skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I can say about the same thing in my experiences. I personally have purchased a good number of the 'daily deal' kinds of things (including from LS), and have returned to a grand total of one. Pretty much among my friends it is much the same story. I think in general the 'deal' market was highly hyped for a product that wasn't providing (and still continues to not) a good value for the actual customers of the deal sites (the businesses, not the users).
I like how your page tries to answer all questions of the potential customer right on the frontpage. First a clear value proposition, then some features, then the target customer ("where can I find myself?") and a short Q/A at the bottom.

May I ask how you created the responsive design for this page (fluid layout + mobile navbar)? I noticed some backbone.js in the script code, but I have no clue in how far you have used a CSS framework like e.g. Twitter Bootstrap.
I tried a bunch and went with logentries because their categorization and graphing fit my specific need. Good product overall but not very polished.
The sheer number of Herman Miller SAYL chairs and iMacs is unbelievable, not to mention the sheer number of employees.

Is Living Social even profitable?

Edit: To answer my own question, a $558 million loss last year: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2012/02/01/regula...
Peering disputes are nothing new though. I was a Level 3 and Cogent customer, and suddenly my two servers couldn't talk anymore ...

Peering disputes are problematic for both IPv4 and IPv6. This has nothing at all to do with the IP version!

(p.s. You do realise that the article you linked to is from 2009 ...)
this is also on r/linguistics: http://reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/13vn3j/english_is_a...
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you thought wrong. RFC 791, p. 24, "Every internet module must be able to forward a datagram of 68 octets without further fragmentation."
Linux kernels also do that memory thing (and have done it for years), just FYI. Either through MCE or EDAC. Not really that special.

Pro-tip: use ECC memory on servers. The end.
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The oppositions opening remarks do not, in fact, refute the motion. Instead of talking about how MBA's benefit the economy as a whole he talks about how MBA's benefit the individuals who obtain an MBA degree.
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I think this is a valid concern. IIRC such payment-related Javascript code should only be included in https:// context as other script code might interact with the payment form.
Is the pending German Copyright Bill good or bad for the Web?
Just because you eat in the office and/or at your desk doesn't mean that you're necessarily working. I've worked places where lunch time would consist of people browsing the news on their computers or just kicking back with the people around them while they ate.
Sure, some of those are outliers, but they're merely the most outrageous outliers from already quite right-wing "mainstream conservative" positions. I've been observing Republicans fairly closely for a while, because I first started voting in a rather GOP-heavy district of Texas (southeast Houston), so in some cases voting in the GOP primary was the only way to have any impact at all, by voting for the more-moderate candidate. And the people I've seen are, by and large, shockingly unacceptable. When I was in high school (late 1990s), they opposed repealing Texas's anti-sodomy laws, which made it a criminal offense to engage in "immoral" sex. We're not talking about same-sex marriage here, but about actually being arrested for having sex in one's own house. When that law was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2003, the state GOP was outraged, and put into its platform a condemnation of "activist judges" and the "homosexual agenda", and a demand that homosexuality be somehow re-criminalized. Not just a few fringe representatives: that was the consensus position of the statewide party. That specific demand was finally voted out of the platform just this year, in 2012, though my own local congressman (TX-36) still speaks darkly of "homosexuals" more often than you might think necessary, along with "anchor babies" for good measure. I don't see how I could possibly find that kind of rhetoric appealing.

As far as rape goes, what was sort of surprising is that Akin wasn't even the only outlier among Senate candidates in this election alone in having a "rape-comment scandal": Mourdock in IN also somehow found it necessary to mention that pregnancy from rape is a "gift from God".
Thanks Wolfram for not letting me upgrade. Website claims "up to 80% upgrade savings!" but when I enter my activation code, I'm told I'm not eligible.

I bought a 1-year license just a few months ago for version 8. Only £36, sure, but I'm a student and can't afford a second £36 now just for a handful of new features, even if they would be useful. Upgrade pricing would be nice. I'm sure working out a fair upgrade price shouldn't be too hard either. I bet there's even a formula for it somewhere...
KDevelop is WM-independent -- its dependencies don't include the window manager or shell. This silo thinking has to stop. Basically all the library stacks on Linux have a shell project prominently associated with them (Qt/kdelibs: Plasma, GTK+: Gnome Shell, EFL: Enlightenment, Motif: CDE), so you run out of "WM-independent" apps pretty fast if you make that mistake. And considering Qt even calls into the GTK+ theming system if run in Gnome it strives to be interoperable more than most.

As for alternatives, I'm not aware of a Python IDE with comparable abilities for Linux (Wing probably comes closest, but is proprietary).

