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Yes, without efficient shorting market will not converge to a fair price. I guess we will find out the fair valuation of groupon in the next few days.
Maybe HR departments should become 'teach to code' classrooms. The head-hunter fee would be a comparable sum for an 8 week class.
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Which means that if a developer wants to do do git-like stuff (say sharing a patch with a single other developer or committing a day's unfinished work to an alternate backup site), then he's just going to have to work around the SVN tool to do it.

The tool should exist to serve the people producing the work, not the other way around.
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The robot drops down a thimble and some thread, then clears the screen and drops you into an instant search for Stanislaws Lem.
Is your concern that the millions of sites with bad content will not have many options?
Still no where near as much as "the broader market"

http://goo.gl/aGG0V

(Used goo.gl to link to google.com/finance comparing GRPN to Dow Jones, S&P, and NASDAQ averages since the link broke.
Your navigation is a little messed up. The "Interactwive" link looks like it just goes to "#" which means I can't get back to the home page. Also, once I go to the demo page the "Register" and "Contact" link disappear. It looks pretty cool other than that though.
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Just wait until the lockup expires - that's when the real crash will begin - this is just a teaser.
The only way to prevent this is to move to a sales tax model. Anything else can be gamed ad nauseum as GE & co have so helpfully proved. With today's tax system, the amount of taxes you pay are inversely proportional to the amount of complexity you're willing to deal with.

And since corporations are legally people, you're barking up the wrong tree with conversations about not taxing businesses. Sales tax it, period. Cannot be circumvented.
It's outpacing the market drop by about 10X.
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But you could only get MacOS by buying a Mac. Windows was just the operating system.
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I love the simple design and straight-forward copy, well done!
It is still under development but major part of MVP is done. It should be ready in a week. I guess I would be able to show it to HN at end of this month to get feedback.
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I am taking AI and ML. I would like to take game theory or pgm. But, I think I will start with analysis and design of algorithms. In my mind that should help me take the other classes later on. What do other people think?
I'd have to say Ruby, GIT, Heroku and Postmark.
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"Mac OS" wasn't even a term until 1997. It was just the unnamed OS software of Macintosh computers. If there was a discrete operating system market, Apple was not a participant at the time involved in this suit.
The crazy stuff doesn't come with a base awesome install, that's stuff people added on their own. The base install looks like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Awesome_screenshot.png

XMonad _is_ simpler, since awesome comes with a taskbar, system tray, and clock by default.
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Their UI/UX is fantastic. We're big users and they've seemingly thought of everything from the perspective of how the customer will use their service and tried to make it as intuitive/easy as possible.
> The question is: does this 1.14 seconds better reflect the user experience? In our opinion, yes. At that 1.14 second mark, all content has finished loading and is displayed on screen. The only stuff that comes after that are the aforementioned social sharing buttons and the Twitter Tweet Box (and on a blog post page, the Disqus comments would also come in late).

> There was a problem loading Disqus. For more information, please visit status.disqus.com.

I wasn't able to comment because I'm on a slow connection, and the rest of the content hadn't finished loading by the time I had finished reading the article.
This is very much in evidence if you know e.g. any Japanese CEOs. Our CEO (old day job) was bragging at a meeting one day about the $X00,000 car he drove, and then said "Remember, I work for a living, that's the company's car." It will continue being the company's car for the duration of his tenure with the company, and after he is CEO emeritus and on an advisor-to-the-board position he will naturally be given a new company car, and ...

It also gets straight-line depreciated at, probably, 95 ~ 100% business use.

(This is considered standard business practice here, in the same manner that an American businessman expensing a WSJ subscription would be totally-inconceivable-to-challenge standard business practice. When I bring in my income tax return in March I'm probably going to get chided again by the tax office for "forgetting" so many of my deductions.)
I definitely agree that those features are not really worth the manufacturing flexibility however I think using standard joint design, 3D printing can still be used (ie: as a ball/socket). Based on the other comment here I don't think their choice of material was good, dropping it one foot should definitely not break it!
I think I wish I lived in the Bay Area.
Google jealously guards their PageRank algorithm because it "represents core business value".

Given how popular Google bombing has been over the years, and SEO now, can PageRank's functioning still be considered "secret"?
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Ask HN: Teach me remote for future hiring, good idea?
Hello,

I would like to validate on an idea I have been wondering about.

I am extremely passionate about programming, web development (backend), smart financial and business applications and data analytics.

However, I do not have a CS mayor (I studied economics) and I do not have enough experience to apply for software development junior positions. Another problem is that I live in Europe in a city with no startup/IT culture. Around me I only see .NET developers and SAP consultants and no such things as Code Academy or HN meet ups. Also, I have limited time as I work full time in controlling/finance.

