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Well, sure; if both displays are TN screens, the pixel count wins. What about 2x4K/2160p TN vs 3x1440p IPS? The latter is what I'm considering right now (3x 2560x1440 in portrait).
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I assume you're being sarcastic. Non-paying customers do server at least one purpose for Dropbox, word of mouth advertising and the fact they tell others "I'll just share the file you need on dropbox. Go sign up, it's free". All these non-payers, and the people they refer, may start paying at anytime in the future for whatever reason.
You're making the right choice for certain then. Even a casual gamer should not consider the current batch of Seiki 4Ks unless you're okay not using the 4K resolution for gaming. But as you point out, even the colors are not as good as the name brands. They are solid for text editing. :)

I see your optimism is even greater than my own! I hope you're right!
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As someone in your audience, I beg you, please do not tell me what you're going to tell me, then tell me, then tell me what you just told me.
It's in this collection. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1857985737
The Congress of 1996 did more or less what technologists wanted at the time: told the FCC to not regulate the internet.
> I've written quite a few parsers, but still have no idea how PHP's could end up like this.

Have you ever tried to parse code with a set of context sensitive rules (like, not using yacc, but writting your parser case by case at hand) and context free regular expression (don't use look ahead at all, and you also can't look behind)? PHP errors look a lot like this.
A Chinese company wants to let parents pick their smartest embryo
That image is very inaccurate. I can't accurately list all the installations that are shut down off the top of my head, but I am very certain that many of them are, i.e. Schwetzingen, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Stuttgarten, etc
Thank you for not taking my comment negatively, I completely understand the amount of work that goes into documentation and the other comments on this article helped me understand the usefulness of Self. I've bookmarked the page and will check it out some Sunday in the future.
In a perfect world, what would be your language of choice?
In a perfect world, where there are no implementation problems and languages are not judged by factors like libraries but only on the languages themselves, where there would be no speed issues etc, what would be your language of choice and why?
No, but he can then legally hang around Russia or some other half-safe country without embarrassing the local government. At the moment his situation is squarely in Putin's court, which is diplomatically problematic. Should he get a new valid passport from any other country, Putin could wash his hands of it and let him stay without looking too adversarial.
Great job on launching in Boston :-)
Note the phrase preventing to start. Already playing media would be unaffected.

+: Also the rule would be extended to include minimized browser even if the tab is selected.
In the movie Samantha did say that they had moved to "post-matter computing" or something similar. In any case, I took that to mean that they were merging with the universe or some such, as in Asimov's "The Last Question"[1].

[1] http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
Acked.

I don't need a monitor right now so I'll sit back and wait for the 60Hz to come along.
In general yes, unless we manufacture 100% of our energy sustainably.
At this point a salary of 0 is easily in first place for the poll with around ~45% of the votes(116 votes out of 267).

I understand that many folks like to randomly vote on polls on HN: I remember several people explaining that they cast an incorrect vote on the last "how old are you" poll.

The fact that we have 267 votes in the first 45 minutes of this poll makes me more suspicious of the votes: I have a hard time believing that 5 founders per minute have read this poll and voted on it.

So I'm curious. Founders, how many of you truly take no salary? If you take no salary or close to no salary, how do you compensate? Is it via savings, tricky shenanigans where the business pays for things for you, or something else entirely?
Hmm, I didn't quite get what the new business model was from the article. I got it that they were diversifying and I can understand it as an investment for the future but that doesn't explain what the new model is. Could someone help?
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Absolutely. When the fate of your family hangs in the balance, you're not going to walk away just because it stops being fun.
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It's almost entirely due to ads, and this exact problem drove me to using adblock after years of avoiding it. Sometimes it just happens in the background at random, and sometimes it happens when loading bookmark groups.

It's not really a sufficient solution for me. I'd prefer to explicitly allow tabs to play sound. I believe Firefox experimented with that approach and found users didn't like it, though.
And the related blog post:

http://blog.netflix.com/2014/01/new-isp-performance-data-for...
What you are doing is great and I hope you'll find success with it.
You're advising medication mixed with alcohol to help people speak better in front of a crowd??
CapEx obviously doesn't tell the story, certainly not for companies like AT&T and Verizon. Try fundamentals; Moores has done good work for bandwidth, as media is still being streamed at 6 MBit. I'm not sure lawmakers understand this; there is no capacity problem. Technology is vastly ahead of growth and certainly consumer access to bandwidth. Meanwhile, internet providers are trying to tell lawmakers they need to make YouTube (and customers) pay for traffic because theres somehow congestion.

