skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can pretty well assure you that comcast customers deal with the same type of BS as time warner customers deal with having dealt with both. What surprises me is how different the level of service can be for the same provider in different regions. My experience with comcast in Minneapolis makes me want to frame my receipt from when I finally got rid of their service but I couldn't find anything bad to say about the service I received from comcast while I lived in Salt Lake City, not just the people but the reliability of my cable and internet as well as the superior software for the digital cable boxes and DVRs.
I completely fail to understand the antipathy towards bitcoin.
"acted like they'd already won"

This is Elop's interpretation of something probably different: He wanted Google to let them include binary code proprietary from Nokia and Google refused.

Oh, and the "negotiations talk" seems to imply that they wanted as much money from Google as they got from MS: Look, we are going to use WP7 if you do not pay us billions of dollars! we are super important, hurry up!!
CYBRA Corporation Hires Michael J. Shabet as Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Oh god, I don't like the sound of that. I wonder how Apple's going to spin this to make this sound in any way acceptable, when and if this does get released.

Note, though, that a patent does not mean the feature is coming. Most companies patent everything their R&D departments come up with, and only 10% of those ever make their ways into products.
"Don’t expect profits anytime soon:"

Based on their first quarter 2011 results, they are on a revenue run rate of 2.4 billion a year.
It's a little surprising that they are not going to generate profits on 2.4 billion a year in revenue, despite the fact they employ around 7000 people and have other operational expenses.
Better would be an option to specify range.

There is a custom range option as well where you can set the start and end dates.
1 for 10 reverse split...
Groupon is revolutionizing the way we explore our local communities, discover hidden treasures, meet like-minded people, go on adventures we wouldn't have otherwise.

Google has revolutionized finding celebrity sex tapes and forwarding people to Wikipedia 2 billion times a day.

(It's easy to put a spin on anything)
They're going for the smartphone crowd with those annoying QR codes. Geeks. Grilled cheese sure was popular at SXSW this year.
Copyright Office joins in: let's make illegal streaming a felony
Come on. Do your homework, this is the best customer complaint letter ever:
http://www.derbygripe.co.uk/ntl.htm

I mean, it's legendary. As a former NTL customer, I can say that it's quite plausible too.

It's no co-incidence that they both revolve around telcos doing installs. It's also worth noting that NTL does not exist any more. It has been subsumed into the Virgin group and the NTL name is not used any more. What part this viral piece of writing played is unknown, but it must have done something.
Thing is, if Titan Media is the one distributing their porn, whether under the original name or something else, it's rather difficult to see how it can be unauthorized. That would lead to the absurd conclusion that they're not authorized to distribute their own works. Those who download a copy uploaded by the copyright holder should therefore be authorized.

Intent simply isn't an element of copyright infringement as far as I know. That, unfortunately, seems likely to hurt the lady in question. They should be doing discovery and exploring whether or not Titan Media is, in fact, responsible for this upload or not. Admitting to downloading the file probably isn't going to help her.

Even lawyers hire other lawyers to represent themselves. I have a sad feeling that this will turn into yet another case where acting pro se was a bad idea.
What is the topic? If it's fiction, self-publish on Kindle is increasingly a no-brainer. See jakonrath.blogspot.com
Snipt: Long-term memory for coders
As I point out elsewhere, machine learners and NLP researchers need this. This could offer tons of manually labeled training data.
Ahh ok, I was wondering how the heck it recovered. I'm glad I didn't pick it up then. I haven't followed the finance sector for about a year.
Makes you wonder how many companies are padding their stats to meet marketing goals.
Well done rapportive, Google should buy you out instead of trying to eat your lunch.
I'd find the operating loss slightly disturbing, because it means they are relying on repeat business down the road in order to crank out profit. Not saying they are going to bomb, but as an investor I'd be more bullish if they could expand and profit at the same time - because it's possible that expansion will be a regular component of their business. Obviously if you believe they will do a lot of repeat business then this is not a problem at all.
Bitcoin = (Ron Paul + Peak Oil) * Sarah Palin ^ Glenn Beck
What is there to suspect in that? It's plain clear from Elop's words. A nascent platform would of course make more concessions than a well established one. Nokia needs the money to see through this year and has monetizable assets like Navteq/Ovi maps in Europe and Asia that Bing lacks.
Also, it's hard to imagine that they could possibly have specific plans for 285 domain names ranging from zenreddit.com to redditsex.com. Oh, and my personal favourite, redditthe.com
This can't be it, can it?
http://techie-buzz.com/featured/chrome-os-cr-48-developer-mo...

