skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "daily deals" model seems to depend on a few things to be successful; if any of these doesn't work, then the model is in trouble:

1. It has to offer something compelling. The daily deal is asking a potential customer to commit now to buying something; if the customer could spend just a little bit more to get that thing at their leisure (or if they don't really care whether they get that thing or not), then they will.

2. So it depends on a supplier making an offer that is substantially better than any offer they're making anywhere else. This is bad for suppliers, as it can weaken their relationships with long-time distributors.

3. So the supplier will want to see the daily deals system reaching a market that they couldn't otherwise reach -- maybe a particular demographic, or a very large advertising-adverse market, or a lucrative and otherwise impenetrable local market.

4. And that market has to have disposable income to spend on things they don't really need, and the desire to do so.

Unfortunately, the various goals here are all mis-aligned. You can't really expect the same market to buy something from you every single day, especially if you're offering high-ticket items, so you can never reliably expect to extract purchases from more than a percentage point or two of your market. This is not at all attractive to your suppliers, who will turn to other forms of distribution that might be more lucrative -- they could for example just run a sale on their own site, get picked up by a deal aggregator like dealnews.com, sell items for slightly more than they would have otherwise, and maybe the customer will buy something else while they're there.

So then the daily deals sites become a clearinghouse for stuff that suppliers can't sell elsewhere, and that cheapens the daily deal site in the eyes of its market. (Woot.)

I think a better, more reasonable model would be an "irregular deals" site -- a site that waited until they got some really amazing offer from a supplier, and then blasted that out to this huge network they built up. Because it's irregular, they'd get more of the market purchasing each time, and because the deal site is focusing exclusively on high quality offers, they'd be able to build up a much larger, more committed market.
In my opinion, this technology gap will exist as long as the Republican party embraces social conservatism to the point of scientific ignorance.

Consider Todd Akin’s comment: "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to just shut that whole thing down." While "legitimate rape" ended up being the colloquial reference that got hammered, what was so utterly offensive was the second part of the sentence. Implying the female body had some sort of magical spermicide. It's not just insensitive, it's scientifically ignorant. There are a lot of reasons why almost 2/3 of college students and recent college grads voted for Obama, and one of them is because of this complete idiocy that Republicans spew.

At the "Family Values Summit" earlier this year, Rick Santorum said, "We're never going to be the party of smart people." If you’re not the smart party, what are you? The party that claims the HPV vaccine causes retardation? The party that considers evolution a myth? Sure, but then you won't be the party with constituents that embrace science and technology.

Sure, they can throw money at the problem. Even if they intellectually objected with the platform, lots of engineers would work for the Republican party if they paid enough. But successful political campaigns are all about connecting a widespread media message to the individual visceral feelings of voters. If your staff has no idea who that voter is because they aren't actually one of them, then you're not going to have the same quality of campaign.

I don't think all is lost for the Republican party. For an example off the top of my head, it would be very easy to philosophically adjust their stances on "economic freedom" to support reforms to copyright and patent law. But until then, Rick Santorum is right. They won't be the party of smart people. Which means they won't be the party that has smart technology talent helping them run campaigns.
If you have a million users that's 100 pissed off people.
Also make sure nobody else posts it on Facebook.
FYI, you will convert 37% better if you change your call-to-action wording to "You should visit my website at www.bltrg-app.me".
>If we just accept "networks are unreliable and sometimes broken" as a fact of life, things will never get better. I applaud the unsung heroes who are finding and fixing the actual root causes of lower layers of our networks.

As developers, this should always be a fact of life. True, we should strive for making the networks perfect, but at the end of the day, these things still need to be accounted for.

Because you don't have control over a client deciding that 50 cent network cards are "good enough" for their deployment even though they've demanded five 9's uptime from your software.

Because you can't know when someone's going to spill beer on the switch.

Because someone's just going to pull the wrong cable.

Because the water company accidentally cut the line into the building.
it's not about pure tcp, as i get it - it allows you communicate from browser directly (via webtcp server as a bridge) with any servers such as redis, mongodb, rabbitmq and so on.

WebBrowser --- data ---> WebTCP bridge (translate data to servers) --- data ---> redis/rabbitmq/any_tcp(and i think udp also possible?)_server_even_smtp
If you're writing games or scientific programs, you still need C++, if not Fortran or assembly.
Wow. Look at all that money spent on things that didn't make their business better.
Supposedly the App Engine price hike was a one-time event when Google switched company-wide from made-up below-cost prices to profitable prices. Since GCE started after that, presumably its prices were rational from the beginning and won't need to be raised.
Feedback taken into account.
pvdm is probably (off topic, and ..) suggesting there is an illusion of choice when it comes to the american political duopoly
Wow that's really interesting. My previous employer was a "middle man" of sorts for .jobs domains (I can't remember the word; not a tld manager but something else. They reserve .jobs domains for other people). Using ".jobs" was in fact an SEO strategy, so you see domains like indiana.jobs, django.jobs, etc., which both pull from the same pool of jobs, but filter based on the specific domain.
I think WebRTC is going to be more of a 2014 technology – it's still pretty raw as a technology, and even more so as implements, going into 2013.
i use evernote. i have a notebook called "ideas" and basically i use the evernote email address plus "@-tag" to make it work. example:

Subject: Solution to perpetual motion problem = cats + bacon @Ideas

Subject: Write the classic boy-meets-fish bromance movie @Ideas

Subject: Create a social networking site dedicated to the best herpderp photos @Ideas

etc.
Presumably the failure of some to jump onto the IPv6 bandwagon? I guess we can expect IPv4 to stick around like IE6 for a while.
I don't disagree. However, I know quite a few people who think that they are somehow "contaminated" by the mere virtue of having an adult company on their resume. This may of course be bullshit because I know that we hired a mobile engineer from an adult production firm recently.
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This is like Oracle thinking they can raise the price of something forever due to lock-in. That is true until it suddenly isn't. The wealthy of CA are particularly mobile as movies and software require no natural resources.

All you need is a few people to start defecting. Is it really "Randian" to believe that people will increasingly use the internet/cloud/telecommuting/Skype/Anybots to work remotely?
The ‘Do Nothing’ Approach to Leadership
ultimately! the best internet building tool ever.
> I always wonder why it is an assumption IE support is mandatory.

Because for many, the use of IE is mandatory.

Depending on what service we're talking about, a lot of the IE traffic is going to come from people who work at companies that require the use of their approved/installed software. Every time there's a post about IE there are few people who come out of the woodwork to comment about how they only use Windows + IE at work, and then Firefox/Chrome at home, even on Hacker News of all places. It's easy to forget on here that Windows still has the dominant market share, and for many people who currently use IE (for even part of the day), switching or upgrading is out of the question.

If you don't support IE, you're not encouraging these people to switch - you're encouraging them not to use your service at all.
I wouldn't. I'd make a HTTP call to the server, and let the server handle it. (i.e. your "what's so different from the backend method")?
But they wouldn't do that. They'd call up their defense contractor buddy who did that great system for the DoD that was only 2 years late and triple the original budget.
And if the Obama campaign were making the same offer, which would you choose?

This would be a valid point if there were only enough competent engineers for one party's staff. That isn't the case, though.
Zoho invoicing works.
> The play The Crucible was not a cliche...

I didn't say it was. I said the phrase "witch hunt" is a cliche. "The Inquisition" isn't a cliche. "The Salem Witch Trials" isn't a cliche. "The Holocaust" isn't a cliche. "witch hunt" is a cliche.
Mozilla's Prism/WebRunner/Chromeless are all basically defunct, and Chrome Apps aren't really the same as those anyway. Chrome Apps and Firefox OS Apps are basically the same – and in both cases it's adding some extra APIs that web pages can't normally get access too, and an optional packaging format, and a little application-related metadata. Firefox Apps are a bit more cross-platform, as they look a bit more like native apps on normal desktop systems and on Android.
The number zero was considered useless for a long period of time [1].

A certain piece of academic information isn't useless just because you can't think of a use for it, so I'd say yes, you're wrong.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Zero-The-Biography-Dangerous-Idea/dp/0...
So Facebook and Twitter should also save drafts of posts you were going to make? What if latency is non-trivial, or connection is lost? Do I also want to send ajax posts for drafts every second to ensure that as little as possible is lost? A lot of this is mitigated by a very simple

confirm("Are you sure you want to leave?");
Here's a different perspective: Bootstrap is evolving as a clean-cut UI framework that can be reliably extended when you stick to its conventions (nonsemantic markup and all.) That's why this list is so massive. Like any framework, I would strongly suggest against forking the library and modifying the code directly. Instead, keep application-specific customizations separate, "on top" of Bootstrap.
Thanks for the response. Would it make sense to say that this is more likely to be used for metadata (i.e. analytics, logs, etc.) while a normal RDB (or NoSQL DB) would be used for application data (i.e. users, settings, etc.)?
Here's an example that affected me just a few days ago:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/22/peeri...

Basically, Hurricane Electric and Cogent (two major transit providers) are refusing to exchange IPv6 traffic. That breaks stuff. For me the problem manifested as a user facing a 20 second delay whenever he ssh'd in (over IPv4). (I'm on Hurricane Electric. The reverse DNS for his IPv4 address is served by Cogent DNS servers. Reverse DNS lookups were trying to access the Cogent name server over IPv6 and had to time out before IPv4 was tried.)

