skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got stung the other day by a Groupon clone here in Australia. My wife asked me to buy the daily deal, which I did, without checking it properly. The business in question doesn't exist.

Looks like the daily deal company did absolutely no checking that it was legit or the business did as this article suggests and knew they were going bankrupt anyway.

I started asking around and found a few similar stories from friends and colleagues. Hoping to see all of this hit the news soon.
I'm reading on RSS and only click through it when there is an embedded Youtube video.
Thanks for this. Great to get both sides of the debate.
They didn't use IBM's machines.
It's the sustained media attention that these hacks are drawing that's going to be the catalyst for legislation.

The government's attitude has largely been static on the issue, but they need a general population outcry to push through/rubber stamp legislation that's no doubt already written somewhere.
Yeah I can back that one up - 3 out of 4 of my iPhone using friends don't understand that the phone has a OS that needs to be updated and don't remember having attached the phone to a computer with iTunes.
My dad has never synced, his only use for the iPhone is as a phone, he doesn't want music on it, and doesn't care about software upgrades.
And what would this legislation be? You've already got kids going to jail for simple stuff. Look at what happened after the LOIC/Visa/Mastercard thing a few months ago.

Even if you need to insert your drivers license to the computer in order to access it, and every packet you send is signed with a user-specific hash, the only people it's going to matter to are the people who aren't doing anything wrong right now.

Cracking down is just going to create more crackers, and most of us in the middle probably won't really notice.
Brad Pitt and Australian actress get nude
Reportedly the affair between Brad Pitt (the famous Hollywood actor and the husband of Angelina Jolie) and the gorgeous sexy Australian actress Bella Heathcote has been going with much oomph these days. There have been many reports in the media about the affair. Both got caught in nude.
Agreed, not sound reasoning, but here's a nice summary of the challenges of Clojure on Android: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4651757/clojure-on-androi...
I guess that depends on the country. As long as they do not "destroy" or "maliciously manipulate" some data, charges in many countries are pretty low (and sometimes non-existant). In addition, there are many countries that won't extradite their own citizens.
Thank you. I'm not against speculating but we all should know that correlation does not imply causation.
Faking idiocy at a tech convention doesn't serve your cause.
Apple Dropping "AirPort" for "Wi-Fi"
Pasting images into messages just got easier - Official Gmail Blog
" I strongly suspect that it a lot like Brownian Motion"

1.Mkt isn't like BM. BM permits -ve values & any market index say SPY must be non-negative.

2. We (quants) model market indices like SPY as a log-normal process like so :
dS = rSdt + sigmaSdz
where
S = underlying ( or market index )
dS = change in S, dt = change in time
r = risk free interest rate ( about 0.03 % currently )
dz = normally distributed rv with mean 0, std dev sigma

There is an embedded Brownian component in dz, so also in S. But that doesn't make S itself Brownian.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_process

"No observer could possibly predict which direction it will jump next"

Nobody is trying to do that in the very next instant.
OTOH, you can certainly predict where the market will go, say, in a year.
Well known econ result: DP ratio regresses positively with return. ie. Dividend-price ratio predicts stock return with high statistical significance.
Source: Cochrance, French/Fama, et al.
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3122601/campbells...

"there are plenty of people making random guesses...there are also plenty of fools, and they are investing on all sorts of techniques which ignore any of the global considerations, and of course this is how bubbles expand."

Ha ha ha! Very amusing but very inaccurate. I think this is my general problem with geeks on the outside of finance. They happen to think markets are purely stochastic. X has randomness doesn't mean X is unpredictable. Otherwise why have APT, CAPM, covariance matrices, factor models, Heath Jarrow, Black Litterman...you've written off some 100+ years of economics in one breath !