I don't think it is, but it's an interesting find.
Hmm, so you aren't smart enough to attack JCR's ideas, so you go after his character? Are you stupid or what?

Can we even believe anything that cookiecaper says? I mean, what's HIS credentials?

(see what I did there? Ad hominem attacks are just that: logical fallacies. Please don't do them.)
Show HN: iosframeworks.com - A curated catalog of iOS frameworks and classes
I'd appreciate any comments and critiques on a new site that I just launched - iosframeworks.com

While developing an iPhone app, I kept stumbling across amazing frameworks/libraries/classes that my the job much easier, however, I couldn't find a concise listing of what was available.

The site currently provides a searchable list of tagged frameworks. My next steps will be:

* Allowing users to submit new links

* Also cataloging the apps that use the frameworks listed. This will allow visitors to see how the code can be implemented.

* Comments and ratings of the frameworks

* A blog with longer-form articles on using the various frameworks

Thanks for your feedback!
The problem is perceived as bitcoin stories crowding out other ones. Hiding the bitcoin stories (or ignoring them) does nothing to solve this. If the front page full of bitcoin stories (think Erlang day) users of this extension would find the page empty besides the Next link.
The value is less in the database and more in the relationships they've developed. We're not just talking rows in a table here. These are businesses which have bought into Groupon as a lead generator & who Groupon should be able to bring on board quickly to whatever future products develop.
We're at a point where regular hard drives are ridiculously cheap $60-80 for 2TB (2.9c - 3.9c per GB), while regular SSDs are $1.5-$2 per GB.

There's a huge gap in between.

Hybrid SSD/HDD drives were supposed to fill that niche, but they are still pretty crappy, they don't really solve any HDD problems.
I bet Yelp is probably thinking the same thing.

June 2, 2011 - "Google Places Now Borrowing Yelp Reviews Without Attribution In iPhone App"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611985
"doesn't apply to CS or business majors where people pick the major as a default rather than out of passion"

While there exist a _very_ small amount of people who do CS as "default" rather than "passion", they are very rare, and most CS students are extremely passionate about some aspect of computer science.
Clickable: http://iosframeworks.com
Based on the definition of the award, it's all but impossible to think of anyone who even came close to deserving it!

Definition:
"…celebrates journalism that challenges secrecy and mendacity in public affairs and raises ‘forgotten’ issues of public importance, without fear or favor, working against the grain of government spin"
"It's clear Nokia already tried negotiating with Google and Google was arrogant."

Hey, we are hearing only one side of the story and this side is blaming others instead of taking responsibility.

Usually the people that use to blame others are the people to blame themselves.
This is a good example of coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.

Big things are indeed coming for reddit, but it has a lot more to do with Conde Nast finally investing some money in personnel than the fact that they registered redditgreen.com and redditblue.com.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/reddit-programmer/
Not sure how it killed bitcoins, but while most of authors points are valid, conclusion - is not.

People get in to this "Ponzi schema" exactly for reasons pointed by author - deflation currency, unable to track down, limited supply, free/crazy market value. They look for such currency. Why it could not co-exists with rest fiat, gold, game currencies?

