skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statement:

People of Groupon,

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding – I was fired today. If you’re wondering why… you haven’t been paying attention. From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that’s hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. As CEO, I am accountable.

You are doing amazing things at Groupon, and you deserve the outside world to give you a second chance. I’m getting in the way of that. A fresh CEO earns you that chance. The board is aligned behind the strategy we’ve shared over the last few months, and I’ve never seen you working together more effectively as a global company – it’s time to give Groupon a relief valve from the public noise.

For those who are concerned about me, please don’t be – I love Groupon, and I’m terribly proud of what we’ve created. I’m OK with having failed at this part of the journey. If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through. I am so lucky to have had the opportunity to take the company this far with all of you. I’ll now take some time to decompress (FYI I’m looking for a good fat camp to lose my Groupon 40, if anyone has a suggestion), and then maybe I’ll figure out how to channel this experience into something productive.

If there’s one piece of wisdom that this simple pilgrim would like to impart upon you: have the courage to start with the customer. My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what’s best for our customers. This leadership change gives you some breathing room to break bad habits and deliver sustainable customer happiness – don’t waste the opportunity!
I will miss you terribly.

Love,

Andrew
It's been broken for a long time.

Google has done for Usenet what Caliph Omar did for the Library of Alexandria.
a complete datasets recopilation
Aol Talks About Us More Than It Talks To Us
Bootstrap comes "designed" out of the box, Foundation is intentionally very plain and intended to be built upon (hence the name).
I hope Eric Raymond goes YOLO one day and starts wiping out these patent trolls with his massive gun collection.
congrats!! happy to be working with you guys
Hmmm. Framing it as mutilation makes it hard to debate it rationally.

And as visceral an image is of cutting off the above the top knuckle of my finger, I'm still left a bit unconvinced. That may be true in a purely physiological sense, but really human hands and cat paws have a much different design and function. Our hands are much more manipulatory than cats' paws—they mostly use their paws to hold things steady and then manipulate things with their mouths. Claws don't usually come into play there. For straight walking and running they use their pads, which (as far as I know) don't get removed.

Also, every vet I've encountered has recommended not declawing the back paws (which, from what I understand are the ones that get used when cats are actually defending themselves).

> We can also sue them if they recommend elective surgery that causes harm because they want money.

It's not clear to me that getting dogs and cats fixed is a purely monetary drive for a vet. I have to believe that vets put down a lot of animals. And these are people that choose the career because they like animals (I've yet to meet a vet that doesn't fawn over the dogs and cats I bring in). I'd like to think that the spaying and neutering push comes from not wanting to have to kill so many pets. And by all accounts, the spay-and-neuter-your-pets push has cut down on the number of animals euthanized...

I think to label vets' motives as purely financially driven is a very bleak view.
Evidence does not suggest that high-fructose corn syrup is any unhealthier than other sugars. The problem isn't so much HFCS as the consumption of refined sugars without the fibrous padding that accompanies them in nature. Note that sucrose is almost immediately broken down into glucose and fructose in your gut.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991323/ Health implications of fructose consumption: A review of recent data (2010)

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup_and_he...
name.com is very usable and otherwise handy; I don't like this policy, but I wouldn't wish GoDaddy on my worst enemy.

(OK, maybe I would)

EDIT: I really don't understand your thinking; I am the opposite. I respect name.com for being forward about it and not acting like a politician (treating me like a child).
I'm impressed, this will be super useful. I spend a decent amount of time looking around for datasets, and it's harder than I would have imagined.

Finding out about Quandl is alone a pretty big victory.
Groupon’s Andrew Mason: “I was fired today”
Whoa - yeah my spam folder has two sent to "dropbox.com@<mydomain>.com"

From ".Вишняков@direct.nacha.org" <kohinoorwm87@lifesep.com> and ".Белов@fdic.gov" <runoffiz@smarterbythemonth.com> with subjects of "Declined Direct Deposit payment" and "Update of the security software is required!"

I do get lots of "random" spam sent to addresses like "fcbb3a43@<mydomain>.com" but I can't believe the moderators really think that a "random" guess would land on "<domain>.com@<mydomain>.com" sigh
That's fair. Yes, we did consider changing. But we haven't had any issues ourselves or a real need for a structured database at this time. If we do in the future, transitioning won't be extremely painful because most of our historical data isn't critical; it would mainly just be user accounts.

For us, saying, "oh shit, a handful of other people had a bad experience – we should drop everything and move our data to postgres" would have been a bad decision and a waste of time/money.
Oakland mayor apologizes for promoting local lockpicking class
I actually just ran into this. I had a client forget to add a www CNAME record, so they thought the site was "hacked" when they added the www to their domain and got this parked site. Luckily, it's not a cached record, so when we fixed it, DNS servers started finding the right record immediately.
the little arrow is white on a grey button. If I click it opens up something grey that it's empty. I cannot write or anything it's just a grey box.. :s
...And Lefkosky asserting control.

