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I love the irony of us communicating in a 1000+ year old language that doesn't seem to have changed (grew, yes, but not changed ;-)

يسعدني التواصل معك عزيزي. معظم ابحاثي اللغوية مبعثرة في عدة مواقع، واجهزة استودعت في اﻻهمال. ثمة دفاتر هنا وهناك. ساجلب بعضها من المخزون قريبا

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Wow, ge.tt looks like a really cool service for sharing files.

Kicksend is kind of okay too i guess, but thanks for submitting this, i had no idea about ge.tt!
Eh. I'm Progressive and disinclined to change; auto insurance is a place where customer service actually matters.
Originally it was a protest about the guy that got shot by the police. But, there's a lot of kids with nothing to lose and in the last couple of hours they've realised it's a free for all.

I'm not justifying anything here just trying to make an analysis: The reason they don't care is because they don't have a hope in hell of getting a job in mainstream society that would pay enough to get them out of the bunk bed in their parents house. London is so expensive to live in and there's a lot of poorly educated young people that are stuck with no chance of an independent life. So the attitude on the street is like 'we can't get it by getting a job and living normally so we're just gonna take it'. There's very little chance of getting caught at the moment, no reason not to. So it's not really random violence and stealing, it's probably even at some level a rational choice to do this if you are someone in this position.

The police can't cope because they don't seem to understand how the rioters are organising through BBM and because Britain has relatively fewer police officers per head of population compared to other European countries and the US.

Who knows what'll happen next. Twitter is lit up with people saying 'send in the army' at the moment which seems nuts to me but quite frankly seems like anything could happen tonight.
Was able to get through a ways, but I'm hanging on Farmers insurance. Hope you saved a cookie so I don't have to re-enter that... Never thought I'd say that !
why does it matter, the typical consumer wont care. The square design has been successful for them, why not piggyback on that success
My experience with btrfs has been hugely discouraging. It's the rootfs on one of my machines, and just has lots of terrible behavior:

* it's lost a lot of space - nearly 100GB
* it causes all kinds of random pauses while running
* A *clean* reboot spends over an hour in some kind of offline... something

(basically, if I do a clean shutdown and reboot, the system doesn't go into multi-user mode for about one hour fifteen minutes)

I can't believe it's not better.
You need more clarity on the homepage. It's obvious that it's car insurance but the process is information->information->start, which Leaky makes it obvious and it basically goes start->figure it out.

Get the user started on the conversion funnel while you explain to them what the service does - I'm pretty certain (based on my lead generation experience) that this will end in a far superior conversion rate for you.
We need a Hipmunk for pretty much every type of insurance...
The used cars one is www.carwoo.com
Picked up the new CoffeeScript book, the Cucumber book, and the New Programmer's Survival Guide. With the coupon, they were just over $10 a pop - in the 'Sure, why not?' price range for me.
Realtime? I don't think it's realtime at all. The file has to be uploaded, my friend has to be on your site to even get the link to the file. Hows that realtime?

Ge.tt is more realtime! You get the link even before your file is completely uploaded. You can share that link while things are still being uploaded.

And here is the reason why I did not sign up - You ask me to sign up. You ask my friend to sign up. I still get spams from a million other similar services (YouSendIt, for eg.) who don't stop spamming me no matter what I do. When a file sharing service asks me to sign up, I see a big red flag instead of a homepage.
It's not just me not liking a product. I claim these products (the ones I listed) have failed to achieve any significant goals, anything worthy of the opportunity.

For example, yes, WHS sold quite a few devices, and it would be a huge success for a startup, but when you have the entire power of Microsoft behind your back, your goals need to be ambitious. I have outlined what I think WHS goals should have been - a backup solution for 80 percents of all platform users. In version "next" they could add file sharing for 80% of the users.

Anything less than that is a waste of opportunity, and a huge disservice to Microsoft users, employees, and shareholders.
UK police don't carry guns, except for special armed units.
I wonder if the creator of this can help with that: http://www.hnshowcase.com/view

I agree, it'd be nice to have them all in one place.
I just put a bottom-up reformulation of the dynamic-programming solution at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/inexorable-misc/wordseg.c, in the function "segment". The stages are the prefixes of s: the substrings s[0:0], s[0:1], s[0:2],... s[0:n], where n is the length of s. The state of some stage s[0:i] is a finite map from all of its segmentable prefixes s[0:j] {j∈[0,i)} to segmentations of those prefixes. (Only one segmentation per prefix.) The transition function may leave the state unchanged, or it may add a pair to the map, mapping s[0:i] to some segmentation, which it can do if ∃j:∃w∈dict: (s[0:j] || word) = s[0:i], in which case the segmentation is (state[s[0:j]], word).

