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Yes - opensource it. There's no reason against it really, is there?

Another potential benefit is that someone might be looking for some usage example of a specific set of functions and will find your code where it occurs.
One of my biggest questions is the lifetime of these drives. I know that flash memory has a certain number of write-cycles but has there been any study done on how long these drives last in an almost constant write environment like OLTP?
Infrared filter, anyone?
Coincidental timing that they happens right after Google announces it's baking its clone into all future Android phones?
Visiting http://www.timeoffhq.com/accounts - shows a xml dump of all your accounts and users!!

I can tell from your blog that you are a good coder, but need to be careful with little things like the routes file as this can lead to big problems.

All the best!
I don't understand why I'd need to online ordering component when they say it only takes 1 minute to make one. Skipping payment is nice I guess, but lots of places already let you do this with fax ahead orders.
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Some UI skills, but not design? I'm not sure if I understand here. If you are making up UI, you are designing.
a) Have you even analyzed the source code to know whats going on? If not then you should just post directly to clientsfromhell so everyone can get a laugh at ignorant you are. What economic theories have you been studying that take into account for an infinitely divisible currency?

b)Whats the dollar "supposed to be"? To your own admission your opinions are invalid and yet you continue to comment on bitcoins.
Max, It seems like a cool idea that I could certainly see implementing it on one of my sites. I'm trying to push visitors into some complimentary services/products, so I could certainly see giving them a % off by looking at promo page for those.

Overall, neat idea. Does it work on sites that aren't magento?
Not trying to start a hype machine. Please let us know what you do and do not like about the existing Rails hosting providers out there and the offerings they have. Your input is key :)
Russian Spy Babe Becomes Editor of VCN.
Try http://www.lulu.com
I'll confirm the sales model, my mother runs an (awesome) coffee shop in Abbotsford, British Columbia, "Chapleos" - and she routinely gets a call from her Groupon Rep. I suspect that their direct sales staff are incented to contact small business, and update the database on them. To some degree, the principal assets of Groupon are (A) their Brand, (B) their Mailing list, (C) their direct sales force, and (D) That database of business which will soon, if not already, be the finest database of businesses in the world.

Both Yelp/Google have an issue with their data freshness on business. I'm constantly updating open/close times, (and even whether a business exists) on Yelp. And business (particular taxicabs) have long ago figured out how to Game Googles Small Business directory to get in fake listings.

It will be interesting to see what they do with their database.
Maybe you'll feel better, and 51Cards will feel worse, if you think of it as "companies who have invested in search engines unite to give themselves more competitive advantage over companies who have not invested in search engines, such as Apple" =)
Here is LISP interpreter in Javascript based on Peter Norvig's interpreter in Python. All constructive criticism is welcome!
You stand a very good chance of looking dumb if you walk into a real VC's office and ask if they're accredited.
I come to HN for hacker news (at least, as I understand the term). I wish I could hide all of the stories about startups, for example, but instead I just ignore them. People can do the same when it comes to bitcoin articles. Also, these articles shouldn't remain on the front page if people don't upvote them, right? There may be demand on such articles.
I still use my Cr-48 as a tool. A useful tool. More of a computer condom if you will. When my friends visit and browse various sites, instead of the occasional virus, my Cr-48 keeps me computer-disease free and worry free. Now everyone can touch my laptop and I won't mind. So ubuntu on it? I think not good sir!

Back on topic. Will It Blend? (http://www.willitblend.com/) > Large Easter Egg Plastic Shell > A cr-48 easter egg. Did I find it?
OT: Trying to close jeffmills.com resulted in some annoying results.
Ehec identified as a biological terrorist attack
Google also drives billions in revenue to local businesses. I spend more locally through Google and even Yelp than Groupon. Humorously, to drive growth Groupon has been sending bucket loads of cash to Google.
The risk factors section (starting on page 11) is particularly enlightening.
So what exactly indicates that they are (going to be profitable in the years to come)?
This is such an excellent idea for citizenship that it would probably be made illegal because of its potential to embarass the lawmakers (or otherwise hold them directly and irrefutably accountable for their actions). If only there was a way... wikilawleaks ... hmmmm...
Not necessarily. As someone else pointed out all you need is a super node.
This wouldn't be any different. In the end, by the time it crashes, the winners don't hold any bitcoins (almost by definition)
Since RFDa is not in the HTML5 spec yet, right now you can't make valid HTML5 websites that make use of RDFa.

