited testing for a flat monthly fee of $250 per device."

From the FAQ[1] which albeit was a bit buried.

edit: It is also at the bottom of the landing page now.

1: https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/faq/
This is exactly why we created a domain name/ssl reminder tool: http://www.expirify.com. A really easy mistake to make and very costly, I hope they get it back
You put a bunch of people who do pwning for fun and/or a living in one room; it's not surprising if some will start pwning each other to show off or just for teh lulz.
Sounds not unlike Iron man 2.
Are you a doctor? Are you personally giving any individual advice here? That’s the issue.

I have no issues with doctors giving someone advice – but that’s really not the point here.
What does low conversions even mean? Are you benchmarking your conversion rate against another business that does something similar to you?

To one business, a 3% conversion rate may mean impending death. To another, it may mean millions in profits.
Founders who treat their SaaS customers as prisoners will quickly find their company gains a very bad reputation and struggles with customer acquisition.

The only way to retain customers is to continue to provide them with value
If it expired three days ago, isn't there a 30 day window whithin which they can still renew?
That does sound like a great thing to have. Maybe this is something Code for America http://www.codeforamerica.org/about/ can do?
Will the real data scientist please stand up?
I knew that the onset of a variety of mental health problems is during the late teenage years, so I'm not surprised at all. What did surprise me was that the babies sustain lasting damage because they were never "cuddled and played with" in their early years. So much that it appeared in brain scans when they were adults. Interesting.
A Preliminary Review of Influential Works in Data-Driven Discovery [pdf]
Time to talk again about data-driven scientific discovery or The Fourth Paradigm: this paper from Palo Alto is very recent, 30 Mar 2015, and provides us with valuable insight: the hottest fields and the most-cited references. What do you think about? Is all this going to be commercial (exponential with entry barriers) or open source (linear with horizontal access)?
The show Reply All had a section on that, trying to see why they couldn't cancel their subscription to Handy over the site. They actually got a fairly honest reply:

SHARMA: Thank you for holding sir I do apologize for that wait. But it’s just what I was advised is that the system is not set up for customer’s to cancel the recurring bookings because when you want to cancel, they’re wanting the customers to call in to see if we can help the situation out on actually why they’re wanting to cancel the bookings and offer promotions and discounts and things like that.

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/33-isis/
An Unintended Consequence of Wal-Mart Pay Raise: Unhappy Workers
I'm located in Los Angeles but I'm open to moving anywhere.

Yeah wouldn't be too smart for me to out all the details on here but it's a niche ecommerce store for a type of product that has gotten extremely popular over the past year or two.

IMO there's several reasons to why I'm getting 800%.

I believe conversion rate optimization will only get you so far. Focusing on developing the product(getting better prices, reducing freight costs, figuring out different angles to sell/market the product) is where you'll see the best results IMO.

My prices are way lower than the competition.. Sometimes up to 40% cheaper. I can't divulge too much here but I move more volume than a majority of my competition so I can either get better prices from the manufacturer or just settle for lower margins.

My competition is all mom & pop shops.. None of these shops have the luxury of having development work done without any costs so all these sites are poorly made. They're all pretty much stuck using 2008 technology and with no design/branding work done.

I'm always optimizing the mobile experience. I probably push a commit up at least once a week for this alone. Mobile accounts for 75% of my total revenue.

I think the big thing here is I just got in at the right time. I started this store right before these types of products started blowing up. So when it did start getting really popular, I already had the infrastructure in place.

I think this luck mixed in with the domain knowledge I've gained from working with PPC over the years is how I'm hitting that number.
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/expired-2013-05-03-en

Domains have a renewal grace period. Since it expired recently, they'll be fine.
Don't forget EZ-Pass. There are readers on various major roads around here, not in a toll capacity. I think they're used by state DOT to assess traffic flow.

Eg: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/27/e-zpass-privacy-invasion/

and: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/09/12/e-zpasses...
How is this necessary if there is a grace period after a domain expires?
I agree with a lot of your thoughts. Here are some areas where I disagree

> 1. "uninitialized var usage is error": unfortunately impossible without at least one of the following compromises: Automatically initialize variables (wastes CPU); False alarms (see Java); Built-in formal proof system; or, Require compilers to solve the halting problem.