(In my program, the state[] table is represented simply as a vector of integers: seglen[i] is simply the length of the last word of state[s[0:i]], or 0 if s[0:i] is not present in the finite map. This is sufficient to efficiently reconstruct a segmentation.)

This is completely different from your formulation where you're thinking about i+1, i+2, etc. It's not surprising that you think that your formulation isn't dynamic programming!

Now, this is a solution by forward induction or "bottom-up dynamic programming", and I wrote it that way because it's easier to see the mapping to dynamic programming. But if you solve the problem by backward induction or "top-down dynamic programming" instead, you may be able to solve the problem a lot more efficiently, because you can avoid computing most of the table entries. And that's what happens if you just write the recurrence out directly as a recursive function and then memoize it.
Indeed there might be some parallels, especially the fact that the London events started as a peaceful legitimate (to my mind) protest, that has been hijacked by vandals/thieves.

But the parallel stops here; most of the gangsters in the Middle Eastern protests were government stooges that got outnumbered by the civilians and consequently fizzled out.
Thanks for the reminder. It's easy to get jaded about this stuff, but you're right. Good luck on demo day everyone.
I'm bit uncomfortable that Techcrunch's coverage of these launches isn't being made with a disclaimer that Michael Arrington is an investor in most of them (via Angel Fund).
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That's also true ... I'm a practitioner of sarcasm myself and have to be very careful not to use (overuse) it on the Internet. But if you work hard enough, you can convey tone through your writing.

I think the two other culprits are the de-personification that can so easily occur in our interactions and the tendency to interpret statements with the worst possible meanings. This problem never seems to happen when the person is someone we know in "real life".

Enough with the thread hijacking :) ... and if this gets much deeper I'll have to consult with my psychologist wife as I'm sure there are proper terms for most of these behaviors. (And yes ... I am her live-in case study)
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So as a hypothetical ignorant consumer, they'd bait me into providing more information. The effort to get my initial quote would require significantly less data - I'd see the results, like what I see (a.k.a. establish trust) and then it wouldn't be much more effort to get that SSN/DOB at that point.
It's very frustrating knowing the police can do little to contain or manage the situation, and we're completely at the mercy of rioters as to what will happen next or when it will stop.

A group of 30-40 of them went up my street, smashing cars, and started congregating out front, all holding glass bottles -- this just when reports of homes being broken into started coming out. Absolutely horrifying, luckily something spooked them and they moved up the street.
I suppose that depends on what you store in your trie. If every node contains a field for the length of the longest path below it, then yes. But that's not a normal thing to store in a trie, and it wasn't at all obvious to me that that was what you meant.
Fake facebook profiles are actually pretty trivial to build up and can be done in about a week (I wrote a paper where I did just that last year). The meth addicts that seem to be taking advantage of ab&b would probably make the effort.
I'm not good enough to get hired, so I did the next best thing ...
Yeah, but pssh, Canada! Economics works differently up there. I hear you even have workable health care and everything.
I greatly appreciate you will help me find insurance that protects my car from alien abduction. Does that cover me, my passengers, and cow, or is it just for the vehicle itself? :)

http://i.imgur.com/B9zdt.png
http://coverhound.com/
We're the Hipmunk for all the other Hipmunks.
When I saw two launching today I automatically thought this had to do with the economy souring. I had just read Jeff Clavier's tweet:

Just maybe? The VC industry is going to wake up and go back to value investing - not FOMO throwing cash at everything, no matter the price

But Dave McLure says it's business as usual

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/08/08/early-stage-i...
I think what this subject is really interesting because people are always looking and needing to buy things. So, making a marketplace for businesses is very interesting when the marketplace says "We're going to give you an unlimited amount of leads for this monthly fee". Those leads could be worth $1 mill for the LTV (Life Time Value) of that customer you attained.

From the consumer's side - we're already seeing it through the group buying sites (groupon, living social), but now we're looking for the "Niche" sites that do the same thing. I believe there is a big market for this and its already proven.

About a year ago, I thought there could be a site with these features using the twitter/facebook api for leads. Something like SocialLeads.com - name your price and have people fight for your business by outbidding each other. Like google does, but for niche markets and in reverse - for social.

Contact me if you want to dialogue about this...
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Just link to the big kahuna, Barzilay's list of lectures along with descriptions :-)

http://pl.barzilay.org/resources.html
aha, figured it out. Hovering over the picture in certain bulk modes shows a check mark, clicking this checkmark brings up a bulk editing view where you can send to trash. I don't believe it's possible to delete single photos
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Says inspired by neo4j, any reason to use this over neo4j? Any benefits from being build on top of Cassandra?
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Nothing? lol
You can go here: https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFor... I saw this either here on HN, or on Reddit.
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There's a beautiful, beautifully argued book by Martin Gardner ( http://www.amazon.com/Whys-Philosophical-Scrivener-Martin-Ga... ). There are 2 chapters on economics in that book, one on free market capitalism ( "why i'm not a smithian" ), one on i guess you could call it lite-obamaism ( "why i'm not a marxist" ).

