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Classic.
Yandex Technologies: http://company.yandex.com/general_info/technologies.xml
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This was a reasonable explanation of the Fourier Transform, but sadly, not the Fast Fourier Transform.

To me the easy part has always been understanding that many sines(and cosines) of different frequencies can make up pretty much any periodic signal and that time and frequency domains map back and forth without losing information.

What I still do not fully understand is how exactly FFT algorithm works.
Article does not explain it and even this excellent guide: http://www.dspguide.com/ch12/2.htm skips over it, saying it is too complex(pun intended).

My very rough understanding is as follows:

Discrete time signal is taken, (optionally padded with 0s to next power of 2)
Real representation is decomposed to complex (numbers not difficulty) representation, as far as I understand this is done via interpolating signals and then further dividing signal in half. Why? Not sure.

Next part is even more mysterious.
Magic algorithm here to find frequencies?

Signal is now in frequency domain, just need to show it in as real numbers not complex.

So what is the magic step?
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Ask HN: Product Suite vs. Best-of-Breed
Hi!

Wanted to ask you simple question - would you rather use different apps for different tasks in your startup (CRM, project management, invoicing etc.) or all-in-one product suite?

Do you know any good all-in-one solutions suitable for a startup/small business?
Great Collection of Flash Content Management Systems.
Yes I am saying that Google will "read" your data. Even
better, I'm saying that Amazon more than likely is already
doing this.

It would be an unforgivable breach of trust for Amazon to steal customer data that is stored in AWS. Amazon is possibly the world's most customer-oriented company. I'm sure that such behavior would not be tolerated inside the company.
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Sorry, I forgot the qualifier "man made". :)
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Gmail could probably cost money and have a big userbase (at least now, when so many people know about it and use it).

But I think a lot of the community sites can't charge money. I don't see Twitter, Reddit, StackOverflow and other such community sites gaining nearly enough users that way.
I hate 'me too' comments but IPDB IS A GODSEND. Once you use it you will:

* Wonder how you ever did without it

* Wonder why on earth it's not a standard part of Python

* Free your code of crappy conditional debug prints forever

* Take ipdb to bed and cuddle it at night

Just:

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Then where you'd like to start debugging:

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Type 'help' for help.
I just paid for 1TB (really) :)
Oh, totally. I only have a beef with "free" as business advice!

If you just wanna have fun, don't twist yourself into a pretzel trying to "monetize."

EDIT: Clarity!
Heh. Reminded me of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg (Comedian Ed Byrne picking apart the song)
Nesting html5 links - how to make your browser vomit
At the moment, my invoices are an Excel template. My proposals are Word templates, and my CRM is my Google apps contacts list. I'm still not very happy with that as a CRM. I augment things with trac as it has a good enough wiki to be malleable into whatever kind of pages I want.

I tried SugarCRM and found it very hard to use. The interface is borderline evil. I've previously used Tactile CRM (paid for account at a day job) and it was OK, and has its own quirks.
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Inspired by Yandex, I've made Faviconize Google user script, which adds favicons to the Google's search result page.

User script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58177

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fijobgpmmkilncag...
There is Pencil, which is either a stand-alone or Firefox addon. It's potentially good enough for a lot of things. Opensource too.
During the Slashdot discussion, someone pointed out this archive of correspondence for more detail: http://felidware.com/DylanEvans/

The woman in question makes allegations that it was ongoing much longer than this single bat-fellatio-paper incident, and that that was just the last straw. The investigators however appear to clear him of any wrongdoing with regard to anything prior to the bat-paper allegations ("Report 2"). His reply seems pretty earnest, but obviously it's hard to say much with just some letters back and forth as evidence.
1. QUIT !
2. Then take on an entry level job doing what you love.

As for commissions - if you are earning good commissions, then how much have you saved? How long can you live on a much reduced income? If you have been promised big commissions and are being conned, then another job should be no worse.
The Carried Interest Debate: Down to the Wire
But the question is - would you use/buy all-in-one app that does all that offer/invoice/project management thing?
They will pay if it's effortless and trivially cheap and the competition isn't free either. The app store(s) have proved this.
Interesting - my first search (for hyperion) brought back more interesting results than Google. Not a very scientific study, but that's the first time that has happened to me since I first used Google and searched for java and actually found something about the programming language.

