skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The closest thing to a startup that solves this problem is meetup.com.

I'd recommend tech meetups, like Super Happy Dev House: http://superhappydevhouse.org/

You say you don't just want to talk tech, but in my experience random meetups on places like meetup.com can be pretty hit or miss, and by going to tech meetups you can meet people with an obvious common interest, and those people don't talk tech and hack all the time either.

Just make friends with interesting people however you can. It's hardest the first few months, because it takes time and a lot of false starts to build out a real-life social network. Hang in there!
Have a look at deducer, probably the best R GUI out there:

http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/08/ggplot2-plot-builder-is-...
Well, seaside is also from 2002 (from their website: http://seaside.st/). But, If I am not mistaken, JBoss Seam, which is (unfortunately) far more mainstream than seaside/scheme/smalltalk, got its continuations idea from Seaside. And scalas' LIFT framework, which is also more mainstream, also got its inspiration from Seaside.
The main benefit to being Dugg, especially prior to Twitter, was watching thousands of people reshare your content through blogs. These links were SEO manna from heaven, which was why gaming Digg was a cottage industry.
I agree, also on the pronunciation front, I am assuming:
Low-kate-LEE

Try saying that 10 times fast, the ending in the last two syllables make it a bit of a tongue twister.

What about other possibilities that seem like often-occurring interpretations?

Low-Kate-{soft eh}-LEE

Low-CAT-{soft eh}-LY
I wont find it on my iPhone, but there was a recent article about companies doing just that, datacenters being built and fast links run to the UK and mainland Europe.

It's quite remote from a get-servers-and-techs there perspective too, though. Might not get a 4 hour onsite warranty as easily.
It works like a charm...remember - it's a quick and dirty / back of the envelope calc. don't troll on it. It's an ESTIMATE!
I've bargained at furniture stores for a leather sofa because I thought one of the cushions looked "off color" (it was, but just _barely), and my mother once bargained $100 off of a refrigerator at Best Buy, and she didn't even buy the damn replacement plan. You can cut up to $20/month off your cable bill just by threatening to leave.

Everything is negotiable, and everyone likes to be negotiated with (even the drama queens in car sales that yell in outrage in the back room with their manager then gives you your price).

99% of the consuming public doesn't give a damn about doing that, though; probably because swiping plastic doesn't feel like money until the end of the month.
It's not clear from the post that she didn't take it as a $6 credit. It seems that way, but the author never says that and it's not the point she's trying to get across.
Y Combinator Entry
What % of startups selected by YC already have a working beta product compared to that of a prototype? What are the Pros and Cons of each. Thanks.
it's an ESTIMATE! simply adjust upwards for industries where the average salary is over $40k. How about this....ANNUAL REVENUE = NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES X AVERAGE SALARY OF EMPLOYEES X 2.5 . Try it now.
Thanks for the link! I've been looking for a writeup on bash history features for a while. These things are very useful day-to-day.
This is another step closer a device I have been thinking about for many years. Imagine having a silent witness to any incident one gets involved in where it is one person or group's word against another. This device would record audio/video/time/location and send that data, real time, to a remote server that can timestamp and saved it. Police brutality, a bar fight, war crimes, an auto accident? Even if the cameras/phones are confiscated, stolen, or destroyed, the truth has already been set free and there is no way to cover it up.
They would have to update eventually and the old versions of IE would no longer be updated w.r.t security, so they would have to install IE9.

Microsoft is under no obligation to provide a crippled version of IE9, and while the companies would whine a lot, they would fall in line (it is not like they would install Linux on the desktop instead, or even use Firefox).
We setup a presentation that included 8 different individual businesses (total headcount in the meeting/presentation was about 20); My business partner knew some of these folks and invited them to hear our offer. The others, we emailed - not framed as a sale but to check out our technology and provide feedback.

