skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sounds like too much vendor lock in with proprietary solutions for my taste, but can see the benefit for some projects out there.
Given the mention of Webvan and the sheer number of startups in their study, it would seem their sample group does include a significant cohort from the Bubble. Trying to derive generalized rules governing startup outcomes is tough when those rules inherently keep changing.
Fantastic implementation. Out of intrest did you think about using Ace? Do you prefer codemirror?
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Is there anything in the UVA area for tech entrepreneurship?
I'm a college student interested in tech entrepreneurship after I graduate. However, for personal reasons, living near the University of Virginia for a year or so is highly desirable. Is there anything I can do while there to further my startup ambitions or general tech skills, or is Charlottesville a entrepreneurship desert and unambiguously a waste of time?
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The main problem with right clicking is that right clicking does a myriad different things depending on what is being clicked on, whereas left clicking almost always does the same thing.
>(For those not familiar with Windows: if I select a file, the "send to" options are: compressed folder, create desktop shortcut, documents, fax, email, burn to DVD, network directory.)

There's one more: if you have a bluetooth adapter (or a laptop with embedded support), it shows a 'Send to Bluetooth device'. I find this very useful for sending files to my phone.
thanks for the kind words, rewind! you make a great point. i wish it was as magical as it sounds and that everyone who pursues their dreams will be successful. realistically, there are a neverending challenges in building a startup (beyond building a great product or finding the perfect team), but i guess that's what makes the process so exciting and rewarding.

it definitely helps to be prepared (mentally, financially) before making the jump. analyze your financial limitations and decide how long you can support yourself. understand the worst-case scenario and be ready to face it.
It doesn't matter. Good co-founders are much more sensitive to the fact that you pitch your "great idea" and still haven't done anything about it -- based on experience organizing a co-founders meetup for two years now.
Seconded, also Google checkout. Credit card is OK too, but for small transactions I'm suspicious and if I've never heard of your website before then naturally I worry about the possibility of a scam. It's not the loss of money, but the potential loss of my private billing information.
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This is an excellent thought experiment, and the question deserves to be asked.

I'm dismayed that I haven't heard anyone else ask it before, although I'm not sure you share my motivations in your posing them. That is, I get the feeling that the subtext of your comment is that you'd conclude that we'd end up with something basically the same as we have now; my claim is that we wouldn't, and what we could come up with has the potential to be so much better than HTML+JS+DOM+CSS.
You just ruined my entire night. Good find. There's an updated version at http://www.explodingrabbit.com/games/super-mario-bros-crosso... with more features/characters.
re: count() - I guess I should have also said "reasonably fast". Waiting 8 seconds for a count() isn't practical for many apps.
Sure, that would be the case if we hadn't all played the game 20 years ago. But we have, so instead it looks like a fun trip down memory lane.
But if you have to work verbally only, and can never point to something to say "this is -foo-", how do you communicate? It doesn't really matter that we live in the same universe - how the hell do we say "Hey, you know DNA?" when we can't even make an arbitrary point. The article is saying that we can't communicate things about constellations or other simple-yet-arbitrary points, but that we can happily communicate about things we can't even sense ourselves (who knows about the aliens senses?). Sure, we can verbally define what a Volt is, but the words we use to make that definition require common experience at some point to make sense.

Remember that the rosetta stone was so useful because it provided a reference point to help decode a previously incomprehensible language. In order to communicate with someone, you must have a common experience somewhere.
In fact, guess what:
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/08/29/fraudulent-googl...
I'm worried that the websites I'm scraping from will be updated and will no longer work

When I worked for Internet Brands, they bought a site called Tjoos (a coupon/deal site) that amassed what was at the time the largest number of merchant sites using a proprietary screen scraping technology. It is a very fragile method, and a good portion of the codebase was dedicated to config classes that needed to be updated with each change to a given site. The founders had to keep hiring developers to keep up with the demands of constantly updating scraping definitions, so the site had a lot of revenue, but little profit when IB bought it. Surely by now Internet Brands has updated the site to use the same engine that powers UlitmateCoupons, BensBargains, DealLocker, etc.
See earlier comment - I misstated my point - it's not so much that it's inaccurate as slow. Dog slow. InnoDB in MySQL 'fixes' the speed with estimates, but that's generally not very useful either in most cases (sometimes, it is).

I was confusing my earlier innodb count() experiences (inaccurate estimates) with postgresql count() experiences (dog slow).
This is an odd article, because Microsoft addresses exactly the point this person is arguing against.

MS says, "Only 2 of the top 10 commands customers invoke in Explorer are available in the Command bar, the main UI element for invoking commands."