The favicons are a good idea - they do make scanning the list of results a lot easier, even if the overall layout of the page is a bit weird.
another gem:

http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/error.html?aspxerro...
Not quite a "tool" but if you know basic HTML/CSS, you might consider using PolyPage with some CSS framework (like Blueprint)

http://wireframes.linowski.ca/2009/01/state-based-html-wiref...
App Engine requires you to code your app in a particular way to work on their platform, and that way will (to a large extent) only work on App Engine.

This is true, but it does make for a very nice deployment story; and Ian Bicking's silver lining (http://cloudsilverlining.org/) is (I think) a very interesting attempt to tell that story in a more generic way.
Rofl, cute.
Actually, not too useless for testing your outgoing bandwidth/latency.
Yes probably. If it works really well, I'd probably pay for it good money.
If you can never get your data back out, how is it useful?!
probably to pay for that upload-only bandwidth.
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I started reading and I thought this was real. I've built one-way logging systems in the past, where the link to a logging computer was a one-way serial link, with physically no possibility of anything ever going back. This makes sense in network security.
Well, if I think about all the files on my harddrive, I hardly read any of them on a given day anyway. If I work that out over the longer term there must be plenty of files that I'll never read again, but still keep lugging around with me.

I could store those in S4, free up some space and re-use it for other files.
I'm pretty sure that there's at least 100,000+ people who would gladly pay for premium Twitter services. The amount people pay for superior Twitter clients and other ecosystems is an example.

Granted the network effect is still in effect, but it could be a killer freemium.
That's why I can beat their price, my api will have superior transfer speeds too. I will use my patented quantum-entangled /dev/null transport layer.
Coolpad S100: India's Cheapest Touchscreen CDMA Phone
Evans is not among the coauthors of the paper.
We keep a list of all the wireframing tools we know about here: http://www.twitter.com/balsamiq/wireframing-tools

Hope you find the perfect tool for your needs! :)

Peldi
You mean the person who is most efficient at taking the iq test.
Facebook is already one of the prime ways that predators contact and stalk children

citation needed?
Product naming FAIL. The word 'pencil' appears to be quite commonly used in conjunction with things other than this particular product.

http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/
The magic, as far as I understand it, and it has been many years since I last looked at Fourier transformation is that there is no step. That's why it is called a transform.

The 'mapping' of the frequency domain is simply a function of the original sample rate. So if you know your sample rate you'll know the center frequency of each 'bucket'.
Thanks for this opinion! I'll count that as an upvote for Product Suite.
'We are trailblazers' say Mars Mission volunteers
Is it authentic? It seems to me to be a side-scroller inspired by StarCraft and an RTS. Plus the designer of Starcraft was 10 years old in 1984, according to wikipedia. It doesn't seem right/
Hmm, I fail to understand the 2D-to-1D-mapping.
Worth the price of admission just for the list of gimmicky names following this:

"[...] Even worse, most of these options actually decrease image and picture quality.

In many cases, it’s not even clear what these sham controls really do. The documentation seldom explains them, and I even know engineers from high-level manufacturers who don’t know what the controls do, either."

The following pages go on a sharp technical attack on the nonsense pumped out as "technical specs" by display manufacturers. Very informative reading.

(Link to print version of five page article: http://www.maximumpc.com/print/12425)
Great interview filter if you ask me.
The person with the highest IQ in the world was a bouncer in a bar? A good reminder that pure intelligence does not equal ambition or life skill.
The video ends with a "please don't sue me it's a parody" comment.
China looks like a pretty good alternative then, you'd feel right at home ;)

edit: hey downmodder, if you missed the joke that's cool. Parent lives in China, emigrated from Ireland.
Or you could buy a licence for /dev/null which supports unlimited write-only storage. No internet required.
Apple, Adobe and Openness: Let's Get Real
Stack Overflow is explicitly a rebellion against Expertsexchange which has a free option with lots of upsell.
Better filter for recruiters if you unfortunately have to deal with them. Tell the recruiter you're looking for an applicant with S4 experience and see if you get any resumes back with it. If so, you know the recruiter is altering the resumes.
You don't understand what I am saying and misquote me. No point in discussing further.
I'm more and more addict to mockingbird (http://gomockingbird.com). It is still "beta" and lacks some features, but it is a really promising HTML5 application.
i like:

"Please contact us with any questions by e-mailing us at the address below. All complaints and feature requests will be immediately stored using our S4-backed user request database."
Anyone else surprised that the "public policy director" for Facebook wears a suit and tie?
So why exactly is the accuser's identity protected, as opposed to Dr. Evans'?
That's quite a story. My own dad died before we got around to that and it's been bugging me for years.

