skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the case where someone using shopify could want to do something like this. If enough shopify users ask for it, they could add it, but it's a pretty esoteric feature needed by relatively few shops, because traditionally, individuals shop individually, rather than with a group.

Group buying isn't an unheard of concept. Many buying groups pool their resources to receive discounts on large orders from manufacturers. This could be a feature for such manufacturers to add to their ordering systems.

Still, the hurdle if integration is going to be a big one for you. For example, how do you let syncfu know how many products you still have to sell? How does the store owner coordinate sales such that they don't sell more than have been requested to buy from syncfu? Why would a seller want to sell their goods at a reduced price to the same individuals who are likely to buy it individually anyway? Also, you still have the logistics problem of shipping all those orders from the "group" to the individuals who grouped to get the discount so as a store, your margins decline due to increased overhead for lower sales. Discounts for large orders are usually only possible because there is reduced overhead in shipping and account management.

I think you may have a hard time selling this feature to stores. However, if you create a competitor to shopify that has this as a feature, then all the shopify customers who want to sell this way could be potential customers for you.
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The thing is, of course, that most of the income of the wealthy is never taxes. How much income tax has Bill Gates ever paid? I'd be surprised if it's anywhere near 10% of his wealth.
> they casually handed a privacy-invading gun to people and invited them to fire it

They didn't invite them to fire, they forced them to fire. It's quite different.
I don't know if its just because its late here and I am bit tired but I didn't get the concept yet.

I understand what group buy is but not sure what problem your website solves?
Books are no different from other stuff.
It's better to apply the same standards to books when you you are trying to get rid of useless stuff.
And it's not only about paper books (it's obvious they have huge downsides, because they are heavy). Electronic books are also should be deleted if they are not useful anymore.
Our attention span is very limited, and new information tends to have better quality than old information (on average).
Season 1 - Episode 4 of Dinner for Five has Sarah Silverman as one of the guests. One of the "segments" has a discussion of a similar incident with Sarah Silverman and another word. Kevin Pollak and Ron Livingston's commentary is pretty interesting.
This sounds good, but it's not true in reality. Couples rarely see eye to eye on 100% of topics, so in a stable relationship, many things become a compromise of sorts.

Everyone should feel fulfilled by sex, but that doesn't mean that the woman should be expected to do depraved sex acts that she's uncomfortable with, just like the man shouldn't be expected to spread rose petals on the bed and sing sonnets each time.
Is there any reason the object comprehensions can't be rewritten from:

ages = (function() {
__a = []; __b = years_old;
for (child in __b) {
age = __b[child];
if (__hasProp.call(__b, child)) {
__a.push(child + " is " + age);
}
}
return __a;
}).call(this);

to:

ages = (function() {
__a = []; __b = years_old;
for (child in __b) if (__hasProp.call(__b, child)) {
age = __b[child];
__a.push(child + " is " + age);
}
return __a;
}).call(this);

It's fairly minor but saves a few assignments and generates slightly less noise.
I agree with you that Google has their work cut out for them trying to get into this market, but that doesn't excuse their mistake.

If you think it does then I am very curious to hear how you felt when Microsoft leveraged their desktop strength to compete with Netscape in the browser wars.
I am from India, but live in Denver now. Around $100/semester for 4 years. If I started a year before, I would've paid ~$100 for all 4 years combined. The private colleges are more expensive. Of course there is a downside. Professors don't care, assignments are usually copied straight out of a book. If you are a "senior," the first (un)lucky freshman who walks by might be bestowed honor of copying the assignment straight from some other "Master copy". Came here for my Master's. Managed to graduate without any loans. Was lucky enough to live within my TA/RA salary. The H1-B phase was the most miserable though. Life's better now.
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> I do tire of the melodramatic pronunciations of Buzz's death less than a week in.

Maybe there's an element of wishful thinking involved? I would love it if Buzz did die, and Google learnt not to do something like it again.
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Bizarre downmod. Its placement as a reply to parent doesn't make sense (it mystifies even me in retrospect) but I think I made a valid point: the classic unnecessary "junk" we rarely use doesn't hurt us when it's out of sight, but valuable possessions that serve an important purpose can drag us down if they're always in sight, altering the look of a space and affecting how we behave in it.

I know this is supposed to be an inspiring "carpe diem" type essay, but everything is susceptible to practical considerations, and with "stuff" it's important to identify the right culprit. Frivolous domestic accessories and the worthless junk in the back of your closet might not be the problem -- something eminently practical that you use regularly might be your burdensome "stuff."

I hope I made myself clear this time.
That is true. Also any specialized profession is going to have jargon just because it makes it easier to discuss things.
I'm really not surprised. I read the other article and immediately thought of the select isn't broken story from The Pragmatic Programmer and at the various bugs I have encountered myself, especially in C and C++, where it would have been tempting to blame the tools, but int he end turned out to be memory issues or race conditions.

