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I am sorry Moto, this would not fly. Too expensive. I am just pissed to think I have told everyone around to wait for it. The next iPad will have all this features at a far better price.
I have to give it to Steve Jobs. They certainly had a better iPad but decided to release something slightly basic first at an awesome price point, make loads of profit then have the ability to match the specs of the new comers who will think they can better the iPad1 specswise
How much is a planet worth?
Quite frankly, I would love to have my social networking done here instead of other places.
"Long black" almost works though.
If their goal was to portray their company as something only used by shallow boring people they succeeded.
Email me if you want. I'm also 16, am doing very well for myself and working on a 'proper' startup. Set up a side project this month that made mid-high $xxxx in profit this month.

I might be able to help some.
I spent most of highschool being told that if I didn't study sooper dooper hard, then I would not go to university. I would be doomed to be ... (horror film scream) ... a tradie!!

Well gosh, I worked hard and got into a good uni. I became depressed (for reasons unrelated to my studies) and gave it away for a few years, but now that I have the degree and job I earn about as much as a 4th-year apprentice can down at the mines.

Are you a plumber? You can charge hundreds per hour. Are you a diesel fitter, boilermaker, even a plain welder? Get thee to the Pilbara region, where wages north of $150k await thee.

I wouldn't enjoy being a tradie and I like programming, but the whole argument that I needed to go to university or wind up an impoverished loser tradie turned out to be utter horseshit.

edit: fixed a hilarious negation of my preferences in the final paragraph.
I'm interested to see what it is.

If you pass an invite code, I'll be glad to play with it and report bugs I run in to. My email is in my profile.
it doesn't work when you pair morans together
Yeah, I'm still working on getting the new one into the code.

Unfortunately, it's more than just a simple css file rewrite.

edit: new layout is pretty much applied (to the staging [virtual] server).
Try writing an operating system. Then let me know if you still like programming with threads.
As long as font smoothing is enabled, which I believe vista and 7 do by default now, most of the Typekit fonts look ok. I wrote up a blog post not too long ago about dealing with users that don't support font smoothing:

http://dev.codio.com/graceful-degradation-for-non-web-standa...
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Sure, one could take offense at Groupon leveraging the situation in Tibet for financial gain, but there is a better way to think about it.

My first thought when seeing the ad was, "This will be banned in China."

My second thought when seeing the ad was, "That was an extremely clever way of raising (general public) awareness about Tibet on a massive scale while still advertising their service.

The fact some people are angry, and talking about it, is actually a good thing for Tibet. --It's far better than the usual silence.
CPI overestimated inflation by 130 basis points until 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskin_Commission

Correcting for this error, retail wages have risen 33% and manufacturing wages have increased about 50%.
That's interesting. I will admit I am a CPI skeptic. I do not understand how it is being calculated. Half the stuff people buy today did not exist 20 years ago. There is such an abundance of the other stuff, it is always heavily discounted. Essential things that have obviously increased in price, like homes and food, are not included in the CPI. Is there a "CPI for Dummies" anywhere out there?
Yep. Between the resurgence of the mining boom and the floods and cyclones in Queensland and the floods in Victoria, demand for tradies is going to be out of control.

The Reserve Bank have decided not to account for the disasters in their inflation settings, but I reckon they will change their mind to prevent a wages breakout.
For those interested, Firebird is an opensource database based on Borlard's Interbase.

Back in 2000, Borland (I think they may have been called Inprise at that stage) decided to opensource Interbase (version 6 I think) , which is where Firebird comes from. Shortly after, however, Borlard reversed their decision and took Interbase back in house again. Firebird remained active.

In a previous life I was a Delphi developer, and used Firebird almost exclusively. It was an amazing database - client server, yet fast with very small resource requirements and as good as no admin requirements. Set and forget. I really don't know why it hasn't had more widespread adoption, but some of the problem seems to be due to lack of good drivers
Since they were straddling the controversial line, they should have at least made it funny. That was a pretty weak attempt - I was expecting something that'd at least make me smile.
A few years back I managed to buy a cheap digital voltmeter that was actually wrong. As in: consistently off by 20% or more when measuring voltages in the range of volts. (!)