If bitcoins will pass test of time, eventually its exchange rate to major currencies will settle down. But for now when accepting payment in bitcoins in my store I immediately convert these to dollars on mtgox.com, since I do not know will tomorrow exchange rate be +50% or -50% =) and I need to pay my supplier in dollars, not bitcoins.
IOS 4.3 and Android 2.3, HTML5/CSS3 support
I'm surprised by the loss they are running. Think how big their cut is. My understanding is that on a 50% off deal, they get half of the merchant's take! Granted their effective cut is lower since they provide some costly/valuable services .. e.g. they pay you right away while redemptions might happen over months. But still ...

I wonder if merchants aren't just curious about the groupon model as opposed to groupon having "cracked the local nut". I guess we'll know in 2-3 years. If their revenue flattens or goes down vs if it keeps going up up and up.

On a side note, I hope this makes Facebook file for their IPO already. For some reason, I feel the Facebook IPO will be a turning point of sorts in the current tech boom. Not sure why though.
good.

Doubt it will ever happen, but I'd love to see the big G banhammer sites that do nothing but aggregate other peoples work. Throw them in the same pile as guys running "free" proxy servers that inject adsense.
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This is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!
Why glad? a 10-for-1 reverse split means that the stock is still double it's $2 price point. Doubling your money in a year or two isn't bad at all.
>The difference is that Groupon is generating revenue near billions,

there is no problem to generate a billion revenue that costs a billion and half. Barings bank in 1995, Enron in 2002, Merrill Lynch in 2008 ...

>in 2000 companies were IPO'ing without any significant revenue or traction.

Of course, nobody would fall for this old trick of 2000 - IPO without revenue. So the new trick of 2011 is huge revenue, profit negative. You see, at the scale of a billion it is clear whether it is a profitable scalable business model or not.
Can we please remove spam from pyramid schemes from HN?
Microsoft bought Skype to kill Asterisk (since Cisco is not a competition really). Skype for Asterisk project killed, will stop working in 2 years
Funnel Dynamics - Towards the $1 Cost of Acquisition [Slides]
My comment exactly. It would be insane to not take advantage of the valuations in the market right now. I would have a hard time sleeping if I was a founder right now. One big round, and then a race to an IPO before the party is over.
Really how do you come to that conclusion?

Bitcoin seems like a legitimate attempt to move currency into the future absent of any one entity controlling it.

Edit: I'm not being snarky, I haven't followed this that closely and wondered if there was/is a political component to Bitcoin that connects those dots.
I will add "with sugar on top" in lieu of my upvote being displayed and indicating to anyone in the mood to write such an extension that there are others who'd like it.
they're great consuming devices

I think that's exactly his point. Most users of PCs are consumers, not producers. That consumption will move towards tablet devices because they are easier to use, while the fraction of users that are producers will decline.

What I expect to also happen is that the move to cheaper PC tablets will make other applications feasible that are now constrained by hardware costs.
What bitcoin address do we send tips to?
Why is that ridiculous? It's ridiculous to say that Groupon doesn't have a "strong" plan to become a profitable business. Of course they do.

The market they are in is becoming intensely crowded, and since they are the current market leader, they need to spend a lot of money (yes, even if it results in losses) to stay in that position. If they stay can cement that position whilst their competition falls at the wayside, then they will become extremely profitable as the market leader.
HOLY COW: Groupon Is Losing A LOT Of Money
Mongols? Germanic tribes? Damp forests? You have a very interesting view of that period of history.
Nokia's doom was the deal with Intel, brokered by OPK, which basically dropped Maemo for Moblin and set their plans back two years. Without that, they would have produced at least three Maemo models by now, with big chances of one being a strong competitor.

Elop is now trying to make the best of a losing position, but he's too predictable and "corporate" to succeed in the smartphone market. He should have kept silent on the MS deal until he had a working WP7 model, then make the announcement -- give the press a story about a new wonderful gizmo, so that they won't talk about failure and layoffs. As it is now, by the time "Microkia" devices hit the market, share prices will be so low that any Gordon Gekko under the sun will be ready for a takeover.
And with all these businesses they've been consistently losing money. Personal relationship management is not something that gets cheaper with scale, so size of potential market doesn't really help as far as I can see.

