skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their console has generally been cheaper and more aimed at casual gamers and young kids, which happens to be a bigger target market. They are also less likely to stay engaged and continue to purchase additional games though.
Though I appreciate the analytical dissection of Funded vs Bootstrapped, this is obviously biased to already cash-heavy or serial startupers. The ones already "in the loop".

Most are not.

The most funding pitches are the ones who NEED the money to start working on MVP at all, let alone already have working business models to support themselves.

The "Funded vs Bootstrapped", in the meaning of the words implied in article, is a choice only for a select few.
Looks like I chose the higher one but you are right, hardly any difference.
I often wondered if there was an alternative to HN, for when it goes down unexpectedly or I want a change of scenery, but I haven't as yet found a suitable site.
Wouldn't it be better to have an input field and simply read what has been typed in it? It's not as if you need to have something else focused while doing it. That would eliminate all international keyboard problems in one go, even without a dedicated library.
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Only the graph, rebuilding your following/ followers would be a pain. Which makes sense that if they are going to be a pain about anything it is restricting access to rebuilding the graph on competing services.
I though it was tubes vs. bipolar junction transistors

And mosfets behave much more like a tube than them. Oh well...
I really liked this idea, reminded me of this talk I saw a while ago:
http://joshuafoer.com/conquering-the-ok-plateau/
I'd go on vacation or do more work ;) and sure I'd come back after a month!
Much more interesting test:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/the-great-mp3-bitra...

And the outcome:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-grea...
Friend of mine is in an amateur band. They sell vinyl records and download links. They have ignored CDs. If you want the physical object, you probably want a record.
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simple:

don't sign up with an email whos domain is on this list: https://github.com/juliuss/dc_autotag/blob/master/autotag.xm...
I had a similar thought when I read about Dawkin's axis (which I didn't know about). It implies either an active embrace or rejection of god - particularly of the abrahamic god - that doesn't make sense to me, as someone who was born in a very non-religious setting.
I have to completely agree here. You can still find some material that was published (on purpose or not) before it got adjusted and the difference is huge. I was really impressed by DM's Lillywhite sessions CD which was leaked before it was "finished". It's got the best sound I've heard in a long time on a professional recording. I wish more were released that way - without the unnecessary compression (of sound, not the file format).
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But in this case the issue is that it is one of many things that makes it harder to port existing software, and so the shared lineage with Windows matters a lot less.
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Is elastic appropriate for customer development and initial marketing?

My understanding was that their use-case was if you wanted to scale out sales on a product for which you have already identified need, price, customer profile, etc.
Who says data has to be all about business? Manage any growing list of data and organize online.
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140 characters is equally smart and equally shameful for Internet from where i see it. Twitter will do what fits its revenue model relentlessly and ruthlessly, since its logical and rational. Point is since you can't fight it "Kill It" and build a new one.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming
And what do you think is racist about "ghetto"? Who is it racist against? Knee-jerk political correctness is the lowest form of intellectual activity, barely one step above brain death.
what is this? Did you just copy the two paragraphs from some handbook? I miss additional information, e.g. about known attacks or vulnerabilities.
yeah, but you do not practice comment characters :D.

but valid point nevertheless.
I would back your assertion up. I think I could only distinguish one 192 kbps mp3 in my blind listening tests, but I don't have especially great equipment. I couldn't tell anything above 192, and for Ogg the threshold bitrate was much lower.

I'm fairly certain that the vast majority can't tell a 192 kbps mp3 from CD, and that's a good thing.
The repo your repo could be like 
this is what github had just sent ... to everybody i guess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE
damn good commercial
you don't its just large now, people payed a lot - t-shirts are sold out.
that opens a whole can of worms.

i use vim: so please support all vim movements. and the surround plugin. and while at it: my custom templating plugin as well :D.
I really don't see how this is relevant to the submitted article?
Your argument has departed from fact. You know, there may be times when one feels so right, so rational, but at the expense of a hint of aggression and anger. That's a good time to stop and think.
Oh God, Holy Mountains from Hypnotize actually has CLIPPING! This isn't some college band, it's System of a Down. They couldn't hire an engineer that knows the first thing about sound?

I'm just a guy and I know your fucking track shouldn't clip ever. They ruined that song.
"In all, IKEA plans to publish 208 million catalogs this year, more than double the amount of Bibles expected to be produced."

