skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. My personal favorites are pivotal tracker ($100 credit), $50 for Twilio, $40 for Postmark and Geckoboard.
Problem is how to handle worst-case scenarios. With pre-rendered movies that might or might not be a problem, and even if it is - it's production one (e.g. you can't predict how many well for how many days you would render your movie)

But for a game - this means dropping the frame rate, making it visually unappealing.

That's why Ray-casting would never pick up for real-time games (Unreal most definitely is not doing any ray-casting, I'm just giving it as a an extreme example).

The other problem is content creation. Current games are 7-15gb of compressed data - half of them textures, rest models, animations, etc. and fitting that in memory (and loading it in memory).

Even with the fastest drives, you end up spending a lot of time loading (or streaming).

Then if that thing looks so real, you start feeling that something ain't right if your gun can't really destroy every piece of a building... And later allowing that in the engine, makes it worse as not much pre-processed data can be reused (static lighting, bsp geometry, etc.). Or you do it (somehow) real-time.

Also this complicates the game "AI" - there is no real AI in an FPS shooter - it's simply too god damn hard. Just think about the cover system, and how laughable it would be if you have destructible surfaces, and you can see the "AI" guy trying to hide behind thinking it was a fine cover point.

Less realism, more constrained world, and better gameplay are the key components to good gaming... Not fancy graphics all the way :)
It wasn't quite that simple ;-)

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cluc5/html_inje...

The payload in the case of YouTube was only slightly more complex (two <script> tags instead of one), but it sounds like the underlying cause was very different.

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Many websites and web applications are vulnerable to XSS in one form or another. The difference here, as people have pointed out, is the trust placed in the site by Android. It's not very often that an XSS vulnerability can execute arbitrary code on a remote system. :-P
Flash plugin issue? Chrome comes with its own separate one (made by Adobe), which it updates itself (at least on Windows and Linux).

Have a look at chrome://plugins; ask on SuperUser if you can't find an immediate solution to the problem yourself.
In Haskell, the decision gets more complicated. It's one of the few functional languages, where you often want to avoid tail-recursion.
I know, I answered (incorrect) nitpicking with (correct) nitpicking.
Kraft Confesses: “We Use Genetically Engineered Bovine Growth Hormone”
15 Awesome Web Design Showcases – Great for Inspiration
As a web designer, often you would want to visit some great online web design galleries in order to draw inspiration or check out the latest trends.
Remembering the difference between margin and padding
How about a beard, or some more primary markers?
If the stuff was out of copyright, they would revert to the public domain in the US (in other countries, the copyright status would remain unchanged). In short, no one would end up owning the copyright for works where copyright has expired.

That's kind of the problem here. People made derivative works of out-of-copyright materials that they wholly owned. Then Congress revived some zombie copyrights and threw everyone into limbo.
I got it early today, and it's more then just trail accounts, some are free for a few months, but there is a lot more value here. I totally thought it was worth it, but I'm going to be using most of this stuff for my startup anyways
This bundle rocks! If you're worried about not getting what you want, Noah is the nicest guy around. Will give you a 100% refund, no questions asked. http://appsumo.com/faq/
We (Shopify) use braintree and are customers of Chase Paymentech. This is how we collect all our fees.
Slightly OT: does anyone know why the chrome developers absolutely, positively refuse to implement Find As You Type?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150#c191

(This isn't guerilla lobbying; I'm genuinely curious as to why they would resist including a feature I find so useful. And anyway, the third-party type-ahead-find extension is working adequately for me, so far...)
I like git just fine, but it does have over 100 subcommands, way more than any other source control system. If you're using it on a solo project, you're probably using 4-5. Don't worry, some day you'll get the dreaded 'octopus merge' error or some other non-intuitive message.
I know the affliction is real, I'm just questioning the wisdom of using the portrayal thereof by a TV show as a basis for argument. The gracious commenters provided good links to expound on the fallacy.
> To justify the added complexity.

