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by viggity 12y ago
Does prison time deter murders? I'm guessing no, considering the death penalty apparently doesn't. Does that mean should we not send murders to prison? My rationale for supporting the death penalty is justice. If you, with malice
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by viggity 12y ago
Agreed. In the word of "the dude" - "You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole". Asshole is probably too harsh a word, but considering that "futurestack" was already taken as a domain and as a
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by viggity 12y ago
DVI/HDMI can't deliver power. DisplayPort and USB3 can. I think that'd be a big factor for people. I'm almost ready to buy this thing: http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Portable-USB-Powered-Monitor-MB16... beca
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by viggity 12y ago
TL;DR everyone pretty much hates everyone else.
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by viggity 12y ago
I created a quick, interactive visualization of the survey data here: https://www.machete.io/board/view/airbnb_logo_by_survata/50f... You can spot some interesting (but probably not surprising) insights like
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by viggity 12y ago
If I wore these, I'd have to kick my own ass.
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by viggity 12y ago
i've used it a couple times in a lame attempt to find leads. IIRC, I paid $.40 to find a name/phone number/website of construction equipment rental companies in 50 different cities. They did exactly what I wanted them to do,
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by viggity 12y ago
ahh.... wow. I knew that google was going to stop sending referrer info on https, but I thought that was some how optional and not the default. Thank you very much for the info, I'll have to go find a cheap cert.
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by viggity 12y ago
My product (www.machete.io) has been on both HN and PH in the past week. Its hard to measure HN because rel=nofollow => no referrer in google analytics. Also, our HN post wasn't specifically about our product, but rather a visualiza
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by viggity 12y ago
Everyone hates Washington Special Interests, unless of course it is their special interest. Then it is righteous.
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by viggity 12y ago
Do you have a source on that, doesn't pass the sniff test for me. I thought it was because they have a presence in the US.
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by viggity 12y ago
haven't used splunk, but IIRC, they focus on logging. Tableau is a better comparison. They (like excel) are the "do everything" solution. Meaning that if you want to change/tweak a chart or come up with a new chart type,
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by viggity 12y ago
main engine is dc.js (which builds off of d3 and crossfilter.js). all three libraries have big learning curve, machete's goal is to make it accessible to non-devs. We're looking at targeting devs that don't want to learn yet
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by viggity 12y ago
just recently launched a service that will let you create interactive dashboards (pivot charts) off of your excel files. Got a huge influx of beta sign ups from HN and ProductHunt.com. General Site: http://www.machete.io Example
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by viggity 12y ago
this is only slightly tongue in cheek, but do you ever get tired of being so awesome? Seriously. this shit is amazing. thanks for all the time/effort you've put into d3. my side project (machete.io) certainly wouldn't be poss
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by viggity 12y ago
Median might solve some of that issue, unfortunately it is computationally heavy to do median on a rolling basis, unlike average. Part of the reason the filters work so quickly is because when I add or remove items from the active set, I ca
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by viggity 12y ago
Took me a second to understand what you are saying, but YES, that is definitely on our backlog. It's a PITA when item has very small clickable bar.
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by viggity 12y ago
yeah, things can get a bit screwy when you filter and then change the active measure. It isn't a simple fix unforunately. I've added a bug to our backlog. Thanks!
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by viggity 12y ago
Right now we only support CSVs they get served directly from blob storage to the browser (without going through our webserver). We obviously want to expand on those options, but CORs makes serving from internal company data sources a PITA.
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by viggity 12y ago
Every company in this dataset went through an accelerator, my guess is that it is due to the explosion in accelerators after YC's success. (Hell, I'm from Iowa and we have one now and two more are opening in the summer). We'v
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by viggity 12y ago
http://www.seed-db.com/companies/funding?value=1 plus a little extra meta-data from crunchbase. Seed-DB (so far as I can tell) only tracks startups that went through an accelerator. We've got a larger list that in
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by viggity 12y ago
ASCII Art of Danny Trejo, lol. I can certainly say we did not consider that for our logo. I like where your head is at though. The name "Machete" was/is a bit of a risk, I'll definitely remember your feedback when we re-
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by viggity 12y ago
its just data that wasn't provided :(
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by viggity 12y ago
I created this with a new service I released (Machete). Machete is built on top of dc.js (which in turn is built on d3.js and crossfilter). dc and d3 both have decent learning curves, Machete is aimed at non-programmers or as a prototyping
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Show HN: $4.4B in Startup Funding Rounds Visualized(machete.io)
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by viggity 12y ago
you're seeing that because they wanted to show you what it looked like as an MP4. My understanding was that twitter would ship you the GIF if your browser didn't support MP4.
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by viggity 12y ago
fwiw, particle-board-hackers.com is available
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by viggity 12y ago
Thanks! As I've been creating other examples (yet to be released), I've discovered there are always going to be little quirks with the way you want certain data pre-filtered or grouped, aggregated and then grouped again. But in ge
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by viggity 12y ago
I love dc.js. In fact, I just released a data viz tool (www.machete.io) yesterday that lets lay people create charts/dashboards with dc.js. If you're a dev, you'll obviously have a lot more flexibility by crafting dcjs exac
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by viggity 12y ago
why would that be, as long as you don't co-mingle personal funds with business funds and otherwise treat it as a legitimate, independent and separate business, I don't understand how you could be held liable. http://en.

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