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Show HN: Online Inventory System for Individuals & Businesses - Want Feedback
While working as a Unix Systems Administrator (I still do, just with much more limited hours), I use a horrible piece of software called Netdoc (by Brady) for network documentation. It always confused me how something so expensive could be so horrible, so I set out to make something better. After a bit of development and research, I realized inventory software in generally was pretty horrible, so I changed tracks a bit so my software could be useful to everyone from IT professionals to those wanting to keep track of their personal book collections (And be at a price book collectors can afford). A year later (ie: now-ish), I released a free public beta of my better solution to both network documentation and inventory in general. So now, I'm looking to get as much feedback on it as I can to make it even better.

The software is called Flextory, and you can create a free beta account at http://flextory.com, as well as find out more about the software.

Whether you like to just play with and break software or are interested in finding a new inventory solution, I'd absolutely love any feedback you can offer. Also, general feedback or comments about Flextory or even the state of inventory software in general would also be greatly appreciated. I'd like to make Flextory my full-time job one day.

EDIT: I just wanted to point out the Getting Started/Intro guide at http://docs.flextory.com/flextory_introduction , which also has a lot of screenshots and gives an overview of the ideas behind Flextory.
I am vegan, have been for five years, I don't eat faux meat and never would.

However, good for them. Meat is environmentally unsustainable and is unhealthy (for both givers and receivers).
Talk about a tempest in a teapot. A teapot fit for a doll's house too.
99% of the population has more fat store than in the days when people hunted deer.

The problem is that people aren't used to accessing their fat stores for energy.
Among other things, I'm sure syntax highlighting doesn't help.
I'm not so sure. When someone says "the memory management issues in OS X", I feel pretty confident in assuming specifically which problem they are referring to.

There are some memory models which appear to behave in a way which is relatively psychologically pleasing, and some which do not.

When users are using a program, there are certain times when they have a reasonable expectation that the machine is going to need some time to complete a task ("click and wait"). There are other times when they have no such expectation, and if the machine makes them wait, they get annoyed.

It isn't about the total time they have to wait, its about whether that waiting occurs when they expect it to or not.

Further, when they start to experience these unexpected, annoying pauses, they have a certain expectation that adding more RAM to the system should solve the problem, and when it doesn't, their annoyance only intensifies.

Having used both Linux and OS X as a desktop, I'm going to claim that the Linux VM behavior is pleasing in the ways described above, and the OS X behavior is not.

My understanding is that this is due to just one underlying behavior of the VM: When experiencing memory pressure, Linux (generally) favors evicting filesystem cache over swapping out stack/heap memory to disk, and OS X does not.
But some people don't eat meat for health considerations. Perhaps they like eating meat, but want to live longer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescetarianism#Health_considera...
"Here's what caused the issue and here's our plan to fix it."
From those that have taken them, which of the coursera/udacity/EdX courses are really really good? I go to the sites, get excited and register for everything but I know focus would mean I'd stick with them.
The effect is probably real, but the problem is the correlation coefficient probably varies over space and time.

E.g. you probably have a lot more Foursquare users in Silicon Valley than in Smalltown, USA.

Also, Foursquare probably has its popularity change over time. Right now it's still a little new and shiny, but its popularity might change over time.

If it was the only information available, it would be better than nothing. But your proposed method would be extremely noisy and unreliable.
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As long as the "repeat visitors" pattern is the same across business categories, it wouldn't add noise. There are always first-time visitors.
lots of different shades of grey?
Multiple people are asking why vegetarians would even want this, so let me list a few reasons:

* There are ethical vegetarians (like me) who like the taste of meat well enough, but dislike the baggage that comes with it. If "fake meat" actually tasted like meat then I would eat it occasionally. Generally speaking other fake meats do not taste like meat.

* People who converted to vegetarianism can have cravings for what they grew up with. For me, the main thing I miss is buffalo wings.

All of that said, I think part of the point of this startup is to convert some meat eaters into accepting fake meat as an occasional substitute.
Am I to understand that the reason this bill was blocked was because Obama was for it, thus the Republicans' only move was to block it from coming up for a vote? What kind of bassackwards country am I living in??
I think you're right about this. Maybe it has to do with appearance of control/self determination. It was a mistake (an accident), but it was my mistake/accident (as opposed to something one didn't have control over).
The initial LuaJIT ARM port was targeted at low- to middle-end ARM devices without an FPU. It took some time to find another sponsor for the VFP port.

