skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point I suppose. I'm Canadian so I'm in the same boat as you. I guess I'm not as worried since they (NSA) already have all my information from everything else I do online (one of the bad parts about being in Canada is that almost all connections passes through the states at some point).

... And now I've just depressed myself over the state of the internet
Artisinal Hipster Travel Guides for NYC
This is not always the case, a coupon is not always to get a fraction discount but can be a way to redeem a voucher. Since it's a similar worklfow, websites display it a similar way, leading to this misinterpretation.
A $20 ticket isn't enough that many people would commute on a daily basis (though many would), but a 40 minute trip is less than my commute to San Jose! You could come to SF to go to Napa or visit a concert, return south to LA for a movie premier or to hit the beaches, all as _day__trips_. How would this not have a huge impact for both cities?
Because it's based on a misreading of the article.
I also got tired of viewtext.org being frequently offline and hacked the old readability source code to allow passing in HTML as an argument, this allows you to use it on arbitrary HTML and not just on the current window.document.

This has only been tested on my HN chrome app, YMMV:
https://raw.github.com/balaclark/hacked-news/master/readabil...
This article was already listed here yesterday with multiple talking points.
I like the idea of transporting cars with passengers or just cars/SUVs. That would be ideal. Travel from point a to point b like a ferry. Or extension of our current super highway network. Use your personal transport machine after arrival. In most of the USA when traveling outside the dense urban areas driving a automobile is the preferred form of transportation. It would make the world a smaller place much like how cars and paved roads did 100 years ago. If we could hyper transport our vehicles at large chunks of distances say 300+ mile integers. I could only imagine this future.

Freight shipping would greatly benefit. Build a freight tube only across the US mainland. Amazon Prime? Same day delivery.
Why you don't think about portal?
mpyne you're hilarious.
The problem is that there is no way to tell in advance which basic research will be useful later on.
I'm always quite nervous submitting apps to the Apple app store using 3rd party notification services. Have used both Parse and Urban Airship in the past, given Apple's brash attitude or the fact that either services potentially could shut down due to any unforeseen circumstances. I wonder if this could be a viable alternative given their branding and reach. Using APNS is quite straight forward until you start worrying about what may be getting monitored / violating the TOS
QA Analyst at SmartAsset
So they fed their baby candy instead of breastfeeding it?
This sounds like paid PR.

At least paid PR is not dead thanks to LinkedIn :)

But seriously - LinkedIn is a viral spam machine, worse than Facebook in many respects except for the fact that it's not a legitimate communication medium as FB is.

Cold calling will always have its place. If it were dead, it's not because of LinkedIn.
Everybody here knows about retailmenot.com, right? For the majority of places, you'll find a good repository of coupon codes without having to sift through Google results.
+1 for permalinks as well, it would make sharing this with others a lot easier.
You can upgrade functional things before they break, but people don't go looking to generally. At least unless they are gifted with a lot more foresight than the average level of human organisation. People sometimes do, but it seems to be the exception rather than the rule and is even harder when dealing with large organisations.
Google for UDACITY
As someone with a disability (quadriplegic), who types/codes with one finger, I find it appalling that Nuance, Apple and Google haven't opened up their speech recognition systems through a rudimentary API that would allow innovation that would _directly_ help the lives of me and many other disabled people whether it's RSI or worse.
Multi-Level Push Menu
Honestly, I never noticed myself feeling that way. Is this really losing that many sales when it comes down to metrics?

To me, coupons are always seen as temporary gifts from the company to butter up my loyalty. So paying full price still feels fair.

