skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are hundreds of CRMs out there, online and off-line, and a good number of them are successful. The key to competing is to find your niche (audience, feature, price, technology, etc.) and compete on that.
What are the effects you expect to see?
I'd not take any details from there to be true just yet, since I just saw someone else on Twitter say it was due to a brain aneurysm.

Depressing news -- RIP Malcolm.
So tell me how dongle and forking innuendos are offensive to women, or why it is any of her business?

Women don't have domain to be offended just because a joke is unfunny.
Keep in mind that chips can be tested at different frequencies with different amounts of input and expected output. So that C bin could have a perfect test score under certain reasonable conditions.

Clever little hardware hacks gives you oodles of geek street cred, but it may mean putting up with occasional bizarre behavior so that cred is well-earned. When silicon fails, the apparent effects can defy all logic. We can be talking about a logical AND that does something else entirely <0.001% of the time.
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What are some evolutions you'd like to see? It seems basically feature compatible with dropbox, plus the added benefit of being able to edit documents in-place on the web. The only think that I want and it does not have is a fuse client for linux.
In the original scenario, there is no economic value loss, there is only monetary loss for nVidia. i.e: the surplass 8$ value are captured by the professionals rather than nVidia.
This wasn't a book; it was a bunch of photocopied handwritten notes, maybe 100 pages at most, that appeared not to have been updated in years.
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1. Then you are not looking very hard. All the numbers indicate that there is increased spending and increased economic activity: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5296889
It doesn't matter if it's bundled or not. How would any grandparent know how to set up a mail client?

Most computer illiterate people I know have always used hotmail or yahoo mail (slowly changing to gmail) rather than setting up pop3 or imap access to a mail server....
Send me a message with your email address on http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/contact/ and I'll send you a small amount for free.
Sure there is a difference. If there is another exploit that gets you hashed passwords from many thousand different routers you would be quite happy knowing that none of them were salted.

Also there is a huge difference between (salt + short-random-password) and (long-random-password) because the salt isn't nearly as confidential as the password and knowing it reduces the attack vector to (short-random-password), which is trivial to break for such poor (in this context) hash algorithm.
Thing, sure they were crummy jokes. A reasonable response would be to not laugh.
I mentioned the fact that the Terms had been updated in my essay. I am more interested in why no privacy provisions were originally included in the terms, and why it took so long for them to be updated.
To RAID or not to RAID - Is that the question?
He would not have been out any sooner. Perhaps you misunderstand me.
I people don't know, they'll buy the cheaper book. You want them to buy the more expensive version. The publisher gets nothing by "fooling" people. They want people to know, so they buy the more expensive book.
> Bitcoin was built to be a currency, to be used to trade for goods and services. However, a significant portion of BTC is being hoarded and not traded

This could easily be an instance of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law in action, whereby BTC is considered "good money" by its holders and USD (etc.) considered "bad". i.e. When you take your sack of coins to the market, you spend the shaved and nicked coins first, reserving the finest coins for some more important transaction.

> thus leading some (like Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman) to argue that it's not a currency at all, and any value is purely speculative

This doesn't necessarily follow, if you understand Gresham's law. i.e. it's not a question of what is or isn't currency, but rather which form of currency is held more dear. This is, of course, a form of "speculation", in the broadest sense of the term.
Google Glass is like the Segway – And Similarly Doomed
Considering copyright law is like counting angels that could dance at the head of the pin. I hope people will ditch it some day altogether.
"First, I wouldn't call bitcoin user base community. It is like saying the dollar user community."

The dollar is not modeled to meet a specific philosphy or technical implementation nor does it have the same degree of novelty. There most certainly is an enthusiast community for Bitcoin.
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And I really wouldn't want to work for someone who would refuse to hire an applicant who referred to jQuery as a "framework".
1600x900 is lower than 1920x1200 and even lower than 1680x1050, which older models had. It's also lower than 2880x1800 found in a competitor model. It is also a TN display, not an IPS one.
Economists Acknowledge That They're Biased
"By common I mean it's something that your average General practitioner doctor will encounter"

Well, sure, but that's during specific cases where the person knows that there's something wrong with them. It's not commonly "accidentally" discovered during the course of your regular physicals.
Thanks!... Yeah, much more practical for a prototype.

Who says we are some code away? Stay tuned for the iPhone App blog post :)
His LinkedIn profile says he went to university in '89-'92, which would put him in his early forties, if he went at a usual age.
Posterous Migration Guide: All known importers compared
The problem with e-gold is it's hard to verify that the gold exists. This isn't an issue with physical gold or BTC.
Ask PG: How do you effectively deal with incredibly smart people?
YC obviously attracts smart creative people. However, many brilliant people are often arrogant, eccentric, and difficult. How do you effectively deal with so many incredibly smart people?