Have you had a look at Chromium's source tree[1]? It's huge! I don't know how much complexity they'd save themselves removing a small feature like that (although you never know).

Have a look at the building instructions[2] as well. "Due mostly to its history and its complexity, Chromium uses a nonstandard set of custom tools to check out and build."

It's a good showcase on the complexity of a browser (and Chrome feels so light and speedy as well.)

[1] http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstruction...
I wish he'd spoken a little more about the bootstrapping process other than that he's glad his wife's a deep sleeper.
SXSW 2011 Roll Call 
Are you going to be at SXSW 2011? If you are check in here!
Ask HN: What are some web apps that use the .io extension
I'm putting together a list of web apps that use the .io domain extension.
Nokia X1-00 for developing countries: built-in flashlight, 61-day battery life
I am flying into Austin today.
It bugs the absolute shit out of me that every time I hit AppSumo, they ask me for my email address even though I've already given it to them.
Not sure if this means anything but Sony has been releasing a new generation every 6 years (1994, 2000, 2006, 2012?).
I meant: where do these units get resold?
I thought the original poster was asking about an adjustable desk that could
be adjusted for use sitting or standing. Those barstools only have an 8 inch
adjustment range. I also think the problem of keeping the adjustments in
sync while going up or down may be a bigger problem than you think.
I don't think the billboard charts are global.
For Australia -- They overall for the year charted at 52 in 2009 and 8 in 2010 (In terms of sales anyway).

From wikipedia: "The band's debut album, Sigh No More, was released in the United Kingdom in October 2009, and February 2010 in the United States."
It's nice to see Australia getting a media release before the US for a change. :)

2010) http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-...
2009) http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-...
I know it's been done with an iPhone, so at least theoretically it's possible.
It sounds to me like he got beaten up in his own comments section. The people commenting don't seem to realize that he is talking about a different type of programming than the commenters are doing.
The dumb part about this debate is that it's being framed as all-or-nothing. The important question isn't "Are unit tests useful?" (the answer to that is "It depends..."), it's "Under which circumstances are unit tests useful?"

If a particular unit test costs you more to write than it saves you in bugs, don't write it. And if it starts costing more in maintenance than it saves in confidence, get rid of it. There's a fair bit of cargo culting going on about how much to test - in my experience, it's not worth testing getters/setters, it's not worth testing simple "if this then set these variables" logic, and it's not worth unit testing database or external calls (you should have some integration tests for them though).

It is very much worth testing tricky cases like a parser, or a bit-level decoder, or complicated algorithms. I just recently got up to 100% code coverage on a UTF-8 decoder I'd written. I found about a dozen bugs in the process. They were silly things, like leaving a digit off a hex constant, but they rippled throughout the decoder so that the results were completely wrong. If I'd just included that in another library without testing, it'd make the dependent library subtly wrong too, and I'd never hear about it until users started complaining, and they'd waste hours trying to find bugs in their code that are really bugs in mine.

I'll also mention one other thing: the point of unit testing isn't to find bugs, it's to give you enough confidence in your code that you can freely change it. The real cost of bugs isn't that one erroneous event that customers will probably never notice, it's that the fear of that one unpredictable event makes management (which is sometimes you, if it's your startup) say "It works. Don't touch it, because you'll break it" and never improve the software. That's how you get shitty software that you can't fix.
Have you heard the one about the $2 bills?
Sorry. That should only happen once per forever. Also, it is cause the link is to appsumo.com instead of to the deal (appsumo.com/lean) which skips the email page.
Hacking Twitter: How I get free text notifications and group texting.
I would guess Gazelle is banking on the iPad 1 stream from Apple drying up, at which point those iPads they bought for $300 are going to be easily sellable at $350+. It's not an iPad 2, but it's also not $500.
Wow, this is most probably the biggest startup bundle ever.

