skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Groupon wants to associate their own brand with this kind of image, fine, whatever, I can ignore them easily enough.
But how would you feel as a business owner if you started getting boycotted because the idiotic company that manages your coupon campaigns went out of its way to offend your customer base?

GoDaddy gets away with stupid offensive commercials because companies that use them don't actually have to show an association with them to their own customers. It's kind of hard to run a secret Groupon campaign, though - your implicit approval of their image via your campaign dollars is right out in the open.
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Wael Ghonim just became notable enough for Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wael_Ghonim
Considering that AOL are looking at getting into demand-driven content and the relentless spamming HuffPo does on reddit and other sites, I guess it's a great fit.
The repo link is not obvious. I expected the name of the project to be a link.
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Also leaves David Eun (AOL media boss) in an odd spot.
It actually spells "activative". I wonder why.
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My attention span is way too low for something like Football. I love soccer because most of the time, people are actually playing instead of standing around.
And with this, all interests I had on the XOOM are gone.
That's better, although still a bit confusing. It's supposed to be a "Google experience" device meaning no manufacturer/carrier crapware or deliberate crippling, so it's not clear how they'd prevent you from using wifi if you never sign up for data.
We use it for testing some open source code that we release from our facility.
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Watched a little and spent time debugging why Facebook invites with fb:multi-friend-selector were not working (serverfbml leading to 404). I solved it and Facebook's new https feature, if enabled by the user, is the cause :(
Filed bug: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15066
AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash
Have they announced honeycomb support for it yet? I haven't seen any news on it.
I've got a small blog network running on a 512 also -- Wordpress with supercache installed. During the Queensland floods one of the blogs got 50k visits in a day ... and I didn't notice.

Caching. Rules.
One of the best ways to do it is to ask for promotion for other websites that have the same target audience as yours. This is usually done with cold pitch and a link exchange. Then ask the user to subscribe to your twitter account or rss feed (if you have one), and create content that can be retwitted or shared on Google Reader.
Also, engage with your community as soon as you have one. Treat them well and they'll be more likely to help you promote your business. Good luck.
Good call. I'll make it link to the npm page.
AOL is very different from what a lot of us remember it as. The moves they are making will position it very well as a strong content provider. It's kind of nostalgic in a way in that AOL started out providing premium content in a very organized fashion for the web.
"A month passed. Facebook hadn't responded. I stopped sleeping. I couldn't follow conversations. Words swam. Worst of all, I couldn't write. Writing is what I do. It's how I make my way in the world, how I help put food on the table, a roof over our heads, paid for the shoes on our kids' feet and the education they've taken out the door."

Jesus Christ, fly to Palo Alto and storm into the headquarters yourself if it comes to that.
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clearly that's a cock-up in the copy
You're assuming it's a big mystery why no one wanted his book proposal or that the agent hadn't previously covered this ground, neither of which is stated in the post. (Plus, this is an author who admits he's lied about his contract numbers in the past.) From my read the facts are damning enough:

* He'd gotten a big advance on his previous book but it didn't sell. (Money loser = big red flag #1)

* His reputation alone no longer sells a book idea (evidenced by the sudden need for him to write a proposal to sell a book.) (Warning flag.)

* His financial judgment is suspect. ("The Forever Portfolio" delivered to the publisher just as the market starts a giant slide.) (Warning flag.)

* His last book was, well... Here's a sentence from the first Amazon review: "That said, the book is horribly written -- the author has about 20 pages of interesting content interspersed with 200 pages of random digressions, about his love of computer games and the longest words in the English language." (At the very least, a warning flag.)

* His proposal read like it was cribbed from Wikipedia (Big red flag #2.)

* He's a real peach to work with, insisting he knows other people's jobs better than they do (after all, he claims he chose the $20 price point for the previous loser, and we know how he treats his agent). (Warning flag.)

Now look what happens when that book idea (not the proposal) finally sells -- the publisher insists on bringing in another, trusted writer as co-author.

Sorry, but I don't think there's a mystery here that the agent needs to solve.
Does gmail not use the In-Reply-To or References headers? Or is its use of them just brittle?

(While googling for the names of these headers, I came across http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html , which is an excellent guide to the difficulties of implementing threading in MUAs.)
Google Maps has a larger market share then MapQuest by quite a bit: http://www.hitwise.com/us/datacenter/main/dashboard-10133.ht...
I prefer the example given in Logicomix.