Work on VFP and hard-float EABI (armhf) is already in progress and will be available soon.
Many corporate employment agreements have two stock sale requirements of note:

1. You can only trade during certain "windows" per quarter. The rest are all blacked-out dates - for example leading up to earnings announcements.

2. Under some employment contracts, you may not benefit from any trading strategy that is contingent on the stock falling in value. In other words, you cannot short nor directly hedge against the stock of your own company.

Specifically what this means is that an executive couldn't short, buy puts, buy a cashless collar, or any direct hedging strategy unless they leave the company.

Leaving the company has its own issues:

1. You may leave large unvested options and/or RSUs on the table. This is very hard and nearly impossible for most people to stomach. Golden handcuffs.

2. If you do leave, you are still not free and clear to do as you please with your stock. If your stock is unregistered, you must ask the company and its investor team, legal team, transfer agent, and often the SEC for authorization to deposit the stock into a trading account.

Finally, for any significant equity position, there are significant tax consequences to each strategy. Read about people being underwater on taxes after exercising ISOs during the dotcom bubble.

tl;dr Seek professional advice.
You may not agree with everyone but it is their decision to make, not yours.
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The next-page links are small and easy to miss, so here's the full article on one page:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0801-mo...
Market makers used to be humans. Now, due to advances in technology, computers can do that job. Computers are (generally) cheaper than humans so they can do the job for less money. You can see this in the fact that spreads have decreased as market making has been turned over to computers. That's the value they are adding.

Market making has always been work so it's always cost money. But now it's cheaper. There's always been money subtracted from the system, but now it's less than it used to be.
i'd wager they thought they were operating in simulation
As I said, I understand defending your turf (ie your job, online community, whatever). However calling out men really does nothing. I don't grope random girls in bars, so I have no idea how I am supposed to react to your post. Obviously would I encounter unpleasant behavior towards women, it would be a different thing. But I rarely do. Also I think for the groping incident it was pointed out that it is illegal, so I suppose had the groper been known, there would have been consequences already.

It's true that from the beginning men don't understand the problem. But after a while you can learn, and occasionally you get a homosexual approach. I understand how it can be uncomfortable to be desired by a stranger. Unfortunately I think it is partly in the nature of things. Women are "the price" and hence men have to hunt after them. Men are pretty worthless biologically (simply because it takes less men than women to create lots of children).

That doesn't excuse disrespectful behavior, of course. But it is a biological reality that at least men have to do a lot of approaching, and women will not always like it (it shouldn't be groping, but I hope you get the idea).

I don't understand your issue with the voting: this is Hacker News, and the offending comment was quickly removed. If Reddit doesn't work out that way, perhaps don't hang out on Reddit? That is what I mean by avoiding jerks. Personally I probably wouldn't enjoy Reddit either because of the jerks. But you can not convert any and all environments, or at least, if you want to try, good luck! I don't think jerks can be eradicated. I can only say it works well for me: I hardly ever encounter jerks, and I don't think any of my friends would grope women in a bar. I could make my life miserable by thinking about the millions of jerks out there, but why bother?
This is a horrifying prospect. One that you would trust a LAN, two that you would want any external device to QUERY the credentials and access the creds of another device.

Horrifying. There are so many better ways of providing zero interaction auth that is secure: BrowserID, NFC (smartphones that can thus do asymmetric encryption), the QR experiment Google did.

Even if you just tweaked your idea to do something along the lines of what Google did... You go to a browser, type gmail.com, enter your email address. They push an event via GCM and your phone asks if you trust the computer that just asked for auth. You click "YES". Similar flow, but no where near as horrifying.
"Meat is environmentally unsustainable and is unhealthy."
Citation needed.

Soy/Tofu, on the other hand, IS unhealthy - particularly for men.[1][2]

[1] - http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/soys-negative-effects
[2] - http://www.healthiertalk.com/why-tofu-wrecks-your-brain-0246
It's easier for small groups to organize than widely disperse ones. See Buchanan/Tullock/Olson. That's why the general interest tends to lose out in Democracy to special interests.
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Larger neodymium magnets are indeed quite capable of pinching or crushing a finger. The magnets we're talking about, while quite strong for their comparative size, are not THAT strong. I don't even think they're strong enough to attract one another through the thickness of a finger.
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More likely they thought they had implemented them but they were implemented incorrectly.
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I was learning French with Memrise for a while, but found that after a certain point the memory keys were...not great. I've not been back for a while though so might give it another try.
"I ran away from home at the age of 11 after my father beat me for stealing a kitchen appliance," said Samir who works in a sweatshop.

