skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think the graph applies solely to America or that the stagnation or even fall of the share of gains only happened in US. I think much of the west shares the same story, thus, reserve currency, unique place in the world after the war etc explain the large gains in power, but not the effect of the graph as if it were so there would be a different story for Europe which there isn't. Therefore, it probably was the Thatcher Reagan policy changes.
> The worst part is that you just know you're getting totally ripped off (otherwise they'd have prices on their site)

Then offer to pay less. Sales people are annoying, but they can work to your advantage if you play ball.
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Here's Matt Biddulph's resulting visualisation, it's pretty fascinating: http://www.hackdiary.com/misc/lanyrd-tags/

The interactive itself uses the Seadragon Ajax library: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/gg413361
Yea... because that's easier and cheaper than downloading an app.
In Firefox 6 on Mac the slider knob jumps up and down to avoid the mouse when you move it.
Yes, the Logitech MX518 for example. Above and below the wheel buttons to change sensitivity. Costs about 20€. Does not come in shiny white and it has an utterly confusing amount of buttons. ;-)
Just because you default doesn't mean no one will lend to you in the future. Greek has defaulted many times in the recent past.

They will have to pay a much higher rate in the future. Making default expensive.
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In a way, why would they?
It's an iPhone game, meaning that Apple earns money from each game sold. Also, it is delivered to people who obviously own an iPhone already. So I doubt it's really going to hurt iPhone sales or something.
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thnx will have a look at that
15.99 is too expensive, IMO, but I guess you can make that decision based on sales data. I would experiment with 4.99.

Something else a lot of people don't realize is that mouse acceleration is turned on in OSX and it's 'impossible' to disable without an app like USB Overdrive. Mouse accel is terrible for gaming -- especially FPS. I would add this feature to your product and call it out.
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For some reason this is hardly ever discussed. But I guess we can look to the situation in Argentina which defaulted in 2002. Oddly, there doesn't seem to have been long-term adverse consequences, most investors took a haircut or lost their money. The country had a deep depression for a couple of years but have been doing pretty well recently. I hope someone with more information can chime in on this.
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As a software developer, I find it depressing that people would find 16$ (about 15 minutes of billable work?) too much for an application that, presumably, would be used all the time by people who need high precision pointing.
I think this will probably entertain "us" for a while, similar to formspring. Haven't heard anything from them for a while (ok not true - somebody mentioned it yesterday in my Twitter timeline, otherwise I would have forgotten it completely).

What I don't get is why it has to be a high powered startup. It would make more sense as a weekend project.
My two year old, $19, Microsoft mouse has already this with the software it come with. I don't mean to discourage you, but I think you spent more time on the design and execution than developing the software itself.

$19 is a lot of money for a simple thing like that. It's the price of a mouse + a software that customize many things for it (buttons, speed...). However, the niche is interesting. I'll be glad to pay $30 for a software that improves my mouse precision.
Blog spam, actual source:

http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/samsung-tv-app-challenge/

Utter theft of article word for word.
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Regardless of whether the bond has a coupon payment or not the face value of the bond is due at maturity. In your example the $1 coupon is still paid but in two years you also get $100 back on your $50 purchase (netting 20+%apy).

Of course if the government defaults on your bond you get maybe on $1 coupon and end with a net loss of $49.
A couple of comments:

Studies have shown that people who keep time cards start ... fudging them when they (have to) report more than 45 hours per week. Not outright falsification, but they start applying more things they'd previously accounted for as personal overhead into the official hours.

I personally have never been able to work for an extended period more than 7 hours a day for 6 days. That's 7 hours of real work, head down on the display and keyboard and if I'm debugging something hard I'll mostly ignore all but the most NMIs from others ^_^ (vs. any meeting time, which could often be added to the time I worked). Add 20-60 minutes for lunch and that's it, but I could keep this up for months.

