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The deal-a-day industry is an interesting phenomenon because you have companies that are internationally famous whose fame doesn't really bring any added value to businesses because their customers are local. I think Groupon would work far better for ecommerce sites because there you aren't limited to local customers, and would be willing to pay more for instant nationwide exposure. And because the audience would be enormous, they could command much larger margins and stave off competition from local sites eating up their business. Of course Groupon scaled up way too fast and is now heavily reliant on volume that only selling to a huge number of businesses can bring.

Assuming Groupon is in financial peril, if I were CEO I would think about canceling the IPO, laying off most of the employees, and switching to ecommerce deals. No matter how you slice it, brick-and-mortar deals is a losing business model for a business after a certain scale.
In response to this and your subsequent posts:

First, let's draw an analogy to the territorial expansion of the human race. Engineering is like building cities, while basic research is like exploration and mapping. Before Columbus set sail there was an inkling that he might be able to find something of value, but nobody knew whether it would be gold, spices, etc., and certainly nobody foresaw the creation of an eventual world superpower. Plus, city builders need explorers to identify suitable sites for new cities, and to make sure that an expanding city isn't about to run itself off a cliff (or into some other unforeseen territorial hazard).

Second, imagine that engineering is like exploring a pitch black cave. Basic research is a flashlight we can shine in various directions. Engineers can make incremental steps forward, but without science lighting the way, we won't know whether we're about to run into a wall.

Third, grandiose projects like the LHC or ISS serve as an inspiration to scientists and engineers in all fields. Even if the primary activity of a giant project yields no useful results ("Not finding the Higgs" in the case of the LHC, and "Being in space" in the case of ISS), the supporting research and engineering teams will develop useful technologies to solve related problems (like the grid computing systems others have mentioned).

To sum up, basic research like that done at the LHC is necessary to expand the possible solution space for further scientific research and engineering. The further we push the limits of human understanding, the more branching-off points we create for the minds of applied scientists and engineers. The more different things we have to think about, the more likely we are to think useful thoughts that haven't been thought before. We need the LHC et. al. to be at the forefront of knowledge to provide plenty of well-traversed, fertile ground for applied science and engineering.
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The rational perspective is to look at history and realize that every attempt to predict long-term technological progress has gone laughably wrong. Lacking reason to believe we are now much better predictors, we should simply not allow our research efforts to be directed much by where we think they will lead.

Take the example of Vannevar Bush's memex, one of the most impressive attempts at technological prognostication. If you, during the 1930's and 40's, seriously believed in the potential of his ideas, would you have advocated for research into microfilm, or semiconductors? Or would you have dismissed the memex as science fiction too far out of reach to be used as a reasonable goal, when in reality it was less than half a century away? The man who best saw the value of the invention got all the implementation details wrong.
Probably licensing for all the ridiculous patents (see: Lodsys et al)
I don't think that these HN posts can be dismissed as cyclic griping and finger pointing / laughing.

1. Any company that produces bad UI should be called on it, particularly when that UI is going to impact such a large number of people.

2. I have a sense that it's not just anti-MS griping because, after all this time, after seeing the ascendency of design centric products, we find MS is still incapable, on an institutional and management level, of improving. Indeed they are getting worse at this.

3. If MS had produced something truly impressive, I think you'd see some honest, if not muted, clapping from even the anti-MS crowd. I'm no fan of MS (or Apple in many ways), but I'm a fan of trying hard and doing good work. This seems like neither.

P.S. You are right to point out Apple's failures. iTunes is a beachhead product that they are terrified of abandoning or altering lest it kill the golden goose ecosystem (they have no qualms about killing the golden goose of other people's ecosystems, cf the pro apps series, in the name of usability, though I think their success record there is spotty at best). It is an experience nightmare as well. I also hate the direction of the faux-natural-ui garbage in iCal and elsewhere in the system. Apple isn't hitting all homeruns on the UI front, even if they have raised the bar.

edit: spelling, more words.
For my area it's the same types of deals - stores, restaurants and services. It's either restaurants at 50% off or nail salons, lawn services, maid services, painters, etc. How many of those do you need? If you bought the deal from the painter, do you need another deal from a painter a month later. Once you check off those boxes of things you need or want to get done, it's just repetition for stuff you don't need anymore. There's nothing new keeping you coming back. No wonder traffic has dropped, the quality and the novelty have worn off.
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The lost productivity here is same sort of false number as record labels' lost sales due to privacy.
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My classic Mac snafu was iSync way back in 2005, after iSync on my new iMac running 10.4.0 after asking if I wanted to sync my SE 610T, it wiped out my phone's entire address book (it assumed the iMac had the canonical list ... of 0 entries).

