skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funded vs. Bootstrapped is a false dichotomy. Not every business model will succeed as a funded company and the opposite is true too.

While the author claims there is a charm to the "37 Signals" profitability approach vs. the "Twitter" growth approach. There's a reason those companies operate on completely different models and on completely different products.

In hindsight, would you have believed Apple could have existed without capital infusion? It is, arguably, a very profitable tech company.

I think there is a reason for both types of companies to exist. Generalizing the problem in to a pseudo duel between the two are the beginnings of a flawed decision.
Not with current tech - no.

But I highly doubt this is an insurmountable obstacle.

Humans can be convinced of many things that aren't in fact "real" or in indeed supported by any evidence other than appealing to human emotions/biases/prejudices (religon/"natural" markets/trickle down economics/communism/libertarianism/racisim).

Give it time - it will happen.

Or we nuke ourselves in the process of getting there.

Either way it'll be blast (see what I did there?).
It looks it, I'm a self confessed nerd who lives things like this, any upcoming events?
+1, except the opposite: my usual coding style is more terse than jQuery's style.

Those guys have spaces everywhere
>The original point stands -- the higher resampling rates are increasingly pointless.

If we were talking about sampling rates it would. But we're not, we're talking about bitrates.

Any MP3 of a CD, whether 128kbps, 192kbps, 320kbps or something else, will still have a sample rate of 44.1kHz. Resampling at 128kHz would indeed be stupid and pointless, and would also result in a much larger file than the original CD. That is not what mp3 does; it takes your 16bits@44.1kHz CD bitstream, and gives you a compressed bitstream that will, when decompressed, give you another 16bits@44.1kHz bitstream which sounds similar. The bitrate measures the size of this compressed bitstream, and therefore gives an indication of how much information (in the technical sense) you must have discarded to form it. But it's entirely unrelated to the sampling rate - you can't even say bitrate = sampling rate * bit depth when we're talking about a compressed bitstream.
The most frustrating thing was knowing exactly what the exploit was, but not quite getting how to take advantage of it.
I was speaking yesterday, and I agree that the setup seems less than ideal when walking past the speaker areas.

That being said, if you're taking a seat, you're entering the audio zone, and while not perfect, you could understand the speakers pretty well.

The projections were unreadable I agree, but there were also big televisions that were readable when you were in one of the seats (given decent sized font, but it's the presenters fault if they use small fonts).

Anyway, having dedicated rooms for talks would have been much nicer, no question about it.
Great info, thanks for compiling this.

It would be fascinating to see a trendline across batches - do you feel you'd have the data to do that?
greetz lrock, hope you'll be able to handle the load! ;) maybe give varnish a try.
So if I set my user-agent to "}, what would Logstash do?

If there's no explicit JSON support when coercing user data into JSON, be very careful that you don't produce something that looks like JSON but isn't.

Or in other words: In this specific case I'd recommend just emitting normal combined log format because there's already support for that in logstash and that support is explicitly made to be tolerant of dirty data, whereas I would suppose their JSON support isn't (either it's JSON or it's not, but who knows in what strange ways a webserver could encode their access log)
Looking at this, it makes me realize just how much harm the journals are doing by limiting the number of figures per paper (and sometimes charging per-figure as well). If it really meant smaller, simpler, papers it might be a reasonable restriction, but in my field figures with 10 or more panels -- reproduced at a tiny size which makes them pretty much useless when reading offline -- are commonplace. They end up completely divorces from the flow of the manuscript.

Putting all the figures at the end (or separately) when the manuscripts are sent out for review just makes matters worse.
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Tell me if I'm wrong here but a world where developing a grocery list app is measured in months is a world where there is something seriously wrong with our tools.

I'm not denigrating the app. I haven't tried it. But how is this not a 95% solved problem. Shouldn't our client and server frameworks be doing most of the work? And then maybe a few days to improve the UX and the design?
Over a certain threshold, the government can and does intervene. Accessibility lawsuits against large internet retailers are not uncommon, and whining that it's all about the images doesn't cut it. Of course, if no-one uses the website, no-one cares.
> The original point stands -- the higher resampling rates are increasingly pointless.

But the mp3 tracks are not resampled. They use the same sampling rate of 44.1kHz, with a variable bit-depth. So, for instance, a 320kbps mp3 file still has the original sampling rate of 44.1kHz.
It really must be pointed out that the author of this article caused a scene on the mailing list, posting a bunch of anti-Microsoft vitriol, making the jobs of everyone else trying to be a comitee much harder; he got called on it by someone from Apple, and the argument continued as he fought back. :(

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fx/2012JulSep/008...
Which, unfortunately, you cannot sign a waiver that says I won't hold anyone responsible for me burning up in a fire here.

