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I think this misunderstands the goals of bug prediction, which are typically along the lines of

- directing engineering resources to where they're likely to be most leveraged from a quality standpoint [what Google focused on]

- estimating how many resources to devote to bug fixing and/or long it will take an in-progress code base to stabilize [the goal of a lot of the work Micorosft did with Windows in the early 2000s]

- and estimating post-release defects to estimate (and perhaps direct) customer support and maintenance resources [more typical in the hardware world than software]

And I wouldn't say that static type systems have an ambition of rendering bug-prediction impossible. If you can truly detect all errors at compile time, then prediction's trivial: no bugs remain!
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LivingSocial doesn't block bots to /gifts. Strange.

http://www.livingsocial.com/robots.txt
It would be helpful if you provided links to your previous accounts, so we could see for ourselves.
Dropbox has two modes: APP_FOLDER and DROPBOX. APP_FOLDER just creates a sandbox and does not give me permission to all your Dropbox data. I would never want access to such a thing on a server that's publicly visible.

The Dropbox authentication screen says: "This app will create a folder named webcache in your Dropbox. The app will only have access to this folder." But yeah you have no idea what's going to happen when you click that grey Submit button.

I agree the lack of polish makes it look spammy. Maybe some rounded corners and bubbly clouds would make it more trust-worthy. Along with an invitation to come over my house and have a beer.
Yes. Was typing that simultaneously.
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I've spent a lot of time working in PHP. I largely enjoyed my time, because it provides a (mostly) easy-to-deploy, fast-to-develop platform for web development. What it also provides is a maintenance nightmare. It promotes sloppy coding, and the library of standard functions are horribly inconsistent. Many people never run into this, but whe you really want to design something properly, using strong OO ideas, then PHP just isn't up to the task (type hinting is for objects only? what?).

Ruby I've never used personally, but it seems kinda popular. It doesn't have the market penetration for deployment of PHP or python, though.

Python is my new favourite for web development due to a couple of very nice frameworks. Django for when I want to build something fast, and don't care too much about controlling the particulars like user management, etc. Pyramid for when I want to develop something which will involve a lot of customising parts. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and what you use is both personal preference, and should be decided based on the project.

Java - Oh, Java. GWT provides a nice way to build webapps with Java, but I'm not a fan of using it to build 'page' based web applications. That's personal preference, though, and I've got no good reasons not to use it - it just rubs me the wrong way for web.
I always thought it was easier for tech-focused founders because of this. I feel like learning the business side is easier than the tech side, but I imagine this is a function of the type of person I am.

Thanks for the positive response!
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Any chance we can get Github to implement this on commits or add it as an optional toggle? It just makes so much sense...

As a tech manager the ability to know when you should dedicate just a bit more time to a given file would be fantastic, so much so that I'd probably even pay a small additional fee just for this functionality!

Would definitely love to see some implementation of this for Git though, may even work on a little script for it if no one beats me to it... :-)
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This is base on what little I understand of US Patents (does not apply outside of the US)...

I could be wrong but I don't think you can patent an idea, but rather, a specific process, method, technology, etc... That said, the overall cost of a patent can be quite expensive, ranging in the 5-figures all told. Its a process at that.

As for your original question, I guess like most things, it depends. Personally, I would like to see the idea gain some traction first before you attempt to make any unnecessary expensive decisions towards doing a patent, especially if you don't have the money to lose.
Unfortunately there were 18 hot spots in the bug prediction code.
There are people who form groups that voluntarily get off of the grid to seek independence. No city water, no city sewage, no grocery shopping.

It seems to me that if most of these people are on welfare in an area with a pretty good climate and what appears to be (from the photos) low population density, this would lend itself very nicely to getting off of the grid.

Instead of relying on the government to support them, they could farm. Instead of worrying about running water and sewage, they could irrigate and fertilize. Instead of worrying about hydro bills for lighting they could use small scale solar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
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All of the modern languages are pretty capable, and learning any one of them will make it easier to learn any other.

I'd suggest looking around and figuring out what people in your area are using, then picking whichever one has the most active user group. Being connected to real people in that language's community is a great way to stay motivated and accelerate your learning.
> There was once a catalog of nebula called Messier

Hah, I'd sort of known what the Messier catalog was, but you inspired me to look at its Wikipedia page[1]. Apparently Charles Messier was looking for comets, and was tired of getting distracted by things that weren't comets. M1 is the Crab Nebula[2].

