skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was referring to ACSOI or whatever it was called, that tried to show profitability by subtracting out marketing costs, in a marketing-heavy organization.

You're referring to Groupon's decision to treat cash they collect on behalf of merchants (which should be treated as financing cash flows) as operational cash flows, thus making their cash flow look reasonable when it's actually horrid.
Yahoo to lay off 2,000 employees
Investors sue? Really?

So basically, I want to drink the koolaid but god damn you if it makes me sick...

You should not be allowed to sue as a method to correct your own stupidity.
Here's how I'm thinking about that; the costs of network transmission, computation and storage are all decreasing at a greater rate than the global economy (and population) is growing. Per person (or spending-unit) they are getting very cheap.

At some point, those cost-reduction curves plateau and the improvements become marginal - but at whatever rate they settle, will the costs be so low that using many systems as a form of massively-distributed optimistic concurrency will be a no-brainer?

And at the meta-level; are the benefits for human interaction compelling enough to themselves help drive the costs down.
New mode? Like Sidewiki, Reframeit, Highlighter, etc? If I'm missing something that makes this any different I would appreciate it if someone could point it out.
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On the flip side, it'll probably be used for constant Wikipedia lookups and trivializing boring organizational work. Computers streamline memorization and scheduling and my agenda and a thousand other things that would normally disrupt my thought processes and interrupt whatever idea I was having. My computer is an extension of myself, and I am a better human for it, because I can spend more time exerting the consciousness that separates me from every other animal on earth.
My perception is that these kinds of shareholder suits are trivial to file, and that they occur regularly any time the stock of any public company drops significantly after some event about them hits the news.

It would be interesting to see someone chart this.

(No comment about Groupon's long-term viability is being implied here).
EFF: bill gives companies "a free pass to monitor and collect communications"
Like it or not, that seems to be the trend. People find it harder and harder to live "off the Internet", especially if they've grown up with it. Take it away from them for a couple of days and they will really miss it. There was even a survey asking people for what sum of money will they quit the Internet forever. I don't remember seeing anyone from the interview saying they would take the deal. They just couldn't imagine themselves never using the Internet again.

I guess once you get used to talking with anyone, anywhere in the world, and with so much access to any information you want, anything less seems like isolation.
The Arrogance and Luxury of Scale
Multiple Dispatch however is implemented in the extension MooseX::MultiMethods for various reasons to do with robustness.
I do as well, but we're outliers. In an A/B test, the version which emphasizes free usually wins. I've even seen it beat an offer of getting paid to do something.
Why should they have sold for $6 billion? They're worth $9.6 billion today.

Groupon is not a bet on the coupons business--that doesn't justify the current valuation. Groupon is a bet that if you can reinvent the Yellow Pages, at scale and online, you can make a ridiculous amount of money. It's probably one of the largest companies around with such a high probability of failure, but their value if they end up being the winner in local is just staggering.
Perhaps not, but the only way it's a sound investment is if you exit quickly by finding another sucker that is willing to take a risk it doesn't come crashing down before he can exit. Everyone agrees there is no long term business model there, certainly not at that valuation.

But no, not a ponzi scheme at all.
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My name is John, I have created a beta, a clone of pinterest in 3 months.

You can check it out at http://www.pintureka.com. I've done with Ruby on Rails, jQuery and MongoDB, I have used Amazon for loading images, CloudFront + S3 and I have stayed at linode hosting with nginx and unicorn.

I am a Spanish entrepreneur and here in Spain we have a very bad situation to be able to create a startup, as it is very difficult to get funding.

I want to launch a startup and I am looking for partners for this purpose. I would like to submit a project in YCombinator or travel to United States to launch a startup.

I do not know if an stranger may travel to the U.S. to start a business is legal or illegal?. I am young, I have 29 years and I have really wanted to work and create a startup company.

If anyone can help me with information on visas for foreigners in the united states would be very grateful, please contact me if you can help with information for traveling to the United States to start up a company.

Can I submit a startup on YCombinator if I am a foreigner?

If you are interested in setting up a new startup company can contact me and we can talk.

My email is hyperrjas@gmail.com

I encourage all young people to launch a startup company as it is very nice and makes you feel very well.

Thank you very much everyone.
"Far more impressive companies, such as 37signals or GrubHub, are based here that deserve that kind of attention instead."

Every time someone says this, the neck-hairs of every Orbitz employee (current and former) stand up on end and twitch a little.
You should keep Java turned off in all your browsers. All the time. You should never leave it enabled.
USPS Finally Does Something Interesting: Augmented Reality Box Simulator
FWIW, I think the first photo in the story is real (it was taken by our writer). I assume he held the camera right in front of his face :)
The big problem with banking is how insecure people's computers.