What about the buildings, cars, etc nearby? Fire spreads, and from what I see on Maps the Dojo isn't exactly isolated.
Personally I believe that the post-Twitter days will involve a shift away from micro sharing towards long form writing and better ways to have discussions with peers.

We have that. It's called blogging, and it came before Twitter. In order for you theory to make sense, you have to explain why people moved to Twitter in the first place, and/or if there is an uptick in blog activity
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Very interesting. This then set me off reading about ABX testing for longer than I wish to admit. For those looking to try some ABX testing between 320kbps and 128kbps mp3 files, this is the best in-browser one I've found so far: http://mp3ornot.com/
I don't think the tickets are transferable, as mentioned in another comment, they require you to upload a picture when buying/claiming the ticket...
This is why I bought some ethnic percussions and learned how to play. I enjoy it a lot more now than listening to flattened mp3 drums.
Small live concerts is the place where the music lives now. Like one I visited in Prague during the last Xmas. You know, these guys don't even care for a "record". They earn their living by playing live. Like it was hundreds of years ago. And I personally think, it should be like this.
Take a look at the HN circle on Google+. That's definitely not just 77% male.
I'm particularly offended by this statement: "we wouldn’t have the web as we know it today if not for its contributions".

In a parallel universe where microsoft never existed, the people who came up with XMLHttpRequest did their innovative work at Netscape and the web today is light years ahead.
Reader flow is not a problem, if the figure+caption is used to make a point, which can be skipped for flow. Example from a recent publication [0], where the actual figure is not necessary, so the reader's flow is not broken:

> The libFirm API provides serialization and deserialization support for the intermediate representation graphs. As can be seen in Figure 3, it is therefore possible to compile the C part of the standard library with cparser, stop before actual code generation and
instead export the intermediate representation to a file.

I believe most readers (e.g. me) look the figures first, so I want the figures to be comprehensible on their own.

[0] http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000028112
99.99999% of surveys upon social userbase outlets fashion towards 50% of all users being under 24 year's of age. My reasearch for this is based upon a finger in the air and no other hard facts beyond recalling a recent G+ survey.

Given this what % of user lie about there age (sexual equality has led males to stay 21 for longer), gender etc. What % keep it private. Do lurkers count and many other details that distract from the reliability % of any result.

You never know, maybe in 100 years or so people might look at % based surveys as people most look upon horoscopes today.

I would also perhaps argue that any age based grouping in anything other than age itself is ignoring the fact that some people do and can act older or younger than their actual age on many levels. It is perhaps the definition of the areana that the survey is based upon that should be weighted against the user.
If somebody had written a program to analyis users posts to guage there age and gender to then come up with some %, then that would of been Hacker News.
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Did you know that governments aren't businesses? You're applying principles of making money to governments. Governments ARE NOT there to make money. They are there to serve the public interest. Concepts like profit and minimum viable product do not apply.

Governments are good and they exist for a reason. You are arguing in support of all kinds of unsafe, unenlightened, harmful, discriminatory practices all under the heading of "it's not profitable" which is complete bullshit. The government is not there for the sake of your profit. They are there to protect the interests of the public. It's not okay for a business to just tell the disabled to fuck off, or to create a situation where a fire will result in mass deaths. Living in a civil society means you have obligations to your fellow citizens, you have an obligation to install sprinklers so you don't kill people and burn down the block and an obligation to be inclusive of those who are different.

Your entire post is nothing but a selfish, narrow-minded rant in support of your own short-sighted bottom line. You would happily destroy any semblance of civilization if it increased your income by some tiny fraction. That is not enlightened, that is pathetic short-sighted selfishishness.

You are the dark side of entrepreneurialism. The entrepreneur who wants the disabled to be excluded because serving them isn't profitable. The slumlord who thinks it's fine to let his property be a fire hazard because he "owns" it.

Your "ownership" and "private property" is nothing but a social construct designed specifically to promote the greater good. Your property rights are not a natural law, they were created by the government, gifted by the government, enforced by the government.

With an attitude like that, you will seriously bring back Marxism. This country is already seeing a violent backlash against selfish, destructive, short-sighted greedy business owners who blame the government for everything. With that rhetoric people are going to start wanting to guillotine Silicon Valley, since Wall Street is up on the chopping block already.