But you don't have to use microdata or microformats; you can still use this schema with RDFa on an XHTML page.

You should be able to express everything in Microdata _and_ RDFa. I don't think RDFa is semantically richer than these other formats.
Patience. We're probably just past the peak of the hype cycle. The BitCoin bubble probably has about three weeks of life left in it.
What economic theory accounts for a currency that can be divided infinitely?
I think that's shortsighted thinking. This is about improving the user's search experience. If that happens I think everyone wins.

Most mainstream users are not tech savvy. Imagine a traveling person arrives in a city and spontaneously decides to see a movie. They enter the search 'good movie playing in nowheresville'. As it stands now their query will likely be matched by the keywords 'movie', 'playing', and 'nowheresville'. The returned results might include a news article about local theatres, with no actual focus on reviews. The searcher might get frustrated and just decide to rent a movie instead. However, with schemas in wide use search engines will know exactly what web sites are talking about movies and whether it's in the context of reviews. The searcher can then be passed on to the relevant site.

In other words, do you think it's better to tell search engines this is sort of what I have or this is exactly what I have?
Most CCD-based cameras alread have an IR filter film behind the lens. There are lots of people that hack them out to turn their webcams etc into night vision cameras.
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They are writing spec documents...

http://developer.skype.com/resources/Skype_UVC_Specification...

it would be nice to see linphone be able to talk to skype people...
I don't think that you necessarily will get jail time. The new law elevates theft of entertainment services to the same level as theft of other services. In practice, I think theft of services is mostly punished by a fine.

But in theory, according to the old law you actually could go to jail for loaning out your rail pass in Tennessee. So actually all the people who are upset about this law should first focus on the existing law.
It has a short term feel to me, not a bubble, more like a craze that needs to settle before we find its true value.

It sounds like an ad agency, but perhaps better suited to surviving through recessions.

The important aspect – that needs to be determined – is whether existing clients are happy, and therefore returning for more business.
Wow, Eric Lefkofsky owns a shit ton of that company, and already cashed out a decent chunk of change personally and through his various LLCs just recently. Never even heard of him before.
as far as my understand goes, this is basically equivalent to a subset of RDFa.

The differences as I understand them are three:
* schema.org has an implicit vocabulary, if you want to use more than one you can stil use RDFa and use the schema.org vocab explicitly
* some syntactic hacks are missing (curies, chaining) but these do not remove expressiveness. Again, implicit schema.
* typed literals are missing. And once more, not really needed when the schema is only one

I still would have preferred if they had used straight RDFa 1.1, but I think their main motivation is that the way the web is going (HTML5) does not seem to be the same it was when RDFa was initially invented (xhtml).

This solves concrete a finite set of problems now, while in the semweb world people still have to agree on how to express a person's name :/
This seems more like Amazon to me than random questionable ventures. Of all the big name IPOs on the horizon, this is the only one I've repeatedly given money to.
I think it's good to get opinions from solid economists on the right and the left.

And what I would say about recent US government policy is that it has been bad when measured by either Keynesian OR monetarist yardsticks.

This is essentially because the massive growth of US financial obligations has gone ultimately to bailing out the large financial institutions rather than to any Keynesian job creation scheme. So essentially you have a situation where neither the free market nor government do anything to create jobs.

Krugman can legitimately say the Federal budget deficit as such is not high. What massively inflating is the "other obligations" - Fannie Mae bonds, student loan bonds, etc. Here we have massive "inflationism" (as Doug Noland would term it).