And have this picture, http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...

The takeaway from the data isn't that you should focus on people using context menus, because all commands haven't been available in other places. But they used their data and said, "there are the most common desired actions" coupled with their own design sense that said, "if we moved them to the ribbon they'd be easier to use".

To me that makes a great deal of sense.

I feel like this person, Seldo, who wrote this blog post attacked MS without either reading the full MS post or not understanding it. Statements like, "But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research" (which she bolded) simply aren't in the data MS presented. It's as if she misunderstood the distinction between location and action.

And later she says, "Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar." Again she seems to not understand that the most common actions were only available from the context menus.
At first I thought it was just plain stupid, to combine these 2 concepts. But after watching the video I can really believe that it will be a lot of fun! Kudos for that idea!
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Yea. For me it was like two hands... :)

Now though, any other editor that's not Vim or Emacs feels like that...
If Iran is intercepting gmail traffic, they won't be able to access the real site regardless of whether they know about it.
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And longer term, revolution.
This reminds me of BeOS's metadata database filesystem, taken to its logical conclusion on the front end:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/the-beos-fil...
with an input like "pervious likes," you could really know what someone likes

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> Look, I don't know what age you are, but health care at upper-30s is no easy street, and from what I hear, it gets much, much worse.

I'm "low 50s" and a fairly premium plan didn't cost me much.

> Just in the past year, I dropped 10K on health care expenses, and that is _with_ fantastic insurance.

Wowswers. However, if that's expected costs, that's an argument for not subsidizing you. And, if it's unexpected costs, that's an argument for catastrophic health insurance, not ordinary health insurance, which is little more than pre-paid expenses.
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Don't get me wrong, an SSD was definitely worth it over an HDD. Despite being slower than the advertised speeds by a lot, it is still far better than before. I'm just saying that paying extra for a "tier 1 performance" SSD may not be worth the money over a mid-range one if that extra performance is gained by the controller doing aggressive compression (as the sandforce-based SSDs apparently do).

The reason that I know that this is not just encryption overhead is because when asked about lower performance being seen by users who were not encrypting, OCZ staff confirmed on their forums that benchmarks not using compressible data will see lower numbers.

I googled a bit and saw that it's widely documented that sandforce are compressing right in the controller, and this allows it to physically do less reading/writing, which artificially inflates the data transfer speed.

Attempting to compress encrypted data has no effect on the size of the data whatsoever, so tests doing that are more reflective of their actual performance.
If the game should be played more then once or twice the design must be changed in some points. Other levels, enemys and events might be nessesary to keep the fun high. But if the intention is just a nice gag without the need of much replayability it seems to be totally fine to just simply combine the two.
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No. Actually these may be people who are very interested in startuping, but do not want to make the first jump.
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> but provide an incentive to go into much riskier forms of investment that also serve more of a public good.

Special incentives is how GE pays $0.

Any proposal that ignores effects like regulatory capture is either deceptive or ignorant.
yeah, I probably wouldn't call "the 37signals guys" script kiddies, David Hannson created Ruby on Rails. I agree with your take on innovation, Pandora would be in the same boat.
Mozilla is spinning up new releases to remove the cert.

See http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/08/29/fraudulent-googl...

Instructions on how to delete it yourself are available at http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/deleting-diginotar-ca-ce...
My Documents is the worst possible solution to "I can't find my files."

First of all, they designate only one part of the visible filesystem as "safe", when it should be the opposite. Everything that's obviously accessible should be safe, and system-critical stuff should require going elsewhere.

Secondly, there is nothing personal about "My Documents". Every program routinely dumps files there that you can't do anything with directly. Game saves are the worst offenders here. They're cryptically named and you can't double click them like every other file.

And then people complain that normal users don't understand files.
Right click, "Icon and Text". Done.

Click "Attach a document" rather than "Photo Browser" - it's literally 2 icons to the left, visible by default, and uses the universal "Paperclip" motif. Done. The other is even called "Photo Browser" rather than "Attach Photo" because, you know, it uses the system wide photo browser (i.e. iPhoto).

Mac Power User? Power troll, perhaps. Sigh.
Interesting, but I feel like I read this article 4 years ago. Every couple of years some research firm comes out with a study on "The New Gamer" and who they are - "Not just basement dwellers anymore!"...

I'm not saying it's not worthwhile to continue running these studies (let's be honest, plenty of companies will pay tens of thousands of dollars to buy them). But I think defining each study as "The New XXXX" is disingenuous.

