skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Hadn't seen the ads or read the coverage, but had seen headlines and tweets complaining. Had been thinking "How bad could they be?" so I just watched them . . oh crap who thought this was a good idea!
That seems implausible to me.
Mr. Ghonim actions are both brave and impressive. His connection to Google seems mostly coincidental though.

The fact that Mr. Ghonim and eight of his friends were arrested for their online statements should scare us all.
They made you watch! Looks like the ads were designed to create controversy and get people talking...
You might be right. Although I'd kinda love a cease-and-desist from the NFL. Frame it up or something.
I think they succeeded at getting people to talk about it[Marketing Objective Complete!]. If it makes it onto HackerNews I can only imagine how many times I'm going to have to hear about super bowl commercials in every other website I visit.

I think the height of super bowl ads was Herding Cat's. After that I don't think I could ever be entertained by super bowl commercials anymore.
I think it was a smart move. In a few months no one will know why they know who Groupon is, but they'll absolute recognize the name because they were all pissed about how "insensitive" the commercials were.
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ has a great feature (among MANY others) that will show you a calendar of a month's worth of fares.
I liked the idea. It could have been more interactive, may be using Flex charts or any thing else for that matter to give cool effects like... umm wait.. what are the units on the Axes ? Give a number on the bar when the user hovers the mouse over them.. Its nice work for a 24Hr time line though...
I dislike when people arbitrarily change the subject line every other reply because it screws with gmail's conversations.

This wouldn't be as bad if gmail let you MERGE conversations as you wished.
Arianna Huffington: When HuffPost Met AOL: "A Merger of Visions"
They got me to unsubscribe from their emails, and signup for living social's instead.

That's a good thing.
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Groupon was supposedly trying to expand in Red China before this. Maybe they've figured out that no foreign company is going to dominate this market in the PRC and, like Google, they're a little resentful.

Actually, I see a couple Groupon offers in my overseas city every day and there don't seem to be a lot of takers. A lot more of the offers seem to be salons and beauty shops compared to my USA city offers. The restaurant choices are good, though.

Makes me wonder about the international viability of the Groupon model.
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Not according to the study.
This is what causes you to be disappointed in American marketing? And uh, how much did you donate to these causes last year exactly?
And if their goal is to get every shallow boring person in America to be their customers, then that's a potentially massive base.
It's odd how you look at that and go "hunh" but then realize, wait a minute who took the picture of the Milky Way Galaxy?

It's a graphic of course but still you forget what you're looking at and how far away and how big it is.
I'm not a hardware expert, but I don't think so. There are two ways to think about this:

a- What would it cost to build a more or less exact hardware replica?

b- What would it cost to build a decent substitute?

I don't even think they were competing on price in the 'a' sense.

But either way, 'b,' is, I think, the important one and Apple certainly weren't competing on price in that sense pre-iphone. You could always get a decent mp3 player or laptop roughly as good as but different to an Apple for a big discount. Still can. If you want to run Windows or Linux, you can do it without hassle on 1/2 - 3/4 of the budget. If you want a music player for jogging, an ipod nano knockoff will do the trick just fine.

If you want an android tablet or phone, you seem to need to pay more for (arguably) less.
> shouldn't he find out why?

In retrospect, I should have been a little clearer here. This guy is already a published author, and so presumably editors will treat proposals with a little more respect - he's not an unknown trying to break into the industry with no track record. One would expect at least one of 20 targeted editors to have been slightly interested or at least offer a quick one-sentence negative review. That they didn't should have set off alarm bells and caused the agent to dig.

