skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd begin taking this seriously the day they started making the Wisden cricket database available. For quite some time now, I've been looking for the ball-to-ball accounts of cricket matches since the formation of the ICC.
Did you read the article? Are you sure it wasn't just unambiguously louder? ;)
I'd love to see you do write-ups on some of the 35+ cool companies you met with. Surely you've seen some neat things. Even if the companies/positions weren't for you, I'm sure they'd benefit from the exposure as would all of us.
Don't forget a crossdomain.xml file!
Come to think of it, there's a restaurant at La Guardia airport in NYC, of all places, that has iPads at every table. They use that as a selling point. In a busy airport, it seems popular.
Why Isn’t Wikipedia Blacking Out Over ACTA?
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Wasn't really thinking about Supreme Court filings, I was thinking the more mundane civil filings that happen day in and day out in say Santa Clara County Superior Court [1] where you can get a copy of all the documents filed in all the cases where the judge hasn't ordered the documents sealed.

I realize its kind of an odd thing to do, but you can go down to any US court house and just sit in the gallery and listen/watch. There are people who do this for Groklaw when they were following every bit of the SCO/Novell litigation.

The Novell/SCO case (and Groklaw for that matter) provide what I think would be a great service (when combined with copies of the original documents) so in the Novell/SCO case there were agreements about the assignment of copyright (or not) and how they were pleaded both by the defense and the prosecution. Reading how they were attacked and how they were defended gives tremendous insights into how such documents get litigated. Of course it costs time and money to have someone do that, but that (rather than just copying various public web sources for documents) would provide a real value proposition for someone who was trying to either come up with a document for this or wanted to know what questions/guidance they should give their attorney who is preparing such a document.

[1] http://www.scscourt.org/self_help/civil/faqs/docket.shtml
Oh that's why posters are saying the Wolfram AMA "ramparted". I had thought they meant that people were ambushing Wolfram (with "ramparts").
To actually be useful everything on the menu would have to have at least an allergy list. They'd also need to be customizable or the restaurant will actually lose business.

I won't eat asparagus or whole mushrooms. I have friends that are vegetarian, or that wont eat veal/lamb, etc. It's hard enough finding a good restaurant to go to and accommodate everyone, let alone go to a restaurant that can't even afford to hire waiters and can't ask does xyz have peanuts in? Cause you know buying lunch really sucks when someone goes into anaphylactic shock because their waiter app can't handle allergy info.
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This parallels the changes in consumer banking since the introduction of the ATM. It's now rare for most people to interact with bank staff beyond opening an account or taking out a loan.

Supermarkets are another great example of self-service automation. For example, my local supermarket has 8 self-checkout lanes occupying the same space as 4 full-service cashier lanes. Only one staff member is required to support these lanes -- although they should have two considering there is no training requirement for the customers :). It's interesting to note that there is no discount for using the self-checkout, although you are now scanning and bagging yourself as opposed to the full-service you receive in the standard cashier. I assume this is the "cost" of progress (and shorter lines).

In the long-term, I think the restaurants that leverage technology to enhance the dining experience will benefit greatly (e.g. enhanced menus, reduced printing, order ahead, entertainment, brand engagement, etc.). Restaurants that simply use tablets for cost-cutting will lose customers.
Dining in a restaurant is more discretionary than banking or supermarket shopping.
I suspect you could meet the assets test if you valued your business correctly. I've talked to some lawyers, and shares in a non-public corporation at whatever reasonable valuation count. Thus, it's not too hard for an entrepreneur to be an accredited investor after a round or two of financing.

(Ultimately it comes down to the portfolio companies trusting that you won't turn this into an issue later with the SEC, if things go south.)

The problem of not actually having the cash to invest, though, is harder. You also clearly add value being your cash, so you could probably make investments on that basis (as consulting services partially paid in equity, etc.), which don't fall under the accredited investor requirement, since it's not a solicitation to the public.
> Basically, if you produce two ultrasonic frequencies, they will create an interference pattern at a much lower frequency than either of the individual frequencies.

So the interference pattern will be made up of one low frequency sound and higher frequency harmonics. Once again the higher frequency harmonics are redundant, because you only need to record the lower frequency sound.

The only possible way ultrasound can be picked up by the ear is if the ear has a non-linear response to the input sound. Going by the information in the article linked, it is highly unlikely that any significant non-linearity exists in the ear.
TL;DR - long and detailed information about why if you got music in 24/192 format you couldn't tell the difference between it and 16/48 music.