But again, it's all about metrics. It would be great to see how different audiences respond.
this is one of the best posts I have read. Not sure why it didn't take off here.
Download Evasi0n 1.5.4 Brings iOS 6.1.3 Jailbreak
Excellent! Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to dive back in and check it out.
Java: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – A Critique of Platform Design
This is significantly cheaper than Urban Airship, which charges $0.50 to send 500 messages. Amazon will deliver between 500k and 1M for the same money. That's at least one good reason to use the service.
Show HN: Node.js photo gallery
Seems silly in hindsight to not consider that. ;)
It's no so different from lying in a bunk bed. Isn't it great to have a half hour nap during morning commute?
I can't remember the last time I found a decent coupon code there.
If you put forth a little bit of effort you can find any code on the Internet - it sets you apart from the shoppers who don't care and won't take the time to look for one (which is the majority of America) hence why retailers still consistently leak codes out there.
North Korea 'makes home-grown' Arirang smartphone
After the second hurdle between me and the article, I gave up.
Apple’s Next Move and Why iPhone Developers Should Learn Mandarin
If there was an interstate running directly from San Francisco to Los Angeles along this route...

Umm, that's kind of the point. It's called I-5.
http://gigapica.geenstijl.nl/2013/08/beijing_man_builds_ille...
That's awesome. I just spent some time going through the getting started section for each project so in my haste I missed all the best parts. Back to it!
I got that that after the low traction we had in the past weeks. At this point, I am absolutely on the same page that we need to focus on a single market to make the comparisons.

Lesson learned, the long and expensive way :)
You forgot Elon's lost twin, Sergey Brin.
He doesn't know how to manage affiliate networks properly, IMO. For starters, make the affiliates apply to advertise with you, and if using search require them to use a negative keyword list that you send them (e.g. "Kogan discount codes")

Affiliates put their own cash (and ass) on the line for companies. At least have the decency to tell them what you allow and don't allow.
Europeans seek ever more mobile bandwidth, but they worry about cost
How Productivity and Impact Differ Across Computer Science Subareas
How to get java class information using reflection
If they weren't hard everyone would be doing it - but knowing that the risk is worth the reward at the end (both money and the idea of success) definitely makes the struggles and years without sleep worth it.
Soylent is food.
The thing is, the establishment can't afford $20 on a slow night.
HUSTLE: The smarter way to charge your iPhone or any smartphone on the go
IntelliJ IDEA : 10% Summer Sale
Because you can't crash a train into a skyscraper.

I don't know if that's a good reason, but that's the reason.
Press ESC after the page loads, but before the ad/banner loads, that will stop the ad from loading and you can read the article.
I think this project is a nonsense. There are so many other pressing issues (Fukushima, pollution, climate change, water shortages, overpopulation, etc) to spend money on. People like EM are disconnected from reality and live in their own little bubble where they like to play with their own high-tech little toys. I think it is ridiculous how much attention this thing attracts.
I started with Chef, then switched to Puppet, then to Ansible. They all do similar things, but for me, Ansible was simplest and most productive.

Things I like best: Ansible relies on SSH and not a custom messaging system. Ansible requires no software to install/monitor on the remote systems. Ansible configs generally smaller and simpler, based on YAML and not a custom config file format.

Also I found it to be simple to extend Ansible with custom modules written in Ruby and Bash.
Most experts generally agree that it's OK to stop breastfeeding your kid when they're 4 years old
I think it's bad customer service to force someone to Google for a coupon code; you're also running a risk (as a site owner) that the person will simply abandon their cart.

See also this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204261

I like petercooper's idea of pre-populating the coupon field with a default code.
Also note that discount codes are different to voucher codes, such as gift vouchers, which I believe is what Amazon does.

For a client of mine we added a discount code box to the checkout and got a surge of calls from people asking how to get a discount code. It was actually intended for some multi-channel marketing.

We now don't have discount codes in the checkout process.
How would the Perl 5 => Perl 6 transition compare to the Python 2 => Python 3 transition?
Recent article on Airship used for sightseeing :

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/05/travel/paris-zeppelin-airs...

Compare the volume of the Zeppelin vs the number of passenger. If I remember correctly, it only take 7 passengers and it is rather slow to land and take off. So you have a lot of wasted time.