I did hear they resolved it in a later release of 10.4, but I was pretty annoyed.

Apple does tend to fix bad uses cases like these much quicker, as they have limited configurations of OS deployments to address... this is by design also.
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Well as far as I know, the 'rippers' claimed by author has existed for a while now. This tweet is posted on Jul. 16 (http://www.weibo.com/1655212723/l4EWMiVcl ) while the author's post is posted on Aug. 30. So I would say this is just a coincident rather than a rip-off. And I believe the author should spend a little more time doing some research before accusing the wrong person.
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Those desks are surreal. They have their own built-in power distribution and wiring looms, so all of the cords for monitors, the PC, sound, and so on are bundled out of sight. You only need to unplug one AC cord, trundle the whole thing down the hall, and plug it in when you get where you're going.
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I've been playing with rails 3.1.0.rc5 for sometime. Asset pipeline seems a great way to organize style and scripts, but when it comes to images - didn't quite work for me. Even now, something as simple as showing up a favicon on production server is a herculean task. Not sure how many of you have created an app and gone up to production with the new framework, but there are many unanswered questions. - @bubble
Thanks! Started learning 3.1 a few months ago and loved the asset pipeline, but had a few problems getting a particular piece to work. Will have to get back to using it soon.
also to deter competitors from undercutting at hoping to make it up on apps (just as we are discussing about HP here). If they see that even Apple supposedly couldn't make a profit from its app store, they might be deterred.
I'm curious as to where the line between 'copying' and 'competition' is drawn.

Generally, chinese companies that 'steal ideas' (if you subscribe to such a notion). Release to a chinese market, that you don't (and likely never will) have access to.

So what are you protecting against?
It's a ridiculous idea IMO because when I want to copy 2 docs, a jpeg and an html file from one device to another, I'd have to open three separate programs in order to carry out the task.

With a dedicated file manager, you open the one program and do it all in one step.
The other thing about git, though, is that it's a manageable project. Linus thought through how he thinks source control should work, and then designed a robust and brilliant repository structure first, with the tools growing up around that solid conceptual base.

Comparing that against the general madness of the Ruby ecosystem seems unfair. Why not compare the state of unix utilities as a whole, which also have their incompatibilities? Granted, Unix and POSIX in particular are far and away beyond the kind of standardization that exists in the Ruby world, and of course that leads to stable (yet powerful) interfaces that strongly benefit the ecosystem as a whole, but look at the time and resources it took to get to that point. Expecting that somehow the developers on a new programming language could wade through the lessons in Unix history and somehow spring forth a perfect Ruby dependency solution that was nothing but an improvement over the past is a bit unrealistic.
I'm baffled by your last paragraph ("it might make sense to think about whether it is possible to guess ahead of time what research is likely to have practical benefits and what research is not").

You seem to think that a $10B collider was built just because it was possible, not as part of a deliberative/strategic process, partly influenced by a European/American contest for intellectual leadership in this area?

Surely you know that the worldwide particle physics community has been contemplating the value of this research for about 20 years? (Since the SSC planning stages.) And that European political bodies have deliberated it at length?

I'm not in that community, but my friends who are, are spending a lot of time in Geneva the last couple of years! The value of bringing all that talent in to contribute ideas, and some of them to stay for years, is hard to estimate, but it must be huge. I'm sure Europe is a great place for physics PhDs and postdocs these days.
It's completely relevant if your point is that we nickel-and-dime essential scientific funding but spare no expense when killing brown people across the globe. You don't have to go to too much effort to understand that's what the grandparent was driving at.
Their ads still show up on a bunch of site running AdSense, so they might still be buying the remaining inventory.

