skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From about five seconds of Google, it looks like the actual product was made by David Kotkin and is considered to be rather significant for disabled users.

http://www.ablegamers.com/hardware-news/interview-with-aveng...

Paul Christoforo is just some schmuck at the contracted marketing company, because the product was put together by an art teacher trying to make small-quantity disability aids and not someone trying to launch a major business.

Due diligence regarding fact-checking has apparently slipped below the threshold of "punch it into Google."
"The Information" by James Gleick
Here is the Google since it looks down right now:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
The product that GoDaddy offers is a commodity. You can get domain registration with hundreds of companies unlike the NFL which offers a very unique product. Also GoDaddy has been harboring a lot of ill will with things like hidden fees over the years.
Just .. check out the company.

(not directly linking to actually help those guys, but the company lists 'Reputation Management' as service)

"We help you to displace or remove the negative search engine results and listings about your organization or company. We use an effective lineup of techniques to dilute and eliminate the search engine results about you that are negative."

I guess that sums up what this company is about.
I learned french ;)
Note the guy's Twitter account: @OceanMarketting (with two Ts!).
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"Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku
Glad someone has pointed this out. I predict a lot of misdirected internet anger towards an innocent man, here.
I like how the guy is completely clueless about who he is talking to.

He is in marketing, and didn't know someone like that?

And this whole thing could have just been avoided with a measly $10 coupon.
I'm not letting the PR guy or the company itself off the hook, they're completely the losers in this case.

I just can't excuse either side when it devolves into 2 children kicking sand on each other. Someone needs to be the bigger man, or else you both end up looking like fools; Even if one fool is the bigger fool.
He however, must have rejected at least some parts of the Bible, and had a particular customized belief.

Like the part that says Pi is 3.
I'll second the recommendation for The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. It lays out a systematic way of thinking about political development and decay.

I wrote a review here: http://pragmaticpoliticaleconomy.blogspot.com/2011/09/im-rea...
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* Steve Jobs biography. I couldn't put it down and I'm shocked there aren't more fans on HN

For those who liked Malkiel's Random Walk, read:

* Ben Graham's Intelligent Investor

* Philip Fisher's Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
They counter Malkiel's thesis (yup, he's wrong) and Warren Buffet credits both men for teaching him how to invest. True classics.
How is it with reading PDFs? I read a lot of books on my iPhone without any problem, but PDFs just don't scale right. I'm starting think about getting some sort of tablet and good PDF handling is high on my requirements.
I'm really glad I have come across this... I've had this for a couple of years, about once or twice a month. For me it feels like something is applying a lot of pressure to the side of my head, accompanied by a very loud tingling sound... Only lasts for about two seconds, but not something I enjoy
I prefer the "desperate for gold" hypothesis in which the probe manages to safely crash in the backyard of an alien scientist who is in quick need of some gold to finish an experiment and in possession of a perfectly fine smelting pot.
The irony of the community down voting this is fantastic!
One of his examples is bad.

I'm pretty sure that the much publicized "different customers see different prices on Amazon" debacle was just a simple A/B test, and not some complex scheme along the lines of, "Joe can afford to pay more!"
OK, but I suspect that is more of a superstition thing, like "on a full moon more babies are born" - people tend to remember the births on the full moon, but there are not really more babies. Likewise it might be more memorable if a mocked company becomes successful.
Someone should make an app which lets us scan bar codes to know if the manufacturer is a SOPA supporter. This could also be extended to help with other things. For example, if you care a lot about animal rights it might help you avoid supporting companies abusing animals, to include suggesting alternative products.
I read both Malkiel's book and Grahams' book this year and was much more convinced by the former, especially in the context of just wanting to put some money away and not work at it too much - although to his credit, Graham also says that investors like this should not be all that active.

I think reading both is not a bad idea, but for those of us not in a position to crack open a company's books like someone like Buffet can do, I'm not convinced of the wisdom of trying to beat the market at determining which companies are 'value' companies.
Perhaps best, certainly most depressing (and 20 pages or so to go, but there's time left yet): Bloodlands, by Timothy Snyder, http://www.powells.com/s?kw=bloodlands

Very good, long: China Marches West: The Quing Conquest of Central Eurasia by Peter C. Perdue, http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780674057432-0

Odd, interesting, relatively short: Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley, http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780674057432-0

Techie: Effective Perl Programming by Joseph Hall, http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780321496942-0
This has been predicted before. However, human ingenuity will prevent it from propagating to its logical conclusion.

Have you tried to compare prices of mattresses? One way mattress sellers prevent price comparison is by identifying mattresses with unique names. They may have the same brand, or even specifications.

