skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Who thinks $26/share is a viable price

Depends on how many shares exist, doesn't it? A year ago, MSFT was near $26/share. That number is meaningless by itself.
At what point does it become more cost-effective to hire your own counsel?
This doesn't make any sense... why wouldn't the attacker just do the attack themselves? What is the advantage to this?
Intelligence Community Inspector General rebuffs Hill on surveillance probe
For 90% of other businesses, there's an Excel export. There's your API.
Have to agree. Takes some getting used to, but I find -for simple things - they have much more consistent behavior even across android versions.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6676859
OpenWhisperSystems is pretty topical with all the NSA stuff going around
Regarding #1, how many items do you have to keep charged where their charge state does not affect their normal operation, but can be life and death in certain cases? Both this and #2 are recipes for screwing up, because there's not much indication when you've done so most of the time. Even if we dismiss operator error, what are the odds you'll fail to notice it if the charger or the power switch break?
The final sentence in the article really struck a chord with me...

> Where there is paper to push, a call to answer, or a purchase to approve, there is an API coming to replace it.

I've made a pretty decent living in life by following the old mantra that anywhere you see an Excel spreadsheet being used in a business process, there's an opportunity to exploit.

That idiom has now moved even further, at this point, and I don't know why I'm surprised to read in print what I think we've all probably intuited for some time now.

I've been attempting to embrace this for awhile, but I think it hit home the most last week, when I saw Joshua Beckman's article on a Personal API, and then started building one for everybody else[1].

It's been a fairly profound experience, and every subtle feature that I add, the more certain I am that it's the right path to be taking. Around every turn, I think of a new use case, or a new way to extend it, or a new type of service to integrate with -- and it baffles me that it takes us so long to make switches in thinking like this, even though we literally do it all the time as technologists.

[1] - I shouldn't be sharing the link, as the code isn't done, and it's likely to set your house on fire, but because it's relevant, the Personal API service is at http://personable.me. If you use it and it gives you herpes or something, shoot me an email (contact in my profile) and let me know. If it doesn't give you herpes, you can let me know that too.
Uncrop.
Good try, but not an impulse buy and doesn't target devs. Actually, very few devs would be attracted to the product.
Community, open collaboration and constant communication
"Unless you want to argue that I would have been just as fine hitting the ground at 25km/h without a helmet?"

Why not? Humans are pretty resilient. Maybe you wouldn't have, but I see no reason to dismiss so easily the possibility that you might have been fine.

Mentioning personal experience is fine, but you shouldn't make broad statements from it unless the experience actually justifies it.

Think of it like this: somewhere out there is a story that's the opposite of yours. Some guy wrecked his bike and hit his head without a helmet and was fine afterwards. He then concludes that helmets don't work. His reasoning is no different from yours, yet reaches the opposite conclusion. Clearly the reasoning must be flawed.
Is Modern Web Design Too Formulaic?
When I last checked, in the US, it's actually not illegal for someone without a clearance to possess classified material. This is why newspapers can print unredacted classified documents and not immediately go to jail.

It is, however illegal for someone with a clearance to mishandle classified material. "Mishandling" includes "Permitting access to classified material to non-cleared personnel.". If you mishandle classified material you may be reprimanded, have your clearance revoked, be fined, or go to jail for a very long time.
Marketing done wrong is advertising an already conceived product.

Marketing done right is strategic. It's about segmenting a market, targeting the right niche, and looking for the right positioning within the niche. It's about guiding the product towards both stated and unstated needs. It should happen before, during and after development. And yes it should also involve generating demand.

Starting marketing after the fact is like building quality into an already created product. Quality is designed in.
How my game reached #14 in Education App Store
How we broke digital agency model & built scalable product dev business
Nothing, but git is a prominent example of software that treats history as immutable.
and probably won't for some time without an official bug report ;)

https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/issues
Wow. What an interesting article. Every time I think about quitting my daily HN addiction I come across something like this. Thanks for the link. Very interesting.
Ah such a shame. Tried to resist but I can't help pointing out you missed a chance to explain how when Fourier discovered the expansion, it really was an example of "one weird trick all the Mathematical Physicists will hate him for".

It was during his time in Grenoble that Fourier did his important mathematical work on the theory of heat. His work on the topic began around 1804 and by 1807 he had completed his important memoir On the Propagation of Heat in Solid Bodies. The memoir was read to the Paris Institute on 21 December 1807 and a committee consisting of Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Lacroix was set up to report on the work. Now this memoir is very highly regarded but at the time it caused controversy.

