skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, at the time Sun had exactly 4 products, the Sun 3/50, the Sun 3/75, the Sun 3/160, and the Sun 3/280. But you are absolutely correct that Enterprise marketing is different than start up marketing. I was fortunate to be at Sun through the transition.

We'll have to disagree on your characterization of Marketing as Sales, I see them as two very different types of communications. That said, I know people who flip back and forth between the two, and people who are really stuck in one side or the other.
Err... because Google's spam filter is letting the message in? Seriously, it is a spam message, delivered to Google, and Google put it in the inbox instead of the spam filter. I don't know how much more clear cut it could be.
Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating
Implementation using CSS3:

http://jsfiddle.net/spectre/52Bf2/3/embedded/result/
Internet Explorer as anime character
But if use is in decline, its value should follow. To see its value rise as its use declines is simply odd.

This is a decrease in the velocity of money, not necessarily a decrease in its demand. Sometimes and increase in the demand for money can cause a drop in velocity. It's one of the justifications for constant inflation (to keep us out of a deflationary spiral where people would rather starve to death than spend $0.01 on a year's worth of foodstuffs)
Bitcoin $275 - bubble time?
Today around 6:20 the bitcoin were around $275(currently $274). Is that good time to buy? Or we are in kind of bubble. No one is selling, where it can climb? It's a bubble?
What this should read is he awarded huge bloated crazy contracts to the private sector and he now has a job at one of those companies.
I have a hypothesis that the increase in price since mid-October is tied to the spread of the CryptoLocker virus.

For those that don't know, this is a nasty little piece of work that encrypts your entire drive and any connected drives it can find, then gives you a warning that you have to pay $300 in bitcoin within 3 days or your data is deleted.

I just had this thought a couple hours ago but I'm not able to find any significant, verifiable data on how widespread CryptoLocker is. Hence, a hypothesis.
Sherlund says that if you back out the Android profits, Microsoft is probably losing $2.5 billion on Skype, Xbox, and Windows Phone. Of that, $2 billion in losses are attributable to the Xbox platform.

He appears to be saying that the Xbox platform loses $2 billion per year. Everything I've read says that the Xbox has been profitable every year since 2008.

Just one example source:

http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a512543/microsoft-back...
Twitter: What Happens When a Startup is Retweeted to 100k+ People
So... today was an interesting day for us at Blogvio(http://www.blogvio.com).

Cendrine, a Twitter user, reviewed Blogvio on her blog and shared the link here: https://twitter.com/cendrinemedia/status/397851160976961536

She has little over 5000 followers. The craziness comes next. :-)

--

We start to get quite a few retweets and decide to see what's the buzz about. We didn't do anything special to promote Blogvio yet, so what's up?

Using TweetDeck we respond quickly to all comments and tweets, then we dive deep. What we find out is that the tweet has been retweeted many times, and combined was sent to more than 100k users in just 6 hours.

One:
https://twitter.com/TheTysonReport/status/398070101934497793

And Two:
https://twitter.com/AnnettaPowell/status/398054249277300736

This came as a surprise, since we tried two days ago to buy Twitter Ads and were not able to (not in US).

So we went straight to Google Analytics. And the question is.. what do you think has happened, especially since Twitter just went public today? :-)

Then we'll share some screenshots from Google Analytics every day. But I'd love to let you guess. :)
humbled to be included in such a great group of product pro's. Was great to look down the list and see both familiar and new faces. Look forward to seeing this group grow.
Here's a chart of the number of transactions excluding the 100 most popular addresses, which seem to be mostly the gambling service SatoshiDice [1]:

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popu...

So could it be that SatoshiDice transactions have dropped a lot (flattening the overall graph) but other transactions have been increasing?

[1] https://blockchain.info/popular-addresses
So true. Reading posts like these makes me believe more and more what I decided to do by leaving a full time job and working for myself and what makes me happy the right decision.