To offer an analogy, imagine your salesman comes to you and mentions casually your biggest client just called and canceled his contract; and no, he didn't bother to ask why (and so, boss, how's the weather?).
One small suggestion: stop using text-align: center on everything. It's generally poor design practice and makes for unfocused layouts.
>My first thought when seeing the ad was, "This will be banned in China

The chances of anyone seeing this outside North America are pretty slim.
Despite what a lot of people seem to think, the Superbowl is just a regional event and if any part of it is visible outside North America, it's pretty unlikely that the ads would be shown.
I cannot find a link, but if samba team seems happy from their choice of waf, and samba is closer to chromium in terms of what it needs from a build tool (large multiplatform compiled codebase). Your link is not really informative - he does not like it, but we don't know why. I am not surprised it has WTF for something like nodejs (which let's be honest, has rather simplistic needs for a build tool compared to samba or chromium). Waf is far from perfect for sure.

I have experience with quite a few build tools, from autoconf/make to waf, with custom ones, and waf is by far the one with the least WTF so far if you want to do something which is hard. It gives you the power of a real language, which is needed for complex builds IMHO. It looks like node.js is now using cmake, and its macro language is quite weak and error prone IMO, although it definitely works for non trivial projects. Waf is also fast, small enough that you can hack it if wanted (compared to cmake with C++ + architecture based on autogenerated makefiles...), and just enough usage by non-trivial projects I would expect for a tool I may depend on (samba and ardour are two quite big, multi-year, > 100 kloc of cross-platform, multi-language tools).
I like your idea but what are you going to do when a lot of people start visiting on the least busy days turning them into busy days? I know from personal experience that Wednesday afternoons between 1-4pm are usually the quietest times in movie theatres and other venues that tend to be packed on weekends so by putting this information in people's hands you're messing with my zen dude.
Sure, but I am in the startup space and hear about Groupon every other day so I have a bit of selection bias. Also if it was to create controversy then it negates their response to the uproar.
Since this password was sent in plain text at signup-time, there's a chance that it was still hashed/encrypted before being stored. Not a good chance, given the fact that they thought it was ok to send it in plain text at all, but still a chance.
AOL is Buying The Huffington Post
Excellent analysis. Plus, where are you finding "fish curry" in Gyantse?! When I think of Tibet, I think of... fish? curry?

The ad fails on so many levels...
Aol buys Huffington Post
Thanks, this comment really pointed out the need for me to highlight what sets me apart.
If you go to Groupon.com, the only thing you can do is sign up. One big fat call to action. If you get people to the site, then 90% of the battle is already won.
be more specific in what impact your work has had on the company

This is a great piece of advice. I'll have to see how I can work this in.
Chromium uses svn, ChromiumOS uses git.
AOL buys Huffington Post for $315mm in cash
I actually looked this up once as part of pondering a hare-brained fundraising scheme involving quantum suicide.

Apparently, most insurance companies have a clause where suicide voids the insurance if done within a few years of starting the insurance, but they will simply pay out without a fuss after that point.

I suppose they reason that there aren't many people who can calculatedly wait several years to off themselves to benefit someone else. I've never heard of anyone actually doing it and insurance corporations are still in business (and quite profitable, judging from Warren Buffet's holdings), so they seem to have been right.

(And really, is it 'fraud' if you have to die for it? If someone scams me financially and has to die in the process, I'm not sure how angry I could be with them.)
I tried Groupon, thinking I'd find out about some local businesses (I travel full-time, so I never have "favorite" places to eat or things to do, and always eager to try new things; I'm possibly the perfect audience for this kind of thing). The second day the deal of the day was for Bed, Bath and Beyond. Now, that is offensive. If I'd wanted to be spammed by multi-national big box retailers I'd...well, I'd never want to be spammed by multi-national big box retailers, so I don't know what I'd do. I guess I would have continued to subscribe to Groupon's service.

In short, I find Groupon offensively attuned to cash at the expense of their users. So, I guess I'm not too bothered by their super bowl blunders. Though, I doubt all that many people were really offended enough to turn down a good deal.
If you want to talk economics and science fiction, maybe we should ask ourselves how relativity affects compound interest?