This really does not scale well when talking about big conurbations with millions of people.
Use Readability to easily bypass these popups.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/readability/
Has anybody actually done any A/B testing on this sort of thing, or are we just making competing assertions about how slapped in the face we personally feel or not?

Edit: Thanks, some pretty good results out there.
I've never tried the bluetooth keyboard with my Nexus 4 or the wife's Nexus 7 so will have to give it a go.

I could just about cope with the differences between Android 2.x and iOS but since I've moved to Android 4.x I find iOS so frustrating to use so next tablet will probably be the new Nexus 7
Digital Coupons: Satisfying & Dissatisfying Effects [2003]
Gorm keeps giving me segfaults when I try to drag files from it to ProjectCenter (or vice versa). Even when I open any interface builder file in Gorm, it segfaults. I run Debian Wheezy.
this is great , even that seems complicated and hard to get used to ... it's a fantastic option when nothing else works.
La mode féminine sous le charme de l’homme
nothing to see here. its just showing that the query syntax for whois (in the wild) is broken.

Its showing name servers with hostnames that match the query. I first read about this on Slashdot in 1998 (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating that a bit - this has been making the rounds for years...)
It's quite the opposite if you ask me. After you spent 15 minutes looking online for that coupon AND you find one that gives you that little 10%...

Well, it makes you happy and probably makes it so that you really will proceed with the purchase. "Hey, I spent a looonnng 5 minutes searching AND I got a 10% discount. Why wouldn't I proceed with the purchase?"
I have been using chef (solo/server) for 2 yrs and started playing with ansible two weeks ago, so far, my comments:

Pros:

- ansible's creator is very active and helpful in github/mailing list in answering issues/questions; for chef, reproducible bugs can't even get an acknowledgement from opscode [1], free users are not their priority IMO

- simple in design, able to deploy multiple targets without a centralized monster like chef-server, you just need SSH

- batteries included, e.g. aws, linode, mysql, postgresql tasks

Cons:

- ansible is more buggy and still under heavy development

- documentation is confusing, e.g. current ansible latest is 1.2.2 but documentation showing features only appear in 1.3

- no playbook dependency handling

- build in modules are helpful but not really extensible [2]

- the creator is helpful but sometimes opinionated [3]

[1] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3204

[2] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3776#issuecomment-...

[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ansible-project/g...
Australian startup to become the first universal anti-fraud system
The 1.6 percent of the Internet that NSA “touches” is bigger than it seems
Best thing to do: forget about them. If and when the time comes, you'll know what to do. Glance at when they expire, mark it on your calendar, and when you're within a year or so of that date, if you're still in business, consider it. More often than not, they'll be worth little to nothing (especially once you factor in any taxes that come along with them). Don't waste time or energy trying to figure out how much they're worth, because it'll change a thousand times before you actually do anything with them.
AWS Now Offers A Push Notification Service For iOS, Android And Kindle Apps
Agree, but I love this too much:
http://serverbear.com/coupons
Outside of ad campaigns, there's another case where coupon codes are useful. If you have a moderately expensive product and an actual sales team, you can use the coupon field to let the sales team make one-off special deals for individual customers. That's useful for unusually large orders (buy 10 get 1 free) or simply if you need to apologize for some sort of error (we're sorry our site was down, here's $50 off your next order).

Coupon codes are an easily programmable solution to a wide variety of business problems. They're particularly useful for problems that are difficult to predict in advance.
It's got three short (1 km, 9 km, 30 km) deployments around 40 years after work first started. Are you saying that's the kind of deployment record Musk would like to see for his wundertechnology?
Yes, my point is that people's dietary needs change. Breastfeeding is the most obvious example that nobody would deny, but there are others.

You simply can't rely on a one-size-fits-all diet without some risks. One person might be lactose intolerant, another might have nutritional deficiency, and a third might be at risk of overdose due to genetic or medical factors preventing them from offloading excess amounts of Sodium, Potassium, etc.
This is a pretty ridiculous complaint.

