skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but how is this a better RSS reader? Your whole point was that RSS reader sucks, so you instead intend to solve that problem by making some kind of bookmarking homepage that displays a few RSS feed items? How is this better than any other RSS reader? I just don't see how you're solving your initial complaint with this
My personal belief is that people will be able to hook their brains into machines and become one with the network.
It's amazing what kind of revenue you can make when you own some of the most popular websites on Earth. </sarcasm>
Epsom Salt the remedy
I think the key news bit here is that Ariana Huffington will be in charge of all of AOL's blog/news properties.
You really can't go wrong buying Fluke.
Even if these ads were offensive to me (which they aren't, ill advised for a mass audience though without the context of the blog post and the donations) it wouldn't effect my usage of groupon if I was a user.

Groupon is all about consumerism, buying things you don't really need because they are deal of the day etc.
I really hope this never happens to her again, not because I particularly care about her feelings, but because I wouldn't want anyone to have to read that essay of whining again.
Except for holiday travel, where the rule seems to be the earlier, the better.
When AOL merged with Time-Warner they kinda traded half of their wealth with eachother. AOL's half turned out to be worthless.
> "To activate WiFi functionality on this device, a minimum of 1 month data subscription is required."

I'm gobsmacked by that - is there any precedent for it? Anywhere? I've literally never heard of any manufacturer locking Wifi support. I'm almost not believing it yet until I see some kind of other confirmation - I can only think that it was meant to say "Wireless" or "3G" or something else, because locking Wifi is just ridiculous.
Is HuffPo really worth 7-8 times what AOL paid for Weblogs, Inc. and TechCrunch?
That was sort of my original point, much of the US high value engineering (defense/transport/infrastructure) is for the US government. Which means that the more the taxpayer spends on overpriced defense contracts and cost overruns the better US industrial output looks
Bailout the Gold Diggers
TechCrunch, Bebo, and MapQuest are all owned by AOL.

And MapQuest still has the greatest market share somehow...

edit: AOL sold Bebo in June
They're a totally different company nowadays. Hard to hate when they're doing so damn well for themselves. :)
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you should try iGoogle.
I created it so I can compare different alternatives before picking a module to use. I'm glad it's useful to other people too.
I've hit #2 and #5 and not had to cache my site. I was running Rails 2.3.8, thin and nginx on the cheapest slice that Slicehost sells.

Is it normal not to have to cache for HN + Reddit?
As native-english speaker who lived in Germany for a while I would strongly suggest NOT to use geolocation to pick the default language. Use the browser Accept-Language setting to pick the default - this is what it's for and most browsers send it. I can see from the headers on your site that you are using PHP, so here's a link to some PHP code that will parse the browser headers (and correctly interpret their weighting also):

http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/use-accept-language-he...

You can use this as a starting point to redirect to the appropriate language when none has been explicitly chosen. It's a small touch, but small touches all add up to a nicer experience.
Dachau, the scene of rape, torture, human experimentation, and mass execution. Thousands were forced into a life of hard labor under miserable conditions, the others left to waste away to skin and bones...

... But not at Murray's Deli in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where I just got a fabulous $5 off on a $10 corned beef hash on marble rye with a kosher dill pickle on the side.

Groupon!
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If Groupon were a brick and mortar, they would be known as a low-brow discount store.

They are certainly very successful but a lot of low-brow businesses are, that's nothing new.

For a lot of consumers it's all about price but many consumers (myself included) only want to spend money where they will receive great service and can identify with the company culture. I think Groupon risks losing customers that just don't appreciate their somewhat demented culture.
It's in the article too.
Do shallow boring people think of themselves as being shallow and boring?
In terms of unique visitors, HuffPo beats TechCrunch 10:1.
Yep, in particular I recall a case involving AOL in which a man claimed negligence on the part of AOL for not policing their forums, allowing for people to defame him. The court ruled that providing that type of policing would have turned AOL into a publisher, which is exactly what 230 protects against.

I think the same thing would apply here.
So in other words Heroku minus all that pesky code?
to cause maximum quantization error on recompression at a chosen target JPEG quality factor

Neat, but pretty worthless in the domain explained though isn't it? Exposing re-compressing proxies? So if your float for re-compression matches their float for re-compression, you'll see a slightly blurry word!
I'll absolutely remember them just like I knew about the sock puppet, Whoopi Goldberg, and the... one with the chesty women. Which one was that one again?
I'm not sure on the math, but the first thing that comes to mind is that they are a more general interest type of web property.

AOL needs content it can direct users too, my mom isn't interested in TechCrunch, but she might be interested in HuffPo's content.
How is Ariana going to justify not paying almost all contributors now?