This amuses me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Messier_objects
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Awesome post, love to see that even the great borg is human sometimes like the rest of us :)

Just curious for someone who knows more than me, couldn't all of these have been prevented by requiring all POSTs to the server have an attached CSRF nonce? Is there a downside to having a blanket policy like that?
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Readwriteweb acquired for just a measly $5MM?
Or even better. On to Gerrit!
Yeah, they have elevators that do that. Here's some marketing literature I found if you're interested: http://www.kone.com/countries/en_gb/products/elevators/konem...
I think the most important question is: Do people want it enough to pay for it?
You can always get great feedback, but if people do NOT want to pay for it, then it doesn't really matter. Find out if the value proposition is good enough. Maybe you need more to sweeten the deal.
I would recommend pushing the product to targeted users for about 1 month and see if the conversions increase.
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What I like about Google is that they take uncontroversial "should-dos" -- you should unit test, you should review, you should pay more attention to bug-prone models -- and then build and improve tools that supports those practices.

To me one of the reasons agile so swept our field was because it rode the back of the increasing availability of two genres of toolset: the unit testing framework and the bug/issue/story/feature tracker.
Enjoyed reading through your project's commits -- thanks for sharing.
if at all possible, i'd say it's guest blogging / writing. this not only build high quality links but it spurs instant virality when done correctly.
Very nice lp's. What CMS platform do you use, if any?
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My initial solution works in real Ruby, but it didn't work in this demo: http://imgur.com/YBYwN

Apparently, assigning the result of a comparison to a literal breaks this demo.

Edit: Also, bonus points if you can elaborate on why you think my second solution really does work correctly, despite the apparent bug. :)
I second what both those people said. I had a nice email exchange with him about my startup. It didn't turn into a meeting like it did for the second person, but he did help me. Also, you can find him on Reddit as well. I have never met him in person, but from our interactions, email and Reddit, he seems like a really nice guy.
prioritize coding over writing, even though that is not always the best choice

Keep doing it, and know your work is appreciated.
Its possible that to them, the scores aren't important and its a more conducive (and realistic) learning environment if they work together to solve the problems rather than doing it alone. There are many advantages:

* rather than just giving up on a problem, you can talk it out and learn together
* you get the opportunity to teach the material that you think you know that others find hard (a good heuristic for problems you may have just barely understood, but gotten correct anyway). Teaching material is a great way to learn it, and expose any gaps you might have in your knowledge.
* instant feedback on problems while they are still fresh in your memory
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There have been few comments about using specialized code generators, for example Theano[1] written in Python and as mentioned in a comment quda. I do not have the background to understand them well, but I find them very interesting.

One question that I have is whether anyone has looked at adapting or using the IF2 backend of the Sisal programming language [2] for these. I ask because some of the optimization that Theano does reminds me of things that IF2 is supposed to be doing too. Sisal was written with the old school vector machines and supercomputers in mind but has a backend that depends only on the availability of pthreads. I suspect that it might be possible to add support for SSE and its ilk.

[1] http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/

[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/sisal/
Neato...this visualization is sort of well suited for a piece like that Prelude because it's mostly arpeggiations - when the strings change shape you can sort of feel more beforehand how the chords will change (the shrinking kind of tightens up, makes the pitches higher), moreso than looking at the sheet music.

That being said, it's not like it's a very useful visualization (just neat). I'm sure one could train oneself to get a feel for the visualization better, sort of in the way that if you read music long enough you can sort of play a piece in your head and get a rough feel for the relations in the notes (not necessarily the correct pitches unless you have perfect pitch, but the correct relative pitches...if that makes sense - a musician could very well think in their head what a C-E-G sounds like, but not all would imagine a 440Hz tone for the C, perhaps one would think of a 500HZ, but the ratios between the notes in their imagined C-E-G and an actual C-E-G would be the same.
again, underestimating how shitty things are. going from property to turning tricks is a huge step up.
Seems like a good preview of the mess that we might find ourselves in if SOPA passes tommorow...
Ask HN: Picking a Project Idea
Hello, I'm a young web developer who has been trained in marketing by a CEO of a successful business and I'm looking to do my first serious start-up.