First of all, giving everyone a referral URL works great in a web only world but what if you're advertising on a Podcast (or gasp print or radio), is it easier to tell people to type in www.mysite.com/coupon to their browser or is it easier to tell people to enter COUPON at checkout?

Secondly, the amount of people who are going to have this adverse reaction to the mere existence of the coupon code field is vanishingly small. Most customers who don't have a code will just ignore it and move on (and actually many who have been told about a code will not even use it) only a small minority will bother searching for a code to enter when they don't have one.

Whatever web site had a coupon code field that made you this angry probably had at least 20 much worse UI violations they should prioritize above trying to eliminate the coupon field.
I have been using SDL2 for awhile now and it is a great library. It was definitely not ready until now though. I still need to rewrite my game engine to work with the current version. I am happy to hear this will be the last rewrite though!
It lists nameservers (which are also in whois in many TLDs) that start with name.com. In your example, name.com.someother.com is not an actual domain name that has been registered.
I've heard that that actually varies a lot; sometimes you're working with the world's biggest data center, sometimes it's 30 guys with a building full of cabinets and a single TRS-80 in a closet.
I dropped my car off for state inspection by my usual mechanic. Then I found a coupon in the local paper for $10 off an inspection at that place. When I went to pay, I showed the coupon but the mechanic told me, "oh I already did that. You're a regular, we take care of you!" I don't think I've ever seen a website that could do that.
No, indeed I haven't. I take it you will consider a 30 km line built 40 years after the idea was first conceptualized to be a success for Musk's technology as well? Should do a lot to relieve the I-5, certainly!
Not A/B testing per-se, but for a client of mine we tried it out and had lots of phone calls asking how to get a discount code. It just caused confusions and more customer service work.
This was the most poorly written "article" I've ever read.
I've seen cases where having a coupon code actually increased conversions more than just discounting the product for everyone. The people who searched for the (easily found) coupon were far more likely to completely the purchase process because they felt like they were getting a deal.

If you're using voucher codes you shouldn't just use one approach based upon an article like this, rather you should be A/B testing different variants and see what performs for your startup. Your customers aren't the same as everyone else and you shouldn't expect them to behave the same.
For sale - Social decision making app
JavaScript Overview for Intermediate Learners
It's one thing to not be able to write code as fast as you can type. It's another to use a speech to text input method that's designed for long-form prose and try to use it to code. Can you imagine the frustration of trying to enter longCamelCaseVariableNames without a special macro to do so? I don't know the usual commands in Dragon, but I imagine it would be something like: "long delete space uppercase camel delete space uppercase case delete space upper case variable delete space uppercase names", possibly with a few false starts and undos in there as it interprets some of your words as commands rather than code.

To experience something like it, try using your phone keyboard, with word prediction on, to write code. It will be slow, and frustrating, and have a lot of false starts.

There's a big difference between "not the fastest way to enter text" and "so slow it's unusable", and the impression I get is that without extensive macros like this, most speech to text systems are so slow as to be unusable for writing code.
My last job made the jump to a Netflix model of unlimited PTO. On the surface it seemed great, however I found myself taking less time off. I think it comes down to what type of person you are. There were some who abused the policy, some like myself and some who continued with their normal vacation habits. In total, not much changed.
Why We Love Twitter Bootstrap
Not long ago we started using Bootstrap for our web projects and we must say that is just amazing how fast and comprehensive it can be. Here are some other reasons why you need to start using it too.
The Man Leading Yahoo’s New York Spending Spree
Archer: are you joking? What? rigid airships combine the pampering of a cruise ship With the speed of -- some other slightly faster ship? Uh, hello.
airplanes? Yeah, it's blimps.
you win.
The design incorporates very powerful air compressors and water pumps, and generates, transfers, and isolates a great deal of heat. The cabin will be very well-ventilated, because if it weren't then passengers would die of something other than methane poisoning.
The average price for a Windows XP exploit is $50,000 to $150,000
This may not be rational, but there's some research showing this is a widespread phenomenon. Mostly, it has to do with a sense of fairness. Coupon codes can make consumers feel like the merchant is being unfair, which leads to dissatisfaction.