Like, suppose you deposit your money in a bank account at, say, a couple percent interest, then head off for about ten years at something near the speed of light. You only age five years, and return looking forward to ten years' worth of interest on your priciple, only to learn that the bank "adjusted" the compounding rate, so you only got the five years' worth reflecting the time you yourself experienced.

Who's right? What if it were a loan you took out, instead?

It's kind of interesting, if a little contrived. Relativistic effects between stock exchanges might be a little more relevant at the rates computers are starting to trade, these days.
Isn't this the exact coverage Groupon was expecting? I mean, every blog outlet has been predicting "ad backlash" before the commercials aired. Clearly Groupon wants the additional press time (whether positive or not)
I despise emails that are written like chapter books. I stop reading after the 2nd or 3rd paragraph. If it's that important then you should have called.
Watched the commercial on Hulu. Hated it. Went straight to HN to see if I was the only one. It was the top news story. Guess I'm not.
Samsung were talking about making a galaxy player, I think they've released it in some places, perhaps not world wide?
Coca-Cola also ran a Tibet-China ad, which was a lot more candid, which makes it even worse. I hate exploitation of the Tibet subject either way, but sneaking it in with nonsensical emotional branding is just rotten. At least Groupon started of as a charitable cause, but they're both champtions of consumerism now.

I wish somebody pivots the business model behind ThePoint, achieves amazing profits and goes on to use it's SuperBowl ad time to mock Groupon's metamorphosis :-P
Needs screenshots or video demo on the homepage. Takes a bit while to figure out what it is (I don't want to schedule a demo yet, I just want to see what it is!).
Japanese hacker earns $13,174 for reporting Google security holes
AOL Buys The Huffington Post For $315 Million In Cash
Like PT Barnum and Whatsisname Ferris, they don't care what publicity they get, as long as their name is spelled correctly.
Thanks a lot for your thoughts.

> Omit any irrelevant unless you have extra space on the single page

I was mainly trying to highlight that I've worked several jobs that required social interaction in a service capacity. Is there a better way to do this? Is it even worthwhile?

> "Advisor: my advisor" seems off-guess that's part of the template.

That's simply a result of me editing out personal details.

> Why not do everything in latex, it looks more professional and you'll have more control?

Good question. I'll make sure my next iteration is in LaTeX.

> While it's true you may be fun to be around, better judged by interaction than by a statement on a resume.

Good point. My real point was to show that I value an enjoyable workplace and interaction with my coworkers. Perhaps that would fit better in the objective? Is it inappropriate to use a less formal tone for the resumé to try to convey that point?

Again, I appreciate the effort you put into giving me honest feedback.
Can you elaborate how? I ask selfishly, but it would be interesting to know.

I have a hunch that one of the main reasons I wasn't sent one was because I said I use Firefox instead of Chrome -- I thought that lying would be a bad idea, even if they never found out.
Just watched the three ads, my opinion on Groupon hasn't changed. (That is, I'm still indifferent to them.) People are upset too easily.
i think this occurs regardless of gender. extreme feelings, be they lust or jealousy or whatever, can trump reason. pretty obvious fact of being human.
Also, in Deepness in the Sky, it goes into the Qeng Ho's practice of broadcasting an encyclopedia of general technology throughout known space, to accelerate planets' development until they were advanced enough to trade with. It's sub-light, but so is travel, at least in that zone.
Students’ cheaper bioreactor might open the door to better fuels
The Groupon ad was offensive, but it didn't indicate a bubble.

The car that reads your facebook statuses indicates a bubble.
Here's the youtube link. Check out how many downvotes it has. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkFT2yjk0A
Previous posting and discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819449
The most interesting thought I've had since seeing this isn't the reasons behind the buy, but the timing behind the annoucement. Is it dulled because of the Super Bowl? Or has the three-four hour elapse of time post-event the perfect duration to make an announcement like this?

It seems like, if anything, it would be dulled when occuring in unison with the Super Bowl - but I can't imagine why a news network, one that thrives on page views - would ever choose a situation where they would get less attention.