Some books refer to themselves. Most do not.

Suppose I publish a book which is an index of books that do not refer to themselves.

Question: does that index refer to itself?
That would make her Arrington's boss, among others, wouldn't it?
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I think the article was at least trying to _imply_ that the ads indicate that we are in the midst of a bubble. Otherwise, why would they repeatedly bring up the Super Bowl ads from the last bubble?
wait, what? Am I wrong in saying that google is not in the business of making money? They're making a damn killing off of search traffic.

Duckduckgo is not. They're getting press for being defiant.
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In organizations where top-posting is the norm, this also makes it easier for the other person to identify which question they're answering.
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www.apple.com has a new navigation bar that drops down. It seems too dark for their brand.
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Chrome makes Google lots of money directly? I'm not so sure about that.

A post on the Huffington has advertisements alongside it making the company money. That alone makes it much more a grey area than contributing to an open source project.

It seems it is a trade off good writers are choosing to make and if there is more value in their writing a competitor will come along and steal the best writers.
English version:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
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Is this what you meant: Addition Chain Exponentiation; in general, performs better than binary exponentiation, but it could be very hard to find an addition chain for a given exponent: :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addition-chain_exponentiation
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I can't stand when people try to collaborate on some document via a huge thread where everyone attaches their own version to their message. Woe be it to the poor soul responsible for merging 5 peoples' parallel edits.

We have source control, wikis, and Google Docs for a reason.
Schemes like this multiplication technique are fascinating, the patterns one can see are beautiful. The fact they are not taught in schools is scandalous. Their use is actively discouraged.

My Dad bought me a book about the Trachtenberg System of Basic Mathematics[1] when I was a kid, it had all sorts of funky new ways to solve maths problems just like this. My primary school hated it, they marked me down for not showing my working and doing it the wrong way. I was brilliant at maths mainly because of this book, but didn't get the extra marks for doing it the "right" way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system
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Ask HN: Why do people post only their slidedecks?
Is it just me, or are most slide decks completely useless without the speaker talking over them. Especially the ones with random lol cats.

Most of the time these slides are not provided with any context, or are random code bits in languages that the reader might not be familiar with.

The rare times when a slide deck is complete and useful, I'm left wondering why it's not just a blog post.

The tools for recording a complete presentation are there, and if you have a macbook, you need nothing else.

Is this a lack of knowledge of how to do this? Should someone write up a howto?
Also I think my numbers are correct, for every double of key length size in RSA, it is 8x more expensive to compute.
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I had that hunch too (of course, pure speculation). Coincidently, I've now moved to Chrome primarily anyways.
They are not the only ones. Many websites do this. Not only with signing up, but also with "forgot password" too.
This after the About.me buy. I'm excited to see how this reinvention pans out.
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Can't these risks can be guarded against by including relevant conditions and punishments in the support contract?
"Seriously - those first 386 chips barely worked at all. " Anyone remember?
That's pretty cool! Thanks thomas11! Since jekyll_and_hyde is based on jekyll, it supports Textile as well.
You could compare them in many ways, and $$$ is possibly the best single measure. But the OP article is uncritically self-congratulatory, which is not altogether appropriate given that same products of equal quality do cost a lot less if made in China.
Nice. I've had a tough time finding modules for node with Google. Github search doesn't help too much.
Plus it gives them a popular platfrom from which to Learn and Rise and be Cutely Contrite...see? We all now get to watch little Groupon grow up in public. Expect a press conference apology soon, they're not going to waste all this attention!
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Well, it's a good reason to attend the talk.

I think the primary audience is usually people that attended the talk so that they could look over the slides later (at least, that's what I've done with my conference slides).

I agree with you, though -- I wish more conferences would allow speakers to simply upload video to YouTube. A lot of of the time the conferences have DVD sales a few months down the line and want you to buy the video of the talks instead of watching them online for free.
Thanks for this! It is great!!!!
How is it that different? It still makes most of its money off dialup subscriptions. Considering how much crap content they pump out, it's amazing they don't make more from that.
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That could be; and is, perhaps, why they have had such explosive success.

I was under the mistaken impression, based on reading interviews with the founders and seeing the founders speak, that they were interested in bringing interesting local businesses exposure. I may have also been fooled by the description of their product on the website: "Check your email, Facebook or Twitter feeds for daily deals on cool local businesses." It wouldn't have crossed my mind that anyone would ever consider Bed, Bath and Beyond to be a "cool" or "local" business...but, I'm old. WTF do I know about "cool" or "local" (or "business", for that matter, it would seem).
What does it feel like to be schizophrenic?
Thanks for the comments JonnieCache!