They did invest into their mobile presence, and not sure how Hitwise is account for application traffic over carrier networks.
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Funny you should mention that. Right after you talked about shapes, I browsed through Sensei's Library and saw that too. Thanks for the recommendation.
From the same guy that said "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

If Microsoft has no taste, Apple certainly has rotten taste in my opinion.
No, not an argument from authority, but an appeal for putting the "right" people in positions of authority. What I meant was "people must be well qualified (and also consider alternatives carefully ) so that we CAN trust them".
Yes I agree, with two exceptions - first when clicking somewhere opens a new itunes sub-window (who wants that?) and second they changed the reveal-in-finder command from apple-R to shift-apple-R

Other than that it rocks (literally)
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Having just bought one of these, I'd say that I'm more likely to pay for apps as there is a short selection. For instance, on Android I wouldn't pay for Tweetdeck or similar, but on the touch pad I would, as there isn't many options.
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> And we aren't talking about clones of polished products here.

Well when I said "This is why I stick to iOS apps" I was actually referring to the cloning of popular websites like quora,reddit etc.I am sorry if I did not make that very clear.

>Lets take something with a bit less stigma.,Background-changing apps. There are, what, 100+ of them?

Why take such an example when I have clearly agreed that it very easy to clone such apps.

> There are dozens of clones of angry birds. Some of them as good or possibly better.

Hmm...now that makes me think !!
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Very interesting.

If so and if successful, this will demonstrate the value of a good customer list. Something for business school books.

Tens of thousands of local businesses that have a history of being experimental in their marketing is not something to be sneered at. It can be pretty hard to find and contact these businesses in any kind of a scalable way.
But I doubt that the ecosystem would be anywhere near as large if the had, so doing that could have ended up making them a lot less money.
I was thinking about the transistor (and hence computers etc), rather than the LCD.

As for the study - yes, such returns are very difficult to measure or even estimate accurately, as the range of estimates suggest. But won't you agree that a) the consensus is that R&D is extremely valuable, and b) this can probably be extrapolated to basic scientific research?

(I feel that I am about to gain a convert to the cause of supporting scientific research... my time here has been well spent).
1- I've never seen a company's automatic emails be flagged by its own mail system, that's pretty impressive.

It's as fair and annoying as having downloads blocked from Microsoft's website on a freshly installed server. (On one hand, at least they treat their site the same but on the other hand, it's putting yet another needless hurdle in the way of what I want to do. If I didn't trust Microsoft why would I be running Windows at all?)
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Players having instant access to up to the minute stats in a format they can easily understand (while holding it in their hands) is going to affect the game. Is it excessive? I dunno. It is pretty cool.
Somehow you added two zeros on to your $3,500bn on bank bailouts! In 2009, it looked like the actual cost would be about $350bn, which is a lot, for sure, but literally an order of magnitude less.

According to the treasury department, by 2010, projected cost of TARP was $30-50bn. That's /two/ orders of magnitude out.

You also handily miss out the multiplier effects of military spending, and act like the government is taking the money and shoving it up the ass of a small animal. In fact, the vast majority is given to US industry and to US citizens. I'm sure if you Google'd you'd find the source I'm looking for who described the US Military as the world's largest welfare system.
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Is this sorta like Wakoopa?
( http://social.wakoopa.com )
In their defense eating out, getting nails done, massages, etc. are things many people do weekly.

The bigger problem is its basically an "unloyalty" program for the businesses. Why go back to the same massage therapist and pay full price? I'll just wait until the one down the street runs their 50% off deal in a couple weeks.
I attended CCRMA for two years as an EE PhD (post-masters) student. I really didn't like it, which sucked, since in theory it is a really interesting place. First, my interests were heavily in UI stuff and interactive interfaces, but the EE side of it is REALLY heavy in just signal processing and modeling. Having said that, Prof Julius Smith (one of the main EE faculty there) is a great guy.

Second, from the music side of things, there was a really strong bias against any form of popular music and towards heavily experimental music. The word snob comes to mind.