Ever since I've been trying to figure out how much to spend to get a voltmeter that is guaranteed not to suck. I figure it probably still needn't be very much, but I still haven't chosen one, because I've managed to spook myself. I tell you, on the day after you catch your test equipment giving you egregiously bogus misreadings it is hard to resist the impulse to spend the money on a Fluke or Textronix.
OK, I am back at my computer. My source is the following website, specifically the second link listed: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/dnllist.asp

If you open that up, scroll down to the United States, go to the Manufacturing row, and scroll all the way over to the right (2009) you will find $1.78T dollars. If you search for China and do the same, you will find $2.05T. You may also note that China, with its high rate of growth, only first surpassed the US in 2008.

The next highest country after China and the US is Japan with $1.05T.

Edit: Interestingly, the corresponding spreadsheet for "2005 dollars" shows the US at $1.68T and China at $1.48T in 2009. Now I'm even more confused. Shouldn't the difference between 2005 and "current" dollars scale proportionately?
No it isn't. It's a ploy to drive more sales, with an obligatory "charity" drive to offset the tastelessness of the entire campaign. Just because Groupon is a tech darling doesn't give them a free pass.
Very forgettable ... at least with the LivingSocial ad I know to be on my guard to becoming a hipster-metrosexual with long wavy flowing hair...
wasn't it because he needed better performance one of the reasons Torvalds created git? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
I had nothing against Groupon(beyond being annoyed about hearing their name, ALL THE TIME!), until I saw this. Who approved this?!
1. The URL - would be better if it's a dedicated domain name (e.g. whenshouldigo.com).

2. I agree with the parent about the color coding. It might be more clear if you use a red-green spectrum for each day (e.g. red for the evening, when things might be more busy, and green for the morning, when things might be less busy).
Is this a crazy ideal or potential viral blowout (wishisaid.com)
Read This:

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ

And resubmit latter with your site as the URL when all the superbowl (US) nonsense has blown over.
Question here.

Why not place a solid call-to-action during the advertisement for people to visit their website and sign-up?

All they said was "visit Groupon.com".

All Groupon needs is your e-mail address and a zip code. It seems like they could have baited people with something and really grown their subscriber base?

Am I crazy for thinking that was a wasted opportunity, or does that not work well with such a massive audience?

Maybe the agency they hired only does branding and couldn't fathom the thought of getting direct responses?

Curious.
$/Views? who came up with those pricing for fonts? really.

we've finally found someone more clueless about new medias than RIAA?
Porting to CUDA
My GOD this is killing me. Apparently just because tech companies are advertising during the superbowl we MUST be in the midst of a tech bubble?

WTF?

Groupon is, by all appearances, STUPIDLY profitable. This isn't pets.com raising millions of dollars and blowing it on an ad and aeron chairs. These are solid companies using the biggest ad day of the year to further cement their status.
>> Coed education disadvantages men?

There is some evidence that coed education can be detrimental to both men and women.
http://www.singlesexschools.org/research-singlesexvscoed.htm

It has been suggested that some women fall behind in math in high school due to a desire to not appear too smart.
They posted on their blog about their rationale behind this ad campaign: http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/groupon-super-bowl-ads/
Thanks for the advice, will do.
It's a long-running hot potato in education. The studies seem to swing all over the place (as do the attitudes of schools willing to "experiment" with the topic). A high level hop around the subject: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jun/25/schools.gender2
Caching can be very useful - I've deployed proxy web caches in school situations, and it does wonders for speed when loading the same site on a lab full of computers all at once (and also preventing age-inappropriate content at school).