An example of position that would interest me: http://www.readyforzero.com/jobs/backend-engineer.

So, lately, I have been thinking that I could work for free on week ends and, if the potential employees mentors me, that I could learn enough in 2 or 3 months to be hired as a junior. I think I can learn so fast because I already know the basic concepts, I programmed in python and R to analyse pricing in a medium company and now I am building a small analytical tool in clojure.

I see this as a win win situation. The potential employer gets some free work and the chance to know deeply who he is hiring (if he decides to hire, of course), I get the chance to accelerate my programming learning and possibly relocate to a part of the world where people actually have a start up culture.

What do you think? Comments, advices? If you think this is a good idea, how would you go with implementation? Web site and post on HN? Other ways?

Thanks!
The thing is, these companies STILL haven't properly dissected Apple's advertising approach.

Look at most Apple commercials for any device. They tend to cut between ACTUAL apps, and then happy people and music. This gives the viewer REAL data about what you can do with the phone, and then emotional reinforcement with the happy side of the cut.

Look at the ads for Microsoft phones (at least the few I've seen), no real apps, just a bunch of future pretend sci-fi type stuff about what you might almost potentially be able to do if anyone ever wrote the theoretical apps they show.

The Android phones seem to follow the same path of puking up some specs, but not frequently enough SHOWING people the value of the phone. This Samsung commercial is cute, but shallow. When the next OS upgrade comes out is it 99.9% likely to work on the phone I buy today? And be available for installation as soon as it's released? Will it be free of carrier junkware?

I'm looking to replace my wife's BB, and she wants a physical keyboard, so this pretty much constrains me to looking at Android phones for her. It's a HUGE pain in the ass trying to even decipher what model(s) available today are going to be upgradable to ICS, and if so, when?

I don't think the iPhone is the most cutting-edge phone out there, but for me at least it does everything I reasonably expect of a smartphone, maintains good resale value, and will likely be eligible for the next few OS upgrades.

A screen that is .25 or .5" larger doesn't excite me. 4G connections KILL the battery, so they are almost a detractor to me. Plasticy cases are also sub-par, IMO.
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I'm interested. Email Chatting is quite slow. What about Skype? My Skype id is in my profile (open for anyone)
The constructor you control in the doodle is Trurl, the other at the end is Klapaucius. The ending is from the first story in the Cyberiad where Trurl build a machine that can create anything that begins with the letter 'N' the Klapaucius tells it to create nothing and the machine destroys half the universe before they get it to quit.

Here is the full text to that first story:

http://webspace.webring.com/people/fc/churud_geo/cyberiadn.h...
An up-to-date snapshot of my source tree at work is several GB. The whole Perforce repo is probably 100GB. Most of that is vendor libraries. For example, every so often we update to a new version of the Boost C++ libraries and pre-build it for most common platforms. This amounts to a GB or two. This is easier on the other developers and it makes the process more repeatable for QA.

One of the great things about Perforce is that it's normal practice to map only selected subtrees of the repo. So I have several workspaces going at any one time.

As much as I am impressed with git's speed, this would not work with git. I used to try to managing Boost's vendor drop as a git repo. I now just keep my notes in there about how to download and build it locally.
Well said. I call it Grouponzi.
I don't even like the grammer.

'to avoid looking like'

Would be better.
How much to the underwriting banks stand to make out of taking this public? Does it matter to them at all if the price falls?
Sorry David but that makes no sense. Why aren't US companies with large exposure to Europe falling +10% too? Groupon's exposure to European countries going through the debt crisis is negligible. It's only Groupon
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Sales tax only puts the burden disproportionally on the poor.

If you're making millions of dollars a year you're probably only spending a small fraction of it and if there's only sales tax you pay tax on a percentage of what you spent. So let's say you made 30 million dollars and spent 8 and say the sales tax rate is 15%. In this case you paid 1.2MM in tax for a marginal tax rate of 4%.

On the other hand if your income is 15k you're probably spending it all or very close. In which case your marginal tax rate is 15%.

Not all that fair I'd say.

Personally I like the progressive income tax method. I just think capital gains should be taxed as income rather than at a flat 13% and no special rules for corporations either. If they want to be people they can be taxed like people. If they want to be different then we can just get rid of corporate personhood. I doubt they'd like that much.
Let's distinguish two possible theories:

1) The underlying companies of the BSA (incl. AAPL and MSFT) were not really in favor of SOPA to begin with, and the public attention has lead them to correct the initial BSA position.

