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To be honest: I bought them to review on my blog. Reviewing the "hot item" of the month gets more traffic (and some bump in affiliate sales [1]) than some audiophile headphones by a company none of my readers have heard of.

If I was solely buying for myself and no one else, I would have gone a different route. something like a FiiO E5 paired with Grados. When I lived in Atlanta I had a nice combo of Rokits + PreSonus: http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-upgrade-to-studio-monitor-sp...

[1] for a long time my blog paid my rent exclusively (but just barely), allowing me to do full-time startup stuff for the last 2+ years. only just recently started getting a small stipend at work
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the engines are designed to contain a fan blade[1], not a turbine disk [2]. Fan blade is a thin piece of light alloy where turbine disk is solid piece of steel.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA
[2] http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n385/motidog/A380T900-06....
don't like it. .ly is understandable when it's part of the domain, but as a .com, I don't like it at all.
I think they'll learn more by being held accountable for their actions than being given a pass.
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Also, I strongly recommend setting up mdadm in daemon mode to send you an email on failure as you can go days or weeks without noticing a degraded array. It's really easy to set up in most distros, so do it now (and don't forget to test it).
The best (scientifically sound and recent) information about color perception i found is in Colin Ware books :

- Information Visualization : perception for design (chapter 4 about color)

- Visual Thinking (more accessible).
You're not alone there. In Ontario, Canada, we used to have a thirteenth grade as University prep, but Grade XII got you a high school diploma if you weren't Uni bound. (Grade XII would get you into a college of applied arts and technology or -- if anyone here is old enogh to remember those days -- straight into the workforce.) In Quebec, there is CEGEP (Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel) between high school and University, and it functions both as a trade school and as the equivalent of an A-level, depending on which track you choose to take. I'd say that if you were handed a diploma after completing elementary education but before graduating University, it's safe to say you graduated high school in your context.
ya, but the numbers are meaningless since it's not clear. And some people are voting for multiple across everything they've graduated (including the author of the poll) which negates the implied highest reached of the poll. If you are meant to vote for multiple and not single ones, then the number of high school graduates should exceed the sum of all University numbers. Not everyone is doing it, but some are.
I interpret "Graduated High School" as "completed standard education" (and I'm American).
The idea is that airlines, or airline employee unions, will face economic pressure from people choosing not to fly.
Well I personally bought the dead tree version, and use the website for reference sometimes.
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Great point. This is the second time I am hearing this.

Will make that change now :)

Edit: Done!
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There's no doubt that space is the final frontier, and it is only seeing the earliest inklings of startups. Richard Branson seems to be the biggest player in the corporate move into space.

Feel free to take this thread as an opportunity to discuss anything related to space and humankind's venture into a bold new era.

I have no doubt some of the very people reading HN today, and especially their children, will be setting space-related milestones and goals beyond our wildest dreams.
University lasts 3–7 years. The state of having dropped out lasts much longer.
There's no doubt that space is the final frontier, and it is only seeing the earliest inklings of startups. Richard Branson seems to be the biggest player in the corporate move into space.

Feel free to take this thread as an opportunity to discuss anything related to space and humankind's venture into a bold new era.

I have no doubt some of the very people reading HN today, and especially their children, will be setting space-related milestones and goals beyond our wildest dreams.
The devil is in the details. Creative and motivated teachers are part of them.

Teaching calculators to math students may lead to learning about infix, polish, or reverse polish notation.

Teaching version control to CS students may lead to deeper understanding of data structure or database architecture.
Cool. Now in XX years time, after all my expressed opinions are proven to be correct, I can fire up an intelligent program to try to track down everyone who's ever dis-agreed with me and say 'I told you so'.
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Is there anything remotely as convenient as Dropbox, but with sane, client-side crypto? As far as I know, Dropbox encrypt the data, but on the server, which, as far as I'm concerned, is about as good as storing it in plaintext.