The problem is that I'm extremely ADD when it comes to ideas and instead of one idea I came up with four.

I want to be able to create a product demo sometime before the end of January, but with no focus it's very difficult to work on something.

Can anyone who has been through something similar offer advice?
honestly, it's difficult to buy cars from dealers? that's one of the easiest (and more expensive) i can think of.

but i think 6mm tells me i'm wrong.

i'd like to see someone solve the problem of buying used cars. solving buying new cars just get a meh from me.
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This is actually a good article/video. It highlights the pros of NY and SF.

That being said, coming from the midwest and now living in the valley --- if you're going to put it all on the line then you want every advantage you can get. Being in Silicon Valley is one advantage you should really consider not passing up.

Unless, of course you're doing something with record labels (LA) or financial companies (NY)....the valley wins as far as location goes.
If you have a way for them to make money they will be interested in you, just don't assume they are idiots.

That's a really polite way of saying "They will squeeze the last drop of blood out of you and then some".

You may also want to start thinking about writing software to help them manage [...]

We already have the software. It's called spotify, soundcloud, grooveshark, iTunes etc. The technology to pay the artists a slice of the revenue is in place. Except currently it's mostly used to pay the labels instead.
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You patent inventions, not ideas. If you choose to file, you may have to give away information that could be useful to your competition.

A few reasons to patent:
. you really have a defensible invention, in which case you should be doing this with a patent attorney
. to gain negotiating advantage, in case you get drawn into a patent fight
. to give the impression you've invented some truly innovative tech - some VCs like this
. to increase company valuation, in the eyes of VCs and others

A few reasons not to patent:
. if you disclose your tech, it could be easily copied without your knowledge
. a patent on your invention is not worth the cost to file or defend your patent
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I find that kind of hard to believe. I don't hack or even work in the computer industry any more, have got into arguments with almost every long-term member at some point or other, and hold distinctly minority positions on a variety of topics (most often about governance). And heaven knows that I can be as snarky or pompous as anyone else when I've had a bad day. Maybe I'm just lucky, but the admins seem pretty hands off to me.
Sometime I see articles very high up with no comments which made me think some non-job post were self promoted. but maybe thats a cache lag and the votes refresh quicker than comments?
There's the Paternoster[1], which is essentially what you're talking about, but as it probably fairly obvious, they're pretty difficult to make both safe and efficient.

I'm reminded of the 'Moving Platform'[2] idea proposed for high-speed trains fairly recently though, and I wonder if there's anything there that could be reused.

What would a packet-switched elevator shaft look like? (Lots of small cars, which divert to individual 'station' queues for each floor, and latch onto a continuous moving belt at fixed intervals - shades of ATM)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster

[2] http://www.designweek.co.uk/home/blog/moving-platforms/30277...
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That could be true, my point was that even if a 1000 line file has a 1% chance of bug-per-line it will be marked "buggy" while a 50 line file with a 10% chance of bug-per-line won't.

It makes no sense that if you took that 1000 line file and refactored it into 10 files and those 10 files had the same bugs as the original that the 1000 line file will be flagged as buggy but all 10 of the split files won't.
I was amazed that Sahil's name was not mentioned at all in the blogpost.
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I think, more accurately, one may rave about the irrelevant merits of static typing to the detriment of one's karma.

Here's a bug from the real world: the login form doesn't render correctly in IE. When someone implements IE's layout algorithm as a haskell type, I'll start paying attention.
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Yeah that's a great point. I added such a sentence. The site you visit is actually located on my Dropbox so nice and easy to edit.

I mean I basically made this because I wanted to start making a old school type of personal web site (80cols.com) and didn't want to have to scup files all over the place. I also didn't want to use an existing blogging platform. The major disadvantage is you can't run script or anything, but it's great for serving static content. I mean I could basically load gigs of videos and photos and just share them with the world if I wanted.