Good to see it worked out for you and that there is a good end to it.
They have a money back guarantee. E.g. in case you manage to read your data back.
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Didn't some guy win the ignoble prize a few years ago for documenting the occurrence of homosexual necrophilia in ducks?

You'd be surprised at all the things being researched.
I work in computer forensics (so from experience). :)
People just kind of latched onto it because it's a number (supposedly) unique to each individual that most people have memorized.

Names don't work because there are many people with the same name, and besides, they are alphabetic. Phone numbers occasionally transfer to others, as do physical addresses, etc. A Social Security number is always unique to its possessor (theoretically) and, for most adults, is available immediately in memory.

As such, it's become a popular "customer ID", as it were, in a lot of systems. If you assign each individual their own ID, they will forget it and mix it up with other IDs from other places, so an SSN is easy for everyone involved.

The problem is that people assume that an SSN is exclusive knowledge and use it as an authenticator -- when something is a universal identifier that you must write on many documents and give to many people (usually along with all other personal stats like address, phone, names, etc.), it just isn't reasonable at all to think that that can function secretly.

When asked for an SSN, a lot of people don't refuse because they imagine the fight would be fruitless and they'd be denied access to the thing they were trying to get. Some people don't understand much about SSNs or how easy it is to steal identities with them, so they don't mind giving it out. There are certain places where an SSN is legally required (for instance, opening a bank account) and sometimes it's hard to know if you're obligated to give the info or not.

Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if the SSN were used merely as a user ID and there was an authenticator required in each case, but as it is now, in most cases, you can walk in with an SSN and a few widely published data like name and address, and obtain all kinds of loans and accounts from all kinds of places in the name of the SSN's registered owner, because people assume that only the real owner is able to know the SSN. It's this assumption that is responsible for our difficulties.
I bet they use multiple /dev/null devices in RAID.
Is 'Nothing' the one word answer?
Are You Ready for the New Network?
I think the Harvard Trustees are asking themselves the same question -- they recently released salary info for the top managers. Harvard paid the top 5 managers $26 million per year as they oversaw the endowment drop 22%

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/18/Harvard-releases-p...
Latest smartphone results: Nokia beats Blackberry beats iPhone beats Android
Arrogant
>Hmm, it seems we can only nest three times. (edit) nevermind, I either missed the reply button when looking for it, or it wasn't there before, but I see I can nest further (end edit)

The reply button only shows up after some amount of time, which increases with nesting level.
Most traffic is from China http://www.websitetrafficspy.com/www.yandex.com
Yes, people will push a meh product, not do any ground marketing, do a piss poor job of communicating, -- and, from the start, not solve a problem or reach out to their customers in the right way -- then they will fail to make sales, and they will blame the "well-known fact" that people don't pay for things.

In the mean time, I'm making a lot of money selling things where there are tons of free alternatives. People don't pay for content? I made $40,000 writing & selling an ebook about rich web app performance.

I'm hardly the only one.

Lots of people would rather blame the market, blame the customer, or blame the economy than consider that maybe they didn't do due diligence.

I'll be writing a lot more about that in the future.
They are there, just well hidden.

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontfacedemo/GoodDog

Click View to get the individual font page, then @font-face Kit in the menu bar at the top, then the demo of this font here link.
> would have zero impact for real investors (who are investing in wealth creation, not money creation)

I don't understand what you mean. What is the difference between wealth creation and money creation?
This is such an obvious anti-spam device I feel like an idiot for not using it.

It just never occurred to me.

Thanks.
What a really nice piece of writing Zachary, it took me a long time to read because it's pretty complex and you've done a lot of background research on the topic, but it was definitely worth the time.

Thanks!
I registered at the site (http://www.caterpi.com/people/545002) and want to help with the translation of the site, but it's not possible to choose a language there besides what's already offered. Where should I ask to start translations into other languages? (Like Dutch, Esperanto and Portuguese).

