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Apply HN- FixSmarter: Mobile App So You Don't Get Screwed by Your Contractor
You break your front, plate glass window. What do you do? Join Angie's list, redbeacon, pro.com, homeadvisor, thumbtack, or search local contractors? Maybe. But all you'll get is one or more recommended contractors who will come over and give you whatever estimate for a price they think they can get from you. You're really no better than looking in the yellow pages.

FixSmarter puts you back in control. With FixSmarter, you take a video of window. The video is distributed to local contractors for actual bids. The price is confirmed by both parties upon inspection. The cost of the job is held in escrow by FixSmarter until completion of the job. Disputes over price and performance are resolved in house by experts in FixSmarter through video evidence. FixSmarter takes a small percentage of the money held in escrow as a fee. All contractors will be vetted, licensed, and have liability insurance. If they don't have insurance, FixSmarter will provide the means to get insurance.

Unlike what's out there now, contractors don't pay for unsuccessful bids, consumers don't pay to join and both parties can feel certain in price, payment, and performance. FixSmarter's video project proposals combined with in-house dispute resolution takes a giant step forward for consumers needing home repairs.

I've been frustrated by getting home repairs for years and believe in this solution. I'd love to hear from everyone on why I'm wrong or if I have a Dumb and Dumber like chance.
I'm not sure what the maximum upload size is set to right now. We can adjust it higher, but our sites aren't very big so we haven't hit the limit. We also have a command line file sync tool without any particular file upload size limitation.

If you change just one file, you can upload a whole new zip, or use the command line tool with has a more intelligent sync mechanism.

Yes, you can make changes as often as you want. :-)
Assuming the open source software was freely licensed, why would hosting an alternative server not be legal?
Everyone in my generation is split, those who went to college and now are paying off ridiculous debt, those who have rich parents, and those who are trying to make it on their own. College does give you a step up, but its really screwed a lot of people. Those of us who just want to learn but don't want to be saddled with debt have to make due outside of our 'institutions' of learning, which is too expensive to consider when you already have an OK job.
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> This is a paper CPU, right?

What? No, it's an Instruction Set Architecture. It's the language the CPU speaks.

> Multiply and divide as an option belongs down at the 50 cent 8-bit CPU that runs a microwave oven, not on something that runs Linux

Irrelevant, nobody has to know your CPU doesn't implement multiply/divide, not even the OS!; you trap to machine mode and life goes on. And not every RISC-V core needs to run Linux.

> but what happens at Supervisor, Hypervisor, and Machine mode?

You read the manual that exists, implement the privileged spec, and it'll run Linux. Just because it's not frozen doesn't mean that many RISC-V cores can't already boot a number of different operating systems.

> If this were well-defined and cheap tablets were coming out of Shentzen using it, it would be important.

There are already shipping products with RISC-V cpus (like in cameras). Just because you're not the customer doesn't mean this work isn't very important to other people.
Depending on type of degree, skill and country etc it can be even earlier: I had to decide this at 16 and really besides girls, guitars and computers I had no clue what I would be doing later on. I did dev for clients freelance already and thought I might just as well get a degree. Turns out that I would never have needed it as I never had a 'job' (41 y/o now), always had my own companies and that allowed me to pay back my loan (which was not that big) when I sold my first company in my 20s. Besides that I like theoretical CS it never helped me as far as the title is concerned; I have always been the gatekeeper in my companies meaning I help out or pick up slack both hardware and software when needed in whatever tech needed but never had to use my diploma's, grades, minors/majors or title.

If I had done what my parents wanted though, aka work at a big corp, diplomas, grades and titles work imho. Most (maybe all) people I work with at partners or clients (usually banks or big financials) have degrees and would not be at the company they are without I believe.

I find the age or 16/17 way too young though to decide anything like that as you won't probably understand the impact until much later. Better is just fixing the rediculous fees etc.
I think something like this is needed, but I question the need for an actual tour guide.

What if I wanted to go to Vancouver and I wanted a walking tour with some great food and drinks, with some idle time spent at a couple parks or walking around a museum? That's a pretty typical ask and something I'd gladly pay $10 for in order to just get a list of things to visit in a sensible order (so I can just walk along a set path from place to place). As a local of Vancouver I could create my own "poutine, cocktails, and parks" guide, post it, and get some commission every time its sold.

How will you recruit guides?
What non-C semantics did SPARC chips offer? I wasn't aware of that.
That's certainly possible but a dedicated sponsored team will result in a wow factor that the average community based group wouldn't necessarily posess. You would be hard pressed to find a jackass caliber group in every community, but if they are sponsored they could travel and maximize the entertainment value.
Apply HN: Grid – let the AI choose your date
A Grid is an infinite matrix of people.
Users connect their social profiles and the Grid will analyze activities and co-relate them with people who have similar activities.