Anyone who follows Groupon more closely understand what that's likely to mean for the changes in direction they had been trying to pull off?
Another great book with further discussion and examples on this subject, neuroplasticity, is The Brain That Changes Itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_That_Changes_Itself

In summary from my reading of the book, current research seems to back the perspective that our brains are basically making sense of chaos: there's no standardized protocol - we automatically decode patterns from random streams of input.
Name me one CEO or founder that would go to "startup school", stand before a bunch of people, and answer that question with anything but "yes".

I'm taking it you're basing your opinions on the way he answered the question, not the answer itself, right?
Can't you do this with Synaptic? Include apt lines for multiple versions, then select "prefer versions from Oneiric". That lets you force a version for specific packages while not updating the whole system.
Same. Wow. That guy sounds like someone I'd want to work with in the future.
I was aware, and I really don't care, it is a very interesting question and nobody is in the position to judge curiosity.
The whole point of comment on HN is to discuss, share ideas and opinion, caring about down votes is not helping :-)
I only wish somebody to answer such question without caring of the reaction of other people
It appears real.. read this:

http://www.parents.com/parenting/adoption/stories/adoption-s...
That is beside the point - that's an example of someone who lied. mrb is confused about whether the author is presenting fiction or non-fiction, independent of wether or not it is true. Of course, we hope and assume that if the author is presenting non-fiction, then it is, in fact, non-fiction, but that's an independent point.
Awesome! Also, I'm sure you've thought of this, but each profile should be updated when treatment is complete, and you should have a section where these success stories are published. This would lend tremendous credibility to those who look through the funded cases, but don't necessarily click over to the blog.
I suspect it's the difference between, "yes," and "yes, because..."
Yes, in the real world outside of the sexy tech startup scene, most entrepreneurs are over 40, often over 50.
Coincidence that it came (relatively) right on the heels of "and you're on HN"...?
Sounds like they're volunteers, not employees: https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=97303&page=2#pos...
I think Gamer Talent is an amazing resource and should definitely be spread more through out the right networks. It's innovative and wonderful.

I am also sharing it with friends in related fields. <3 Thank you for making something so awesome.
That's my point: columns in the NYT are non-fiction.
That is hindsight bias. Put yourself in Andrew's shoes in 2010. Daily deals space was exploding and it seemed he made wise decision. Nobody knows future. But I appreciate Andrew for sticking to his guns and declining the offer.
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No matter how pulpy the orange juice is, if you are drinking it in any kind of remotely large quantity (> 4 oz) you are taking in a ton of fructose that is not bound to fiber. Bound to fiber != mixed in a solution with fiber. The juicing is nothing more than breaking down the fibrous tissue of the fruit to release the bound up liquids.
Its not about the amount of fructose, it's about the amount of fructose absorbed per unit of time. Juicing makes the fructose able to be rapidly absorbed.
Unfortunately, at least as I understand it, the center of gravity for tech at Groupon is in SFBA now.
Bank of America's Technology of the Future. Did they invent a time machine?
Schools kill creativity
I love this exit letter. Clearly a nice guy that was in too deep.
I have a setup like that, I get more spam because of that of course but Google is really good at filtering it. And especially in conjunction with priority inbox, it's a breeze (and very convenient).
I for one am glad you're nailing the editor part first. Because if this is ever to replace my usage of emacs, you have to at least get that part right. This hasn't yet replaced my emacs, but i'm more optimistic now. Some editing features missing are paredit, viewing source code of a clojure core function. (Alt-. in emacs.) When you eval something and it never terminates, you need a way to kill that thread. For IDE like features, #1 on my list is refactoring clojure code quickly, e.g. renaming symbols. As someone who's anal about prioritizing time, I don't ever customize the themes, etc, I just want killer useful features that save me time and "just work".
Depends where it hit, but it stands a good chance of destroying the rovers.
It's not clear from your description, have you actually offered the $50-100K?
Nixed Amazon Linux
I'm personally very excited about the prospects for NumPy in PyPy, as this is my main use case for python.
Relatedly, on the PyPy homepage, you can give money to help grease the wheels on development of specific PyPy features: http://pypy.org/. There's also quite detailed proposals that describe where the money will go, how it will help each feature's development, why each feature is useful/cool, etc. To me this seems like a really awesome way to organize donations for an open source project and gives me greater confidence that my donation will have an impact.
During my commute I pass Groupon's Palo Alto office every evening (I only go this route during the evening because it's closer to my gym). For such a large and publicized company, their building always seems empty. I never see people going in or out. I always see empty conference rooms in the window. Perhaps this doesn't reveal anything about the company, but the view from outside (literally) doesn't compare to what I see when I pass other tech companies in the area.
I love the Battletoads reference. I love it.
I'm afraid I don't have very much insight into the matter. All I know is that it seems apparent that evolution can change human dietary constraints in surprisingly short periods of time, particularly over the short course of 10,000 years.

