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Can someone recommend a good audio transcription service? | braindead_in: http://callgraph.biz - $0.50 per minute of recorded audio |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | andrewljohnson: I have launched my product many times, and it's always more crazy after the launch than before. In addition, the feature requests just keep piling up: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhL0igVI9HVNdGpaS3U1... |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | bbhacker: I don't know about you but here is my experience from my first mobile app:After 3,5 months of development I was really looking forward to launching, relaxing and observing. I still remember when I received the notification that my app is selling and it didn't take long until the first sale came in.But then yo... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | m0th87: Apparat's Walls album. If there is a way to hack consciousness, Walls does it:
http://www.lala.com/#album/1513490949824332234/Apparat/WallsTry Fractals part 1 and 2. It really does feel like the audible equivalent of a fractal! |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | Alex3917: It depends what state of consciousness I'm currently in and what state I'm trying to get into. I think though that the best way to hack your state of conscious is by selectively engaging or disengaging all of the senses at once. There is actually a machine that was at least patented to do this for you, althou... |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | phr: I think there is some truth in the advice to avoid sub-vocalizing. It seems to improve my reading speed, but does take an effort. The other day I was reading something that included a word I have some trouble pronouncing (sorry, don't remember what it was now). I noticed I was pausing over that word every time ... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | fogus: The music that alters my state tends to be the kind of music that creates an atmosphere:* Anything by Gas (but mostly Zauberberg and Königsforst)* Eno and Fripp* Burial* Montauk |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | strayrocket: I just released an iPhone app called QuickReader (http://www.quickreader.net). It is a "speed reading eBook reader" that trains you to read more words at once (expand your field of vision) and track properly. It employs the same techniques as are taught in the better speed reading courses. You take a speed... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | nvn1: The Bladerunner soundtrack has worked wonders for focusing my mind since about the age of 15. Gastr del Sol's Camoufleur LP also performed admirably during my arduous PhD write-up. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | davepeck: Songite link: http://www.songite.com/#e0eecb--Glenn Gould playing Bach.London Elektricity's Syncopated CityMost pieces by Steve ReichThe Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack by Philip Glass.Burial's Untrue.Fujiya & Miyagi's Transparent Things.Apparat's WallsMiles Davis' In A Silent WayDNTEL's Life Is Full Of Possibilitie... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | h2odysee: Jean Michel JarreShpongle |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | auston: Anything electro/techno:- Justice- Boyz Noise- MSTR KRFT- DeadMau5- Erick Morillo- (sometimes) A-TrakThis almost the only way I can get work done, otherwise I am reciting lyrics & enjoying guitar riffs. |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | ig: After you launch, you continue to get up at 6am (because now you have customers that need your support) and work til 12am for the next 3 years before you even see the beginnings of a "...and they lived happily ever after."The day after a launch is just as, if not more, important than your launch date.This weekend a... |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | gnosis: Take a look at "Reading Rate: A Review of Research and Theory" by Ronald P. Carverhttp://www.amazon.com/Reading-Rate-Review-Research-Theory/dp...The conclusion is, basically, that speed reading courses don't work.You can teach people to skim at a faster rate than they'd read with maximum comprehension and reten... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | fuzzmeister: Sahib Teri Bandi by The Derek Trucks Band: http://www.songite.com/#c30f63(Disclosure: I built Songite a few weekends ago) |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | araneae: I learned to "speed read" on my own as a kid because I am very plot oriented and would want to find out happens at the end of a book as soon as possible.Yes, you do miss details, and yes, you don't remember things as well. It's fine for fiction, where enjoyment is really the only point, but I would never do i... |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | wglb: Trajectory. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | kamme: Lately I've become a big fan of AIR, they make great instrumental tracks, as well as songs with lyrics. I tend to listen to the soundtrack of the virgin suicides quite a lot. Many people don't like the atmosphere of their music, but I feel as if I get their songs. I also like the soundtrack of donnie darko, the ... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | Sapient: I find trance music extremely unobtrusive and yet motivating. Almost everything else is distracting.I am a sworn procrastinator, yet as soon as I turn on one of Armin van Buurens radio sessions, I can do an entire days work in two hours. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | niels: vocal trance http://di.fm/vocaltrance |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | niallsmart: Here's a Spotify collaborative playlist with some suggestions from the above...spotify:user:niallsmart:playlist:2Y7iDJaEoozuBDj4Npbm7L |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | niallsmart: Figuring out why their conversion is 0.01%. |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | hoffer: Obsessive support |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | Sapient: I would just like to point my fellow hackers to ZapReader. http://www.zapreader.com/Basically it will take text supplied (either pasted in or a link) and flash up either words or sentence fragments at a chosen rate. Using this, I am able to read long articles at around 800wpm, with pretty good comprehension si... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | peregrine: Ratatat usually gets me going. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | JMiao: m83, bach, buckethead's acoustic worki.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJud5kqFEDU |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | pauldelany: recommend Boards of Canada |
Can someone recommend a good audio transcription service? | cromulent: Andy Baio used Mechanical Turk. Positive experience.http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | ronnier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYUdixQGF0w (Rossini La Gazza Ladra Overture Abbado Vienna 1991)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CMo_mLNz38 (Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Mov 1, Part 1/3 (Martha Argerich, 1973))http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2hGSL345I (Rossini - William Tell overture (Part 1))http://www.... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | AndrewO: Anything instrumental and epic sounding. Right now my favorites are:* Explosions in the Sky* Red Sparowes* British Sea Power's Man of Aran SoundtrackI'd also recommend a band called Souvenir's Young America which sounds like the soundtrack to a zombie/western movie. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | ianbishop: airboards of canadaburialcariboum83memory tapesmogwaimumratatatsigur ros |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | aristus: Rachmaninoff. Also, look at "pink noise" tapes: rainforests, oceans, all that new-agey crap. It actually works. |
Can someone recommend a good audio transcription service? | skmurphy: We have been using the Network Connection transcription services for the last three years and been very satisfied. http://thenetworkconnection.com/transcriptionservices.htm |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | clawrencewenham: The Future Sound Of London, especially their old radio sessions |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | zen53: Thanks for all the great answers HN...inspired by NiallSmart (see comment) I created a playlist of all the music mentioned in this post - it features one track of every artist listed in the comments. Specific track was used when referenced.spotify:user:zen53:playlist:5JtUZrhOvBV0IqySyhoDwF
thanks again! |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | Mr_question: I like any upbeat mowtown or stax records jams. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | adg: I really like stuff without lyrics that's fairly repetitive. Some examples: http://www.songite.com/#c1f21f. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | christofd: A varied selection:JazzanovaOld Blue Note Jazz stuffGlenn Gould Goldberg Variations (1. version 1955)Bach Cello Suites (Pierre Fournier)Minimal ElectronicaDaft Punk/ Justice/ Etienne de Crecy (French Electro)Drum n' Bass (old Roni Size stuff - New Forms/ V Label)almost forgot: Giles Peterson's monthly podcas... |
PHP or ROR. | mcav: I like Python. Fast to develop in like Ruby, but also well-suited to many different types of programming tasks.If you're looking to learn a new language, Python's my advice. Ruby is good too, but it seems to be primarily used for web development.If you already know PHP, learn any new language -- be it Python, Rub... |
PHP or ROR. | gridspy: I personally love Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/) the python equivalent of RoR. I love the way it encourages me to architect my code well, rather than being encouraged to hack up every page (all too easy in PHP).It was easy to set up, has great documentation and an active community, and lots of encourag... |
Good tool to visualize data? | kalendae: R http://www.r-project.org/
i would consider it to have a high learning curve tho. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | Ixiaus: A lot of Psybient music:Shpongle, Bluetech, Entheogenic, PhutureprimitiveA lot of Dubstep:XeNMaSTA, Cookie Monsta, Bassnectar, 16Bit, LogikAmbient space music:Steve Roach, (quite a few here, too lazy to look em up)Classical Guitar:Jesse Cook, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Zabuca, Linstead |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | jonny_noog: Lately I've been liking Analogue Bubblebath and Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin. I play the tracks softly when coding and I feel it assists my concentration. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | rms: Alcest -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaDm6n2oo1chttp://rapidshare.com/files/90534814/Alcest_-_Souvenirs_d_un... |
Good tool to visualize data? | beambot: Since you're already using Python, I'd highly recommend looking at Matplotlib (pylab). We've used it to great utility in the past. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | z8000: Stars of the Lid |
Good tool to visualize data? | hotpockets: Octave? (sort of an open source matlab) |