Alternatively/even better: is there a remote mirroring filesystem and/or block storage system which allows reasonable client-side crypto over a slow asymmetric (ADSL) link? I have a local backup server, it would be great if I could mirror that into a server in a datacentre somewhere. Is there anything remotely as convenient as Dropbox, but with sane, client-side crypto? As far as I know, Dropbox encrypt the data, but on the server, which, as far as I'm concerned, is about as good as storing it in plaintext.

Alternatively/even better: is there a remote mirroring filesystem and/or block storage system which allows reasonable client-side crypto over a slow asymmetric (ADSL) link? I have a local backup server, it would be great if I could mirror that into a server in a datacentre somewhere. Has anyone tried this kind of thing with lessfs, dm-crypt and drbd?
We could attempt to use an "unbound" version of a color sistem (i.e. RGB with -inf..+inf ranges rather than 0-255 for each channel). Even if the display medium can only handle a limited band of colors, more color information may be useful (like in HDR).
$3B is an outlandish valuation

What leads so many people to imagine they can identify outlandish mistakes in a company's valuation without any knowledge of the company's financials?
hey, it's a "magic" pic. ok, u r right, it's a bug, will fix.
There is an objective test to find out if you're an A-player: people who have successfully built something in the past want you on their next team.

(This doesn't capture all the people who could be A-players, or are at that level but aren't known to many.)
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> portions of the canvases that have been changed
to make it faster for FF
"$3B is an outlandish valuation, especially considering they were valued at less than half that ($1.3B) in a round a mere 6 months ago."

Sorry, that doesn't mean anything. Companies' valuations can change drastically based on new numbers on their income statements. If you're going criticize the company, at least look at its earnings multiple.
What scares me the most is not the military use, it this one:

> But the real prize may be in civilian applications. "The military stuff is kind of passe," Ms. Cummings said. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist from MIT to tell you if we can do it for a soldier in the field, we can do it for anybody." As a parent of a 3-year-old, she said, she could use the same technology to track her daughter on her way to school (she would need to plant an electronic bug in her lunch box or backpack). That would "bring a whole new meaning to a hover parent," she said. Schools could even use drones for perimeter control.

I don't want my kids to be controlled by drones, I don't want kids to be looked behind on their way to school like animals. If you don't give a bit of freedom to your kids, if you are always on their back, they will never mature and reach adulthood. They will never have the feeling of freedom they need to develop themselves and be great creators, scientists, whatever. They will be sheep controlled by the sheepdog of the moment.
ha. I just saw this thread. That's funny .. I just registered 5 minutes ago dashbd.com. Maybe we should exchange notes about what we are doing :).

As a side note. I would suggest using tools like :
http://www.bustaname.com/
http://www.instantdomainsearch.com/

or a bunch of other that you can find on the list :
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/12-excellent-tools-for-pic...
A robotic car is big and heavy. A robotic pizza delivery blimp might be relatively harmless even if it falls on your head, especially if it stays just above pizza snatching height.
Slight modification to the command

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These options are all about formal schooling, not education.

s/education/schooling/
Given the history of economic valuation in this industry, I think being critical is more than justified.
Multiple voting doesn't really solve the problem - unless any graduate work falls under "other".
hi, u r right - not really performant in FF, developed/tested it on chrome, safari and iPad safari (which my kids love, it's mostly coded for them) so far .. will look into FF and make some performance enhancements.
"Given the history of economic valuation in this industry, I think being critical is more than justified."

Truthfully, being critical without knowing anything about Groupon's balance sheet is even more outlandish.
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After reading this, I also found this interesting article on degrees per square mile:
http://blog.robpitingolo.org/2010/05/where-smart-people-live...
Reminder to self, don't multi-task and half read stuff before posting comments.
You think Facebook is overvalued, with no understanding of its financials or strategy.

You think Groupon is overvalued, with no understanding of its financials or strategy.

Do tell, is there anything out there you find undervalued, without an understanding of its financials or strategy?

It's so easy to be a cynic and appear brilliant.
hi, i started of here http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/CanvasPixelManipulati... (look into the sourecode) but tuned the internal edge detection parameters to work better with children book covers. said that, i came across a lot of ... potential within these algorithms to make them way cooler. will probably work on them during another rainy weekend.
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Considering I know noone who uses Google Voice, nobody who uses FaceTime and a million people and two who uses Skype, this article seems kinda silly.