Everyone in adjacent grid are people with similar activities on social networks and you can choose and ping them for a date or whatever. You cannot ping a person outside 8 x 8 of your grid. But you can ask recommendation or suggestions to reach that grid by sending an interest.

From inside Its an engine to compare two people activities across different social networks to figure out how common they are.

It may give suggestions to improve your social skills to reach a particular grid.

(Just an idea.)
> Challenging programs have relatively little to do with it. It's almost 100% about the prestigious schools and the networks that come along with them: the old "it's not what you know; it's who you know," deal.

I didn't go to a particularly prestigious school. I didn't know anybody at the job I got as a new grad. I individually made more money in my first year out of university than most families did mid-career. I was not unusual among those in my program.

A degree in engineering pays off in part because it's a challenging program.
It's not clear to me that this would be a bad thing.
Series of the cores share common functionality amongst themselves, but the character data structures between them are radically different because of changes in character info between versions (ie, they added achievements in wotlk, and then made them account wide in Cata / MOP), and in MoP / WoD they removed several item slots on certain classes).

The problem with most private servers is not character portability, but scripting portability. A quest scripted for a vanilla core probably won't work on a Burning Crusade one because the API used is different.

The WoW private server scene is actually fascinating to read from a code study perspective, because its all entirely hobbyist and often novice software development. Common solutions to problems like delegation or templates are often unused because the people writing the code just didn't know they existed and never formally studied software best practices.
I've run into this in production with PHP session files in /tmp. At a certain amount, just running "ls" would hang your process until you killed it.
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Can you drop me a note - Aronchick (at) google? We'd love to chat about your deployment :)
So as an artist, I should do a background check on all of my clients, lest I accidentally receive public funds and lose rights to my art.
> Our aim is to optimize processes by implementing machine learning with the data gathered from the devices connected to our platform.

What does this mean and why do I need it (assuming I'm an IoT manufacturer)?
That is the actual reason for the government giving student loans instead of the banks - there really isn't a good way to tell if someone will pay it back, and no one has had enough time to prove responsibility at that age. Most of the private loans require parents or others to co-sign for the loans, and sometimes they don't really understand what they are getting into.

Even the banks rely on a credit score based on how well you've paid back credit cards and other credit. One cannot prove responsibility simply by saving money and paying bills on time and living within one's means - if one does this, they go to the bank for a loan, and despite having saved a sizable chunk of down payment, get told they have no credit.
Seems more like people are refusing to listen to those who do actually know how to stop it. The resistance to LCHF/IF I've seen and experienced has been ridiculous. People just do not want to change or give up their precious carbs/sweets.

Of course LCHF promoters can do a lot more about concerns with sustainability, animal exploitation/ethics, convenience and so on, but anyone interested in fixing this problem already has the knowledge and tools to do so.
Everyone wants a faster, lighter, more energy efficient, and reliable car, am I right?

That's why this comes up.

It simply not as much of a question of is the idea great, it's we have been here before (and if not exactly this idea, there is a lot of overlap with other new databases), and it's quite hard to pull off.

Not everyone can be the tesla of databases, and there is a plethora of new options in the space. So answering this question seems to weigh a bit heavy in the discussion for good reason.
Kronos, the Soviet 32-bit workstation, was designed and built from hardware to all compilers, OS and miscellaneous applications by a small group of students in a couple of years. The only language they used was Modula-2.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronos_(computer)
True. And that's part of the bad UI - there's no good way to filter different types of content, and the group moderation system doesn't work too well.
Here's my free idea to LinkedIn or any substitute - allow people to place a price per contacting them. Some people can leave it as an open platform. Others can say for $5 or $50 they will read correspondence. Some CEO can put their price at $1000+ or whatever they think an email is worth for reading. This solves the issue of not everyones time is worth the same, yet inmail credits are priced equally no-matter who you contact.

The business can clip X% of any earnings. Everyone is contactable at a price level they are happy to read emails as they are being paid to do so. Recruiters can still contact you but now they cant spam, or to do so has significant costs. Personally I'd be happy to pay a few bucks for the occasional non-contact message I send for business purposes as these usually have an expected payoff, and the person knows you're a bit more committed/serious too.
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I don't think alphaGo really has rules programmed into it in the traditional sense. It has a bunch of matrices and a monte carlo search tree. The trainind consists of figuring out which numbers should be in the matrices. If you changed the rules, it would have no capacity to understand such a thing.
The original hacker ethic was opposed to suits!

http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/suit
How much will the YC fund be normally? Will someone be concerned to disclose the product he/she is building here when stealth mode is preferred?
This appears to be a very exciting service! I wish you the best.

