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does anyone else here think anecdotal evidence is more valuable than statistical analysis?

To a certain degree I do. I would go even so far and say that the provider of the contrarian perspective is making a scientific contribution, by pointing out the lacking external validity of the original study. I personally believe that the more interesting phenomenons in science are those incidents, when "things" are acting different than expected. Contrarian anecdotes are most often the best starting places for these phenomenons.
Hey - I'm Chad, the project lead for Mandrill. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys might have.
Dunno why anyone would pay when material like that on http://venture-lab.org is free. Just looks like a rather ill-conceived attempt to cash in on the startup bubble "pay us $100 and we'll give you something you could google in 5 minutes".
http://www.crime-research.org/library/grcdos.pdf I think this is what you are talking about, really interesting read if I remember correctly.
I don't think this was a particular change in approach, to be honest. From the start they were clear (listening to the early podcasts, at least) that they wanted the site to stand as a reference, and to have each question be the best possible question asking one clear thing, with the best possible answer underneath.

Everything else on top of that was gamification to convince people to achieve that. Whether that sort of community becomes degenerate at a certain point is certainly interesting to study, but my intuitive reaction whenever I see a StackOverflow result at the top of some google results is to be joyful, so I feel they've mostly achieved their aims.
Have a look at http://ispc.github.com/ -

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"An open-source compiler for high-performance SIMD programming on the CPU"
But the first question is obvious: how do you measure quality? Votes are primarily for popularity, not quality.
The OP seems to be saying 1) SO and network is "anti-community", 2) making lots of targeted sites was misguided; they should be broader, and 3) purists are running off real experts.

Having listened to many hours of planning and philosophizing on the SO podcast as the site developed, I think the OP misunderstands their approach.

1) They are "anti-community" only in the sense that they don't want content unrelated to the site's topic. They do have moderation, votes for moderators, etc. Everything about the site is geared around getting the best answers and making those searchable, not socializing.

2) This is a tradeoff: too narrow and you won't get enough momentum to keep going; too broad and it's uninteresting. Specificity keeps real experts interested; if you know and love Unix, you'll be much more likely to hang out and answer questions on a Unix site than on a General Computer Stuff site. The whole model depends on keeping experts involved, and if a site is TOO specific to generate enough interest, they kill it. One downside is the inevitable overlap between topics. But I think it's an OK tradeoff.

3) I don't see anything like what he describes. I've been using SO since it was in beta, and I'm still getting good answers to my questions quickly. If there is a rise in militant purists, it's in response to the inevitable influx of newbies and crappy questions, which will happen to any site that gets popular. SO has had this in mind from day 1 and they actively promote community moderation, which is the only scalable approach.

I don't mean to sound like an SO apologist, but this post sounds a little too "those guys don't know what they're doing". That's the most common refrain on the internet.

The proper response, snarky as it sounds, is "you try doing it better." And it's serious. If you can make a site and cultivate a community better than StackOverflow, I'll be there.
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Right now? Mostly cost of living is drastically different (Iowa), and work related. Not financially viable for me to go right now unless I had a job already lined up for me there.

Goal is in the next 3 years to be there.
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So many questions are already authoritatively answered that there's a much higher bar for new users to contribute. And without new users coming in and participating, there's a feeling of stagnation. I'm not yet convinced they're at an impasse but I personally don't know how I would solve that problem.
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Ask HN: is this the "missing link" or am i hallucinating?
Hello,

I am 80% complete with a web app I'm hoping to launch in early fall that I'm calling Pinjot.com. What it is is a responsive (works nice on any screen) forum where users can post "jots" (threaded conversations or links to external sites) and other users can reply/vote/etc.

My secret sauce is this: every combination of place/group is its own seperate forum and is indexed for easy finding.

So if you go to chicago.pinjot.com/general you are posting to the general group in Chicago. Chicago.pinjot.com/chessplayers, Chicago.pinjot.com/jobs, /personals, /anything and going to Chicago.pinjot.com will list any /groups people have posted to.

But its not limited to cities. U can go to anywhere.pinjot.com. Illinois, Midwest, eastcoast, usa, northamerica, www.

There is no other system I can find like this and I think its what we all need to target specificaly the people we wish to reach.

Is this the greatest idea ever or am I just dillusional and should cut my losses now, as its tearing my family apart and destroying my life trying to make this a reality...

Thanks.
>It's been one of my major pet peeves on both Android and iOS: the total and utter lack of consistency. Applications - whether first party or third party - all seem to live on islands, doing their own thing, making their own design choices regarding basic UI interactions, developing their own non-standard buttons and controls. Consistency died five years ago, and nobody seems to care but me.