The solution: don't show the coupon code field or make it extremely easy for consumers to get coupon codes. I've noticed more and more stores put their coupon codes right in the header while you're browsing. So it's impossible NOT to get a coupon.

http://www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu/mike.shor/research/promo/jpb... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205769)
Are you seriously saying that sex hormones and sexual reproduction should be phased out because they make us die earlier? And that we have the technology and the science to do that now?

Cause if so, I don't know what you're smoking. I can tell you from personal experience that modern medicine does not have sex hormones completely figured out, nor do we have a way to replace them entirely with something 'better'...
Anyone else getting "Please sign in to view this" ?
Man Builds Mountain Villa On Top of Apartment Building
Having suffered with RSI for years (before the advent of current-gen speech recognition, so it really sucked), I heartily echo this advice:

which, let me tell you, you should do at the first sign of pain

Do that. REALLY REALLY do that.

Also, this book is superb:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Carpal-Tunnel-Syndrome-Professio...
"Spelt", in my dialect, is incorrectly spelled, and is a noun referring to a variety of wheat.

Now, was the "correction" I just offered you
effective and useful, or was it merely irrelevant, provincial, chauvinistic, uninvited, uninviting, and just plain rude?

(A note to downthread grammar trolls: I just used an Oxford comma, boldly, without apology. Have fun.)
Yes. Think of how this improves customer loyalty overtime, as opposed to feeling like you're constantly getting a bad deal.
> The body's needs change on a regular basis

> Changes in metabolism, bigger life changes like puberty and menopause, obviously pregnancy

I do not think these things happen on a regular basis.
I can't remember the details, but I did read an article a while ago in which Microsoft or Amazon or something increased their conversion rate significantly by hiding the coupon field.
There's a professor at Vanderbilt who published this paper on the topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205769) in the Journal of Product & Brand Management.

Providing a code and its attendant price reduction clearly had positive effects on perceptions of fairness and satisfaction when compared to the control group.

...prompting for a code in the absence of having one had negative effects on fairness, satisfaction, and completion when compared to the control. As would be expected from these findings, the three groups were ranked in the predicted order (code > control > no code) for all dependent variables, including intention to repatronize and recommend the online store.

Equity theory, then, becomes an alternative explanation for reactions to code provision and non-provision... the Web buyer without a code experiences the additional impact of the inequity perceived if others are imagined to have a code, are selectively provided one, or are simply viewed as "special" in some sense.
Another benefit of blocking scripts by default.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptsafe/oiigbmn...

http://noscript.net/

Shame that they're necessary, but they work well if you can handle the inconvenience of selectively unblocking scripts.
/new here is woefully broken. Front page material is either all fad and hype or clown-sourced friend upvotes (except these days, it's not manipulation—it's "hustling").

I've started posting things to /new once or twice a week, but I don't have a cabal of friends to manipulate the system in my favor. My unworthy posts just die. (It's possible I have entirely crap content too. Need more datapoints to reach a stable conclusion.)

Better solution: write more, whine less, throw in tangentially-related fad-titled clickbait every so often to actually get someone to read your words.
New York City had a series of tubes (pneumatic tubes, that is) connecting various post offices around Manhattan and even to Brooklyn.

http://untappedcities.com/2013/03/15/nycs-pneumatic-tube-mai...

I was going to say the destruction of it was spearheaded by the automobile companies, but I was confusing that with the fate of the streetcar system in NYC and elsewhere:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
Elm 0.9 - New type checker, much better error messages
I was excited about Perl for the first time when I learned it in about 2005. I was using perl to glue data and NCBI Blast to do some naive BioInfo pseudo research, from today's perspective.