After the presentation, we had 2 businesses ready to cut us a check and 3 that later signed and the others provided us valuable feedback and references.
Here are some of my other favorites:

^foo^bar replaces the foo in the last command with bar

example: less setup.conf, ^less^vim

alt+. recalls the last argument of the last command (in emacs mode, anyway)

example: less setup.conf, vim alt+.

As mentioned, Ctrl+R is great for history searching. Repeatedly pressing Ctrl+R goes to the next result, and you can use the arrow keys to edit.

cd - goes to the last directory. It handles most of the use cases for pushd and popd.
For the first use, it seems like it'd be nice if there were some way it could reuse existing hardware-compatibility work done on projects like the Linux kernel or the BSD kernels. Even if you want a single-tasking system with little in the way of OS services, you still usually don't want to be debugging the quirks of every hardware device, or writing your own driver every time you get a machine with a new SATA controller or NIC.
yep - you must adjust based on the average employee salary based on the industry
I could totally see somebody in the big companies starting to whine to the press and demand exactly that, if Microsoft picks up the pace to match Googles.

I just hope they only whine about it, and don't go to their lobbyists.
Hi buro9,

Sorry to hear about the trouble! I can understand the frustration and I apologize that there is trouble accessing a Groupon purchase. Unfortunately there could be a few things going on, so it's difficult to diagnose without discussing it directly. Sometimes people just simply typed in a typo in their email when they purchased their Groupon and then are unable to get in to access it. If you're still having trouble, please never hesitate to just give us a ring like weaksauce posted here, our number M-F 9am-5pm CST 877 788 7858. Or, you can always email us too (even if it's after hours) and we will get back to you: support@groupon.com. We have a staff working feverishly after hours to help as well!
Please contact us and we'll get it figured out for you---if you were charged by us, you certainly should have a Groupon!

Regards,
Kelly
Groupon Customer Support
If you don't care, why comment?

I am impressed at Google putting datacenters in cold climates for cheaper cooling. You know they have enough datacenters and custom software that they can migrate heavy compute jobs around the planet, keeping them running in night regions where the temperature is lower and cooling cheaper?
I'm sure the fisheye in the video is adding to the nauseating effect...
They do that because it is a specific law in many states.
Ask HN: How do you get people to your landing page?
I always read about acquiring some emails from people interested in the product etc. - I get why that makes sense.

But how would I "market" my landing page? Adwords would be an option, Facebook another and a post here on HN, too. Where Google Ads and FB Ads would make sense, they do cost money (!= bootstrapped). the HN post would be too early. So how do I find potentially interested people for my landing page?
Beyond the API: The Event Driven Internet
Awesome post! I just bought 4RE4.com for my little web shop, areastudios.com. I think I may actually use the 4 letter version from now on :)
it is for me.
San Francisco Stays BioCurious
It was painful to assemble stuff, so they never listed out the programs. The programs and stuff just lived in there, just raw seething octal code. And one of the guys wrote a program called 'The Unknown Glitch,' which at random intervals would wake up, print out I AM THE UNKNOWN GLITCH. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, and then it would relocate itself somewhere else in core memory, set a clock interrupt, and go back to sleep. There was no way to find it."

This is awesome.
Who are you to decide that keeping up-to-date is more important, and maintenance of internal systems be damned?

These things must be in the hands of those responsible for maintaining the systems. Anything else, and the potential risk is too high, and enterprise customers will have no choice but to stay away.

Heck, right now you're giving them one more excuse to stay with IE6.

EDIT: you also haven't defended your stance on forced upgrades in the nature of Chrome. Even if you were right about frequency, forcing the changes whether the users are ready or not is madness.
I don't buy this argument, I think Microsoft's development structures are the cause of their slow release cycle, and "enterprise customers" is a convenient excuse for the slowness.

Enterprises happy to go along with this argument, so they can claim to do all this browser and internal app testing approaching NASA levels.

Yeah, right.

When last were the APIs used by "enterprise customers" revved? IE6?
Microsoft have breaking changes in the move from IE8 to IE9.

