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Previous coverage: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4163856

And we're hiring: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399052
My immediate reaction is to be skeptical. AI has been tried before and has failed many, many, times.

Having said that, I think this exactly the sort of innovation timeline real venture capitalists should be considering - funding real R&D that could have a revolutionary impact even if the odds are against it.

If I had a lot of money that I really didn't need I would invest it. That is meant to be a compliment.

Best of luck. This is what smart people should be doing.
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Hmm, I've only used enlive on a small project, and that was quite a while back (I haven't done any webdev lately) and I generally ended up marking my templated elements with special ids or classes. Artificial example coming up:

<ul>
<li class="item-template">
<a href="#" class="item-link-template"><strong class="item-caption-template">Some dummy caption</strong></a>
&mdash; <span class="item-description-standin">Some dummy description</span>
</li>
</ul>

The item-template marks the outer-most element to use for repetition. The item-link-template can be used to set the href attribute. The contents of the tag marked with item-caption-template will be replaced with whatever content. The item-description-standin gets replaced with content outright. If you, say, want to remove the <strong> tags around the caption, just move the templating class to the parent item.

<ul>
<li class="item-template">
<a href="#" class="item-link-template item-caption-template">Some dummy caption</a>
&mdash; <span class="item-description-standin">Some dummy description</span>
</li>
</ul>

If you come up with some conventions, e.g. "-standin" gets replaced completely, whereas "-template" just gets transformed; each marker is only used for one purpose (don't conflate the link and the caption marker in the latter example), it works rather well, probably better than any other templating system I've used.

My only gripes with Enlive at the time were that it was overly macro-heavy (def'ing everything as opposed to returning values), and loading templates was quite slow, which made on-the-fly modifications to HTML generated elsewhere ineffecient. I suspect both are better these days, as it was still heavily in development at the time.
For human readable stuff, I don't know why we don't use YAML more often. The serializer is utterly fantastic, though I don't think JavaScript support parsing it quickly.
"But this just proves, bubbles exist."

No, it just proves that the market for tech talent is stronger in the Bay Area than it is for Florida.
Rest assured, we'll have it ready very soon - Microsoft bugs notwithstanding.
Just out of curiosity, would you use newer Apple hardware if you could run older OS X versions on it?

Hackintosh or something even worse (and I am with you 100% on the horrible state of OS X) -- I wouldn't want to discount the quality of the hardware.
Kaggle has blog posts of many of the past winners: http://blog.kaggle.com/category/dojo/

For algorithms, just try whatever you know best/is fastest to implement. If you're using R I highly recommend the Caret package.

For papers: the best place to get started is to begin browsing the forums or any similar contests, the community there is actually pretty awesome and will frequently post papers. After that google scholar (or even just google) for particular problems will yield nice results.

Also checkout the wiki: http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Home
I'm [dead] now, so there's that.
On a similar note, I would have preferred if she had posted something like this on a personal blog and not the company blog, because I think it looks tacky (especially when you are sharing your actual salary).

I thought the analysis was generally quite good though and she seems to be quite intelligent. Please don't take my critique to mean that I thought the point she was making was incorrect.
Heh... a similar "project" when I was in high school got me sent to the principal's office once :-)
The t-shirts are of quality, I promise :)

The subscription suggestion is great and might be a better fit for Nifty. I'll have to give some thought.

Another direction I am thinking of going is more clearly separating the purchase from the pick. So you pick your shirt to buy and then make a separate pick for the least popular. I worry the additional UI may complicate things, but it is probably worth testing.
Poorly implemented parsers, especially in Javascript.
Ok, so who's telling the truth? Was Snow Leopard good or did it kernel panic? Is Mountain Lion stable or have users just not reported the issues yet?
If my memory serves there has been quite a few of them over the last couple of decades, people just tend to forget them over time.

Plus a few lawsuits were avoided or defeated because of the generosity of the US federal government making laws that makes it more difficult to be a consumer; the DMCA comes to mind. Laws pushed by the very companies that are not in a conspiracy but willing to work together for their own benefit when needed. You want a third-party ink cartridge? Screw you because the law says you can't and it's even illegal for you to try.

Nope, nothing to see here.
I requested an invite sometime on or before 1/24/11 (my earliest email from BankSimple acknowledging I had requested an invite) and still haven't received the invite.

Guess they don't want me?
How are you handling the printing on these? Do you plan to buy in bulk and ship out once it ends or screen print the tees yourself?
I think it's the wording in the tweet, make it more subtle, I clicked tweet and the wording kind of scared me off

try to do analytics on clicks on the share button that led to no sharing... (not easy... but try)

also more T samples will be really nice...