Paleo diets still seem like a good idea to me, I just remain unconvinced that this is clearly due to evolution. Other types of restricted diets seem to stack up well; the diet seems sound but the justifications seem a bit pseudo-sciency.
I moved from Texas to California and I can confirm that, while there does seem to be a trend toward more and more restaurants voluntarily including this information, you don't really SEE it until you cross the border into California.

This is an example of a business regulation that has had a directly positive impact on my daily food choices... I find that I automatically choose lower calorie foods just because the calorie numbers guilt me into doing so. In fact, this one thing led to a general softening of my hard-core libertarian "no regulations ever let the market decide" stance of the past.
Hah! You mock but this is a serious issue for those of us who can't have their reputations for non-mushiness compromised.
It most certainly is not a myth. In order to purchase and prepare your own food you need a kitchen and some basic things but most of all, and what I'm guessing is being overlooked by the dismissers above me: You need time.

Assume you have no car, have to rely on public transport, and work multiple jobs in geographically spread out locations. Nipping across town and back to stock your fridge with some healthy goodies doesn't sound so trivial now, does it?

The McDonalds is probably a lot closer and thus indeed cheaper even if the bill for groceries is a few bucks less.
This is on the front page of Bank of America right now. This is their hottest new technology.
I've been playing with this editor, except it seems Syntax Highlighting doesn't work (Linux x64). Which is kind of a killing point for me. Does anybody know of a forum / mailing list I can get on to figure out configuration and such? I have heard so much about this IDE, but it kills me that it doesn't seem to be working properly.

EDIT: Restarting twice seemed to fix the problem.
He has repeatedly talked about the weight he has put on due to long work hours, so I don't think he's being dishonest here.
> > those fat people over there

> It sounds like you are making an assumption about me that is rather false.

Given your original post about "people trying to justify their poor health" and "big bones", I'd say that assumption is pretty accurate.
My wife and I have been donating an increasing percentage of our yearly gross income to effective aid organizations:

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/11/27/celebrating-seven...

Earning a tech worker salary and giving a significant amount of it towards poverty relief is better than most alternative ideas I've been able to think of.

The other good idea is to follow GiveWell very closely: http://www.givewell.org/

If you want to do something with code.. I'm optimistic that people would donate more if they could feel an emotional connection to the people they're helping, and the internet can help with that, so anything that removes barriers like http://kiva.org or http://watsi.org seems promising.
But "stuff that was stable 4 months ago" is not a trivial case either. Suppose A version 1.1 was stable 4 months ago, but that the version of B that works with A 1.1 is horribly buggy still, and the stable version of B needs A 1.0. Do we upgrade A? I can imagine this becoming very tough to mange with 20k-30k packages. I hope Canonical can deal, but I do fear that the users will suffer.
No we wouldn't. A practical journey to mars takes about 2 years. If you had enough energy you could get there faster, but I don't think we have any rockets powerful enough.
Groupon Stock Pops 12% On News That CEO Andrew Mason Has Been Fired
Hacking a Ham Radio
eval is only for Clojure, ClojureScript, Javascript, and CSS right now
Thanks I was wondering about that.
20/20 hindsight, etc. A lot of people thought Zuck was crazy to turn down the acquisition offer from Yahoo in 2006, even when the offer got lowered from $1b to "only" $850m. Now Facebook's market cap is more than twice as big as Yahoo's. Alas, these sorts of things are virtually impossible to predict.
I was okay with this until the third paragraph.
I have an infographic for that:

http://apocalypsereview.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/why-does-a-...
Since having two CEO:s worked so well for RIM^H^H^HBlackBerry.
Surge in iPad mini Popularity Shows Tablet Market is in Flux
"Human Calculator" Put to the Test [video]
This sounds like a mostly theoretical problem. Sure, it could be annoying, but if the quota simple is a little smarter (e.g. allowing a few filled subdomains rather than just 1, and/or always allowing the root subdomain to fill up, and/or evicting subdomains from localstorage on an LRU basis) then the chances of this happening non-maliciously are very small - and when push comes to shove, there's no guarrantee localStorage will persist anyhow, so every site needs to be robust in the face of data loss anyhow.
It depends on the monitor. Some cheaper displays don't have the contrast to make light on dark work; also color bleeding...

Given a non-IPS display, my older eyes prefer dark on light, even if I think light on dark looks better. Also, light on dark is almost impossible to project for demos and presentations!