Of course it's not a technical fact. The basic idea is that regulating them to be the dumb pipe can yield the biggest gain for the general economy, while they get the benefit of a low margin, but extremely stable business (as with any other infrastructure).

The obvious problem right now is that instead of competing with each other, internet providers are trying to compete with their customers. That is not the sign of a working market, and it is not acceptable for critical infrastructure. Regulation is needed, and certainly not towards giving providers more flexibility.
Also I should point out, that combining Beta-Blockers with Alcohol isn't good for your health[1][2], your blood pressure can drop dangerously low[2]. Also I should point out I'm not a doctor [3].

[1] https://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/treatments/medications--...

[2] http://texasheart.org/HIC/Topics/Meds/betameds.cfm

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=valarauca1
ScottWhigham is correct, in my case it was 'gain' not salary. But the income averaged around 40-50k USD for years. I bootstrapped it with personal funds and keystrokes. (Sites started around 1994. Sold out 2011.).
There's been a number of ads and things on pages like cnn.com that'll start playing something to make noise, while being below the fold just so you'll have to go looking for it to stop it. I've seen it go in and out in cycles depending on the page and what you view.
Did you seed with EIES if you don't mind my asking?

(Always feels improper to ask such things)
common carrier n. - an individual, a company or a public utility (like municipal buses) which is in the regular business of transporting people and/or freight.

freight n. - Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.

Packets are neither classified as people nor freight.
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It does not seem appropriate to me for founders of a not-profitable company to take out $1M in cash.
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Agreed. I think this poll is useless without that dimension.
Why should ISP 's be stopped from discriminating? A company that blocked Google would find its competitor's saturation bombing ads for "Google compatible" Internet service.

Followed by the tort lawyers saturation bombing ads for class action lawsuits alleging breach of contract and tortious interference in contracts.
Mightn't it simply be a lot of pre-funding and pre-revenue founders that are earning no salary?
From the other comments in this thread I think part of the problem is defining a startup. Some people are mentioning bootstrap startups that they do after work and that's why they take no salary.
This isn't going to mean much: founder of what? A company that is only going to be lucrative if it has a major liquidity event in the future? Does the company have traction yet? How many employees at the company?
The whole notion that "employees have a guaranteed paycheck" or "employees are taking no risk" only applies to large, established corporations, or well-funded (in a meaningful, cash-in-hand sense; not the promises-and-notes sense) new companies. Even then it's only marginally applicable and tenuous at best, because office politics and other things beyond the employees' control makes their positions insecure (at best).

At start-ups the concept that employees are taking no risk is just laughable on its face.
actually, i was referring to producers - consumers are mostly affected by net neutrality due to what they do and do not get access to (as gated by the isps). however, with net neutrality thrown out of the door netflix can afford to pay for "up bandwidth", but e.g. a small competitor would be pushed out of the market.
But we are not talking about the general public here, but about technical managers.
I'm talking about lowering the cost in areas to match the economy. I too think the cost of software in Australia is crazy.
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By what objective criteria did you decide "disgusting mashup of a language?"

Please rank several other languages by the same criteria so we can judge your objectivity.
See the previous article: http://stratechery.com/2014/business-models-2014/
By the way, we aren't the only beings on this world with consciousness. In fact, depending on your belief system everything might have a conscious. Even plant life - on some level we can not experience. It all goes back to Gaia - the earth. Is the earth alive?

These are issues we've been trying to answer for thousands of years. And frankly I doubt we're ever answer them. The more tech we create the more we detach ourselves from this world. So can we ever answer them? Moving our minds (assuming you can) into the "cloud" won't answer them If anything, we become further detached from the world. But I wonder, if that has to be true.
Oops, yeah, certainly don't do both!

One is for less-formal speaking engagements, and one is for professional situations.
Just to cover a few basic principles here -

1 - you should weigh the tax implications of a personal car vs business leased vs business owned car

2 - if you manage to convert all of your personal expenses to business expenses and lower your salary to lower your personal taxes (which may not matter depending on the corporate entity you created in the first place) then you need to realize when you go for a credit check all anyone will care about is your salary, not your business income. So let's say I'm self employed as an hourly contractor and bill @ $150/hr, but I pay myself a 'lowly' $30/hr to dodge taxes. The mortgage company only cares about that $30/hr and may not loan me anything. (also, if you start a business you need to be solid for two years before anyone will loan you anything for the most part, just fyi)

3 - you can claim a portion of rent/mortgage/etc as a business expense if you have a legitimate home office or conduct business of some sort in it.
I am not here to say that web designers should create PSDs and just throw them over the fence.

