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So Congress is going on the assumption that the industries wont abuse SOPA, but the industry is abusing existing law, which proves their intentions.
I'm running this on the Gene Expression dataset. What kind out output should I expect? The Mine homepage, http://www.exploredata.net/, shows a node graph, but the site is sparse with details and references the published paper which you have to buy if you want to read.
Offer HN: Have 10 people confirm your site works as intended
Hi HN -

tl;dr: email me (in profile) or comment to get free confirmation about whether one main interaction or page from your site (e.g. a landing page or a new feature) of your choosing works in different browsers or a bug report for where things break.

--

I've gotten a lot out of the HN community and want to give back.

One of my biggest development pains is still cross-browser compatibility. BrowserLab/BrowserShots is not enough because they just offer screenshots, and don't tell me if an interaction is broken (i.e. a certain plugin doesn't fire, clicking a link doesn't behave as intended, etc.). Parallels/Fusion, among other things, doesn't help me account for different screen sizes. And Selenium-based solutions are more complicated than they should be.

So I'll get 10 people to review one main page on your site (e.g. a landing page; a new feature you're pushing, etc.) and either tell you everything is fine or point out errors along with a screenshot. This is for free and for the first 20 HN'ers to either email or comment below asking for this. I ask for one week from when I confirm with you - but plan to get it much sooner.

Looking forward to hopefully saving you all some pain, or at least providing peace of mind that everything is fine on your most important pages and features.
I remember being impressed by a Microsoft project[1] a few years ago that did exactly this, it seems it never took off.

[1] http://visitmix.com/labs/gestalt/
I think this is a symptom of lack of domain knowledge. If you knew the problem in the domain extremely well and was confident, I think one would want to forge ahead, and start building it because he/she knows exactly what users want.
I live in Waterloo and also think it's a stretch to call it rural. Sure, it's not a metropolis, but there are about 500,000 people in the immediate region. Toronto, the country's largest city, is also only an hour-and-a-half drive away, along a well-worn, built up commuter route. Overall, South-Western Ontario is the most populous part of the country. I rarely feel like I'm out in the middle of nowhere. There's a definite sense that the city is in Toronto's sphere.
One point not in the existing comments is the event driven nature of the browser - even if you're eventually able to have good support for other runtimes in the browser (e.g., you can use Python via the Native Client plugin) most of them have such a large existing codebase of blocking code that I think you'd run into a lot of the same issues that you do now with Ruby & EventMachine, or Python & Twisted.

It's what made Javascript such a great fit for nodejs - no big existing libraries of blocking code, and everybody was already accustomed to doing things in an event driven style due to the browser.
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Build connections with journalists before you need them. Which means conversing with them on stuff they've written, and find a way to interject your company when it's relevant.
Multithreaded programming in C++11 is pretty convenient. std::thread, together with std::chrono are very good threading and timing libraries. The only thing better than that is using native API's like pthreads + posix clocks.

Here's an example: C++11 has timed wait on mutex and condition variables, using std::chrono time stamps for absolute and relative times. Most threading wrappers don't provide this but it's available in pthreads (and I guess Windows API too). Not only does C++11 provide this but it plays along very nicely with the clocks in chrono and you can use it with different time sources, like the monotonic system clock.

I've used both when building multithreaded "main loops" for game/simulation purposes. Using C++11 threads + chrono is a lot nicer to the programmer than doing the same with posix pthreads in C. The biggest improvement is exception safety, type safety and rich types for clocks and timestamps come second.
Blackberry phones are must have items for UK teenagers (its the BBM accounts, which are cheap or free here, add free wifi over college campus and you can chat for nowt). Skull Candy or Sony headphones listening to music and chatting on BBM is what they all do at lunchtimes. The demographic doesn't stretch to Dr Dre.

Surely some monetization potential there?

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/04/iphone-preferred-by-adults-bl...

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-teen-girls-want-blackbe...

PS: As a 50+ Maths teacher, I achieved instant credibility by purchasing a payg blackberry recently, mainly because I like qwerty phones and wanted a G3 connection, and, yes I live in a provincial city in the UK. Another market?
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I think a committee meeting in the House is quite a different environment than an "engineering meeting".

I mean, they are nominally doing the same sort of work as we'd do designing control flows in software, right? They're looking at a problem, identifying issues, finding dependencies, and then picking a decision-making algorithm (the law) that should address those issues. They use legalese instead of bytecode, but the idea is the same.