This question is open to non-PG answers. Also, I'd like any recommendations on good books.
Climing 2000ft rock walls without rope or any safety
That has not been my experience. I am financially prudent and I still have 2-4 more than I know what to do with.
There is of course hype but the past few months do represent real growth: see [here](http://blockchain.info/charts/n-unique-addresses). Now obviously that's a very gameable graph but there is little incentive to do so (and I was trying to pick something that would remove services like SatoshiDice from the equation since that heavily skews transaction count etc.

There's the fact that the Euro is in trouble. There's the fact that provable odds gambling has been implemented (a powerful factor in the US). There's the fact that ASICs are coming out. There's the fact that it's becoming countercultural and hip to accept them (see Mega and Reddit) There's the fact that every time the price goes up more mainstream articles are exposing people to it's concepts, driving demand by more. Now it could well be bubble mark II and I DEFINITELY expect a correction: it's a volatile market. But there's certainly some massive growth underneath the massive speculation.
Executives love animations. It looks like you can turn them off but trust me, after years of doing presentations in front of "the suits", it'll be worth leaving it in.
Sounds like a few steps faster than the inevitable death of a gold standard: Gold coins, then bank storage, then gold lending, then gold certificate use, then lending of certificates, then certificates are declared paper money, then overprinted, then gold backing removed…
The best class I've ever taken was an intro class in statistics, in which the professor recommended... no book. He had an entire set of notes, practice problems (with extraordinarily detailed answers), and problem sets. Every year, he creates new exam problems so the old exams with answers become practice material. Honestly, his lecture notes (and all the additional material) is so vast that a student would hardly have enough time to study anything outside the notes.

My point is, if a lecturer is really dedicated to providing the best possible experience to his students, he doesn't need a textbook. I'm not saying that it's easy, or that it doesn't require a lot of time and effort from his part. It does. Some lecturers chose to accept the load, while others go the easy way and just point to references and exercises in the book.
The 180° is not an innovation. All ThinkPads I ever had had this feature, and I had many ThinkPads, around 10 still in use.
Damn, there's a lot of early software people death lately...
I created this startup in my lunch break
I had a similar problem until today when I saw in the release notes you can turn off the gravatar icons that appear in each of the commits.

Doing this I found that the entire interface was much more responsive.
I don't think I agree. If I'm a student paying $XX,XXX per term to attend university, I'm not going to be thrilled at having to beat everyone else in a foot race to pick the one book, out of a random assortment of old books in a pile, that sucks the least. Professional curation of educational resources is a big part of what I'm paying for.
I agree. I once had a to buy a professor's book. It was
$240.00 of confusing sentence structure, no diagrams(other than manafacture's publicity material, written terribly). He actually made a slightly complex topic seem like we were
finding the "God Particle".

As to his profit, I'm not sure how much he made off of each
book, but the book is used across the world. The only
reason I think any instructor would use his book is because
it's a niche subject matter; the mechanics and theory of
hydronic heating systems.

If Dr. Hydronics ever reads this--you're probally a nice
guy, but you made a relatively simple subject complex.
Funnel your sentences. Use numbers. Don't use unnessary
words. KIS(keep it simple).
How To use Hive to SQLize your own Tweets – Part One: ETL and Schema Discovery
What is the juxtaposition of these two sentences supposed to convey?

They seem to be pretty consistent: "sharing is not broken - here are some the places that people are already sharing stuff without Google's involvement".
"But in the real world people do use "Alt Med" for treatments that have shown efficacy already."

You're investing in their false modality by using it to define actual medicine, in the same way that people market "homeopathic" OTC based on actual ingredients and not "water memory".
I see no difference between Google Reader shutting down and Apple abandoning the Mac Pro.

This has nothing to do with free: it has to do with a failed product like any other, plain and simple. People don't see Google Reader as a failed product because they like it and "a lot of people use it". But that "a lot" is in absolute terms, not relative ones. The reality is that not enough people use RSS for it to matter at Google scale. Even if everyone currently using it were to start paying for it tomorrow, it would be a drop in the bucket of Google profits. Reader had it's chance, and it failed to get enough traction, period. The "free" part is just a distraction in this conversation, Reader makes no sense as a product for Google at any (reasonable) price. This story would have gone down exactly the same had Google offered reader at a price that matched the other competitors at the time: they probably still would have won, and still would have ended up shutting it down.

