skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You pay another $300 for the 160 pixels (but I guess they are larger pixels!).

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=2560+1600+ips

But I agree, I much prefer 16:10 and am frustrated they are so much pricier and in shorter supply.
How much labor is involved in making a monitor? The expensive part is the panel, and they are buying those from Samsung or LG.

Apple and Dell probably sell 27" and 30" monitors at a premium because they don't move many units, and the people that need them have the money to buy them. Some Korean company realized they could sell the same panels on eBay for $300 and still make a profit, so they did.
The year of the Linux desktop is next year. The same as it has always been.
hmm? for example, from the top of my head: http://www.desura.com/
How can I convert this into your dream course on App Marketing?
"There have been a few architectural changes to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews as well. Siracusa has detailed the process in his separate explanatory blog post, because the review wasn’t long enough and he had more to say." HA
Well, apropos of nothing, i just wanted to say this was a great article to read, and I hope you won't mind me indulging in a fan-boy moment by saying that the original Warcraft was a formative experience for me, and I spent much of middle school dreaming up and sketching out a game that was almost identical to Starcraft. :)
Understanding App Virality
The devs that don't rent are demonstrating lack of longevity today. If the market choices become rent software or learn to make it yourself, people will rent and deal with it--a demonstration won't enter into it.
Because when was the last time a Microsoft RTM version fixed any beta bugs?
(FWIW, what you just described is the same as the online advertising model ;P.)
PG originally made the comment in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4291075 on Seed-DB.

I launched Seed-DB earlier today (http://www.seed-db.com) where you can find these data points for all companies that have been through seed accelerators.
Hmmm, LG panels...

These panels were available since a few years ago on Taobao.com (China's eBay if that helps) in small quantities, and there were lots of excitement to make your own “Cinema Display” at 1/3 the price. As a big screen lover, I was also intrigued. So I did some research.

Here's the background story I heard a year or two ago from an anonymous guy claiming he's working in LG's factories in China. I didn't verify if it's true (unless I saw LG's contract with Apple, which means impossible), but it makes a lot of sense to me anyway. You have to judge by yourselves.

These 27" S-IPS (yes, not e-IPS) panels were indeed manufactured for Apple's iMacs and Cinema/Thunderbolt Displays. Apparently Apple has pretty high and tight standard (which they do, if you've ever used authentic ones) about these panels. Once in a while a production run will not meet Apple's expectation for some reason (e.g. color/brightness/contrast uniformity). So Apple rejects the faulty batch, and LG has to find some creative ways to deal with the rejects without losing too much (these are expensive panels) AND not breaking the contract with Apple.

Turned out Apple forbids LG to resell rejected 27" panels to any well-known brands in meaningful quantity. The restriction makes a lot of business sense: you don't want a major brand suddenly floods the market with comparable displays but at less than half of the price of iMacs and Cinema/Thunderbolt Displays. Especially so when you had spent a lot of money to secure the supply of such giant panels.

So what does LG do in the end? They first sort the faulty batch into two categories: the better ones that can be salvaged by LG itself, and the worse ones that have to go somewhere else. LG re-cuts the slightly better ones into smaller panels (24" and below), and re-sells these to its partners as high grade IPS panels, as this is not forbidden by the contract with Apple (only 27" ones are forbidden). And worse ones? They go to various unknown brands in small quantities (again, this is not forbidden by the contract).

My bet is that these Korean panels are from the second category.
The value of an application is more than the sum of its lines of code.
Also I am 90% sure that this only applies to metro apps, non metro apps will be featured in the store but users will be directed to a website (chosen by the application developer) to purchase/download the product from.
Ask HN: How do you find a good foundational VC?
It seems like for every Don Valentine out there, there seems to be 9,999 bad VC's out there that are more than willing to inflict horrors beyond your nightmares and blow up your idea into nothingness while throwing you into the abyss. While they do have a purpose as the latecomer 300th investor, they are very dangerous to have as one of your first set of investors.

Getting someone like Don Valentine to invest in you is going to be very hard since he probably is invested in somewhere else in addition to getting his cell phone number. That leaves you figuring out which 1 of the 10,000 new VC's out there is a good one.

How do you figure this out? Especially if that good investor has yet to make a name for themselves.
It has attribution and everything but is just copy pasting an answer from another website journalism now?
Depends on what you mean by successful. :)

I can't think of any YC-funded companies that have slowly grown organically into modestly successful long-term businesses. Paul Graham made a comment somewhere that YC actually has no problem if the founders want to build a "lifestyle" business, and won't push for VC-backed moonshots if it's not in the founders' interests, but I just haven't heard of that outcome happening. It's possible I just don't know about them, though.