If your company is dependent on hundreds of in-house web apps, or worse - dependent on bought-in webapps that you can't fix yourself then being forced to upgrade is insanity.

Sure, Microsoft should release new versions of IE more quickly than they currently do, but they shouldn't be dropping support for older versions.
Angie's List (my company) has created a similar group coupon system (The Big Deal) as Groupon, but targeted to a more niche market. We actually allow companies to set a hard limit on the number of coupons that can get sold. This allows businesses to offer really great deals that they expect may do negative revenue just to bring in new customers, but control the loss with the limit.

I'm surprised Groupon doesn't do this. Or do they and this business just didn't set a limit?
Thanks for sharing this, I will definitely be taking a look at it for a big bootstrap (Monte Carlo) simulation I do. Have you used the parallel extensions in IPython? I have used IPython with great success for the task farming needed in my embarrassingly-parallel context, where the same algorithmic steps need to be applied to hundreds or thousands of data sets. I'll be interested to use your approach and consider the pros and cons, but I like how simple it appears to use.
Also remember that the Baltic sea is a lot less salty than any other sea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_sea#Salinity
"Groupon’s $3 was almost pure profit"

Completely wrong. Just because Groupon doesn't have any variable cost doesn't mean all of their revenue is profit. Credit card processing, bank fees, and chargebacks will eat up 2-5% of the (gross) revenue, and Groupon spends much more than that buying clicks to drive traffic to the merchant's deal.
But it seems like there would the be a market for a corporate browser, one that guaranteed stability, API access, quirks, etc. Microsoft is already doing that to some degree, so although it would be in the best interest for everyone else if they switched to this auto-updating style, they would be writing themselves out of a market they currently dominate.
There are breaking changes upgrading from IE6 to IE7.

Believe me, I don't like supporting customers on IE6. But the fact is that the very same lumbering behemoths that won't move also happen to be the same 800-lb gorillas that can authoritatively say "support us or we take our business elsewhere", and we have little choice but to comply.
We can now celebrate, Online 99p shop with delivery- Suleman Sacranie
I think it will be difficult for groups like this to maintain funding over time. Lab work is expensive!
While I agree with the notion that there're internal systems that can't keep up with the fast pace of upgrades, those days are gone - IE9 is standard-compliant browser. As long as you develop standard-compliant web site, it doesn't really matter what version of browser you use in the future. Those who depend on IE6 will stick to IE6 anyway, because IE9 is not compatible* with IE6 from the day one.

* Probably, it is, in quirks mode or something like that.
Piraha-peg: A very simple parsing expression grammar implementation in java
Check out Steven Brandt's (of javaregex.com) parsing expression grammar (PEG) implementation for simple grammar creation and parsing.
This sounds like a bad story, no doubt about it.

I am interested to hear if anyone posting here will admit to working for a Groupon competitor, though.
I assume the F-shape pattern is only effective in languages that read left-to-right?
Unless this is a $20 a month cheapie app, the Customer acquisition process should begin before you've even started building. Otherwise, how do you know if anyone even wants your product? By now you should've already talked to potential clients about what it actually is that your product hopes to achieve, and already have their indication that they'd be interested in buying it.

How can you be building to a target that you haven't spoken to yet?

Cold calling is going to be a hit and miss affair at the best of times, it's even harder when you're trying to pitch a product that no one's ever heard of.

The best thing I think you can do is pound the pavement. There'd be dozens of schools in your immediate area; organise a meeting and see them personally for a demo. It'll be time consuming, but at least you will have their undivided attention.
You're right, but, a nit: coffee shops aren't selling a cup of flavored caffeine water. They're selling a service that produces flavored caffeine water, to order, in a coffee shop (read: high rent) environment. When you factor payroll and rent into it, the cost to serve a cup of coffee isn't actually a great deal for the shop. Most of them fail.