2) The underlying companies of the BSA were in favor of SOPA, which is why BSA supported SOPA. But in the face of public backlash they are backpedaling, because it is not valuable to support a bill that will lose regardless.

The second seems much more likely.
It sounds great but failed to load on FF3.6 and Chrome (on WinXP). In fact, it seems to fail in more browsers than it actually works in :-/

http://www.myrobotnation.com/helpme?reason=safari
"Do you seriously think there would be no difference chemically?"

No, I do not think that. In fact, I stated quite clearly that depression causes measurable changes in brain morphology and function. My entire argument was to support the assertion that the phrase "chemical imbalance" is merely an insufficient label for a complex psychological and biological phenomenon.
A lot of a tax return is just huge reams of supporting documentation (accountings of expenditures, etc). Also, keep in mind the scale of the endeavor. $150bn in revenus accounted for in 57,000 pages. I.e. 1 page of documentation for $2.63m in revenue. How much did it cost to generate and analyze? $10m? $50m? At $50m that's an overhead of 0.03%, for an inevitable part of running a modern society. Seems way less inefficient when you put it in context.
Can you really think of no other ways in which ads might harm someone?
You don't. It's only implemented for Win32 (see neo/tools/edit_stub.cpp).
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That's cute. They think people will listen.

Don't most new companies aim for product names that are easily verb'ed? "Google it", "Xerox it", "Reddit", etc.

"The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software."
"This writer has a stick up his butt".

The trademark owner should be identified whenever possible.

Because so many people are using Apple's Photoshop, Google Photoshop and NeXT's Photoshop. Shouldn't they be glad that their product name is SO ubiquitous that they don't NEED stuff like this?

Oh lawyers. You so crazy.
This blogger is, as usual, arguing that the corporate tax code is somehow too complex.

Rather what is happening is that GE is intentionally gaming the system. Most of those 57,000 pages are self-inflicted. If GE refrained from tax-dodging activity and only undertook regular business activity, their tax return would be much, much thinner.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/news/companies/ge_7000_tax_r...

A few lines of patching to the tax code to require that income earned in the U.S. be taxed in the U.S. would fix the majority of the problem. Literally a couple of sentences.
Many people oppose ideas like this because it is less progressive (w.r.t. income) than an income tax, and they hold an apriori belief that taxation should be proportional to income. This is because consumption rises sublinearly with income, and people at the bottom actually tend to consume more than they earn. In mathematical terms, dConsumption/dIncome < 1.

In practical terms, this means that most of Steve Job's wealth is not stuff he can consume, but rather productive capacity that he directs.

In fact, many people at the bottom of the income scales actually consume considerably more than they earn, so a sales tax would be a big tax hike for them.

Raw data: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

This blog post has a graph of consumption vs income: http://crazybear.posterous.com/why-the-poor-dont-work
Cannot be circumvented.

That is not the experience of many nations which have sales taxes, for example, the United States. Among many favored ways to circumvent it are underreporting, effecting the transaction in a jurisdiction which has a favorable sales tax (New York every so often prosecutes people for the crime of buying art in Connecticut), classifying the sale as something which has favorable tax treatment, etc etc. I've heard hilarious accounts of merchandising decisions by which a handbag was only sold in combination with a scarf such that the transaction became clothing + accessory (taxed at LOW%) rather than luxury goods (taxed at HIGH%), despite neither the buyer nor seller benefiting from the bundling of the scarf.
Yes, it can be circunvented, here in Uruguay and neighbouring countries we've had sales tax for decades, and there are more than enough loopholes to circumvent it.

Heck, even local governments evade sales tax (spanish link saying that the governor of Misiones teaches how to evade sales tax):

http://tn.com.ar/politica/00054267/un-gobernador-ensena-como...
Businesses don't create a tax burden?

Businesses use the country's infrastructure just as much as the citizens. They want police so they don't get robbed, they want roads and a post office, they want electricity for their buildings and sewers and all the other stuff taxes pay for.
Given the vast size and complexity of GE's business, I don't really think 57,000 pages is unreasonable. Who knows how many hundreds of sub-units they might have, foreign entities, etc.

At $150 billion of revenue, that's $2,631,578.95 of revenue per page. Which is better than most tax filers have to deal with.