He should add some startup furnitures + office space. Then it would be awesome.
As a single datapoint, I run a site that handles many billions (this is not rhetorical or an exaggeration) of hits per month using mpm_event: I consider it the only sane/stable way of configuring Apache.
There are tons of ebook money plans/schemes - go hunt around blackhatworld.com and read some of the threads there. Some are nonsense and some are legit.
Oldmoe: Ruby Fibers Vs Ruby Threads
Gazelle says they resell on eBay / Amazon. Probably works out better for everyone, since who buys expensive electronics from a low experience seller on eBay?
Goldman "analysts" misread Facebook app as a Netflix killer, stock down 5.76%
Ask HN:  Serious Disk Backup, How to?
What are the better options for doing disk backup of a large PC, say 3 TB of data, up to a small Web server farm, say, 20 TB of data? For sizes in the Exabyte range we will leave to a second Ask HN! :-)!!

Some of the issues: Removable media, backup software features, various relevant techniques (synchronization, incremental, full), restoring, on-line, relational database, bootable drive partitions, disk to disk (all internal, on same computer or a different one), disk to removable media, elapsed time, bookkeeping, automation, multi-volume files, multi-file volumes, RAID (and RAID rebuilding times), role of drives connected via UBS, off-site and/or remote backup, SQL Server log shipping (backup and recovery), and security (in a server farm).

I'm developing only for Windows and not at all for Unix (with the resulting pros and cons).

Currently for my development computer, I am well backed up, but my tools and techniques are simple and already are failing to 'scale' well and will not be useful as my needs grow.

For bootable Windows XP disk partitions: I use NTBACKUP keeping 'system state' and with 'volume shadow copy' (VSS) that permits backing up a bootable partition as it is running. Apparently the backup can be restored to the same drive letter on the same computer but is not really a 'disk image' and the new drive letter need not be the same size as the old one. Even as I grow, for bootable partitions, NTBACKUP (or the newer replacements from Microsoft) may be what I stay with.

Related will be a 'deployment' issue: Given 20 new servers and a Windows 'site license', how to 'deploy' Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 to all 20, quickly? That is, install on one server, take a backup, and the 'restore' it to the other 19? Microsoft has some tools for large scale deployment, but so far I'm not familiar with them.

E.g., I plan to have quickly over 10 TB of data in SQL Server but so far have no good experience doing backup and restore for SQL Server. Of course a standard feature of a RDBS is ability to back up while the database continues to do transactions. But in case of a disk failure, RAID rebuilding elapsed times and/or SQL Server restore elapsed times could mean my Web site was too slow or down for too long. So, I need some good approaches for the SQL Server part of the whole. Of course additional, special details are handling the SQL Server system databases and the log files.

Anyone who has been there, done that, and has the T-shirt knows much more than I do. Fire at will: Many others will also learn.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:.io
Creating an Asymmetric/Symmetric Secure Stream without SSL in C Sharp
thebigsecurity.com
Brief guide to domain name hacks choosing the Domain name for your business
Using the HTML5 ContentEditable Attribute
Interesting. To me, CoffeeScript is emphatically not JavaScript. There are new tools and, well, there's a new syntax. Semantically they may be (almost) equivalent -- but it strikes me as a far stretch to say they're the same, or that developers will treat them the same. I suppose I would feel similarly about HAML, too.
I think he meant user interface complexity, not code base.
Also, Sellout.Woot has had an iPad 16 WiFi today and at least one WiFi+3G model during today's WootOff. People looking for sub-400 iPads are in luck.
I saw hubspot yrs ago. They're definitely going to be homerun company (imo).

But I also think there is plenty of room for improvement in that space.
clickable without the email submit nag http://www.appsumo.com/lean/
Content will have to be increasingly procedurally generated. I worry less about the practical size of the content - to be frank, I think games will likely trend towards being rendered in whole or in part remotely, with consoles being dumb clients - than the manpower and budget required to create it.

I lament constriction - I haven't bought any of the latter games in the Call of Duty series owing to how constrained and linear they are. Games like Far Cry or Just Cause 2 are more my style; but these sandbox games tend to gain from more freedom, rather than lose.