[snip]

"I have saved 4,000 rupees (70 US$) in the last seven months. It's a good feeling to have some money. I will buy a shirt and a watch for my father and send it to him to seek his apology."

"He might forgive me and ask me to be with him at home."

For me it is heartbreaking that this child was beaten and still feels that he owes his abuser an apology.

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Steam is a Windows 8 program. It's not a WinRT program. Steam works perfectly in Windows 8.

The point I was making is that Steam doesn't work on Microsoft ARM tablets powered by Windows RT, but that shouldn't be a big surprise considering no desktop software works on ARM computers without being recompiled for that platform. It's no different than OSX vs iOS.
Humans are omnivores, not carnivores. We can sustain on a remarkable variety of diets. Evolution isn't really part of the picture, or even necessarily some ideal to follow without deviating. After all, the internet and factory farms aren't part of evolution either.
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damn, I totally should have mentioned that in the post. I'll add it via an edit.
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Now that you mention it, it does seem that too much emphasis and time is spent on counting and calculations. A symptom may be how some people equate doing fast calculations with being good at math.
First: I know nothing about facebook lockups.

There is a intersecting web of securities law and the terms of the original share sales to private investors.

Here is some information about registration rights and investment term sheets:

http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/venture-capital-term-sh...
>but dislike the baggage that comes with it.

Is it the way some animals are treated, or the killing altogether? If the former, why not buy your meat from more "humane" sources like free range farmers etc. ?
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Men's Health is not a suitable citation.
Thank you for making a point of only eating fake meat occasionally. Too many "fake" vs "real" arguments lean toward some assumption that you're going to be scarfing this down for three square meals a day.
> if you are vegan why would you want to eat stuff that resembles meat?

Why wouldn't you?
Sad that the march to abandon reason has reached this far, where even the most rudimentary mathematical knowledge is scorned. Maybe degrees should be given out based on attendence and self esteem. Without algebra, people could not evaluate even at a broad level the tenability of a scientific or technical claim, they would be denied any form of meaningful understanding of probability, algorithms, complexity, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, even linguistics has deep roots in algebraic notions. To abandon the teaching of algebra would be to condemn the public to a life of ignorance and obedience to crowd think.
One of the wonderful things about that big brain of yours, you know, the one evolution gave you, is no longer being constrained by natures 'whims.'
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Shameless self-plug but I'm working on a repo that's attempting to documents 1:1 how to use the iOS SDK from RubyMotion without trying to abstract it away into a library. Libraries will change and evolve or worse, be leaky abstractions, but the SDK is a slower moving target you can always fall back to: http://iconoclastlabs.github.com/rubymotion_cookbook/

We'd love to have more eyes on it, it's just something we do in our spare time, so it's a bit slow going. We've also hit a few rough spots where our obvious lack of iOS knowledge has slowed us down (CoreData, I'm looking at you). We've uncovered some RubyMotion bugs in the process, so I feel it's a valuable project that reaches into all the seldom used dark corners of the SDK and verifies that they work.
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+1 I am with you!! we need a Wiki for politicians, so year later they cannot claim they were with or against something that is popular/unpopular right now. You know -- sort of transparency website with links to sources to every claim they make. I would love to look into it -- is there any API CrunBase-type with all senators I can tap into?
If a site use css gradients with carefully tuned values -say, for glass buttons- they will easily "use" 5-10 colors for each gradient.

It would still look like a solid color + gloss, caustics and shadow, so from a design point of view it might be fair to treat each gradient as one "color".
My girlfriend is not a vegan (not even close) but detests meat. It's not just the way they are treated in industrial farming, its that these animals were once alive. She's anti-murder I guess. To each their own - I think meat is murder too but delicious delicious murder (stolen from a t-shirt slogan).

She would love to eat fake meat if it tasted as good as the real thing. I would try it too - just to reduce my iron and acidic intake from all the meat I currently eat. There's a market for this. Not just about "vegans".
Perhaps a slightly more realistic usage would be for financial analysts to use the data as a (weak) signal as to whether or not companies are on track to meet their earnings expectations. I believe that they have gone as far as to buy satellite pictures of parking lots (empty/full) to try to gauge how well big retailers are doing...
Slightly different business model:

Airport food is mediocre and overpriced. So you build a website so people can order off-airport food and have it delivered. You team with a nearby restaurant, run a van back and forth, send delivery people with bags of food to designated waiting areas.