Tech people are supposed to be socially conscious. We're supposed to be political animals who care about our communities and the progress of civilization. This ignorant railing against the government is nothing but people who never studied the Gilded age, back when your laissez-faire capitalism was demonstrated and failed. These regulations are there because the market does not solve certain issues. Grow the fuck up and realize you're living in a society full of many people and there are human interests that trump your profit-motive.
Wasn’t this originally supposed to be in Barcelona and only moved to Berlin very late?

You can’t just organize events like that in Berlin. There are already many other (broadly) similar events in Berlin, with more focus and better organization.

It just doesn’t seem very attractive to me and it’s a total culture clash. Paranoid security theater? No alcohol? I’m sorry, but not in Berlin.
It would be interesting to correlate your data with whether the company receives funding and,if so, in what amount.
That's great, but does that matter much? This isn't academic research where novelty is the key. They are trying to build a business, and there is clearly good potential for a business in this area. And at the very least, it will be good to have competition in this space.
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I'm just in development right now, and the assets haven't been packed yet (but I'm loading the font right on top). Thanks for answering, and congrats on your very well designed website!
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It seems to me that this event wants to be something it isn't. I think they want to get all the "cool nerdy people" and got marketing/twitter people and gamers that thought it was a big LAN Party.

I heared about a guy who wanted to leave and the security kept his laptop, because they couldn't verify if it was his or not. nightmare!

If you want a real "hacker" event, participate the 29c3 (now in Hamburg) shortly after christmas.
I am really blown away by this man's innovation and productivity. A true artist, low key, strike high.
I'm assuming Hacker Dojo does not actually own the building and is leasing the space. Why isn't the building owner being held at least partially accountable for bringing the space up to code? I'm guessing it wasn't detailed in their lease, but how long is the lease for? Is there a possibility of breaking it and finding a building that does meet the requirements for how they want to use it?

Also, in most jurisdictions I've worked in, requirements to bring bathrooms up to ADA are not triggered unless you're already doing renovations over a certain amount in the building. Maybe here it's because the use type of the space is changing, though.
Yep. They are completely useless posts with stolen content that isn't even any good. Here's more:

http://news.ycombinator.org/submitted?id=samayaranjan
>>>The OP here was lauding the ipad as some sort of "solution" to the "mess,"

Note I was not lauding the iPad. I was using it as an example of the kind of Click & Go experience people want. I could have very well said Windows machines vs Linux boxes, because most Windows programs contain everything you need to go without searching for "dependencies."
Is it possible to have a fulltime day job and also start a startup?
I have good paying, stable fulltime job. I am also passionate about starting my own startup. I have been teating several startup ideas but never felt so strongly positive about my recent one.

I can survive 18 months without a job and maintain the standard of living should i decide to quit my jon and go fulltime on the startup idea.

The thought that keep stopping from that bold move is, why not do both. Work on startup in the evenings and weekends? And then quit the job once i start generating revenue.

I am looking for some advice... If you have been there and done that, what is your learning. I am married and we have 2 kids.
That smooth adaptation only works while there are alternatives, and while market speculation doesn't apply - ie. while there's slack in the system, and no gaming.

For example, http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/indium/mcs-... makes interesting reading - particularly the part about finding alternatives and reducing consumption because indium is so volatile.

Clearly there are alternatives and better processes in this case, but I wonder what essential resources could end up having no viable alternatives in a lifetime?
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29c3 in Hamburg (previous years in Berlin) http://events.ccc.de/
> I'm pretty sure a 192kbps MP3 is indistinguishable from a CD for 99.999% of the people.

That's because people are completely oblivious to the existence of proper loudspeakers (ie. "studio monitors").
No, he hasn't always been an android developer, plus the guy hasn't always been a developer (designed electronics for NASA before). You really believe anyone can write their wikipedia page and not have it deleted within 10 seconds? Personally i think there's a lot more to learn from seasoned developers who have literally seen it all, rather than the next-instagram-wannabe boys that frequent here.
I think so, if you doubled it to $4 it just still seems like less to me, I know it's not but that's how it feels...
> I certainly wouldn't miss people pedantically correcting grammar.