To summarize, there are tons of observers, who predict where the overall market or some portfolio of equities ( or bonds or agencies or munis or treasuries or whatever else ) will go. To get data points for these predictions, you use a historical time window, compute coVar matrices, invert them, build a CAPM....etc. Anyways, its not rocket science. There are tons of CFAs & Finmath engg ( I'm one of them ) who do this sort of work day in and day out. Its our bread & butter. If I said something like "market is a lot like brownian motion & people are making random guesses", I'd be out of a job.
Using Java classes and interfaces from Clojure is straightforward. Instantiating objects is easy. Implementing Java interfaces is easy. Both are fluid and feel idiomatic.

On the other hand, extending an existing Java class is quite awkward, requiring the use of gen-class, and does not (IMHO) feel idiomatic. I found the gen-class facility poorly documented. It also has a potentially small performance penalty due to an extra dereference (though in my testing I could not measure a meaningful difference between a gen-class object and a native Java implementation).

So Clojure is nice for using Java stuff from Clojure, however it becomes awkward for using Clojure stuff from Java.
I said at the time that LulzSec's claims were possibly an attempt to deflate the market to gain an easy in. With a small market a big buy in should itself create inflation of the price.

If I was right then LulzSec or whoever paid him just minted it ... or at least they did if they can ever get their money out again.
They can be quite different.

For instance, HP WebOS uses additional attributes to turn DIVs into Buttons.

I've no idea what MS is going to come up with.
I said I would pay to use it if you built it, so I've become a backer. Can I ask why you're going the open source route? I would definitely pay a premium to make sure your service stays around, is reliable and is improved over time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2184603
My guess is that the typical iPhone user who frequents a genius bar is a recent purchaser unfamiliar with the equipment, and there haven't been that many major updates out since they bought their phone. Over time, I'd assume that people would be less likely to need to go to the Apple Store for support. There is also the fact that iPhone sales are growing year-to-year and quarter-to-quarter, further increasing the representation of recent purchasers.
I find web development less enjoyable than 5 or 10 years ago because of the increasing size and complexity of the stack.

Part of this is that stacks that start off all light and fresh "we're not Struts!" before long acquire a few too many "must-have" features until, Lo! they are Struts.

Then it's time to drop that framework and find something more fresh, light, and lean, and enjoy it while it lasts.
I'm an avid user of Yelp and find the overall ratings to be usually quite accurate. The caveat, though, is that the restaurant/business needs to have a sufficient numbers of reviews so that all of the top and bottom end outlier ratings are negated by the overall average score.

Also, keep in mind that the ratings are based on the complete experience not just the food. If someone had great food but a bad experience with the waiter, they may have no problems leaving 1 or 2 stars. Crap food with awesome service could get 4 stars.

It's Yelp, not Zagat or Michelin. If you use it appropriately, it will work for you.
Stack Overflow is geared towards developers and doesn't have anything I can see to attract a particular kind of developer, except the curious kind. I can't think of a place to get a better sampling of developers right off hand. Certainly, while Hacker News is popular among developers, it would be a less accurate sampling of developers than Stack Overflow, because people here tend to be attracted to startups.

I disagree with what you said in your first post, that it is completely wrong, and that no valid conclusion that can be taken from these numbers. It's not perfect but it's far from being a terrible sample. It's a general-interest developer site rather than a specific-interest one. There are all types of developers. In a reverse-sorted list of popular recent tags, there are c#, javascript, php, java, jquery, .net, and android. Also, developers didn't choose to be a part of this graph; they merely got put into the survey result because they had Stack Overflow accounts. If it had been a survey that was announced on twitter it would be biased towards people who want to take surveys. This would be a worse bias IMO than people who want to ask and answer technical questions.