The airport authorities won't like it though.
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WTF, Men's Health magazine and some health forum article (whose author believes water fluoridation is an industrial conspiracy) are considered reliable sources now?

By these standards, the case for the unsustainable and unhealthy nature of meat is airtight. But if you want a more reliable source, seek out the UNEP report on sustainable resource management.
You incorrectly assume Mens Health is a source and incorrectly assume that the alternative to meat is soy. For example, if you don't eat hamburgers you aren't forced into soy burgers. It doesn't work like that.
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There are many other reasons, including environmental impact, not to mention network effects from consuming meat or dairy if you're a vegan (the leather industry, for example)
Does anyone know if there is a way to monitor xcode and find out if it's GC or ARC?
Good for them. I'm not really digging the tail on the lowercase L next to the simple bar I. Otherwise I might give it a shot for my own site instead of Quattrocento Sans or Open Sans.
Here is the CNS News story that this one references.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/oregon-man-sentenced-30-days...

It has more info... including the guy admitting that he has dams for collecting the water. He even was previously given 3 years probation and ordered to open the water gates. He did... and then shortly after his probation ended, he closed them again. I think there is a lot more to this story than this one sensational head line.

I suspect if he had just found a spot on his land away from rivers, creeks, streams, etc and just dug a big pit for rain to collect in he would have been fine. It seems this is not what he did.
Thanks for the link. I have heard about this but always thought the risk was negligible.
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True. For dark text on a light background, I have often had to lighten up headlines to make the larger area match the percieved darkness of the body text. (And vice-versa.)
The good thing is that it's not the only information available, just one more signal. And what's wrong with trying it out only in the Bay Area and New York, for example?
What about artificial grape flavor, etc? Maybe not faux veggies, but faux fruit is definitely prevalent.
From the article:

> Dr. Lewi's case report on James Price's condition was published in the May/June 2008 edition of Endocrine Practice, a journal read by many of the nation's in-the-trenches endocrinologists. Thanks to this, doctors now have a newly documented agent to consider when evaluating gynecomastia.
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the most convincing ethical argument i've heard for vegetarianism has nothing to do with the treatment/killing of animals, it is that eating vegetables is a much more efficient use of resources than eating meat. The amount of energy it takes to grow 500 Calories worth of broccoli is an order of magnitude less than the energy it takes to raise 500 Calories worth of beef. If all the resources currently used to raise animals for meat were used to grow vegetables instead, there would be plenty of food to spare for the whole planet. I'm curious as to the energy consumption it takes to grow synthetic meat.

(edit: to be clear, this argument has failed to sway me, i still love eating meat. It's just something interesting that i've heard before and thought was worth sharing. There may or may not be actual statistics to back this argument up.)
There's no reason to put humans out there. There are no aliens. There's nothing out there for us. That's why we send probes. Cheap probes. Unmanned probes.

If we happen to discover something amazing that would be interesting or beneficial to walk up next to at incredible risk and expense, then perhaps we would do a manned mission. But its far far too limiting to send people in every direction to do the exploratory probing. You can explore a 1000x more volume of space with robots than you can with manned missions. We can't even see anything worth sending humans to with telescopes.

We don't make manned space probes for roughly the same reason we don't make manned torpedos. There's no point to the expense and risk. Use the right tool for the right job and put down the science fiction.
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I'm very interested in this. I've never tried fasting before -- and I'm 33 years old, which means I've had a lot of time to get used to eating a lot -- so I imagine that I would have a feeling of "starvation" that would be awfully distracting. Plus, I'm a bear when I'm too hungry and I wonder what I could do to avoid taking it out on the people who surround me (especially my 5 year-old kid).
Is it really that difficult to understand that some people are vegan for their own personal ethical reasons, but still like the taste of meat?
If you want to be vegan for ethical reasons, go for it.

Vegans who are vegans for health reasons - dumb dumb dumb. A cursory biological examination of the human body demonstrates that we are omnivores. That means the human body has adapted over tens of millions of years to eat both plants and animals.

Additionally, many vegans will go heavy on soy and wheat based foods. There are many health issues surrounding soy (citations my other comment in this thread), and wheat products are not particularly healthy.

The arguments for veganism for health reasons is largely unsupported by any sort of actual science.