To secure your 'real' bank account, you need your computer that you do your online banking to be secure, your need the computer in the card reader at the store to be secure, you need the computer in the POS to be secure, you need the stores back office system to be secure, you need the computers at the credit card processing company to be secure (yes you VISA) and you need your bank to be secure.

To secure bitcoin all you need is your bitcoin wallet to be on a USB key in your pocket.
Don Draper: Think Different.
It's a good (but wrong) analogy to compare to the "head-up" display on airplanes. However, driving is a 2D experience compared to flying. Pilot would need to pay attention to the surrounding in the 3D world where as driving, pretty much is just in a flat surface (you pay attention to your front, behind, left, right, that's it). I just cannot see the benefit of the HUD display in road driving use. There is no "head-up" necessary in this driving use case.
I suspect that this will be a huge benefit to deaf people as well, once speech recognition works well enough.
The next game from Notch (creator of Minecraft) is called 0x10c and features a 16bit cpu. More details can be found at http://0x10c.com/
He's trying to run the company more like Apple, which is what Steve Job's recommended that Larry do. It comes down to doing a few things well and focusing. Probably a lesson that we all need to learn.
Customer had buyer's remorse[1]. Returning product. Film at 11?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyers_remorse
In general, I'd agree. However, many previous articles on HN have been about how Groupon has engaged in some shady accounting practices to get to where it is. It may be enough to make this exceptional enough that the investors have some "real" (for suitable definitions) grounds for complaint.
In the early days of Quantcast we had a couple robberies in our second SOMA office. Fortunately most people had taken their laptops home but we lost a few things.

The police were apologetic, said that even if we had proof and knew who it was the DA wouldn't press charges (this was 5 years ago, different DA, but I doubt the caseload has changed). The officer said to basically consider stuff in our office to be as secure as stuff left visible in a car when parked.

We asked the officer how the robber got in. His eyes lit up, he finally felt useful. He took a quick look around and in two minutes showed us how the robber had gotten in. We fixed that, and never had another breakin.

A useful lesson in how the police can actually help.
Scientists Link Rare Gene Mutations to Heightened Risk of Autism
While the goal of the project was to create a 100% renewable energy source based on sunlight, another energy source could probably be used.
I think there are so many ways technology can help mom + pop type small businesses inexpensively stay competitive with the numerous forces working against them (including retail giants with substantially better technology), and the huge interest in daily deals justifies this assertion--at least in some small way.

But the technology needs to help the small business actually improve. Groupon doesn't do this. For the most part, it plays smoke and mirrors with revenues and the costs or profits are not entirely known because the small business cannot measure them.
I don't mean to suggest that Bitcoin can't adapt. Just that most of the advantages it has over physical / digital cash or credit disappears once you add such things. Once you have a bank or physical device governments will get into the game and start regulating with the express goal of eliminating anonymity for large transactions.
What's the advantage of a ARM-based high-end laptop vs an x86-based high-end laptop?

I'll bite: nothing. In fact, only disadvantages abound. You won't get i5 or i7 like performance at the same value or wattage from an ARM for a few more years.
I was so confused by this the other day... I didn't know why these paragraph marks were showing up all over the place.

Nice to finally find out what on earth that was!
I could comment on how this reads more like a paean than as news reporting, but no. I can't get over the fact that Facebook has a patent on selecting a region of an image and associating information with it. I think I'll just go home now.
I'm starting to think that it was google who ran away from this deal.
Drinking helps creativity
I'd guess it's due to the sarcastic tone. If he had your made your post instead I think it would be faring better.

What really gets me is the barbershop post actually admits that it's very unlikely for the source to be telling the truth, then goes on to give it credit anyway because it agrees with his own speculation.
If we expect 1 crash per 200k mi, and the car has driven 200k mi, the evidence we have has sample size 1 ...
You may also find its history interesting then: http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/02/the-pilcrow-part-1/
I wonder what Jack Welch would do if he became CEO of Yahoo. Or what would Steve Jobs have done?

Jobs was a strong proponent of both "cut the crap" and "invent the future" product management.
I have a Xoom and love it. Why is that sad to you? I deal with iPads at my job and hate the experience. I'd prefer my Xoom to any iPad without hesitation.
It could have a system similar to EVE

I hope this is the opposite of EVE in practically every way... except the high-level concept. Let's not give Notch any ideas.
We freely admit that there have been many people who've tried to do this, but, to answer your question: Annotator is more granular than Sidewiki (you annotate specific passages within the page), and unlike Reframeit and Highlighter works across the web rather with no requirement for the developers of those sites to have enabled it.
Oh, I did not realize that. I guess it's only illegal when directed toward someone as a threat.
From my read of this, we do not yet have code that accurately emulates the number of cycles per instruction, which will probably turn out to be critical in the final game.
Wow. I had no idea Yahoo! had their own "Bell Labs." Neat. (Or perhaps, tragic)
> But using a language like Java doesn't solve that

The article isn't talking about languages like Java; it's talking about languages with good static type systems.