Amazing that she built this on the backs of authors, most of whom got paid nothing. Am I alone in finding this exploitative?
At that rate, one would almost be tempted to do it full time. (That is 2 ~ 4 months of salary, depending on his seniority.)
Yes, I've hit the top 5 several times, and never had db load issues before, even without caching.
It's not even insensitive though. It's fully aware of the fact that those issues are significant and deserving of attention. It's much more of a satire on the fact that most Americans express their "outrage" in Facebook posts and "moral outrage" posts on HN rather than taking action or donating. It's mocking the psuedo moral superiority and giving people want they really want in an abrasive, highly discussed manner.

It's good advertising and I don't find it nearly as insulting as everyone here seems to. At the worst, it simply paints a sad satire of American "disaster fatigue" culture.

Also, my snark at the end was not necessarily personally directed at you. I guess I'm just indulging in the sarcastic satire that I feel Groupon is borrowing from - it's easy to be outraged at the trivialization of something "tragic", but is it really hurting anyone or anything?
In game theory terms, it might be a viable strategy to burn deals at random in order to reinforce the signal that you can, and do, have the willpower to turn down deals.
I watched three of the four ads on their site. They weren't funny, just cheesy. And not Shatner cheesy, either.
Oh, it's a blog entry! There really should be a noscript warning, I thought it was something like http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/atom/ at first.
This is as good a reason as any to post an Onion classic:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

"I'm not an elitist," Green said. "It's just that I'd much
rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit
there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen."
A commenter in the original article said it better than anyone: "We don't get to qualify as a manufacturing giant just because the defense department gets suckered into paying billions of dollars for a fancy piece of equipment that is built by a small number of folks in a few isolated pockets of the country."

Then again, the numbers (that seem to be incorrect, go check the commments in the original) are however about the money it is made from the manufacturing. Then this is even more worrisome for USA, because that would mean that China has been growing steadily at 9-10 per cent each year, while USA makes MORE money from manufacturing but all it does is barely grow, and produce the biggest debt the world has ever seen.
who says there aren't already highly-paid repetitive jobs requiring mild intelligence?

Cops and firemen make big money in many parts of the USA with $200,000+ mid career salary and benefits very common.

Genius level scientists and engineers rarely make it that high in any endeavor with reasonable hours and job security.
regardless of wether or not they're familiar with groupon or andrew, the irony remains:

"for all the talk about helping Tibet and saving endangered whales, we vote with our dollars in favor of ethnic food and fun excursions"
One solution that occurred to me, was to setup a(assuming MySQL)mirrored database. Another idea is to setup a MySQL dump script or something similar.

Just a couple of ideas :)
That really depends on the traffic your site is getting. If it's a decently large site (> 50k PVs a day), then yes, data for the current day will be lagged. But for most sites smaller than that, I've found the data to be only lagged by 15 minutes or so. It's definitely improved over the past year.
Was she forcing them to write articles for her? If they agreed to do it for free, then where is the exploitation?
I agree, paid for by the Fed buying U.S. Treasuries or by banks buying U.S. Treasuries. It is bound to fail sometime. What could save us is China failing first, property bubble, major projects, the 24/7 work, bad loans, floated by the Chinese as well but is backed by their Treasury bond holdings and the fact that no one knows how much money they print.
And in terms of demographics, I mean, my mom reads Huffington post. Ariana Huffington is well-known enough to have done the talk-show circuit at least once.

Tech crunch is a niche demographic (silicon valley gossip is only interesting to people inside that particular bubble). I'm honestly not sure what weblogs inc is.
Developer comfort is the difference between being woefully understaffed, and having a quality team supporting your business objectives.

If productivity drops, or you suddenly only have 50% of your development staff because management bought an inferior product that developers hate, I don't see how that helps the business?
Can't speak to that, I don't pay close attention to daily stats for my personal site, and all the sites I work with are big enough to have a heavy delay.
depends on concurrent connections vs spread out, cpu, traffic of other customers on your box, apache configurations, etc...

It's just good practice to cache when you can. There is no reason to ask the database for the same article 1000 times a second if it's not changing. I didn't feel the server was going to crash at that moment but I did notice MySQL was doing plenty of work it didn't need to.

The concern was if it got picked up by another site like digg or reddit then it could have been more of an issue.
Strawman. No one said anything about this ad being an indication of us being in the midst of a bubble.
Ask HN: Machine learning in 5 papers.  What should they be?
Hey folks,

I am helping to organize a reading group to introduce people to machine learning in a way that is more informal and interactive than a class. With only 5 meetings slated for this semester, what do you think would be a good selection of topics to cover? Ideally one would come out of this reading group with high level appreciation of ways to think about problems in machine learning (feature selection, training, supervised vs. unsupervised learning, function approximation, etc) as well as familiarity with some high level tools (statistics, optimization, linear algebra). This is not meant to be a class, which makes it all the more difficult to strike a balance between depth and breadth.

