skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A restaurant etc has a different model from most - they have an absolutely limited possible customer capacity. If popular, they want to work on customer quality, not quantity.

A quality restaurant customer is: part of the right-sized party (comes as a party of 4); orders specials or expensive dishes; raves about the food to friends; has a regular habit; other things I don't know.

Coupons can easily backfire for restaurants, because they pack in low-margin customers, possibly displacing quality customers!
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You mean the same way some people just 'get' Jesus?

He strikes me as a serious devotee first, analyst second.
Exactly. I've bought many kindle books but have no interest at all in buying through iBooks. I do have several Apple devices now but I don't want to be chained to them forever.

Google also makes it fairly easy to export all your data if you decide you want to pick up and move.
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Oh but it's real and people are choosing Reeder over Google reader, people are choosing mail.ipa (or Android equivalent) over Gmail web interface. With good API, people will choose native Google Docs apps too.

Cloud is the service is the soul and is the only truth, but it also works best invisibly.
Sure, and I can go around punching people in the face and tell 'em that I'm doing 'em a favour by reminding them to always wear a full-face helmet when out in public.

But if nobody except me is a big enough asshole to go round punching people in the face at random...
> The reason so many sites prompt for password is for security

I doubt it. I think the reason has more to do with what their framework or authentication scheme supports or how rigorous they are with user engagement.
Is this considered cheap? (the lowest I could find is 0.0110 EUR per outbound SMS) I never bought SMS in bulk, but a certain service that charged for informational SMS sent out to clients charged me more than 2x cheaper. Their business was not selling SMS and I never saw the rates though.
I'm all for browser-clients everywhere if they could keep up with native clients in terms responsiveness, and hardware-software integration.

This has never been the case, and I don't think it will for some time to come, if ever.

Innovation on the web moves at standards-speed (de facto and open). If 80% of your users are stuck on IE6 or lower (circa 2007), you will be hard pressed to make anything web-based as usable as the iPhone and it's native apps that showed up around that time.

Apple's cloud isn't for serving everyone; just users of their products. Consequently they can move faster than standards with their native binaries, and be out in front of web standards (with graceful degradation for non-Safari browsers) for web clients.
Because I realized that telling people to jump head on into a startup as a co-founder usually doesn't work (it's like asking for a girl you just met lets get married), it's better to first test each other and see how we work part-time then once good things happen (funding, launching a solid site etc.) then he/she can decide to join full time.
Oh, whew. False alarm. He has the standard "EU-IDE: Certified Developer Edition". Gonna have to write him up for not updating to the latest version, though.
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What exactly shall I be looking at? Every SMS provider has REST/XML/JSON/whatever service...
...nothing wrong with ASP.NET.
> CAN-SPAM mandates 1-click opt-out

Actually it requires one-click or two-click. And not for transactional emails.
That's a good point. Groupon might be rough on restaurants, but then it seems everything is pretty rough on restaurants.
Matt Welsh left Harvard to go to Google because he wanted more applied science/engineering and less paper research.

I think part of his frustration was that, at Harvard, even though Computer Science sits in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(!), it has never been formally split into Computer Science and Computer/Software Engineering.

Many years ago, Computer Science split out of Mathematics in the university taxonomy. The "Java Wars" of the 2000s and the "Facebook Wars" of the 2010s are a manifestation of the fact that Computer Science has grown too large and needs to split.

We have Applied Math that sits between (but overlaps with) Math on one side and Computer Science / Economics / Science on the other. It's completely appropriate for our modern age to have Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, and Engineering as overlapping fields with separate centers.
Computer Scientist: A computer scientist is as much a mathematician as they are a technologist

Programmer: A good breadth of algorithmic knowledge is imperative

Developer: They are consummate generalists without any truly deep specializations

Since those are bolded I assume the author means those as the defining characteristics of each group. Yet I see all of those in myself. Depending on the project, some aspects stand out more than others, and some styles (throwing together, designing, refactoring) stand out more than others as well.

I'll just nod my head to the other commenters who don't find this article very useful.
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yet the statistics dept is miles ahead when it comes to theory.
But if these are just DDOSes, then (a) there's no way to steal sensitive information that way, and (b) there's no real defence against 'em anyway. So this particular argument is pointless, right?

There's an argument for whiteish-hat intrusions, but DDOSes must be intrinsically black-hat, right?
YARV was an external fork that was integrated into MRI pretty early, and then worked on by the core team for several years. My point was simply that YARV's existence and the commitment of the core team to get it into core (and the resulting performance improvements) disprove the idea that the Ruby core team doesn't care about performance.
I'd always classified a Programmer as someone who writes code to someone else's spec, and a Developer codes to their own spec

A Programmer is a specific role - write code to do exactly this. A Developer has a broader role - they're often also heavily involved with the BA side of things, overall architecture and DB design.