There have been several that sold for reasonably good totals without raising any funding, if that counts. For example, Clickpass sold for $1m, and raised no funding except YC's $20k.
It's one thing for an OS to implement a Store, it's another for a third party application to do so. It's the same thing people say about Gatekeeper and the AppStore. I think it's too early to get too scared.

That having been said, I don't understand why Steam being a closed platform makes your users more likely to buy from them. And in that sense, what is an "open" store? Apt/Yum/etc?
Can you at least send arbitrary video from apps to it, e.g. an h.264 video playing in Safari (as you would on iOS)?
Oh Really?
Let me troll my friend in peace.
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I've just realized how impossible it would be for me to live without widgets on the home screen. I've been taking them for granted it seems.
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Thanks a ton for the feedback. Can you give me some more information about the rounded-ness? :)

Well, I would have to think about crowd funding as my main motive was to keep the site as an entry point for serious angel investors to search apps based on their selection criteria.
Blue LEDs are an evil scourge upon electronics. Most especially on alarm clocks.
I think he's just pointing out that "read later" style bookmarks/link sites have been around for a long time, much longer than instapaper, as a matter of fact.
>it's all done, to the extent it is done, at the application layer.

Sometimes true but often not. Encryption can and does happen at various layers of the (OSI) networking stack (Secure Session Layer, Transport Layer Security, Internet Protocol Security).

>That's why telnet and FTP are the way they are.

Those programs are the way they are due to a holdover from the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well. Sure, functioning at all was more important than functioning securely. If you ran your connections over a VPN, SSL or IPSec line, the fact that telnet didn't also support encryption would be moot.

The Application layer is for the applications data. If you want to secure the transmission of that data, it shouldn't be up to each and every individual application to support encryption.

This is why things like IPv6 or SPDY/HTTP2 have baked-in encryption below the application layer.
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Six Sigma for Food Delivieries?
Or, it's a tool that allows users to have organization, without needing to implement it themselves. (After all, the indexes of the search mechanism clearly have a high degree of organization.)
Project Euler: Problem 14
thanks for the answer! what is the point of forcing anonymity per-donation?

gittip is more like a recurring research grant than a traditional salary. if i'm not dictating the work i'm paying for, i think it makes sense to know who, as a maintainer, your supporters are.
Ridiculousness of Venture Capital Advice
Right, as long as you look through an amount of space that scales superexponentially with the complexity of the entity you want to find a copy of. (With stronger assumptions, like attractors in development of matter according to physical laws, you might be able to improve the bound.)

But don't worry, you get to search in three dimensions, so its distance only scales with the cube root of that!
What the heck is customer wow?
I use Linux. I am on Ubuntu right now. I just wish I could figure out how to get the Radeon/whatever graphics drivers right on this Lenovo Ideapad. I gave up.

I am rooting for Linux, WebGL, and other stuff. Whatever can help take down Windows is great. If Windows can actually take down Windows, even better.
Please implement these as derived files in subdirectories. That is; keep the original as is, and allow chained processors in any order with user specified "handles". The handles are subdirectories but filenames are otherwise the same, except for the extensions that may be updated by the processor in a predictable way. So if a user uploads a TeX file, processors can be added for

/random-file.tex
"preview"=PNG+Resize(200x400) - /preview/random-file.png
"pdf"=TeX-2-PDF(Bicubic=True) - /pdf/random-file.pdf

Sorry for using a HN thread for this :) And I realize this is a lot of work. Your service looks very promising.
Does anyone really care?
The Worst Excuse For Not Iterating Quickly
"That is, as far as I can tell, one could count on one hand all the 'information technology' equity investors in the US who would be at all "innovative". "

What do you think some of those are? Yes, they are rare and getting funded by one probably has better odds than hitting the lotto but who are they?
100% agree :-).
I do not understand why this story is being upvoted. Are we supposed to duplicate the answers on serverfault here (which seems to be most of the comments) or are we making fun of the question or what?
So to start, I am not a target user of this site (at least at the moment), as I am not very active on github and I don't follow open source projects very closely.

With that said, I have followed these discussions, and I think this may be the wrong approach. I think that you should implement a balance transfer feature. This would prevent a lot of the money from getting eaten up by processing fees. Once that is implemented, you should just leave the amount up to the user, no mins, no maxes. If someone thinks that $0.25/wk is too small, then they are free to tip more. But at $0.25/wk, that comes out to $13/yr. At $1/wk, that is $52/yr. I am a man of modest, yet comfortable means, and giving some people ~$10/yr to support their cause is well within my discretionary budget, but at ~$50/yr, that starts setting off my internal 'frugal' alarms, especially if I want to donate to more than one project.
Hey, thanks for the mention!
A problem with some 'viral' models is that eventually the herd develops an immunity.
Hey, thanks for mentioning Design for Hackers!
Possibly even good for consumers in that case. It's not really an ideal situation that software distribution would be a high-margin business in the first place. Typically you want distribution and infrastructure businesses to be competitive spaces with prices driven down towards costs, since they're just overhead from the perspective of getting stuff from sellers to buyers. For example, container shipping and grocery stores are not high-margin businesses.