Yes, it's called evolution.

As the saying goes, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".

The consistency he asks for is that foolish consistency --where e.g buttons all look the same, all colors match, applications have a cookie cutter look, etc. I.e strictly following some platform's design guidelines.

Not only that would KILL development of new UI concept (a lot of widely adopted ideas come from some app experimenting with new look&feel ideas), it would also make any OS look drab and boring.

Consistency that should matter would be more like: drag and drop works everywhere it should, text copy/paste plays well from app to app (remember KDE/Gnome/Motif/what have you around 2005? I hope it's better nowadays), keyboard shortcuts are respected, etc. Generally, controls should MOSTLY work the same (with the provision for experimentation from the occasional app).

As for things like the color of the toolbar, the look of buttons, etc? Not so much.
> In the Jewish calendar, the day starts when the moon comes out.

say what? afaik (speaking as a jew here), it's when the sun goes down. (moonrise, averaged over all time, happens at any point in the 24-hour cycle.)

possibly you're thinking of when (jewish calendar) months start?
I'm curious too. I believe it means a lot of money. Sweden is good.
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I can imagine, since my electricity outlet at home is constrained like bandwidth. We pay a fixed monthly fee that is proportional to the load capacity, so choosing a lower value and watching what I use saves me money.

In any case, I'm not sure if we'll ever have a large enough pipe for everyone; our current pipes are more than enough for our needs five years ago, but our needs grew, and will in the future.
Nuclear technology is extremely risky and prohibitively expensive even if we ignore the cost of accidents and waste disposal covered largely by governments because not a single company controlled by sane people would ever build a nuclear power plant otherwise.

That being said it is not at all clear whether there is enough uranium for a couple or even one century, especially given the massive increase in demand that we will see in the next couple of years.

Even if we assume it is cheap and will last for centuries it is still not a long term solution, which is what Germany is aiming for.
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MEMORY tables have table-level locks and from a concurrency perspective, is just as bad as MyISAM, so really offer no advantage unless there is only a small number of consumers. A well tuned InnoDB table will outperform the MEMORY engine )(after the warm-up period) as soon as you have more than a handful of users performing write operations.
That's exactly what jsilence is saying. Energy from the grid is so incredibly cheap that you're using it without a second thought on things you would never consider doing without a grid. It could go up hundredfold before becoming expensive.

Also, kWh/hour is just a kilowatt.
> "boy was the Original Xbox a disaster with the RROD."

The original Xbox, the one the MS bureaucracy left alone, was as solid as any other consumer electronics device. The Xbox 360, the one the MS bureaucracy pushed through manufacturing despite known problems solely so they could 'beat' Sony to market, was the disaster.

And that raises an unfortunate concern: did the MS bureaucracy rush this out to 'beat' the heavily-rumored first-party Google tablet?

Because user-acceptance of the schizophrenic OS may still be an open question, but it's not going to be remotely answered if this thing shows up with build problems.
I guess any sufficiently large ‘community’ (there’s not a community on Stack Exchanges, of course; they are fairly anti-community) ends up attracting those wanting to curate the resource and purify it, until those competent to answer and help have had their fill and no longer feel welcome?

This was my experience as a contributor (one of the top 10) to Literature SE. The mods were very harsh and basically killed the site (or at least drove off most of us contributors).

Both question and answer quality declined dramatically in tandem with the rise of "rules".

Months later I was still in the top 10 contributors. Answers had declined to single sentences.

Now I logged in and noticed it has been closed down (and much of the content migrated to SciFi SE) due to lack of participation. I am not surprised.

At least some of my answers will survive.

(here's one early question where it was poorly asked, we wrote some good answers and worked with the questioner to focus the question - http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16106/what-are-the-... This attitude disappeared within very short time)
I had no idea too much electricity could be a problem? I was trying to read more about this effect but google has no answers for me.

Also, surely the obvious thing to do would be turn off some of the turbines in that situation?
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Seriously? PRC are selling to people with disabilities a software with a Windows 7 tablet: https://store.prentrom.com/product_info.php/cPath/11/product...

And check the options... +475$ for an additional 2GB of RAM! Prices for other options are as outrageous.