No matter how massively productive I am in this mode (I can provide an clean example or two if desired) this often got me into trouble with sub-par managers who measure input vs. useful output (avoid the D.C. area in particular if you don't like that sort of thing). E.g. I was purged from one company because I looked horribly unproductive compared to my peer programmer, who was furiously coding and debugging since he brand new to the field and not (yet) very good vs. my 7 years of experience by then (it was a Lisp implementation where I did my unit testing on the fly so my final work required little debugging).
This is actually something I thought about last night. There's a television in my bedroom, and depending on how tired I am, I'll also have my laptop and a cell phone. Although I use my phone primarily for an alarm clock, I do find times where I wake up and can't fall back asleep, so I pick up my phone and play with a few apps. It's strange because my body feels like it should be asleep, but I force it to stay awake to read a blog post or a few more tweets. Obviously not good. I do like the idea of a "limitation app" that would prevent things like certain phone numbers calling or limiting emails till the morning, but without a jailbreak I'm guessing that's fairly impossible. If not, though, that's something I'd buy in a heartbeat.
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No. I just want to order stuff at a transparent and reasonable price. How hard is that? I want a simple online shop with a few products to choose from. Click and order, done. I don't want to negotiate. I don't want to be on the lookout, constantly defending myself and my company from service reps who are trying to shaft us. I just want to buy stuff, not jump through hoops and be harassed.

There is no justification in having those sales people around. They have absolutely zero technical information that I need, they're just sitting on the price. I know that my interaction with them and their skill in ripping me off is paying their salary - but I want them gone. Send them home, they are completely unnecessary legacy cruft. They are costing companies like Dell real money in lost sales. A few days ago I was talking to a sysadmin friend of mine, he feels the same way. I know I'm not alone in this.

While we're talking about Dell and parasitic cruft, they should reconsider their mandatory commercial operating systems policy as well. It's nearly impossible to buy many of their servers without an OS already on them.
Let me guess: they already have a couple million dollars in funding for what's essentially a student's weekend project?
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State what work you do, where you are based, where your clients are based and what type of rates you are charging at the moment.
Why do banks in other countries have to obey US disclosure laws at all? If US authorities make demands of them, why can't they just say no?
Fred, no offense, but you sound like you work for the company. Especially by ending your comment with "What do you think about it?". This is a comments section, you don't have to ask people their opinions, they will give them freely.
A great read on the topic exists in book format, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, by data visualization expert Edward Tufte.

Part of this book is freely available, discussing the involvement of PowerPoint in the Columbia disaster:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

The entire book is short, and only $7 from the author:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp
I'm shocked that Italy is the eighth largest economy. I kind of thought they were one of those where the major industry was tourism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...
There is a lot of work out there at the moment. I got back into consulting work as a freelancer two weeks ago and filled up my schedule within a couple of days after sending a single email to 5 or 6 contacts.

I am working on backend Python, frontend Javascript (Backbone, etc.) and general startup product consulting. Charging $700 per day (which I think is low, but I wanted to accept some work), based in Asia and clients in the USA (West Coast)
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I would buy this if the price was lower.

Perhaps around $7.99, to make it £5 in the UK, more or less.

Fantastic idea, fantastic site. Well done.
Yeah… it should work on android (we did some loose testing, but not on an actual device), as you'll note some other people on android have had no issues. If you'd like to take the time to give some details about your device then I'd be happy to try give it a run in the simulator with those parameters. https://github.com/benschwarz/currency.io/issues
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I'm sort of surprised nobody has tried to clock a Power6 chip that high, given that you can buy ones set to 5GHz at the factory. Maybe they have less clock regulation features that help with stuff like this?
It got approved Thursday and I havent done anything before today. The latest numbers I can see is till the 9/11 and 5 people bought the app just by browning the app store.

We will see. Since I am the only one in this space as far as I can see I think my value is justified.

But it's as always up to the numbers.
I think you are right on #1 (everybody like to give his opinion). It also makes me a bit sad, but that's a digression on culture.
Great write up. I'm just waiting for an idea to use as a reason to build something using Play.

I wonder what sort of traction Play has currently...
Not to mention the melting of the permafrost, glacial retreat and the fact that Arctic ice levels are (yet again) reaching historic lows:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/12/arctic-ice-levels-hit-h...

Theories of anthropogenic global warming pre-dated and predicted all of these developments.
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Deleted... I'm not working for the company.
Please don't use the term kickback. Very negative connotations.
The mere fact that a majority of scientists think X rather than Y is a poor argument for why you should believe it too. You also need to know why they believe that and how strong their conviction is.