Blaming the compiler is an easy cop out and this proves that it rarely actually is the case. This guy is experienced and clever, but he still fell for the its a compiler bug trap. I'm glad he found the real bug and, hopefully, learned his lesson.

I'll reiterate what I said in a comment to the other article - I think that there should be a universal law of programming in languages like C that says that you must, at a minimum, urn compiler warnings to maximum and make sure it compiles without any warning; run your program through tools such as valgrind and ensure it passes without error. And if debugging information of optimizations make bugs appear/disappear then you need to double check everything - its probably a memory alignment issue.
In the demo given, price per unit is $2000. The $2 are reservation fee paid through a cell phone / cc as a micropayment.

'Buying' doesn't actually happen, only reservations are made to 'participate' in the group purchase. After the deadline expires (the countdown timer), the item closes and all that reserved get a notification that it closed. Now the seller contacts all those (the admin side supports it), and tells them that they have 72h to purchase the item in the existing shopping cart with the discount code provided. That is of course if there is a shopping cart, otherwise an invoice or payment request can be sent, but that is however completely a matter of the seller.

There is no mediation, only a reservation making tool that is easy to setup, use and configure. Thanks for the comment, I see how that can be a bit confusing.
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Which is more likely: A) that Microsoft had a huge, coordinated anti-Apple conspiracy, or B) that the MacOffice team -- a separate team from the rest of Office located in the valley -- just decided to do their own thing rather than trying to port over decades-old Outlook to OSX?
> Maybe the porn just opened their eyes to what was possible.

I do not agree with you, but that is a very interesting point of view. Never thought it like that. :)
Or maybe people with marginal incomes spend themselves into sustained poverty through wasteful consumption. If they saved money instead of buying minimally useful possessions and saving the possessions, maybe they wouldn't have to worry about being able to afford stuff they need. You and I have probably known different sets of poor people, but I've seen cases of this.

That doesn't justify throwing things away once you have them, though, but how does one get them in the first place and were they all really necessary at the time?
I'm sure he considers the impact of the decisions along with the clients he works for.

You are right that other less tangible aspects can be impacted in unforeseen ways. But that has nothing to do with the decisions of business people or MBA's. It has to do with leadership and corporate culture.
it's late here too :) well, the webApp solves a problem of aggregating price-aware customers that would accept buying the item later but at a lower price.

It isn't for everything, but selected products/services. It is similar in concept as GroupOn & BuyWithMe, except it is more a bare-bone feature that is easy to setup and customize.

It may also be used for promotions, let's say in digital goods, since the target price can be set down to zero.
And everybody that is following TEDtalks (and I think it's quite big part of the audience here), have seen this some time ago, so why bother with a "hacker news".
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The blog posts are written by David Saltzberg, PhD in physics and astronomy.

I think this is his homepage: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~saltzbrg/bio.html

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saltzberg
Well knowing that it does affect people, why would you use it at all? It kills me when people try to justify their nonsense.

Think of it this way. Membership in an oppressed group has its obvious detriments but it also has a few benefits...if you want to see it as a benefit. The benefit is that members can use the word but no one else can.

Gays can use the f word - noone else can
Blacks can use the n word - noone else can
women can use the b word - no one else can.

The real question is why are you fighting to be able to say it?
I know it's not identical; but I'm proud of it considering I've never taken a class in any programming language...
Why even provide this benefit to private student loan providers -- letting them avoid dischargement just like government loans which have lifetime maximums and other safeguards? I think it's pretty clear the results have been catastrophic.
You should add an example url and specify users not include "http:// because http://example.com doesn't work.
Doing it wrong. What the guy needs is tree style tabs & swift tabs.
I am offended at people using it even on this board.

Yes, I am a rational person and words shouldn't affect me, but the fact of the matter is that there are deep seeded emotions behind the usage.

Whats so wrong with saying n-word when referring to it?
Very Cute. How are you keeping this free ? I am not familiar with Twilio pricing models, so your answer will educate me as well.
People use these tools (another example is JS Bin[1]) to post little standalone examples to StackOverflow.

It's easier to use tools like this instead of creating a new file and then finding a good place to host it.

[1]: http://jsbin.com/
How can something be upside down in space?
Why the web has gone sour
Admittedly, I wrote something in Perl three years ago, but that line is perfectly intuitive to me.
> In most porn the woman is highly submissive and either pleading for more pleasure or eager to provide sexual favours to the men.