Krugman is a partisan so he's glossed over the unneeded spending of the bailout in later commentary but he did say "The longer we live with zombie banks, the harder it will be to end the economic crisis."

IE, the bank bailout is a massive money-hole where banks have become "zombie" entities that are neither "private" in the sense of being disciplined by the market nor "public" in the sense of having any obligation to the public. The present situation is one where the money that could go to either a stimulus or a tax-cut is shoveled to these "zombies" instead.
Supportng CC is awesome. However, content owners should have the right to negotiate license fees for commercial use by including NC in their license and/or requiring requiring remixed work to be shared by including SA in their license.
Is anybody seeing how much extra work this is going to put on the front end developer. We already have to support multiple browsers, multiple display sizes, ARIA roles, and more. I don't mind the extra work for the handicap (ARIA), but looking up and adding all this new meta information merely for search engines is going be a pain. In the end, this extra work makes it easier for the search engine by requiring the developer to do more work. I would prefer the reverse, otherwise maybe I need to get into the search business. They are creating a standard that will make it incredibly easy for future search engines.
> But no way I'd buy a phone with this baked in.

Don't worry. It'll come bundled in a firmware update.
But if you've been mining bitcoins since the beginning, you probably have a lot. Now mining is no longer very profitable because more people are in on it; thus, it makes sense for the early adopters to convert their bitcoins to USD at Mt Gox. They make a load of money from the late adopters, and the late adopters are left with loads of worthless bitcoins (because eventually nobody wants them and you can't sell them). Sounds more like an MLM scheme.
Absolutely!

There were two previous threads on this, too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897565

Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236845

And a meetup tonight: http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Austin/
Swimming in cash money: Groupon’s $750M IPO by the numbers
Overshadowed - Pandora Also Files For IPO
I know the phrase "reddit has become worse over time" is pretty much a meme here on hn but wow has that website been extremely bad as of late. Nothing but rage comics and pictures of pets, and some trolling. Probably a combination of more and more people plus summer vacation for the kids who have too much time on their hands.
I'm cranking my Cr-48 open right now :)
Dude's mostly asking for attribution. So post a copy along with a link to the source and he isn't gonna complain.
If that's the case, they should donate the patent to either the EFF or the ACLU.
And it's not getting excessive. I just clicked through 20 pages of stories, and there is less than 1 bitcoin story per page on average. Only 2 pages have 2 bitcoin stories, and none have 3 or more.
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When my group of 8 friends are hungry and want to go eat, we hit up the buffet at Ryan's Steakhouse. As a group, we only buy one buffet, but we share it to hell with the others in the group.
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SonyPictures.com hacked, personal information and passwords compromised
Sites that don't employ this don't risk falling in their rankings. This added data allows for richer snippets (which absolutely increase clickthrough ratio), but that won't directly make you rank higher (or lower it their absence).

If your website employs an SEO or webstandardista, you should already have your sites marked up with metadata. Reviews and rich breadcrumbs etc. have been around and supported for years now.

I suppose that since Google wants to solve these problems algorithmically first and foremost, that many of these structures already get recognized. Right now you don't _have_ to mark-up your breadcrumbs, for them to still appear as rich snippets on your search result listing. Google recognized the structure without added mark-up.

For now, I will build the new types in my CMS like a good web developer. That won't cost me any time in the future, and now I'll have a way to separate myself from those that won't add schema's or metadata to their mark-up. So, at the end of the day, I just got more expensive :)
> Hybrid SSD/HDD drives were supposed to fill that niche, but they are still pretty crappy, they don't really solve any HDD problems.

Hybrid drives aim to bring together the (cheap) capacity of hard drives and the speed of SSDs.
This isn't a big move, it's just good houskeeping. First it was hiring developers. Now this, which helps them with SEO, possibly using all these sites as redirects to sub-reddits.