I chuckled because this is so true, and yet tell that to the people who buy oxygen free copper 'monster' cables for their speakers, being careful to align the arrows with the direction of the music from the amplifier to the speaker. People, even otherwise reasonable people, will swear up and down they can hear the difference.
I'm sick of a different kind of BS. Generally speaking, creating startups has become almost as "meaningless" as trading stocks. You used to buy a stock because you believed in the long-term value of the company. Now you buy a stock because people panic on that given day and you feel you can take brief ownership of it to squeeze a few pennies out of it, before dumping it back on the market.

Why do VCs love startups? Because you can create value where there is none. Somehow 1,000,000 users capable of generating $200,000 in ad revenue per year (never mind the startup is burning 2 million a year!) are able to create valuations of $50 million. But hey, hot investors X, Y, and Z are in on this deal so it must be good! And thus the creation of companies no one gives two shits about continues.

How many startups are actually profitable - that is, genuinely creating more cash than they are burning? I think I can count them on one hand.
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A lot of conveyor-belt sushi restaurants in Japan have this. If you go to one chain (kappazushi), your sushi gets delivered to you on a bullet train.
How did you guys get a US tax number? Or are you using stripe as a personal account (SSN only)?
>"I find it ridiculous that a significant percentage of the population here equate raising VC money with selling your soul."

Really? I find the opposite. Every "we're hiring" thread brags about the company being "VC funded" and people seem to fall all over themselves figuring out the best pitching strategies or slide deck appearances.

I always find it odd, because being VC funded isn't good or bad in and of itself. There we agree.
Did you read the original article at all?

> Professionals use 24 bit samples in recording and production [11] for headroom, noise floor, and convenience reasons.

...snip...

> Modern work flows may involve literally thousands of effects and operations. The quantization noise and noise floor of a 16 bit sample may be undetectable during playback, but multiplying that noise by a few thousand times eventually becomes noticeable. 24 bits keeps the accumulated noise at a very low level. Once the music is ready to distribute, there's no reason to keep more than 16 bits.

The original article does say that yes, during recording and production, 24 bit audio gives you a lot more room to play with. That doesn't mean that you can hear the difference between 16 and 24 bits for the final recording; just that 24 bits give you more room to keep out of trouble during production.
Water purification in Murfreesboro
If ever there were a surface that screams "touch me and spread germs everywhere", this would have to be it. Right there at the table with you and your food. Yikes!
It's open source, so anyone can add their own db drivers to it. The problem, as with other open source projects, is that the task is not trivial. (I tried to patch Sequel Pro last year) Which is also why I don't buy the oft-quoted benefit of OSS being that you have access to the source to fix/add things. BS.

Oh yeah, last time I checked, Sequel Pro doesn't build in XCode 4.
What to do When the Ignored Developer Strikes Back?
BuzzFeed Launches New Tech Blog ‘FWD’
I actually just interviewed someone from E la Carte [1] about their job positions. This is a pretty cool company, working on a pretty cool product. It's nice to see a startup building a physical product that is already providing a lot of value to customers.

[1] http://startupfrontier.com/2012/02/e-la-carte/
The restaurant of the future.

Or the Japanese restaurant of yesterday.

Honestly, I use this all the time at Yaki-niku places.
I can't believe you admitted that here! That means you're a terrible programmer! Of course I'm kidding. There were quite a few I saw nothing wrong with too. I think some of it pretty subjective. Other stuff, especially the HTML and CSS snippets, look terrible on their own but a lot of times if you have context you'd get why the person made that choice.
caused clueless "developers" (along with library authors) to beg for "native" selectors.

ahh now I get it. you're one of those guys. you're just smarter than everyone else right? good luck with that.
Grants for energy projects
What is Meditation?
Meditation is an approach by which anyone can utilize it and benefit themselves to come out from stress, anxiety etc. Meditation is a practice which not only brings physical benefits but also it benefits in a psychological way. Relaxation of oneself and decrease in stress levels are the clear benefits of meditation.
Aside from being about the US, he's talking about written English. Standard Written English is fairly similar even across regional accents in the US, and I'd say written English is more similar across the majority of the English speaking world than spoken English. (there are the gratuitous spelling changes introduced in the UK in the 1800s/early 1900s to differentiate from US convention, and some different words and conventions for group noun plurality, but aside from that very similar, whereas I have a harder time understanding some Scottish or East London speech than I do French or German.)

(there's also the accent/dialect/creyole/pidgin distinction, which often revolves around who has an army)
Senator wants investigation into mobile apps doing what desktop apps do
I don't know the answer myself, but if you head on over to http://arclanguage.org, I bet the people there can point you in the right direction.
Hi! Thanks for the questions.