But it is also possible that overall news page views skyrocket post-Super Bowl, so even if the mindshare is split, that half mindshare is much greater than the full mindshare at some other throwaway date ever was.
Non-blogspam link: http://www.youtube.com/user/adblitz
with < 2 million devices sold at this point, I doubt you're going to see millionaires yet.

Assuming you'd need 1 million downloads to make $1 million, check back when WP has 20 million+ devices in use.
I don't think they see "people who like trying new things" as their target audience so much as "people who like saving money on things". Most people probably prefer a deal like that (or, say, the Living Social Amazon deal) to one for some random local business because more people have a desire to purchase things from Bed, Bath, and Beyond than to purchase from a given random local business.
Neat! Thanks for this. I've been playing with node this weekend and I was pining for something like the http://rubygems.org site and this fits the bill nicely.
> What You Know and What You Did

I think this is my biggest problem. I was in school until the age of 24, then I kind of drifted (read: took up online poker) for a year and a half, and I finally started a real job at age 26. I don't get to program a lot in my current job.

In other words, I have a good grounding in a lot of areas, I am an efficient and hard worker, and I pick up new things very quickly.

Hmm... thanks for the feedback. Reading your comment and writing my reply shows me that I need to give explicit examples that demonstrate the traits I've listed above, as opposed to just saying them.
Oh yes forgot that!
AOL Acquires Huffington Post for $315 Million
I think the biggest mistake is that the groupon.com page is plugging to watch Super Bowl commercial and sign up.

If you actually follow through to http://savethemoney.groupon.com/ one can find that there are some serious active campaigns to aid these movements. If you donate $15 to Greenpeace you get $15 in Groupon credit. They're making it way to easy to hate them through this and miss some huge opportunities to help others.
Using Moment for delayed jobs in a Rails 3 app
I'm just amazed AOL still has money
That's my preferred way of deployment as well. fabric + git
ah, that sounds like a problem with the code that compresses the HTML and JavaScript on my blog. it's currently being A/B tested which explains why it worked for me, but not you. thanks for the heads up. i'll get it fixed. my actual example should work fine, it's just being broken by the post-processing.
I would expect arbitrage between timeframes to force interest rates to be calculated from the point of the slowest timeframe.

Fundamentally, interest is set by what can be done with some capital - what high yielding investment can be made with it in the allotted time period for the loan. If there's some booming technology which offers returns of 12% (because it's just that awesome) per year, but my factory only offers 3%, why would the banker lend me money at <3% when he could make his loan to someone in the tech field and get <12%?

Similarly, if I'm hopping on a rocket to go mine on Alpha Centauri and time dilation cuts my years in half to just 5 years of work, then why would the banker give me money when he could give it to someone who will stay home and get 10 years of work done? I might be the better deal, but if so, I had better return with some awfully expensive rocks 10 years later.

Of course, this implies that investing and then going on a relativistic cruise is a good idea. But why not? That capital you are investing came from somewhere. Where did it come from? It came from someone working hard and then not consuming. Someone(s) chose to work hard and generate $1 million of value, say, but then chose not to go out and hold an orgy of buying $1 million of chocolate and flatscreen TVs. That $1 million of value remains and presumably circulates and supports further investment and growth, which themselves will compound and compound. When that investor returns centuries later, he deserves whatever is left of his investments.

(Given the past few centuries, I wouldn't place high odds on his investment growing to Bill Gates sizes, or there being anything left at all. So such investors would be doing us an even bigger favor than it seems.)
We Have A New Uber Boss, And She’s Greek: Aol Buys HuffPo For $315 Million
> Overall, too breezy and conversational. Objective should be more like "To become a Python or C software developer in [field of interest or company]." There's a lot of "I'm personable and a hard worker" fluff.

Thanks a lot. This the kind of honest feedback that is really hard to get from rereading it over and over again myself :).

Your second paragraph is very valuable as well, and it will receive heavy consideration in the next iteration of my resumé.