I guess the lesson which people should learn (especially the people in the US), is that there is severe differences between different markets and regions, and whatever happens in the US might be something interesting or it may be the US entering the space the rest of Europe and Asia entered 5 years ago or more.

I still don't get why FaceTime is any better than the other options out there, especially when it only works on Macs and Apple-devices.
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High school drop out. Did pretty well in school, but fucking hated it. Don't regret dropping out for a second. I learned more during that time than I probably ever will again.
Previous salaries in the last five years $120 - $200K. Currently founder of a startup with $1.25 million funding.
Do not recommend anyone drop out of high school though. That it worked out okay for me is probably the exception rather than the rule.
I've personally had nothing but trouble from the WD Green series. One of their energy saving features is to spin down sooner, which at least for my usage, just increased how often they spun back up.

I also have no idea how they set up their server, but backup issues aside, why is a e-commerce site with subscription plans running their database, media and website off of the same harddrive. The 2TB drive sounds fantastic for the game files, but there is no reason that should be tied to the database which has user information stored on it.

Backing up your data in case of these issues is a very high priority, but also configuring your servers so one single failure can't take down every piece of your site should also be considered.
Do they have a sustainable competitive advantage? Their assets seem to be a large sales force, an unsurprising web presence, and a user base who could easily subscribe to several rivals simultaneously. It should be possible to build a viable competitor for far less than $2.5M per employee per year.
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Because... carriers are at least as ass-backwards when it comes to tech as the media industry is?

The first slightly-interested part(y|ies) to come along with a couple decent ideas and enough scale to actually bring it to enough people to make it useful have caused major upheaval because phone companies seem to think we've barely entered the digital age.

Think about it: you have voice mail as a sad, low quality version of your old answering machine, with no new tricks, and you can't save them anywhere else. You have text messages, which are incredibly limited and cost thousands of times the data transfer cost. You have a phone number list on your phone that probably maxes out at 1000 (or fewer), might search something aside from the name, and you pay a premium for the ability to back it up yourself with crappy tools, or for them to transfer it to another phone in their system once. I can have up to 3 alarms on my phone. I'm charged up the wazoo for horrible pre-made ring tones. No voice recording (memos). No call recording. No integration of any kind with my computer (except sending / receiving up to 10 v-cards at a time via bluetooth). What was the last device you've had in the past 5 years that you could say any of that about, much less one which costs as much as your phone.

All of which is partially solved by "proper" smart phones like Android and iPhone, which run software (/hardware) made by non-telecom companies. And am I the only one who thinks that voicemail -> email, ring time rules, and call-forwarding to your other phones should have existed 5+ years ago if your phone providers weren't sitting on their asses?

Thank you, Apple and Google, for showing phone companies what they should have been doing all along: improving.
That looks pretty cool, thanks! Going to read up on the tech behind this and test it out.
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Well, the value of a sympathizing pilot that is willing to smuggle in truly dangerous stuff is probably higher than the value of the average guy that is willing to crash a plane with himself in it. Using the (unscreened) pilot, one could generate a stream of well-armed terrorists.
$400/hour sounds expensive to anybody. But $32,000 might be cheap as far as project budgets go.

I think the use cases you describe are very different from most of us. You said you could spend upto 3 days just working on a proposal. For some of us, 3 days of billed work with one client is the average size of a complete project. Can you see then how it may not be efficient to spend a day just working on a proposal and spec'ing things?

Like you, I always believed that as a client you pay me to achieve objectives--not hit keystrokes on my keyboard. In the past two months, I've refunded or canceled three fixed-price projects where it was simply cheaper for me to end it than proceed. One of them involved over 40 hours of work when my initial estimate was that it would be a 20 hour project. I refunded the guy's original deposit.

It's easy to say that I am just underquoting. But no matter what quote I give, I feel it's rather arbitrary given I cannot invest time like you to really delve deep into the project and get a real sense of the work involved. I have gone the whole "I am not going to underquote" route and after doing that for a sample set of projects, my post-martem revealed that I was either overbilling or underbilling clients. In essence I had some clients subsidizing the other clients.

