skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grado makes some really nice stuff. Their cheapest model (SR-60i) gets rave reviews as one of the audio world's very best values.

http://www.gradolabs.com/frameset_main.htm

I've used the same pair of Sony MDR-7506's on a professional, near daily basis for about seven years. They're very accurate, and more importantly, super solid. I mean, they're tools. And they work. About $100, and a really good value for money.

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-MDR7506-Professional-Diaphragm-He...
Yeah at this stage we're not charging anything for it at all. Everyone that's in the beta is using it for free, mainly because it's an actual beta with bugs to iron out, and not pretend beta so we can jack up the prices later.

Once we do have pricing figured out we do intend on ensuring all the beta testers get a special deal (though we're doing a pretty crap job of explaining all that)

Awesome feedback though, we'll be adding additional info regarding the beta deal to the site today :)
> one that won't confuse productivity and butt in seat time

That's hardly limited to start-ups. There are whole industries built on absurd working hours, and not out of necessity.
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If each site will focus on specific countries, then you should note that there is not a one-to-one relation between languages and countries. For example, many countries speak Spanish. If, in the future, you would like to provide sites for both Spain and Chile, then "es" is not enough to differentiate. Do not forget that some countries have more than one official language as well.

Many global corporations with country-specific sites use different domains for each site and make their primary domain (usually www.companyname.com) a gateway where customers can choose their desired country and language. Each country is handled through a specific domain, and multiple languages (when applicable) are often implemented via URL/GET or cookie selection.

Yes, managing many domains is a hassle. The primary reason to choose such a method is recognition in specific locales. For example, .co.jp domains are only available to registered KK companies in Japan (the Japanese equivalent of a C-Corp), so such a domain is very familiar in Japan and give users a sense of added trust. Whether to go with such domain names or not really depends on your business.

If you need to put each site on a different domain (for some reason that you have not specified) but do not want the hassle of managing many domains, then you could consider subdomains: fi.companyname.com is the Finish site and www.compnayname.com is the gateway.
Being CEO of a Fortune 500 is such a strong signal of competence that you don't need any others.

Ad hominem is useful in the real world because one's credibility impacts the probability that what they say is accurate.
We have done freemium route before and it's worked out great for us when freemium users contribute back in some way, rather than just being a demo account.

For this we're thinking letting people use it for 30 days free of charge, if it's worth their time and money awesome, if not there's no obligation to pay.
I'm a former military wife, so I've moved around some. The biggest "gotcha" I ran into: An American couple cannot file for divorce while living in Germany. We could have gotten legally separated and I could have flown back home with the baby (our first, we had a second child before leaving Germany) to stay with family and waited for him to return to the US. We opted to stay together rather than go through that. It took a long time for us to finally divorce (that infant son turned 18 a few weeks after his dad actually physically moved out) but we likely would have divorced much sooner had it not been for this snag.

The other thing that has been a big deal to me personally is how different the food is wherever you go. When we lived in Washington (state), there was an abundance of fresh fruit and veggies year round. I began eating fresh pineapple, a fruit I never liked when all I had known was the canned variety, and my kids began turning their noses up at frozen corn on the cob. Only fresh corn on the cob would do. Fortunately, they didn't mind shucking it so I didn't feel that was a big issue.

In Southern California (on an isolated military base not far from Death Valley) and Germany, good, fresh meat and produce was much harder to come by. I shopped daily to get the freshest items and typically bought whatever cut of meat I was going to cook that night earlier that afternoon. On the other hand, Germany had wonderful plain yogurt and ricotta cheese. Both of those are typically sour and unappealing in stores across the entire U.S. I have at times fantasized about starting a business to provide plain yogurt and ricotta cheese of that quality in the US -- or, alternately, making my own at home for my own consumption (which is probably a much more realistic goal for me).

When I visited Port Aransas, Texas for a week or so, I thought I was going to starve to death. I am allergic to shell fish and don't tolerate fish well. Lots of sea food there and basically no "middle class" eateries. Everything was either a dive or very expensive and upscale. I really, really liked Port Aransas and kind of wanted to relocate there. My sons were totally against it for various reasons and I eventually had to agree with them based on the fact that I had such a hard time keeping myself adequately fed. (They have a grocery store, which is unusual for a town that small, but it was also pretty pathetic and didn't do a good enough job to compensate for the lack of restaurants adequate to my needs.)