I think if you make one good T shirt compilation, even without the T shirts, just the drawings, and get it up on blogs as "geek art" or "stuff that only geeks would understand" you'll get a lot of traffic and shares... just try not to insult any "old" jokes, I would even put some of the oldschool stuff you want to replace just to stay friendly with everyone, some people think the double rainbows are funny. and you want them as customers too. and they will, if you don't call them out as un-funny...
"A site that pulls in a decent income via advertising is really just a lifestyle business with little chance of scaling"

Would that make facebook & google the grand daddies of all lifestyle businesses?
What the hell? Why did you post this on HN?
Merriam-Webster definition of Startup: "a fledgling business enterprise".

See a lot of zero revenue businesses that throw around the scale idea as justification for not having a business model, but the older I get the more I believe titles, whether for what your business is or what your role is, matter less than results.

What makes the startup world so exciting is its variety outside of the echo chambers: Food truck startups, jewelry startups, services startups. Many of which don't plan on or will never "scale" in a web sense, and then others that will scale in ways the founders couldn't imagine the first year or two out of the gate.
I had the same experience - I think Simple might be a positive change for those who are currently using a complex or scammy large bank, but for those us who are already credit union members, Simple doesn't seem to offer much.

Once they add check deposit by picture, they'll be beating my particular CU in one key area, but I think I'll still keep my spending money with my CU for the time being - it's much easier to have my banking needs taken care of in one place, and my credit union hasn't scammed me, misplaced my money, or charged me an unreasonable fee yet (and I don't expect them to start).
I had the endurance to read through Cryptonomicon, it was long but still enjoyable.

Then I bought all three volumes of the Baroque Cycle, but gave up halfway through volume 1 and sold them. It was just too much.
Weepy/bounce: Reloads process upon changes to source files and exceptions.
Major, major kudos for including a functioning demo API key in your curl examples. Drives me nuts when you can't take a peek at sample data without signing up for a test app (and spending a few hours populating the empty account).
Neither of Apple's non-modular systems you mention are artificial.

Nonsense. Go look at the iFixit write-ups of taking apart recent Apple devices, which helpfully show exactly how similar/different the variations are in many respects, highlight all kinds of proprietary components literally down to the level of unusual screws that have no apparent benefit whatsoever over using a standard/compatible component, and incidentally debunk your claim about "substantial thickness and weight savings" in the process.

it's actually just people preferring the non-modular systems for many reasons

I'm still waiting for anyone to cite any of those reasons. Other things being equal, why would someone prefer to buy a system that was going to cost a vast amount more to repair in the event of screen damage, or where proprietary connectors meant they couldn't swap out the SSD for a higher capacity unit even though the device itself is actually removable? And as noted above, for the most part other things are in fact equal, or so close as makes no difference.

then giving an example where you yourself went for junk instead of something that's supposedly like what you want

I'm still waiting for anyone to tell me what I should have bought instead. As I said, the printer I was talking about there was very much not an entry-level device, it was pitched as part of a range for professional use in an office, and with a price tag to match. Asking for such a printer to print a black-and-white document with only black toner is not some sort of absurd concession or flippant request. There would be no excuse for nerfing a $150 printer in that way, never mind a $1,500 one.

Also, it's not as if I somehow found the only printer or the only printer manufacturer around who has this problem. Again, as I already said, almost everyone seems to work this way these days. If you insist on maintaining that after extensive research I still wound up buying "junk" unnecessarily, you can easily win this debate. All you have to do is cite an alternative device I could have bought, with a reasonably similar spec and for a similar budget, that does not have such artificial limitations. But you can't, and instead of accepting that, you persist in implying that it's somehow my fault that a world class brand deliberately nerfed a device that costs $1,000+ in order to increase their revenue on consumables.
Having seen the demos yesterday, I can tell you that you will get "blackout" if you play.

However, I also want to note that this was the best set of presentations I've ever seen at a demo day.

Sure they use a lot of the same words and phrases, but that's because they are all trying to communicate the same thing in just 2 minutes: We're awesome and you should give us money to be more awesome.
If you read through the past winners you'll find that in many cases a very simple model will win. I believe one of the winners that posted a blog post had pretty much the background you describe.

When I started I was in a similar position to you and just wanted to see if I could even tread water with some of the really knowledgeable members of the community. I ended up placing in the top 5 for one of the contests I was in (with btw a really simple model).

They usually give you some starter code in either R or Python which will give you the results for a benchmark, start there and then use cross-validaton to see if you can beat that bench mark, and if you do submit. It's very addictive and you'll come away knowing a lot more than you started with.
How do I contact you? The Kontactr form at http://www.cforcoding.com/ is broken..
The ones I'm most exited about are BufferBox and Double.