Other than that though, I actually haven't encountered very much IPv6 breakage.
> 80% of economic activity is unproductive

The parent comment is talking about 80% of companies struggling to raise series A, not 80% of the entire economy or even the entire startup ecosystem.
It's not profitable for the customers (mostly small businesses). They take big losses for the events and don't acquire repeat business. The consumers who partake are only doing it for the deal.
It doesn't look anything like Java. There's a class statement, but it's not something dramatic, just some syntax around normal JS prototype patterns. The JS2 proposals years back started to look a lot more like Java, but those never went anywhere.
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>>> Among employees who work for Google, Mr. Obama raised about $720,000 in itemized contributions this year, against only $25,000 for Mr. Romney. That means that Mr. Obama took almost 97 percent of the money between the two major candidates.

I'm not sure that's indicative of anything, Ron Paul's visit to Google, from what I recall, was a standing room event. I personally just abhor donating money to political causes. It results in negative ads, trivialization of deep issues, omission of important discussion topics, and doesn't benefit Internet industry much - most political spending goes towards TV ads.
"Amazon Redshift includes technology components licensed from ParAccel." http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-services-announces-amaz...
I usually write down on whatever is handy, be it a scrap of paper, a text editor on my desktop machine, or the Notes app on my iPad.

The result of this is that all of my notes are on different machines, in different folders or formats.

Now that you mention it, it might be nice to have an app in the cloud that would be just for this purpose and would sync data across all of my devices.
Came here to say hi and congrats Mitchell. Was fun hanging out in CZ, we should do it again, this time, stateside.
Both choices are crap, but I think most technical people would still rather have the restrictive patents over policies drafted with the expectation of Jesus's return.
And this is EC2, so yeah, millions of users is not unrealistic!
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I become more and more amazed at the price of storage but in the same breath I am still horrified at the price of data at scale.

Right now I have a VPS at Carat Networks to throw crap on and I pay $15/m. For that I get 50GB of space and 500GB of transfer. I understand the speed and reliability is greatly improved with S3, but as a simple file host, it still makes sense for me to throw it on a vps or low-end dedicated server at 1/10 - 1/3 the cost of ^this^ projection.
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Damn, none of these methods are working for me anymore...

Anyone else having any luck?
wow, did not know about -Weffc++. quite impressive that they added that flag. here's a blog post if anyone else wants to read about it:

http://cpptruths.blogspot.com/2006/08/g-compiler-option-weff...
I guess I long ago decided that Bitcoin was interesting enough with just the possibility of not having to rely on a central authority/entity.

More to the point, however, is that this isn't really an issue of an authority, but rather an issue of trust. If I for whatever reason decided not to trust Bitcoin.org, someone else could take their place. For instance, I could get my recent state of the block-chain from a pal that I trust to do the actual task of verifying the full chain. I could even pay that person some fee periodically for providing that service. You could probably come up with a distributed, fraud resistant, method of providing recent block chain states where many sources would have to be simultaneously compromised for any attack.
> And if the Obama campaign were making the same offer, which would you choose?

I think the point is that Romney's campaign would be able to hire engineers at some cost. This cost may be significantly higher than the cost that Obama would have to pay but nevertheless passionate, dedicated engineers can be obtained to produce high quality infrastructure.
You might want to look into rjmetrics or chart.io and see what they offer. I've been integrating with both, and it seems one of their goals is to (after the connection and datasources are set-up - that still requires technical knowledge) allow non-technical people access to analyze the data.
Yeah, a lot of people, including myself, use evernote or some sort of note taking app. But I felt that my ideas were being lost under a pile of notes.

It's nice to quickly jot down your idea but I wanted to analyze my behaviour and perhaps figure out what it is that inspiring me to come up with those ideas. Is it the coffee rush in the morning or the calmness of the night that turns that part of my brain on which enables me to start popping out ideas.
We Do Not Have a Job Shortage, We Have a Skills Shortage
so, i dropped out of Dean Danos' program just hours before moving to New Hampshire.