That's not a security sensitive situation - in cases where security is at issue, the best practice is to make secure pages as lightweight as possible so they'll transfer quickly on slow lines.
Ask HN: Where are the Windows Phone Marketplace Millionaires?
We've all heard or read stories of financial success from developers targeting Apple's iOS platform. Microsoft recently started the first round of payouts for developers from the Windows Phone Marketplace, but I haven't heard any great success stories. Has anyone heard different?
You do know that Groupon is matching donations to all 3 causes up to $100,000 right?

If it's a choice between ignoring and acknowledging/raising money/pissing people off, at least Groupon is doing something.

Not offending people is a surprisingly ineffective policy for change, believe it or not.
Maybe you consider thinking "What would I anticipate differently depending on the answer?" when faced with such a question to be a philosophical consideration, but at that point everything becomes philosophy of some form and you lose the meaning of the term. ("Everyone philosophizes" is another such generalization that doesn't help communication.)

The problem with people trying to directly answer such questions (and questions like the classic tree-falls-in-a-forest one) does come from people, where else would it come from? But Philosophy as an art (not the general everything-is-philosophy) encourages these errors by positing the questions and then leaving them there as "cool mysteries". To carry on a metaphor of your post's sister, the mind is full of traps that lead to religious thinking, but Religion does nothing to help avoid those traps and actively encourages the sloppy thinking that results.
If you read the comments on YouTube the reactions are way over the top.

From the video: "The people of Tibet are in trouble. Their very culture is in jeopardy, but they still whip up an amazing fish curry."

Highest rated comment on YouTube:

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"Wow, this is fucking﻿ offensive.

"Millions of jews were murdered through starvation at Auschwitz... but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy this GREAt brisket at Katz's Delicatessen, thanks to Groupon!"

I actually used to like Groupon. Fuck off now. Use Living Social, its better anyway."

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So dramatic. Give me a break. It's just not funny and as others have said, it's in poor taste. It's hardly earned itself this kind of reaction.

That said, boy would I hate to be Groupon right now.
I made the exact same argument as you elsewhere on this thread :-)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2187130

The problem is that health insurance isn't continuously divisible. You typically can't buy a policy that will cover only 1970s-era medical treatments. Even if you could, it brings up a host of ethical issues that many doctors wouldn't be comfortable with. Say a kid gets strep throat. Okay, give him penicillin, it's cheap and he gets better quickly. Now say that the doctors don't realize it's strep throat, or do but forget to give him penicillin, or he's got a drug resistant strain. It gets into his kidneys. Suddenly, this is expensive, requiring hospitals and diuretics and possibly dialysis. But it's 100% fixable. Should the doctors let him die because his insurance doesn't pay for modern medical treatments?

This is the problem with basically all academic economics models. They make certain simplifying assumptions to make the math tractable, so that they can draw conclusions about the economy as a whole. And I have no doubt that the economy as a whole is bigger, stronger, and better than it was in the 1970s.

But that glosses over all the individuals that make up the economy, some of whom are decidedly not better off than they were in the 1970s. When someone is involuntarily laid off, they're strictly worse-off than they were beforehand (otherwise, they would've voluntarily quit). The economist would say "They'll get a job in some other sector of the economy, one that's growing where their talents can be more productively employed, and be better off in the long run." And that's absolutely true, but it doesn't make things any better for that person right now when they need to put food on the table.
It had a great structure in theory, set people up to expect one thing then throw them into an entirely new frame of reference to make the product stand out.

There were two problems, one is that they ran it backwards from high moral ground to low. Secondly, they spent way too long describing Groupon is and what it does which allowed the audience time to recover from the shock and become disgusted. Half the commercial was setup, 3 seconds were punchline and 12 seconds were trying to explain the punchline. If it had been funny, all would have been forgiven.
Besides the fact they probably just ruined their China plans, poking fun at the situation will piss off both sides... one view point.. http://bit.ly/fKegsC
Isn't "Visit Groupon.com" a call to action? That's what it was called back in my day.