That's neither here nor there for the one case of a loyal customer asking for a discount; of course this business owner is sorely mistaken (and also doesn't appear to understand the concept of a marketing budget, or figuring out what that marketing budget can buy).
The eternal lesson: profit trumps customer numbers

"make your partners more profitable" is a better long term strategy
"expensive AND good" is part of the quote. Both are necessary for the full effect of the quote. But yeah, if it's not true, then you feel really bad.
Glass Half Empty or Glass Half Full? But When it Comes to Beer...
I make a clear distinction between estimates and formal quotes. I almost never exceed a quote. I also much prefer to charge by the hour instead of fixed bids.
They do, at least for promotions I've seen through GroupOn. This business owner really shouldn't be in business.
Apart from a few minor nits (bad analogies) this is one of
the very few articles I've read on "programming" that I
didn't feel stupider after reading.

Reading code this way is the only way to get better after
you clear the initial learning curve.
If Microsoft moves to forced automatic updates of IE, I bet somebody would see a business opportunity and grab it: take WebKit and hack in IE (and COM components) compatibility. Such a product could be worth quite a bit to companies with large IE-only sites.

In fact, the release of IE9 may already be enough to create that market. The main problem I see with this is that it may be very hard to make a sufficiently-compatible IE clone.
This is the main way I use the history, other than just cycling through the last few commands with the up arrow. I've just never found the bang commands useful enough to be worth remembering for the relatively few times they would be useful. ADDED: Note that I have a pretty large .aliases file that I have profile run when I log in. Any complicated command lines that I run at all frequently get aliased and added to the list. Or for longer lines I convert them to a script in my $HOME/bin.
There seems to be some "64-bit" buzzwordism going on here. There's nothing special about 64-bit; it's just a different processor mode. Writing 64-bit code is no different than 32-bit.
> Try not. Do or do not, there is no try

Is what the Jedi master said (RIP).
Ask HN: Looking for input re Orrick Law Firm...
Hi. I attended an Orrick event a month ago. At the end of the seminar our CEO was pinged by a budding attorney to meet and has been in weekly meetings with Orrick ever since. There appears to be some promise of introducing us to investors, and "if only you had /this/, you'd be in a deal." I know nothing of Orrick's intentions or reputation and was hoping to get some input. Anyone know anything?
Thanks!
I think that was just a poor choice of words.

They mean proprietary in the sense of "we built one ourselves". You can download source from the links at the bottom of the page: http://www.returninfinity.com/pure64.html
I hacked up a Riak store for this for anyone who is interested: http://github.com/seven1m/aclatraz/blob/master/lib/aclatraz/...
I know you said you're not into sports. FWIW, I've found Ultimate Frisbee to be a very welcoming sport, once you learn that there are actual plays to learn.

Regarding clubs, many areas have outdoors clubs where you join as a member, and can then opt-in to occasional events. They cater to all sorts of people, and the activities range from aggressive weekend-long trips to afternoon day hikes. Essentially, they're social groups optimized for people in your situation. Here are two in SF:
http://www.sfoac.com/
http://www.confused.org/
Astronauts' Fingernails Falling Off Due to Glove Design
Mostly about C programming, but many of the comments apply equally well when you're writing a library in a higher-level language or a web API.

Still, I'm glad not to have to worry about malloc fails, pointer craziness and array overflows anymore, for the most part =)
I've used it twice in the week I've been signed up, and recommended it to one person who actually twittered that she needed some way to search her Twitter feed. That's more than I use most web apps :).
Read Steve McConnell's Software Estimation book, and learn how to estimate well. Then estimate the project with an uncertainty range, and either provide the uncertainty range in your quote (if they can handle that) or just give the 90% or 95% confidence estimate, depending on how much risk you're willing to absorb if you run long.
Or maybe it's because negotiation and bartering are not commonly part of western culture in modern times? (at least not where I live, in Canada).
The Great Debate – Comcast vs DIRECTV vs DISH Network vs EnTouch
As of two minutes after reading this article, I am now. ;-)
There is now a security email ID you can contact: exploits@joindiaspora.com

It's been added to the README at http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
Either that or because we like businesses to be honest and not charge a "sucker tax" for customers who don't like haggling.
Poverty Rate Rose Sharply in 2009, Says Census Bureau
Right. Because the beans pick, deliver, roast, grind and brew themselves.

