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Most of the offers were sold out within seconds of the sale start, the servers kept crashing intermittently, items mysteriously disappeared from the cart just before payment, prices shown on the product page were silently increased when added to the cart, and to top it all off people managed to get screenshots of prices being raised to near 200% before a discount was applied and the items were sold for higher than normal prices. Reports are now coming in that most people who managed to actually buy something at bargain prices had their orders cancelled by Flipkart.

#Flopkart was trending on twitter through the entire day. Flipkart called this sale the Big Billion Day, and somebody registered bigbillionday.com and redirected it to amazon.in. Also for most items that were on 'sale' on Flipkart, the non-sale prices on Amazon and Snapdeal were lower than Flipkart's 'discounted' prices. All in all, a terrible PR nightmare for Flipkart.

Some coverage in Indian media and blogs:

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/flopkart-twitter-moc...

http://firstbiz.firstpost.com/corporate/from-flopkart-to-100...

http://www.moneylife.in/article/from-flipkart-to-flopkart-in...
This is a great observation! I'm two months into this "digital nomad" experiment, and the biggest pain has been lack of central organization for my schedule, todos, costs, sights-to-see, etc.

My interpretation is that the domain is simply too big, and the field of "personas" so varied that finding a critical mass of core users around common use cases is nigh impossible. Even within those identifying as "digital nomads", you have adventure tourists, travel-blog content marketers, $100/hr front-end consultants, cultural commentators, resilience quacks, and so on.

Look at a site like TripAdvisor, which does a great job of aggregating the most basic reviews of restaurants, hotels, etc., and even it contends with enormous problems like data rot, internalization, etc.

I suspect that, if the "long-term travel" community continues to grow, there will emerge specific niches that could reach that critical mass needed for an MVP of a serious travel planning app. For now, trying to parse through google results for "apps for digital nomads" is something like a nightmarish goose chase through an illegible jungle of travel blog shills.
I was in exactly the same situation eight years ago. We were acquired pre-launch by a fortune 500 company. It was a disaster. Our company folded two years later, and I believe it was a direct result of mismanagement by the acquirer. The acquisition was not a liquidity event for the founders, so I never made a dime. Never even drew a salary. General advice: proceed with extreme caution. Contact me off line if you want more details.
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Time to prove him wrong! :)
Actually, the site was DDoS'ed profusely, and also slammed with attempts testing it for the Shellshock vulnerabilities.
I can't comment on SANS in particular, but certifications in general tend to be worthless. Receiving a certification tends to be more a matter of persistence than competence. Worse, because the higher quality applicants generally recognize the futility in it, many of them don't participate, which means you can't even assume that someone without the certificate is unqualified.

As far as I can tell the best information provided by a certificate is that you should avoid applicants who brag about them (and for applicants, avoid employers who list them as job qualifications).
Sounds clever, but it really doesn't stand up to scrutiny. There are countless profitable businesses that aren't things you use daily (Amazon, E-Bay, AirBnB, etc etc.) Conversely, how many sites do you really visit daily? I visit, like, four. (Gmail, reddit, facebook, hacker news)

Travel planning software is difficult because there's so much competition and a lot of political forces trying to keep the newcomers out.
I've got a fairly unique take on local trip planning @ 80%. If you want to chat, shoot me an email!
your only option is to start a company. Nobody is going to pay you that kind of money as a senior developer, unless you are really specialized.
This article has a few details on why this week was important for e-commerce sites in India:
http://qz.com/274278/the-real-reason-why-indias-shopping-web...

The incumbents from Silicon Valley may not have the Cultural understanding of the Indian market and the barriers to utilizing Large scale distributed technology platforms have never been lower.

I boldly (and somewhat foolishly) predict that as more and more Indians get online, get comfortable with spending online, there will be a huge wave of India focused sites that will become the next Billion dollar companies.
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...and this guy now works for spotify.
You don't actually need any fancy software to see what's going on if you've mastered the fine art of free body diagrams: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1374 (not related to skateboards, but those damned wobbly suitcases).

And the advantage of simple free body diagrams is they are amenable to relatively simple models, frequently involving simple harmonic motion: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1410

These are teachable skills, and while it's great we have software to help us out, I'm a sufficiently aged crustacean to see the value in learning to do these sorts of analyses formally, by observation and inference.
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What problems, if any, may arise from making one's Bitcoin wallet address public (i.e. on a personal website)? These may be either personal or to the detriment of the network/blockchain.
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What I think is even more interesting is what's going to happen to Japan. They're reproducing even less than Europeans, but instead of being overrun by hostile immigrants, they're trying to create robots to replace the future generations that will never be born. That's going to be a weird place to visit in 50 years...
According to Apple, people have all but stopped upgrading to iOS 8
It seems "Print the Legend" on Netflix is a good cautionary tale to watch.
If only we had some combination of software and people with expertise in destinations. Maybe we'd call it a travel agent or something like that.