On the other hand, Microsoft's new 20-30% cut doesn't sound like very low-margin distribution infrastructure either...
Designing to reveal the nature of the universe (from the creator of Braid)
I am not a specialist, but as far as I know, Chomsky's argument here was that the existence of recursion showed that a Markov approach had to be wrong. Surely a similar argument can be made for statistical approaches? There is no way to represent a reference to some other part of the statement in a purely statistical method. If they work they happen to work basically by accident.

Just blue-skying here, but it seems to me that if I knew enough about how a statistical program worked, I could craft a sentence that would utterly confuse it, even though it was perfectly intelligible to a normal English speaker. A putative strong-AI program could not be fooled in this way.
Forbes has an agreement with Quora.

(But yes, to your point, Forbes is not a "journalism" site.)
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I would be interested too ... should be worth a look. Thanks! raju.gandhi at google's service
Journal article from 2011 by two of the co-authors of the newly reported paper:

https://ckm.osu.edu/sitetool/sites/neuroscience/documents/Ra...

PubMed paper from another pairing of co-authors of the newly reported paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169904/
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I would be more afraid of Xbox Live than the app store.

Buying is just a one time deal. Achievements and other social features of Xbox Live are constant and, if shared with the large Xbox network, will be very desirable for consumers.
I think that the short-term is where Microsoft needs to incorporate 3rd party stores. People already have catalogs, some of them quite large, in Steam or other digital distribution services. Microsoft will either have to attract users who weren't previously attracted to digital distribution, or they'll have to support the investments that customers have already made.

Once they level the playing field (by allowing users to use Stream or the MS App Store without penalty), Microsoft can start to try and draw users away from 3rd party services. However, in the short term, it's hard to imagine them drawing users from steam and forcing those same users to abandon their investment in steam.
The new iCloud support is interesting. I just edited the same iCloud document in TextEdit on two different machines, and I gotta say that is really damn cool.

On the other hand, this new iCloud support sadly highlights another unrelated new feature in Lion, and not in a good way: Automatic Termination.

You must use TextEdit to browse your iCloud documents, which is fine, but TextEdit keeps fucking disappearing on you because it has no open documents. Command+Tab away for a split second and it's gone, forcefully removed from your Dock and Command+Tab list.

Automatic Termination is a feature that is meant to serve only the most novice of Windows users who are coming to OS X for the first, while it breaks an existing feature of the OS that has been fundamental to Mac OS X and NeXTSTEP for the last 23+ years. And it's not even an option.

It is hugely frustrating and hugely disappointing.
he's using https://www.balancedpayments.com/
Because there is less competition. Open game stores are flooded with games, mostly of low quality. It makes it very hard to stand out and you just fall off the front page really fast. There is too much noise and everything gets the same billing regardless of quality, unless you hit a top sales spot. However, top sales spots frequently have less to do with quality and more to do with appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Just look at the ios app store, the top is generally freemium games or games that are actually thinly veiled skinner boxes with some nice art. Either that or casual games that have broad appeal because they are simple games.

On Steam you get top billing for at least 2 weeks after release.

Some open store examples: Desura, Indievania, XBLIG, android, even the mac app store is pretty open compared to Steam.
I'm sorry, HN isn't AIM or Facebook. There's no way for anyone to know who you know unless you tell us, and even then I fail to see how the comment is relevant.
What on earth did the author say that conflated fundraising with revenues? All he did was compute an average and list some individual amounts raised.

Also, a 10x return is the sort of target a VC will have for a series A round. Investors in later stage rounds have lower expectations. And since later stage rounds are much bigger, that means most of the money invested in a successful startup is done with the expectations of way less than 10x returns.

From what I know, I would guess that the investor of the median dollar of that billion is happy with the way things are going so far.
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Yes, it's called "aggregation."
How To Quit Your 9-To-5 To Work On Your Startup
List of cookies used on London 2012 sites
There's some interesting research in this area, but the current state of the art is pretty inefficient. http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~caesar/papers/rofl.pdf http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/CoNEXT_papers/20...
That font rendering engine was the main reason I used Safari for Windows for so long. I absolutely love it.
48 bits was intended to be globally unique

And it well could be, but guaranteeing uniqueness is rarely as easy of a problem as you might wish.
I wish. That would be very convenient. But in startups everything depends on the founders. All we can hope to do is smooth the way for them.
You would have to know a lot of serious entrepreneurs and a lot of serious angel investors to make that happen. Crowdsourcing adds a regulatory hurdle, but it makes the money easier.
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The comment is irrelevant.
Mind-boggling that people don't realize that the word evolution is a word in and of itself.
You are right, but nowdays there is an (albeit small) trend in the opposite direction (dont enable javascript) with privacy-conscious users using noscript/scriptno and such.
For instance, none of the VMs we operate (which all have an IPv6 /64 assigned) have real network hardware, so it makes no sense to generate the IPv6 address from a MAC there.