There were two reasons for the committee to feel unhappy with the work. The first objection, made by Lagrange and Laplace in 1808, was to Fourier's expansions of functions as trigonometrical series, what we now call Fourier series. Further clarification by Fourier still failed to convince them. As is pointed out in [4]:-

"All these are written with such exemplary clarity - from a logical as opposed to calligraphic point of view - that their inability to persuade Laplace and Lagrange ... provides a good index of the originality of Fourier's views"

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Fourier.html
At the office, I was going to suggest we all wear our Blockbuster memorial outfits of light blue shirts with khakis. Then I realized nobody knows what that is anymore.
There are other factors to consider, though.

First, wearing a helmet is going to alter the kinetics of your head during the accident, possibly for the worse.

Second, wearing a helmet can alter the behavior of people around you in ways that impact your safety. For example, car drivers may drive less carefully around a helmeted rider.

Third, wearing a helmet can alter the behavior of the wearer.

Now, does that mean that helmets don't improve safety? I would guess they probably do. But let's make the argument based on sound reasoning and data, not insults and "common sense".
Gospel Artist Poses Nude (Trending)
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model if she's posing news? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail. I seen the picture on Google!
WEIRD MAN HYPNOTIZES YOU IN MUSIC VIDEO
Physicists probe urination 'splashback' problem
I commuted by bike for years (though not so much in recent years) and have never had an accident at speed.

I do wear a helmet, but not a full-face helmet, and it looks like this thing would actually be more effective in protecting against concussions.
I understand the OP's pain. But there's an easy solution that many of us that deal with mailings and US addresses use. Go buy a Address Verification/CASS Processing CD from Melissa Data or a similar company. Or pay a small fee for a limited list in your area.
Bohemian gravity: string theory explained to the tune of Bohemian Rhopsody
D release 2.064 is out with 35 enhancements and over 400 bugfixes
This is beautiful. I'm going to keep a tab on this idea for the next time I need to implement a labeled interface in iOS.
Meh, nothing more than a recursive wget will do that.
It's reported because the other big tech IPO recently was Facebook, which went from ~$40 down to ~$20, back up to ~$50. They're trying to provide a reference point to the other major social networking company on the stock market.

Of course anyone with a bit of sense knows that it's not the individual share price that matters; but with something as famous as Twitter, that is not necessarily who you are marketing the IPO at.
Synaptic Transistor Leads to New Kind of Artificial Intelligence
> 3. Once inflated, it's done. You have to buy a new one. The website suggests your insurance may pay for this, which implies they definitely won't even if it did not inflate in an accident.

Setting aside the risk of accidental inflation, this matches standard bicycle helmets. Once a helmet survives an impact, it should be replaced immediately and no longer used.
37signals isn’t mythical, you’re not paying attention
How big is the market for Cloud IDEs?
Yes. Rental store always have a movie you want. Well, older movies. Those Netflex/Nulu have difficult time to get. Netflix actually lost most of the older collections early this year http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/netflix-losing-movi... which makes Netflix have fewer titles to enjoy. I still can't watch Nolan's Batman franchisee today! How stupid Hollywood is these days.
This article is at least as valid as the technical blog bike shedding that is normal HN fodder--possibly more so, as an actual experiment was performed. Would you like sources that fasting is bad for you? Every clinical study I've come across suggests otherwise.
> If they don't want it around their kids, that should be possible as well.

Restricting other people's rights because "THINK OF MY CHILDREN!" is how we got in to a lot of these messes in the first place.

I mean, what if your daughter got high on the marijuanas and dated a Negro? The shame it would bring on the family!
Thanks a lot for that link!!
Yep, exactly. The Zetas cartel for example, do not necessarily import & export themselves. They are simply a gang of thugs who move into an area already teeming with drug smugglers/dealers, and extort them for taxes. Since these drug dealers can't go to the police for protection since they are doing something illegal they either pay up or the streets turn into a bloodbath. If you notice the Zetas are mainly concentrated in Northern Mexico where the major smuggling routes into the US are. By controlling those they can siphon off 20-30% of all drug shipments from every other cartel into the US and never have to touch drugs themselves, so are unlikely to be caught. They are just parasites off other people's hard work of manufacturing, smuggling and building sales networks. This business model will only work under prohibition.

Zetas do not hold up trucks full of tequilla and beer going into the US for extortion because they would be arrested. When your business is legal the solution for dealing with thugs is simple: call the cops or sue them. When you are gray area/illegal your only negotiation is to pay them or pick up a gun creating an all out war.
It would be better to consider Facebook's monthly active users at the time of their IPO.

The breakdown looks more like this:

Facebook at IPO: MAU: $845M [1], Valuation: $104B [1], Value/User = $123

Facebook Today: MAU: 1.15B [2], Valuation: $120B [3], Value/User = $104

Twitter at IPO: MAU: 218M [4], Valuation: $18.1B [5], Value/User = $83

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Face...