Re cover: "all" the AI needs to do is have a desired target location such that the AI's bounding box is fully or partially contained in volumes that are not in the player's line of sight (i.e. in shadow imagining the character's head as a light source). I don't think that's an insurmountable problem.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/microsoft-seeking-staff-fo...

Might not mean anything.
suppose so, maybe then the question becomes "is the product compelling enough"?
Down now for TOS violation, but +1 anyway for the effort. Any chance of summarizing the infographic textually somewhere?
Cry me a river. I was awake at my desktop trying to register during that hour and I still couldn't get in.
IIRC, Sony was banking on the PS3 being a 10+ year console. This could all change with the discovery of the PS3's private key however. Of course if that's the case, the PS4 might just be a PS3.5 with a new private key.
Pantheon: Drupal hosting service funded by Heroku investors
Yep, M.I.C. Gadget has a Zuckerberg action figure now
Yeah I've had the same problem once in a while, in addition to some others. Not sure what the fix is. It seems to sometimes work for me.
My perspective is a little more subtle than that. To clarify:

"Pretty" is great -- desirable, even. But if "pretty" comes at the cost of using immature tools that may slow me down, or at the cost of forcing my development team to learn a new syntax just because I believe it's "pretty" -- well, that's a harder value proposition.

That's what I'm trying to get at with all this. It sounds like, to you, the level of "pretty" in CoffeeScript outweighs the potential disadvantages -- which is great!

I do like the notion that CoffeeScript syntax gets out of the way; that it lays constructs and ideas bare in a way that JavaScript does not.
Had a great read. Growing up watching gates, wozniac, jobs and other success stories in documentaries, I never wanted a 9to5 at a big establishment. You touch upon homebrew club which brings me back & close to what I still long for - the working in the garage/backyard moments. Perhaps its time. Thx!
THANK YOU. Can someone ask a mod to change the link to this?
Is Microsoft Getting Serious About Its Next-Gen Console?
How long do you have left?

One option may be to get one of your customers to give you an advance in exchange for a discount on the final product, or take an equity investment.
The difference is the use of facebook credits. This makes it really attractive for the user since a user can earn credits on FB without having to pay for them. So this also gives all those apps that give out free credits a boost too.
Oh, that's what I understood it to mean, but that kind of sloppiness makes me doubt the quality of the article.
It's Rails and it's polling.
I think I've entered it about a dozen times myself. I never clear cookies.
It wasn't updating in real time for me in Chrome, I'll give it another try later. Sweet idea!
I think parent meant complexity to the user, not of the code.
I get the impression (albeit as somebody with nothing to do with the industry) that studios aren't very excited about another generation of hardware because it already takes a huge amount of resources to make a current-generation blockbuster, and profit is not alway guaranteed. The demo is completely amazing and I loved it, but if it "took about three months for 12 programmers and artists to build" this 2 minute scene, surely this is beyond the limit of what a studio will undertake for a full length production? Or am I underestimating the horsepower of the studios today?
Promotional USB flash drives - Webstream PR
Awesome. We will definitely look into this opportunity.

Thanks Mike.
Google's favorite marketing trick: artificial scarcity. Well played.
Saudi King Abdullah to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt
Give the readability add-ons a try, if you haven't already.
We could always do an "Ask PG" to clarify, but my understanding of what happened with ViaWeb is you had a group of smart young people innovating on a problem against bulky institutional competitors. When asked who had an offering even close to what they did they said no one. (You might even say they were the first YC modeled company!) Viewed this way I'd say the success was about the people, not the language; they simply used their tool of choice.

I don't know what's the "official" (or real) story on current Twitter architecture.
Yes! Happens to me also. Very very annoying.
I wish when sites throw up a video interview, they would provide a transcript of the conversation. Particularly with interviews, I find video to be particularly inefficient - I can't quickly scan through to find out if there is anything of value to me, I can read through a transcript much faster than watching a video, I can't search, it's particularly annoying at work where they throttle the connection and often I'm in an environment where I don't have headphones nor is it appropriate to have the speakers on. And if I do have audio on, then in conflicts with whatever music I have playing.