That was snarky. But it points to the historical problem here. Most travel agents didn't/don't have a lot of expertise outside of fairly narrow domains. And they mostly depended on commissions from pretty routine stuff to subsidize labor-intensive planning for oddball itineraries--which I'm guessing can't be easily codified in software.

In fact, I'm sure there are plenty of competent travel planners but they cost money--i.e. are luxury goods--and most people don't want to pay the money.
Why not target travel agencies instead? Agencies can create/manage itineraries, hotel reservation & bookings, destination maps, etc? This will get you paying customers and daily users.
Yesterday was flopkart not flipkart. Even I wanted to buy some offers in flipkart deliberately. But eventually, i ended up buying the same thing in Amazon.in. Since, the price of the thing is lower in amazon than the flipkart's big billion day.
Ya I am going to write a follow up. You need to use NSExtensionContext instead of sharing code between app and extension.
The airlines are proof that wide profit margins are not necessary for massive gains in customer experience.

(In the airline case, this experience is in the realm of vastly lower ticket prices, rather than an actual comfortable flying experience. But the point remains that you can fly today for 50% of the real cost of flying thirty years ago.)
It seems "Print the Legend" on Netflix is a good cautionary and relevant tale to watch.
> That is such an incredibly naive view

I'm genuinely interested in what you define "the market" to be, and how you define government, and lastly regulation. Avoid circular references if you can help it.

How can you have such disdain for markets when governments are operated by a market of politicians? That sounds like the worst kind of market society has to offer.
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I'm pretty sure Inspeqtor was only released last week. Mike basically saw a pain point he was having 6 months ago, then quit his job to solve that pain point. Monit's position makes no sense.
People don't buy cars or get married very often either, but there are plenty of tools to help with those processes.
If "CMFX is one of the most reputable Forex markets around," why can't I seem to find their official website? Do you have a link?
Business travel might be an exception. Especially for companies who have to manage travel for their employees, and business travelers who want utility features that increase their productivity. Some ideas:

- Incentivize employees who share rides from/to hotel/airport traveling on same dates/destinations

- Show dates for destination that maximizes networking opportunities (in between conferences)

- Show locations with wifi in-between meetings

- Locations with ambiance ideal for business discussions

- Expense capture to identify opportunities for deals (employees love Starbucks during business trips, sign up for corporate deals)

For those solving these sorts of problems, you might wanna to check this out - https://developer.concur.com/devcon/PerfectTripFundAwards
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Ok, I'll take the bait. Why shouldn't it?

Germany has very good schools. By denying your child the ability to attend, you are committing an offense to the child. Why should this be allowed?
Diaspora* is quite useful for a constantly growing number of users.

Your thesis however is wrong, which is demonstrated by the fact that any network starts with no users. I.e. any network goes through the growth process, when newcomers see it as rather barren in the early days. Diaspora* isn't at that stage anymore.
What's a "resilience quack"?
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Also: http://vimeo.com/1340684
Seriously. Inquiring minds want to know.
Boringly enough, the actual messages exist on the mailing list, like http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-05/msg00057....

They just don't get sent to git for some reason.
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"The incumbents from Silicon Valley may not have the Cultural understanding of the Indian market and the barriers to utilizing Large scale distributed technology platforms have never been lower."

What do you think are the barriers to utilizing large scale distributed technology platforms? I personally don't think this is a cultural thing.
Having thought about this idea in the past, I can say that one of the difficulty lies in the fact that the market "seems" really large, when in fact, you can only address a limited portion of it. People have different tastes and goals in what they want to accomplish in a "trip", and because the market seems so vast and large, the idea tends to gravitate towards the middle ground. You might satisfy a wide array of people, but none of them will really "love" your product. So rather than daily usage, I think the problem is of segmentation first (and competition, etc following...).
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I bypassed the bounty program because I had better things to do with my time than fill out a form to get a $25 T-shirt, regardless of that shirts worth in GDP... Yahoo! contact information is generally hard to come by, and even when it is used, it's generally ignored. Anyone on NANOG could certainly confirm this. For example, the phone number on your whois information does not even land at a voicemail, and is a business-hours only phone number.
This post is pretty light on justification.

20% retention is neither good nor bad. There are a lot of businesses that survive on one or two events a year. If you are in the business of selling metrics software (like his friend at MixPanel), you probably want people to come every day.