For instance, if the available evidence suggests that X is probably true (with, say, 90% confidence), then a poll taken of scientists will find that 99.9% of scientists will say "Yes, X is probably true". But of course there's still a 10% chance that X is false -- information well known to those scientists, but completely lost in the opinion poll.
Why is the one year yield even higher? I thought two year is higher risk? Opportunity for arbitrage here?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GGGB1YR:IND
Android fanboys probably agree with that. But they're not everyone.
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I guess switching jvm languages from Groovy to Scala for version 2.0 will prove difficult to recieve traction just at this moment at least. Develop in soon to become obsolete version 1 or wait for the next language-du-jour version...
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1.7x is probably misleading here. The example in the post is less than 100 lines long, which makes it very difficult to tell how the python code could be shorter. For example, in this tiny example program he writes, the author creates a "artist" class:

class Artist:
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
def __str__(self):
return self.name

Anyone familiar with python will realize that if this is the only functionality you need, than a bare string could be used instead, eliminating this code entirely.

At the end of this article (Update 3), the author links to a blog post that describes a reduction in lines of code from 90,000 to 12,000 after a re-write [1]. He claims that this reduction is more the product of increased domain knowledge than any sort of language benefit.

I think that really gets at the crux of the issue. Rapid prototyping, ease of understanding, clarity, ease of modification, could not only be equally important to code size, but could also directly influence it.

[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...
Well, the country could just say no but once the country has said yes (probably after some very one-sided negotiation) the bank no longer has a choice. That is the case here: have American customers? Then you have to comply with the US rules.

The US is making a lot of trouble in banking. For example, if two non-US parties trade some US-based stock, then the whole thing has to be reported to the US specially independent from the normal reporting they have to do. I wish the US were a small enough player that everyone could just ignore this kind of nonsense but that's not the case at the moment.
I've read it, but I don't really understand it. Could you explain it, please?
Huh. I'm curious why. The splash page still loads, but none of his links (contact, about, jobs...) work. All 404
Does that work with a touchpad? Does that mean switching to a new, unfamiliar mouse?

Look, it's a niche app. It won't make a billion dollars. It solves a small problem that some people have.

If you do some geeky "I can solve that problem for less", fine. But not everyone has brilliant problem solving skills, and the time to look at every alternative. They find something that works OK, and use it.

Some people use dropbox, not rsync. Programmers pay for Github, not a commodity host with git. Slightly suboptimal (from my perspective) products still sell, every day.
There is a huge difference between code that's been optimized for decades and code that's plain old and there just because nobody ever touched it again.

Even code like IBM's VM should be updated when new processors appear (zSeries CPUs get updated from time to time).

As for code that's there just because it's old (and not because it has been carefully maintained for decades), I advise you to look into it. You probably learned something in the past decade that can improve it.
Printing money to service debt will most likely drive inflation higher, in turn driving up interest rates investors will demand from government bonds.

This escape route from a towering debt burden was tried by German post-WW1 governments, and lets just say it didn't go very well. It's the reason the Bundesbank is the way it is now.
Agreed. If you were to add up the number of seconds a designer spends chasing that pixel color with the color picker, or drawing that selection/slice bounding box, or selecting that path handle... I'm sure it adds up over the year. Not to mention, there will be an immense amount of satisfaction derived from having overcome these obstacles time and time again.

It seems to me that if you really want to experiment with this niche, price the product according to the value those customers will obtain from it.
Definitely the data. Do you imagine the analytics potential of such data?
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Perhaps, if you were expecting to sell one copy @ $16. But your argument is invalid at internet scale. $.99 games sell millions of volume.

I'm not going to spend $14.99 on it because there are alternative products for cheaper or free. Demand will dictate the price, I simply suggested that 4.99 might be a better price point but that he should look at the data first.
Agreed. If space is really an issue at least use "T" and "H".
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How did you decide upon your price point?
The [Foxcon] workers jumping off the building in the screenshots is extremely tasteless.
I took a look at the SDK when I bought my Samsung TV. It seems very bizarre because there are 3 different ways you can write an app:

HTML4/CSS2 (no, really.), Flash (ugh.), Lua/SDL (supposedly more for games than apps..)

