skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as Im' a fan of studio monitors - they're built for the sound engineer to do his work, not blow his hearing, and hear the details he needs to hear. He's not producing music to be listened on those speakers, though - he's producing music to be listened to on a wide variety of playback situations, none of which match what he's working with, and he knows it. If he made stuff only to sound perfect on his gear, it would suck everywhere else. Instead, he makes things to sound good on whatever it needs to (whatever that is in a given situation, I don't know).

That said - I'm the first to stand up and prefer a pair of nice towers and a decent amp, even if it's 20 years old -vs- some tiny "sound good" speakers. Those are fine for the family-room surround setup, with the big subwoofer that rumbles the house, but the secret bat-cave has only a nice little amp, a couple of nice towers (and a few good headphones for various types of music when it's quiet-time). mp3's, or any compressed music, are just fine if they've been recorded well, I think arguments based on those formats are ill-conceived; like anything, if you don't use the format properly it's not going to work well. I've found that a 192kbps mp3 can occasionally sound different than the source CD, but in a blind test I could only tell you that they were different - not which one was the CD - both sound good... and that difference could probably be engineered out in the majority of cases.
Which isn't to say I don't have some humungous high-bitrate stuff hanging around - but I like to enjoy my music, not obsess over it or blow rediculous money on audiophile gear.
(okay - one pair of really good headphones - so sue me)
Personally, not a fan of the letter, but that perhaps speaks to my character. It comes across a bit brash (though I'm in Britain so maybe culture-clash going on), a bit arrogant and a little bit like the guys who always try to hard-sell me mobile phones, coupled with a dash of youthful exuberance over experience. Also, I would really prefer a cover letter tailored specifically towards an opening rather than what looks more like a mailshot.

to nit pick one point:

"To me there is nothing more gratifying than fixing that last little bug, or better yet, having a piece of code work perfectly the very first time I run it."

um - it's not the first time you run it that is the problem....it's the three millionth time a user runs it with some unforeseen interaction just before it that really screws it up.
This thread is full of great tips. Thanks for the power line pointer.
Brennan made a signup page, and let people click on the real buy button. That's what he's saying - true validation is when people will pay for it before it's even available.
Indeed, from the fourth to last paragraph: "The material is so thin that it’s completely transparent"
Great start, however, there are some nagging issues.

1- I'm not sure if this is apparent for anyone else's headphones/speakers, but the recordings have a high-pitch noise to it that hurts my ears.

2- The wording is a bit awkward throughout the site and the video (and why specify the Senior part in the .NET developer).

3- I think this site could use a makeover, especially if it's trying to appeal towards those working with the front-end.
Wait wait wait. I (along with every single other female programmer I know) show up as a male on google's Ad Planner. If the only category they give you is "Computers & Hardware", then you are assumed to be a man. Of course it is going to think most of hacker news is male.
I haven't seen many articles mention Titanium (appcelerator) as an alternative to RubyMotion; you could skip the ruby step and just start in Javascript. Also, their documentation and tutorial videos are substantial and well done.
The Vadem Clio was brilliant! Glad to see it getting some love here.
Speaking as a bit of a layman on the subject, but I know Oakleys are rated for some level of impact resistance (I think they're polycarbonate lenses like in prescription glasses vs. regular "shattering" plastic that may be found in cheaper sunglasses). It might be important to you if you're the active type.
I think it's valuable for a community to have such a word or phrase. Companies should have such a phrase too.