The "I don't have room in my brain" argument is just silly. I can open my refrigerator and see hundreds of different brands. There are millions of websites, of all kinds! Should we stop building websites because there are a lot of them and it's harder to differentiate?

It's pretty hard to swallow this kind of advice from a guy who founded a blogging platform in 2008, 5 years after blogger.

Anyway, as our man PG likes to say, just go make something useful. The rest will take care of itself.
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Indeed, you don't even need the new pivot point of the back of the board either. If you smack the tail but don't drive it down the board will fly up into the air because the ground is resisting the pivot point of the wheels but the sky is not. The center of mass will start a linear trajectory once the pivot is defeated and I imagine that the angular velocity at the center of gravity will be mostly preserved once it takes off... My physics are rusty.
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To put that in perspective, if Flipkart has sales of $100M every day of the year, at $36.5 billion, it would be half of Amazon's e-commerce revenue of $67.9 billion [0].

[0] http://mashable.com/2014/05/08/amazon-sales-chart/
Interesting I saw the Y debug tool on sports.yahoo.com . It said Y Confidential and had a web bug on it and something else in red. Also, was on the yahoo.com root domain. I saw this over a few days. Did anyone else see it? I couldn't click on anything and it was on the lower right hand corner of the screen.
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Not to mention that Apple ended up eating up almost all of the profits of the PC market. It really is starting to feel like history is repeating itself
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I don't agree that 20% retention statistic is a good way to view it at all. There are tons of exceptions to that rule - Amazon, Kayak, Turbotax, or even TripAdvisor. I often view that as entering one's normal "workflow" through whatever it is they are trying to do - it's a rarity, and there is a good chance that a fringe app wouldn't make it.
My prediction: Xiaomi is only two years away from a serious entrance into the North American or European market and that entrance will be very disruptive for the existing market players, just like it has been in other markets that Xiaomi has entered.
Note that's a case of facebook having extended shadow profiles for users, not non users as claimed above.
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Well Rodney Mullen invented almost all of the tricks. (Including the more famous ones like the kickflip and such)
> carriers have an interest in Samsung not becoming too big.

Unlikely. Carriers care about their margins. And if there are cheaper phones to sell that customers truly want, then the margins for the carriers can be higher as they can take a percentage of the price differences for themselves. Thus carriers want to have as low priced hardware as possible that still work on the high end networks and that customers want so they can sell more service subscriptions -- which is where they make their money.
Something to note in this article - this is Samsung Electronics - combined mobile, TV and various other electronics manufacturer.

I wonder how bad the mobile division is doing if the entire electronics company is forecasting a 60% profitability drop?
Amazingly well done for a govt website.
I waited and waited but just gave up. I really hope they bring it up to speed.
Ask HN: Help me land a job?
A little bio about myself:

Personal: I am a computer science student from India.Completed my undergraduation from a very unknown local college in May 2014.Being from a local college pushes me behind, having no good exposure of software engineering.

Projects/Work Experience: Last Summer, I had done a remote internship on game development. Developed a web-application(game) using web technologies. Apart from being intern for 2 months and developing websites for the college technical fests, I have no work experience or any perfect knowledge regarding a particular domain.

Why unemployed?: I started a startup in my final year of undergraduation and failed miserably. I have no time left to prepare for Interviews or sharpen my programming skills. I thought of to first become expert regarding a particular domain like Web Development, Machine Learning and then apply for a job.

Realization: After 4 months of doing some web development, Machine Learning, MOOC's, reading books,realized that i am no where near perfect in either of them. It just been waste of valuable 4 months of time. I feel work experience is more valuable than reading books alone in home. So, I decided to work on my skills in the coming days/weeks/months to land into a job and then work on to become expert.

Skills: Cpp - Solved around 300 problems in various online judges(ID:kp25). Python - beginner. Javascript - Developed websites, web-application during Summer Internship.

What are the do's and dont's that i should follow in the coming months, What further skills or languages should i learn that helps me in getting close to land into a job?

Willing to relocate for job and join immediately. Ready to learn any further skills if required for the job. If you do think i'm good enough for the job role you've considering please Contact me at the following email id: prasanth[dot]25k[at]gmail[dot]com
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firefoxdriver already exists in many other languages, I don't know what is the point of writing it all over again for javascript. The callback stuff gets messy. I still much prefer Python or even Java to write my tests.
Sell and retire young. What's there to think about?
I don't know but light being shone in your eyeballs for a long period of time I find worrying.
One of the founders of ParseHub here.

Not quite. Sikuli tries to figure out where things are by doing a visual match. This works very well for things like automating applications or sites where page elements are fixed (e.g. finding an option in a menu or using a search engine). But it works terribly when trying to overlay semantic structure on dynamically-generated data. For example, it has no way of knowing that a list of movies is split up on multiple pages, with each movie having multiple genres, a cast, and multiple reviews, each of which has a rating and an author.