The point about tightening is good. I was trying to fit in a bit more writing since I consider that one of my skills, but in the process I forgot the most important principle: "Omit needless words."
Looks like I have the Linode 512 plan, so far so good :)
You can’t buy a $500 Xoom. It’s just not possible. I think that matters a lot, I doubt many people will check specs.

Edit: To expand a little on this point, Apple sold 7.33 million iPads in the holiday quarter and made $4.4 billion in revenue which means that consumers paid about $600 (±$8) on average for an iPad. Considering that, I don’t think it is a wise idea to not at least have a base model that is priced at $600 or less.
Being that insensitive to the sufferings of others and trivializing it to some coupon to a fish curry dinner -- well, I can't think of any ad that quite matches it. So yes, this is what causes me to be disappointed in American marketing. And, I try to donate in the capacity that I can (but I cannot always, as I'm a college student who lives on paycheck to paycheck). Thank you for presuming otherwise though.
So glad I got out of advertising.. These are the sorriest pieces of footage since "Leave Britney Alone"

Update: I'm into conversational marketing, empowering consumers and integrity in public relations. Emotional branding and entertainment-propaganda are like the greasy-toxic-sweet junk they sell.
The reason for low clicks could be due to the ad-blockers, which most of the users (hackers) would have installed.
Both strategies (empathetic and sociopathic) can be selected for; they're relatively stable when combined. The sociopaths need empathetic people to prey on, the empathetic people can tolerate the cost -- up to a point, at which they cooperate to attack the sociopaths.

You might fairly characterise civilisation as the arms race between sociopaths and everyone else.
Have a question. This is nice for simple HTML. How about deploying site were you have to migrate the database etc. This approach wouldn't work. I use fabric with git right now, works well.
Not contradicting you at all, but those of us who have been Apple customers for decades now (cripes) have to smile wryly whenever Apple's supply chain is described as "legendary". Back in the bad old days they never could seem to get supply and demand to match up, so whenever they had a hit, they couldn't capitalize on it as well as they should have.

Everybody knows that Steve restored vision to Apple when he came back, and that Jonathan Ive revolutionized its design language, but fewer people seem to know how much of what makes Apple 2.0 great boils down to the incredibly stable and responsive delivery platform that Tim Cook has built.
I think it's laymen rather than philosophers that are responsible for things being left as "cool mysteries." To philosophers, I gather, they're "open questions," things that either haven't been resolved yet because discourse is ongoing, or because philosophers have failed to find an answer. Or if they have been resolved, then they're questions presented by philosophy teachers to sharpen their students' analytical skills. But the questions rather than the skills trickle down to non-philosophers.

As a non-philosopher, I do personally like a cool mystery for its own sake, but my point, I suppose, is that since the question of "which one is the fork" reduces almost exactly to the Philosophy 101 presentation of the problem of identity over time, the same framework can be used for analyzing it. If I were to write a paper on it, my thesis would be that the question of "which one is the fork" is the result of a bug in the layer of semantics, and so what actually happens is determined by the lower layers of abstraction: code, law, and psychology.
Only in Korea. No plans for releasing it anywhere else.

Edit: Gadget blogs suck. Everyone I looked at says something different, it might be the case that the Player is also available somewhere in Europe. I can‘t buy it on amazon.de (Germany), though. To continue the theme of this discussion: The price also sucks when compared to the iPod touch (something between 200€ and 260€ for the 8GB model, you pay 230€ for the 8GB iPod touch).
Immediately an article I saw in December comes to mind:

AOL Investigation: No Proof TSA Scanners Are Safe

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/20/aol-investigation-no-proof...

Back then my first thought was: Wait, AOL does investigations?

I think this is a win for both parties and for readers. With a sort-of 'proper' news site maybe AOL's own journalism can be taken more seriously, and conversely maybe they can make HuffPo more journalistic in the first place!
I think you guys need to start exercising or something