Any thoughts, as well as paper or topic suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I think a lot of authors and journalists voluntarily write for Huff Post to raise their profile... and I think it's great! If I were a journalist, if Huff Post or Talking Points Memo published articles that I authored, I'd be ecstatic, especially considering the economic situation a lot of journalists find themselves in these days.
The theory behind it is presented to quite a high level of detail in Cryptonomicon, almost to the point to make you believe it if you've ever gone through something like it.
Isn't dignity had through action? That is, feeling the emotions as she did, but acting dignified regardless? Which she did?
While some of the HuffPost I do find interesting and even occasionally well written, I'd still have to say your argument amounts to: if we take one steaming pile and combine it with another steaming pile it'll come out smelling like roses.
http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf
You should look at something more along the lines of rdiff-backup (or whatever's fashionable these days) for that.

Using git would be pretty pointless, unless you're going to be frequently branching and merging against your mp3s or something.
Totally agreed! It seems that someone forgot about context in which those ads are watched.
Any hate for this kind of ad is self-hate rather than the hate of Groupon. They feel bad that they want $5 off a delicious sandwich while others are being slowly tortured to death.

It's not Groupon's fault that our society sucks.
Just what is /b/?
Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough, but it seems like a fairly straightforward question to me. Once you define what you mean by "ship" (which probably also requires defining who is answering/asking the question) then you'll have your answer. Under most definitions that spring into my head, the answer is "neither".

(though the ship metaphor doesn't translate perfectly to the Hudkins/Jenson story, since really it's more like you cloned the original ship twice, put the original nameplate on one clone, the original sailors on the other clone, then burned the remainder of the original).
Weblogs, Inc. was the company that created Engadget, AutoBlog, Joystiq, etc. That acquisition essentially became the backbone of the content-oriented company into which AOL is transforming.
"The Daily" commercial airs during the Super Bowl
What contributed the most to the powerlessness I believe is the lack of customer support from Facebook. No doubt having half a billion customers makes this quite the challenge to say the least, but that lack of recourse is what amplifies these feelings.
Exactly the kind of person you want running a tech company.
How would a client make use of the Python code? By eval'ing it?
doyenne

That's actually the first time I've ever used the NY Times's dictionary function. Pretty neat.
I think it's probably the latter. It's getting in right before the week's newscycle starts tomorrow morning.

The superbowl's huge, but I suspect people start "fresh" tomorrow since football season's over.
I only write e-mails like chapter books when people write e-mails with 20 questions.

I don't mind length as much as I mind lack of organization, clarity, and/or conciseness. So many people just write e-mails as a stream of consciousness, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitkeeper#Pricing_change
Web design is mostly typography/copy.

I'd put most of your effort there.

Have a look at sites like Pinboard or Instapaper for good examples of simple type based design.

Sites don't have to be flashy to be successful.
Also to put it into "tech world" context, Weblogs, Inc. was started by Jason Calacanis.
"Emotions roiled, all dark. The depth of my anger scared me. I wanted them hurt, scared, suffering. I wanted them to pay"

There are some serious problems with this woman that she found her entire life ruined, and provoked to wanting violent revenge, over a kid putting up a fake profile with some sexual pejoratives.
Chrome and Android make google lots of money, yet people that aren't google employees still commit to the projects. Google pays them nothing.

I don't find this exploitive, and I think this is very similar.
You have hacked together a site, now how do you promote it?
Fellow hackers, I'm interested to find out what you guys think are the best ways to promote a website?
Seems crazy that they would need a Superbowl commercial. Makes me think this is more about getting investors' attention than customers.
Thank you for:
1. Bringing some diversity to HN (didn't even remotely expect a cabinet install/construction professional)
2. Giving me just a smidge of insight into the world of cabinettry
3. An enlightening definition of idiocy with a real-world example. I've never thought of it quite like that before.
No, I must express my interweb rage.
But would it be the same thing?

Facebook claims users used their real names. That's pretty specific. If they are flagrantly ignoring a violation of their own claims, their legal standing seem different than an entity merely transmitting data.
you can put the computer in developer mode and access the usb stick from terminal.
> Oracle 11g apparently can spot when a query plan changes and the new one is much slower than the old one - at least that is what is says in the documentation. Whether it works or not I will find out if we ever get a system upgraded to 11g!

I'm surprised this isn't already the default.