I have some questions:

1. What is the incentive for your enterprise customers to pay? If I classify your potential customers as (a)students, (b)hobbyists, (c)freelance developers, (d)startups, (e)small scale operations, (f) large scale operations, my first guess is that groups (a),(b),(c),(d) and (e) would use this service as opposed to building something in home, only (c), (d) and (e) would choose to use a "paid enterprise" solution and only (e) as potentially continuing to pay 5 years down the line. I don't see anyone continuing to pay for 10-15 years. I don't mean this as a judgement on your idea (it is my uninformed opinion in the end), I just want to hear your thoughts about this and how you think the market will play out.

2. While building your company, you will develop talent and technology in house that might prove to be more valuable than the product you offer. If this happens, what possible avenues do you see to take your company into more diverse markets? What can you potentially get into?

3. Do you plan to build an maintain a developer ecosystem around your product? If yes, what do you imagine it will look like?

4. Five years from now, how will you keep your documentation in order keeping in mind that APIs that plug into brightwork will keep changing, be fluid, and not support all international languages that you may have to support for your enterprise customers?

5. Are you familiar with the npn and kik stories recently? How would you have handled it assuming you operated strictly under the values you have set for Brightwork?

Thank you, and I wish you and your team the very best!
Can you elaborate on this. In another comment you said:

> "It's in alpha right now at about 80% of completion."

confused but curious thanks!
engineering fast, effective and correct optimizations for LLVM is challenging

Indeed, just a few days ago I reported a miscompilation bug in the LLVM optimizer... https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27190
Roles/permission code is unrelated to the current purpose.

Really though, it's more of a systemic issue. There're so many ways you can make decisions to make your software make decisions to conveniently pretend you're giving the user exactly what they want without having asked them what they want. Maybe they don't want to download and install code they don't plan or know how to run. Bloat is problem for users because it has machine costs, which users have to pay for in time, money, and attention.
In my experience, Seattle and SF buses are a lot worse than Vancouver ones.
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With the caveat that there are exceptions to any rule (and that this is also just my opinion), when it comes to a startup:

Team > execution >> idea

I'd also expect that the applications through hn that do well will have some sort of prototype or proof of concept. I guess we'll see!
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How do these compare to the Power8 chips? I know Power8 is targeting supercomputers, government research and some large banks.
Forgive me if this comment doesn't belong here: I wanted to say that I enjoy reading YC. While I'm not exactly sure what all HN or YC are about, and some of the topics are over my, I have learned some interesting things. It's awesome intelectual the exchanges can be. And at this moment I find the concept of being nice refreshing in an online forum. Anyhow good look with this startup idea. I'm sure some good stuff will surface and everyone will benefit.
In any major metro area, if you were to replace mass transit with self-driving cars overnight, you'd have permanent gridlock. [1]

No number of autonomous vehicles will get you out of the fact that automobiles are the least efficient way to transport people over roadways.

[1] http://www.core77.com/posts/8015/car-bus-bicycle-taking-up-s...
Apply HN: Geotracking and track management as a service
We offer a solution to small and medium business owners to solve a problem of tracking their vehicles, employees, assets, etc. on a budget, with privacy and flexibility.

1. On a budget - our solution works on employee's private smartphones, and does not require any investments into additional hardware.

2. Privacy

- built-in scheduler allows to turn it on only during business hours.

- tracks are anonymous, and do not contain any private information.

3. Flexibility - we are currently developing track management backend, which will allow business owner to do things like:

- re-conciliate track data into accounting data (mileage, working hours, etc)

- share specific tracking data in real-time. For example, when delivering item from the store, the customer may be provided with the link, that shows real-time tracking, but only until item is delivered. Or school bus company may share location of the school bus driver, but only while he is en-route.

- define and connect geotrack events with business' customers via notifications (for example, send notification to parents and teacher if school bus is delaying).

Currently, we have completed KidsTrack - freemium component of the whole project. Nearest plans - finish the backend and launch website.