What has the potential for greater impact on your productivity - 320 MB of used disk space or a useful IDE?
And PostGIS too, please - if anyone from AWS is listening/reading :)
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Maybe we are reaching a point where we have more solutions than problems that can be solved with just with apps in general. Maybe this is why hardware is getting more attention.
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I almost forgot about this. Can someone please explain why this is so hard to implement?
Assuming it kept the same mass. If it had a lot more mass, the Earth's orbit would be identical to it's orbit around a star with that much more mass. The fact that an object is a black hole only becomes relevant when something passes the event horizon. Outside the event horizon, it acts like any other object with the same mass.
They all fed off of the same positive network effects of the social networks, without the consistency.

I know within my own network, they were cool for a while because you got some great deals if you all worked together and shared the deals with others... but after a while, it just turns into spamming your friends, and the deals were getting less and less attractive and rare.
Thanks! I knew there had to be something like this out there.

> The similarly-named "Uptimes Project" seems to have expired...

The irony.
As far as I know that is an upgrade price, which you can only get if you already own a legitimate copy of a previous version.
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You don't get to say they are "Outliers" when Santorum wins 11 (I think that was the number?) Republican presidential primaries. When audiences at those primaries boo gay soldiers. When their candidate wants to get rid of planned parenthood.

A major party's senate candidate is an "outlier" ???/ You'd be hard pressed to find anyone this nuts on the left.

Half of the Repubs members of the congressional committee on science don't believe in evolution. The moderates who you refer to have left: Richard Lugar, Arlen Spector etc., haven't you noticed they've been cast out of the party/defeated in primaries.

Frankly, the media is too "fair." Not all opinions deserve to be treated equally. If media is sympathetic to the Democratic party it's because ours is a party based on reason, evidence and logic, not 2,000 year old myths.
It is combined cycle, but that does not mean it's equivalent to the RBCC design. There are several variations of combined cycle engines. RBCC is not a catchall. This is a refinement of the Liquid Air Cycle Engine concept that was researched by the US military in the 60's and the british in the 80's. The principal british investigator was Alan Bond, who is also the principal in Reaction.

It is appropriate to distinguish it from both jet engines and rocket engines because in the Brayton Cycle compression is adiabatic rather than diabatic in SABRE. I don't believe there is a formal term for this cycle, but the closest existing would be the Ericcson Cycle.

I do not understand your preoccupation with whether to categorize something as novel or not. The have a chiller that drops the temperature of a near supersonic air flow over 1000C in a fraction of a second. If that doesn't meet your standards of novel I don't know what would.
The giant screen was my first real "huh" moment, but also: rock walls really aren't cheap, nor is that office space, or the multiple stainless steel appliances.

It's not that I think this money was mis-spent -- at best those things might have been able to pay for the salaries of only a few employees -- it's that, taken together, it seems to be a sign of a company that might be distracted where its resources are concerned.

Or maybe they just got really good deals on everything. :-)
Are we back to headcount as a success metric? The most surreal thing I remember about Startup.com was the company going "oh no, we're in trouble" every few months, doubling in size, and then going "oh no, we're in even more trouble."
Yes, sure. I've mined, and even mined for a bit at an occasional loss after hitting punitive over-baseline electric rates).

But it's farfetched to predict that everyone who was willing to do something when the bitcoin reward was X will still be willing to do it, in the exact same amount, when the reward is reduced to X/2. (Even if the goal is 'anonymous bitcoins' at above-market rates, they've still become twice as costly.) Demand curves slope down, supply curves slope up, exceptions are rare and not in evidence here.
DC office space has to be expensive, they can only build up 7 or so stories by law (nothing can be taller than the Treasury building).
+1 for "more money can replace all the non-money things, in the same way tofu can replace bacon."
I didn't study linguistics, but I'm an English professor and my first thought was of Beowulf -- an Anglo-Saxon poem that takes place entirely in Scandinavia. Grendel, in fact, lives in Denmark.
I was ecstatic when I'd first heard of it! The main draw I have towards Android rather than iOS is the ease of use of the interaction between apps. If the web can have the same benefit that I see on mobile, then there could be some explosively innovative interactions possible.

Web-to-web interactions right now are mostly just copy-paste and saving things to your desktop to upload again. It would be incredibly innovative to share more complex data structures between sites, like events, contacts, videos, etc.
I don't think it's ironic because Anil clearly values Facebook and wants them to "do the right thing". This is made clear in the opening paragraph:

> Now, Facebook follows the steps that most tyrants do, quietly moving from sham elections to an official policy that users will have no vote in site governance.

When I read this my first thought went to the ridiculousness of comparing Facebook to a dictator. But it shows that Anil sees Facebook as almost necessary infrastructure. Not using Facebook is not a realistic possibility. Instead we must hope against hope that they will right their tyrannical ways.

Frankly I'm not holding my breath, but Anil has reach so maybe something good could come out of it.
Great list, thanks!