Developers tend to exist in smaller companies, and are replaced by more specific titles an the company grows. A startup may have a handful of Developers, whereas a larger company will have a team of BAs, a team of DBAs, another team of Architects and sometimes multiple teams of Programmers. In large companies like this, Programmer sits almost at the bottom of the IT food chain, just above Helpdesk

I don't think I've ever met a Computer Scientist
Ah, but to them, the more you complain that it's not funny any more, the funnier it gets.

It's kinda like a destructive version of people who say "That's what she said".
Acting like defacers wasn't low brow enough, now they're just borrowing a ddos botnet? What's next in this high tech crime spree, supergluing all the lock tumblers at the local mall?

Is the lulz from laughing with them or at them?
It seems naive that you assume that banning Windows would decrease the rate of successful malicious attacks on machines. Every piece of software has holes - the largest of which is the user. If everyone in the EU switched off of Windows, you'd just have a large percentage of the population using linux or OSX without understanding how security works on those systems (many of whom would gladly enter their root password to install a spyware program, so long as they can keep playing farmville or whatever it promises to do).
This is an informed and level-headed discussion from a seasoned patent attorney. Well worth reading.
you'd think their name would make this motivation apparent...
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Should you? No. But I guarantee if you did, the publicity would educate people about locks.

A more apt analogy might be: opening a poorly locked door to a business, then walking behind the counter and grabbing full print-outs of all their customers' information that was left lying there.

I hope you don't take the same lax approach to security when it's more than your personal documents at stake.
I've been totally waiting with baited breath to launch this rant at some poor unsuspecting sap. So, hi Tichy!

Man, I really really wanted to love that whole book series. The characterization was fantastic, the settings were detailed and rich, the story telling was great ...

But, sometime part-way through A Feast For Crows, I just couldn't stand reading it any more. The violence seemed too unnecessary; the destruction of characters that had been so carefully built had started to turn into an expectation -- "I wonder how he's going to later make this interesting new character suffer? Will he maim them? Murder them? Destroy them psychologically?" For me, in that volume, it somehow went from being a great story with difficult events to a really ugly story that just wasn't worth reading anymore. I no longer cared about the characters because, y'know, they were gonna die anyway. Or worse.

Now I'm starting to hear from people who are watching the HBO series but who never read the books, and they're talking about how they really love this character or that character, and every time inside I get this massive troll face on and think, "Heh ... just you wait and see what happens to that one."

I sold my copy of the set to a used bookstore. I hear there's another one out now, but I have very little desire, or curiosity, towards it.
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I don't think the implication is that Apple has none of its own infrastructure, just that they've bought some pieces from third parties.
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For those coming to JavaScript from Java http://ringojs.org & https://github.com/lhofhansl/RhiNodeII should be of interest.

The performance improvements brought on by InvokeDynamic in Java7 are also pretty exciting.
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No, you can actually run Ruby on Rails, and other languages on Azure. That's a goal for them, actually. It's not only access to the storage API.
On the other hand the population of the bay area is quite comparable to that of Israel.

Smaller countries tend to have more specialized and targeted economies. If Israel were to attempt to play in all the industries that the US does, they would do very poorly at almost all of them.

Much of the US economy is in large established technology and manufacturing companies, where VC no longer has a role.

I would expect that for every possible region of Israel, it is possible to find a region of similar population in the bay area that has a higher per capita VC investment.
Hi all,

My name is David Lang, I'm the Community Manager at ProFounder. I wanted to weigh in on the great discussion above. ProFounder does, in fact, allow for equity investments and is legally compliant. As mentioned above, it's SEC compliant due to the fact that investors have prior, substantial relationships with the entrepreneurs.
Think "Revenge of the Nerds" if it were a horror movie instead of a comedy.
Coming from a RingoJS background, I'm trying to address the first use case you mention with http://olegp.github.com/common-node/ - would really appreciated any feedback or comments you may have.
That was a fun before-breakfast warmup; the input was always short enough that a simple, brute-force approach would usually work. The problem statements could have been made a little bit clearer though.

And what's up with the green-on-black Mac screen?!

EDIT: my solutions (using Node.js) https://github.com/julienq/incubator/tree/master/misc/readyf...
Are we looking at the same chart? The trend seems to be climbing to me.

fogus was a big perpetrator

I feel so dirty when you put it that way.