I don't know if it's possible in Clojure without giving up on Java interop entirely, but good static type systems in other languages can make null pointer exceptions impossible, among other things. If you tell me null pointers aren't a problem for you personally, I'll find that difficult to believe.
"It should be relatively trivial to restrict text entry when moving at high speeds on a phone with embedded GPS, and doing so would alter the behavior of the thing causing the distraction rather than the thing you want drivers to pay attention to."

True, but that solution would have the unintended consequence of screwing over passengers who may want to text.
The first thing I'm doing with this is making it play minecraft.
Too late. They do network monitoring solutions. (iglass.net)
On the opposite side they could have made not another display, but a whole new tool. A new interface for manipulating dynamic content. Preferably with your hands. Eliminating objects, laptops, touch displays...

However there are some clear points why did they choose this path:

- they only needed to make the display tech. Everything other could come later.

- the lifelogging aspect could get hyped, making the whole thing sexy.

But still I am a bit dissapointed, now let's jump on hand and object recognition!
Anyone looking to hire in the Bay?

Any interest in Google? If so, feel free to send your resume in my direction, jrockway AT google.com. (Also good if you look at google.com/jobs and list a few that interest you.)
This will certainly introduce a revolution in the gaming industry in the next few years... or at least, i hope it does.
From the article:

[...] when you factor in what those porn surfers are actually doing [...]

Ahem, I'd rather not. ;-)
I can appreciate this insight on Zynga, but I'd like to offer another perspective:

First off, have you seen the way Blizzard's stock performed during 2008? It was one of the few that continued to grow...

Rovio has more than just Angry Birds direct sales, it has a TON of merchandising opportunities with the characters (think Pixar). Plus they have a huge base of users that is excited to see what's next.

I'd also contend the rock stars analogy is backward - It is FAR more risky to assume a sole person can continue re-inventing themselves over a entire career. Granted, it's hard for game publishers, but at least there's a team and a more defined process for the innovation.
Is no one worried about the image and association you create by the advertising campaign? I kind of feel like you dilute the overall brand value by going with low stupid tactics - it may create value in the short term, but does that translate into a stronger brand in the long run just because it has more people?
That's heavy on mathematical lingo and I confess I didn't understand it. Can you recommend an online resource that would explain what you just wrote in a newbie-friendly manner?
It appears that the reason they are suing is because the 4th quarter results were posted and then based on that information people bought up the stock and then Groupon came back and said "Ya...about that information. We made a mistake" and the real results were much worse than they originally said, which makes the stock price drop.

I think it is a valid approach because a company should be able to get its own accounting correct. However, based on the creative accounting from Groupon (and other issues) I'm really surprised the FTC allowed them to have an IPO to begin with.
Encryption is some funny stuff. I worked on a team that implemented SSO between an ASP.NET app and a PHP app. We used AES with a shared key and IV. That was it. We just shoved the encrypted user token and timestamp into a domain cookie.

But I guess we should have also signed the encrypted value to know that we generated it?

What's the process to break this scheme?

1) Know what type of value is being encrypted: email, username, tokenid
2) Gather several pairs of usernames/encrypted usernames
3) Use some brute force method to uncover the key and IV
4) generated fake cookies since you know the key/IV
It should be possible to provide programs as "data" that is interpreted by the program "running" on Notch's CPU, thus allowing a fine-grained, whitelisted permissions even without MMU. No?
The FDA Enters Withdrawal: The Future of Antibiotics on Farms
Google's Cyborg visions
Project Glass by Google
Thing is, you don't need to copyright: you could have people actually looking at the code, and those who can program things are still going to be able to profit off it. You don't want to give people a monopoly in an MMO.

That being said, perhaps you have to buy physical disks to store the data on, which makes it slightly more difficult to virally spread a program. But like most information, once you have access to it you should be able to share it.
At Bank of America, VP was one title below most managers. VP basically meant "didn't get completely fucked in the offer negotiation process".
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Yahoo recently retired their famous neon billboard that had been in downtown San Francisco for many, many years. The billboard was ugly, but it was a sad sign of the times when it came down. :\

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57327029-52/san-francisco-...
Adaptable, not stupid. The ability to filter noise is a huge advantage.
My Audi has a HUD and it's great. It just becomes a part of driving and I find myself never looking at the dashboard anymore.

The adaptive cruise control, speedometer, and navigation is all available on the HUD -- it displays at appropriate times -- and is gone when I don't need it. When I'm about to hit a car in front of me, it gives a red warning that gets my attention.

It's really quite functional, and not distracting. You can dial-up and dial-down the contrast, which is worth doing. For me, it's easy to ignore if I don't want to see it.