Gardner rejects both. He works out some math behind their assumptions. Then states his moral objections to both of them. I used to think Martin Gardner was a giant puzzle-master with super high IQ. After reading that book, I discovered a thinking, anxious, doubtful, religious, deeply charitable & generous human being. To date, it remains my favorite Gardner book. Do check it out, I think you'll love it. The rest of the book documents Gardner's careful rejection of all of the popular philosophies ( solipsism, anarchism, polytheism, monotheism, relativism, pantheism, determinism etc. ). Its a monumental piece of work.
Scary absolutely, no matter your location. The factors that seem to be setting them off exist in most technically wealthy countries. This should be troubling for anyone who lives in an area with masses of unemployed young people.

That's probably most people on HN.
The US treasury is currently borrowing at the lowest rates in 70 years. To obtain the lowest rates possible, about half of the US debt is in bonds that mature in less than a year. This means huge quantities of bonds are constantly maturing and being resold. Any change in interest rates will quickly result in much higher interest payments.

These rates are so low because the fed is buying the bonds and treasuries are currently the safest place to park huge amounts of cash. The rates even go negative at times because US bonds are are safe place for cash. If the treasury starts defaulting on its debts, that will change very quickly. Not only that but the status of the USD will change very quickly.
The current account has very little to do with the US Debt problems.

The current account relates to the balance of trade[1], ie: the amount of good and services purchased from overseas vs sold overseas. The US Debt is money borrowed by the US Goverment[2], which isn't really related to trade directly at all.

There is a Wikipedia article that lists the different types of deficits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficit. The current debate in the US is over deficit budgets, whereas a Trade Deficit is a different problem,

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_payments

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
"We're the Hipmunk for apartment rentals" sounds amazing to me but all of the little hidden details that a property owner won't list might make this less effective than Hipmunk where you know what you are getting with each airline.
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Interesting -- so are you ruling out the possibility of storing the data in the future for features like periodically checking for updates in my rate? That sounds like a killer feature (that I would even be willing to pay a subscription for), but then I'd also want to be damn sure that you're storing that data well.

EDIT: in fact, for a subscription based service, you could figure out the optimal pricing quite easily. If the annual price of your subscription were less than the typical insurance savings by having it monitored, you'd have a hell of a business model.
#6 sounds like a really great idea. Does a version it exist anywhere in any form? Plugins for Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture/whatever? Standalone desktop software? Anything?
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Speaking as an engineer, no one in the financial industry remotely qualifies as an engineer. A real engineer applies physical laws to create a product with some certainty of functioning properly. Wall street 'engineers' create products that don't obey physical laws - and on a theoretical level, probably can't, since their very existence changes the rules of the market. The financial crisis also demonstrated that even the people creating these instruments don't understand them, much less the customers... and none of them particularly care if spectacular failures results, as long as they aren't the ones left holding the bag.
They've even started giving you a free Aleksandr when you use Comparethemarket.com... Which was almost enough to get me to switch my loyalty from Confused.com.

Of course in the States you guys have that old bloke and his gecko to compete with... and he has pretty deep pockets ;)
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Because, without permission, it's not the right thing to do, and the right thing to do need not be expensive?

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here - looking at code/designs and tweaking them to learn is one thing, but is basing a funded company on something so blatant now considered OK? I'd like to know if this is the thought pattern for people who are designers or programmers.

Is Square within the YC stable, is that it?

Should I be doing this with my side projects, to piggyback on that success?

(Keep in mind that I'm assuming in this case that they don't have permission.)
I agree with this guy. CoverHound.com reads like the envelopes I get from Progressive...a few pages more than I am willing to read.

edit: To find this page I went to the bottom of the home page, tried to click on the Pennsylvania state outline, clicked the Pennsylvania text link, looked for my car on the most stolen cars lists, found "Car insurance quotes get started" at the bottom http://coverhound.com/step1
It's odd to me that he thinks Wall Street was ever in the business of "creating capital for business". The only thing that can create capital is producing more than you consume and saving the difference. Now I have nothing against trading, speculating, or whatever else most people on Wall Street do. However, I think fractional reserve banking, which creates new money, is an extremely destructive practice equivalent to counterfeiting. Presumably it's fractional reserve banking that he thinks "creates capital". I recently gave a highly upvoted description of why fractional reserve banks are a scam here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2844528

It's a myth that banks create capital by employing fractional reserves. All they do is take purchasing power from some people, give it to themselves, and then charge a toll (interest) to the people they loan it to. It's unethical and it should be illegal. Unfortunately this isn't going to change until people stop believing the myth that printing new money is the same as creating capital.
So much for all that video camera surveillance (CCTV) in London.
This is so good. Anybody else feel its way better than Path?

