skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News headlines are typically NOT written by the author of the article. This is something I've heard many journalists complain about. To my knowledge, the Wikipedia article on Headlines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline ) is quite accurate: "Headlines are generally written by copy editors, but may also be written by the writer, the page layout designer or a news editor or managing editor."

So Gibson probably didn't write the headline.
It's a target score tracking tool, built around aggregating scores, ammunition makes/types, individual gun scores, etc to let individuals track how well they do (in general, with one of their guns, etc) and track performance metrics across the user base to determine which ammo works well, which guns perform best, etc.

So, a tracking tool mixed with a social network. I guess.

It started as something to help me track my scores and see how I progressed. I made a score calculating algorithm just using Excel that factored in ring size, distance, wind, and a whole load of other factors and it worked really well. I had one of those "this is madness" moments and started porting it into a CakePHP app.

There are a ton of AJAX page interactions, UI/UX elements, etc that are very different from what traditional message boards and forums use.
There's a duplicate thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786959

Please comment there (it has more points at the moment).

Not sure how HN's alg let this through.
A lot of that is true if you compare it against Erlang, which has a much different approach to concurrency – and has a steeper learning curve for a Python/Ruby+JavaScript web developer.

Learning Lua on the other hand? If that's not utterly trivial, I'd be worried.

The biggest downside Lua always had was that it's deeply rooted in the embedded category, where it's hard to come out from. Tcl is one the market for ages and still doesn't have a proper culture of libraries. At least Lua has its "rocks", maybe that will make it a worthwhile candidate for the non-embedded sector, too. It's a much nicer language than most of its rivals.
Mint.com sent out multiple emails last night.
Extremely worried when a secure banking-like web app starts doing crazy stuff like sending out blank emails all night to everyone. 25 cents to everyone who warned me not to trust them.
Complaints should only stop rolling in when they're resolved, not when resolutions are announced for the next major upgrade.
The claim the "test system" had "no customer data" is false on its face, as the customer's email address is clearly customer data.
Here you go: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3710.en.h...
"One of the traps of age is growing to accept the common wisdom of what’s possible and not."

Only if you accept it.
> you will have some files which can be deleted

I sure hope nobody deletes files after stopping work on a project. What a waste. Storage is so incredibly cheap...
Context: Since Lua strings are immutable (and interned, like Erlang atoms, Lisp symbols, etc.), tables can be used as string buffers, and concatenation to large strings can be done in one step via table.concat. Appending to a string in a loop is slow, but that's true of any language with immutable strings.

$ time lua -e 't={};for i=1,100000 do table.insert(t,"-");end; s=table.concat(t,"")'

0m0.05s real 0m0.05s user 0m0.01s system
0m0.05s real 0m0.05s user 0m0.00s system
0m0.05s real 0m0.04s user 0m0.02s system

(Times on OpenBSD/amd64 4.7, Lua 5.1.4.)

table.insert checks the table's length on each iteration, which dominates the string-handling time - len is O(lg n). If you just use the loop index (or otherwise cache it), it cuts the time in half:

$ time lua -e 't={};for i=1,100000 do t[i] = "-"; end; s=table.concat(t,"")'

0m0.02s real 0m0.02s user 0m0.00s system
0m0.02s real 0m0.02s user 0m0.01s system
0m0.02s real 0m0.03s user 0m0.00s system

Changing to i=1,1000000 gave me an avg. of 0.54s and 0.22s respectively. LuaJIT is probably also considerably better. (You could also just do t = string.rep('-', 100000), but that's not the point of your benchmark.)
RFID will only contribute when all the stuff in Mom and Pop stores ends up having RFID tags. Then other people will start building systems that use them. But who takes the leap of faith and pays for putting RFID tags in everything they make, with little or no chance of a return?

Chicken and egg.
link does not work, but it seems there are lots of mirrors:
http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pub/ccc/26C3/mp4/26...
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http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/why_did_you_receive...
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Or decouple the POS and inventory/catalog systems and have a restricted interface between them. Only the inventory system needs to be indexed for search.
Well, the people in the picture at the bottom of that page sure do look like they're having fun!
Techcrunch did this but with video:

http://pitches.techcrunch.com/

site seems dormant. You may want to explore the reason why this wasn't more popular.

