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Sorry! If the product was fully built, we'd of course let you browse.

But for a product that preaches testing before building, wouldn't that be a little bit silly? :)
Very easy - just use a telescope.
Ha good catch. I assumed the stuff in the background were already projects on the site, tried clicking out to browse, got frustrated and clicked back.
I was a Notes programer at IBM over 10 years ago now, Notes is really misunderstood. Oddly most people think of Notes as just an email/calendaring tool and not for making useful databases for helping to collaborate/ run a business.

Having put the Notes programming thing behind me, looking into NOSQL had me thinking this looks familiar.

The notes platform at IBM was used to build out custom apps. I was a coop student employee and built them a lot of custom apps. its amazing how those custom tools can really help get stuff done.

You can also see why its not such a great email client (email is just another database no matter how much customization they do). I used Notes as an email client at another job and it has gotten better over the years, its still clunky.

lotus-script left a lot to be desired.
To add to the above: Pretty much all companies benefit society; it's hard to think of counter-examples.

Sure, oil companies spill oil sometimes; but they (should) have to pay for that.

Big telcos tend to have monopoly status, and exploit consumers, but they do that not because they are companies, but because they are in a patron-client relationship with the government.

Some companies produce tremendous benefit to society; others produce small benefits, which matter a lot in the aggregate.
I absolutely love that they publish and maintain this. When I pitched them on Shopify I said that I'll show up on their website one way or another. Thankfully they decided they wanted to keep us out of the Anti-Portfolio and invested :-)
Thanks!

I'd like to think the same, but from a numbers standpoint -- we're probably going to need a fairly clear incentive for the "reviewer/early adopter" side.

It's going to be a balance of quality vs. volume of reviewers, but these will all be some fun challenges to figure out and tackle.

edit: Your comment (after re-reading) made my day.
You are going to have those issues anyway. Since there is no common ancestor you will have to commit a .gitignore from scratch to that new branch. Files left over is another common issue, if they are not committed then when you switch branches they are going to stick around, just like with any other branch switch...
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The community version of IDEA is open source and Apache licensed, so hopefully people aren't seriously using that as an argument.
I'd love to hook this up to my Twitter account, but they require read access and I've already seen one person accidentally spam their Twitter stream (https://twitter.com/julien51 - to be fair to Prismatic this looks like it was a bug and they're actively reaching out to Julien to figure out what went wrong).

Our startup used to ask people for write access (purely so we could implement "follow" buttons - we never sent tweets on people's behalf) and it was a frequent source of complaints, so we eventually switched to read-only with an upgrade path to a write token later on: http://lanyrd.com/2012/blog/twitter-read-only/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
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I have been emailing HipByte a couple of time but I have not receive an email from them in weeks. I am trying to get an educational license. I do understand that if I want to publish my apps to App Store, I will have to buy a full license.

When the time comes for me to submit an app, I will purchase a license.
Totally disagree. While not at gasoline car levels, Tesla has certainly passed the 'toy' mark in range. What's the range on a 5 series tank? 500 miles or so? 300 miles is more than enough to cover my daily needs at least. I imagine it is for most people, unless you fill up more than once every two days.
Great post--I can use this exact setup with my AWS server and was about to start writing something similar. Thanks for saving me loads of time.
Everyone needs a co-founder like this guy. (on the right)
Days ago I learned about YC and HN

May I ask how and/or where you found about these things?
A really fantastic article overall. I was never personally at risk of academia, so I don't resonate with that part of the article. But I particularly liked these two sentences for their practical insight:

that process of taking qualitative ideas and struggling to represent them computationally is the core of artificial intelligence (AI).

and

that path from research to product rarely works, and when it does it's because a company is built with research at its core
Yeah, I wish it were 6MM a year. Anyways, I get about 40% from In App purchases and 60 percent from ads.
I'd add two of mine to that list: try thinking in foreign language and calculating in it.
In the natural sciences, this system happens to be the world in which we live

Not to say I disagree with your post, but it's it more accurate to say that the natural sciences today explore models for the world in which we live? The models tend to be fairly obvious for things on the human scale, but when you talk about systems on the atomic scale, or on the cosmic scale, the immediacy of the models tends to break down. The result is that, just as for the abstract sciences (math, CS, etc), the usefulness of the models has to be justified. So, I feel that the line between purely abstract sciences and "natural sciences" is not quite as fine and well-defined as your post makes it to be.
Honest question:

If they had asked you to pay for the service up front without a trial would it have made a difference?