A good forum/site to hang around, ask questions, help others? | robroth: coincidently i've been looking for something like that but i haven't found anything of that kind so far. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | cpach: That's an interesting question!But please post full links rather than shortened ones. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | lg: I particularly like arch carrier, by autechre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYikLIMPHSs |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | jrandom: The later works of Scriabin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin |
PHP or ROR. | tobyhede: Definitely prefer Rails.PHP just can't match the Ruby language, and I have yet to find a PHP framework with the sheer level of awesome of Rails.I currently have both Rails and PHP apps in production, and these days I charge extra to work in PHP because I know it will take me a lot longer. |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | zoba: When I really listen to a few songs, at certain parts, I get an intense tingly feeling all over my body that feels awesome.Yes - Close to the Edge (when the organs come in)
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (the finale)These two do it basically every time. Anyone know anything about this? Do other people get this awe... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | tripngroove: I recently noticed that if I put on something extremely hard or caustic - some kind of screamy metal like Protest the Hero or Tool - and turn the volume up to the point where I can't hear anything else, I stop noticing the music altogether. It kind of feels like it puts my auditory nerve on overload and ev... |
How did you get started? | jacquesm: Running my own business:Necessity.I simply had to get some food on the table, it was a pretty good motivator I can tell you.Programming:Because it seemed like a better way to build logic stuff rather than to use a bunch of 74 series chips for it. I was always hooking stuff up to the centronics port or other i... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | astine: For me, it depends on the day. Today, I put on some 90's ska. It's not usually that. |
Good tool to visualize data? | elblanco: Depends on the kinda of visualization you are talking about.I've worked extensively with tools like:
Starlight http://www.futurepointsystms.com
Palantir (mentioned previously) http://www.palantirtech.com
I2's tools http://www.i2inc.com/
and others.There's also scientific data visualization, for looking at thi... |
PHP or ROR. | _pius: I prefer Ruby as well, but I definitely found being a Ruby newbie on Windows very painful. This was several years ago though. |
PHP or ROR. | AdamGibbins: I use what I know best, PHP. It's not the language that builds a good site, its the person. I'd learn RoR if I thought it'd make a difference, but I don't think it would. |
What do you use for tracking your users? | jaddison: Hrrrmmm. I typed in clickheat.com into my browser and was surprised that you used that site - of course, I then googled 'clickheat' and noticed an sf.net project... I presume you use that one.On a serious note, I'd never heard of clickheat before - sounds sort of like http://code.google.com/p/image-tempest/,... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | ulfstein: Most of the soundscapes from WildSanctuary (http://bit.ly/2IHocS) have a pretty amazing effect on my productivity. |
What do you use for tracking your users? | starnix17: For general analytics I use Mint (http://haveamint.com/), it costs $30 (one time fee) per site, but I think it's worth it for the nice UI. They also have lots of great plugins.I've also been using Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com/) for tracking more nitty-gritty user actions. |
What do you do if someone has your startup's twitter name? | Rabidgremlin: BTW we launched our alpha today: http://blog.split-the-bill.com/its-alive-45 |
Good tool to visualize data? | jjguy: The suggestions below are solid: R
Python + matplotlib
I've used and been impressed by both. Starlight and Palantir may fit your needs, but those tend closer to enterprise applications -- I get the sense you're searching for something lighter.Some more suggestions:DAVIX [D] A live CD distribution containi... |
What do you do if someone has your startup's twitter name? | paulgb: Do you have a trademark on the name? If you do, contact twitter and they will give it to you (I worked for a company that did this). Even if you don't, it's worth a try contacting twitter since the account seems inactive. |
What do you use for tracking your users? | Paton: As for Analytics: You can see the current day's traffic by extending the view period to include today's date. By default it only displays up to the previous day, but you can usually extend it to include today's date. |
What do you do if someone has your startup's twitter name? | jmonegro: Oh, since it's pretty much dead, contact twitter and let them know that's your startup's name. |
How did you get started? | jmonegro: I was young(er) and wanted money. Now, I'm not greedy or anything: I just wanted spending money so I did some freelance web design. I amassed some cash and bought all the gizmos and gadgets I wanted.Then I thought I should learn to turn those fancy psd's into live websites, which, after learning HTML/CSS got ... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | bobbyi: phishgrateful deadjohn coltrane |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | darkxanthos: Prince (the old stuff)
I have tons of music but that's realy the best stuff for getting me to focus and make me feel energized. |
Good tool to visualize data? | apu: I've been building up a javascript library to do this, as visualizizing results/data takes up more than half my research time.Unfortunately, this library is nowhere close to ready to be released, but I can describe roughly the architecture, in case it's useful to you.I take all my data and write a python script wh... |
What do you do if someone has your startup's twitter name? | xist: How important to the business plan is the twitter name?