My personal opinion is that video should work better than voice, or even just text + a deck.
Site appears to be overloaded, Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Ask HN: Accounting software for one-man shop
I'm employed full-time, but I also have some 1099 income from side projects. I'm looking for a simple, straight-forward tool to allow me to better track expenses and estimate taxes (so there are no ugly surprises in January). Any recommendations?
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You should post a link to the story this is a duplicate of rather than just posting "Dup!".
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Well she used an old car buying trick. Never take the first offer, walk out at least once.
Got a T510 here (with the extra-high-res 1920x1080 display) and it's great. Everything works in Ubuntu 10.04 (I don't have any problems with suspend-to-RAM or -to-disk).

I spent a while looking into MBPs and it seems the Linux support is still fairly laughable - the latest models won't even boot it, and even the older ones require a kernel recompile to get sound working. I'd buy an MBP without hesitation if I wanted to run OS X, but not as a Linux machine with a nicer case.
A good example of a priori knowledge: "All bachelors are unmarried". This is true, because it's so by definition, it's probability == 1. The effect of boxing is not so obvious as you claim (prior probability that repeat head trauma causes damage: <1), and should be verified. See also roel_v's responses in this sub-thread.
Google wants to use its data to provide an new way of calculating inflation.
The article is directed at Flash Platform developers that are looking to leverage their existing skill-set to create Android applications.

I know several people that develop Flash and get an Android app for "free" with Air. It isn't really a matter of Air doing something that you can't accomplish with a web page in a browser. I see it as making use of existing assets/skills.
Show HN: LinkPeelr URL expander
LinkPeelr is a URL expander that takes a URL and "peels" it to show you the URL that you will actually be taken to. It works on any website with any link or URL shortener service. It's basically a web service built with App Engine and a companion Chrome extension that pops up a tooltip with the target URL when you hover over shortened links.

I've been meaning to make something like this for my own use for a long time as I find short URLs slightly irritating because they hide the real domain, which often informs the quality of content. LinkPeelr was also small enough that I could finish it over a couple of weekends and get a feel for some new tools I intend to use in future projects. I've uploaded everything to Github so if you are interested, you are welcome.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. Do you find it useful? What would you improve?

App:
http://linkpeelr.appspot.com
Chrome extension:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ahhcmjnfhbpgagklnjhlcabnbcdgipje?hl=en
Github:
http://github.com/ibagrak/linkpeelr
Does anyone know any systems where generating CRC32s is a bottleneck?
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Hilarious! I wish I could rank these sentences though (or save a list of favorites or something).
The ubiquitous browser zoom is especially important, thanks for pointing this out! I do a lot of my web browsing from my couch with an atom powered desktop hooked up to the TV. I hate eye strain so I browser-zoom constantly.. And it is really annoying to see images become a blurred mess when I do this. :\
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Yeah baby, now we are talking!

Ok, so you've already got version 1 of your product in Excel. So, my first question is: have you shared that with any of your audience?

Why do you want to make it a web app? Why don't you just sell the Excel workbook itself. Make no mistake - it's a big readymade market. See this for inspiration - http://startupdesi.com/100000-startup-revenue-in-12months/.

It might at least be a good starting point to get hold of your customer base.

Presumably, you can create a much more useful version if it's a webapp.

So then, the question is how do you market it to your customers?

It's great that you yourself are a user of the app. You exactly understand the pain points of your users.

Now, where do these people go to practice their shooting (or whatever the technical lingo is)?

Are there clubs? Are you a member of any of them? Can you make a presentation in any of those places?

Are there relevant magazines? Newsletters?

Have a look at Tim Ferriss' 4-hour work week for ideas on advertising in the right places.
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I think the problem is more fundamental than that. The requirements for a house are pretty much static. The requirements for an application are often in constant flux.
In my experience the issues with CPU and memory on the desktop with Flash are largely related to the developers behind the applications.

Adobe has done some really strong optimizations in the last year to enable Flash to perform on mobile devices. This has the side effect of a lower footprint on the desktop as well.
check out http://www.linuxcertified.com/, I got a decent laptop from there for pretty cheap. I am very happy with it. They come preloaded with your choice of linux distro, including the ubuntu option.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070430073433/http://www.emetric...

Old data.

Also I know that this wasn't the real deck, but there was too much emphasis on patents and I have never seen a valuation/expected return in a deck.

Good research because it ended up being right, but I suspect that Mint revenue was a lot more than $4M and they spent a lot more than what this research implies.
It would have been almost impossible for them to release Age of Conan in it's current form. The current form was fashioned after massive amounts of customer feedback. Developing a MMO in the dark for 6 years isn't going to make it better than a released game that takes a couple years to mature. The issue is that you can't charge 60 bucks for a half finished game and 15 bucks a month after that. You also have to contend with impossible gamer's expectations considering they've been expecting WoW2.0 and nothing else will do.