I haven't seen any particular mention of amount of businesses retained as repeat customers, either.

Future products? Maybe they'll sell lucky moose.
In this image there's a toggle for the IR capabilities.

[1] http://www.patentlyapple.com/.a/6a0120a5580826970c014e88d777...
This is always someone's reaction when someone calls bubble. I don't think it's justified you have to short the stock to be skeptical.
Yeah... there's a disconnect here between the idea of "big plans" and spending $2200. The latter is not a particularly large expenditure, representing maybe a week or less of dev. time including all overhead.
No net profit, but: "gross profit (revenue minus expenses, which was $280 million in 2010)"

So it sounds like they're just spending madly on acquisition and growth. Or am I missing the gross/net distinction here?
Live near KC? 9 companies hiring for Mid/Sr Software Engineers, etc on 6/21
I love this word "foundational" you've introduced.

My point is that entry level employees are typically just doing what they're told to by someone considered an expert. This low level work in any field provides context for what is important to learn and why. I think it would be better to obtain this context first, and then take a step back from the day-to-day rat race to fill in the "foundational" knowledge needed to become a true expert.

College would then be like a mid-career sabbatical. When the sabbatical is over, you're ready to be in charge of the big decisions. eg, Be a carpenter for 15 years then go to architecture school.
On the other hand, in the year 2000 Amazon made a net loss of $1.4 billion(!) on revenues of $2.7 billion.
Not at all. Groupon is cementing it's position as the market leader by spending a huge amount in expansion, thus it's going to result in losses for the foreseeable future. However, that doesn't mean they're not going to be profitable in years to come.
Generally, the number of IP addresses involved.
The extension hides this story too!
Isn't that just the "Reset to Factory Defaults" switch?
Which works out great until you screw up and mis-identify something, and then you've committed perjury...
I am wondering why they didn't go for something that allows for richer semantics like XHTML+RDFa http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/
No way, lots of people have done that. I even installed a BIOS compatibility hack into the EFI ROM and installed stock Ubuntu 10.04 on it. Disconcertingly, it seems more responsive than the ChromeOS!
China's Lending Boom Hangover Is Beginning
right it's a bad analogy (apples to oranges) that's what i said.
Hello World Scala on the Latest Android SDK
Both Amazon (http://kdp.amazon.com/) and Apple's iBookstore (http://itunes.com/sellyourbooks) have self-publishing options, though if she has a large enough blog or Twitter following, she should try to sell directly from her own site.

Also check out eBookBurn (http://ebookburn.com/) as a resource (it's a service run by my startup, and most of my users are independent authors).

As for tips on composition and content, here is an interesting post from earlier today: "Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors" http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/06/02/practical-tips-...
Release early, release often. Worst case scenario is that somebody tells you your code is ugly, and this happens to everybody, including the people writing the most beautiful, elegant algorithms in existence.
What I often wonder is why didn't Nokia decide to try its hand on both Android and Windows Phone 7? Samsung has managed to do this while keeping its in house platform intact. Experiment and see what finds uptake rather than bet a huge corporation on a single platform.
This gives me a giggle. Around ten years ago, a few friends of mine put together a system for Palms to receive IR annotations next to physical objects, and one of the use cases was for museum guide information.

Never ended up commercializing it.

They were calling it the iPod...
Agreed. If it's getting excessive to the point of astro-turfing or making the front page less diverse then we should just start flagging them.
Recruiters and recruiting threads are a plague wherever hackers congregate. At any given time, hiring is of interest to only a tiny fraction of people (mostly employers, not hackers), but it is of very intense interest to them. Although I sympathize with the job-hunters and job-offerers who are trying to connect, it's hardly a malfunction when their announcements get little attention.
XenServer and the xen.org stuff are very similar from the perspective of a guest. I mean, administering them is a little different, but not that different. there is rather a lot of shared code between the two systems; Xen.org generally gets newer features first, and xenserver has for-pay support.