One essential point... You don't see anything about the native language of the translators (and nothing about e.g. Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese). Also local languages are not there but might be in want. (If you put Esperanto in the list, better also Frysian for example)

But please try to find a way to not get details in the way. It's a nice and clean site and that's good :).
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=698929

This is a great introduction to DFTs. I wish there were more write-ups like this. So if you missed it the first time around, check it out.
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It's 1984.
If measured by IQ that's believed to be Kim Ung-yong at 210. Still. if he would not have had poor academia experiences (what did he do at liberal arts college anyway?), he might have been very useful to the world. Terrible waste.
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Someone should patent it!
I think you've misunderstood the question; it was "step" in the sense of "operation" or "inference in a proof", not in the sense of "difference between successive values". sireat wants to know why the FFT works, not what the relationship is between sample spacings in the input and the output.
I think so, but the graph is so bad (allegedly) that I can't be entirely certain (apparently). /sarcasm
Exactly. Even if there were no issues with privacy, Facebook would still be a piss poor implementation of a social networking site. The only thing it has going for it is the shear number of people who use it.

Every single one of its features is flawed in one way or another and it regularly breaks.
Can you offer a transactional API?
Interesting - we're in the same space but I don't think I know a single paying client of ours that actually reads our blog. Most of our readership comes from Hacker News and friends - it's a little like living in two worlds.
> Jeff Bezos and his team were never fully honored for helping the public in this way

Seriously? Man of the year 1999 (the most awesome year ever) is not good enough? Should they give have given him a Nobel prize for economics?
They should have an FAQ:

Q: I can't read my data!
A: Good!
Wikileaks is back
Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released
It's not a charity donation, they give Firefox money because they give something in return, user eyeballs. There will be a market rate for those eyeballs and indeed I believe they already sell those eyeballs to other search engines in certain locations (Yandex in Russia maybe?).
I've been following Dan Piponi for a while now. His stuff is always pretty good and this is no exception.
Here's a simple portfolio: Short sell gold. You can wait a few more months, but really, short sell gold.
Ask for 5 years experience, until 2015. Then ask for 10.
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.
Also (even though it was already said that this is a parody), the first alphas of starcraft1 were based on the warcraft 2 engine. Screenshots are available:

http://www.sirlin.net/storage/post-images/starcraft_alpha.pn...

( I think they abused ships for the flying units somehow, even though I am unsure about the precise details).

I think this is a cool detail to know, and it makes me curious if the first alphas for starcraft 2 were maps and hacks of starcraft 1 or warcraft 3 :)
Part 3 is by far the best part of this whole video.
How to create a good domain model. Top advices
IBM owns POWER and DB2 though, so it's a cross-subsidy that introduces perverse incentives for the DB2 sales force.

Fundamentally it's about licensing decisions, not a technology comparison.
I think IQ does measure something, but not what we generally consider as intelligence
It looks like they are working on it. I thought Safari rendered mathml; I wonder what I was looking at?
Being able to parse the whole web, not just a subset.
This is wonderful. Perfect for the music blogs I frequent.
Same crazy world where Lotus and Novell died despite massive revenues and lots of employees (if you consider number of employees as a measure of success).
If he's been cleared of all the other allegations then they should be ignored. Otherwise all we have is "Innocent until accused of something".
Ah ok, I see. I got thrown off by the use of the words 'magic algorithm here to find frequencies', I thought that implied he was searching for what absolute frequency was tied to which bucket.

Sorry.

Also, the 'imaginary' bit contains the phase information, if you are only interested in the frequency domain you could discard this, but if you ever want to reconstruct the original (or if you want to construct a changed signal, such as after filtering) then you'll need that phase information.

So you'll need to keep the data in its 'complex' form if you want to do anything more than naive analysis.
There's a place for free, but I agree that those who start businesses and then have to come up with a plan to generate money are doing things completely backwards. It's one of the reasons I am annoyed at Twitter; they should be shunned for starting this thing with millions of dollars of other peoples' money and ultimately having no idea how they're ever going to make any of it back, but instead they get played up like crazy.

You've made this point in your comments, but offering a significant amount of content or software for free can be considered advertising for your paid product, and is practically essential for survival on the web anyway. Paywalls are last century; people want to be handed things now, and if you hand them things and give some slight nudges toward a premium account for extra features or whatever, that works fine, they just don't want to expect to be told anymore "$30 before you get to play". And honestly that's never been a good strategy, and it's even worse online, because it stops word-of-mouth, it stops search engines or other interested parties from indexing or trying your product, and just generally greatly reduces visibility.

Freemium is the way to go. There is no shame in charging for a good product, but keeping things under lock and key is not ideal either. You want to provide maximal "viral" potential, which is accomplished by making the bulk of the product freely available and accessible, and you also want to make sure you get paid in a good number of cases, which is accomplished by operating your free product correctly.