The idea that somehow this process should be held to different standards than any other engineering project (especially any other one which impacts so many!) is likely central to the problems we face as a country today.
Agreed 100%. They did something good, fell asleep at the wheel and I assumed that they were already dead, in the ground and turned to dust (at least as far as relevance goes).
A vivid example of forgetting to fly the plane is the similar case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 where the landing gear light bulb was burnt out. While investigating this, the crew didn't notice that they were slowly descending and 101 people died when they hit the ground. Last words: "We're still at 2,000 feet, right?"

Transcript: http://planecrashinfo.com/cvr721229.htm
I've known lots of contractors for companies such as SAIC (I was one myself for a few years, not for SAIC, but for another much smaller company in Indianapolis) and they will have no such compunctions.

Sorry, pg - I know you talk with a lot of smart people, but you don't have to be too smart to break something. You just have to be venal, and there's never a shortage of venality.

This boycott is doomed to failure from the get-go.
I don't think a company like Google could do that even if the top brass wanted to. It wouldn't fly with share holders, would likely be a breach of fiduciary duty etc. It's another great sounding idea that just won't happen.
Look at this crazy site - not sure I get it.
what do you think about it?
You can do something like this with mixpanel if you don't want to setup a whole server. I wrote about it.

http://alexkessinger.net/2010/12/17/doing-a-pixel-ping-witho...
I wouldn't call it a failure but the expectation was for the share price to pop significantly in the first day. There were rumors that a lot of people who requested Zynga stock couldn't get it, so this morning's 10% price increase was lower than expected.

The expectation for "Internet IPOs" is usually pretty high for the first day and people are speculating that investors were either burned by previous IPOs (e.g. Groupon) or questioning Zynga's business model.

It's market BS. I wouldn't call it a failure and I'm sure the people at Zynga are pretty happy with the $1B they just raised.
This is not unique to America or recent history.
yes. thank you.

I am a huge fan of the "how will it get my users laid" way of thinking. If your product/service can provide that kind of value even in some protracted form (i.e. I'm not just talking about dating sites) you're on the way to nailing it.
Just because something is growing doesn't mean it's not a fad. Remember check-ins and social coupons?
No, the donations need not be for a particular election. They're donated to parties or individuals to use as they see fit, allowing year-on-year cumulative effects.

Imagine three candidates A, B, and C. A and B are from major political parties that almost always win. C is is a new third party candidate who is very viable, but for all the reasons Duverger's law is true is (all else equal) never going to win.

Vouchers, however, make all else not equal, especially over multiple election cycles. If some significant proportion of the population supports C, they might know their votes will be wasted on C, but voucher money allocated to C will not be allocated to A or B, and will serve to increase C's prominence for the next election.

When something big about a system changes, there is some burden of proof on those claiming it will have no effect (there is also a burden of proof on those claiming it will have a particular effect, but we've not really gotten there yet).
Your goal: A resource containing a method for learning, in a non-insulting way, for people to use.

What happened: People reporting of being insulted.

So you failed, why not use the feedback to improve the thing instead of making it personal.
Now, say, this makes sense to me.
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Can I solicit some dumbed down explanations of DCI? I've read a few articles about it, as well as the Wikipedia entry, and I still have no idea what it's all about.
"Build: Starting in March, designers co-work together at the spaces of partners on a bi-monthly basis as a motivation function pushing teams to iterate on product, refine their business, and get market traction." — solves your first two questions. You need to be in SV.

That said, it IS new, and it's too early for success stories and exits. I'll pass your critique along to Enrique to help improve the page — thanks for the critiques!
I'd actually learn more of the other disciplines, whether it's psychology, health care, biology, philosophy, etc. Technical skills have become a commodity - anyone can code if they have the persistence and enthusiasm. But not everyone knows how to code AND have expertise in a specific field. That's unique.
i know what you mean, even grandmas plays those games now
I don't know what qualifies as a miracle these days but I don't think their task is unreachable. They have cash (as far as I know) and they still have some decent brand recognition. They also have a supply chain, and distribution.

They are still in a great position to make positive moves, the fact is they need to make those moves. Soon.
This is my first post on HN. I am more of a lurker.

I really appreciate what you are doing here Mike. I need some guidance from you and others who might read this.

I run a small consulting start-up in India. We are just 2 full time developers (includes me).

We make web apps (all in PHP, I know many hate PHP but it works for us so far) for clients based on their requirements. But growth and earnings are slow.

I am considering getting into making products and focus more on them.