I wouldn't take issue if you had said it was problematic, but instead you went straight to a one-sided conclusion.
I know this is flawed logic and doesn't account for a number of variables, but:

The most surprising fact in this article is that, if this is true, Facebook is essentially 1/2 of a Microsoft in terms of valuation. As much has Microsoft has been lagging over the past few years, I just don't think that Facebook is 1/2 of a Microsoft at this point. Maybe 1/5 of a Microsoft.
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I can see what you mean, but I can also see why Adobe chose this path. A pure CSS solution may offer the ability to simply define an array of boxes for the content to flow through. On the other hand the css box model requires html elements in the hierarchy to attach to, in order to manage the cascading aspect of css.
This figure might be useful if we knew how long the average Genius Bar customer has had their phone. If the average is two weeks, then it's not all that impressive.
If you're putting your savings into that it's your own risk. People know that right now Bitcoin should be regarded as completely volatile financial instrument. If you want to gamble: fine, but don't cry if it doesn't work out the way expected.
Not that I don't appreciate these examples, but they shouldn't have to be in javascript for somebody to learn the algorithm. I've always learned more when I've read some pseudo code (or another language) and implemented an algorithm myself.

Also, to anyone planning to use these in code, please note the copyright. Event though it's MIT, you still have to add the credit to your code. sigh Gotta love copyright law ;D
50% of iPhone Users Don't Sync to iTunes
Nah, the Bitcoins are still dirty when they come out.
What about accounting for the massive selection bias of people who would actually visit the Genius Bar in the first place and combining that with the total number of people who visit the Genius Bar with their iPhones at all. I am guessing the number represents a tiny fraction of total iPhone users.
How the hell do young programmers learn such a big stack in a few years?

Welcome to the museum of modern wheels -- we have every shape but round.
Mt. Gox might be the most popular one, but unless you're going to buy/sell an extremly high amount of Bitcoins, other exchanges are viable too.

Currently I like Bitmarket.eu most: This site acts as an escrow just for the Bitcoin side of the trade - the "real" money is directly transfered between buyer and seller (via bank transfer or Paypal). That's somewhat more distributed than other sites that act as "full gateways" between buyers and sellers.
Sharks with frickin' laser beams may not be far off
Emotiv - Brain Computer Interface Technology
Yes for new development, but major projects developed in VB6 still needs to be supported.
Someone else asked for a reference and I provided the link in response also in this thread. I am not arguing it's the only language they use but python are languages they use nonetheless
I can't speak for others, but I downvoted because the time to figure out your business model is long before IPO. So a claim that an "attack" isn't valid because it ignores the possibility of radical business model changes isn't worth discussing.
The bottom line is I have yet to hear Groupon share any metrics with the public on how much their product is, you know, actually successful. Regardless of the reason, be it that they can't measure it, or, more sinisterly, don't want to share it, you have to assume their business sucks or elthey're incompetent or else they'd be trumpeting the upside for businesses everywhere.
What's revenue have to do with anything? P/Es are based on earnings, not revenues.
Node.js is Backwards
Coke accidentally created an ad for our app. What should we do?
A few months ago, a friend and I created a Facebook app. The Like-o-Meter. It counted the number of Likes on your Facebook wall posts and challenged you to beat your friends. It was a fun idea, but we didn't really get it off the ground yet.

Then, this afternoon, I started getting a flood of emails, all about the Like-o-Meter. Some said that they loved the app. Some were trying to make ambiguous business deals with me. I went to our app's Facebook Wall, and found a huge number of positive messages, all from people in Egypt.

There was no obvious reason for this sudden popularity. So I Googled. This came up:
http://thenextweb.com/me/2011/06/13/did-coca-cola-just-create-an-ad-campaign-for-facebook/

Apparently Coca Cola is airing an ad in Egypt. The ad mentions the "Coca Cola Like-o-Meter" - a Facebook app of some sort. Their ad didn't display a URL, so people are finding mine. And using it. And, apparently, liking it. It seems to be spreading virally beyond people who saw the ad.

Has anything ever happened like this before?

And does anyone speak Arabic? What does the ad say about the Like-o-Meter? It's not a pro-Mubarak ad, is it?

UPDATE: apparently the entire concept of their app is a direct rip-off of mine, not just the name. I guess that makes the legal issues more interesting?
Specialization.