But I'm sure grandparent is just referring to the fact that light table looks different enough from the workplace norm to make it standout and his activities more known (but even visual studio has a dark mode these days).
Are you serious? Groupon misled investors for years about its real financial numbers, and Mason (along with the puppetmaster, Lefkofsky) made millions off the fake data. The humor in this letter hides the real damage done to investors.
Which is a shame really. Someone's open-minded curiosity shouldn't be cast aside because of a hypothesis that is politically incorrect.
META II
I'm 29 and she's around 33.

We've worked in the same building for a few years (different employers) but only small-talked on rare occasions until lately.

If I recall correctly, she mentioned taking in a kitten that had wandered into the lobby of our tiny building. I explained that I had let him in, and out of the cold, before that. She suggested drink and we eventually hit the bar and it escalated from there.

Moral of the story: help save every lost kitten that you find.
A funny goodbye letter doesn't make up for lying consistently to investors since before the IPO. He failed, a lot, he did not have an accident, he failed over a long period and in various ways (ripping off the shops, the accounting trick and the share value/financial results).

He's not a hero for writing this letter, he as to be treated with circonspection, and at best given a second chance under close watch.
The NES Battletoads reference made me smile. Great inside joke to anyone who knows the pure torture of trying to get through the fiendishly hard first 8 levels without dying. Level 9, Terra Tubes, IMHO, is one of the hardest levels in any NES game ever created.
Evaling CSS? What is computed?
Ask HN: Why was Andrew Mason kicked out of Groupon?
Heads up, as of this writing, the website is down. I think we accidentally slashdotted the page.

Anyone confirm it's not just me?
It should be mentioned that the govt. subsidies are present to protect US corn farmers rather than prop up food corporations.
I'd also point out that there's no way in hell we evolved a metabolism that expected ready access to as much fruit as we could eat for 12 months of the year.
A bunch of employees probably saw it here first... if you worked there would you prefer to hang out on their support site or HN?
Haskell influences in CoffeeScript
It's not #2 - or at least there is no risk of anybody 'leaving'. These are not executives, they are the majority shareholders and control the board.
This Electronic Temporary Tattoo Will Soon Be Tracking Your Health
> My company is committed to the principal [sic] of

ITYM principle.
I've also done that and I've just recently added _ to the mix, which I think is particularly devious and wholeheartedly recommend.
Growth Hacker, Meet The Growth Hustler
100% correct.

The way I'd have answered it to match the tone of every other thing he'd said goes a little something like this:

"You know, it's a fair question. Obviously, I believe the answer is yes.

We're still learning a lot about how to scale this business and educate new partners. We could have done a better job in some cases, and I think that's what you're seeing when people are frustrated by us online.

We're working with our merchants to understand what they need to make sure everyone – both our customers and our merchants – gets a great deal."
All that being said, anyone care to weigh in on the pros/cons of RBMs vs something like a contractive autoencoder?

For some problems, it may be nice to have a generative model as offered by RBMS (although Rifai et al. published a sampling method for contractive auto-encoders recently: http://icml.cc/2012/papers/910.pdf). I feel like with RBMs, you can design models which incorporate prior knowledge more "easily" (you may end up with pretty complex models...), e.g. the conditional RBM, the mean-covariance RBM or the spike & slab RBM. Additionally, there's the deep boltzmann machine that consists of multiple layers that are jointly trained in an RBM-like fashion.

Auto-encoders are straightforward to understand and implement. With contractive terms or denoising, the are powerful feature extractors as well.

But as you already noted, if you "just" want to have a good classifier, I think it pretty much boils down to personal preference since you're going to spend some effort on making these techniques work well on your problem anyway.
In 2012 alone Groupon had a net loss of about HALF A BILLION dollars, just look at their financial statements.

What an atrocity of a web business, just ugly.
Looks fixed now.
> I really don't understand your thinking; I am the opposite. I respect name.com for being forward about it and not acting like a politician (treating me like a child).

I respect them for sharing their reasons. I think it is professional.

My issue is two fold:

- This kind of activity "breaks the internet" on the purest sense possible. It is against spec' for a very good reason, IT IS STUPID. Going to a null domain should give you a null reply. It breaks software and it breaks user's expectations (e.g. if you hit that page because you typo-ed the domain you might assume the domain has gone out of business or been "hacked").

- Their work-around(s) are silly. They are essentially "then use someone else" or "register every single possible sub-domain." No opt-out.

They might be very good at business and marketing but they fail on every technological ground you can fail. Someone who fails that badly at understanding the internet isn't someone I want running my DNS of all things...
It's too complicated. I don't think this is a real problem. Better to just evict a random subdomain entirely (or on an LRU scheme). After all, just like cookies, there's no guarantee the localStore will stick around, so any normal site needs to deal with this anyhow.