Gamers are evolving over time, and the increasingly broadening scope of games are bringing in more and more casual gamers, and also creating an opportunity for first-time gamers to not feel entirely overwhelmed. That's been happening for years though, with developers like PopCap, BigFishGames, and WildTangent. It's nothing new.
My experience differs. We've used SIMD intrinsics extensively, and almost never use assembly for this. We write huge quantities of performance critical code, as do you.

Many of the limitations that you discuss are real, but we've got strategies to avoid them.

We do compile a dozen versions, which is horrible, but there it is.

We get peak performance out of code using intrinsics. By 'peak', I mean close to the limits that can be achieved given the latency of the critical path and the number of operations that need to be carried out in total divided by the ports that can execute them.

In order to persuade gcc to get register allocation and scheduling right, we typically have to program in a style that closely resembles assembly, and a fair bit of our critical code is automatically generated and hand-unrolled/pipelined/scheduled. This is still easier than coding everything in assembly, especially when something goes wrong.

Large quantities of unrolling, and careful management of potential problems like aliasing, typically gets modern x86 what it needs to be able to overcome the problems of gcc. :-) Quite often the asm generated looks like shit but I have noticed a number of cases where improving the asm to be more sane actually reduces performance, often due to the fact that a modern x86 processor is doing weird things with the resulting code.
tried to upload a big photo folder, 4.5GB, with 688 photos in a couple ways and neither works.

1. Love the simple drag and drop to upload idea. it didn't work, though, when i simply drop that big folders. it just hang, ie seems to be working away but gave no errors. after 4 hrs, i stopped it.

2. created a folder then dropped 688 photos in. Error msg: max limits # items is 100. why is this limit? I can think of many cases where people need to store more than 100 items in 1 folder.

suggestions:
1. please spelled out your limitations somewhere.
2. remove that 100 items/folder limit.

I like your website flow and UI. keep at it, guys.
One additional difficulty in making Portal 2-dimensional is the loss of a relative frame of reference, which can cause control problems. If you hold down the left key to enter a right-facing portal, and exit through another right-facing portal, do you start moving right even though you are holding down the left key? Massive kudos if they can find a intuitive way to solve this.
I'm thinking selection bias was at work. They surveyed startups they could find - how? VC lists? Bankruptcy filings?

How many startups failed that never got on their radar? Most?

I skimmed the report, their "methodology" link, whatever other links worked, and I did not find out how they found the startups they measured.
Article is ignoring a big thing, features such as "Copy Path" is almost hidden in Win 7/Vista unless you know where they are.

In 7 you have to "Shift + Right Click" to see "Copy as Path" in the context menu. Now how many users (even power users) actually know about this? So many of my friends were really pleased to find this out when I showed them.

There are lots of other features such as you can actually copy a file and when you try to paste it to a "File Open Dialog" 7 will automatically paste the path of the file, so that's why "Copy Path" was quite hidden, because for common usage it's just easier to do copy & paste.

We have to understand that just like everyone know what is Ctrl + C all power users eventually gets rid of menu bars and just uses hotkeys. New Ribbon interface (with hide/customise features) provides a nice infrastructure for that while not punishing the normal users.
Ask HN: Where do you draw the line between technical and non-technical?
Forgive my naivete, but since I started reading HN earlier this year, I've seen the terms "technical" and "non-technical" thrown around a lot, mainly when it comes to founders, but not limited to that.

From my perspective, it seemed implied that "technical" is synonymous with "coder/developer" and "non-technical" being "everybody else". So, I ask, where do you draw the line?
Yes that is what I am looking for. I have to prepare a storyboard for a software demo layout. But I do not necessarily want to do alot of manual work (copy/paste, switch screens constantly, etc). So I was hoping there's something out there that allows you to run through the 'demo', record, then edit the recording with notes/comments for the editors to follow.
Of course you should worry. The attacker may have sold the cert to other parties, not just Iran. Or if it was Iran directly, they may sell the certs to other parties to make a pretense of deniability.
Well, i wouldn't want you to overthink it...but they're not so far apart.

Games have the best UI; ideally a game will only show you the bare minimum of information required, and make the play experience as smooth and intuitive as possible. But games also have very narrowly defined win/loss conditions, and even in sandbox games (like Grand Theft Auto) success means that that players in the middle of the normal distribution are able to complete the game and interested enough to spend time doing so.