As for signing up, the website itself contains that call to action.
Groupon seems to have a real public relations problem.
I believe if they would have made it a clear fact that they were directly supporting the groups which they were poking fun at, the ads would not have been so ill-received. You can donate to Greenpeace, The Tibet Fund, Rainforest Action Network and buildOn at Groupon's site and your donation will be matched (with the exception of Greenpeace, for which you receive Groupon credit): http://savethemoney.groupon.com/

It's a bit of a shame that the donation site wasn't promoted at all in the videos, it might have done wonders for the groups on the receiving end.
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>> Ever since I've been trying to figure out how much to spend

I have had pretty good luck buying voltmeters for $10 on eBay.
In the 1980s, I ran a monthly 24 page punk rock music magazine using this technology. By 1984, after I sold the business, desktop publishing was already pushing out "cold type". "Cold type" -- or phototypesetting -- was what we called the Compugraphic and Linotype machines that used photosensitive paper to image columns of type. As opposed to "hot type" -- the Linotype, Ludlow, and Monotype machines that poured molten lead into molds.

There was something seriously fun about the mechanics of publishing with cold type. It was a very satisfying physical process, involving all the senses: the smell of photoprocessing chemicals, the warmth of the wax machine, the glow of the light table, our art director humming while wearing his Walkman cassette player. And all the tools: xacto knives, rulers, sheets of rub-on borders and alignment crosshairs. Good layout required an aesthetic sense alloyed with a keen eye, mental concentration and fine motor skills. Maybe not so different from Photoshop now but there was an embodied, kinesthetic and sensual aspect that's gone missing.

We thought the combination of the $4000 128K Mac and $6000 Apple Laser Printer was an incredible and liberating technology. Now we barely remember that "desktop publishing" was an innovation. And now I realize I miss the physicality of cold type.

Of course, there were those who decried all that was lost in the transition from hot type to cold type. Famously, it was a desire to recreate the aesthetic qualities of hot type that spurred Donald Knuth to create TEX, the digital typesetting program.
After further reading, it appears that you only need to buy one month of Verizon service (no 2-year contract), so the total is $819.

(Would have fixed the parent post but can't edit for some reason...)
Yes indeed. I was really offended, and my in-laws (who are Asian) were first astonished and then furious. We shop a lot online, and have been fairly regular Groupon customers (on higher value items), but not any more.

I'm amazed they would degrade their brand that way. Marketing director should be fired immediately, They need to spend way more on charitable donations now than the $3m they spent to insult a variety of popular causes and the people who support them.
Philosophy is useful in that it makes it easy to identify when someone is in over their head and just stringing together words.
ObserverApp.com is free, and it has real time push notifications of every single visitor (try it, open observer in one tab and your site in another - it will increment in a matter of seconds).

The only problem is that nearly every second ajax link in the admin times out. That's been broken for a long time.
Yes, it's a CTA. Just a weak one in my opinion.
Try to think about it this way; the fact you (and many others) are upset and talking about it results in a massive headache for the keepers of the Great Firewall of China. If someone doesn't know about the problems in Tibet, and they wonder what all the fuss is about, they might actually learn something about the situation.

It might be in poor taste and enable financial gain, but it still does some good... --Then again, having HN blocked in China would be an unfortunate side effect.
The options for programming languages are absurdly limited. I want to help people with Clojure, Haskell and Lua. I don't care that they're not as popular as the options you did offer; hackers generally don't pick tech based on popularity to the degree that other people do.
So if Groupon already has the tech savvy, liberal mom and dad crowd in it's database, might a 'crass' ploy like this hit the remaining demographic? I'm thinking about the people who didn't go to college.

It seems crazy to target them, but really, if you already have the educated elite, and you're advertising on a football game...