But, I don't think most web designers really agree with this. I think this philosophy really tries to downplay visual style to practical problem solving and I believe they are both essential.

I can write competent HTML/CSS/JS, Frameworks etc. At least, I know enough to work with engineers and work effectively in my projects. For me using Photoshop isn't just about what browsers can and can not do. Its certainly, not just about pixel perfection or making a design ready to code.

Working with HTML is just clunky. Working with paper is too loose. I can think about how to build a design, plan it on paper but exploring visually is actually quite constrained by trying to do it with markup or just paper/wireframes. Photoshop represents an open environment where I can create anything I need from an illustration to a button and its powerfully close to what it will really look like. To some people that might sound like a clunky or wasteful step but I think it really helps.

For sure, I think Nick makes some great and valid points here. I agree, there are problems with the PSD process but direct prototyping and CSS frameworks just don't solve those problems.

I don't know, I feel like if in reality everyone used HTML to design, everything would look like Bootstrap and that would be acceptable.
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Is there a Stripe for printing and mailing?
In other words, is there a service that does printing and mailing with a nice RESTful API and good documentation?
>Same here. I didn't realize tabs playing music was such a rampant problem

It is actually a problem I've wanted a fix for since, I don't know, maybe Phoenix .9 or whatever first introduced me to tabbed browsing in the world. this is a huge feature. I suspect the other browsers will try to follow too, if they aren't already in their dev/bleedingedge repos.
Beta-blockers and alcohol are a shim, they don't help you get better at it. It's scary, but you can use the adrenalin if you let yourself.

Yesterday I gave a talk - the first one I've ever given that wasn't a research talk. 30 minutes. I didn't pre-write it at all - just laid out the slides the day before. On the day of the talk I looked through the slides in the afternoon and thought about the main points I wanted to make and some funny stories and jokes I could slip in. Then I forgot about it until the evening, when I gave it. It was easily the best talk I've ever given, and people were coming up to me for the rest of the evening to thank me.

I did have a small drink before the talk, and that definitely helped with the first 30 seconds of fear. But apart from that, it was the adrenalin that drove me the whole way. It felt really good. I absolutely don't agree that you have to memorize lines.
It is - by definition - not possible to have an open standard or libre implementation for DRM. You could simply implement it to dump the stream instead of displaying it.

If you mean the features besides DRM then we don't need a plugin because HTML5 and JavaScript are perfectly fine for replacing those plugins and they can be openly implemented and distributed.
Isn't that how everyone prepares to give a presentation? I thought it was standard operating procedure.
For an avid reader of HN, I'm definitely very uninformed when it comes to the startup scene. It's entirely possible that I'm dead wrong about the poll and ~40-50% of founders don't take a salary.

I guess my post spends a bit too much time speculating about whether the votes are fake and too little time asking the question that I care about: I'm honestly very curious what folks who are making very little money and living in (presumably) very expensive places do to get by.
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Boy this is a crap link. I had better proactively post some links to some better information about behavior genetics as that relates to human IQ.

Deary, I. J., Penke, L., & Johnson, W. (2010). The neuroscience of human intelligence differences. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(3), 201-211.

http://www.larspenke.eu/pdfs/Deary_Penke_Johnson_2010_-_Neur...

"At this point, it seems unlikely that single genetic loci have major effects on normal-range intelligence. For example, a modestly sized genome-wide study of the general intelligence factor derived from ten separate test scores in the cAnTAB cognitive test battery did not find any important genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms or copy number variants, and did not replicate genetic variants that had previously been associated with cognitive ability."

Johnson, W. (2010). Understanding the Genetics of Intelligence: Can Height Help? Can Corn Oil?. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(3), 177-182

http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/JJBAReprints/PSYC621/...

"Together, however, the developmental natures of GCA [general cognitive ability] and height, the likely influences of gene-environment correlations and interactions on their developmental processes, and the potential for genetic background and environmental circumstances to release previously unexpressed genetic variation suggest that very different combinations of genes may produce identical IQs or heights or levels of any other psychological trait. And the same genes may produce very different IQs and heights against different genetic backgrounds and in different environmental circumstances. This would be especially the case if height and GCA and other psychological traits are only single facets of multifaceted traits actually under more systematic genetic regulation, such as overall body size and balance between processing capacity and stimulus reactivity."

Chabris, C. F., Hebert, B. M., Benjamin, D. J., Beauchamp, J., Cesarini, D., van der Loos, M., ... & Laibson, D. (2012). Most reported genetic associations with general intelligence are probably false positives. Psychological science, 23(11), 1314-1323. DOI: 10.1177/0956797611435528 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498585/

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9938142/Most_Repo...