This is exactly the same as how having the Mac Pro line would be incredibly lucrative for you or me, but it just doesn't matter for Apple. The margins are through the roof on that thing, and in a lot of ways its quite possibly the perfect product: a 3 year old machine that commands the same price it did 3 years ago. But again, not enough people want it for it to matter at Apple scale. If Apple could double the price and maintain the same sale numbers of the Mac Pro, it still wouldn't be worth it for them.

If anything, we should see this as a really healthy market correction. Its good for Google to realize that this isn't worth their time so they can focus their resources on things only they can do (like cars that drive themselves and whatnot) and leave these tasks for the rest of us where these user numbers and profits are meaningful.
Personally I deride it because solves the wrong problem. I just don't see how it can be an efficient long term medium of exchange with the built in deflation. As far as I see it, the hype around bitcoin is built around the broken idea that the main purpose of money is as a store of value. But it is not - the main purposes are to act as medium of exchanges and as the unit of account.

I'm a lot more intrigued by Ripple I feel they try to solve the correct problem, though there are some issues left. The most glaring one being that it lacks a unit of account of it's own but instead pickyback on a different unit of account. It is also a harder to explain, especially to people that believe in hard money since it is basicly a stripped down fiat system.
It increases the per-vendor demand as experienced by the vendors who stay in the market.
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YC startup Teespring, growing 50% monthly, hits $750K monthly sales
But it didn't even keep the buttons.
There have been a few already made, check out the Alternative Cryptocurrencies forum on bitcointalk.

The problem with a coin like this is initial adoption (which is required to create the network effect that makes the coin useful). Why would anyone put serious money into a currency that is guaranteed to lose value forever through inflation and with no useful network?

The only reason inflation works for a currency like USD is because there are already billions of users locked in by the extremely large network effect, and similar inflation on any viable alternatives like the EUR.

Look at inflating currencies with smaller networks (south america) and how hard it is to keep people from getting rid of that money, usually it requires government (violent) intervention.
Interesting, but I am not convinced that the accident data can _really_ correct for things like demographics of drivers. Moreover, there does not seem to be anything in the way of error measurement. In other words, how do you know that a score of 101 is actually worse than a score of 99?
Exactly.

I was reading about Ford Thunderbird recently - the car that "created the market niche", was a huge success, rose Ford brand to a new level etc., and oops, the project was closed by board and reopened only after huge fight by Henry Ford II.
Some folks are also working on a jekyll import here:

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-import/pull/12
Since work has it blocked, what is it?
What sort of progress will be stopped by encouraging websites to present content as content instead of as an "app"? What specifically would you do to make websites that don't work without images or JavaScript more accessible, apart from making them work without images or JavaScript?

Jetpacks aren't widespread for important safety and technical reasons. The existence of search engines demonstrates that non-browser agents are technically possible.
Some solid points here, but I gotta disagree with this one...

If a product grows huge quickly, which almost always requires it to be free, it will probably be acquired for a lot of money. Free products that don’t grow quickly enough can usually die with an “acquihire”, which lets everyone save face and ensures that the investors get something out of the deal.

I think this way of thinking is the product of a very frothy market over the last few years. Now, I'm not one to scream series A crunch from the mountain tops, but it's unrealistic to think that thousands of these startups that "don't grow quickly enough" will be acquihired. In 2012 Google and Facebook combined to make 21 acquisitions. That doesn't put much of a dent in the number of failing startups. And with the Formspring shutdown announcement last week, it seems that even companies that have achieved impressive scale (30M users in since 2010) cannot rely on being bought.
Some early adopters would be filthy rich. Not so different from other filthy rich people. Hoarding would be more profitable than investing. Would everyone stop investing, would the currency just keep on deflating? Forever?

When a really rich person doesn't have to do anything at all to keep getting richer, what will he do? If he hoards until he dies, how will that affect the economy?

I too want to see empirical data on this.
Ask HN: Review my startup, PageViral.com
I'm particularly looking for feedback about it's core features, layout and flow of information on the platform. What do you think? The url is www.pageviral.com
It's unrealistic to expect that a thing could grow from a project on a hobbyist's computer to a major international currency without some volatility along the way.
>For the technically curious: reading the address of the top frame is a challenging problem. For security reasons, browsers do not allow cross-domain scripting. So, it is not possible to just call the "top" object and read its properties. We have a proprietary solution for this.

Are they exploiting a security bug?
The education reforms we’ve been arguing about? Mostly, they go nowhere.
MIT agress to release Aaron Swartz documents – with redactions
Facebook effectively raised prices via promoted posts. Google Apps is no longer free. These may be exceptions, though.
nice to see garry taking care of his users. <3
Much more useful than the Udacity HTML5 games class, which bizarrely dives into the bookkeeping minutia of looking up sprites in a collection of spritesheets for an entire unit (edit: unit of the class, I mean)
MIT to release redacted documents in Aaron Swartz case
Owch, but fair point.