In addition, we are now seeing a steady growth of private label offerings by retailers. Initially these are in the low priced/budget segments, but increasingly the retailers are moving into mid-range products, where margins are higher, and effectively pushing out branded goods, where margins are driven down by price competition.
Uh, what? That's certainly not a typical interview for Google.

Check what an ex-Googler has to say on the brain teaser questions: http://www.technologywoman.com/2010/05/17/debunking-the-goog...
Here the main point is, IMHO, that EU directive or not, this is a widely adopted practice in Italy for everything. As long as you have with you your receipt two years guarantee is provided on everything but Apple product. This always looked very odd... laws can't be changed at random because of a single company policy.

I must admin that, that said, the Apple support when you have a non working product is incredibly good. I saw many people with a broken iPhone entering the Apple Store in Catania an exiting 5 minutes later with a replacement. I experimented this myself with a broken screen in my MBA.
Elon Musk does seem to be pretty good at going for it. It is nice to see people executing on big ideas.
> I'm all for doing the whole "CC your formal complaint letter to several outlets in hopes that someone will take notice" approach;

I recognise that many people working in customer support roles have lousy jobs with lousy wages and are treated like dirt by customers and by bosses.

So my first approach is a nice, short, letter explaining the problem and asking for help. People like to help, and they like to help nice people. If I get help I always follow up with thanks to them, and if possible I find a manager to write to saying how pleased I am that a problem was sorted out by $NAME.

I agree that having your name attached to some childish ranting is not a good approach at all.
For me they were:

"An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought" by Murray Rothbard

This was great because of the history lesson packed into a book that's mostly about economics. I didn't realize how libertarian the economic thought of the east was until I read this book. I also appreciated the focus on economics before Adam Smith since I knew only about Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas's contributions prior to reading the book. Rothbard's take-down of Marx was both thorough and satisfying.

"City of God" by Augustine of Hippo

The history lesson here was helpful as was the perspective on how the church should view the state though I should have invested more money in a better version for Kindle. The version I had was filled with grammatical mistakes due to the poor translation to the Kindle format.
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The core idea of the free exchange of money is that people only spend it when the result will benefit them. If a business is focused on profits, its decisions from day one are focused and creating something other people will exchange their "profits" (their money) for.

(Paraphrasing, with [ ] comments added by me:)
On day one, a bootstrapped company [inherently one looking for profits because there's no other way to stay alive] needs to make money; on day one, a funded company needs to spend money.

- Jason Fried
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I'm very, very surprised at the company side of the exchange. I guess this is what happens if you don't have a professional sales staff who are trained to be tactful and polite (or can be fired for not being)
From what I've heard. "Have you eaten yet?" in Chinese is a friendly way of greeting someone.
Wouldn't consider it a new language, but after all the back-and-forth articles on HN about CoffeeScript, this year I really spent some time learning the fundamentals of it.

Mostly though, I just drastically extended my capability with the languages I already know.
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I love the part where he tries to get back on Mike (Krahulik's) better side: "Did I feed into his emails a little bit too much yeah ok . But it’s one person dude for real. No disrespect intended for you , My name is good in this industry and I know a lot of people."

But then goes off on one when Mike posts a slightly glib "take me off this mailing list"!

I agree with FuzzyDunlop, definitely been watching waaay too much Sopranos.

EDIT: The dude seriously needs to learn to punctuate sentences better, some of those could definitely use some commas!
Second this. I'm a huge Michael Lewis fan. If you enjoyed this, I would recommend reading (in the following order):

- Liar's Poker. Lewis' account of how the bond market really got huge in the 80's. The book that put him on the map. He was a bond salesman in Solomon Brothers investment bank, a really interesting read with many larger than life characters. An insider account on how companies and financial institutions gorged themselves in debt.

- The Big Short. In a way this is like a "sequel" to Liar's Poker (weird to say for non-fiction I know), as the 20 year "story arc" from the grow of junk bonds, to the massive deleveraging due to the subprime mortgage collapse is examined. He also follows the stories of those canny enough to stack up massive bets in anticipation of the collapse.

Finance is a boring topic generally, but Lewis focuses on the characters and is a superb storyteller. He has a real knack for being able to explain these complex, earth-shattering events in a way that those of us without PhD's in quantitative finance can understand.
The author here is not an "ego tripping blogger", he's an "ego tripping fellow gamer." Penny Arcade is to the gaming world what XKCD is to the nerd/geek/science world. PAX is a conference that Penny Arcade put together simply because there was so much interest in their product and the stuff they supported. If I was in that position and heard about a reader of mine being treated this way I'd react similarly.