Third, the place just had a weird and uneasy energy - not welcoming and just strange. Another friend of mine who was there at the same time commented on this to me also, and also stopped the CCMRA programme.

YMMV - this was in the 1990s

To answer your specific question though, I had a BA and MS from a so-so state school, average (B-) grades at undergrad and very good grades in grad school (3.9/4.0 ish) and 700+ on each of the GRE sections (just the general one, I didn't sit the specialized ones). I had one publication in a peer-reviewed journal as well.
As of today, we only charge for the time you use. I don't imagine we'd ever need to change that, but never is a long time.
This reminds me of Bill Gates 2003 complaints about trying to get Microsoft Movie Maker installed.

http://boingboing.net/2008/06/25/bill-gates-2003-flam.html
Yeah, a permanent psychological stress for the hardcore problems of the world is just exactly what everyone needs.

And most likely this is gonna mess with the heads of people who actually want to do something for the sake of the poor people and not with the kind of people who pays £250,000 for a luxury doghouse.
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Yes. I think Wakoopa does something similar. I had never seen it before. iGeek is more inspired by usesthis and about.me so we are focusing more on profiles that you can use in your email signature/twitter profile etc.
Some of these problems could be mitigated by checksumming DNS entries when created.
He was referring to everything that uses transistors ( in this specific case not only the monitor but also the computer and all the internet infrastructure that you're using to criticize blue sky research)
Small nitpick: the customers will feel the pain if their username/password is leaked through SQL injection.
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This is false. Lethal force is legal only under very specific conditions in most of the US, although there are exception where states have enacted a Castle doctrine type of law (Texas is the most obvious example here).
"I agree completely that getting on board with someone you don't know well is a bad idea."

Eh I kind of disagree about this.

I ended up working on a project through a friend of a friend. A guy was doing some work on his own and needed some pro-bono help for his project. We have very different personalities but our skills complemented one another perfectly. We ended up moving out to the Bay Area together to work on our own projects. A year later, we've meshed extremely well given some tough circumstances.

There's absolutely no way we would've met back in Uni, as we frequented different circles.
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Wakoopa tracks all the apps using its tracker... This is listing what one likes to use.. or most uses... no tracker..
No, it depends on state, and it is (in all states?) more subtle than that. Speaking broadly, the intruder must enter unlawfully and/or forcibly, and you must have a reasonable belief they intend to commit some felony. Generally law merely creates a presumption that the resident had a reasonable belief that the force was necessary to protect themselves (or stop said felony), and this could be refuted in court.

Generally speaking, if you do not have a reasonable belief that such force is necessary, lethal force is not lawful, even if someone is breaking into your home. However, in that case, one might nevertheless escape conviction for use of lethal force thanks in part to that presumption.

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>...you can't do ROI calculations on that. Instead, you dump as much money as you can into it, and then you know that decades down the line, you'll be very happy that you did it.

I could apply this quote to all kinds of other ways of spending money, and it would hold true (e.g. infrastructure or social programs). And while you can't do ROI calculations on long-range programs, you can make informed decisions about which are more likely to provide the greatest benefits. In fact, if you are talking about spending billions of dollars of other people's money, you have a moral and ethical obligation to do exactly that.
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There's an example in this article:

http://domainincite.com/bit-squatting-%E2%80%93-the-latest-r...

Also, could ECC memory for clients solve this problem?
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Indeed. Technically two chords (ethernet too!), though.
I'm not sure which airline you flew, but Southwest will actually turn people away (mainly because it's first-come-first-serve seating).

So it happens. Start being strict and people will learn.
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A jury is not a 'bunch of randomly selected individuals'. It is a 'bunch of randomly selected individuals who have had to sit around and assess arguments from both sides, to the exclusion of most other activities'. You might legitimately be eager to see what such a group of people might think; especially as opposed to, or in addition to, a judge.

Possibly, dare I say it, it might even be more interesting than the weighted average of 12 random members of the Brains Trust here on HN reading a blog for 5 minutes and forming an opinion...
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Oops, you are right. However, chao.heroku.com still seem to be made for China by a Chinese author.
I know that. This was in reference to making bets in physics against things that are widely regarded as "probably existing."