If you are willing to accept some excuses (one can hope?), our dev blog is running the yet-to-be-released version of HubSpot's new blogging tool and is very much a work in progress. Also, the pages served by that blog (and our CMS) are not related to the tool this post is talking about.

But nonetheless, we need to make it faster. Thanks for the feedback.
Forget the advanced stats, it also elucidates the best defensive/offensive scheme for the team. That's part of a coach's job description right there. It's probably also not much of a stretch to encroach on the scouts' & GM's territory too - How will our team look if we trade Lopez for Howard? - for example.

When the system gets more optimized and easier to use, the role of a coach & GM could get diminished, and with it, their salaries. Of course they would do everything in their power to stop that.
This site has very wide columns. Here's a readability link that might be easier to scan:

http://www.readability.com/articles/nljhmuka
This site has very wide columns. Here's a readability link: http://www.readability.com/articles/nljhmuka
Fundable and RockThePost are also making good noise
I only tried all the ones I knew about. If there are others, let me know.
How did you get your post on Forbes?
Thanks for this -- I'll check it out when I get a chance later tonight.
The analysis of click and mouse traces location distribution vs humans at the end makes it pretty clear that these are not humans.
I would be surprised if she lost her job over an incident in that hypothetical.

I wouldn't be too surprised to hear that the man would be in trouble for harassment or taking her picture.
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As someone who goes to uni in Europe (the UK), I've never had anyone wheel in a an actual cart of textbooks, but nor have I ever had a lecturer proclaim only a single textbook is acceptable. Usually they give a list of 5-10, with a few of them being recommended. Even where they clearly prefer some particular textbook, they'll still name a few alternatives.

If a lecturer ever did say only a single textbook was allowed, a lot of people would laugh and ignore them (especially those people who prefer using library books to buying their own, since libraries don't usually stock enough copies of a single textbook). It's not like translating 'read chapter X for the tutorial on Y' into your chosen textbook is hard, that's what tables of contents are for.

I genuinely don't understand why all the US uni students in this thread talk about declarations by lecturers that some textbook is Required as if it was illegal to disobey. What am I missing here? It's not like the uni has any way of checking what you've bought, surely?
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Sounds like an amazing guy.
OP is trying to make it seem like offering web services for free is rule-breaking or even borderline illegal. This is not so. It is not predatory pricing to price something at its marginal cost (which for web services is near-zero).

The OP also seems to be unaware of TV, radio, etc.
Cool work on this stuff guys, but http://tbranyen.com/u/cae5c180.png is not a good start.
If I paid for a piece of software three years ago, I expect that piece of software that I obtained three years ago to work forever.
There's nothing stopping you from devising a coin with a different mining schedule. I'm working on two proposals right now, one with constant growth over time and one with a slightly increasing growth. Both of them have an initial deflationary period to encourage adoption. Working title is "Friedman Coin".

This solves the problem of decreasing mining incentives and the possibility of a too-big windfall for early adopters. It's not unrealistic that Satoshi could own 2% or 3% of all the money that will ever be made. That's a problem.
It's pretty awesome of Garry to think of his users and present all the alternatives, rather than just thinking of his own interests in promoting just Posthaven. Ironically this makes Posthaven and even better option.
I agree with both sides: animated charts and graphs can add some welcome eye candy to an otherwise-dull presentation, potentially clarifying how quantities change relative to each other.

But they can also be distracting and annoying when used in a context where they add gratuitous motion in random areas. The chart.js homepage is itself an example of how not to use animated graphs. As soon as one graph captures your attention, you're distracted by another one animating in the corner of your eye, so you're discouraged from looking too closely at either.

The page as a whole suffers due to its lack of respect for the reader's attention.
The concluding 3 paragraphs are like the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense.

Yup. This guy did a fantastic job articulating what many others have just given up on trying to. Those of us who voice trepidation are usually marginalized as jealous and/or haters. See: http://xkcd.com/743/
Bitcoin's got a few things right - open API, solid crypto. I can understand how you see these things within Bitcoin and view it as a paradigm shift. However, they're not competitive advantages: anyone can pick them up. If Bitcoin really takes off the old finance hands can tack these on and they'll have everything that made Bitcoin great plus their network effect.

n.b. I consider Bitcoin's decentralization to be flawed (it'll only decrease over time) and thus it doesn't count as a feature.
Making problem less visible (for a while) is hardly a solution.
I figure they have some sort of iframe busting script that lets them gain access to the top frame.