This past week I've been working on my first "by the hour" gig. I've put in over 80 hours in the last 10 days. It's been a living hell for me work-wise. But at least I know I'll be compensated for it! And fairly! There was no way I could quote this client a flat fee and c
To be accurate, this is not the reason many sites choose not to go with SSL for everything. The real reason is that most sites don't need to be SSL for everything.

I run a travel blogging site, where 99% of all pageviews are from random people off the internet reading people's trip reports and looking at photos. Encrypting all that traffic would do nothing except bog the site for everybody.

Every once in a great while (in terms of total traffic), somebody will log in and post something. That tiny moment could benefit from SSL, since chances are it's happening from a public internet cafe or wifi hotspot. That's the only time a user is actually vulnerable to this sort of attack, so that's when they need to be protected.

But when you look at the internet at a whole, the traffic fraction that needs protecting looks pretty much the same. When you're showing me pictures of cats with funny captions, please don't encrypt them before sending them to me just because you read something about security on HackerNews.
That last link was absolutely amazing to watch.

I highly recommend that those who have read the OP take a look.
yeah but using a PC lets the user see their choices clearly and encodes their vote with a single click, instead of having to relate a letter or number to their choice and find the question on the form and then confirm the letter or number before finally filling it in. Grandmothers with shaky hands will have a much easier time.
Ironic link text is ironic.

Is this article suggesting that cities have a sort of "maturation" process whereby the city attracts smarter people the older it gets?
Obviously I'm just expressing my personal opinion. If you ever trade public equities you're betting your money that you can value a company more effectively than the analysts and institutional investors that hold any opposing outlook.

People gut check valuations of all sorts of things all the time and are often correct. You don't need to manage a REIT or be a builder to know the odds are that 2br split level isn't worth $20M.

Watching from the inside while a company takes three rounds totaling $260M, values at a billion plus, and then gets sold for $10M while the furniture is being liquidated, all in the space of a few years tends to make you skeptical of tech VC driven valuations.
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NEA and Accel are both top-shelf VCs and have been the primary investors in Groupon thus far. They've both raised a number of funds and their ability to continue doing so most likely indicates that they have seen their investments appreciate and returned gains to their limited partners, and as a result, by definition, are not overvaluing their aggregate assets.

The latest entrant to their set of investors is Digital Sky, who at one point seemed to be naively inflating startup valuations when they took slices of Facebook and Zynga, but in retrospect seem nigh on clairvoyant: they were prescient enough to grab decent chunks of two firms that are likely IPO bound, in a time where tech IPOs are freakishly rare.

So what we're talking about is successful, proven experts at figuring out what companies are worth on the open market, and a random jab is supposed to invalidate that?
People have always used fillers (aka filled pauses) in speech. There is no evidence to suggest they have become any more or any less common.

For example, http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2008/05/uh-er... cites a play by Agatha Christie (who dies in 1976) which is full of um's (using the British spelling of erm).
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I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a publicity stunt, to draw attention to the site. Either way, I have marked the messages as spam. Social networks that use spam to gain traction need to be punished.
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It's not necessarily the case that the professionals actually think that's the correct valuation. They have other constraints, one being that they often have to fully invest their capital, which doesn't always grow proportionally to the rate at which they find promising deals. Sometimes they have to make questionable bets because they're the best bets available. So it's more of a relative decision rather than absolute valuation: of all the options I have to choose between right now, with "none of the above" not being an option, which one is best?

Warren Buffet writes a bit on this, that once your investable capital grows past a certain point, you're forced to transition away from a value-investing mode and towards more of a "managing large sums of money I have to find places to park" mode, where you no longer have the luxury of passing on 100 overvalued opportunities before pouncing on one undervalued one.
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There's a subtle semantic difference here, perhaps better illustrated in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, where the proud immigrant mother refers to her daughter as a "college drop-off" as though she could "pick up" her studies again at any moment [1].

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=2mgnEzzaJrIC&pg=PA37...
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People argue this, but not people who know what a monad is.