i have the utmost respect for his program and the people they admit - everyone i met seemed highly intelligent and extremely driven. it may yet be in my future. to anyone interested in an MBA - take a long look at Tuck. i was admitted to several elite schools and this one stood out to me. it felt the most like a family, which is what i wanted. for me, a poor 27 year old (relative to the typical MBA entrant) with a strong interest in early-stage technology, the arithmetic didn't make sense. i had a moment, late in the evening before leaving Boston for good, where i saw into a future in which i was saddled with extreme debt and forced to make decisions about where to work and what career to pursue based upon a pending loan payment rather than a passion. it would take several years post-mba to pay off the debt over which i'd begin adding expense to my life e.g. kids, house, marriage, car... i'd likely earn a great deal of money (by my measure) and i'd find myself in a strange mix of being stuck, due to circumstance, but also comfortable and content. i would pay my loans off but, would i realistically be willing/able to leave that lifestyle? the answer to me was clearly, "no." so, the choice was: take extreme risk now, when i have no baggage and next to nothing to lose or, take extreme risk never. i wasn't comfortable with the latter option. explaining this decision to my parents was a horrific experience.
I personally would say yes, I have done C++, simulation, AI, Perl, C#, Objective-C, Java, Lisp and many others over the course of a 25 year career. Currently I mainly do front end development which for obvious reasons requires JavaScript. I have found the problem space to be just as interesting and in some areas just as complicated as any of the rest of them. There is serious development work to be done on the front end, if one looks for that type of work. Which JavaScript lends itself to just grabbing a library like jQuery and dressing up a site without actually knowing too much about what is going on, it also lends itself to building stuff like Dojo or Node which are serious projects with complex problems being solved. Personally, I find the current era to be one of the most enjoyable times to be a developer and a lot of that has to do with what is going on in the front end.
Twitter actually does save drafts in localStorage.
I haven't read the Atoms of Language but this sounds plausible and is if I remember correctly, more or less, what is believed to have happened. The diachronic study of english from say 900 to 1300, shows a language undergoing drastic changes such as the loss of inflections, grammatical gender, and adoption of north germanic (danish) words and later norman french ones. The idea is that original SOV speakers of saxon were put under the heavy influence of the SVO languages of the danes and later (post 1066 - battle of hastings) that of the SVO normans. It would make sense, especially since even OE was not a truly pure SOV language and allowed a much freer word order due to the inflection system, which upon dying out forced word order to take on a much stricter form.

As an interesting side note to show just how big of a hack mixed up jumble of everything modern english is, the usage of the verb do, in elliptical sentences and questions such as "do you want some coffee?", is very rare in indo-european languages (only found in celtic langs such as irish) and thought to have been picked up during the time in which saxon speakers and celts were sharing the same island.
You need to go to chrome://flags to enable Web Audio Input. The request for the microphone has nothing to do with that .. it's working with or without Web Audio Input.
Exactly, your ideas are all over the place and you end up losing them! That was my entire motivation behind working on something like this.
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I am told Facebook's mission is TO SERVE MAN.
Yep, and i wrote about differences to such approach in the post. Don't get me wrong, this is definitely a hack, I'm not saying people should stop doing it the old way.
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Also, funny that you mention tags. The app I am working on also revolves around the concept of tagging to categorize and organize your ideas.
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I wouldn't say unproductive. Some of these companies will continue without further funding. A lot of the ones that don't will have broken new ground, educated themselves further for another go or are ending up at a big company either just as an aquihire or actually selling assets to the company.
this Authy service really misses the point: the numeric code is redundant when you have a separate secure device with an internet connection (i.e. a phone).

when the user logs in issue a push notification, which when tapped sends the code back automatically.

the numeric code can be used as a fallback if the net connection is down.
Except IE's filters were an unrelated proprietary technology with an ugly syntax:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Blur(pixelradius=2);

compared to

filter: blur(2px);
IPv6 no longer supports fragmenting on routers. That means if you don't want to be stuck with the default minimum MTU of 1280 (which you really don't want to for low-latency applications) you need to support Path MTU Discovery, which in turn requires ICMP to go unhindered across a large number of different networks between you and the receiver.
> The number zero was considered useless

It still is as far as I can tell. Try adding/subtracting it - it makes no difference. Multiplying it just gets you back the same useless number no matter what. Dividing by zero? Don't even go there!
To everyone saying all Republicans need to do is throw money at it: Missionaries beat Mercenaries every time.

And the point of the article is that Democrats have ~5 times more potential to find missionaries than Republicans do.

Anyone who has tried to hire will realize that it is difficult, and a pool of 5x gives you a huge advantage.
@mitchellh
Congratulations first!
As I've been reading your tweets I've been guessing that you would starting, which focuses you on Vagrant.

I have a few questions:
When did you think about the first time and when did you really decide to do this step?
How do you start? Bootstrap it by your own or try to go with for a VC?
How are you planning the addon open source/paid addon ratio will be like?

I wish you all the best for your company.
And because I've been using Vagrant every day: Thank you very much.
It's an interesting argument; however I am a little dissuaded by the fact that half of the support for the claims of similar syntax between Norwegian and English (split infinitives and placing a preposition at the end of a sentence) are generally considered poor grammar in English.
Likewise. While I appreciate the concept of a bridge (I'm a strong believer that the fastest app is the app that does practically nothing at all, and I can see the benefit of using a TCP-bridge like thing to make something faster), I just think we should not be reinventing the wheel.

That is to say, if you need a TCP connection to any server, you probably should not be implementing it over HTTP (well, this is where definitions get difficult, since you know, HTTP is technically TCP. Fuck)