When I was starting out, I did design, frontend dev, backend dev, and ops work. Over the last 15 years these positions have all split into specializations: design was the first to go, then ops. The split between frontend and backend opened up in the middle of the last decade, and continues to split even further into controller and model devs on the back end and Javascript and CSS people on the frontend.

The increasingly popularity of frameworks stems from this specialization. It's more important than ever to have separation of concerns, because as apps get larger, individual devs are doing smaller and smaller sections of the work.

Young programmers don't know less than us -- they know way more than we do, but on a much narrower range.
I hope they stick with conventional URI syntax and don't go all hashbang-crazy like certain other websites have done.
The past weekend (during a RHoK event) I was introduced to TipFy by a young dude who's far faster than me in grokking new tools. It was easy, fresh and led to a fun weekend of web development.

Tipfy runs on the Google App Engine Python stack. It's a bit rough on the edges, but that's part of the fun.
Plenty of freelance sites like oDesk, freelancer.com, etc. Those places can get you work fairly quickly but the rates may not be impressive (at first).

Generally people don't just jump into freelance though without any clients or big projects lined up. Perhaps finding a job first and networking/developing a portfolio to freelance later may be an easier route.
This is not really a story. The 500-shareholder rule stipulates that companies must start releasing data 90 days after the end of the year on which they pass that threshold. That's why FB did the Goldman deal at the beginning of the year--so they'd have the maximum time possible during which they could operate as a private company while still doing a raise that put them over the maximum.

And the $100bn number is also not much news. There's a liquidity premium for trading on the public markets. The highest LinkedIn trade on the private markets was less than half of their lowest post-IPO valuation. FB can't expect the same premium, but 20% is not a stretch.

Employees have been grumbling about illiquid stock since, well, long before Facbeook existed. That's one of the big reasons companies go public; it was a big reason for Microsoft's IPO, for example.

Basically, you could have written this story on the first working day of the year.
If you're at all interested in this area, I strongly second warfangle's recommendation to read "The Master Switch". It gives a very interesting historical perspective on corporate control, and is one of my favorite books of last year.
Yeah, my conclusion from the data was "senior developers know more things and have more time on their hands to tell others about those things", which is exactly what you'd expect. The more senior you get, the more your role is as guide and mentor than immediate implementor.
FB's operating margins are extremely high. The usual number I hear is 40%+, with each marginal dollar of revenue contributing about $.60 in operating profit.
It would surprise me if Mt. Gox would maliciously manipulate accounts, as this would not make sense for them. Currently they own loads of money via transaction fees - why should they risk their monopoly status for some short term gains?
If Facebook's profits touch $1Billion this year (as is expected), the valuation of $100 billion puts it at a P/E of 100. Thats high, but not too high for a growth company (Amazon has a similar number). In fact, the forward looking P/E (assuming Facebook might make $2 billion next year) is a (relatively) low 50. Google has a P/E of about 15. One of the reasons that the P/E is so low is the belief that Google has grown a lot, and wont grow much more.

To be honest, this is somewhat of a disappointment. The companies that solve 'hard', core-tech problems like Google and Microsoft are falling behind. Sad. Sad.
I love it. The slightly-too-intensely overlapping elements and colors are outrageous in a way that really appeals to me. TechCrunch gets accused of being a brash loud thing, and its fun to see them basically scream that to the mountaintops with the way they present themselves visually.

I also like that it harkens back to the aesthetics of earlier net culture publications (well, to Wired). Seeing text overlaid with bright big blocky backgrounds on top of photos with huge comedy swaths of pixel coloring everywhere brings me back in a very positive way.
>Good content, good incoming links, etc., seem to be far, far more important than whether you only use one h1 per page...and rightly so.

/ That's not what he asked though is it; his question appears to come from a position of knowledge. I'd expect the questioner to know that onpage optimisations were less important than incoming links and gross content condition.