Would it be better marketing to call it a "free month" instead of a trial?

I think that most people who might use this have some idea what an IRC Proxy is. That makes me wonder if it isn't better to just call it a free month to avoid these "why am I paying for a trial" issues.
I've been working on a variation of this with a connection to a flashcard app [http://www.vocabulous.net]. Basically whenever you look up an unfamiliar word you can tap "add" and it ends up among your flashcards.

Now I just need amazons book catalog, and it'll be awesome...
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How long would would you have to search the rocky mountains with robots to find a dinosaur fossil?
Confusion = good launch page?
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Meditation is a great way to train one's attention and focus.

A lot of ink is spilled describing what companies and bosses could do to enable programmers to get or stay in the zone, but all of that is immaterial compared to one's intrinsic ability to focus, which is a skill that can be developed.
As you made all you can do, pivoted and especially burnt all the money you had.
The content on memrise is by large contributed by users. I've created a Portuguese->Spanish course there, and so have other people.

Noone is stopping you from creating a French->Italian course. Add 10 words a day and soon you'll have a basic course.
I like the concept but when I tried it out it didn't bring up anything interesting. It seems to have a heavy bias towards 'mainstream' news sites, which I rarely like to read. It seems like it is totally missing out on the 'long tail' which IMHO is where most the value in a service like this lies.

The bubbles showing my 'interests' at the beginning looked quite promising, so perhaps there is some tuning that could fix this (maybe even user configuable?).
Looks nice, but... Is it any faster on Mac?
Same here. But i give it to the first poster that using linux is a pain. trying to buy a new laptop for my wife and i'm going crazy trying to map the reasonably priced options with the linux support i will get from the hardware.
With the "Alt double tap and hold" keyboard shortcut, you can even remove all the side buttons
Agreed. That wouldn't have stopped Instagram from removing support though.
I use PyCharm (which is essentially the same product). I love the IDE features, and it's possible to build a far less cluttered workspace. Screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/C6Uq6.png
It's actually a little inception-esque. You're pitching an idea for an app about ideas for apps.

I think it's essentially light-market fit testing but it actually kind of blew my mind that the site itself poses the same question it hopes to answer for others, "Would people use this?"
This is like saying that Sony can make an mp3 player, so the iPod isn't competitive in that market. Or that a 5GB iPod won't hold enough music, so it's just an expensive toy. Within 5-10 years the battery problem will improve, especially if there is demand. This is technology, not automotive development. We're not in Detroit anymore.

They're in a different class. Tesla is set up to do it right from the start at a much faster pace.

Tesla will be the Apple of anything that moves, trust me. It was clear to me when I saw the Roadster design and the roadmap, but I digress...
I think you should be more clear that it is a launch page on the first screen rather than after clicking the sign up button.

It sort of seems like a Quora-esque "you must sign up to see more" type of thing right now.
Patience, patience.
You did a good job! These slides were very readable and easy to follow.
No. Amazon only has Nvidia hardware in their EC2 GPU clusters. Nvidia is not equivalent as it is significantly slower than AMD/ATI hardware for password cracking. Eg. a top-of-the line AMD GPU brute-forces MD5 hashes about 5x faster than a top-of-the-line Nvidia GPU, see: http://golubev.com/gpuest.htm

I don't know any computing provider who rent out AMD GPUs... (This would be a startup opportunity.)
If you don't want to get drowned by your feed then you want to keep an eye on http://signups.simplrinc.com
Tag line: Ideas for free.
The author of this article injected herself into a good 30% of the story, so you shouldn't be surprised that ego is a big part of what gets published over there.
This is really great. I love how you did the google docs demo as the starter modal.

Looks like a great product, but I think most of the people building these would be less technical. I saw "rick click to delete" while on mac/chrome, there's no mouse play built in.

Maybe consider simplifying the initial screen to just one block and a "do this next" message so that the user can try it? At least for lesser tech users, if you can define where they're coming from (or more often).

ex: split facbeook / twitter / HN traffic in and make assumptions as to what kind of users are coming from where.
A way to test the market or get social proof that there is a market for this. Checkout how buffer did it - http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...