I have only just started and am about to release my first startup so I'm not at that level yet. I'm hoping to get there someday though.
CryptoLocker has definitely netted quite a bit of cash for its authors/spreaders in the form of Bitcoins, but I highly doubt it's significantly affected the market. I imagine you would need at least 100k successful Bitcoin ransoms, which I think is unlikely.
As an original member of the Java group I can tell you they didn't really have a plan. Prior to it going viral the plan was to flush it and move on, everyone had made plans for a new job come Jun 30th, 1995 (the end of the Sun Fiscal quarter and the point at which the funding was ending for the "LiveOak" group.

Once it was being seen as the "death" of Microsoft, taking away the desktop monopoly and moving it into the browser. Well then it became a hammer to beat upon the enemy, and beat they did.

That it was effective against Microsoft ensured it would get funding and support, it also prevented some really useful things from coming to market from Sun at least (like a native compiler, ala gcj, in which to build Java 'binaries')
Literally hacking with a hacksaw...
Interesting. I can see how it may work for deep powder skiing.

As to biking, there is a pretty nice alternative available based on plastic/gel materials that harden on the impact! Lookup 3DO beanie.
I think the article tries to raise the question of whether committer names need to be included in that immutable history or whether git could have done something else like using opaque committer IDs with a mutable ID-name mapping table.
This is my conversation with Marta from Twitter. Her answer was no. http://o7.no/1c0diR2

Interesting that we got the eyeballs out of chance two days later. :-)
One of the outcomes of various 9/11 reviews was the realisation that HUMINT had degraded as far as it had. The problem is that it is very expensive, both in time and money, and it has uncertain outcomes.

The rise of technology, both its widespread use by the public and the ability to capture it by agencies, had made SIGINT seem much more attractive in the couple of decades prior to 9/11.

So, yes, agencies had become over-reliant on SIGINT over HUMINT, but for understandable reasons with the benefit of hindsight. Currently, they certainly don't view it as an existential threat and all agencies are working to re-establish HUMINT capability, the opposite of trying to block it. The trouble is that it is hard, really hard work.
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Nature solved this already, it's called the Pitcher Plant.
Chelyabinsk meteor exploded with the energy of 500 kilotonnes of TNT
I would disagree with that characterization. At the time it was released Sun was losing the battle for "Web" mindshare to SGI and was on the verge of becoming irrelevant as the 'wave' of the Web hit its crusty servers. There was certainly a lot of 'drag' as they say in terms of buying servers from the maker of Java. Especially as it became the defacto business logic implementation tool. So while I don't think licensing revenues paid the development bills (I may be wrong there) I know it kept Sun in the game during the dot.com explosion.
I'd add that Marketing is about value creation ultimately. You have to start with the right mindset, i.e. that you product has no value per se, and that marketing is everything you are going to do around your product/service to create the perception of its value. Your customers don't know how time you spent on it, they don't care how complex it is, they don't even want to know how it works (at least not until they are interested to buy it). You have to somehow create the need (that may be either a true need, or a perceived need) and your product/service has to be a presented as perfect fit (whether true or not) for it. Sometimes products/services create new needs as well so you need additional engagement to focus on the need itself if it's not obvious.
Sure. Trivial software + heavy marketing seems to be the quickest path to software riches lately.

But that doesn't mean we should make blanket statements that building software is easy. Because it's only easy if the problem you're trying to solve is easy.
Bee seems awesome and while Basil might not get marketing, he gets it now: after a week of resultless marketing efforts he writes a blog post about it, posts to HN and scores the #1 position. Kudos.
some other tips

- reddit can be a goldmine of traffic because it has so many subreddits that one is bound to cover your niche (IF you have a really niche product)

- have a blog, then write interesting things that may not necessarily have to do with your product in a direct way 42floors.com is a good example to follow.