MMOs are a killer market. That's probably why it cost Bioware 300 million to get their MMO out.
same with the financials. leave it out.
VIA has hardware AES encryption, SHA hashing as well as hardware RNG in its CPUs for quite some time now.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/hardware.jsp
The original PNG already looks very blurry, like a JPEG with high compression.

http://i.imgur.com/3t4JP.png
Coding: Write the First One Ugly
I had the same reaction with Star Trek Online. I'm a long time trekk{er,ie} and I just couldn't stick with the game. I could deal with the bugs but the game was a skeleton, less content then an average game.
Great subject. Of all the things we talk about here at hn, sometimes I think this may be the most important. The best lesson my mentor ever taught me was, "I didn't know that I couldn't do it, so I did it." I think that this attitude, as much as anything else, helps us accomplish great things.

I've always had a problem, though, with the implied correlation between this attitude and age. I imagine we all have lots of counter-examples: younger workers who don't believe something's worth trying and older workers who are relentless in trying new things.

OP mentions lots of 20 and 30 year olds with can-do attitudes on very ambitious projects. From this he infers that older workers don't think the same way.

Let me suggest an alternative conclusion: anyone in the 40's or 50's with such a can-do attitude is probably extremely successful and therefore, less available. Most of the workers I regularly encounter in their 40's and 50's have jaded attitudes. The go getters are still out there, just harder to find. So when you do find them, you've struck gold. Heavy experience and great attitude make a formidable combination.
Perhaps not a bottleneck, but for very high network throughput systems, offloading the TCP checksumming can make more CPU available for other tasks. Often the offload engines built into network cards are either slow or have very poorly written drivers.
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DROPitTOme - Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox
This is excellent. Thank you very much.
Oracle and IBM Collaborate to Accelerate Java Innovation Through OpenJDK
This is awesome, I love it! may I ask what is the technology behind it?
http://cassa.org.au/junk/diamonds.png -- Low-res version unfortunately.
Also, besides LuaRocks, some more libraries are listed on the Lua wiki: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LibrariesAndBindings
http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/GENG2140/unit-mat...
This story keeps resurfacing every year or so. It's bogus.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2433/are-there-real...
Nice pitch, direct and to the point and I understood everything.

The only thing missing would be a little excitement. You sounded a bit bored.
I forgot about TCPs use of CRC32. Still, I wonder if the time spent in CRC32 is a noticeable fraction of the total time. I guess it must be in some situations, otherwise why would they put it in the chip...
Canon blocks copy jobs by keyword
Ask HN: How useful is my project, webFS?
Project link: http://github.com/emp29/webFS

(Scroll to bottom of github page for screenshots)

I was hoping to get some feedback around a project that adds a web app layer that mimics a web server directory listing. Thoughts around how I can make it better, functionality I can add, etc. would be appreciated.

I am also curious to see if this is something other people besides myself find useful - I like being able to expose my main file store via the web (via basic auth) so I (or friends/fam) can access all my media files, mainly music, from any internet connection.

Are there solutions out there that already do this better?

Thanks!
The first item answers the question:

Native UI Controls
There are many native UI controls available in the Android SDK. Most of the applications on the market make heavy use of these. They range from buttons, lists, form controls, layout containers, and much more. If you develop your application using Adobe AIR you will NOT have any access to these controls. The best thing you can do is to try and fake them, but from my experience it is never quite as good. So if you want to use native controls then you must go native.

That, in my mind, sums up why you would never use AIR for anything. I've tried out a number of AIR apps over the years, and have promptly uninstalled them all after a short period of time. They don't look like native apps, and they don't act like native apps. An example: on Windows systems (which I have to use at work), hitting CTL+Backspace deletes the previous word. In AIR? It inserts a control character.

Bottom line: If you want to write an app for a platform, write the app in that platform's native toolset.
Site appears to be down, Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Is Google "doing it" really on the list of concerns for most startups? They do web scale computation really, really well. They have a nifty email client. They're the world's best advertising firm. And, oh yeah, search. Outside of those competencies... their record of success is underwhelming.
Using a Dell Latitude E6500 and it's pretty solid. Lots of metal.
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While I agree with this, it should be noted that unfortunately many of these young people fail. And sometimes they can't recover from their failures.
Google cache isn't much use for a site where the humour comes from the random response you get each time you reload :-)

I can't help thinking a single txt file with all the answers in would have been much more HN-proof.
Most people do. That's the point.
This is somewhat related: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/mariogravity.shtml
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That might be true though she never changed her position on things - hence the almost entirely British cast, films that remain largely true to the books (within the limits of crushing 700 pages into two and a bit hours) and so on.