Problem 1) I am not a tech wizard or genius. btw how important it is for a tech founder to be a kick-ass ninja techie ?
Problem 2) we would have to take up a little consulting work on the side to at least feed/sustain ourselves. I have no idea how this would affect our product development work.
Problem 3) I read how products fail because of bad UX/design. Well, you might have guessed it, I am no godsend designer as well.

Thanks to the consulting work, I know some pain points in a couple of industries and I believe I can come up with some good products.

I know I have shortcomings. I am willing to work. Problem is that there are so many things to do and choice is overwhelming. And I do not want to just keep learning and not doing anything.

I would like some pointers from you like what are the things I need to consider, learn, unlearn, ignore etc. How can we make ourselves reasonably better poised to be successful at what we wish to do?
I think you've missed the point. I'm not disagreeing with your desire to not read what he writes. I'm saying that your claim to be able to objectively quantify that in a way independent of your own opinions is empty. You're just taking the abstract notion of objectivity and replacing it with unknown quantities. You're trying to elevate your existing opinion to the status of a statistical inference without having to show your work. I think that's deeply mistaken and moreover unnecessary. Your opinion is fine as it is. Everyone's is. But it's not a fact.
I'm not a DBA by any measure, so I sort of find myself the same way when acclimating myself to any database--let alone the non-rational ones. I really have come to value a good DBA having to do some stuff myself at a smaller company. The shearing amount of planning and worry into setting up a DB for something like a CMS gives me ulcers.

I will say, though, I'd much rather be working with MSSQL than Oracle. Though, I might be using the wrong tools for the latter. I do feel somewhat "loved" by MS though as far as c#/VS tooling for MSSQL.
Don't bet on this. Too many people will build anything they are told to, and won't pay attention to what it means. Or at least they will be able to rationalize it. I've seen this in person with CALEA in the late 90s.
ajuc: thank you for your answer. Let's look through this in pseudocode.

#teacher picks day
DayOfTest = "Monday";

#now go through the week.
for today in (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday):
print "It's ", today, " today."
if student_is_sure_test_today(today) == true:
if today == DayOfTest:
print "PARADOX!! TEACHER GUARANTEED SURPRISE but student knew test today.."
else:
print "STUDENT ERROR!! Was 'sure' test today, but there is no test today."
else:
if today == DayOfTest:
print "TEST today. Student surprised. No paradox."
exit
else:
print "Day ", today, " over without a test."

Now you run this program 1,000,000 times. If instead of DayOfTest = Monday we made it random monday through friday, then on the Fridays, the student would know it's that day, and we would trip the PARADOX!!! error message. In other words, we would only have an 80% guarantee. In 20% of cases we would trip a paradox. (since STUDENT ERROR!! is never tripped, it's a true paradox and not a mistaken student algorithm.).

But if you run the pseudocode as-is above a million times, the student would NEVER get to say, on a Friday, that they are sure it's that day. You would not print a single PARADOX!!!! error message. Because you don't print a single paradox, we don't have to remove that day (reducing the possible spaces from five to four) to avoid it.

Do you see? If the pseudocode has the teacher giving the day as random monday through friday, then he can only give an 80% guarantee of not tripping a paradox.

but if the teacher can have a secret algorithm (giving the test on Monday) then the student's very first line of reasoning fails: they do not get to trip any paradox error messages or, in order to remove these error messages, remove any possible days from the space.
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They seem to be targeting similar markets to Makerbot, Ultimaker, Shapercube, etc. (complete kits for those who don't want to source parts but are still pretty DIY), but I don't really see any competitive advantage versus those existing players. Not sure how they're planning on positioning themselves.

Makerbot's product has gotten a lot more mature since I originally picked up a Cupcake a year and a half ago. At the time, the majority of issues with all of the Reprap derivatives was the extruder (plastruder MK3 on the Cupcake). They've iterated like crazy since then, and the current generation stepstruder MK7 is second to none. Makerbot's also got the Thingiverse community behind them, a large support network of owners, and an established reputation and fanbase.

With the exception of more significant redesigns (Ultimaker), there isn't a whole lot of product differentiation in the space apart from price, aesthetics, reliability, and small auxiliary features. Buildatron's website focuses on their build and part quality, but current capabilities are pretty standard, and there generally isn't an issue with inferior parts in the pre-sourced kits.

I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but unless Buildatron has some major tricks up their sleeve (which they could very well have in trying to develop a great software interface), it's impossible to justify buying a $500 more expensive product for their take on the open-source Mendel.
Forget paid links, and even paid reviews, as well as link exchanges. All of them are either not scalable, or inefficient.