But if what you say is true then my recent lack of perpetration directly correlates with the trend of "Hacker News is declining" posts. Sure, correlation ain't causation, but from my perspective I was singlehandedly responsible for keeping HN interesting and edgey.

Correlation is fun!
Latency and responsiveness are still a huge problem for all network-heavy apps.

We have a professionally used iOS app that relies on server data (the magical cloud) and the number one user complaint is speed. Creating your client on iOS rather than in HTML/JS doesn't give you any magical "Latency and responsiveness" user experience unicorns.
Boy, that went well. I'm sure they'll believe us next time we say the sky is falling.
The submitter account looks a lot like spam to me. No comments, short existence on the site, a few random submissions and everything else about nexmo. Which is likely why linking to one specific portion of the API doesn't make a lot of sense. There are several submitted articles like that linking into a subset of the API, probably to get around the dupe link checker.
On coffeescript and sass, I guess I'm just a blind-following zombie fanboy that does whatever the Rails team tells me. I moved all my javascript to coffeescript and css to sass, it was love at first sight and in my mind it was the best decision ever. I know it was all available long before 3.1, I had played with both but never in real projects, and having it baked-in makes it easy for me.

I guess I'm basically just an end user, I like to use technology that's vouched-for and I trust the Rails team. Rails suits me.
I wonder how secure those VPN providers are. Regardless, my bet is that these guys will get taken down via a Kaczynski vulnerability. That is, someone that personally knows them will figure out that they are responsible and report them to the authorities.
http://gigaom.com/2011/06/10/apple-icloud-microsoft-azure-am...

This article from GigaOm explains it better - Apple is likely using Azure / AWS as a CDN, because their data centers are centrally located (however this is not fact - we still don't know the extent to which they leverage azure / aws)

I think its a win-win for everyone involved - Azure makes money, and bags a high profile customer which validates their platform. Apple can leverage Azure's distributed datacenters to deliver a great experience for their users.

If this is true, I wouldn't say that it was embarrassing for Microsoft - much like how Google Maps on the iPhone is valuable asset for Google , not an embarrassment.
The difference is that one of those people could very well return the favor and give you a proper ass kicking, or determine your identity with relative ease and file a complaint with the police.

The disincentives that exist for your example and those that exist for actions similar to those taken by lulzsec are radically different.

The conclusion that people should walk around with full-face helmets is ridiculous because of the existing disincentives for assaulting someone. The conclusion that companies should secure their networks, not such an unreasonable expectation.
Yea, I'd definitely agree in the case of DDOSes -- they don't seem to make sense with their other attacks, even. Silly and destructive.
Thanks! We are working on US reach and we hope to have it ready at the end of June or beginning or July. We will post updates in Twitter @Nexmo and of course in our website.
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Do assets in public/ break in 3.1? Sure, it's encouraged, but I'm pretty sure if you tell your web server to point to public/ it will serve your static assets from there. As far as I know you can upgrade your existing rails app from 3.0 to 3.1 and start using asset pipelining on your own schedule.
What I don't understand about this is - What makes Wimdu a clone of AirBnB, but AirBnB not a clone of Homeaway/VRBO?

I'm not trying to be flippant, really wondering what is new about AirBnB (other than a much better interface)
I agree with using Lanyrd for tracking conferences.

And to bring this back around ... don't forget to check out http://lanyrd.com/2011/clojure-conj/
For people over 200lbs its a big PITA, to the point that a lot of places won't take you if you're over 225. At that point it's hard on the instructor and hard on the gear. At around 250lbs, depending on the weight of the instructor, you come up on the max recommended exit weight. Most everything will still work fine, you just expose yourself to situations where the reserve might, say, explode if you do too many wrong things in a row. We just charge $1 per lbs to the student for everything over 200lbs and give it to the instructor. That way when a 250lbs 5' tall bowling ball of a woman walks in, everyone fights over her :)
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Somewhere between 60-80%.

The "Keynesian beauty contest" seems like a great question for Quora, honestly.
Yes, but electricity != petroleum. You need to replace all the cars (difficult) and trucks (very very difficult). Maybe build more rail infrastructure, too.
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It's a bad idea to give a discount to someone who was already going to buy your product at full price. It's an even worse idea to sell them a product and get 25% the revenue you would otherwise.
Windows Azure can be a number of things. Since they use AWS and the article shows http requests they might be using it as just a blob store or CDN with redundancy across providers. I doubt they're running Windows Azure on their servers not that it wouldn't be pragmatic to.
Camera first, safety third ;)
Promote security.