I'm sure $100,000 will tempt someone, but browsing the SDK really reinforced in my head that hardware companies don't do a great job at software. I'm not sure quite how they wound up with this software stack, but it would have made a lot more sense to me if they embedded Gecko and had a single way to access the TV API and write HTML5/CSS3 apps.
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The main difference is that relativity has been tested experimentally, over and over, to extremely high precision. Climate change models have been tested once-ish, to low precision, without necessarily filtering out the other effects.

I just want to re-emphasise, since this is an area in which people love to misinterpret, that nothing I say should be taken as an argument that anthropogenic climate change isn't happening. The preponderance of evidence, in my flawed estimation, indicates that it probably is. I'm merely here to argue against believing things with an excessive degree of confidence.
And if you do use a pie chart:

* Start at 12 O'Clock

* Put the segments in sequence of size (smallest first or biggest first going clockwise)

* Add a legend or labels

* Make sure any colours you use can still be differentiated when printed greyscale

Honestly, I'd tolerate them more if I could just understand which segment was bigger than another segment and had some meaningful way in which to vaguely guess the value behind a segment.
I'm a little surprised that Notch's was only at 13... That was a pretty good game!

I'll have to go back and find out what was even better.

This competition was a real push for me. I've been wanting to get into game programming for far too long, and never took the plunge. I'm hoping to be ready to create at least a crappy game during the next one. Of course, that means making many crappy games before then. :)
I'm sorry Prelude didn't win... I feel a connection to it even though all I did was watch him code it. Awesome though, now I know how to kill my morning.
But why is temptation regarded so bad? I mean not all temptations are distractions or something bad.
what's worse is that the "discoverers" in your equation could just as easily be the humans... let's hope we've learnt from our history.
I think you were right on on the price, for a niche market like the one you are going after I think the price is perfect, someone that works every day would see as a minor investment to be more productive or have a more hassle free experience. Of course, you'll learn what the right price is with experience but I think you are off to a great start.

The design is, needless to say, stunning.

Kudos!
Mice come in classes as well. E.g., I use a 69 Euro Apple Magic Trackpad (and disliked plain-old mice ever since). Compared to the cost of a good trackpad it is not that expensive.

I personally don't need the added precision, but if I did, 20 dollars is not a lot for added productivity.
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So I have one of these TVs. Well actually I have a Blueray player that implements Samsung's SmartTV platform.

It's quite a nice platform - mostly HTML5, with some bits (eg video) implemented in Javascript instead.

If you want to get started with it, the instructions for installing the Plex app are pretty good: http://plexforsamsung.pbworks.com/w/page/40870394/How-To%20i...
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Maybe something more succinct, like "Unrivaled Mouse Precision".
Agreed, especially since your slider uses a percentage value (what's 100% of speed?). If instead you used a label of 'Precision' like anateus suggested, or a similar word like Accuracy and your end values were 'High' and 'Low' that should make more sense.

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So I suppose they go in with their millions and build huge data centers and what not? Wouldn't it also have worked as a weekend project, with adding data analysis features when receiving traction?

The data is only valuable if people keep playing over an extended period of time.
> Do you find that many people keep listening to you after this or is this just a strategy to free your time of annoying "people"?

Works both ways. It's good advice for one, because you really shouldn't support hardware makers that really don't care about you or the software you run. It also helps by making the more annoying people who can't be bothered to read the supported hardware list, yet ask for free support and complain driver developers are one or two generations behind Nvidia (or ATI's) employees with access to confidential information, go away.

BTW, I have a T-shirt that says "no, I won't fix your computer" too.

> The *nix community is generally quite friendly

Indeed it is. Sometimes a friend is someone who says stuff you need to hear, even if you don't like to hear it.

If you really care about your Nvidia board, please, by all means, learn everything you can about it, about driver development and help the people who give you their time for free.
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Also there is an aura with a younger person. Similar to real estate that is fresh on the market and hasn't been sitting. You can believe you have discovered something and are grabbing it before anyone else sees the potential.
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Sorry, as a non native english speaker, such subtleties can escape. Correctedn thanks!
Plenty of speculation in that article too. A little more science is all.
Apple would be silly to either ban it now, or never to have approved it, since it would cause the Streisand effect.
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Thanks for the mind expansion. Never looked at it that way.