What a silly comparison. I'm not sure if that's supposed to sound impressive or not, but I would assume the number of bibles being produced isn't that high - everyone that wants one already has one, and it's not like they update it each year!
I'm not a nuclear advocate, though. And, I was responding to the GP, who distinctly mentioned nuclear power plants, plural, so not Fukushima in particular. I wouldn't want to eat anything that has been in a ten-mile radius around Fukushima. Not because it's likely going to cause me any harm, just… you know… to be safe.
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I wonder how different the stats are for casual users (browsing headlines once or twice a month), people who read all the interesting links on the frontpage, those who read comments, those who sometimes comment, and those who routinely comment.

I can only thing of a few female commenters. zero on http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders right?
Various reports say that users on the App Store are more likely to pay for apps than Google Play users. I don't know what the reason for that is but that's the way it is for now.

If you want to make money from apps you should really be releasing on both platforms.
> Really? I've had pretty good luck. I've been using one of their shelving units [1]

Same here, although only 2 years so far the Expedit feels like a beast, and the modularity is great. Plus it's fun moving baskets around.
The truth is there are few options that have HN's quality level, for various reasons, one being its relatively small following.

At risk of igniting controversy (or generating more heat than light), I might rank social media sites this way, from worst to best:

4Chan | Digg | Reddit | Slashdot | HN

Reasonable people may differ, of course. But I think there's little controversy over the idea that, when a site becomes popular, its quality necessarily declines -- unless there are barriers to membership.
I use more verbose captions lately. It makes the figures be comprehensible on their own. The running text is shorter; The passage is mostly copy-pasted into the caption.
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So, did they finally find your lost image?
> 2. ADA compliant bathrooms and wheelchair ramps? Not part of a reasonable MVP[1]. What if every website "had to" be readable in Braille and multiple tongues on day one, before one had the revenue to pay for that sort of thing?

I could NOT disagree with this more strongly. It is simply NOT acceptable to discriminate against people or exclude them, and it would NOT be acceptable to create a website that isn't readable with a screen-reader. What do you mean by "readable in braille"? I suspect you have little notion as to what making things accessible really entails.

As for the larger point: this is the law. Whether you agree with it or not, every single office has to comply with this. Why should these guys get an exception just because you like what they're doing? How could the city possibly justify giving them an exemption and not every Tom Dick and Harry that asks for one after that point?
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strange. i have no problems whatsoever regarding keyboard layout. and i am using an obscure one. is this os-dependent in a way? (i'm just curious and want to understand the problem)
Upvoting on Reddit may not necessarily reflect the popularity or acceptance of a particular view. There are various ways to game the Reddit voting system. This is not to suggest that a given Reddit forum has a quality level above what its voting patterns suggest.
This is how scientific publications should be at our technological level. Not a multiple-pages-based pdf.

However, the details still need some iterations. The design breaks when the browser windows gets narrow. Does it work on a phone or tablet?
They have tracking cookies installed on most user's machines.

This is because they have such a high penetration rate of advertising inventory which they use to profile you by age /sex / interests.

Then it's just a case of marking you as an HN user, they do this by detecting the referrer when you arrive at one of their sites.
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Also, there is a lot more of the "you're a fucking idiot" attitude on display on Reddit. Mistakes like the one you cited do get downvoted and called out here, but generally, you don't hear the "comic book guy" voice when reading them out loud.
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Wow, the real Paul Lutus is on Hacker News. :)
Usage of "shut down" is more prevalent and has a longer history in English, although "shutdown" is also correct and has entered wide usage at the beginning of 20th century.

Google NGram Viewer ftw:
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shutdown%2C+shu...

(Notice the cool bump for "shut down" around 1940s: apparently lots of things were being, ahem, shut down.)
Objectively, not many companies have someone on staff who has built something like Rails, and nurtured it into something used the world over.
This whole thread just saddens me. I suspect very few people here are qualified to talk about this.

It is not "rent-seeking, plain and simple". I speak from experience, as I've carried out many risk assessments against buildings for live events. Fire and building codes exist for a very specific reason: to save lives and prevent injury.

If you think being forced to install sprinklers is somehow 'rent-seeking' perhaps you should remember that the Rhode Island Station nightclub fire (in which 100 people died) could have had significantly less impact had sprinklers been installed (as the building code specified). There are too many examples to count of fires where lives have been lost as a result of inadequate prevention and control systems.

You may not like the fact that these systems cost money to install and maintain. You may not also like the fact that in most states that vast majority of commercial buildings require them. But they are very much not 'spurious' regulations.
The difference is tiny but just about audible.