"At the time most of the results we attempted to replicate were obtained, candidate-gene studies of complex traits were commonplace in medical genetics research. Such studies are now rarely published in leading journals. Our results add IQ to the list of phenotypes that must be approached with great caution when considering published molecular genetic associations. In our view, excitement over the value of behavioral and molecular genetic studies in the social sciences should be tempered—as it has been in the medical sciences—by an appreciation that, for complex phenotypes, individual common genetic variants of the sort assayed by SNP microarrays are likely to have very small effects."

Simply put, the company has no capability to deliver what it promises parents.
"That is one disgusting mashup of a language."... "I'm horrified by it daily when I have to use scripts written by older bioinformaticians."

The answer is that your sample is flawed. Scientists can turn anything into a "disgusting mashup of a language". Perl is in its position for a reason.
What really amazed me, was that CEO of our 10 Million a year income company was getting a salary of 0 dollars. He grew the thing form 0 dollars a year income to it's currently earning power too.

They repaid him from firing him from the job, although he is still on the board.

When I had coffee with him he seemed completely ok with it though... what a champ.
Selling you stuff directly. You pay, instead of advertiser pays. Namely, you pay $$$, and fancy electronic consumer device arrives at your doorstep. B2C consumer electronics.
see my reply to macspoofing - this is not about how fast your home internet is, it is about your ability to send stuff in the other direction. i'm not particularly concerned about cable tv because there isn't much leverage in having better access to tv shows; however, being better able to participate in a two-way flow of information potentially carries huge leverage abilities, and the people who already have influence/money/power will be further advantaged by the new system.
> have to be profitable to make money.

Haha, welcome
Perl has always been designed from a get-things-done point of view, rather than adhering to a particular philosophy. It also has a huge number of well-maintained libraries available. These are both big plusses in some contexts.

(Not speaking for myself here, BTW. A decade ago I tried Python & never looked back.)

In your case, part of the problem may not be due so much to the language, as to the authors of those scripts you mention. People who have not studied software development as their primary discipline have typically not been exposed to ideas about good design, writing maintainable code, etc.
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I was really excited for 4K, but the more I read about it, the more I'm convinced that for now I'd be better served with a pair of 1440p IPS from Korea, and wait a year or two until the dust settles and 60Hz is cheaper.
They were confusing charts, not what you are used to seeing. The charts were normalized to the Intel chip; thus a positive bar for an AMD chip in that graph means relative improvement to the Intel chip, and a negative bar relative loss to the Intel chip.

Confusing, and of course the meanings reverse with "lower-is-better" graphs.

The way I usually see to show normalized performance is normalizing to 100 rather than 0. An example, normalizing on the A10-6700:

http://media.bestofmicro.com/M/1/387001/original/Average-per...
Avoid regulations that exist for a reason (Uber), tout profits as why those who comply are failing, cry about free market when the language of the law catches up reducing profit margins.
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And the demo video from SIGGRAPH: http://vimeo.com/79098420
Struggling with maintaining 25 versions of financial projection spreadsheets for a tiered SKU based SaaS startup. I decided to spin this up as quickly as possible (and learn a little AngularJS along the way).

The result - after ~30 hours it's usable enough to show. Obviously needs more flexibility around the variety of revenue models and expense categories. But really it's just for rough estimates at this point.
$ 400,000/year
What position? The position I see it in is a legacy language that used to run the internet and was the first language that really worked for bioinformatics. Is it different outside science?
right, but a company who blocked a startup competing with google would face next to no backlash, while (if they were big enough) severely disadvantaging said startup. heck, it doesn't take blocking - what if google loaded in 0.05 seconds and duckduckgo loaded in 1 second? i'm pretty sure that would push most of the users google's way.
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I don't think 4k is a good option for you, since anything much smaller than 35" will display text too small to use the native resolution. You'll have to scale up, stuff will look sharper but you won't have more real estate. (think retina macbook pro)

Videos won't look better unless they are actually in 4k too.

I'd go for 27-30" 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 display.
I agree that logging search queries has severe privacy implications, but "tracking all data and keystrokes" is unnecessarily alarming. If this extension were tracking all data and keystrokes available to Chrome, the end user might spend the next week tracking down and securing online accounts, cancelling credit cards, informing clients of potential breaches of confidentiality, etc.
Size and stage of the company is important and not accounted for here at all.
>In the event that you're covered by any sort of public health insurance ... then the effects on your own health become a problem for everyone else.

A vile argument. The idea that the state is empowered to curtail people's personal activities simply because the state chose to subsidize the personal health care costs of those activities should be anathema in a free and civilized society.