For creative or productivity software, the definition of success is open-ended, because while designers can anticipate the kind of tasks/problems users will want to perform/solve, the end product of their labors is fundamentally unknowable, rather than waiting within the software to be discovered by the diligent user (player). Sure, Michaelangelo used to say that the statue already existed within the block of marble and his job was simply to reveal it, but you should probably see that as an early example of successful branding rather than a design document. A game is like a theme park ride insofar as the riders may change but their interaction with the ride is highly constrained. An application is more like a civil engineering task insofar as it has to bear a substantial amount of traffic, but its job is to facilitate rather than fulfill. You want those things available on the toolbar, even though many of them may not see regular use, because it's the easiest way to signal the availability of such functionality. The relative utility distribution of toolbar buttons or menu items follows Benford's law just like everything else.
> Statically typed Java language pushed as alternative to JRuby and Groovy for building mobile Android apps

According to the SpringSource P.M. for Groovy: "Groovy is not able to run properly on Google's Android mobile platform. A project started porting Groovy to Android, but performance wasn't there (20 secs to startup a simple Hello World)" (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GSOC/Groovy+Ideas)

Perhaps Scala is the ONLY alternative to Java.
Reddit is a more well known example. Do you know what the original idea by the founders was?
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Ask HN: Soulver for Windows?
I got a very old trial version[1] from 2005. It's awesome. I contacted the developers[2] to see if I could buy a license from them and they said they stopped supporting the Windows version long ago. They gave me a license key to try but it didn't work. Anyone know of a good alternative?

[1]: http://download.cnet.com/Soulver/3000-2053_4-10397751.html
[2]: http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/
Questions like this seem a bit pointless in my opinion. I mean sure, a lot of people get to answer with their insights and opinions on the said language/tool, but in the end isn't everything you learn going to benefit you and make you a better programmer? So asking if something is worth learning will probably always get a positive answer because the more you know the better (even if you don't get to use that specific tool you ask about).
YMMV, I guess, depending upon where you work/have worked but despite working in commercial software, I've had a bigger problem convincing past bosses that using pirated software to do our jobs is a problem than I have had with bosses who were overly concerned about copyright law to the point where it would be an issue in my hypothetical case.

I still think the original objection is more retold fairy tale than truth, but if anyone wants to prove me wrong they can point me to a country where public domain isn't recognized, but random user-written OSS licenses are and the country has any sort of culture of respecting copyright in the first place.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/mcdonalds2.htm.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/73533-mcdonalds-is-a-real-es.... You could arguably say that McDonald's is in the real estate business.
Every startup could use a co-founder like Tim Ferris to make a project become mainstream.

Don't get me wrong. I read some of his books and didn't change my life. But it made me think harder about how to promote and sell my ideas and myself.
I came across 280slides.com, which is like a web-based version of Keynote, so I can use it on a PC.
Ask HN: What to tell Angel Investors after changing environment?
I recently pitched my idea at a startup event, generated quite a bit of buzz, and garnered the attention of several Angel Investors. But I'm scared to meet them because so many variables have changed since the end of the event.

1.) Half the team decided to take advisory roles in the company (simply because there were too many biz people in the group). This cut the founding team size to 2.

2.) After some discussion, we decided mobile was a better solution than web.

3.) I'm a business guy, but I changed my role to developer when I found out the dev on my team wasn't a mobile guy. Together, we came up with an easy, temporary mobile app. It wasn't particularly sophisticated though.

4.) The other developer wasn't super passionate about the project from the beginning, but was extremely interested after we had Angel Investors offer to help us.

So now I have a meeting coming up with some Angel Investors and I am scared to tell them that my team doesn't have a real mobile developer, the other developer may not be as passionate as I thought, and I will now be splitting my time between business and development.

I don't want to lose their confidence, so what can I say? What can I do beforehand? We do have a freaking awesome idea, but as always, execution is everything.

Also, what kind of questions can I expect from an initial sit-down with investors? They told me they want to meet so we can discuss execution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns_(book)

Commonly referred to as the Gang of Four (or GoF) book, due to the four authors: Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides.
Ordering fast food on cell phones.
"Delete all files except this one."
i'm currently looking at Amazon flexible payments as well. I like the idea of people using their amazon accounts for payments as just about everyone has an amazon account.
A brief search for TLS MITM suggests to my inexperienced eye that there are indeed TLS attacks via MITM cert-swapping that the ISP can assert.

--- edit. Not looking for argument. Looking for facts.

- This is my top hit for 'tls mitm proxy'

http://www.delegate.org/delegate/mitm/

It's dated as '06, however.

- I can install Fiddler (Windows https debugger) on my machine and read https traffic in the clear.

- A competent admin assures me that Websense can read https traffic. Couldn't really dig real detail up on the websense sites though. This chap suggests the admin is not wrong (search for corporate, it's toward the end): http://www.carbonwind.net/blog/post/Random-SSLTLS-101%E2%80%...
What makes you think that new computer users who can't remember "non intuitive" concepts like right clicking and context menus will know what cut/copy/paste on files does?