To my ears neither sounded like a good quality recording and I think that's what made it so hard to tell the difference. Even with cheap speakers, it's easy to spot compression artifacts in poorly encoded audio but in these samples the drum tracks on both sound "mashed". That might be an instrumental trait but it sounds more like a production or postprocessing error to me.
It's absolutely brilliant.

And besides improving your code-typing speed, it's also a nice way to get a hang of all different languages you might want to delve into. Alternatively, you can also polish your muscle memory on all the thousands of function, classes and method names you can find in your typical language/framework of choice.
I like the embarrassing arguments from MathOverflow moderators re. not closing Mr. Thurston's (vague, subjective, "not a question") question on MathOverflow.

Nicely put by Georges Elencwajg in one of the comments:

...posed by somebody else, this question would have been closed within a picosecond. The rationale, ironically, being that professional mathematicians of quality would flee this site in droves because the question is "discussiony", "vague", "has no right answer", etc. This is the Matthew effect in all its glory: "For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away" (Matthew 25:29) Needless to say, I'm euphoric at the thought of Bill's participation in MathOverflow.
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> The used-fuel problem is already solved. The solution is just effectively permanently blocked by NIMBY-ism.

Translation: "The used-fuel problem isn't solved." One mustn't dismiss the power of NIMBY. Now that Nevada voters have blocked any further development of Yucca Mountain, the U.S. has no repository at all, and waste continues to pile up at various locations near operating plants.

It is a very serious problem.
Asking which file sounds "better" is meaningless; some distortions sound good. The proper way to do this is an ABX test, where you compare both to a known original, and ask which sounds more like the original.
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I have been to quiet a few startup weekend type events, down here in India. In fact one of the main products i am working on is based out of a weekend hack that happened 6 months ago. To me the most biggest crib-point is the fact that, while most of these events put in considerable amount of effort pre-event, and ensure an amazing event, everyone of them lack when it comes to post event engagement. Without an after event support system in place, most of those hacks do not see the light of the day and the event in itself ends up becoming a terrible cross between a beauty pageant and a spellingbee contest.
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It isn't working for me either on my UK layout mac keyboard (Chrome, OSX Lion)
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Perfect tool for code monkeys :)

You even can't put more line breaks than it is - just type, character by character. If it checked the code in general (e.g. package names typed correctly - but not line breaks and stuff) - I'd totally use it. Not now, though.
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Obviously for the author's signal source, the original CD sound tracks (sampled at 44.1 KHz * ) would limit the importance of a change from 128 to 320 kbps.

* Corrected units
Again, not an ABX test. No wonder the first file did best - it sounded most like the first file. You can't do listening tests without a labelled original to compare to.
Hm, worked for me with a Colemak keyboard.
I'd be highly surprised if Apple took such a step - such an acquisition, or major investment, wouldn't bring Apple any greater profit, in exchange for billions. Given Apple's tendency to make any purchases as small as possible, I suspect we've seen all of their involvement - some fee in exchange for the unhindered embedding of Twitter posting within iOS and Mountain Lion.

To me, the most likely reason which explains the "consistent user experience" quote is simply the matter of presenting ads, and being certain that every single user is seeing them, unfiltered.
No, this is wrong. CDs are sampled at 44.1khz with 16-bit samples, making for (calculates) 706kbps. And that's ignoring stereo.
If you have quality headphones I don't think it's very hard. On earbuds, or laptop speakers, almost impossible. Put it on a real stereo and you will also be able to.

Perhaps the fact that music is now being produced and optimized to sound good on tinny speakers is altering what we perceive to be a "good sound."
Man I think I might be kind of a slow typer. I was only getting like 45 wpm in the javascript test. I think it's because of all the abnormal characters, although I do code in js daily. -_-

But keeping my fingers on the home keys to type has always felt really awkward to me. I tend to position my hands differently depending on the word I'm about to type - in a way that let's me "roll" my fingers along in just the right sequence so it tends to be a series of short bursts where it would seem as if I'm actually just smashing a bunch of keys at once over and over again.

Edit: I just tried type racer and was getting 80+ wpm. /me wonders how people get 140+. :O
Personally, I don't like the network address as id, for two reasons; firstly, you don't control it, your network provider does (whoever that is - the server or ISP does). So if that entity wants, they can boot you off and pretend to be you.

Secondly, it ties you to them; what happens if you switch servers, or ISP, or whatever? I mean, right now I'm planning on switching to a cheaper, faster offer from another ISP, but I wouldn't do it if I were to lose all access to my accounts on the different services.