I dont think you will get it from twitter just because you want it.If twitter is vital to your business suceeding/marketing plan, then maybe something like "splitthebilldotcom", to make it look "official".I see you asked twitter, but have you asked/receiv... |
Good tool to visualize data? | hyperbovine: Ggobi |
Good tool to visualize data? | araneae: Flot is super cool but probably a bit off-topic for your needs http://code.google.com/p/flot/Every time I try to use R I just say "fuck it" and use Matlab. Matlab is pretty flexible w.r.t. manipulating data and there's a lot of tools to deal specifically with time series analysis http://www.mathworks.com/acce... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | chanux: trance, rock |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | daeken: Not so much a particular piece, but many albums -- I rarely listen to single songs, just albums and full discographies. Iron & Wine, particularly Woman King
Splashdown and Universal Hall Pass
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream and The Incident
Agents of Mercy
The Flower Kings
The Decemberists |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | Keyframe: Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons Project, New London consort, Slash's Snakepit... and many many many more |
How did you get started? | elblanco: First half dozen or so jobs were startups and small businesses, so I learned not to fear those environments. Plus I got to see the entire lifecycle from incorporation papers to exit. This was very helpful.After working for a while in some very large mega-corps got tired of the grind and decided to join up wit... |
What do you do if someone has your startup's twitter name? | yan: Has anyone had any luck requesting transfers with non-brand names that have been dead for years? I tried contacting twitter, the account owner, other twitter reps and tried their web forms, all to nothing. |
Good tool to visualize data? | fizx: Look into rrdtool. |
What do you do if someone has your startup's twitter name? | brk: On the list of things to be worried about, this just seems to rank a few notches after what font you should use for the names on the conference room doors. |
PHP or ROR. | narendranag: If you're comparing the languages, Ruby beats PHP any day. But if you're comparing PHP with ROR, then you need to throw in a Rails like framework for PHP.I recommend Codeigniter - www.codeigniter.com |
What do you use for tracking your users? | ideamonk: My first and only client best deal in town, from arizona has added me on facebook :) |
PHP or ROR. | ksowocki: Most people will answer with whichever language they know best. Both are well-supported and well-suited for building a scalable maintainable web app. Unless you're doing something truly earth-shattering that specifically requires features (or libraries) in one or the otheer, use whatever feels more intuitiv... |
What do you use for tracking your users? | theli0nheart: You actually can get current data with Google Analytics by changing the date field to the current date in the dashboard page. See http://imgur.com/4Y8pO.png. |
What do you use for tracking your users? | comster: http://www.woopra.com/ kicks ass for real time traffic watching |
What do you use for tracking your users? | martian: I use Clicky. It's quite good for real-time data. http://getclicky.com |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | cma: fateh ali khan(p.s. unless you need to meet a text message minimum, don't use url shorteners) |
How did you get started? | chrischen: My dad showed me how to setup a web server. Imagination took care of the rest (mostly motivated by money). |
What do you use for tracking your users? | charlesju: We made our own. We wanted to track really random stuff like retention rate, ARPU, etc. which is hard for a generic analytics program, or even mixpanel to do. |
What start up would you invest in ? | aristus: First, I'd wonder if it would be possible to have an "index fund" of sorts, say 0.001 of 1,000 startups. :DI'd say the same criteria to invest apply to where you'd want to work. I seriously considered the following three companies, and got to the interview stage with one of them:I think AirBnB are on the launc... |
Does the Nash equilibrium promote communism? | david927: No, but it does promote Socialism. Right now, we're trawling the last fish out of the ocean. That helps a few people (the fishermen) at the expense of the rest of the world. It's not a Nash Equalibrium, but it's very much Capitalism. Without government intervention (Socialism) you would get no fish, inflam... |
Screencast software for demos? | seven: Take a look at http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ |
Good tool to visualize data? | keefe: mathematica |
How did you get started? | mailarchis: In my first job I discovered my passion for consumer facing internet products and services. While job was good, you have to work within a certain framework. And I was always impatient. So started my own thing and took the plunge. Its been a great learning experience and we are still learning. |
What do you use for tracking your users? | DenisM: I'm writing my own for iPhone apps. |
PHP or ROR. | najafali: I feel your pain about the Windows issue!I've been a PHP programmer through and through for the past three years and had no complaints about it. That is until of course I met RoR.After the first year or so of occasionally playing with RoR, I found that my PHP started to have a decidedly Ruby accent to it. I w... |
What start up would you invest in ? | mahmud: I am waiting for Twilio to go public. I even contacted them to see if I can get in, but no luck :-) |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | taifun: I love Bygdin, esp the Setesdal track. |
Screencast software for demos? | auston: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp |
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