[2] http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/07/24/facebook-users-q2-...

[3] https://www.google.ca/finance?q=NASDAQ:FB

[4] http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/blindtweeting/

[5] http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/06/twitter-prices-ipo-at-26-pe...
He said: "The goal was to both weaken the postal service, which was trying to move into "fast" shipments (1-2 day vs. the usual week+), and demonstrate that unions were bad for businesses in the delivery industry."

I am pointing out that the unions hate the law because they see how terrible it is.
People do not want to know who made ​​it but they just think how they enjoy it.
In this world, there is no second place or second champ, the world is a kind of binary system, 0 or 1, we just choose death or life.
"quote on Hackers 3 [2011]
The reason is that the per-share value is best for people who already own or follow the stock.

For example, Twitter employees can quickly ballpark the dollar value of their shares with the $26 number. It's also easier for tracking movement (e.g., $20 last week, $26 this week).

It's the same reason that all ticker prices are in per-share value rather than market cap. $XOM at $93.22 means less to me personally than "Exxon Mobil is worth $400 billion," but the per-share value is probably most relevant to people with business interest in Exxon.
Early detection and adequate knowledge for parents will greatly help in managing an autistic child.
As a cyclist, I could point out that relative to a normal helmet this thing is hugely expensive and very prone to user error (must be charged, must be turned on). But I could live with both of those things. The real deal-breaker is that it doesn't look any more comfortable than a regular helmet.

Cycling on a hot day, my scalp gets all sweaty and uncomfortable, but at least the helmet has big air vents to minimize overheating. You want me to replace that with a thick, bulky scarf? No. In July, I'd be miserable after 10 minutes.
You failed to mention Fedex does it much faster, has insurance and tracking. It's not apple-to-apple comparison.
You don't leave forensic evidence of the attack. You don't have automated IDS systems blacklist your IPs. You get a one-to-many leverage on the backs of Google's prodigious crawler farm. You potentially goad the target into manual or automatic decisions which penalize Google, thereby inducing Google to automatically retaliate with decisions which inflict business damage upon the target, which may be a goal of the attack. etc, etc.
As I said, "Now not discouraging InfluxDB or anything". I have nothing against freedom of choice (That's what I use Linux for example) But I do agree that fragmentation might be bad (E.g. 200 Linux distros).
I'm one of those people who downloaded the trial, ran it for a few days, and then deleted it. I liked a lot of things about the app, but there were a few bits that I found unintuitive—particularly around managing multiple projects from different sources.

I decided to pass, but I bookmarked it so that I'll be able to find it again in the future if I ever find that I really need a quick way to access my Jira issues from the desktop.

The $49 price is entirely reasonable considering the breadth of the feature set and the target audience, but it does put it outside the impulse purchase comfort zone. It might have been helpful to put it on sale at launch with a discounted price in order to build some traction and lower the barrier to adoption for people who are on the fence.
> Regarding #1, how many items do you have to keep charged where their charge state does not affect their normal operation, but can be life and death in certain cases?

I have something that is not at all life-and-death, and only needs to be charged once a month. I've been pretty good about keeping it charged. In the case of something more consequential, I have no doubt I would keep it charged. The device has a charge state indicator that looks like it would be a pretty good reminder.

Did you see the part where it makes a sound when you turn it on? Looks to me like Hövding have thought this through pretty well.
Excel export to printer to fax machine, in some cases.
Let’s Make a Bar Chart, Part II [D3js]
Yes, I meant all of the characters outside of the ASCII range. As in, there are no characters in ISO-8859-1 which take up more than 2 bytes in UTF-8. I guess there are a few in Windows-1252 which take up more than two bytes (like the Euro sign), so it's possible he meant Windows-1252 rather than ASCII.
This makes no sense but I feel like I agree with it, I'm gonna go catch up on some sleep...
Any particular reason you aren't revealing your product, given that you've already posted about it on HN?
Princess Bride joke.
Yes, they are both useful and relevant when used in combination but alone stock price is pretty meaningless.

Before Berkshire Hathaway issued a stock split (1 share becomes 2 or more shares) a share was worth ~$172,000. Today Apple trades at $520 and MSFT at $38.

Alone those numbers are of no use. You don't know how much the actual company is worth. Share price * share volume = Market Cap. You need to know at least two of those values to make an informed decision.
Um, Firefox works just fine on XP and Vista, just like Chrome. I'm sure Google would be happy if people switched to Chrome for Docs, but they're not forcing anyone to.
All reasonable points, here's why you're wrong, though.