The introduction on the homepage is a bit vague though. Maybe mention that it organizes by date or some more clue. I had no idea what this service does unless I visited the live demo.
For all the criticisms that DiP gets, it is still the best formatted online book I've come across. The line number/hover over highlight thing is awesome. The code examples are interesting. The explanations are in-depth without spending 10 pages holding your hand.

I learned quite a few cool Python tricks from DiP and it was the first book that got me excited about programming. I remember reading the chapter on list comprehensions and thinking they were the coolest thing ever (and I still love 'em!). Whether or not all the code is 'pythonic' or uses deprecated methods, it was still worth reading in my mind.
Perhaps I've just not been paying attention, but I'd never really heard of Hipmunk before.

The "X for Y" only works if X is sufficiently common. Surely better to define in simple terms what the site actually does.
It's like California, but on a larger scale!

Makes you wonder if the real answer is to split up the US.

Happened plenty of times to other countries over ideology- though each half could stand to lose a lot, seeing as various capabilities and industries are not evenly spread across the nation.
When the government is running up billions of dollars of additional debt per day, really there is nothing that individuals can do to make a significant fiscal impact.

Honestly, I believe that the best dollar spent to get the debt under control is a dollar spent to get a new senator or congressman elected that will actually do something to change things in Washington.
Be prepared to defend yourself startups. Put on your armor. Some with malice in their hearts will thrust daggers at you. Fight with strength and honor and the crowd will love you.

Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.

To those startups who do not fight with valor? You will be subject to the mob, as was Airbnb. Even the Emperor will not be able to silence the cries for blood!

Startups... I salute you.

LET THE LAUNCHES BEGIN!
I don't think it's really the same concept. On Leaky, you type in your information once, and then they show you insurance quotes. Whereas CoverHound just gives me links to insurance companies' websites, and then I have to fill out my information on each of those websites. If I were you guys, I would switch to the Leaky model, because it seems a lot easier for the user to only type in their information once.
People can't just learn to write. They write incoherently because they think incoherently.

When I tutor children I ignore the topic they are having trouble with. I go back to basics and teach them basic critical reasoning skills. Their performance in everything skyrockets.

The fact that our society is failing at teaching children how to reason about basic decisions is cause for serious alarm. I'm looking forward to Eliezer Yudkowsky's forthcoming book on how to think correctly (currently use How to Solve It as a guide for teaching others).
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Sorry about that -- something seems to have slipped through and we're working to replicate the errors and fix them.
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Not really. I do most of my HackerNews surfing at home on OS X, but I spend most of my workday on Windows.
My understanding is that media and copy may be subject to copyright, but not layouts of websites. I don't think copying a wireframe CSS design or page navigation mechanics or general theme is legally copyright infringement (I could be wrong).
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Even then, it leaves them needing to adjust their branding/L&F at some point which may be jarring for users. Wouldn't be that difficult to borrow the best of the Square layout but use their own fonts, colour scheme, etc and have something of their own.
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You bring up a good point. The more homogeneous the end product the better this would work.
my discrete math class was a joke. we covered half the book and it seemed we specifically skipped the things that were most valuable.
And now it seems Syrian "hackers" defaced Anon+.
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I don't believe that Wall Street is well-intentioned in 99.5% of its actions, but still Wall Street creates capital for business: when a company goes through its motions to file and launch an IPO, the banks are the ones who commit to finding X investor dollars. It's easy to ignore the difficulties of that process, given the glut of VC firms champing at the bit to flood the next startup with cash, but it still plays a role.
Love it! I love it when modern coders hack on old hardware. There's some great stuff like that...especially some homebrew on old consoles.

(though I should probably be mad about that bit halfway through the demo)
The biggest lessons I've ever learned from people shredding things I've put in front of them is that the people doing the shredding are rarely helpful, if you discount skin thickening exercises anyway.

I suspect "be nice" is more about how people talk to each other than the content of what they're saying.
BBM. Doesn't the government have access to these?
Yeah -- we'd certainly love to, but we didn't think that we'd be able to securely store the data at the moment -- so we didn't want to risk it. That's absolutely a feature that we'd like to implement though!
Not sure why they ripped off Square so blindly (and no "All design credit goes to Square. We based our design on their home page until we can hire a designer of our own." doesn't cut it), but I'll be honest, that discouraged me from using their app. It's the little things that matter, folks.