Recently (well, I guess not that recently) the 'xl' command line from xenserver was given back to xen.org. it's a lot nicer than 'xm' I think.
What does this mean to existing SIP/Jingle based systems? Are they now deprecated, or is there some kind of interoperability planned?
Well, it's open source :)
But you're right - better check twice every single process.
>Groupon is cementing it's position as the market leader by spending a huge amount in expansion, thus it's going to result in losses for the foreseeable future.

Iridium satellite phones.
I can see police officers affixing this to their gear....
If they actually did this, they would obviously focus everything on the the value-add cases: the shopping assistant, tour-guide apps, etc. And there's really no indication they would include the 'copy protection' feature even if they implemented other parts of it.

Personally, I can't see anyone bothering with it. You'd set up some proprietary transmitter that would only work on a subset of devices, that is based on a technology that the wider market wouldn't be interested in adopting (why would Nokia or Nikon care to adopt such a standard?) and ultimately it could be defeated by a cheap piece of IR filtering glass or plastic.

What would be the point?
Poll: How many Groupons have you purchased?
More than 1
Yahoo does do data, and has many services (including Flickr) that would benefit from industry collaboration.
$200million in ad spend + dozens of competitors spending just as much or more on ads = buy GOOG.
Yeah, whatever. Now go seek some worthy non-bitcoin stories to upvote. Frontpage or http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
http://qwerly.com/

Mailchimp just moved over to them.
This is a brand protection move, pure and simple. Easier to throw money at it now than to waste a retained lawyer's time writing cease and desist letters later.
From my perspective, the issues around why Bitcoin is made of fail have been done to death here, including in several stories specifically about that.
Flash - Technology vs Politics (Video: Mossberg interviews Adobe CEO)
Perhaps they got some (dubious?) SEO advice suggesting that splitting subreddits over more registered names would improve their serch rankings and ad rates?
I'm not sure if this is link bait, a repost, or just hilarious.
When and how can they eventually make some profit? If they aren't making a profit at expected ~2.5 B revenue, how would an additional infusion of 1 B make them profitable or let them grow more in the long run? Isn't that what companies get listed for?
Needs a [video] tag, please.
Le Cirque Hits The Jackpot
Apocryphal? You couldn't be bothered to Google?

It's good manners for the person who makes a claim to support it. Incidentally, the charges were dropped in that NY case, suggesting a lack of legal understanding among the subway cops: http://www.thevillager.com/villager_178/luckybagstingcharges...

As for your argument, that makes no sense. 'Just looking' implies doing a search but not downloading any of the files. Taking the woman's story at face value, how could she have opened the file and discovered it to be porn if she had not downloaded it first?

If the file had been properly labeled, the person would not have engaged in the illegal act.

On the other hand, if the label had been accurate then the downloader would have just been infringing the copyright of a Ryuichi Sakamoto album rather than a porn movie. The bait-and-switch tactic alleged here looks extremely questionable (it appears to violate something called the 'clean hands' rule, though that may not matter if the plaintiff is only seeking statutory damages). But you've got to admit that 'I was trying to infringe a different work' is a pretty pathetic excuse, not much better than saying you took a wallet which you believed to be full of cash but threw it away in disappointment when it turned out not to contain any.

You seem to be arguing from the belief that anything downloadable should be presumed to be in the public domain by default. Let's say the mislabeled file had in fact been a Ryuichi Sakamoto album, which is what the woman says she was looking for, and which is in fact copyrighted. At what point do you think her exploration would have crossed the line into infringement, if ever?
Doesn't it boil down to choosing the rate of expansion?

They could probably expand at a slower rate and keep a profit; or they could spend what would otherwise be a profit to expand at a faster rate. At the moment they seem to be going for option 2 which may be a debatable choice but also very normal for a company in the high-growth phase. Amazon is the classic example for this.
Disqus Founder Says: A Strong Urge to Win Drives You to Understand Many Things.
depends on how hard you press it,