Especially when, as a result, they save billions of dollars in tax payments.
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You can make your own music, just like you can make your own videos. I think the analogy works pretty well
Seems nothing is good enough anymore! I give up. But seriously, all this does is serve to make you feel better when looking at metrics and barely puts a dent in real user experience. You're still blocking, you've still got the same load times. The only only difference is that you're delaying the inevitable and doing so doesn't always help user experience a bit. Waiting is waiting whether you wait now or later.
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Good work, but I don't like how all the images are forced to 1:1 ratio. You should try to preserve the original aspect ratio. You could either choose a width and that way you can have a certain # of columns with images running down vertically. Or choose a height and have them running left to right in rows of equal height.
Folks are going to ask for backtests...
It's also worth pointing out that fighting piracy is only one part of what the MPAA does. Their budget also covers the entire film rating system, quite a bit of industry research and reporting, and lobbying at the state and federal level for things like tax breaks, union regulations, etc.
You can actually fix a lot of the sales tax issues by excluding certain categories (e.g. unprepared food, clothing).

I am more a flat rate tax person with a base exclusion per tax payer (i.e. your kid working a summer job files for themselves) and only one tax line (the government can divide it between SS, FICA, etc). As a curiosity, I was trying to figure out what would actually be revenue neutral. I think somewhere in $20K deducible then 17 - 20% flat rate after that. It is really not that easy to get all the information needed to play with various scenarios.
Or, you know, make the tax code simpler so that there is less room to game the system?
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I've sat in on the GT lectures at Stanford and I would definitely make sure I had a solid background in logic and statistics. Other than that, you can start from scratch there.

Its an extremely interesting course btw.
I'm not sure where I picked up the info, and I haven't looked at the code to confirm it, but I believe the physics engine implementation is tied tightly to both the collision detection system and the entity update, both of which are quite specific to Doom (in particular, each entity steps physics independently, rather than a whole simulation advancing at once as is common in 'pluggable' physics engines like ODE, Havok etc).

Also, and this is subjective I suppose, I don't remember Doom 3 doing anything that 'felt' or looked better than even what the contemporaneous engines did (such as the version of Havok used in Half-Life 2).

So I guess, there probably aren't valuable additions, but I imagine there is much to tinker with.
Not if you compare it with other tech stocks that are taking the beating too.
The ML class is good when watched at 1.5x.
By flat I mean not having one company dominant in every category like Microsoft in the 90's.
You make a good point. But this is only true if all sellers are putting their items in Groupon. In a sane market, there will be only few sellers which want to make daily deals, and also few buyers which want to take them. I don't know the market, though, but this model can work.
Yeah... it's not great but it was on purpose. Some images are crazy dimensions like 300px wide and 5000px tall so it's kind of tough to handle. I guess I could write some logic to preserve the aspect ratio up to a certain point. I do like the nice perfect square of images though.
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Way to go! Can you give us a general idea of the concept, i.e. "It's _________ for ________."?
AutoPager is a great browser add-on that preloads the next page of nytimes, reddit, tumblr etc. It takes care of a lot of the annoying pagination.

It took a long time before I was convinced to try it - but it's sweet.
Where is the discussion "between understanding and expertise"? I scrolled over the way too long text reading some chunks here and there but nothing sticked according to the title here. Is it even the right post?
Any pictures of this?
Thanks, great feedback! I'll see about fixing these up shortly :)
And not one picture? Honestly why would someone go to all the effort of writing so much to describe what something looks like.
Actually, this introduction really is independent of a specific GUI application. 95% of it are valid in any case (be it Tower, the command line, or any other frontend you use to access Git).
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There are people who like old school and people who don't. Where's the point in discussing about taste?
The difference is that earlier, if there is a load spike in monitoring, we dont know if it was cause of 3rd party scripts or some problems with out server/CDN. the former we can live with, but the latter is very bad.

Now after deferring the 3rd party scripts, we know for sure what the user experience is with regards to the main content of the site.
I started doing part time (15 hours per week) freelance work on odesk around a year and half back. I was working on a startup and we had almost run out of our savings. My starting rate was 10$ per hour . (am based out of india). Currently I charge 25-30 $ per hour. So, if you work full time i.e. 30+ hours per week on a freelance project you can make more than 1000 euros per month.

Now, its true as your hourly rates go up you will have fewer potential employers on odesk. But the few employers who are willing to pay your rate are looking for higher skilled devs. for example, the current project i am working on on odesk, we have some really really devs who are ex google guys, MIT grads etc. And they all work over odesk.

And in case you reach a point where you are not able to get employers over odesk at your hourly rate, you can use youur odesk profile as portfolio to attract potential clients outside odesk.
I think the idea is to use git submodules for vendor libs. Anything you're not modifying and a 3rd party is maintaining should be a submodule; that way you don't keep any of those changes in the repo.
haha, It looks so good in my head.
How did anyone ever expect to make money off of a coupon company?! News media provided a spin campaign to inflate Groupon's value and everyone flocked to it like white on rice... We haven't learned anything since the real estate bubble popped. The investing masses are 85% sheep.
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