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/02/conde-nast-has-big-plans-...
I liked the Ayn Rand reference. She's one of my favourite philosophers.
Sure, Vbox has kernel support for guest OSes.

As far as being a hypervisor however, Vbox is strictly a type 2, i.e. it needs a host OS to run and resources are allocated to it.

In contrast, Xen and KVM are type 1 hypervisors, meaning they themselves allocate resources for guest OSes from bare metal.

There are debates about the semantics of whether KVM is type 1 or type 2 due to its implementation on top of the Linux kernel, but it is definitely in a different league than Vbox.
The emails from the Ceglia complaint make Mark sound like a bad parody of the character played by Jesse Eisenberg on the Social Network.

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/cegliavszuck.pdf?tag=mantle_skin;co...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2541853

This seems to be about exactly this problem.
An investor invests in the jockey and not the horse. Consider an investor like the saddle. If the saddle sucks, the horse and the jockey’s groin will be sore.

This metaphor hurts my head. A saddle invests in a jockey?
Isn't that what Evernote is for?
Obviously to avoid wasting your money you'd have to find a good lawyer. As many people have asked, how do you know a good lawyer from a bad lawyer?

Recommendations? That'll only work so far.

Price? Indirect indicator.

If I don't know much about the relevant law myself, then how would I know if he's any good? If I have to take the time to educate myself, then again I'll be doing his work.

This sort of legal stuff like setting up a company isn't exactly rocket science; it's a form of administration practiced against commonly known rules and the idea is not to deviate too much from what everyone else is doing to play safe. It's something that could, probably for 90% of cases, be done by some sort of a Create Company wizard tool that yields legally sensible outcomes. There are only so many legally relevant configurations of a new startup.
Alibaba CEO wants to buy Yahoo, break it up
Where Did Groupon’s Billion Dollars (Series G) Go?
15 things we hope Apple is building for iOS and Mac OS X
Exactly. We already have to support multiple browsers, multiple display sizes, ARIA roles, and more. I don't mind the extra work for the handicap (ARIA), but looking up and adding all this new meta information merely for search engines is going be a pain. In the end, this extra work makes it easier for the search engine by requiring the developer to do more work. I would prefer the reverse, otherwise maybe I need to get into the search business. They are creating a standard that will make it incredibly easy for future search engines.
That's the point. The audience is substantially higher now, and you can thus expect revenues to be higher.
True night vision is a bit different than just adding near-infrared, unless you plan on using an IR illuminator. It's more like cranking the ISO to ridiculous levels, and if it's thermal the wavelengths are much much longer than any digital camera (or optics) can pick up.

In any case, the first poster is right, an additional IR filter would remove this.
A "real VC" is unlikely to be a "relatively new investor".
Wow. You can't see why a surgeon would get mad at a nurse's sloppiness? What is wrong with this world?!

Jason, just cowboy up and admit you blew it! I'm sick of this kissy-ass liberal mentality!!

Heh, I was joking of course. Couldn't help myself.

Let the downvoting begin.
I love how every topic, no matter how initially obscure, is eventually boiled down to boring old (american politics) partisan flames.
Are there any drawbacks to this? I've been looking for a "Heroku for Django" for a few months and I just started using Google App Engine to get some of what I want. I'll go ahead and try this if it works well.
clickable: http://scavsite.com/
Everything is broken into subreddits on reddit and if you learn to select the subreddits that interest you instead of just reading the "rage comic" and "pet picture" subreddits it might be of more interest.
Evernote doesn't do syntax highlighting, from what I remember. Also, can I make a note public if I want?