I don't think this is true. It should be pretty easy to detect if a variable is initialized or not. I can potentially see how a false alarm would arise, but I don't think that matters in practice. (All the situations I'm imagining involve writing bad code)

> 10. Multi-file module: May lead to unmaintainable code

Go does this already and it is fine.

> 12. Build process difference: Theoretically could speed up compilation. I'm worried for social reasons. In module-based languages, we tend to fall into module hell: one symptom being the infamous 20-page stacktrace (see: Java, Clojure, etc.) The nature of C's #include incentivizes shallow dependency trees (a very good thing).

I can see why this is a concern, but I think it is more a problem with JVM languages because of the type of programming Java encourages.

> 14. Tooling: This shouldn't be part of the language, it should be separate.

I thought this way too. Then I used Go and realized the huge benefit tooling integrated into the language provides. (Go has other problems, but tooling is not one of them).
You get the reverse too. Tax revenue is down, so we must help the economy grow by reducing taxes. Tax revenue is up, so clearly we are taxing more than we need to and we can reduce taxes.

Taxation doesn't quite fit the pattern we're talking about here, anyway. If a TV channel increases its ads, the obvious failure mode is that viewers go elsewhere instead (and hence advertisers spend less and revenue falls). But inter-country mobility is small enough that even quite large changes in tax rates aren't likely to make a lot of taxpayers go elsewhere. You occasionally hear rich famous people threatening that if some potentially tax-raising party comes into power they'll leave the country, but they don't generally actually do it.

(That may be different for corporate as opposed to individual taxes. Large multinational companies may be willing and able to move their operations around to minimize the taxes they pay.)
Seems fine with Linux / Firefox for me:

Work: http://paste.click/LKBLqt

Home: http://paste.click/zfhnYG
Yeah, I get a kick out of suggestions around getting more sleep.

Between work and kids, the uninterrupted time required to get sufficient sleep is a luxury. It just doesn't happen regularly.
Not poached, but definitely now in the 30-day grace period[1].

[1] https://www.dotster.com/domains/faq.bml
I give them $1, pretty much every time. I make enough money that this practice isn't really noticeable to my budget, so why not? It's not my business what they use it for, I drink and do other things myself too.

The one guy who is always there on my usual daily lunch walking route, and is kind of creepy too, I now only give him $1 once a week instead of every day, because it was starting to annoy me and be noticeable in my wallet. The other older guy who is always there on my usual daily lunch walking route, and who is clearly mentally ill but very friendly and I like him a lot -- he doesn't ask me every day (but does say "hey, how's it going?" every day), so I still give him $1 every time he asks.
So, that would mean, the audience hates the program but if you show them more ads instead, they will not switch channels because the same ad is so much better on your channel than on any other?

That's really fascinating, I had no idea.
I live in a much more socialist country than the US. And when I think of the US I think of hard line capitalists that can't stand socialism. But reserves like this seem out right communist. State owned reserves designed to manipulate market prices. What am I missing? Or are my assumptions about the US and capitalism
wrong?
> the base OS is still ROCK SOLID compared to ANY linux desktop distro.

At my last work, my desktop was an ubuntu LTS version. It was rock solid, and ran as fast the day that office closed down as the day I set it up. The same could very much not be said of the macs in the office - almost all of which had slowed down considerably. One macbook with 4GB of RAM had zero free memory on a fresh boot with nothing loaded! I had to install some 'ram compactor' tool to get the laptop to actually load some office software in a reasonable time. Occasionally I'd get called over to help troubleshoot this or that with the various macs, and usually in the first couple of minutes, I'd be saying something along the lines of "how can you work with it this slow?". The mac users in this office were a mix of normal users and power users. The only expert user had a top-end model less than a year old, so he wasn't getting the same problems, of course.