I also went to Southern California to school for 8 weeks. I ended up on boatloads of medication that it took me about two years to get off of. My respiratory problems and their air quality problems were a very bad combo. On the upside, I had never been able to talk any doctors into giving me good drugs like that when I was bedridden (ie much sicker than when I was in school). All those drugs helped save my life. So I can't say I exactly regret it.
He can read through the code, but he can not articulate it well. There were many times when I stopped to correct him so he knew. I think his biggest issue is that he doesn't understand the level of effort in writing a full scale application like this.

He sees the idea is almost there and has already moved on to thinking of other ideas. I suppose this is why they rarely succeed. The lack of technical understand blinds them as to what really needs to be done.
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What about asking for more stock options? Is this an acceptable thing to do if you feel you are in a strong position to do so? Any advice for how to do this?
Haha, awesome to hear. We're trying to take a slightly different approach to bug tracking, hopefully people like it :)
It's been talked about for a while in places where you can find people who understand nuclear waste isn't magical, and that given where these zones are even if the waste dissolves and floats away it will have no impact on the ocean whatsoever. As you might imagine, there aren't many places where this gets talked about.

One fun number to tell people is that there are 4.5 billion tons of uranium in seawater [1]. Does it really matter if we toss a few tons of waste in to somewhere that is hundreds of miles from any significant life anyhow? (The ocean is not uniformly alive, the deeps are not very alive at all.) We can pack it up in ways that won't leak anyhow, like the well-known technique of embedding it in glass.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_depletion#Seawater
I guess by lazy I mean, as the author put it, "I didn't work hard enough..."

And yes, it is entirely possible that I am lazy as well.
Blank Spaces isn't in Santa Monica. It's more like Miracle Mile on Wilshire. Unless there is another location which I'm not familiar with?
Can you send an email to support@bugherd.com and I can send you the beta registration link.
Touche. And may you be an excellent influence on the forum. Have an upvote.
Oh, cool! He was an advisor of mine during a summer REU a couple years ago when I was working on Palacios. Welcome to HN, by the way!
Are they really getting caught? Near as I can tell, there are no penalties for this sort of behavior, and for every person who is willing to rip open a $150 pair of headphones to get them working like the $350 pair, there's someone who has no idea how headphones work, but is still willing to pay top dollar for the best they can get. And odds are these people won't even be aware of this blog post.
Everybody does do, but audiophiles are a tricky bunch to market to. Stuff like this really gets their attention. If they found out that they could buy their $350 headphones for $150, they might not buy either because they're "not expensive enough to sound good."
Not humorous? I laughed out loud.

This is obviously work in progress, and presented as such. It's expected that some things will be dummied up, for all the usual reasons: the design is part of what's under evaluation, and text of some kind is better for that than a hole in the page. An actual launch with testimonials like these would be a mistake, but they're not going to do that.
I understand people defending the practice, but this nonetheless offends me. For me, it isn't about the 555 owners getting a crippled product, but that the 595 owners are paying a huge markup.

People are talking about market behavior and what not, but I don't feel like Sennheiser is behaving in good faith here. They are intentionally relying on opaque information (this is obviously news to almost everyone), and making price the only way consumers have to reliably differentiate between the products (you can't even test drive the products to tell). Also, with respect to the "luxury" part of the discussion, they are competing against themselves, the branding and "Sennheiser" name you get with the 595 or 555 is the same.

I've been considering getting 800's, I'm a huge Sennheiser fan. I think this has put me off though (even knowing that everyone else probably does the same thing).
First thought was 'oh good, another bug tracker...'

I've watched the intro video and you now have my interest, looks awesome :)
not having vegetarian options is a huge issue for someone like me.
Ask HN: Startup remote file sharing encryption
As a startup that works essentially via a cellphone and laptop online with 3 employees, we are looking for the best method to sharing files among each other. Dropbox is my first thought, but say you have company sensitive files which need to be encrypted and protected from dissemination, what would HN recommend?
Perhaps offtopic, but I find it odd that there is an opinion piece by Peter Norvig in the NY Post.
Since your tracker is oriented towards web development, you might want to take a look at my work here, a Firefox addon for taking screen captures of a web page, marking it up with arrows, highlights, and then posting them to the the bug tracker.

This is the addon,
http://ifdefined.com/BugTracker.NET.xpi

And it works with BugTracker.NET
http://ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html

It was the first time I played with the firefox addon technology. I wouldn't recommend my technical approach, injecting a div into the page. If I were inspired to redo it, I would do something more XUL-ish. But I do think that making it fast and easy to capture/annotate/post screenshots is key to making it something people want to use.
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Counterhack Reloaded and Malware: Fighting Malicious Code are excellent books
Counting repositories inflates results for Github. Consider a project that consists of a server, a client, and a library. In Subversion, that would quite likely be one repository, containing server, client, and lib subdirectories. People just interested in the client can checkout the client directory from Subversion as if it were its own repository. (That's the one thing I really miss from Subversion since I switched my department at work to Git).