BufferBox solves a real pain point for me (to the point I was thinking about setting up something similar here in Uruguay, but I don't have the cash).

And Double would be great for everybody who can't afford to travel constantly for meetings (both time AND money), though face-to-face meetings aren't going away anytime soon (too much off-band communication, relationship building, etc..).
Node-dev is a development tool for Node.js
you did not ask me, but: when i'm busy thinking about the code, when i'm not typing for a long time, i lay back and browse the sourcecode with arrows and (up and down or pg-up and pg-down). not that fast, sure. but can be done with one hand, the other is scratching my head or what helps me think.
Love the feedback! Ok, let's see if I can address this.

"The problem is that you seem to target a specific kind of people that might think like me" - Hmmm, that very well could be. Maybe this going viral just isn't possible for a market like us. If others back this up, then I'll have to accept it.

"I'll signup for it right away." - This is very encouraging, thank you!

"What prevents you from trying with ONE design first" - We want to build a brand, not just drop the designs out there. So instead, we're applying to Kickstarter with a base of 5 designs. That way we can make sure that we've got something here.

"How will you handle fake accounts" - There is a definite possibility for hurt here... but it should be pretty easy to see if someone's messing around with us

"I think the first part should be on your website" - You know, I have tossed this idea around. Do you think it's a pretty big selling point? I had just wondered if people wouldn't care about that story as much as they cared about the seeing the designs themselves...

"you could use something like www.dailycred.com" - I've never heard of this, but I will check it out. Launchrock is really simple and quick to set up, which helped us put our page up quick and start to get people involved. And since our next step is Kickstarter, i was hoping to transition fairly quickly into a full blown shop once our Kickstarter goal is complete. I'm going in to this site right now though.
Appreciate it. We love it when people play around in our API sandbox (in fact, we made it part of the hiring process!)
Please, what was Rob Pike's polemic? Can you share a link?

From googling around, might you be referring to:

"Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant"

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/

And there's a little slashdot discussion:

http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pi...
Ask HN: Big Fish in a Small Pond? Moving a Start-up to Cali worth-it?
Is it worth moving a start-up to Silicon Valley Area? If you are funded (assume low millions range) and have a beta (assume internet start-up), would you move your company to Silicon Valley? Having never been involved in a company out there, are the resources that much greater. Is it still worth it when you consider cost of doing business (the increased expense of programmers, cost of living, cost of office) vs. a place like in the mid-west (where you would essentially be the big fish).<p>What else do you consider when making these decision? Have you started a successful company outside of Silicon Valley? Is being there physically that much better, or is having a strong contact out there enough?<p>I know Y-Com mentality is pro Silicon Valley, for well documented reasons, do you tend to agree or disagree?<p>Thanks all
I guess we haven't agreed upon what metric we are even trying to compare (not surprising then we have a disagreement). I was making a comment on facebook vs yahoo as a profitable business, so I looked at profit. Facebook may never get to yahoo in terms of $/user (I don't know what yahoo's numbers are like now, or at their peak) but what exactly are you trying to compare such that you think $/user is a worthwhile stat to look at?

You can make the argument that it's a different era now, so looking at total profit isn't an apples to apples comparison, but a counterargument could be that the internet is a much more competitive landscape than it was in, say, 1996 so that it's actually more impressive what facebook has done in this era.
We're alike in many ways, J. I am a self-taught web-designer who, in his 10 years, learned HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, and SOME Javascript on his own. I'm no pro by any means, but I've built some pretty neat looking things without being able to create dynamic experiences/sites.

8 months ago, I couldn't write a single snippet of Python. I had a simple site I wanted to build just for experimental purposes, and kept asking my friends for help, until I realized that it just wasn't going to happen.

I initially started with Ruby with the intent of learning Rails shortly after. However, I had read enough posts on HN to have me switch to Python with LPTHW by Zed A. Shaw. I got all the way up to the exercises for building your own game, and, frankly, I just quit. I felt I was ready to dive into Django. Boy was I wrong. There were a lot of things that I didn't understand and I had done the simple exercise on the Django Project site three times!

Anyway, I kept at it. I continued to Google topics I didn't understand. I went through two Django books and numerous YouTube and videos slowly gripping some of the ideas before I found my saving grace written by, none other than, one of the creators himself. After that, I was able to push out a nice looking site in two days with a lot of help from Twitter Bootstrap.

I just want to say that learning by doing is the way to go. It took me far more than 30 days to learn everything that I know, but this is because I had to learn these along the way, too: command line, working with Linux, using a more powerful editor (Vim - can't go back to notepad), version control with Git, and then deploying, which can be a beast of its own.