But maybe, just maybe, it doesn't bother me because I grew up playing video games with health, points, and other metadata in the corner of my eyes growing up. :-)
Producing the best thing we possibly can for users is our paramount thing. I think we have demonstrated that over a very long period of time with a whole variety of different issues we’ve faced around the world.

Hilarious. Lately, Google's wannabe products/services are knee-jerk reactions to existing products. Google is driven by envy, not by the desire to innovate or create a better product or service.

Android = iOS

Android tablets/ICS = iPad

Motorola Acquisition = iOS

Google+ = Facebook

Google Offers = Groupon

Google Places/Hotpot = Yelp

Chrome = IE/Firefox

Google Docs = MS Office

so on...
What's coming in Java 8: modularization, Javascript, JRockit merge, more...
How to Throw a Stellar Dance Party…in Your Bedroom
I am looking for partners to create a startup company in the united states
My name is John, I have created a beta, a clone of pinterest in 3 months.

You can check it out at http://www.pintureka.com.

I've done with Ruby on Rails, jQuery and MongoDB, I have used Amazon for loading images, CloudFront + S3 and I have stayed at linode hosting with nginx and unicorn.

I am a Spanish entrepreneur and here in Spain we have a very bad situation to be able to create a startup, as it is very difficult to get funding.

I want to launch a startup and I am looking for partners for this purpose. I would like to submit a project in YCombinator or travel to United States to launch a startup.

I do not know if an stranger may travel to the U.S. to start a business is legal or illegal?. I am young, I have 29 years and I have really wanted to work and create a startup company.

If anyone can help me with information on visas for foreigners in the united states would be very grateful, please contact me if you can help with information for traveling to the United States to start up a company.

Can I submit a startup on YCombinator if I am a foreigner?

If you are interested in setting up a new startup company can contact me and we can talk.

My email is hyperrjas@gmail.com

I encourage all young people to launch a startup company as it is very nice and makes you feel very well.

Thank you very much everyone.
Also, you're immediately setting up your product for a negative reception. People expect all the cool stuff and tight integration shown in the concept video. If you can't deliver that...
It's harder to filter out simple ads, which is why Google sells text ads.
I wonder how long it will be before we see Yahoo style head lines for Groupon and RIM.
Ask HN: What do you think about these offer terms?
Hello HN,

I've been offered the role of CTO for a stealth mode startup(internet e-commerce) in Berlin, to complete the founding team. The terms of the offer were:
- 3.5K€ gross, t < 7 mo
- 4.5K€ gross, 6 months < t < 13 months
- market value salary + 3-4% equity, t > 13 months

During the interview, I was told that my expectations of salaries in Germany are a bit high (I'm based in Romania, currently): what would be market value for a startup CTO in Berlin? I was expecting something like 7-8K€ gross.

How is life in Berlin (housing, dining, culture, etc)? I don't speak german,yet :)

For a salary that is much lower than what I perceive to be market value, at least I would have expected much more significant equity.

I have experience with US based startups having worked as a very early employee in a leadership role but don't have experience dealing with EU startups.

Anything you think would help me make a better decision (legal, financial, etc) is welcome.

Is there a website where I can calculate the net salary from gross?

Thank you.
The biggest benefit of this is it's inconspicuous nature. they are glasses. They aren't big cumbersome devices, and they aren't phones that you have to carry around in one hand to use. They're apart of you like no other device you carry.
My company is hiring. send me your résumé. deliciouscake (at) msn.com -- i'll send you back our list of openings and refer you if you're a good fit. I'm not a recruiter, just an engineer, so i won't be giving out your email or giving you the hard sell or anything.
Take a look at reveal.js - http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/ && https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

Even though it seems to work best in Chrome it does work in ff and I was able to hack it to go full screen. I have noticed that It will bog the browser down on larger presentations with 20+ slides or more.
That's exactly what I meant with 'such as'. I couldn't find that link again, thanks.

I was more concerned about general physics considerations (inertia, etc) and scale (like intercepting stuff flying at 30000km/s).
They do, and they were supposedly in the process of redoing titles as I left, but my guess is that it didn't go very well. Nobody likes to give up an important-sounding title.
I know it’s not a new currency. The post title reads “…a new alternative to BitCoin”, which MintChip is not. It’s more like Google Wallet.
The original iPod was lame. It had a nice UI, but you had to already own a Mac with Firewire to even use it. But Apple kept iterating, ported iTunes to Windows, etc.
I don't trust software or web solutions to manage files for me in a consistent manner over the long length of time I want to keep things. Software dies, web sites die, but directories are always there.

I use a browser plugin to capture the complete page, then I save it to a DropBox directory with the URL and timestamp included in the file name. The plugin I currently use is "Awesome Screenshot" for Chrome: http://awesomescreenshot.com/