I haven't been to Posies cafe, but the local independent coffee place I stop at most days on my way into the office charges less than $2.00 for all 3 size options (12, 16, 20oz), deals almost exclusively with organic sustainable save-the-planet type growers, has beans from around the world, and a top-notch large batch roaster in house (which someone has to staff for pretty much the entire roasting period).

If they were actually charging $4 for a "caffeine water", then they shouldn't be bitching about Groupon (IMO). If they're charging the more typical ~$2 for coffee, ~$4 for an espresso drink, then their prices are pretty reasonable, and you have to sell a fuck-ton of cups to make your rent.

Isn't almost everything entirely dependent on two parties agreeing that it is worth the given asking price?
Even SEO seems to be a pretty terrible way of attracting new readers. Nine times out of ten, they go to your blog post, find what they were looking for, and leave.
Skyhook says Google interfered with contract
The type of Retail Coffee business that will benefit from their $10 (or $20, or $50) spend on customer acquisition is the one that offers something unique and innovative that will make them want to come _back_ after they made their first purchase. If all you are is a typical coffee shop, then you're probably better off not spending any money on advertising, but instead relying on foot traffic that is already in your location.

If, on the other hand, you are not offering a commodity experience, and you can reap some significant and repeat benefit then $10/customer is absolutely nothing.

For Example - I've been looking for Hookah Bars in the Bay Area for 5+ years, and have visited most of them, and returned to 90% of them a second time only one or two times - but, my current hookah Bar, I come to two-three times a week, with an average spend of $60/visit, on products like hookahs that have a 75% margin. Take that 18 months * 8 visits/month * $60 * .75 = $6480 Profit off of me. If only 1% of their customers who came in with a $20 groupon coupon became loyal customers like me, that is still a major win for the business. Actually, at 75% margin, the breakeven on a $20 groupon coupon would be about $30 of additional business - that's about 1/2 of one visit.

For businesses that are right on the edge, that don't do anything to encourage repeat visits - groupon may not make sense. But, for those unique little niche business, that may have phenomenal repeat visits, and just need to get people to come in and see how awesome they are - groupon is precisely what is needed to make them successful.
I notice that that page has a lot of text on it. Did you start it out this way, or did you start with minimal text and A/B it up to this?

Naively, I'd have thought that more text = less conversions.

Or is the text there to make it more SEOed?
cross-posting my comment on the blog: Great post, thanks for sharing... I really like this idea! At the previous company I worked for context switching was a huge issue that killed productivity and developer happiness. I've noticed I'm keenly aware of trying to mitigate this issue now that I've started my own Rails consulting company. If we ever get to 20 people, this is an approach I'll definitely want to implement.
The article was very interesting and I was also interested in the "Removing a Button" article they linked to:
http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/

I recently bought something from the website of a company that does that exact same thing wrong and made me hesitate a long while before purchasing. I sent the article to them and hope they change their setup, I really want them to succeed.
It could be being used for java package names.
My girlfriend has bought several groupons. We've had pleasant experiences with all of them. Admittedly, we never would have gone to these venues without the groupon and admittedly none of them made us feel like becoming return (non groupon bearing) customers. The whole scheme seems to prey on small businesses and it does seem valid that it will collapse eventually.
Anyone know of an open source implementation like hacker news for node.js?
Hi folks,

I would like to run a site similar to Hacker News, but ideally implemented in node.js

Edit: ideally with a MongoDB back end.

Does anyone know of something like this?

Thanks

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Yes, that is the one I was talking about! Thank you. I'm glad somebody knows what I'm talking about.
Naively, I'd have thought that more text = less conversions.

You are correct. If you ever get time travel, please tell 2006 me the news!