Just one note - would you consider adding second level in the table of content? Like:

COMPONENTS:

- Display

- Form

- Input

FRAMEWORK INTEGRATIONS

- ASP

etc
Estonians have an easy time too,[1] learning English apparently. So clearly English is also a Finno-Ugric language.

[1] Based on the fact that almost all Estonian youth (16 - 26 years old) can speak English properly.
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Depending on the service, it may be that they shouldn't use it while at work in the first place. But that's an aside, there's a simple technical solution. Every time there's a post about IE, and every time someone thinks (or believes themselves to be an example that) there's a single person on the planet who has to live with IE >= 6 when they don't want to, someone in the thread mentions Chrome Frame.
Is the reverse true? Would I, as a native speaker of English, find it easy to learn Danish?
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In the spirit of fair play, I'll accept that both positions were literally not true. Still, there is a thesis/antithesis/sythethis that is worth spelling out for HN'ers folowing along.

Infinite QE = False

Determinant QE = False

_________

Open-ended QE =~ True

Wait, wat, why?

The reason: The only way the Fed gets to where it wants is with (at a minimum) a credible threat of perpetual QE. The fed is trying to play the house at a casino. It does not want a high-roller doubling down all-in on Black at infinite repitition. That game goes to whoever lasts the longest at the table. The threat of perpetual QE needs to be credible to keep this type of speculation off the table. Only when it is clear that this has gone (ie, such bets are irrational on fundamentals) will it change its position.

So, in that sense, we should expect to see a reversion in policy that will make QE finite. But that is different than saying that bets should be placed in as if we were in an environment of (tractably) finite QE (that would be bad advice--per above). So to get to the state-space where your notion is true, you have to go through the state-space where the notion you dis-agree with is true. But these are sequential, and the time that you are correct is iff and after the time that the other notion is correct first. And we are in that latter state-space now.

So housing prices are being supported by QE; QE is open-ended for the forseable future; At some stage this will revert but the half-life on a 30 year mortage is 15 yrs and we will have at least 8 years of QE so at least some (half or likely more) of the value of the housing market is (arguably but) correctely attributed to QE.

I think this is a fair/useful elucidation, but YMMV.
http://www.mathics.net/ (try on-line) gives a 502
I've found that most Scandinavians (or at least Danes) have a pretty easy time with English.

I think it works the other way round, too, though there's an asymmetry in the fact that, whilst most Scandinavian speakers encounter English regularly, the reverse isn't true.

Nonetheless, even though I've never studied any of the Scandinavian languages, nor ever been there, I find it fairly easy to read written Danish or Norwegian. I went to a Christmas market at the local Norwegian church last weekend, and amused myself by reading all the Norwegian signs and inscriptions. With so many cognate words and an almost one-to-one mapping of word order, I could easily guess the odd word that wasn't immediately obvious.

(None of that either supports or refutes the Scandinavian hypothesis, of course. It's just an observation that there are significant common features and vocabulary.)
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I'm not sure I completely understand your situation, but turning down the MTU on an intermediate router is rarely a good fix for PMTU issues. If you have web servers, you may consider turning down the MTU on the Internet facing interfaces. Even if you turned it down to say 1400, you'd only have around 5% more packets ... probably not enough load increase to melt your routers.

In fact, I just ran some test TCP connections against Google, and their web servers respond a TCP MSS of only 1430, suggesting they are assuming a PMTU of 1470. That sounds pretty pragmatic to me and I wouldn't be surprised if other large Internet companies did a similar thing.
Well this sounds kinda scary:

Total U.S. GDP growth in the 20th century was $9.93 Trillion, while the government accumulated $5.5 Trillion in debt. In the 21st century, the US has borrowed $10.7T and has a grand total of $5.30T in GDP growth.
In the SABRE design you can pick whatever transition point you like to move from air breathing to pure rocket operation.
http://www.emulab.net/ is along those lines.
Hey Chris,

I found a bit more information on the co-founders on the Fresh Plum press release page.
https://freshplum.com/pr/freshplum

*Please don't shoot the messenger (me) :)
That's kind of my point, though.

If you can't guarantee that every layer below you is absolutely reliable, then you need to assume that everything below you might be broken, and that you need to handle it. You can't start with the mindset that everything works below you, and have everything above you also work fine.

The fact that we have people with the mindset that everything below them is broken is the entire reason that these kinds of issues get detected and fixed.
Taking "off", not taking "of." Right in the first sentence, too.
The only problem with Elon's response is that rockets will never be used for terrestrial transportation. SABRE might.
Last year here at MIT a bunch of people did that. They also sent out detailed instructions with links to remove yourself from the list. Didn't work, but someone killed the list after a few hours.