Hmm...I guess this is more a preference on how to use the back button on a browser. If you have open up any GitHub's repository on a HTML 5 compatible browser, you can find that it has similar design.

jekyll_and_hyde is just a simple hook over jekyll and slippy(the jQuery plugin that make your HTML file a presentation). It doesn't force you to use slippy as the presentation library. To use other library/template for your presentation, you may type in "jh new new_presentation --template=your_template_git_repo" during its creation.
I merely feel the service is misrepresented. They claim it is a service for discovering "cool local businesses", and the founders frequently talk about providing a service to local businesses. Bed, Bath, and Beyond is not, by any definition I can imagine, cool or local.
Beamer is pretty cool too. I myself like ti a lot. One shiniest point of jekyll_and_hyde is its tied integration with GitHub, which runs a jekyll rendering engine for its GitHub Pages. You can just simply push your presentation markup to GitHub and it works.
I'm not sure if there is any other metric they could use accurately; presumably the only other option is flat fee?
Good point. This would require that the Bing toolbar be sending requests to Google, right?
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Looks great, definitely a value-add yet very minimal. I sent my friends in London to it, could see it going a bit viral.

I found venue navigation very confusing. When clicking on the underlined 'tate modern' (top left) I expected to be given a choice of other venues. How do I see a list of venues? I can only discover them via the 'top lists' and 'Random'?

Well done.
Showoff is pretty cool too! But the shiniest point of jekyll_and_hyde that I would like to mention is its tight integration with jekyll, which is the GitHub Pages rendering engine. That means you can publish your slides just by simply pushing it up to GitHub :).
First, you're making the assumption people have actually seen such things, rather than making up stories to draw attention to themselves.

Second, a helicopter high in the sky in broad daylight would be far less freaky.

Third, it's not inevitable that just anyone goes and form entire religions and mythological worlds based on seeing something fly by in the sky. You're average person just simply isn't that creative.
Yes, the writing style was nauseatingly dramatic, but the callous, dismissive tone of most of the commenters is telling.

How would you feel if someone creating a profile/website accusing you of being a child molester? No matter how crudely designed and obvious a fake it was, a lot of people, many of whom you might now, would believe it. These kinds of things don't just wash off and go away.
Contrary to popular slogans, there is in fact such a thing as bad publicity.

I don't think Groupon intended this reaction, I think their ad agency was stupid and Groupon had a blind spot because they knew what they meant to say. As opposed to the message they actually did communicate.

The weird thing is that they didn't even have to do anything edgy at all. They have a good product that people naturally want. All they had to do at this point was explain what they do.
I have no idea, but I've noticed that people messing with the subject line screws up conversations. My mother does this a lot.
The things is you wanna minimize your toolset of making your presentation, such as just using Git and Textile. Of course other sort of presentation has their places
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It seems like an HN clone focused on design would be helpful to a lot of startups/hackers that info/resources/help/feedback regarding the design of their startups.

What are your thoughts?
Everything will be whitewashed when they announce a 100M donation to these organizations during prime time.

Once they do that, people may even get the humor.
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You could use git directly for metadata instead of relying on some JSON file. Git will tell you when an article was created and by whom. It will also tell you when and by whom each edit was made.
Yeah, it's nice, but it's also a total non sequitur. At the beginning of the piece he says his first book was a success and he wrote the follow-ups trying to recapture the good feelings -- apparently without success. Books take a lot of effort and may not make you any significant money. So I guess the real moral of his story is that -- if you're like him -- you shouldn't bother writing books if you're already in a good relationship.
Step one to our very own Dyson Sphere ...
Revenues:

Weblogs, Inc: $1,000,000.

TechCrunch: (guestimating) $12,000,000.

HuffPo: $65,000,000.
The magnitude of your "Aristotle, Caesar, ..." hit me hard, smack dab in the face just now. The magnitude of how accessible knowledge is today is amazing, if not the most amazing thing computing has ever done for humanity.
A large chunk of whom don't actually know they're still signed up, if I recall correctly.
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I just picked up a Rigol DS1052E for $339 from Dealextreme. 2 channel 50mhz scope, hackable via software to do 100Mhz. Can't beat that.
That's similar to my private website (soultcer.com). I use git to create and store the content, and a wiki as content management system. It's nice to work on your website, and all you need is a git push for deploy. If I make a mistake or someone vandalizes the wiki, reverting is easy.