If the wrong word is used, one that doesn't mean what's intended, then a correction isn't pedantic.
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On my second try, I got a double (Forward + backwards) railgun early on. So overpowered it's not even funny. Most enemies don't even make it out of spawn zones, if you take a hit it's a sign you're falling asleep.
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I had the same experience. For me it manifested as "this sounds louder, but I can't crank it up anymore". With a vinyl, I used to be able to just crank that volume dial into the stratosphere and rock out, the CD just turned into a sonic fog bank that tired you out trying to listen to when you tried to turn it up.
Or Euskal Encounter (euskal.org) in Basque Country (Spain). Quite good for scene, hacking (very good security contests), programming but also good if you want to play games, dance or whatever.
Typing code is very bursty. It might not account for a large fraction of your programming time. But when you have to code up a function, waiting for hunt-and-peck to finish the job is infuriating for the same reason that waiting on your snail of a compiler is infuriating. No doubt there are zen masters who meditate mindfully on the meaning of each and every key stroke. I'm not that patient.
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A few creepy pictures of the female gender there. Do they want even less of those participants?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm...
Couple other related points:

ET only really had 5 weeks, not 6 months. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(vid...

Similarly, Atari rushed Pac Man, and overproduced. "Given the popularity of the property, Atari produced 12 million units, anticipating a high number of sales." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_(Atari_2600) At the time, there weren't even 12 million consoles in existence - they'd banked on people buying consoles just to play Pac Man at home.
"Lately VCs haven't come close to generating the returns on their investments that made them stars in the 1990s."

That's because it was in the height of the internet bubble. Companies have to work harder and show real revenue. People may not believe it but the recent IPO's have shown this. Tech companies have to show revenue and progress other than traffic .

Companies are springing up that do more than social networking. In the 90's there were many of these crazy ideas but there were no consumers to use them so the valuations were out of whack. I think we're going to see some more ambitious companies coming out. Simple, Square and Uber are the first step.
Bible printing isn't just driven by intrinsic demand -- various groups push lots and lots of bibles out into the world to evangelize their religion.

I think one group claims to have sent 250,000 bibles to American servicemen.
Elasticsearch, the recommended backend for making your logs searchable, is a separate project from logstash. Logstash does come with a built in elasticsearch, designed to get people up and running very quickly, but if you are considering any serious use of elasticsearch you would set it up yourself as a standalone service.

Logstash does come with a simple web interface, and kibana is a slightly better but still simple interface being ported into logstash. Again this is geared towards getting people up and running quickly, and at the end of the day it's just a pretty curl wrapper for elasticsearch.

You can also use logstash without elasticsearch/kibana, which we do for a good bit of our logs. I think logstash intentionally blurs the lines of what it is or isn't so people don't get caught up in trying to figure out how to get it running. Give it a try and see for yourself exactly what it is or isn't.
Again, I'm not seeing the problem.

100 million records may take a lot of time to update, but so what? It's not like you make major schema changes to the same data every day. If you write your code to read either format v1 or v2 and to output v2, the migration can begin gradually. When you're sure it's working well, you start a low-priority job that reads old records and migrates them. Eventually, all data is in v2, so you can ditch the reader code for v1.
"everyone that wants one already has one" - that may be true in first-world countries, but not worldwide. Religious oppression and persecution is still a large phenomenon in the world.

But yes, it is silly to compare production numbers a book you may own for decades with a catalog that is tossed when the next issue arrives. The catalog would win by a large factor even if the readership was exactly the same.
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My first observation was that, of all the pictures containing women, pretty much most of them were focussed on their arses.

I don't like the feeling that women are an attraction at these types of event. It's like, "OMG there are women here! Make the most of it, because this hardly ever happens!" Then everyone whips out the camera because the sight of another gender doing things is somehow surprising.
Do the switches each have their own copy of the DHT? If so, do they sync their copy of the DHT with other switches?
The quote that caught my eye was:

>> "We don't have to throw away kitchens in the Dumpster after the photo shoot."

That does not speak well for the quality of the furniture.
Babies are made through love, love is beautiful, ergo babies are beautiful. Q.E.D.
(I read the whole post, it was an interesting read)
A second look through the images and I agree, almost every picture of a woman is focused on her bottom, with the exception of one at the bottom which is focused instead on the bosom.
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Oh brother. Offended?

While it's true that Microsoft has done it's part to hold up progress, the fact is that much of what you love about the web today can be directly traced back to innovation at Redmond. Let's give them credit where credit is due. Hell, they came up with AJAX so people could access Outlook from the web. Do you remember how obnoxious browsing was before XMLHttpRequest?
that says enough about the organization. if there is a campus party 2013, i guess they'll require you to give them fingerprints, iris scans and your shoe size.
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That picture of the Facebook recruiter is also on the main page of http://salon.io/ as the most representative (?!) image of the event.
But who's "they"? Were these pictures taken by some official member of the party?
From a casual look at the data it seems like B2B and B2c are almost inversed. None is the most popular with B2C and Subscription with B2B.

What makes subscriptions attractive to businesses, but apparently not to consumers?