Google has "Googley", Apple has "doesn't suck" and "insanely great"; those phrases get used to justify a level of engineering and design respectively that truly sets those companies apart. The phrase itself is adequate to summon the higher bar of the phrase's respective auteur.
am i surprised that absolutely wrong on all levels article contains code examples in PHP?

no.
Yeah I know, I previously founded a company doing desktop virtualization on VMware ESX. I know it runs up to $3-5K per server, and that often turns out to be the "cheap" part after you're done with the SAN vendors :)

Even the fortune 500 are complaining about VMware prices though, but they keep paying because their whole datacenters are based on it. Hopefully Hyper-V will at some point provide some counter-weight to keep VMware's pricing in check.
Great resource for developers
Is defining a variable to call a function a good practice?
It's an interesting theory though: critical mass matters less to users (in a business sense - obviously it matters from the expectations of community standpoint) than it does to other potential partners. The user expectation of Twitter is that it will remain free, but maybe it's worth something to Tumblr and FB to have access to that mass. If successful, it can get very interesting from a business perspective.
Weight, as long as it isn't excessive, is only something racers need to worry about. I own aluminum and steel frame bicycles and the main difference is how the different materials feel when going across bumps. The weight difference is probably there, but it's not big enough to notice.
Right. When I got to the part about Game B, my first thought was, "Wait, this isn't what you described in the story above..."

What a crock. I think the Monty Hall Problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem) is far more vexxing and interesting.
Judging by the results of most aquihires that I've heard about, they simply don't work.

It's almost certainly a nice tax result for the acquirer, making the acquisition cheaper than hiring the individuals with large cash signing on bonuses.

Can anyone actually point to some successful acquihires?
And how much does registration/insurance/gas for your car run per year?
But that's not quite the same thing. In your example, you can't play game B independantly :)
They should go the "Prince" route. They should just adopt the 4 square logo as the official name for "The design style formerly known as Metro".

Brilliant
This sort of extreme economic consolidation hiding behind an apparently wide range of retailers and/or brands is very common. You could make the same observation, say, of laptops (Foxconn), consumer goods (Proctor & Gamble), or ag products (Monsanto, ConAgra).
The entire paralympic games baffles me. Injuries which cause handicaps are incredibly diverse. The winner will be the one with the injuries that cause the least amount of disruption to their physical capabilities. I applaud the athletes who refuse to let tragic circumstances get in the way of the enjoyment of their sport, but having a level playing field in the Olympics is about who has the most performance out of a set of extraordinary but roughly equal human beings. It seems hard to get that same level of equality in the paralympics.

Does anyone have any insight into how they match competitors to ensure a level playing field? Would someone with a normal heart rate increase ever be matched against someone with a spinal injury preventing normal heart rate increase, which would basically require this kind of pain training?
The four boxes don't bother me, but the segoe font is way too plain. I guess they use that font on everything, though.
As far as I am concerned the single biggest thing we as a family have done to improve quality of life is to arrange things so that my wife and I both walk to work and our son can walk to school.
Price of Microsoft Kinect Drops Permanently to $110
You really think a business person with real money on the line makes a dramatic change like this based on the notion of "When you haven't done it in 25 years... yeah, it's probably time for a refresh. Trends change."

That would be mind baffling...
I don't think a company needs a monopoly to be rightly slated over their anticompetitive actions.
Because by renting as little apartment as I can get away with, I:

- Leave more money in the bank.

- Get to maintain a positive net worth.

- Am much more free to move if I need to.

- Don't have to worry about sudden, large, unpredictable repair costs.

- Can demonstrate that I have learned something from watching the preceding generation recently get taught a very brutal lesson about the dangers of habitually buying as much as you can afford.
Many commenters here are predictably unable to look at this as the business decision it is.

What people don't seem to understand is that the price of a logo is not based on how it looks. Aesthetics have nothing to do with this. It's based on how much the ability to make sure that the entire system is implemented properly is worth to MS.

This is not a question about whether the logo "works for you".
Nomao iphone application to see people naked (X-ray)
Can anyone explain how this works? Seems like total black magic to me... the dude is typing random gibberish and it still figures out the word? Then he's just tapping randomly on the screen, gibberish comes out, then turns into the word he wanted?