In Git, there's a good chance it would be three repositories. One for the server, one for the client, and one for the library.
I can :)...

Your resume usually serves two different audiences — the screener, and the person interviewing you. You should optimize for both audiences, and possibly work on breaking up "Skills" a bit. Your resume should be scannable, and most of the English before the important info can probably be dropped:

Developing applications leveraging
Parsing, querying, scraping, and transforming
Object-Oriented Programming with
Worked with and developed for

You're mixing technologies with programming languages with disciplines with applications. I prefer just seeing:

Programming languages (fluent): C#, Java, and VB.NET
Programming languages (studied): C, C++, VBA, VB6, classic ASP
Disciplines: Database administration, GIS programming, unit testing, mobile development
IDEs: Eclipse, Visual Studios

I might just drop things like Eclipse, Firebug.

--

Re: experience. In general you want to highlight the things that are different. In particular seeing "VB.NET Programmer" and "C# Programmer" over and over isn't illuminating. I want to know the places you've worked, so swap the company and position, and put the company and bold. You're working at Amazon which looks fantastic. So that should stand out.

Similarly in your projects, "URL:" is redundant and not the piece of data that's changing. Drop it and put the project names in bold instead.

Formatting things:

In education, the list of classes don't need to be on separate lines.

The choice of green checkmarks is a little strange. Simple dots might work better.

The blue subheadings don't line up with the text, which is distracting.

Are you copyrighting your design or the resume? Either way it seems unnecessary.
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I always think Heroku has the best looking website(interface) in the industry(hosting company), now it's getting even better!

Nice work.
"And the tens milliseconds you will save if you pre-compile the template"

Ten milliseconds here, ten milliseconds there, pretty soon you're talking about real time. Especially if I can manage to browser-cache away the page & js load time you mention.
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It will save time every subsequent login, because you won't have to type anything.
It's the government's fault that houses cost $3.5m, doncha know?
Unless you have proper support for functions. Optimized tail calls are as cheap as goto, but cleaner in the code.
Show HN: Crowd Puzzle - Realtime puzzles with friends
Hey guys,

This is my first true release of something I feel is pretty cool to HN. I started building this site with the idea that pieces could be purchased through micro payments. Winners of solving the puzzle would get some sort of prize and could build up credit on the site. My dreams of this were shattered by the ambiguous gambling laws of the U.S. With that said, I have no clue what to do with the site, but I haven't seen the concept anywhere else before.

You can register using Facebook or the traditional login and you will be given 50 pieces and 50 guesses. You can use those to reveal tiles on the puzzle (updates realtime) or solve the puzzle when you think you know what it is. There are currently 3 puzzles loaded into the system and they will just cycle through each other if there is a winner. I understand the puzzle subjects do not have a definitive answer, but I was planning on using artwork or people as the material as there is only one answer.

Like I said, I am not sure what to do with the site, but someone else might. Even though I have done a lot of testing, I still consider the site to be in beta. If you find any bugs, I would love to hear. Feel free to shoot me an email, spread the site to friends, or comment on what you think. I am collecting metrics on the puzzle solving to help me better understand how a user plays, so hopefully some good will come out of showing.

http://crowdpuzzle.9bplus.com/
"Why not make this thing easier for normal people to figure out?"

For me, at least, the value of Qoura is that normal people haven't figured it out yet. Once Eternal September hits I suspect I'll slowly lose interest as noise drowns out the signal (c.f. Slashdot, Reddit, Stackoverflow, ...)
You do realize that you cannot get tenure without publishing many, many, relevant pieces of work, right? You also realize that to teach something you need to really understand it, correct? On the other hand, you can certainly apply knowledge without understanding it.

Your statement is insulting to anyone who values knowledge, teaching it, and pursuing it. Perhaps you are not a native english speaker, but your statement is very easy to read as implying that only those who cannot do [what? research? engineering?] teach, and only those who are lousy teachers get tenure.

It is an indefensible position and your obvious hostility towards modern academia is unjustified. For one academics don't necessarily want to teach. But as a society we deemed that we will in essence force them to. Why? We need good teachers and goodness knows industry won't waste money on it, let alone have any sort of quality control. So we force these people who have devoted their lives to research to also teach.