(it's been ages since I last tried Evernote)
What does "market leader" mean in this market? The one who spends the most on direct marketing? I haven't talked to a single person who has brand loyalty to Groupon or uses it exclusively and there certainly isn't repeat business amongst a majority of their merchants. They're also in a business that, judging by the number of new entrants into the market, will see an attrition in profits-per-deal as time goes on.
Or Amazon.com

Amazon lost $3 billion over 8 years before they started turning a profit. [1]

It's HARD to tell the difference between Iridium and Amazon. That's why some investors make money and some lose money.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/faberNovel/amazoncom-the-hidden-em...
Personally I'm a big fan of Snippets for OS X (http://www.snippetsapp.com/) The killer feature is Command-Option-V to autocomplete the snippet you want to paste.

I gave up on Evernote because of the totally broken text formatting.
I'd say one bitcoin article per page is excessive. Bitcoin is hardly 1/30th of the interesting hacker news out there.
If you're also looking for physical copies sold into bookstore, or online, I know the guys that founded and run Authorhouse, they've been doing it for year and are quite good. Check them out.
This plus a vim plugin for browsing snips would be awesome.
I want this to go into the iPhone 5. If it does, I can think of about a million ways to troll the general public with it.

Imagine, little solar-powered IR LEDs that you could ninja-drop in places (like...an Apple store) that would broadcast "Hello, you are photographing a copy of The Hurt Locker". This would make the best hidden-camera show ever (though you'd have to record it with a non-iPhone).
GroupOn IPO - Revenues Collapsing + Costs Skyrocketing
I know there are people scraping Groupon deals and sales figures and estimating revenues. Does anyone have the name of these sites? It seems like a hell of a opportunity to sell $10k research reports based on public information to wall street traders.
As soon as the API is built out (it's already kinda-sorta built: http://snipt.net/api), this should be trivial.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/.a/6a0120a5580826970c015432b717...

Apple was the first one to suggest this use case, not the blog.
PayPal’s Missed Opportunities
The HTML data-* attributes are intended for private data only; i.e., to store data to be used as configuration for a Javascript plugin but which does not hold semantic value and cannot be represented as actual content, whereas microdata (which is what theyre using and is also part of the HTML5 specification) is meant only for describing how the content of the page maps to some schema.
Abolishing the software patent is like healing by killing
Snippets is a nice app. I tried it a while back. If we can get them to interface with the Snipt API when it's finished, it'd be a great desktop UI for Snipt.
Thank you. Completely stupid just missed it on my part.
Here's what Google Webmaster Central says about schema.org: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

"Google currently supports rich snippets for people, events, reviews, products, recipes, and breadcrumb navigation, and you can use the new schema.org markup for these types, just as with our regular markup formats. Because we’re always working to expand our functionality and improve the relevance and presentation of our search results, schema.org contains many new types that Google may use in future applications."

"Google doesn’t use markup for ranking purposes at this time—but rich snippets can make your web pages appear more prominently in search results, so you may see an increase in traffic."
> Oh I get it: this is one of those "man, the Fed is messing up" rants!

Imagining a rant, and a classification for the discussion, is not helpful. Your two points (a) and (b) I agree with.
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I prefer this cartoon (by Kal, the Economist's cartoonist. He says this is consistently his best seller): http://shop.kaltoons.com/collections/prints/products/buy-sel... (click for the large version)
As someone not at all familiar with writing Safari extensions, this (https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/NoBitcoin/blob/master/NoBi...) looks really really overcomplicated for something that seems like it would only take a few lines of JS to do in a bookmarklet or Greasemonkey script (assuming it's literally just hiding any story that has "bitcoin" in the title - this might be a bad assumption as I can't try it out myself).

Are all Safari extensions this complex?
Why that's a total non-sequitur? If the patent is only specifically related to Apply products, then they should keep it to themselves.

There's no incentive for Apple to produce/sell this device.
Reminds me of that legendary post on Craigslist, the one where the guy is trying to get rid of cinder blocks that are on his property.

Can anyone locate where that is? I think a screenshot exists of it.
That's even better than my previous favorite, from
"Unmaintainable Code: Naming" (http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmainnaming.html):

marypoppins = ( superman + starship ) / god;