I need to do more, but at least now I know there's interest. I didn't even know that before launching.
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The hellbanning is what turned me off commenting and sharing my opinions on HN. With the passage of time, what was once a forum to discuss (and openly dissent) ideas feels like an old boys club ... with a few anointed head goons to keep the order (and teach newcomers a lesson with zealous downvoting and hellbanning), a few ol timers who still act decently in hopes that HN may yet regain its spirit (as they remember it) and the rest of the crowd filled with the usual riff-raff on any web forum who have no idea what HN started off as and will probably never care. PG, HN was (is?) a great idea and a great place and well worth the while. Burned two handles over the years, getting the hang of it, but by then it was no longer the place I liked.

I'll keep lurking, at least for now.

Good luck.
São Paulo, it's there on the page you linked to. If it were spanish it would be san paolo.

On a more relevant note, finally. Google has had servers around here for a few years, along with most large CDNs. Cloudflare should take note, it's nearly unusable in Brazil right now.
I hope you find something useful. When I started Seesaw, I spent some time studying Monkeybars for ideas to steal. :)
this could be useful for people targeting LatAm services. lower latency could make up a bit for slower connections throughout the region
I don't know. I'm not sure if there have been any break throughs recently determining where the trolls came from.
> It is a story that called for strategic depth, not technical wizardry, design brilliance or sheer energy.

While I can't argue that Amazon has displayed "design brilliance or sheer energy" I do consider the creation of AWS and running the Amazon store front at its current scale to be acts of "technical wizardry". It's really unfortunate to downplay the contribution of the brilliant engineers who made Amazon possible.
always used winrar. never missed any format. i see no reason to abandon it for 7zip

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I remember going back and forth with you about that escher illusion a guy built in his garage. Just an example of what I'm talking about and why I think it's cool. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233584
I never disputed that JPM deserves penalties for the acts of bribery performed by their consultants. However, the penalty for bribery should be proportional to the $227M they gained from bribery. About 91% of the county's debt, or $2.8B, has nothing to do with acts of bribery.

And in general, giving advice does not make you culpable for movements of the market. A car can be expected to drive reliably within certain parameters, but investment vehicles are not cars. TD Ameritrade gives me investment ideas all the time, but I don't get to demand they pay me if I buy AAPL and it goes down.

There are exceptions for negligence - e.g., if I say "I want a long position", and they advised me to buy a put.
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blender.org appears to be down at present.

Here's a working mirror of the latest:
http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/blender.org/release/Blender2.61/
First, understand that picking one at random will get you further than not deciding at all. Thus, not having a "perfect" way to choose is no good excuse.

All else being equal (or just unknown), go with the one you'll get the most immediate real-world feedback on. At least that way you'll know quickly if it's viable, and if not, what made it not viable.

Learning++
There is a rating higher than 5 stars, called TOWER. It has been a while but if I recall it is very difficult to reach that with offices, because they have a large amount of traffic compared to other ways of getting population, making it to hard to not overload your elevators even with optimization.

What I did was sort of a hack, but worked, in the basement levels express elevators and escalators can go to any floor, so I made tons of them, and made tons of shops, all shops (they had highest population density). Virtually all of my tower was underground.
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Um, Goldman tends to focus exclusively on short term bets. That's why they won the financial crisis.

If Goldman looks like they lost in the short run, they probably did. They'll take the losses, learn from their mistakes, and try to make it up next time.
I love these type of posts. Thanks for sharing. How do you stumble upon these exploits? Do you purposely go searching for them, or do you just accident upon them?
* Sometimes, capable people have difficulty getting jobs they're qualified for due to reasons outside their control.*.

This and some people just suck at the interview process. Ive been praised in the past for the quality of teams I've built. I think I'm good at hiring. That being said a few times when ive been an interviewer (not the hiring manager) I've tried to talk people out of hiring people who ended up being rockstars. I've also had other managers try to talk me out of hiring some folks I've been sold on who ended up being rockstars themselves.

Point being that hiring is a very inexact science. Sometimes when the bar is set high qualified people slip through the cracks. It's a hiring "cost". Sometimes you just do the best you can with an inexact science.
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If you lived in Silicon Valley, Apple had HUGE banners with their Think Different campaign that you could see from 280. I distinctly remember driving around there in 1997, and seeing the banner with Einstein's face, if I remember correctly, and getting goosebumps.

And this was when Apple was a laughingstock at the Brass Ring job fairs (if any of you remember those). I remember no one even bothering to line up for a job for Apple.