Poor page structure should be an indicator used by ranking algos. I don't know that it is (I don't trust Google to tell us the truth!), but all else being equal I'd tighten up the structure to be basically logical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM - Matt Cutts (Google spokesman) on "multiple H1 tags"

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-five-least-important-ranking-f... - note #5 !
We're not talking about the value of the idea, we're talking about the value of an individual bitcoin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_%28finance%29

which is zero -- an owned bitcoin can't produce any income, nor keep you warm at night, nor feed you nor be hammered into jewellery.
What (information) could members provide without interfering with higher goals?

Information is stuck in cog-like positions which teams revolve around, so how can we reprogram?
Based on what I read from the thread, it's more the case that the Docs team is using it to get the pulse of what people want from Google Docs, than necessarily promoting anything. (Or even directly answering certain questions.)

The top questions right now are on offline, security of Docs, outlook for mobile app, formatting problems, only some of which I'm personally concerned about. So I'm hopeful reddit feedback works its way into prioritization and product plans.
It strikes me that one reason surrounding regimes are/were so hostile towards Israel is because they don't want their own people 'getting ideas.'
Perhaps because they think that there are only short-term gains to be had out of bitcoin? I'll take a hundred thousand real dollars now over a million bitcoins in 2013, thankyou very much.

MtGox has been fundamental to the whole pump-and-dump side of bitcoin so it wouldn't surprise me if they're manipulating the market.
It would be very poor business to count that money as revenue. If anything, that money is in escrow. The float value might be significant at Groupon's volumes, but it's just plain sleazy to count unredeemed voucher proceeds as revenue.

Also, it sounds like you're saying that the Groupon Promise is not honored. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that tested in court soon, too.
EquaShip gets a $900k boost
Is this analogous to the quantum mechanics theory that information cannot be lost or destroyed and everything is therefore reversible?
As sensational as your statement is, it has absolutely no relevance to the analysis of Groupon as a business.

Groupon believes they have a reliable fix on the Customer Lifetime Value. Some very smart investors who have done _actual_ analysis of Groupon (including the team that did due diligence for Google when they made the buyout offer earlier this year) clearly have at least some faith in these CLV numbers.

All of the "armchair analysis" you see here -- including your opinion on the subject -- is looking at a snapshot of Groupon from their S1 backward. That's fine but if you want to leave pro forma out of it, but then quit making pro forma statements about the failure and decay of the business!

All businesses are a money-multiplier machine, right? What you're complaining of is that by your analysis, that multiplier for Groupon is 0.72. Not a very good money machine at all really.

Suppose that when you factor in the CLV, that multiplier falls into the range you'd expect from a company that has low variable product costs and a large sales team: 1.21.

If you run that company, once you have enough data to really believe in the efficacy of those numbers, then you're going to do everything you can to purchase as many customers as possible. And if you're an investor, you're going to encourage management to do just that.

I mean, this is the very handbook on non-seed startup investing. Find a profitable CLV model, and scale it out.

But I'll give you this: you did a good job creating some outrageous, tongue-wagging scenarios.
Until congress passes some sensible data farming legislation, that is.
3M Files Trademark and Anti-Cybersquatting Lawsuit Over Domain Names
3M Corporation has filed a trademark infringement and anti-cybersquatting lawsuit over domain names that appear to be similar or confusingly similar to their trademark. But in this case, it appears as if they're suing everyone, not just the domain name owners.
It's not really that big of a deal. Your cup of coffee might vary between $0.50 and $5, but it averages out to $3.

Anyway, it's all a grand experiment! Isn't it fun?!

It's going to be a long time before Joe Schmoe is paying BTC at the Exxon station. By the time we get there it'll be much more stable, and there will be banks that charge you for stability.
Take a look at the huge list of people they're suing, including Domains by Proxy, Godaddy, and even web hosts.
and here's some software: https://github.com/qdot/emokit/
Malice isn't required for one to lose all of their investment in such a manner.
Those interested by this topic should check the following book (available as early access pdf) http://www.manning.com/williams/