I don't know what price Speak for Yourself was selling for but I'm glad they are making these kind of tools more accessible.
So how does this compare to something like SendGrid? More or less a direct competitor? I noticed you can only send mail via the API (no SMTP relay). Any other notable differences?
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Yes. Realize that often the generalizations are a lot more subtle than your example, and of course anecdotes aren't always the best or only counter-arguments you'll see, even if they are valid. Start looking and I am sure you will find examples.
And isn't that scary? It's not like this is any kind of secret or obscure detail, it's something you would learn in any half-competent Java 101 class or if you bothered to read the docs to the methods you're calling.
Ideas like this can't be judged good or bad in a vacuum. If user acquisition works, then it was genius. If not, then a flop. But I don't think it can be predicted in advance. Can you scope down and get v1 out the door in days instead of weeks? All the risk is in adoption & execution -- I don't think anyone here is going to be able to offer useful advice.
Why would you use Sendgrid over Amazon SES - SES is like 1/10th the price.
Shutting down was driven by fear, not by cost.
The presentation with Surfaces "in action": http://cdn-smooth.ms-studiosmedia.com/news/mp4_mq/06182012_S...
> The summer in Germany isn't that hot. Middle europe, not california. Accordingly, we don't have air conditioners (in general)

Germans are always saying this. It was 90F in Berlin yesterday. That is air conditioner weather, period.

The part about most people not having them is true, though. This US expat is hooking his up this week, despite power costing twice here what it does in California.
The thing that drove me away from the entire Stack* series of sites was the heavy-handed "doesn't fit the format" (read: mod doesn't like it) question closings for no good reason. I've honestly lost count of the number of times that valid questions with well spoken, informative answers were shut down due to this nonsense.

(The other was how much of a pain they make it to get started if you're new - one can look at the comments here and see that those kind of shenanigans are mostly unnecessary)

When you're killing off high-quality content because it "doesn't fit the format", perhaps the format needs to change.
I don't get these game developer reps. I've been to E3 five times in my lifetime, going back to Atlanta 1998. There were always plenty of women playing shooters.
Not every subject. They vet ideas for sites based on specificity and the community they can attract. See Area 51 and its guidelines: http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
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17% of the world's population lives in a single .5 timezone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time), so i'd hope that one's not too widespread....
JQuery dependency is a deal-breaker for me. Telling library consumers that you require another, near 10,000 LOC, library is asking a lot. JQuery should be for end developers only.

Instead write your libraries to HTML standards, and provide links to polyfills that they'll need. Don't assume everyone is targeting IE6.
It is not possible because those industries that consume massive amounts of energy are typically those that operate under the assumption that machines are never and in some cases cannot be turned of.
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"Let me?" Don't ask for permission. And it's not that you "can be" just as capable. You are just as capable. Nobody needs to "let you" do anything, just do it.
Convienently, the solution I wrote allows you to utilize two or as many templates as you want, add and remove to the directory as you wish. For us, setting off a handful of template options for two weeks then seeing which one has higher conversion is extremely simple (no need for 'reward' function as such) and effective (it's a fair distribution across the options). We explicitly wanted to avoid needing to track the number of times each possibility is viewed.

I think "better" needs to be defined. "More accurate results?" Possibly, but probably not by much. Less disturbance to general conversion rates (since the 'successful' case is presented most often barring random variability), sure. But the point is to try out every option, not try out the seemingly more successful option the majority of the time.
The problem with SO is that easy questions get answered quickly and hard questions don't get answered at all, in most cases.

I'm a semi-competent programmer with a few thousand SO reputation (or whatever it's called). Every question I have ever asked there has gone unanswered or has been answered insufficiently.

The moderators are also awful. They manage the community in a very autistic fashion - quality questions with quality answers get closed because they are slightly subjective, which completely obliterates the community feeling.
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Thanks, I'll take a look at the book. Sometimes essays are fine because you can cherry-pick the good ones.
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It's possible that the site floundered and closed because it just wasn't a good fit for the StackExchange model. Literature doesn't strike me as a field where there are obvious right answers.
> Even if you have a mathematical proof that your software is correct, it's still only correct given certain assumptions taken as axioms in the proof. Violate those axioms and your software can't be held responsible.

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - knuth
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Ask HN: How much of your product/project is your own code?
With all the wonderful apps and services out there that have been made or are in the works, it'd be interesting to know how much was built by hand and how much was built on pre-existing code. Did you build it from the ground up or use other services?
While the use of other services will most likely be the case for things such as digital delivery and payment processing (be sure to include those though), perhaps there will be a few surprises.
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Cancel that -- you CAN do a simple SMTP relay. Looks like a solid service. I'll consider switching. Your free plan is about twice what SendGrid offers.
It seems inevitable that we will have to change some of our fundamental ways of working if we want to get rid of our reliance on fossil fuels. Before the industrial revolution the world didn't have 24/7 assembly lines, it's only since coal/oil/gas that we've been able to work in this way. I guess that's the point, it is a large paradigm shift, comparable to the introduction of the steam engine. We can't expect the world to remain unchanged.