Great times though.
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Yes. To every Windows application: http://www.nektra.com/products/audio-recorder-api/
Does this mean you have Google Authenticator support in the Android app already, since there aren't any approval times? Or are you specifically delaying updating the Android app to wait for Apple? That's not fun. :(
>Can the physical world actually reach zero, or only asymptotically approach it?

Five minutes ago, I had zero apples in my hand. At this exact moment, I have no way of knowing how many apples are in my hand due to signal delay and processing time.

Numbers as we know them are only useful for describing the past, but at that task they can work perfectly.
So does this mean no more tech rock stars?
I see it as Google's way to lock people in to the Chrome ecosystem. And they have quite a bit of pull and opportunity because of Drive and Android.

I do see the benefit of some apps (I love Pocket and Clearly). But in terms of usability, I have seen issues that haven't been sorted out yet, such as the interaction with Chrome Sign-In (on public computers, the app start pages start up every time you sign in). And I do think this focus on browser app development takes away some of the effort that should be done on the web itself.
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Ask HN: What's the right balance of "goof-off" time?
I'm a strong believer that having some fun activities integrated into a work environment are very healthy. Obviously there's a fine line between a quick, energizing goof-off (eg: Foosball match for 5-10 minutes, lunchtime Caracasonne or Dominion games, etc) versus utter distraction (lunchtime movies or Catan games).

Curious to hear any best practices from others...
I just commented about this a bit above, but you've reminded me of a blog post I read years ago: "Why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn" http://www.pagef30.com/2008/08/why-norwegian-is-easiest-lang...
I would probably work for Obama, and even at a cheaper rate that I would for Romney, but like misterbwong and eshvk said, the point is that if Obama has already hired his whole staff, Romney can offer a certain price where I am willing to ignore my political affiliations and be fully professional (read: not sabotage the effort because I dislike the candidate)
The increase in performance that I mentioned is directly due to the performance increase. We built identical pages on both platforms and tested them against each other at the same moment in time.

The only difference between the two pages was the page load time. Because we removed all other variables (time, appearance, functionality, etc.) we can say that the 60% performance increase lifted conversions by 14%.
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> At this point in its adoption curve, using Bootstrap is amateur. It says I have no idea how to style a webpage.

Similar to how, if I go to a website and I notice it's using Apache or nginx, I write them off as not having any idea how to write a web server, and that's something I look for from an application or service provider.
> They are the establishment

Isn't Obama the establishment now? I think he's a Democrat.

> the old white guys

Most Republicans aren't old. Some are white, but not all. I'm not. Some aren't even guys ...

If I said something similar about Democrats, like how they're all black or something equally moronic and false ... you'd be jumping up and down, calling me a racist.

> The Dems were more open to a different type of campaign that brought tech in house etc.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hcoyG-Ck3...
But being serious for a moment: Wasn't it during Old English that English was mostly heavily influenced by Old Norse? Who can forget the Norwegian, Danish and Jutes' invasions? As an example, just look at Beowulf, famous for being a work in Old English.

In this link, the author highlights that Old English uses the Dutch/German approach to sentence structure. (Although, a “Ich lese das Buch” / 'I read the book' / »Jeg læser bogen« structure is also possible in German.)

But Middle English is actually mostly heavily influenced by French (1066 and all that), and surprise surprise, French also uses a SVO (subject verb object) structure, « je lis le livre ».

Maybe he should have used better examples.

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Edit: German grammar.
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Having studied linguistics I'd say the claim is sensationalist rather than sensational. English is a rather wild crossbreed of many European languages, all of which share the same Indo-European roots.

Old English is very closely related to Old Frisian and Low German. Later on English has been heavily influenced by Scandinavian, Romance (mainly French due the Norman invasion in 1066 - Norman French to be specific, which differed quite a bit from Île-de-France French at that time) and Gaelic languages to some extent.

You'll find salient features of any of these language roots but that doesn't make English a Romance or Gaelic language for instance, it's just that it has been influenced by those and hence adopted grammatical features.

The main reason for this is that Great Britain before the times of the British Empire was one of the most contested places in Europe.

Finally, some of the claims in this article are somewhat inaccurate. There were no Scandinavians and British people at that time, 'Danes' and 'Anglo-Saxons' would have been the correct terms.

I also have a problem with the claim that Norwegians find it easy to learn English because their languages are so closely related. The same has been said about Dutch not long ago.
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Reasons I've been given why these don't exist:

1. It encourages skip leveling, ie attempting to resolve problems in a public forum rather than going through the proper channels.

2. It presents a security risk. Too many people discussing what could be restricted information.

3. It detracts from productivity by giving people something to do other than focusing on their work. Adding peer pressure to be a part of the discussion adds fuel to the fire.

I'm not saying I agree with these.
Has any IPv4 peering dispute lasted this long? (Yes, the article is from 2009. They're still locked in a dispute in 2012.)