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Edit: In case you are interested, the wiki software was written by a friend and is open source: https://github.com/patrikf/ewiki
It seems right now that liking it is the minority view, so I'll throw up what I like about it real quick.

General advertising culture crassly manipulates desires in a way that I find insulting. This commercial purposely fucks that manipulation up. It's like a middle finger to the soulless beer commercials that I find tiresome, the "being told what to like" mentality.

This commercial also has a point, in an Emperor's Clothes sort of way. People are angry because they don't like feeling like their concern for whales, Tibet, or the cause du jour is insincere even if they aren't doing much to actually contribute.

If you're offended, step back and look at why. Is it because you don't like thinking about how absurd American culture is (in effect if not intent), importing Tibetan food for trendy twenty-somethings to enjoy, turning concern for rainforests into absurd Disneyland-style Rainforest Cafes. Because that's a _true_ analysis. If you're upset because a commercial is an _accurate portrayal of life_, then that's not entirely sensible.

On the other hand if you're upset because "They didn't do commercials right, they're supposed to follow a pattern/distort data/just be funny," I'm unimpressed with your orthodoxy.

The world is absurd. I like a company that is willing to spend millions of dollars to point that absurdity out using itself as an example. People aren't going to stop buying groupons because of this ad, and a successful ad campaign wouldn't save them from going bust like Pets.com (as is documented elsewhere).

In other words, _this ad meant nothing anyway,_ and it embraces that to actually be pretty funny and insightful.

In my opinion.
AOL sux, they shoulda died in the 1990s
I was in the same boat. Bought a Fluke. Good stuff, problem solved.
Now Thats a price which certainly deserves attention. This is the second acquisition after about.me from AOL. Lot to come i am sure, but anyways users would be benefited,
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Try resizing your browser, or trying it in a mobile device.
This post is at over -12 by my calculations.

You guys are a joke. You're downvoting me and the comments here are implying that one should check to see if permissions are available and that existing applications would have code to handle such errors.

I'd love for someone to explain to me how that would work, considering that no such API exists in Android because the permissions manifest is a contract that ensures the application will have access to the resources it needs. Additionally, there is just no reason to downvote this comment as much as it has been anyway. Just ridiculously poor form for an HN comment.
I think their mistake is that they advertised to their existing customer base, who are familiar with Groupon's cheekiness, and who are also noted as being ravenous deal hunters.
I'd like to see a video of the display. I'm wondering how laggy the display is, (if that's the case) compared to a regular scope.
You're also missing the fact that the XOOM has 1 GIGABYTE of RAM. The iPad has 256mb of ram. The XOOM also has a DUAL CORE PROCESSOR. There are so many hardware differences between the two devices :)
GoDaddy is also about as racy as an episode of Everybody Love's Raymond.
Raymond Chen recently posted about 386 B1 problems. In the end Microsoft decided not to support it. I imagine most early 386 chips just ran 16-bit MS-DOS code.

Raymond's article:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/01/12/10114...
I think it's mostly laziness, but people probably don't know how to make good recordings.
http://npm.mape.me/ is a straight-up list of what's in npm. I follow twitter.com/nodemodules for updates to npm. It would be nice if everyone with modules listed in the Github wiki (https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules) would get onto npm.
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Yes, this inspired this in the first place.
I got the impression the bit about making it not look like suicide was for purposes of insurance fraud -- and a lot of your other readers probably read it that way, too.

If you never foisted a book you thought sucked onto editors, you need to do a better job of not writing about your books as though you thought they all sucked.

You gave a number for an advance, then said that if "I" (meaning you) ever told "you" (meaning the reader, presumably) it was more than that, you lied.

I did read the story, and your timeline regarding when you were broke and when you were writing books was quite confused.

I read the story. Perhaps you didn't read what I said very closely, considering I actually explicitly pointed out that I read it, and found your writing engaging, as well as appreciating what appeared to be brutal honesty about yourself.

Sorry if I misunderstood your meaning in several cases. I think there's quite a bit of ambiguity in how you phrased things. If you are not able to see where I could come to the conclusions I did, I suspect that either you are being just a smidgen willfully blind about it, or you are just being an asshole. I reserve judgment, given that I don't know you.