Obviously it helps with negotiations when you're holding all the cards as she was - owned what looks like it will be the most valuable franchise in film history, undoubtedly had competitors queuing round the block, didn't need the money...
Agreed. Needs up voting and down voting on answers :)

EDIT: Also I just submitted an answer but I have no way of knowing if the submission was successful - the confirmation messaging is obscure.

And finally... please see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771607 because your Facebook/Twitter social sharing buttons are using non-async scripts.
I'm sure that's what Streetmap and Multimap thought.

EDIT: and any web traffic analytics company you care to mention.
They are obtained by simple diffing. 100% means a character-for-character match for all of the code. This means that the student didn't even bother changing their name and student ID written at the top of the code in the comments.
The site presents random answers to the question "What if google does it" as asked during a VC pitch.

Here's a sample answer: 'Ah yes. We get that question so often we started a weekly seminar to help answer it. It's really an eye opener. You should attend it. It's called "Venture Capital - 101". There is also a companion seminar: "What happens when your balls fall off - 101"'
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Lua developed a "culture of libraries" recently, and is catching up. Another part of the problem was that it didn't really have a proper module system until a couple years ago (partially due to the focus on embedding).

Besides LuaRocks, there's a collection on the Lua wiki (http://lua-users.org/wiki/LibrariesAndBindings), and the mailing list (http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html) is very active.

And yeah - if you know Javascript, you won't have trouble learning Lua. It's like Javascript with less gotchas and better performance.
This one made my day: "Panic set in, and it suddenly had to be WOW 2.0"
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I can always count on the Fortean Times to spark my imagination. The rational mind needs regular holidays in the land of the weird.
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Are journalisms start-ups being appropriately funded?
Cute. Can't imagine why it warranted a new domain name though...
Please reread what I wrote instead of setting up a strawman; you'll see that I did not write "=1" but instead >0. We have prior knowledge on this from evidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set it seems Intel also has similar instruction set. Could be useful if you need a lot of encryption (truecrypt partition encryption etc.)
Their business laptops (at least the latitudes) are really good. I'd even say that they are better than Thinkpads, but YMMV.
The analytics example at least is really flakey ... plenty of web analytics companies didn't close up shop after Google's transformation of Urchin, a few years later they're still running and new ones are still emerging.

Google fails at a lot more than they succeed at. Chances are very good if Google enters a market they'll suck at it, and if you excel at it maybe they'll buy you if they want to own that market.

All you even have to do to beat them is provide any way for people to reach you for support.
Yeah, you were the first one to do a real pitch & I was thinking the same. Be a little more positive & articulate clearly. Feel free to try again! ;-)
Its a concern for investors. They annoyingly ask this question quite often.
Funny, watching the conservative religious destroy our country similarly drives me to drink.
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Are you using hackurls.com source code ?
Hear ye open source and new technology people...

This is fundamentally the war we should be fighting. The problem is not that people are running Windows or using other proprietary software/services, but that their data is stuck in formats that are inextricably linked to them.

Thus, if you want peoples to be able to move to your new and innovative platform, work for open formats.
This was posted last night and delete for some reason.

Here are a few more comments - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1785923
I don’t think it’s a concern of most startups but it’s definitely one of most VCs. I think most VCs were either active as VCs or working in the industry back in the late 90s when Microsoft entering a market meant the death knell for any other company in that market. So that fear has carried over into today with Google taking Microsoft’s place as the dominant company in the industry.

The fact that Google hasn’t been near as successful at entering new markets doesn't seem to have entered the equation.
On a MBP you can easily run all the software you listed. We use MBP for cross-platform C++ and Python programming. A somewhat complete list of tools we use in our startup: XCode, Textmate, Araxis Merge, Makefiles, python, svn (or Versions), git (or SmartGit), python, vim, joe, OpenOffice, MS Office (the new 2011 version rocks), Keynote, FF, Chrome, Safari, Pixelmator, TexShop, CyberDuck, Dropbox, MacPorts.
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It looks like you have music streaming built in using a flash widget-can that be swapped out for an html5 streamer?