But each vNIC does have a subnet-unique MAC address, right? Why not use it?

And you can still multihome a single IPv6 address across more than one physical interface, so again, that's not somewhere you'd want to put a MAC into an IP address.

As long as you break the tie deterministically, I don't see the harm in picking one of the interface MACs.
I think the issue is more with motives. If people have money incoming from elsewhere then it shows, at least some, that they're not doing it because they just want a paycheck.
Honestly, it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy (Mark Pincus). I say this after his extortion racket last year [1]. These kinds of antics (and I include the Skype clawback scandal [2] in this) threaten to undermine the tech industry as a whole.

But as far as Zynga goes, I see these "social games" as largely parasitic and should be regulated in much the same way that gambling is for much the same reasons. Zynga is struggling in a world where such gamers are going increasingly mobile.

Zynga is a proxy for Facebook because Facebook's near-term revenue sources are essentially:

1. Facebook credits; and

2. Display advertising.

(1) explains the correlation with Zynga. Apple is really drinking Facebook's milkshake here.

And I remain skeptical about the value of (2). I continue to believe that people's behaviour builds a better profile of what they want than what they tell you (ie look at what they do rather than listen to what they say). Facebook profiles reflect the human predilection for lying--to oneself and to others--about who they are and who they appear to be.

Don't get me wrong: Facebook could be a valuable display ad property. That just doesn't, by itself, make a $100B company.

You can count me as one of those that'll dance on the grave of Zynga however. The same goes for Groupon.

EDIT: regarding "parasitic", I refer you to Zynga's notion of "whales" [3] [4]. As much as Zynga might publicly state that these people might just be rich, I think they well know they're preying on those who are largely without self-control, intentionally cultivating addictive behaviour.

Some are OK with this. I am not. I see this as no different to encouraging gambling or drug addicts. YMMV.

[1]: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405297020462190...

[2]: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/silicon-valley-wakes-...

[3]: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-06/tech/31028725...

[4]: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-05/tech/31123148...
If you want to try the free version they released yesterday make sure that you grab a fresh copy (datomic-free-0.8.3343 is working fine for me). I suffered greatly with the initial datomic-free-0.8.3331 release before my customer gave me a heads up to refresh.
In fact he once worked at Microsoft I believe.
hopefully the site will grow larger and he'll change that. They're taking about 1/3rd more than if he opened a real merchant account.
There are a couple of catches though. One is that we can't invest more at such rates of return. A VC fund may get a lower return per dollar, but they can invest a hundred times as many dollars at that rate. The other catch is that the $7 million doesn't include our operating expenses or the value of our time.
> RELEASE ANOTHER DAMN HALF LIFE 2 EPISODE

Probably not going to happen before they release their new gaming console.
They need a good launch title and you know how long it takes them to build a game.
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They seem to be targeting Ubuntu, and you can buy most proprietary Ubuntu games on the Ubuntu Software Center already.

Isn't that already the same kind of competition? If a game is on the software center it has no online DRM so I would absolutely get it there over Steam if it was for the same price.
I made Rounded-ness up for lack of a better word. Check out https://parse.com/ or http://www.hipmunk.com/
The look and feel is close to your button on the bottom of your main page. Rounded corners, bold fonts, subtle gradients, drop shadows, icons with depth and shine elements. The button is fine, but the chart on your front page looks more Windows-XP while sites these days take their cues from iOS.
I just wish I could figure out how to get the Radeon/whatever graphics drivers right on this Lenovo Ideapad. I gave up

The fact that things like this are still an issue makes me think that it will take more than just Steam to make desktop Linux more than a tiny niche in the gaming market.
It makes sense: with Linux support Valve could run roll Steam with a barebones distro creating their own OS (SteamOS?) to run on top of the rumored SteamBox, with better control of resources and no need to pay licenses to MSFT.
I'm surprised there isn't one here for law. Enough people want to know specific legal areas (not enough to practice, just enough to understand the system), that I think this could be a very interesting area to make a codeacademy-like site for. For instance, I know a lot of people that would like to learn basic property/renting law and find it too difficult to go over all of the bylaws and learn whats what.

Edit: Also wanted to say, good list!
Thanks for that clarification--I find myself confusing V8 for JSC every now and then.
Steam supports achievements and some social features, although those aren't 1:1 with Live's social features.
Ditto. Especially for Starcraft.