As for tenure, it is often attacked as something protecting poor researchers. I think this notion is very much overblown. In modern times you cannot even get tenure before you are 35 or 40. If you look at those with tenure, the majority continue to do good work for the remainder of their careers. That aside, the main purpose of tenure is actually to protect the pursuit of knowledge. It exists to prevent management from dictating what people may research. It is to allow researchers to pursue risky or unpopular approaches.

Academics do what they do because they primarily enjoy research. Insinuating that they are incapable of doing this simply because they also teach and are granted the protection of tenure is very insulting.
(I hope that last line came off as a joke, as I intended ;) )
Without a very clever decompiler, I'd say `ugly'.
No worries, I also notice that SO comes up in Google results quite a lot and that's generally how I access it as well so I also do a Google search for tech issues and then end up clicking on the SO link.

Your post yesterday got me thinking about why Google is still pretty useful for coding questions but not so for searches of a more commercial nature. I guess it isn't worth so much money to game Google for the former (Experts Exchange notwithstanding).
"To people from a hundred years ago we'd be the most outlandish science fiction story ever told."

You'd be surprised:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century#...
One option is Tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com/), which is developed by HN's cperciva (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva). It's specifically written to be secure online backup.

Another option is using Dropbox, but with some kind of encryption. I know that some people use Dropbox to store TrueCrypt volumes, and I think it does an okay job with them.

Downsides to both are that you're not likely to be able to access them from a phone. Tarsnap also has no GUI (and requires Cygwin to work on Windows), which may be a consideration.
I don't know if the comparison is that inapt; how many people do you think are really aware of the technology that goes into making that little box say "in five hundred yards, turn left"?
I don't know Haskell very well, but I assume you're defining an |> function? If so that's pretty neat. Haskell's flexibility always impresses me. I think the F# version generally assumes one argument too, though I think you could use partial function application to work with multiple parameters.
It could turn out well for them; all these people thinking they are hacking the system to pay $150 and save $200 when in fact both sets are actually worth $15 or less.
I know for certain there are startups that pay at or above bigco rates. I think rather than calling it a suckers game you should say the experience is highly variable.
I've been in your shoes.

If the money isn't a lot more, or the project isn't AMAZING, or you don't really need Google on your resume (at this stage of life), then don't bother.

Google is a great place to work in general, but you may be surprised at what you end up working on when you get there (nothing much).

If you aren't that happy with your current job, then give Google a go!
"Most CEOs and executives don't have time to compose grammatically-error-free responses."

I've been at 3 F500 companies in my 20 years of work, and where those F500 have even changed CEOs once or twice. The only time a CEO has ever sent anything grammatically or syntactically incorrect is when he's paging IT from his cellphone to fix something on the Executive floor. Everything else is carefully crafted and presented, especially internal memoranda. Being a CEO is more than just promoting synergy like a boss; communication (including and especially writing) is almost everything else.
Man that is one expensive piece of foam.
Clickable: http://crowdpuzzle.9bplus.com/
Writing in clear understandable language and suggesting others do the same isn't "pseudo-intellectualism". It's just common sense. If you want your thoughts to be understood and respected, choose appropriate language to express them.

What people use in frequent communication with their friends or colleagues is likely to be different to that used on a public message board which brings together people from many different backgrounds for discussion of "deeply interesting" topics.
Hey there, I'm one of the founders and actually vegetarian too =) We try to do most of our meals half veggie / half meat but we couldn't make it work with Brazilian, so we had to go all meat on this one. We're definitely going to build in more options for people with dietary restrictions though!
And how about this from 1995:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/ZStep/ZStep-SoftV...

ZStep 95: A Reversible, Animated Source Code Stepper
Henry Lieberman. Christopher Fry

Oh well, nothing new under the sun, and just because it isn't quite as revolutionary as they claim doesn't mean it's not useful.
This is an excellent article for raising awareness of AI. However, I disagree with its conclusion that we will always relate to AI as tools, pets, advisers, etc.

When we ask whether machines can think, I believe it is a question of volition and self-direction. Does the machine have an open-ended goal and is self aware? Can it alter its own programming to change its own methods, its own knowledge, and its own goals? If the answer to these two is "yes," then I believe we will consider the machine to be thinking.

What are the implications? If machines gain those capacities, as well as the ability to compute emotions, then what separates them from us? If you agree that humanity is fundamentally a function of our minds, then, if machines can compute in fundamentally equivalent ways, they become "human." What evidence is there that this is forever impossible?
In my opinion, this type of crippling is okay, but with one condition: The consumer must be allowed to make this mod. Of course it is pretty legal in this case, however, I see this freedom as similar to the freedom to circumvent DRM, which can contain harsh penalties.