Whilst I'll bookmark this video and hopefully get to watch it tonight when I get home, I can't imagine I'm on the only one who feels this way about video interviews and I wonder how many visitors disengage with content when videos are used.
I mean no offence but I think the term you are looking for is raytracing not raycasting. Raycasting is kind of a stilted version of raytracing and was used in Wolfenstein3D and those old 3D games from the DOS days.
Webstagram- An Instagram web interface comment/like photos
Oh I see, it's polling every 30 seconds :)

I've tried Orbited on Rails with success, it does fake comet with an easy-to-use Javascript API so you can push messages to subscribed clients. Also looked at Hookbox, which is by the same guy who made Orbited. They're both realllly easy to integrate and use in Rails, and Hookbox can be used from the public HostedHookbox service, meaning you don't actually have to install a Hookbox server if you just want to try it out.

^In case you'd like to add a push feel to this
That sounds like a great idea! It is going to be hard for us to make that change right now even though it would probably convert better. Hopefully we can improve on the sign-up as we grow.
Great deals, thanks Noah!
Why do they always have to do these shots at night? Is it because the processing to render far away objects in the background is just too much for the engine and they have to compensate by making these things at night so the background behind the characters is black or something close to them?
Notes on Haskell: What's Wrong with the For Loop
I seriously doubt many attendees would complain if Google decided to stream the presentations live.

Having gone last year, I was disappointed that they scheduled some talks in rooms that were way too small and I got turned away at the door on more than one occasion (for example the room for the startup panel with PG et al was packed to fire code capacity). I would've been very happy to watch the simulcast on my laptop in the lobby!
This is a good point. Once I have a little more ad revenue coming in, I've considered hiring someone to do transcripts. Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks for the tip! Yeah we may move to that (and I want to try it out :) but for HN's content-creation frequency polling seems to suffice.
no doubt angry birds is well developed game for touch devices....but does it really have any competition?
Why is your goal to make $50 a day?
Another important thing isn't the complexity of the project, but the impact it has. Sometimes people tend to build on the big side when the best thing they can do is the simplest, just look at Facebook or Google.
Can you describe the process? I'm looking to sell my late-2010 MacBook Pro 15-inch, but I'm apprehensive about being scammed.
Very Cool "Winning" Song by Charlie Sheen 
Guys on youtube remix Charlie sheen's interview into a "winning" song.. very funny..

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg&feature=BF&list=QL&index=3
Android now more profitable than iOS for well-known game developer
If you are a developer start creating small things. Don't go jump into a large web app. Small bites will help motivate and create a momentum so you can start doing bigger things.

For example, last year I created a couple of jQuery premium plugins, I putted a price tag on them and offer user support. Some of people said "no way, your plugin will make it, there will be free version of it anytime soon".

Guess what ? Almost one year has passed, there aren't any full featured alternatives and I'm making a $xx bucks on a daily basis. I'm not making $50, but it's close tho. For the effort I've put into it I pretty happy with the outcome. Clients appreciate the fact that I offer support, and the best thing is, I haven't yet give any support because none of my clients have request it so far.

In a nutshell, my best advice for you is:
- Start by doing small quality things.
- Create a solid client base, keep them happy and show them what you are doing currently

Soon enough your will start see some profit.
Ask HN: IT Mac/Unix pro looking for temp work will travel
A long time friend and IT professional has recently gone into business for himself as a consultant. He's willing to travel to NYC, Silicon Valley, pretty much anywhere expenses are covered. He's a US citizen eligible to work immediately.

His specialties and recent work include compliance testing, configured cloud computing, google hosted services, etc. Long track record of cyber security and Mac/Unix sys admin.

If you know of any temp jobs or are hiring a Mac/Nix expert, please contact me by email at messel at gmail dot dom.

A more entertaining posting on my blog:
http://www.victusspiritus.com/2011/03/08/macunix-cyber-superhuman/