So, where do you find this... not most porn?
The changeover TO euro had to be carefully prepared for years. The reverse looks like an apocalyptic scenario. I don't know, anything can happen, of course, but I live in the eurozone (Italy) and the very idea of abandoning the euro looks like bad SF to me.
It gets boring to repeat this comment so often, but: Buffett's income is mostly in the form of capital gains and dividends. These are paid out of the taxable income of corporations. So he pays a direct 15% tax on something that's previously been taxed at 35%--a low rate, if you ignore the 35% part.

And the local 7-11's income is paid out of the taxable income of its customers, who have previously been taxed at their normal income tax rates. And those customers income is coming from an employer that takes its income from customers that have already been taxed at normal income tax rates.

There's nothing nefarious going on here, income tax has always been collected at every hop. The exception is that businesses can deduct expenses against earnings, so some B2B transactions are "immune" from income taxation.

Sure, I'd be all for a system that taxed held wealth each year instead of income, I think it would be a hell of a lot more fair (both the pain you feel by paying taxes and the benefits you receive from living in this country scale with wealth a lot more closely than income), but that's another matter. As things stand, every dollar that anyone sees has already been taxed many times before, and it will be taxed again every time it's used. I see no reason things should be any different because money is coming in from an investment as opposed to work.
Super-premium bond rates? Greek 10-year bond rates are currently 6.11% - which is perhaps high for a sovereign bond, but not super-premium.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-12/greek-two-year-b...
Thanks, grayrest. That's a nice improvement that has the lovely side effect of simplifying the code generation needed to implement comprehensions.

I've pushed a patch that implements your suggestion, and all the tests are passing:

http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/commit/7667e167322...

Thanks for that.
Personally, I can't really stand Silverman. She seems like more of a "female shock jock" than a "brilliant comedian" to me. Maybe I don't know enough about her, but I really have to wonder: (a) why was she even invited to TED to speak? and (b) what on earth did people think she was going to talk about–world hunger and infant mortality?

Furthermore, was Silverman really making a statement about political correctness and free speech–or was she just going after Palin?

On the actual issue, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, it bothers me when kids use "retarded" or "gay" or "fag" as an insult. On the other hand, everyone is way too sensitive about language and being a victim any time someone else says something careless.
Good showcase. Are you paying for the SMS out of pocket? FYI Couldn't check https adress.
On the MBA, a few friends w/ science backgrounds said they cruised through top 10 b-schools without much effort. They did it only to transition from science to business careers quickly. Their advice was to skim an intro finance & marketing book. The rest was crap.
There's an interesting book called "Managers Not MBAs", written by a professor of business, which talks about why the MBA system is pretty broken.

IMO, studying business as an undergrad is pretty useless. Study something real (science or engineering), and if you want to learn about business later, go to business school (or start a company if you really want to learn about business).
I've personally seen it happen with 3 separate accounts, including my own. I don't know what we did different than you - we logged in to gmail, clicked 'no thanks' on the Buzz pop-up, noticed it was turned on anyways, checked our already existing public profiles, and saw a publicly available following and followers list.
Great comment, highly appreciated!

"because traditionally, individuals shop individually, rather than with a group"

Exactly, but if there was a possibility in general to buy in bulk with random people at the same moment, it wouldn't be traditional? I agree with your view, but one just has to disagree with the traditional in order to see what is possible today with all this social bits flying around.

As I've mentioned group buying exists in GroupOn for example, but it is insanely how much the sellers lose. With such a component they could provide the same services. Yet, there is no "target" quantity where the discount becomes available, as it happens immediately with each reservation. The quantities are set by the seller, and for sure are not infinite. The seller really has all the power over the group purchasing.

Once the item is closed with either its deadline or maximum quantity, the seller can provide with payments instructions and a deadline for actual payment. I doubt all will complete the payment, but most of them will. The seller of course counts on this when setting the price, so the risk is the least.

I've been digging a long time, but I haven't seen the concept with "reservations" as SyncFu. Do you know any? All of them I know would take your CC info first, and charge once target is met. (That is one way how SyncFu reduces friction in comparison)

The whole point with SyncFu is about laying down some grease in online payments. There is a lot of space for innovation in online payments as well usage of micropayments as sales catalysts, not actual charges.
Certainly no one expects anyone to get everything right in their first try. One expects to see a few bugs here and there in the first release and that is fine. In the case of Google Buzz, the basic idea of the product that 'all your frequent email contacts are your friends' is flawed. The manner in which they rolled it out without any regard for the privacy of its users is most disconcerting.
I didn't think that the MacBook was actually in direct light. In fact from the angles it actually seemed to be shilouetted. The one time I did try to use a MacBook in direct sunlight, I found that turning the brightness off completely sort of worked ok. But then I just got up and moved somewhere else in the shadows.
A Javascript project that does this - http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/ - with an example -http://j.mp/bakUUw

A relavant Reddit thread - http://j.mp/d8H3Tf
> I think this is finally the right direction for AI to move in.