Don't mean this to sound unintelligent, the video was just crazy. What kind of key proximity algorithms are behind this?
I hope it fixes the battery draining issue.
Twitter giving the “Sign In With Facebook” team a lot to be happy about
JQuery Zoomer - Provides live previews by scaling iFrames
Its the same with VMware Workstation on Windows. Every time a new version of Windows is released it seems to require a new version of workstation to run it as a guest.
The short answer is "it depends, but it's most likely transparent." In this case, yes - it's transparent. In theory, it depends on a number of factors.
I hear what you're saying, and I'm usually on your side of these debates.

But it's hard to use the existing version:

* they stop doing updates (bug fixes, security fixes, etc) on the existing version when they release a new one. And being a complex product, there are a lot of bugs to fix :)

* the existing versions don't work well with new OS X releases - Fusion reaches pretty deep into the OS, as I'm sure you know. I had to upgrade to Fusion 4 to make Lion work. Not sure yet about 4 on M.L.

The problem is Fusion is not really a mature product. It's a hard piece of SW to write, so the lack of maturity isn't really a problem by itself. It's just that they've effectively put me on a $50/yr SaaS plan without me realizing it.
> knowing none of the future audience in person

I'd seriously think about that 30x500 course if I were you. (Thibault is alum.)

The biggest chunk of the course is devoted to making sure there's a "commitment to cash" BEFORE spending a dime. And that includes $$$ adwords.
My favorite forgotten tech is the Garmin iQue, which is a PalmOS-based handheld GPS unit. Because of its color screen, its battery life wasn't great, so it wasn't suitable for backcountry use, but as a dash-mounted GPS is was great. While other GPS units at the time required you to navigate through confusing menus to enter an address or find a point of interest, the iQue allowed me to use Grafitti handwriting recognition, which was a lot faster.

http://www8.garmin.com/products/iQue3600/
How can a quadriplegic be a climber?
I hate to sound old-fashioned, but this puts the cart before the horse. Authors should have a book available for sale before accepting delivery payments. Ask any publisher how this sort of thing usually works out.
Third-party compilers are already locked out of Win32 development to a large degree thanks to patents on things like SEH (32-bit) and access to the native intrinsics. Why people are up in arms over WinRT is beyond me.
Heh, you guys are hilarious. Bring up disagreements about the BS funding train in this echo-chamber and get downvoted to hell as if that makes the statements any less valid. Hahahahaha, downvote away.
Yeah, our household income is ~30-40% higher than the median for our state (WA) and with two modest cars, a 1300 SqFt home(in an "up and coming" neighborhood, lol), student loans, a new baby, and very, very few electronic devices (our phones are our most expensive computing device - and we only have a small 26" LCD TV), we barely squeeze by, or so it feels. We don't vacation at all, at least in terms of going to Europe - we might road trip to Vancouver, BC for a weekend once a year.

Also, no other Toys - I have a weight set (power rack, olympic weights, heavyweight bench, etc) that ran me 1300 brand new, other than the car and the house that is our most expensive purchase... ever. I could have sworn once we reached a six figure income we'd be "well off." I guess that is a dream.
> I doubt that most people who felt financially secure and could afford a new car wouldn't want to own a new car.

Not that this is anything more than anecdata, but in my peer group, this isn't true. I get around by bike and don't own a car, but could afford a new car if I wanted one, and this is true of many of my friends. Ideas stemming from New Urbanism are a pretty big deal in at least a certain sector of our generation; we're much more likely to consciously decide to prioritize proximity to things over cars, and even if we can afford cars, we're (I'd like to think) more mindful of the sustainability consequences of the modes of transportation that we choose than our parents' generation was; further, I have a fifteen-minute commute and don't have to worry about traffic or parking, and it would take a lot for me to be willing to give that up. This is in Washington, DC, but I know people in similar situations in New York, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.
Speaking from an Entrepreneurial perspective an "Acquihire" is what our investors like to call a "Soft Landing" AKA we ran out or are running out of money with little to no traction.