So no, I don't agree that the base OS is ROCK SOLID compared to ANY linux desktop distro. You say you have better things to do than rebuild your entire desktop environment every few months? I have better things to do that wait for my desktop environment in day-to-day work. Unless, of course, I'm willing to throw gobs of money at the upgrade treadmill, which means replacing the hardware regularly, which means... rebuilding the desktop environment on the new machine...
I wish, there's tons of stuff that isn't on any given streaming music service. Spotify has tons of stuff I miss, and I'm sure the rest are similar.
It is still better to act early than having someone else squatting your address for a few days.
The Kernighan quote is absolutely key, and is one of the many email signatures that I use.
It sounds like you're only talking about unit testing, or perhaps automated FV. Performance, infrequent bugs, heisenbugs etc are all things we find through system test.

On some level, I'd say any bug is discoverable through testing - if a user can't experience a bug, then it doesn't exist! You could even say unexecuted code can be considered this way - if it doesn't ever matter that a program requires more RAM than it should, who cares? Of course at that point you are clearly increasing the risk of a future programmer mucking something up because of the unused code, so I don't think I'd go that far in real life.

Clearly some things are easier to find in code review / code coverage etc, but saying you can't test for bugs that occur rarely is untrue.
Browsing the site was confusing. I'm in the market for a new Entertainment Center for my living room, and when I went to find them, there was a filter for "Entertainment Center" and "Entertainment Centers" and one for "TV Stands" down at the bottom. I could only pick one. I should be ablke to pick multiple filter options, and you should group similiar ones under a single filter.

FWIW, most sites get this wrong, and that's why thumbnails and a drop down to show all items are so important. It allows you to choose a broad filter and then visually parse the page rather than relying on crummy filters to show you what you're looking for.
Took the test and got a 0, but strange thing I noticed during the test was that "wiping" the cursor over the colored blocks during the test seemed to increase the saturation of the blocks, making the test much easier.

(Macbook Air, non-retina, Chrome 43.0.2357.134 (64-bit))
Do you think think that your user base is a little more health aware than the average population? I would expect that someone using your site is going to be more self aware, affluent and health conscious than the average that the CDC is polling. For example, how many single hispanic mothers or black senior citizens use exist.io?
I made friends with one particular homeless man a few years ago. His name was Raymond, he had previously in life worked manual labor jobs, had a wife and kid. A proud husband and father. His wife left for someone who could provide greener pastures. He never recovered from that.

I would see him when I was out running errands in my neighborhood. He never had shoes on. I stopped one day and asked him if he needed shoes and what size. I bought them for him. I gave him some food. He refused it. I thought that was odd.

I saw him about a week later and offered him food and he said no again. I asked him why and he said it is because I didn't offer it to him in a bag to carry it. Then it made sense. If he couldn't carry it, he couldn't keep it long term. It was to much to carry around all day everyday.

Over the years I gave him clothes, food, books, an old laptop (which, yes, he was using months later, so he did not sell it), inviting him to holiday dinners and my friendship. We would chat for hours sometimes about whatever was going on. He was very in tune with current affairs.

Then I stopped seeing him. I drove around looking for him. I asked some others where he might be and nobody knew. I never saw him again.
This is a really interesting and saddening view on the Internet.
UX for SaaS products – what’s all this testing for?
I give a small amount of money – its more dignified and trustful than trying to buy them food.
I know nothing about Welsh. With white - gwyn and
red - coch, gwyngoch looks like it's basically "light red". Similarly melyngoch (with melyn=yellow) looks like it's basically "yellow-red", and a few others (cochddu, gwinau?) look "suspicious" as well. Would these be considered basic color terms [1]? Apparently the differente views have different definitions. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Basic_color_terms
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...
> People are complaining about the length of time (...) All that stuff is avoided by losing weight.

I strongly disagree on the point of time. It is important to realize how slow actual weight loss is. By my naive googling, losing 1kg of fat per week will require quite a lot of calorie restriction, and it is not achievable easily. If you are say 20kg overweight, you will need at least 20 weeks to lose that weight, likely more as nobody is perfect and stress factors here as well.

I am stressing this point as I would like to encourage anyone who suffers from sleep apnea to start both treatment and losing weight. Telling yourself "I don't have to seek treatment, I'll just lose weight" may lead you into several weeks of diminished productivity (as a PhD student with apnea, when not getting enough sleep my scientific productivity is close to zero).

I am not claiming any of the original commenters suggest this, but still: "I'll just suffer until I lose enough weight" is a terrible decision.