The unfortunate thing with solar panels means that we'd all be at work when the sun shines and get our days off when it's cloudy :)
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Show HN: Chicago Startup Scholastica Disrupts Academic Publishing
Ya...I am trying. I think the responsiveness is a huge selling point and that's like building 6 different sites at once, so the going is slow. I'm alone and only have 2 days a week to commit. Now that I learned how to program enough to get it functional, things are speeding up.

Was just hoping for a little validation that maybe someone in a vacuum thinks it'd be neat.
I'd say making your own app is the best resume. It shows you can code AND that you can get stuff done.
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Going to Venture-Lab doesn't tell me anything. I visit the site and there is no indication about what it is, what value it provides or anything like that.Why would anyone go there, and how would anyone know that they should go there?

I don't think 5 minutes on google can solve the problem that Startup Plays is trying to solve, if it could, everyone would be a Startup Superstar.

I can understand your skepticism, but if you knew Scott Annan or any of the team at Startup Plays, I have a very hard time believing your impression that this Startup Plays is an "ill-concieved attempt to cash in on the startup bubble".
Agree. I used to study Artificial Intelligence 10 years ago and they were saying exactly the same things about semantics back then. I don't believe it will ever happen. API's, specifically designed to be read by a computer are taking that place already.
There's a huge difference between problems "here", and problems "there". If a problem exists in our own culture, close to home, we have much more power to change it. Not everyone can be an activist, but everyone can behave appropriately.
I treasure and trust StackOverflow for my programming questions precisely because of the elitist, purifying attitude. I'm confident the answers are vetted and the best has risen to the top. I'm a self-taught programmer with only a few years under my belt, so this resource is valuable.

As for the other Q&As...especially the non-engineering ones, this culture is counter productive. In a field like history, the experts are not debating dates and places which are defensible positions, but methodology and theory. Those are discussions and require a little more breathing room than a q&a forum could provide.
Client side templates are a hack, presently speaking. They are inserted into a script tag in the head (usually), so if you are working a single page app you need to include every template for your entire site in the head of the document. It works, but man is it ugly.

Then you have to include some bulky library that parses these scripts and compiles them to a function that you'll use later. All this happens pretty fast, but not any faster than just using the DOM apis.

I can't find the link, but I believe there is a proposal to standardize client side templating, so hopefully that will make the process a bit cleaner.
From my experience, I believe having a stable life and a supportive family is very important to business success. They provide you with a strong foundation, and a way to weather the emotional lows and highs that come with startups. So, I would definitely give higher priority to family and life.

Moreover, I understand from reading others' experiences that for them "success" (however they defined it) took much longer to arrive than they had anticipated in the beginning. So, if you are counting on the "success" of your idea to make everything OK with your family again, be aware that that success, if it arrives, may arrive too late to undo the damage.

Finally, money is important, but so are your relationships. If relationships are good, I can still be content with my life, even blissful, even if I was earning below my potential. So, unless I were in a situation in which my family was already starving to death, I would not destroy my family trying to "make it big."

Good luck!
[Yes, it won't be screwed up if also you use your own hash.]

It's strange that you disregard that in an aside, as it's his entire point.

Personally, I prefer to implement hashes on the values inside the object, and not its serialization. They are unrelated concepts, and it helps to keep the concepts separate in the implementation. But for the purposes of routing in a distributed system - which is what the post is about - it's an acceptable solution.
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Technically, anything that has been announced and not shipped is vapourware. But I wouldn't say that surface is notably vaporous, since it's not late - it can't ship before win8 does; nor is it technically unlikely for the hardware or software to ship - similar Win8-beta devices shipped 9 months ago, and Apple makes similar hardware in huge quantity.
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Given that core components of what we were trying to do (BQL and the codel and fq_codel qdiscs) have only just landed in the mainline linux kernels, doing comprehensive benchmarks would have been misleading.

Secondly - cerowrt's intent is a research project - everything that works we try to get into openwrt - so while the qos implementations differ, both are using fq_codel now.

It's my hope that tomato and gargoyle and dd-wrt - indeed as many router distros - adopt fq_codel or something like it as their underlying qdisc.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336

thirdly - for the kinds of things we are trying to fix (bufferbloat, mesh networks, dns, ipv6) not a lot of good benchmarks exist.