I think the id should be both controlled by the user and portable; that mostly leaves public keys and their fingerprints as ids.
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Given all of the recent discussions about problems with HN I wonder whether there would be any positive effects of actually choosing to shut it down for a month?

I would certainly come back if it did shut down for a bit.
Could this be used on Elasticsearch in general? Any pointers what's needed for that? The interface looks nice, and we have a large(ish) Elasticsearch cluster I'd like to try this on.
I barely understand economy, but it seemed to be money valuation backfire, they couldn't do anything about it.
I'd currently go to app.net. Finding news is more difficult, but the threads / discussions there are of really high quality too.
Yup, tested this before. Also with quite good hardware (sound card, circumaural quality headphones), between 128kbps and 192 you're already not sure whether there a difference or not, but anything above 192 is really wasted effort.
Aren't most companies always under 50 employees? That sounds like a terrible idea. How often does a company grow massively, and when they do they often get their own dedicated accounting teams.
> it would NOT be acceptable to create a website that isn't readable with a screen-reader

Let's imagine a website with... infographics like http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ If it was a commercial website, should the government intervene? Maybe make them buy or make a special font to create their chartslike https://www.fontfont.com/how-to-use-ff-chartwell instead of using images? No? How is it different from a special lift to the pool?
> What I mean is that there aren't many 60+ year old people that think "Hey, you know what, I'm going to develop an Android application." It just doesn't come up.

Only because you're so sure of yourself, I have to correct you.

1. I'm 67. Here's my Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus

2. Here is a list of my recent Android apps: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=paul+lutus&c=apps

3. I was probably programming before you were born: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer

Have a nice day.
Damn, I couldn't get it at work this morning because I don't have my password safe there, any chance of a repeat price?
It is a fun comparison, that is all. You can compare anything to anything, it doesn't have to be meaningful in a big way.
what a weird thing to be bothered by.
This seems to be a masterpiece of "how not to organize a technical event"
Yes, that's my experience - nearly all my developer mates switched to ZSH (including me) and never looked back. It's perfectly fine that it's not installed on remote machines, it's not that different from bash for basic stuff - in fact I switched from Bash to ZSH on a couple of machines and nobody even noticed. I find it a significant productivity improvement and had no problems at all.
I picked the higher one correctly. Though, the difference is barely audible on my laptop (MacBook Pro aka worthless DAC, but quite ok Sennheiser microphones).

Personally I like lossless for practical reasons (e.g. conversions without quality loss).
I badly want your status bar layout (arrows and colours). How did you do that?
Keep lying to yourself, I bet we'd find another distraction to justify procrastination :D
Here is the bit I don't get - how do you do a lookup to get that hash?

i.e. Map from something user friendly (e.g. username) to a SHA1 hash?
12% 3D-Renderings per catalog seems a nice optimisation effort, but rather deadline-wise than cost-wise. While it makes it easier for them to meet the catalog deadline, the cost savings are neglible (at least compared to the total cost of the "demo furniture" in their 350 shops worldwide)
The Wii is winning if the only metric is pure console sales. I know personally that even though I own one. I've played a single game on it in the last 2 years and the last 6 months it's been delegated to a Netflix machine in the bedroom. I wouldn't exactly label that "dominance" of the current generation.

Plus, all you have to do is go back a single console generation and you have the Gamecube which was absolutely dominated in pretty much any category you can think of by the Playstation 2. Even the Xbox, a console by a company no one though should develop a console, managed to beat the Gamecube in sales.

Go back one generation further and again the Playstation dominated the Nintendo 64.

I would argue that Nintendo hasn't been in a dominant position in a very long time. The sales of the Wii were a big win for Nintendo, but they aren't really delivering on the games front. The Wii was sold at a time when the casual market was ready to explode. But now it's just turned into that thing no one uses. Hell, I bought a $99 Wii for my girlfriend's parents mainly so they would be able to watch Netflix. Sure, it was another Wii sale, but that's not exactly what we usually talk about when we talk about dominance in the gaming industry.
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Nice app, I would like to point out one thing, hope you find it useful enough to address.

I am pretty sure many people do this too: whenever I type braces/brackets/parentheses/[/%$..] I type both open and close, then continue filling in the statement inside the completed pair of open/close. It is a very useful practice especially for languages with a love of open/close symbol pairs. When you try this in your app, the close gets marked as an error, and I couldn't find an easy way out.