Blog comments can work (check out CommentLuv).

The most efficient way is to build a great product and build connections with bloggers/journalists before you need them. Talk to them about what interests them. Ask them compelling questions. Heck, feed their ego. And when the time comes, mention your site, and tell them to share it with anyone they think would want it.
I'm curious why they wouldn't make it public. I'm sure 95% of people wouldn't read them.
Belief probability isn't an arbitrary number that you get to declare. A rational student isn't going to be 100% certain that the test is Monday. If you think you could be, let's set this up. Bring your wallet so that we can wager.
This is a dangerous business model on several levels:

a. It cheapens the idea of social influence, by participating in it you become a compromised voice.

b. If one of the companies you are shilling for should meet with some moderate level of success in fundraising you could find yourself on the hook for a tax liability on an illiquid asset. (The woo-hoo, I won $millions in the dotcom lottery; shit, the IRS says I owe $thousands on money I won't see for three years syndrome.)
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Oh my goodness. So, I'm not alone. We should start a support group.
My thoughts:

The exam can be characterized as "surprising" until the end of Thursday's class. Getting the probability at the end of each day for the exam to be made from now on, we have (M=Monday, T=Tuesday etc):

End of Sunday : P(exam=M,T,W,T,F|S)= 1/5

End of Monday : P(exam=T,W,T,F|M)= 1/4

End of Tuesday : P(exam=W,T,F|T)= 1/3

End of Wednesday : P(exam=T,F|w)= 1/2

End of Thursday : P(exam=F|T) = 1

So, after the end of Thursday class, the probability of the exam is 1, so the students cannot be surprised any more as they are sure that they will be examined Friday. This means, that in every day except Friday the students can be surprised by the exam.

Anybody to point me where the above interpretation is wrong?
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I will join you. A union of programmers across disciplines. Imagine if we all went on strike for a few Weeks. as programmers we could collectively do what Congress cant (yet) take down a big portion of the internet for a few days.
Ebooks are most definitely not pure profit. I mean, you can look at the balance sheets for any publicly traded publisher, or a large book retailer, and notice that they are not swimming in piles of money.

You may not think you take value from the publishing ecosystem (discovery, marketing, editing, publishing, etc. of content, and reliable delivery, storage, security, etc. of retail), but you probably actually do. And, you know, even if you actually don't, you can just go right ahead continuing to buy 1.99 or 3.99 or whatever is the "right" price of ebooks either direct from author websites (although it's still really hard to get the margins down to zero unless you're meeting on street and paying cash and accepting delivery over a thumb drive or something) or from Amazon or B&N's self-publishing programs.

In any case, comments like this are really hard to square with how much criticism my employer (B&N: although I don't work on ebooks, and certainly this is my own opinion) has gotten from investors for the money they've put into NOOK and the ebook ecosystem.
A boycott might have worked in a better economy, but there are far too many unemployed workers capable of implementing SOPA restrictions that would love a job, regardless the moral implications.

Also, the employees that work at SAIC/Raytheon/federal contracting are already more used to working on things that are morally questionable. Sometimes they're black-box implemented (where each party makes only a small part of it, and it is then pieced together later,) but usually it isn't.
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Sure and that is what a lot of people use, but I would like to see something that allows copy editors and designers the ability to publish without the aid of a developer, after the core application has been built. I would like to see the traditional CMS workflow adapted to modern client side browser apps. But I think there is value, in a clean code base that is developed for this market and not a CMS that has been adapted. It's a completely different way of developing apps and I think we need a new CMS that is designed specifically for it.
An interesting idea, but as the article and others have mentioned, our society already has an excellent motivator that is used to make people do things they would rather not do.

Money.
Worth pointing out that this varies case by case. I can't speak with more than a single data point, but the only company I've been with has seen both pay rises (decent ones) and title bumps be rather fluid, and they've never actually happened at the same time. And yes, started off on a shit salary, now it's great - without any single huge change in what I'm doing, just gradual changes.
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In earlier identity experiments at Mozilla, we tried. It never felt good as a user experience, in large part because OpenID was designed to not include the browser.
It seems like for since Obama elected the entire opposition party has tried to do everything in their power to oppose anything

It hasn't been forever, but certainly much longer than Obama's term. I believe that it was under GWB that the stonewalling through threatened filibusters, and refusal to fill judicial appointments, really heated up. Obviously that was spearheaded by the Democrats, by which we can see that both parties can be petulant and petty.