Oh, and this is a blog on a web comic's website, not an article in the New York Times. They're allowed to pick sides and join the fight for something they believe in.
The CC approach was something he taught me to use under 2 scenarios:

The initial interactions with customer service directly (which was to always be polite and professional) had failed, and you felt you were still in the right

or

They had been rude or dismissive toward your complaints, or offered no feedback whatsoever.

You never open with that, as you then have nothing to escalate to when things don't turn out well
I cannot fathom being the only one not wanting to split up discussion over this like crazy, so I would suggest keeping discussion of this event in the earlier posted thread[1] that also happens to have more upvotes and comments (at the time of writing).

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395411
I've learned JS, after being very reluctant to it for a long while, and I gladly found out it's actually a very interesting and missunderstood language!
While Drafting SOPA, the U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent
Which do you use: Physical server, or hosting in the cloud?
I'm curious what other Startups are pursuing as a means of hosting their web apps.

I personally choose having a physical server at a location (I typically buy or build the server myself)

The basis of my choice relies on the breadth of configuration and customization that can be done when you have root access to a 100% dedicated server.

As a background: I'm currently working on a Startup that's in the Healthcare IT realm and the web app that we're building is very resource intensive and requires many different packages.

Now granted not everyone is in the same boat and doesn't require that much flexibility but I'm curious how many still do choose to have a physical dedicated server.

Eventually if the startup that I'm working on takes off, I will most likely need to use some sort of elastic hosting (Amazon), but this comes after you see whether your idea has legs and that you can raise funding required to build out the infrastructure required. In the meantime having a physical server cuts down on costs (no monthly recurring costs, just the 1-time fee for the server and $10/mo extra to be able to host off my Internet, and I have a fully 100% dedicated server). Best part about this option is if the Startup fails, the server can be used for the next endeavor and I'm still only paying just $10/mo for dedicated hosting.

Paying for a similar hosting setup that I have now would probably cost me several hundred dollars a month.

Please state your choice/preference below and any pros/cons that you've come across
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Wow, that was incredible. I wonder if it is legal to treat customers in such a disrespectful way.
If you don't try to do things differently, there will be no innovation. The current system (NASA, et. al.) does not scale up to what is needed, so different strategies are required. It's really as simple as that.

Will he succeed? Highly unlikely. But I'm glad he's trying, and anyone who kills themselves on one of his rockets will know what they're getting into. Flying in space is inherently dangerous.
Tim Ferriss is like Wikipedia to me. It's a good place to start, but you will be mocked and humiliated if you only read that material.
At the end of the linked MSNBC video, the reporter (Kate Snow) is arguing that nobody is policing the pledged projects and that she could theoretically "go on there and say I'm gonna raise money to make a record album and then get all the money. And, if I never make a record album, nobody knows any different."

Is that really so with Kickstarter?
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a bit late to the party but ender's game for fiction, gantz for manga, founders at work for non fiction
This is not a very cohesive argument. Basically he is suggesting that we are going to see tiered pricing in all retail, but doesn't explain what the tiers will be based on.

A more likely scenario? Price will equal convenience. Retail stores will be more connected to the internet so that you can see who has what item in stock within 5 miles of where you are. The Big Box retailers do this already.

We will then see a new breed of startups based on adding impulse purchases to the item that you bought online and are picking up locally (loss leaders online).
That's incredible. You have to wonder if they even checked into him first with a simple google let alone reference checks.
"Because it's the ingestion of mind-altering substances to achieve a certain goal. Most often this goal is inebriation for entertainment purposes, some times (especially in indigenous cultures) it's a spiritual goal."

A "medical" problem to me is having cancer or a disease. Something you can't stop. If you don't ever ingest illegal drugs, you will never becom an addict of them (funny how that works).

" I mean, if some people are born with allergies or giant feet or different colored eyes, would it be too crazy to assume that some people are more easily addicted to drugs?"

Some people have addictive personalities. But some drugs actually change brain chemistry and are physically addictive.

"Just real quick, I think you mean joint as in marijuana joint. Marijuana is completely non-addictive physically, in any circumstance. Nor does it kill brain cells, etc. These are remnants of the hilarious Reefer Madness nonsense that the US unfortunately took part in."

ugh. I never said it was physically addictive. However, I will just let you keep believing it doesn't kill brain cells . I know otherwise.

"Then make drugs further decriminalized. Marijuana, for example, is not a gateway drug. Drug dealers are gateway drugs."