Anyway, here is the official justification: http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/groupon-super-bowl-ads/

Might give you some useful perspective before you start forming an opinion.
They discovered that when talking one on one with a hot girl, most guys do not reason at their best!!

On other news, they also discovered that ice is cold and that windows is not virus-free.
Free publicity granted.
It's really funny to have you arguing in one subthread that inflation is overestimated by the official numbers, and then have some other guy arguing in another subthread that inflation is underestimated by the official numbers:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2187047

My position is basically that the CPI, like all statistics, is fundamentally inaccurate, but it's as likely to be biased high as it is to be biased low. I think you're both proving my point on this. :-)

Anyway, the table I linked to was published last month, so presumably they've already taken the Boskin Commission findings into account and retroactively fixed the earlier numbers.
Aren't they? I've seen plenty of women get tongue tied around men they're attracted to.

It's likely a matter of it being socially acceptable for a woman to smile nervously and stare at the floor during courtship, so losing one's cool is a problem from a man's perspective, but is all part of the experience from a woman's.
They have got people talking about the ad. That is a good thing.
This will bomb really badly. I am simply in awe at how far ahead of the competition Apple remains after all these years. I would have thought eventually the smartphone and especially the mp3 player market would've normalized by now but Apple is now telescoping their lead. By the time the iPad 2 ships every Android tablet not even on the market yet will be obsolete by an entire generation.
If you watched Andrew Mason's talk at Startup School '10, you'll understand the Groupon ads. These ads reflect the history of Groupon itself - Groupon grew out of ThePoint.com (which is still up) - a site dedicated to group activism, and it was going absolutely nowhere. The ads are dead-on - for all the talk about helping Tibet and saving endangered whales, we vote with our dollars in favor of ethnic food and fun excursions.
< is outraged >
< joins Save the Whales facebook group >
< satisfied, inserts handful of almonds into mouth >
CPI for Dummies:

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm
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I did a very similar hack for local gyms, but I keep it granular down to the individual checkin so I can do rollups on each hour over the week.
I think that hash tags are a great way to sort through information on a website (Especially if you can do some dual hashtag where you could have #Topic1 #Topic2, and it will return queries that only have both).

Not patented, they started in IRC channels.
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I was more arguing that CPI is meaningless. My position on the economy is that if you bought your house 20 years ago, you can sit in it and buy all the junk you'll ever need, on even a shit salary. If you didn't buy a house 20 years ago, you never will, but you can rent someone else's house and buy all the junk you'll ever need.
I'm a huge Android fan and while I would buy a laptop from Apple I wouldn't touch an iOS device due to disagreement over how the Market is handled.

However it doesn't take an Apple fanboi to know this pricing is horrid.

This isn't a laptop. People are not going to shop around on specs. $800 vs $500 for similar functionality is fscking retarded, especially when the $500 device is from the BMW of computers.
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okeumeni,

If I were to change your copy, I'd stick with just "Sales Innovation" rather than "Sales 2.0 Innovation."

Though I'm sure opinions will vary, I personally feel the "Something 2.0" nomenclature is trite. I tend to be unfriendly towards buzzwords. On the other hand, I'm most likely not your target market, so it may be good marketing and I just don't get it.
I am just one data point but I have not heard any. I would not be posting that if I was not sure that this would resonate with many HNers here.
That ad didn't fit with the spirit of groupon at all. God, what were they thinking?
Do you happen to remember any citation for this?
unfortunately, not every television ad viewer has heard of Andrew Mason being Groupon's CEO .. much less about his startup school talk and his philosophy and what not ..

there's not much sense in defending these ads, whatever the deeper thought may have been .. upon viewing them, they were crass, not humorous and definitely not in the right taste.
Honestly, I was shocked by it (as was the rest of my family). Yeah, lots of people are talking about Groupon, but it isn't making me want to use it. I do have to wonder if there is a demographic that Groupon targets ("just give me cheap crap") that views things differently ("what the hell is Tibbet [sic] anyway?").