I guess the next step for postrgres is to collect statistics on plans as well as data.
good job but I bet he wouldn't pass the job interview process at google.
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I don't think the checkmark for colour blind is needed (the colours are supplementary, not essential).
As a non native English speaker, the first thing my head thought was AOL paying with banknotes.
It's a tactic on their part. For every man in the workplace that does business on the golf course, there's a woman who uses "fear of a crying female" to gain power.

If you find yourself being manoeuvred against like that, find a female cow-orker to deal with it for you. Real women will destroy those who stoop to that tactic like a guided missile.
Watch Arriana Huffington and AOL CEO discuss Huffington Post Acquisition [video]
Roboearth teaches robots to learn from peers
Fishing for an invocation of Godwin's Law today, are we?
Online retailer with new way of pricing products dynamically
(copied from blog comment)

It's all about the usability. Of course Google Reader works (along with every other web-based RSS reader), but is it pleasant to use? Absolutely not. I'm not implying that the RSS reader concept sucks. I'm saying every implementation I've seen sucks. As a concept, an RSS reader is an amazingly useful application. You can get all of your updates without navigating through cyber-space and having to remember to check your favorite blogs regularly. RSS readers throw it all in your face, and this is good.

Thinking of it from a programmer's perspective, this is not better than any other RSS reader. You have to think of it from a user prescriptive. There's a reason iPads are so popular. From a technological standpoint, does it make sense to shell out $600+ on a dumbed down computer with minimal functionality? No way jose. But it's all about convenience and usability - they're enjoyable to use, and this is exactly what a web-app like this would offer (for people who prefer web browsers over tablets).
Actually, I think it was mentioned that they have a method where they look at your other apps that are currently open. They make a decision based on how often you have those applications open when it is polling. It seems like a pretty good method if possible.
If you think that there is a slowest timeframe, then you do not understand the theory of relativity.

That said it is obvious that the reference frame that will be chosen is the fixed reference frame of the distant stars.
To combat this, I number my questions, and it seems to be easier for the reader to remember and respond to. I also keep it under 5. like:

I have 4 questions:

(1)

(2)

...
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2187738
Motorola Xoom featured in ad packed with Apple references
Did you get many users? Still running it? Sounds interesting.
Doesn't AOL still make a couple of $billions per year from old dial-up internet subscriptions?
The ads:

1. Whales: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP_yScodndg

2. Rainforest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z206ipPhuFQ

3. Tibet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkFT2yjk0A
Nah. Here, I'll do one without impugning Jewish history:

“1960s. The Watts riots. The scene of chilling brutality and suffering. Dogs unleashed on unsuspecting black onlookers. Children firehosed and beaten with batons. Homes and properties set ablaze…

Just like the fiery pits at Neely’s Bar-B-Que, where I just saved $10 on a $20 fried chicken and baby back ribs with two large sides. Finger-lickin’ savings at Groupon!”

Then link to the United Negro College Fund on groupon.com.

How's that?
For those who like chess, the Garry Kasparov talk was very good. There's a little bit about making mistakes, taking risks, innovation and Russian politics, but perhaps as expected, it is heavy on some chess stories.
If you were using runway, the situation would be different. As it stands, there is little reason not to talk with them...consider it as a job interview with the product acquisition as a windfall. Since it appears that big company is looking at the deal as talent acquisition at least as much as product acquisition, the first issue is to determine if the work will be satisfying. If so, then that would seem to be the time to get an attorney to handle the product acquisition and employment contract (and IMO, you probably want an employment contract when you are furnishing existing IP to your employer upon hire unless the IP is purchased directly for cash).

Good luck.
MapQuest still has the greatest market share

link? I've never heard this
My second post in this thread:

It's obvious they're not giving any exposure to this blog post (http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/groupon-super-bowl-ads/) or the microsite (http://savethemoney.groupon.com)

I can't say I'm offended at the content. I'm almost amazed at how poorly handled the follow-through of this campaign. They hired CP+B to create the ads. Why does it seem like no one thought this through?
Brilliant.

Another reason software is a bottomless pit of opportunity. There are so many things that can be optimized if only the data can be put into the right hands in a usable form such as you've done here.
Could license use of the graphs/data (iframe?) to travel sites.
There are a bunch of paid ways to promote an app, but I've focused on what I usually do to get free exposure:

1) Post a 'Ask HN' post to get some feedback

2) Search for blogs that discuss the problem your product solves, then comment on those blogs (don't spam!)

3) Email the tip lines of each of the major tech blogs

4) Submit your site for inclusion in site directories (e.g. webapplist)

5) Contact sites that rank highly on your target keywords and see if they'll link to your site

6) Search Twitter for people who have the problem that your product solves, then refer them to your app

7) Post updates to your personal Facebook / Twitter