- optimize said blog for SEO

- make sure you get email addresses from prospects that land on your site and use them, email marketing is one of the most effective forms of marketing software ... go here for how http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/31/can-i-get-your-email/

- make sure you have at least a twitter account and if you have the time, fish for people that could be interested in your product by finding tweets about competitors, or hashtags related to your product. engage these tweeters.

etc etc ad nauseam
There are about 443,000 annual deaths from smoking.[1] This is about 1 in 5.

Plus another 35,700 deaths from alcohol and alcohol-related automobile accidents.[2] Plus another 7,600 from NSAIDS.[3] Plus another 27,500 from accidental overdose of prescription opioids or illicit drugs.[4] Plus another 8,400 overdoses ruled suicides or where intent was unknown. Plus another 106,000 from fatal adverse reactions to drugs given in hospitals.[5] That's roughly 26% of the 2.4 million annual U.S. deaths right there. (These numbers are from about ten years ago, so I'm using the death rate from about 10 years ago.)

These numbers don't count: deaths from the longterm consequences of prescription drug use, e.g. someone who takes Accutane and dies of liver failure 20 years later. Nor do they count someone who gets AIDS or hepatitis from drug use, someone who develops a mental illness from stimulant abuse, alcohol-related homicide, etc. Sources:

These numbers also don't include benzodiazepines, for which the excess mortality estimates range from almost zero to over 500,000 per year: http://www.medicaldaily.com/sleeping-pills-linked-premature-...

Sources:

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_...

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_19.pdf
http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/alcoholhighway/2...

[3] http://www.annals.org/content/127/6/429.full.pdf

[4] Leonard J. Paulozzi, Richard H. Weisler, Ashwin A. Patkar. A National Epidemic of Unintentional Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2011.

[5] Lazarou J, Pomeranz B, Corey P. Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients. JAMA. 1998;279:1200-1205.
I bought at the last bubble ~250.. just not making a profit, even though I like the idea of bitcoin I want it to drop so I can sell off and rebuy at say $30, then rise the bubble again.
If someone sold bad shit on the silk road, they'd lose all of their rep and stop making money.

On the original silk road, it cost a very large amount to get a vendor account. So if you decided to start selling bad shit, you'd have to play nice for a while to break even, a while longer to build trust, and then go out in a blaze of bad shit.

I don't really see why anyone would do that. If you have good enough connections to get a good rep on the Silk Road (or similar site), you have good enough connections to never need to sell bad shit. As Stringer Bell would say, it's all about the product. If you have better product than your competition, you'll win in the end.
The number of transactions is a poor measure of the popularity of and demand for bitcoin.

Both transactions excluding popular services that post very high volumes of low value transactions, and USD value of all transactions, are much closer to reflecting the recent rise of bitcoin.

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popu...

https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
I'm really happy with the watch app market becoming a thing.

Similar implementation for the Pebble watch:

http://abl.github.io/pTOTP/
Sure, but that kind of data can be misleading. If your app works like a dog's breakfast in IE9 already (and it does), then hardly anybody using IE9 will be using it. That doesn't mean there aren't companies stuck on IE8 who would love to use Google but can't.
Wallstreet is insane if it thinks Twitter is making $80 a user in the lifetime of the company.
Living in a country where wars with immediate neighbors and rocket attacks are frequent over 10 year time spans, especially in one much smaller and more culturally diverse than the US (at least among relatively antagonistic cultures), sounds like enough of a "cultural difference" to give some engineers a more "us or them" lens on morality and drive them to passionately work on defense driven technologies. Combine that with a culture that prizes education and a government with access to NATO equipment and know-how (also makes trade in military tech the other way easier too) and it's not a surprise some SIGINT and defense equipment comes from Israeli companies.
Get Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Maxthon, or any number of modern, standards compliant browsers, and use that. Windows != IE, you can use one without the other. And it's not that they are doing it just because. IE9 is missing a ton of needed HTML5 features which can make Google Docs better. Would you like IE9 support or better docs app. Because that's the choice.
>This suggests that 78% of bitcoins are being hoarded, waiting for prices to rise. Even when controlling extremely cautiously for the possibility of users who “lost” their bitcoins and other contingencies, they find that at least 51% of bitcoins have never been spent. http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47135650437/are-bitcoins-t...