Discuss secure coding techniques, perform security analysis on software (and closed-source services with bug bounty programs!), make sure your own projects/products are secure, and generally just keep security -- not just attacks -- in the limelight.
You seem to know very little about Rails 3. But if you think ramaze has a "community", I guess I can understand why.
I found the Hartl RoR tutorial slow going, and couldn't parse whether my confusion was Rails, or Ruby, or REST concepts (& Rails implementation thereof), or TDD (which I found takes some getting used to). "Learning Rails" seems to involve learning some design practices and process tools that are less mandatory when learning other frameworks. But I'm just a newbie with some Python / Django familiarity, others may take to this stuff faster.

I have found those additions worthwhile. The work I've done in Django has gone a _lot_ faster, and I think better written, for the orientation to REST and TDD.

Perhaps real devs with more experience find these pieces less helpful and more intrusive?
While i've nothing against Wimdu (or AirBnB), I am against putting insane amounts of money into something that not only is a "clone" of another business, it is also what I define as a business that does not exactly "push humanity forward".

I could give a myriad of better uses for that $90 million:

- Keep the SETI initiative going (and along with a few arrays)

- Any tpe of medical (cancer, genetics, etc) research

- Next generation wireless infrastructure networks

- Any viable cleantech startup

And the list goes on and on and on and on..
incredibly interesting, I'll be trying it very soon.
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From the article, it sounds like these new sites are literally clones. They are scraping Airbnb listings and posting them on their own sites. They aren't just using the idea of Airbnb, they are using the content.

That's just what I can glean from the article.
> I'm not trying to be flippant, really wondering what is new about AirBnB (other than a much better interface)

I think you might have answered a decent chunk of the question in your parentheses, there.
And when I search for UK connections, that cheap quoted price is via Manx Telecom, not direct-to-carrier (which is, as they say, more reliable). I'd assume their inbound VMNs are, too (which means some networks would get hit with International rates).

There's other complications that they don't seem to handle that well (Text encoding! Bulk sending!). But they may have some luck - their website is easy on the eye, their APIs look sane, and the pricing isn't so bad.
Free market. If someone thinks x isn't worth $169, but it is worth $169 after 20% off, that's just savvy business. You'll find in marketing, perception is nearly always more important than reality.
IIRC, plankton blooms were debunked. They tried it and the number of predators just a level removed from the plankton increased to offset the bloom.
They get the coupon before they buy the shirts but after they jump, in their diploma packet. more people buy shirts because of it.
At some point, each person decides how much value something provides to themselves or others and acts accordingly. You put a lot of value in the items that you list, others put value in things like Airbnb. To claim that because Airbnb doesn't "push humanity forward" (by whatever measure you imagine that to be) that it is somehow a waste of money is a bit much. For one thing, $100MM sounds like a lot of money, but in the big picture of "pushing humanity forward" it is almost nothing. Secondly, as a society, we aren't going to put 100% of our wealth into those items, or any other list that one person considers "important". So why is it so terrible that it is going to something that provides many people real value (as they define it for themselves)?
I don't think so.

Apple are most likely wanting to concentrate on their core competency (making the iCloud product) and not have to worry about (more) data centers/storage/etc to support the product.

As others mentioned it sounds like a good win for both parties; Apple get to concentrate on the product directly, Microsoft get to concentrate on their code competency (providing the hosting).
I'm so impressed with this. Took 1 minuite from signup (FREE CREDIT) to receiving a SMS to my phone from a PHP script on my laptop. Cool
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I imagine the SVP for cloud computing at Apple is happy to pay for highly redundant services so he doesn't invoke the Wrath of Jobs (TM). Steve Jobs probably pushed for multi-vendor redundancy so he could confidently say at the keynote that they stuffed up the Mobile Me launch, but wouldn't make the same mistake.
But Silicon Valley is still far more specialized than Israel.

Most Israelis are not in hi-tech industries, so it is unfair to compare SV to Israel.
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Skid marks and debris can actually provide a pretty accurate picture of the speed of the collision.
The number for the valley would be even higher if you just took the counties from San Jose to SF, and excluded all of the East Bay, Marin, etc.
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No investor cares about pushing humanity forward, they care about making money on their investments. And that's okay - since in most cases the amount of money made is proportional to the value something creates.
I've seen studies pointing out more land access for Canadians [0] but hardly anything about affecting the 'living biosphere of 90% of Canadians within 100 miles of US border'. What's the source?

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Do you guys have someone in house to run your groupons? This seems like a good service for a start up to offer.
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Expanded, not redefined.