There's also the additional drawback that it is hard to parallelize things in Sikuli (you would need heavyweight vms, and there are no obvious "breaks" in the flow). So doing something at scale is not feasible.

With ParseHub, one of the goals is to make it easy to express relationships (and we think we've done a really good job). We also automatically figure out how to split a job up across an entire fleet of servers.

Hope that offers some insight. Email me at serge@parsehub.com if you have any other questions.
Alibaba sales $5.78 billion in 2013/11/11.
There are two unique userbases for AirBnB - renters and renters. Renters may not have a 20% daily retention but I would bet that rentees are much closer to 20%.

On top of that, AirBnB is a marketplace. I would imagine that marketplaces are affected more by supply and demand ownership than daily retention.
That's not correct.

BSDs come as a system, Linux is a kernel. BSDs are more like Linux distributions, but every (base) part is part of the project. You get the whole thing from one team, vs. a (more or less) curated list of independent (GNU) projects.

I really don't think that these approaches are the same.
I don't see any relevancy for the whole reference to BSD communities either, though.
Glad to see it ended well. You got yourself some good PR too, I will definitely be considering using inspeqtor in my projects now; I didn't know about it before.
Eh, Amazon gets used a few times a month by a whole lot of people. Ebay definitely has addicts. AirBnB fits your theory better, but I think they managed to get noticed by being truly disruptive.

When you first hear about a travel planning site, it probably doesn't just happen to coincide with a time you're planning to travel, so best-case scenario is you bookmark it, which just goes into a giant list of bookmarks that you'll never look at again.

And when you need to plan a trip, you'll just go to expedia or hotwire or some other site that's gotten burned in your brain through advertising. Or you'll just google flights. Because that's the simplest thing to do and it comes up with pretty decent prices.
Mods, please replace the linkbait title ("Biggest-Ever" "Scandal") that's nowhere on the linked page. The proper title for HN would be the title of the article, "The Empire of Edge."

Other sources about the event covered by the article also don't use "the biggest":

http://online.wsj.com/articles/judge-allows-sac-capital-insi...

"Mr. Martoma was found guilty in February of making illegal trades in what prosecutors have called one of the most lucrative insider-trading schemes in history."

Note "one of the most lucrative."

Note that the amount involved is just $276 million:

http://www.rediff.com/money/report/indian-origin-fund-manage...

Orders of magnitude less than what Bernie Madoff did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal

"$64.8 billion"
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>lie on his former employer's web page

You are calling Reddit a web page! Nice hyperbole!
The market share may even out in the low end segment, where many local manufacturers in different countries build cheap (and possibly outdated, from a first world perspective) hardware and slap whichever Android version they can accommodate (it may not be the latest).

But overall, Samsung still holds a big chunk of Android market share and it would take several years for that to come down to something we can consider as stiff competition. Samsung has a lot of muscle and money to continue its "hardware machine gun" spraying tens of devices to see what sells, which is also aided well by a big marketing budget (probably the largest marketing budget among all, including Apple and Microsoft in the mix).

The push to make Samsung more equal to other Android device makers could be from different directions. One is Samsung's desire to go with Tizen and sunset Android. This may not sit very well with the user base since the app market for Tizen needs to be built, and that's one reason why Tizen may likely shine in the nascent wearables segment than in the established smartphone, phablet and tablet segments. The other push is really good devices from HTC and Motorola that come with the latest version of Android and (especially for Motorola, in my knowledge) the ability to easily get updates easily and quickly. If HTC and Motorola survive for a few more years and continue whatever good work they're doing, then they do stand a chance to improve the overall market for the benefit of everyone.
With the difference being that, this time, Apple with full control over their entire supply chain (notably not beholden to Motorola/IBM/Intel as chip manufacturers), can outmaneuver their competitors in ways that were simply not possible even a decade ago.
I am sure they weren't deliberately tricking the customers, instead it is their incompetence and immaturity showing up. They couldn't handle the commotion and steps taken to handle the load backfired (A completely made up example can be that they started the crashed servers but in panic forgot to apply the discount configuration). Disclosure: I worked at Flipkart. I felt that employees are immature.
We've been using a similar tool (https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith) for a little while now and it's transformed our way of working - 50 page layouts x 5 responsive breakpoints verified with a high degree of confidence in minutes on every build.

Well worth the effort to take the time to set up such a tool, particularly if you have a large UI test matrix - we couldn't possibly verify all the different page layouts and sizes before we introduced wraith
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