Typically an Acquihire is not much more than a way to give your investors back something so you will not give yourself a black eye in the investment community and you'll have the opportunity to raise money again in the future.

In many cases Acquihires are set up by current investors who know you're struggling and looking for a way out. As investors in you they would much rather see something like this than "we're shutting down our product and parting ways" that does no good for anyone.

So while its not always a good investment some acquihires really are, even though the CEO or CTO may leave fairly quickly from a high profile acquihire chances are some members of the team (key members) will stick around for their earn out, enjoy the froyo and build some kickass new products for the company which has given them new found stability.

From an investor perspective Acquihires are just the polite thing to do, One could call it Failing gracefully
just bought 4 last month (used virtualbox for a lot of stuff, but had some proprietary vmware machines that were a real pain to try to run in vbox). $49 for purchase of vmware fusion 4. Fine. But now... I can upgrade to fusion 5 for $49... or just buy fusion 5 for... $49. Annoying. Yes, it's all in my head, but an upgrade price the same as a 'regular' price leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I wonder what the likelihood is of this being a solution for Augmented Reality contact lenses. The article mentions the possibility of it being used to build displays for eyeglasses, but that depends on a number of factors like pixel density that I can never tell whether reporters take into account.
If car ownership increased, but sales of new cars fell, it implies people are keeping the same car for more time.

The employment to population ratio is the same as it was during the 80's, and was considerably higher until the recent recession. In contrast, the fraction of people earning min wage has fallen.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EMRATIO

Further, adjusting wages (rather than total comp) for inflation is a gratuitous statistical fallacy. One of the biggest drivers in "inflation" is an average of the price of the expanding basket of goods called "health care" [1]. For most people, this is paid for out of non-wage compensation.

[1] I.e., an MRI + laparoscopic spine surgery today costs more than back pain in 1980.
The amount of movies in your index is very limited.
I searched for movies by "Jarmusch" which is not mainstream in my opinion and nothing came up.
The movies on the ranking list are all very mainstream.
Maybe I don't get the point.
Same here. I'm not American, but i also mention a drastic lack of desire of my generation (late X or early Y depending on who you ask) to own a house or a car vc. earlier ones. I bought an apartment only when i could save of one in one year and buy in cash, and only recently bought a car (also within a couple months of income) only because of moving to a place with little public transport.

This has nothing to do with economy, this is behavioral change. Freedom in all forms is the thing we value most of all and ready to spend a lot of money for, and houses and cars have negative value in this respect, they bind you.
No dev in six months. What is the future of NowJS?
Look at the picture in the article.
What is wrong with that url (except default.aspx)? It's widely used and I like if I'm not forced to some region or locale based on my IP and Accept-Language. Well, I still am but I can change it easily if they give me this url (or even better link on a page).
> This piece was extremely well written and intructive:

> http://arachnoid.com/psychology/aspergers.php

Thanks, but my latest article is better IMHO, as well as more up-to-date:

http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology

Thanks again for your support.
If I remember the complaints about IE6 correctly, one of them was that IE6 oversteps standards and best practices, rewarding poor coding that wouldn't fly in standards-compliant browsers. If I'm correct on that, this seems more like a "feature" than an actual feature; that is, something you can get away with even though you shouldn't.
I went through a bunch of music players too. I got the original MPMan on a trip to Taiwan one year. I think it had 64MB of memory, which meant I had to downsample to "radio" quality to get a full album on it.

I had another Rio that played off SmartMedia as well.

At one point I refused to get an iPod because it didn't have gapless playback so I got a Rio Karma instead. It was pretty good, but it has literally disintegrated while in storage.

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Went through way too many PDAs also. Several paper Daytimers (which were pretty expensive at the time), Sharp Wizard clamshell, Casio Windows CE, Palm, Handspring, and a Toshiba e800. The e800 was an interesting disappointment - it was the first to have a VGA screen, but it was also crippled by a horrible Windows Mobile OS.