As long as we never have universal health care or addicts never get free treatment. This is my problem: you not only want drugs legalized, but you want me to pay for your medical expenses in taxes (but first deny that it causes any health problems).

"Every drug dealer that I know, except one, doesn't just deal pot."

You sure seem to know a lot of drug dealers. It's interesting to me because almost everyone I know that smokes pot falls in love with it. It becomes almost like their girlfriend. They talk about it all the time and defend it to the death.

You can't tell me that this doesn't have some effect on the brain.

"They've got cocaine, saliva, mushrooms, ecstasy, et cetera et cetera. So instead of being able to just go to a safe environment and get some harmless little green stuff, many drug laws force benign drug-users to be around shady, scummy people with lots of other shady, scummy drugs on them."

I wish the people on the left were as interested in less control control and less taxes as they are about drug usage.
The complexity of generational garbage collection vs. the speed of manual collection, makes me feel like the happy medium of speed and simplicity is reference counting, like that found in objective-c. iPhone apps are fast, but take a bit longer to design, develop, and debug due to memory management issues. Though with experience these can be minimized.

It probably isn't possible without a ton of modification, but I wish the JVM/CLR had an option to garbage collect through reference counting.
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Your reaction seems very strange. Can you explain why you had never read the koran if you were muslim?
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I came away with a completely different impression. I honestly can't understand how you can place all three parties on the same level.

The customer used strong words, but only to emphasize his point, and all his complaints were legitimate and well argued. Frankly, I was impressed by his patience and how reasonable he was.

The supplier, on the other hand, was puerile and insulting to the point where I would have had difficulty believing it if Gabe had not exchanged emails directly. How can you remain in business and not have the slightest idea of how to talk to customers?
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Have you ever heard the Mayor of Boston speak? You don't really even need to speak well.
> He was an empire builder

Rhodes was not an Empire Builder. He was a company builder. His company was the British South African Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company).

> but his prime motivation was to modernize the world. Rhodesian policy led to the end of the empire, in fact.

His motivation was to make money. You know that he tried to start a war?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameson_Raid

Which led to two other wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Matabele_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

The "British South African Company" that fought in these wars was a paramilitary unit that belonged to his company.

> Rhodes taught altruism and service to the unfortunate and his legacy is many powerful people who worked to better the world, inspired by Rhodes.

Maybe he tried some veneer after he became rich - but he was still a bastard.

(Even his Rhodes scholarship is designed to Anglicise. It is impossible for a person to obtain the Rhodes scholarship unless he studied in English).
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Who uses email as the primary key for a CRM? What if a customer changes their email address?
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What's ironic about it? You posted incorrect information and were accordingly downvoted.
Weird given the completely ridiculous decisions that come out of that team. I wonder if they're tremendously overworked or if the skill level of their staff is wildly inconsistent.
"The Moral Landscape" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/143917122X/) by Sam Harris

The book discusses how science can be used to deal with questions on morality.
"The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life"

"The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"

"The toilet paper entrepreneur"

"The lean startup"

"Anything you want"
Did you read what I said? The drug stats are not down. It's created more addicts.

Why? Because when drugs are legalized/decriminalized, more people are willing to try it (which makes sense).

"I really don't understand why people are so willing to punish others"

Sorry, but drugs are a personal choice. If you can't accept the consequences that come along with it, you shouldn't be ingesting mind-altering or addictive drugs.

It's just that simple. I'm not even taking about putting people in jail or having harsher drug laws, just not having my tax dollars pay for their medical expenses.
When you decide to yell out the words to the 4th amendment at the same exact moment you are being processed through the security checkpoint at an airport, you are intentionally trying to cause a scene. This can and would be construed by any reasonable person as an attempt to disrupt the screening process. The author knew exactly what she was doing. While I'm not sure it was grounds for an arrest, she was maliciously attempting to provoke some sort of response from the TSA.

I hate the TSA as much as anyone, but when you do stupid things on purpose, stupid things happen to you.
Don't most large power plants in the Western world have 'scrubbers' and other measures that limit the amount of carbon/other pollutants that they actually release into the air?

If not now, is that a technology that's moving forward fast enough to be a partial solution in the future?
True. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm surprised how many technically knowledgeable people used them. This site is full of people talking about moving away. Wikimedia used them! I can see why Joe Random would, but it makes no sense to me that someone who knows what they're doing would.
Domain registrars have a long history of making transfers hard. Godaddy isn't the only registrar to do stuff like the 60 day lock. I just wrote up a piece on my blog yesterday about this very subject - http://www.byte.org/2011/12/26/evolving-the-domain-experienc...
So the toolbar watched their search too. Not exactly unusual.
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