Reminds me of comic books and baseball cards in the 90s.
Not a bubble. Come to the CN forums.
Ken Burns' excellent documentary miniseries Prohibition goes over this more in-depth in its overview of how disparate voting blocs banded together to accomplish the improbable -- passing a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol.

It's also an eye-opener in revealing the historical origins of the expansion of police powers like wiretapping, and IIRC, overreaches of the Interstate Commerce Clause.

Once you've watched it, it's easy to draw some very damning "learn from history of be doomed to repeat it" parallels between Prohibition and the War on Drugs at a more detailed level than "drug prohibition doesn't work, just look at Prohibition."
> In general, it seems risky to build an API around something that's going to disappear.

Why? They can clearly profit while there's a need for the service they offer.
What confuses me about bitcoin, and this current surge, is the lack of liquidity. I don't understand how this might affect the value of bitcoins, but as an example, if I were to purchase say $10k in bitcoins and later want to transfer those bitcoins into another currency, I would have to sell my bitcoins in a bunch of small transactions, assuming I can find a buyer wanting to give me Australian dollars for my bitcoins. Of course, this is a problem with all currencies, but we can almost always buy foreign currency from banks, who have the funds to make the exchanges. I just think this 'dealing with a bunch of middlemen' results in bitcoin being more susceptible to bubbles and crashes.

Can somebody set me straight on this?
Well, it won't be the exact same wave, but it approaches the same wave. It's because the ratio between consecutive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence approaches phi.
I think it just activates an alarm when it comes into contact with water. It's not a floatation device as far as I can see.
Very clever! Joining the ranks of snap circuits [1] and others. I like the magnet trick [2]. The challenge I've found with them though is that some inexpensive test equipment to explore would be helpful too. I keep hoping something like the 'nanoscope' or some other inexpensive oscilloscope product can be 'built in' to one of these things so that students and see what is going on with their eyes.

[1] http://www.elenco.com/product/productlist/snap_circuits

[2] I wonder if Apple will sue them if they do that for a power connector? (not snark, seriously, Apple is all about keeping MagSafe for themselves ...)
Do you mean Bitcoin China forums?
Totally disagree: http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2012/11/much-ado-about-l...
From this comment, it is obvious you do not do a real commute. I have worked at various bike shops throughout my life and most recently I own one. Almost every commuter or road cyclist I have ever spoken too has been hit by a car, hit a car or been in a serious wreck at least once. If they had been wearing this silly contraption then many of them would not still be riding today. It is just absolutely ridiculous unless your priority is looks.
I thought that was an interesting choice for Mozilla, too. Here is what appears to be the bug report which contains their debate on whether or not to use codemirror.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=816756

I would be curious to know if Mozilla is still actively involved with Ace development at this point?
Yeah, problem is I remember clearly how a bunch of British plane spotters were ridiculed when they worked out that the US were flying strange flights in and out of the UK with ragged looking Arabs on board. Only when non UK and US people got implicated and involved. Today we know this as extraordinary rendition.

The other problem is that official types use ridicule instead of reason to slam people with ideas that contradict theirs. It seems that some people like evidence and some dont.
FB had three lockup expirations and the first two caused dips.

And, essentially, yes. Most lockup expirations, in my experience, seem cause a meaningful dip in the company's stock price. This happened with Zillow a couple years ago, it just happened to Tableau last week, and it happened twice to FB, and those are just the examples I can think of off the top of my head.
He is the highest ranking white male so he had to be the one to go.
So a dictionary defines chilling effects as the inhibition or discouragement of the exercise of your rights.

Let me frame the thought by giving an example: if I am talking with someone, I might not say a few things because, hey, the TLA might care enough to pull the record and listen in. Or we take care to communicate with GPG or something. It inhibits what we do. We can still vote; our vote actually has meaning; our votes actually change the elected officials, etc. We still can run a socialist candidate (c.f. Kshama Sawant 2013 in Seattle) and they aren't shut down via police action or other hardcore discrimination.