Extending the PDA thing, I went through a couple of Windows Mobile phones, an Audiovox SMT5600 and an HTC Excalibur. Good devices hampered by a crappy OS. On a side note, I've been quite impressed by the Windows Phone OS.

The iPhone is probably the first PDA that I have used consistently for an extended period of time.

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EDIT: I forgot that I actually had the original Newton message pad and one of its successors too. I remember buying the original Graffiti software from the company that would eventually become Palm. Holy crap, I bought a lot e-junk in my lifetime.
So one out of four have no business model? Interesting.
Very good. I found a handful of well organized lists on Wikitravel, but as you state there were far too many inconsistencies between major metro areas.

I did end up finding that OpenTable has done the hard work here for us. If you visit their sitemap: http://www.opentable.com/opentable-sitemap.aspx and view source you'll see that they have a very well organized list of regions and matching cities.

This was likely a manual process for them, but from the looks of it, they had the manpower to do it right. Very clean and comprehensive data.
I'm starting to grow a little bit numb toward all the revolutionary materials science papers that I've seen since starting grad school. I don't mean to malign the work done here, but if I had a dollar for every paper I've read that claimed to be the foundation for a new class of devices I'd be rich enough to start my own seed fund.

When will we see some actual commercialization of this nano tech? The nano future has been five years away for the last 20 years. Let's make some devices already.
James Gosling (Father of Java) Loves Jelastic
That is annoying. But the problem is worse on Mac OS, b/c OS X release cycle is only 12 months now.
I agree with you there about the student comment! I do find it poorly integrated though, for example:

To do a linreg on some data and project that past the extents of the dataset requires...

NSpire: create document, create spreadsheet, enter data, create stats plot, analyse->regression->linreg, create graph, plot stat func, set zoom constraints, whack X value in, read Y.

That's just shit, student or not.

TI-86: {1,2,3,4}->xStat, {3,6,8,10}->yStat, catalog->LinReg, Graph, zoom, enter X, done.

Probably right about it not being the right tool.

Anyone want to buy an NSpire CAS? £30 including delivery to the UK :)
Part of what makes watching people with disabilities compete in events so heartwarming to watch is being able to share in their victory.

But what kind of victory is it?

I used to wrestle competitively, and I still believe that it's the most underrated sport, partly for the following reason:

Wrestling is undeniably a team sport - matches are scored for the entire team, and the support and camaraderie between teammates is not an empty gesture; I can't imagine a successful team that lacks this. But on the other hand, when you and your opponent are on the mat for your six minutes, you're the only one fighting for your team - all the pressure is on you and you alone.

Most importantly, this makes victories personal. You can win your match even if the team loses, and vice versa. You can lose your match and still help the team win (by keeping the margin of victory low, which impacts the score). You can have a personal triumph, and your teammates will share in that, regardless of the outcome of the team's score.

I know less about the Paralympics than the Special Olympics (and yes, I know they're different), but to me, both always stood out to me as wonderful reminders of the true importance of sportsmanship - not athleticism, but sportsmanship. Part of that is about treating your opponent with respect, which is how we usually hear the word, but part of it is about treating yourself with respect. A dishonorable victory may help your team/country, but for you personally, it's a defeat. On the other hand, being able to overcome a personal struggle, even if you don't "win" the match, qualifies as a victory in my book, and as a spectator, I like being able to celebrate that with the athlete.

Knowing that somebody is artificially harming their body in order to boost some artificial metric (like their race time), or even to gain an edge over their opponent - that's not a good way to treat yourself as an athlete. But that robs me of my vicarious joy as well. And that's a horrible way to treat your teammate.
Everyone should report abuse for travis4all on github
This DB spammed everything NPM registered and auto-forked 2500+ projects.
OpenTable has the best list I've found of region to city associations.

http://reviews.opentable.com/0938/allreviews.htm