Keep at it!
I work at a popular niche retailer in Europe. We use saferpay.com for all our credit card needs around the globe.

Keep in mind that people from certain countries prefer additional solutions. Talk to your customers and they will tell you which payment options besides credit cards they wish to use.

In contrast to others, we've got a good relationship with Paypal as well, but we don't use them for normal credit cards because they ask too much.

Expect to interface with more than one payment platform down the road, because there is not one platform that does everything.

But starting with credit cards only and Saferpay is a good first choice.
The shirts are being water/discharged printed by http://forwardprinting.com. A very high quality and award winning printer.
Hoverbikes -- one step closer to production reality, thanks to startup
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The desktop PC is almost obsolete.

We spent a lot of time making PCs powerful. Then we spent more time to shrink them in size. Now they're just components to be combined with other hardware to make new tech.

PCs, smart phones, tablets have pretty much run their course.

What excites me is that it’s anyone’s game to build the next hardware. And we're not going to just seeing one new technology being built - we have the tools to branch off into all sorts of hardware - 3D printers, wearable computers, robotics, home automation, autonomous vehicles, biotechnology.

Personally the only thing I need a powerful desktop PC for is video editing. For everything else - writing, drawing, communications, there’s no reason I should be chained to a desk for the sake of power. All I need is a basic HUD, LEAP motion and a virtual keyboard, which aren’t too far off. If I need to do something intensive I can just tell my desktop or a network to get to work and send me back the results.

The idea of having to sit down at a desk and look at a flat panel, or being crippled by a half-assed mobile device seems antiquated.
Do IT!
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This is hilarious! I want to be able to braintrip (http://www.braintripping.com/) through YC demo day speak.
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While I agree with your sentiment about frugal living, in the spirit of being realitic, $500 a month for food is awfully low.

At 3 meals a day, that's $5 a meal.

No easy feat unless you go for processed, preserved and packaged, which is hardly a good way to live and eat.
Glassmap (YC S11) Launches v2.0: Social News Feed Meets Real-Time Map
I'm with the author on this one. I'd pick a simple blog with millions of pageviews per month than a fledgling start-up idea that is losing money.

Is it super sexy? Of course not, but in the end, who cares?
After you do this for a while, please please release your data. I'd love to see what kind of influence the star has on things, and the variation between least popular and most popular.
The "intention" may not be "shittiest", but that's the impression I get. It feels like a trick or a game of 3-card monte in order for him to move his worst product. Possibly others might get the same impression as well.

In general, retailers discount the product that doesn't move, and raise or maintain the prices on the things that are popular. So, this is something that would appear to try to artificially increase demand on their worst selling product. Again, I'm not saying he that's his intention, but that's the general impression someone could get.

That's why I suggested changing the mechanics to something more win-win. I suggested something like the most popular t-shirt gets a progressive discount, and early adopters get a discount on their next purchase. This feels more win-win, and you have to do less mental calculations to try to figure out if you're getting scammed or not.
The Era of Delivering Service
Never tried the UNC hack. Might have a bash at that.

The actual restriction is in the Win32 subsystem which has both C string and Unicode versions of API calls. Some API is hooked in via the C API which tends to use TCHAR var[MAX_PATH] as the buffers. It's a royal PITA.

The NT Native API and NTFS don't have such small limits (32k comes to mind).

It's a shame really as NT is a beautiful piece of engineering with a shitty Win32 subsystem thrown on the top.
When I've been downvoted, it's usually because the readership misunderstood me. For example, in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577112, I made a joke about a Github employee's bravado in a thread at 37signals. It was interpreted as my accusing 37signals of ddosing Github even though the Github employee replied and got the joke. Once I edited the post to strongly emphasize I wasn't accusing 37signals of hacking, the downvote trend somewhat reversed itself.

P.S. Those who downvoted my reply to myself were entirely justified. It's never worth it here to poke fun at downvoters in the middle of a thread about a different topic, and it's not a comment that adds to discussion no matter how it is received.
> [XML] enabled people to do previously unthinkable things, like exchange Microsoft Office documents across HTTP connections.

wat
I've tried Evernote. Most of my content are saved links, which Evernote doesn't seem to handle well as far as I have seen.
Page up and page down are part of my must-learn-asap shortcuts when learning a new editor - once you have hjkl and ctrl+f/ctrl+b ingrained, browsing code while keeping your hands mostly over the home row becomes a lot easier and you don't have to move your hands back and forth. I've found that if I want to browse my code with one hand, the scrollwheel on my mouse does the trick :)
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