This is in contrast against what it could do: it could be always used to harass and discriminate against those dissenting from the Two Parties and the State. Anyone who said anything would be looked at and actions taken to shut them up and limit the expression and formation of dissent.

While the database of communication could be used against people to significantly disrupt everyone who speaks out, it is not, and in my opinion, it will take a few emergencies like 9/11 to actually alter the mindset of the US to make that acceptable. Of course, people are harassed; some people are okay with that. It doesn't mean there's general acceptance of that, and it doesn't mean everyone is harassed.

Thus I draw the distinction: people self-censoring vs. the heavy hand of an apparatchik forcing change. The first is very immediate and to-hand; it's reality today. The other is possible, possibly even probable given certain courses of events, but fear-mongering is not the best way to go; let's deal with the clear and present threat at hand- chilling of free speech, chilling of dissent, chilling of the business interests of United States citizens, (frankly, these all apply outside the US as well, and hopefully the debate within the US around privacy and data capture also places the operations of TLAs on non-US citizens & non-US soil within the public purview of the United States citizenry via their elected representatives).

Fear does work as a campaign tactic, but the reality is, fear is not something people want to work for. People are willing to work for hope (didn't we all see that in 2008?), and I really would prefer the pro-privacy, pro-4th amendment activists focus on the positives and hope of what we can do rather than performing the traditional stick of the Republicans & Democrats (vote the other way and the free work and the US will END!!!11!oneoneone). It is in hope of being not being tracked against my will, not being monitored in every phone conversation, not being advertised at without my consent that I advocate for these changes to come to pass. It is in hope that I can say thoughts and perform actions online and offline and feel the liberty of not having peeping government Toms and raucous advertisers know anything about me.

So there's my distinction and my spiel. :-)
If you are actually long on BTC, it's always a good time to buy. If you are trying to time the market for a short term profit, well, then, you should have bought last week.
Why the heck doesn't MS auto-update its browsers? Chrome and FF have been doing it for years.
I meant in the context of trying to build a long-term business. Netflix would be dead in a few more years if they hadn't started doing digital streaming.
Doesn't Obama have one of those?
HDFS now supports placement groups with one use case being columnar storage.
Crispr technique hailed as landmark in fight against hereditary diseases
Will attempt fast responses. Don't want to piss everyone off by getting too far into the weeds on a topic that probably shouldn't even be on HN. Also, I prefer coding to dwelling on a previous life. :)

You say: "My view is that the Israelis viewed him as "the devil they knew", and that he was infinitely preferable (and more controllable) than Hamas."

I say: That's where you're getting it wrong. It wasn't a choice between Arafat and Hamas, it was a choice between Arafat and Abbas. Abbas was clearly preferable (for all the reasons stated above).

You say: "...it's not at all clear to me that there was any Palestinian leader with anything like real power who did want a deal. I mean.. Abbas? Seriously?"

I say: Yes, Abbas, seriously. Sharon was pursuing a strategy that was largely unilateral - in other words, a weaker leader on the other side was fine, as long as they didn't get in the way and kept the PA running. Arafat was in Sharon's way (not a good place to be historically).

You say: "The endorsement is meant for US consumption."

I say: No, I am absolutely sure that the Israelis are deadly serious about a Palestinian state (or something that can be called that). Israelis are terrified of the "demographic bomb", which is what they call the far higher fertility rate of Palestinians. The Palestinian birth rate threatens the Jewish majority even in what is currently agreed to be Israel over the next few decades. Giving away areas of current Israel with high Arab populations to the Palestinian state is often mooted as an option in a final status deal, in exchange for bits of land covered with Israeli settlements (which would be a double win for Israel).

Don't want to write more on this here. If you'd really like to continue the discussion, you can email me on slooge[at]hotmail.com.