I think it is a right direction for AI to move in, but certainly not the only one.
This is pretty cool. My suggestion: create a simple API and a WordPress plugin. I think it would be handy for a lot of WP-powered sites and that would make it easier for people to implement.
I try not to use the word but it slips occasionally. And to be honest, the word in itself does not offend me, only how it is used. Now for the big but...about ten years ago I was at the mall. I saw a white kid and black kid hanging out together. They were going back and forth, saying nigga as if they were in a hip hop video.I wouldn't prefer it but still was not bothered enough to says something about it.

Now, this older lady walks past and she is at least in her 70's. She hears this white kid yelling nigga in the middle of the mall, laughing about it. I see her eyes and its not anger but hurt and fear. Those words meant something powerful and deep to her because she lived during that time when if you heard the word, there was a good chance you wouldn't make it home that night. After that, I as a black person feel guilt every time I say it. It still slips out every now and then but I try my best.
you have way too much text on your site and not nearly enough pictures
Important to consider here is the earned income and child tax credits. While it's a slippery slope to start subtracting "benefits" in some fashion, these seem appropriate as they are a direct cash transfer. With that in mind, the highest 60% of wage earners pay more than 100% of the tax burden of the federal government.
Buzz is going to die not because of the privacy problems this week but because it forces you to live in a "Google World". I have a gmail account but it isn't and won't ever be my primary mailbox. Twitter, Facebook, XMPP based IM are all open enough and integrate into my current life -- they don't force me to go live a new one.
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LOL @ studying something "real" like science or engineering.

My friend, you wouldn't last a day in the Amazonian jungle with a native tribe. (Anthropology, but thats not real.)

Study what you love first and foremost, even if thats business. Everything else will fall into place.
you've laid it out nicely, this is the mindset of the poor and average people. I always remember the photo of Jobs's living room in the 80s. When there isn't too much crap around, you can actually focus on what matters.
my contest idea was chatroulette for twilio. i wrote some php code but am too lazy to finish it and make a whole nice sheeny website.
"... 'I observed myself getting into bizarre pissing matches. It's just astonishing how it takes hold of you. It's like a demon or something.' ... also noticed a disturbing tendency among the champions of the internet's "open culture" to humiliate and attack those who had lost out in the online revolution - the musicians, artists, journalists and others ..."

Valid.

"... Lanier believes that by fetishising and over-stating the power of this collective so-called intelligence we undervalue individual humans ..."

Anonymous are doing some interesting things to highlight Internet censorship in Australia ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=australia+cyber+attacks+anony... Individuals would have a lot of difficulty in undertaking these - legally questionable and technically difficult tasks ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=australia+cyber+attacks+anony... The down side of this of course is moderation and control. The instability of the mob. The possibility to do good one day, evil the next.
Either I don't understand the point of this, or there's a bug in it. I went to the HTML window, entered <p>Hello, world</p> and then pressed [Run]. In the Result window, I got back:

{"error": "Please use POST request"}

Is that what it should do?
I think that the gym's techniques for gaming customers also benefit by aligning with customer's attempts to motivate themselves. At least some customers are aware that paying in advance could motivate them to go to the gym more often.
Yep, but it's cheap so I don't mind.

Just pushed HTTPS support :)
My solution was telling my family that if they wanted to get me a gift, it should be consumable. A nice bottle of wine, cheeses, beer, spices, etc. all make great gifts that you can enjoy, but don't have to deal with and store for years. They also don't feel bad about not getting you anything.
Amazing comment from original post (BenT):

"

Oh for pete’s sake it’s Sara Silverman! She’s a shock and insult comic! WTF did they expect!? Had they never seen a show of hers?

"Oh my god I bought this grenade pulled out the pin and it totally blew up my house! This grenade sucks!"

"
I dated a finance major (in the undergrad business school) for two years when I was at Georgetown. My impression of her classes was the same - that they were training, not education, and intellectually void.

That said, she's now a successful analyst at Merrill, so she must have gotten something out of it.
lol. Thanks, it's nice to have a laugh this late :) (Sorry, I'm not being sarcastic, just it's a common misunderstanding)

Well, it says it's a webapp, not a rock band's fan page. People are actually ment to login, do their stuff and leave. I wish I could dump that login too, but it is the collateral damage of shifting apps to the web.

All the text is there to help the technical people searching for answers, but the actions are clearly shown. I doubt one can't find her way around.

I wonder when will "webapps" truly be understood as different than websites. I am comparing webapps to desktop apps, not to brochures. Am I alone here?
TED Talks: lasers killing mosquitoes by the hundreds
part 1:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1123683

Both videos should be working now; they got slammed by reddit yesterday.