Look forward to your feedback.
How do you scale decision making with regard to whether or not a job was completed to spec? What about conflict resolution in the case of a disagreement?
At what point does a word's existence become invalid? Searching for 'sesquipedalian' brings up pages upon pages of dictionary links on Google. Clearly this word exists only in dictionaries and is so rarely used as to be almost imaginary by those who use it. To put it another way, if it wasn't in the dictionary would it exist at all?
I agree that it's making an example rather than actually trying to shut down private servers. probably more about copyright and being able to maintain that they were defending theirs, rather than being scared of multitudes of private servers depriving them of business.
If that were the case, why can't you get federal aid as a non-degree seeking student? Do I need credentials to contribute to a better democracy?
Yep, implementation is fairly simple. I find the wikipedia article to be hard to follow so I'll give an example here to simplify it. Let's say the applications you want to compare have an elo of 1200 and 1600 respectively. Let's also use a kFactor of 20 (This determines how fast the elos will change based on a single comparison and can be modified to your liking).

http://pastebin.com/65WGmuyN

This example is for two applications fairly far apart in elo, if each application had an elo of 1200 then one would increase by 10 and the other would decrease by 10.
This sounds very promising to me, but I know almost nothing about this field.

How does the cost of one of your textured catheters compare to the cost of an existing catheter? Would the additional savings in antibiotics and deaths negate that cost?

Do you have an estimate of how many fewer infections would result from using your textured catheter? (I don't know if infections only happen if you cross some threshold on the number of bacteria.)

Do you have anything you can share with actual numbers and analysis? Has an outside lab reproduced your findings?
Nextdoor is a private message board, which is an ideal environment for people who enjoy message boards and the type of conversations they engender, while the unit of content on Placewire is a photo. I believe this enables a different type of conversation and will engage a different set of users.

I think Facebook groups are typically used at micro-local (eg. a city block) scale and it's perfect for sharing information in that context. I'm not sure how that maps to a neighborhood. Do you have any firsthand experience?

I also plan to circulate content in a less geographically siloed way than these quite private platforms.
sorry for late response, but thanks for this.
locus of control is always a false story we tell ourselves, right? let's ask the archetypal solitary mountain man about his ability to control his environment.
You've identified for me two of the basic hustles of the usa's right wing :

- providing the illusion of locus of control

- disassociating people/society from nature

- homesteader mauled by a bear = heroics!

- getting mugged in the city = decadence

thank you
How many 16 year olds have a clear enough mind to realize how much responsibility driving is? And is there an actual choice for most people? McDonalds used to as on their application if you had transportation to and from work, and public transportation is non-existent in most places, and horrible in many others.

For example: I lived in one city that only had cab service. You could not rely on it to get to work on time. You could not order a cab in advance, and the wait time for a cab could be anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 hours. Many of the city's roads had no sidewalks, and bikers were required to share the road with cars and follow the same legal rules as cars - turn lanes and all. Which might not be so bad on a nice day, but during a snowstorm it would be downright treacherous.

Besides - one must prove, to an extent - that they can drive the cars and know rules of the roads. The same sort of thing is completely absent in schools. The most 'personal finance' training I recieved was in 8th grade - a 6 week course ran by a dude that owned a car dealership. We got extra credit if our parents went to look at a car, and more if they bought one.
Interesting.. What are some industries unserviced by software today?
There is an amazing Amiga accelerator using the Alter FPGA http://www.kipper2k.com/accel600.html
No, Google themselves are providing Street view, the maps and taking the all the photos.
Has no one mentioned Basic English yet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English
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At 17 a student is precisely a minor. My understanding of current research is that full intellectual maturity is generally reached in the early 20s.

I said P-A was related. Not identical. Again: students are being advised and encouraged by parties with 1) vastly greater access to information, 2) vastly reduced risk (the loans are federally guaranteed in the US), and 3) benefitting from risk diversifictation over large numbers of incoming students.

Final proof: there seems to be rather a problem with the student loans business. Including numerous institutions convicted of fraud, and, if I can find the article somewhere, noncurrent payment rates of 40%. Oh, silly me, that's the very article we're discussing here.
Not just the quality of the busses but also the quality of the roadway, which is terrible in Seattle...
Apply HN – GoKrazee “Rewards Every Challenge”
GoKrazee connects brands with people through gamified selfie & video challenges making it fun, interactive and rewarding for a user and a brand.Let me give you an example: Dogspot set a challenge for our users "Take a cool selfie with your pet" win $2 to shop with dogspot (no terms & conditions:)).
Apply HN: One Degree – Collaborative Intelligence
One Degree (http://www.onedegree.co) is a collaborative intelligence gathering tool for photos, videos and hyperlocal information gathering on demand.

According to the Ericsson Mobility Report (http://www.ericsson.com/mobility-report) there will soon be more smart devices than people on Earth.

Visualize each of 6 Billion people as a potential node on a new kind of network that covers most of the world. Now imagine being able to connect with any of them instantly for information that you need from where they are, when you need it.

It's like having a temporary friend wherever on Earth that you need one, or being one degree of separation from them.