First, I appreciate the acknowledgment that Arafat was indeed involved with Al-Aqusa (a terrorist group bombing Israeli civilians). Not sure why you think that that would make the US and Israel consider him a suitable interlocutor - I still think that stands in favour of my argument that Sharon was done with him and killed him to create the circumstances for a deal.

Arafat may have reduced funding to Al-Aqusa, but that's because they were on the ropes militarily by 2004. He certainly didn't stop funding because he thought terrorism was an unacceptable option. The simple fact was, that he was funding terrorists after the failure of Camp David, which again, makes him a very bad candidate for the next round of grand bargain negotiation.

To claim that Sharon wasn't looking for a deal is just silly (even if he was often inflammatory and arguably quite evil). The fact that Sharon was looking for a deal was widely acknowledged and published in newspapers - here's a quote from wikipedia: "In May 2003, Sharon endorsed the Road Map for Peace put forth by the United States, European Union, and Russia, which opened a dialogue with Mahmud Abbas, and announced his commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state in the future." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon#Founding_of_Kadim... I'd provide more quotes, but this is pretty self evident.

You also seem to suggest that because Sharon was an aggressive guy, he wasn't looking for a deal. That just doesn't follow (especially in the Middle East, where the perception of strength is everything).

You also say "Additionally, Arafat's Fatah group was seen as the one group strong enough to keep Hamas controlled." My response: killing Arafat would / did not prevent Fateh from acting as a counterweight to Hamas. In fact, it's likely that Fateh was ultimately a far better counter-weight to Hamas with Abbas at the helm. Israel was able to work with Fateh to squash Hamas in the West Bank in a way that may well have been impossible with Arafat running the show (supplies of weapons to the Palestinian authority etc).

On an anecdotal note, it was clear on the streets (I was living there at the time), that in many cases, Palestinian policemen went from carrying shitty old AKs to gleaming new M16s within a year after Arafat was out of the picture.
It's probably not a good idea to start using blockchains for everything. (As much as I dig bitcoin and all.) Shudder.

What about a simple proposal for the convention of firing a query for a mailing address before each mailing, by such means as:

1. HTTP request to (something like) "/address.txt"
2. *blank* email with subject line (such as) "address"

I wonder how difficult it would be to get the whole world on board with this, to the extent that a domain name or email address is accepted in form fields requiring mailing addresses.
Hrm... random impressions I had:

1) The above the fold stuff sort of showed me what it describes itself as, but not what it really is. A looping animation or video would have been really helpful.

2) The below the fold stuff originally came across as separate products. Like I thought it was your catch-all page for a few other products you've made. So maybe you could make it clearer that they are all components of Bee.

3) Just my own reaction that I noticed - when you demonstrate compatibility with several outside services, there might be a weird disincentive to try it out if the potential customer doesn't use all of those services. Like I immediately had a suspicion that since I use Jira but not Github or Fogbugz, that the other focuses of the tool would get in the way or make it feel unwieldy. (I didn't download it to disprove that feeling.)

4) Time/task tracking is a REALLY crowded space, and I imagine it is really difficult to convince someone to try out a new tool, partly because of switching costs. For instance, for me, I use Quickbooks on the Mac, and I'm pretty married to Intuit's "My Time" since it's the only tool I know of on the Mac that will automatically transfer time records to Quickbooks, which I then use to make invoices. And then if someone asks me why I create my invoices from time records in Quickbooks, then... heck, I dunno, I made the decision at one point and it works for me. I could do a whole first-principles analysis I guess that might lead me to a completely different way of working that might lead me to being able to using a different time-tracking app like Bee, but... I don't like going that low on my e-Maslow's hierarchy very often.

5) No obvious mention of price on the front page... no obvious indicator of what clicking the "Buy" button will do or where it will take me. I moused over it, looked for an info tip, and didn't click. (I'm one to just buy rather than deal with download/try/maybe-buy.)
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Peace Corps Social Innovation Hackathon  UCBerkeley
I recently read the book "Cashvertising". It's very good at breaking down how to sell in print. I recommend you read it. For example, your headline "Better task tracking on your Mac" offers no real benefit. What is good about task tracking? What is the benefit it offers? Make that answer your headline.

Read the book. It helped me immensely.
Awesome story. Thanks for the link.
The companies that have draconian policies requiring a specific version of IE are also probably the same organizations that want to run their own mail, sharepoint, etc. So it probably doesn't have a dramatic impact.
Working with frontend designers/developers in a few different languages (PHP/Python), the easiest way for our office was to just use a central development server in the office then use NFS.

Sourcetree is a little slow for them (they use Macs), but they seem to get the idea.
I care about politics.

But i don't care for the media. I believe the media is about molding public opinion. Disingenuously spinning topics to advantage. Everywhere from north Korea to the good old USA.
Silk Road Rises Again