Ashley decided to go for a Windows offline tool as this is his second engine. The first was Construct Classic (open source). When embarking on Construct 2 he felt it was better to stick with the skills he knew best. Also we weren't sure a year or so ago if the web could handle a complex app like a game engine. Construct 2 has hundreds of thousands of lines of code in it and there aren't many web apps of that complexity in the wild and we couldn't find any at that time that offered the responsiveness we enjoy in a Windows native app.

People do purchase business licenses yes, it's required for registered businesses and individuals who make over $5k USD. I don't know if many users have made over $5k, (but some individuals have purchased our business license). I suspect not as it's still quite early for HTML5 and we haven't yet added as much monetisation opportunities as we plan to.
My startup is looking to stop having every resturant instead my startup will scan 2d menus and display the food in 3d as well as let you order it. I think it would be difficult for ever restaurant to have a app. I also say web apps are not the answer.
Here is my feedback, the site looks great as well as the widgets, I went to your site and wanted to give you my email for a beta invitation and here's what I got

"Thanks!
Thanks for your interest in ShopLocket! We're opening up beta access on a rolling basis. Stay tuned for your invite"

Needless to say, that's not what I was expecting to see, I'll suggest to fix it.
Are you referring to the stats for each game in our arcade?

If so, the database is SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. We store every single play of the game in a fully normalised format. The space requirements for this even with hundreds of thousands/millions of records is very small.

Each games chart data surprisingly takes a very short amount of time to output even if we are talking 40k+ records. However the various counters we have are quite slow to work out. Therefore all the stats are cached and they update for each game every couple of hours or so.

It's important we cache this, one of our most popular games:
http://www.scirra.com/arcade/addicting-shooter-games/349/pro...

Had 25k plays in 24 hours which would have ground the server to a halt at that time had we not cached the stats.

As it currently stands the server doesn't really ever break a sweat (we did upgrade server as well) so we're happy how things are for now!
All these things are great cautionary pieces. The point is to ignore them when they don't apply. When I see "Why the cloud isn't for your startup" I read it as "Why the cloud might not be for your startup." It's stuff worth thinking about and using if it is helpful.
what's the difference with holding (and flipping, if it's a book) the menu? unless of course you already know what to order.
Why Interning with Startups should be made compulsory at B-Schools
Most probably start with a mockup in Photoshop/Gimp or Illustrator/Inkscape and then design the code to make a site look like their mockup. The first step is to be an artist and have an idea of what you want to see.
Don't worry, you've already touched every germ you're going to encounter for the night on the door handle to the restaurant and the table you're sitting at.

People underestimate the sheer quantity of microbes you encounter on a daily basis, and conversely, overestimate how susceptible you are to them. You're immune system is really good at what it does!
Litigated documents are generally a good example of what not to do, but are a poor example of best practices. That is generally how budding lawyers are trained in law school, and consequently the reason most legal documents are unnecessarily complex.
> It's now rare for most people to interact with bank staff beyond opening an account or taking out a loan.

Loans I wouldn't know about, but opening accounts at major banks without entering a bank branch is generally quite easy, particularly if you can afford to wait a few days for physical mail to go back and forth. One hopes that particular anachronism becomes increasingly rare, too.
Yes! +1 Focus on your core competencies (not on running servers).
I am of the school of thought where Heroku and other PaaS offerings are good for prototypes, where you'd throw up some simple apps on the short term. If you need to scale up, then you'd consider hosting it elsewhere and where you'd have more fine grain control. Does no one do this?
And telephone calls.
That was mostly a conversational opener (totally true though, haven't had a startup idea click for me so loudly since Twilio) but thank you for the advice. I'm tying a string around my finger about it.

(I don't do all that much work for startups, or at least not paid work for startups on the VC trajectory, but I'll keep that in mind as an option. It's not something I've pursued much. The biggest reason is my near-term thinking has been dominated by my upcoming marriage and none of the vendors/moving company/tax offices/etc are sending invoices denominated in shares.)
Always Wanted an 18th-Century You? Now You Can
Sweet! Definitely installing this on my Transformer tonight, hopefully with the hard keyboard it could actually be pretty productive.
Thank you Katelyn...
Cheers Litftup - much appreciated indeed...
My experience with "fault-tolerant" OSes and their toolchains is that they are buggier than their off the shelf counterpart, probably due to limited use ...
Eh, that's the part I like the least about restaurants. I really don't like the feeling of being served at all. And I certainly don't like someone bugging me every twenty minutes asking if my food is ok (while I invariably have food in my mouth).

I go to restaurants to enjoy the food and enjoy the company. If everything else could just get out of the way (like the waiter) I'd be happy as a clam.
The Hit Equation
Good luck. You're in for an exciting roller coaster ride. Try to create a exercise schedule, even if its once a week. When your sanity starts to slip, your health will soon follow.

I try to keep one of the two, though they are somewhat interchangeable.
The product seems to share characteristics with triplestores and the Sparql query language and append-only persistence mechanism from the Linked Data sphere/movement. Could someone more knowledgeable comment on this similarity?

Some differences:
1. No concept of inference/reasoning
2. No mention of a graph
3. Interesting use of clientside caching / data-peering
4. Clojure serialization vs N3/Turtle/RDF

Some similarities:
1. Quadstores have are parameterized by graph, Datomic by time
2. subject-predicate-object model
3. query-anything ( including [ ?s ?p ?o] ??)
4. query anywhere (sending an rdf to a client for local query seems similar)

edit- I give up trying to get HN to render an ordered list. Any help would be... helpful.
That's something I couldn't find when I was following up on the whole thing. Could you point me to that?
Referring to Matt Dillon at "This guy" is akin to referring to Linus Torvalds, Theo De Raadt, Jony Ives, Zed Shaw, John Gruber, etc.. as "This Guy" - particularly in this community - everyone should know who Matt Dillon is.

And, yes, I would expect everyone in this community to recognize who these people are, and roughly what their contributions have been.
Where would you recommend?
"Sure I could learn how to do sysadmin stuff. But for some people and maybe me, the opportunity costs outweight the economic benefits"

You're exactly right. Sure, sysadmin stuff isn't hard. But it does take time to learn. Additionally, over time you learn things from experience when things go wrong. And when things go wrong without experience you will be scrambling to even know where to start to get things back up again.

As anyone will tell you that has been doing this for many years (I have) you learn new things every day. Just like a Doctor does and a lawyer does. (Even though both of those professions think they know it all out of school, they don't.)
How we'll simultaneously view 2 Win8 Metro apps full-screen at same time
Reported?
You can get a US EIN as an international business, just go to the site Stripe points you to and there are instructions for non-US businesses. As for the SSN, we were able to talk to the guys at stripe and get our account active without this.
Product concept looks great! However, the site is cut off for me on my iPad.
The point is that when the first tweet is 2MB, I never get to the second tweet. I stopped opening links to tweets recently because it was unbearable to wait for the page to load. What person at twitter thinks it's reasonable for me to spend more time waiting for a 140 character message to load than it takes to read it?
Congratulations and best wishes!
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List of dissertation types. Get a list of different dissertation type
Brizzly is shutting down
Never understood that video... if anything it made me more annoyed at Groupon
That is indeed the "auth failed" error. Only two things I can think of: either you toggled the service slider to "Pinboard" without noticing, or Delicious authentication was down briefly. There was at least one other report of that:

https://twitter.com/#!/egebhardt/status/176776297106771968

Are you still getting that error?
We've only been live for a week, so we're trying to manage the number of people we let in. We appreciate you requesting an invite and will certainly get one out to you shortly! Sorry if this is not what you were expecting.
You don't need a higher sample rate to capture or play back infrasonic pressure waves, but most recordings are mastered to remove DC offset and rumble <20Hz, as reproducing those components requires specialized equipment, such as a rotary subwoofer.
Air Treatment
According to leading industry players, the combined effects of the passing of Law 26,539 and the maintenance of import restriction led to the proportion of air conditioners in Argentina which are domestically manufactured rising from 85% in 2009 to 95% in 2011.
Haha I hate to admit this since McDonald's is junk but I go there quite often (a few dozen times a year) and I can remember only once not having the right order, in which case the teller has usually corrected it when I drive back in plus added something extra to compensate.

Meanwhile, I've used Seamless.com a couple times and some restaurants STILL sometimes forget to include certain items. Far more often than any other delivery service/fast food joint I've ever been to.
I can't figure out how to shoot. It's telling me to drag the mouse and release, but that just makes the dude run.
What I learned about plans, risks & networks from Reid Hoffman’s new book
Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman to teach Web App Eng-Building a Blog at Udacity
If you give the browser a form, it's going to want a callback(JS); to make sure everything went through. When you give it the callback, it'll probably ask you for a image; pretty UIs are important. When you give a browser an image, it'll need to be styled(CSS). . . and so begins the theory of "If you give a browser a cookie".

Granted 2MB is pretty big, but the only people I see complaining are techies; valid complaints but do not effect Twitter's bottom line.
Hmmm, just actually tried this, perhaps Consumer Preview only allows one RDT session at a time. That's enough to see native Metro on one screen and RDT'ed on second screen. Or else install VNC Server.

What a pain, though.