You need 2 things: Landing page to describe product/etc and a community to support say yes/no

BTW did you see http://www.startuprocketlauncher.com/ on HN today as well?
It's oddly sounding very much like Twitter has been lately. I don't blame sites for trying to monetize but this is kinda sorta a bait and switch.

Use our products for "free" and build services on top of them for "free" until we're big enough.
I assume the NA model was the same way? Or just the turbo?
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Two reasons:

1. Show HN is generally about feedback. The comment doesn't provide useful feedback about the service.

2. IRCCloud is a client and proxy. This service allows you to use your own IRC client which is preferable for a whole host of reasons (config, WM level keybindings, etc).

Aside from the down vote, In my experience IRCCloud has serious reliability issues. I've recommended it to around 10 people all of which have abandoned the service because it was down so frequently.

[EDIT] IRCCloud may since have corrected those problems it was > 5 months ago.
No, and no.

The issue here is:
1. I have never used this kind of service before.
2. I am not sure I would be willing to pay for it.
3. I am exactly the kind of person who would pay $5 a month for the convenience factor.
4. I am also the kind of person who would completely forget to cancel and then get billed, even if I didn't use it.

Basically, a free trial with credit card info attached, for me, isn't a free trial, it's a post-billing situation.
Network problems last Friday
inception or not, you nailed it.
We will publish on interesting aspects of our models. Frankly, our main reason for not doing so is time and resources.

In terms of industry research on the whole and publishing. It is true that you can't publish everything, but look at Google. Arguably some of the influential systems papers of the last decade or so have come out of Google. Google doesn't publish all the details of their search algorithms, but it turns out that because they address real-world problems they've done enough great stuff that some of it can safely be shared without endangering their moat.

Another aspect to consider is that while industry publishes less, we do tend to churn out useful open-sourced (Prismatic will definitely be doing that soon) that is of at least comprable utility to people out there as most papers.
As far as I can tell, the changes from IDEA 12 are already making their way into the EAP builds of the subordinate IDEs. Certainly it seemed that way from the most recent PyCharm EAP announcement:

http://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2012/12/pycharm-2-7-eap-bu...
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You can use it to listen to music you like, or find new music. I'm using it right now to listen to the same stuff my coworkers are listening to in our office while I work from home. Does that help?
It's fast enough for most needs. If you're traveling across country, a 30 minute break every 5 hours might be just what the doctor ordered. If you break apart your eating times just right, you can have it coincide with eating times.

If charge time were reduced to 30 minutes in the general case for electric cars, I'd be much, much more likely to consider them a viable alternative to my current car. We just need the infrastructure. Honestly, I believe that the car that's going to win the transition race is going to be the one that acquires the infrastructure the most quickly, be it electric fast-charging stations, hydrogen refineries/pumping stations, electrically-charged gel stations, or whatever thing we end up thinking up.
How do you handle the fact that most IRC networks limit the # of connections that can come from a single IP address?
The thesis that innovation has stopped because the major foundations of today's technology were laid in the 70's is utter nonsense. Most breakthrough innovations take 15 to 20 years to go from the initial discovery to widespread adoption. Examples penicillin, ARPANET, GPS, television, unix, and on an on. So it is no surprise that the Internet and GPS took off in the 1990's. If you want to know what is going to drive the 2020's and the 2030's look at what's in the labs now. Of course 99% of it wont amount to much, but the core innovations are there somewhere.

The author has a point about the problems inherent in unregulated financial manipulation and monopolies in general. But unless there are huge restrictions on small business development and a suppression of the universities, innovation will continue.
Conversions* = good launch page.
Congrats to the Prismatic team! I see Bradford is floating around answering questions, so I'll shoot over two:

(1) Is an iPad app on your roadmap? Anything you'd like to announce? ;)

(2) You once had an excellent post on your personal blog called "Learning About Machine Learning," with a list of excellent resources for learning about ML and statistics from first principles. The original post seems to be gone; are you hosting it somewhere else? I guess I could use the Wayback Machine if anything, but I'm curious whether personal blog exists somewhere new.
Lest tobacco manufacturers try to trumpet how compounds in cigarettes help protect urban bird nests from parasites, Suárez-Rodríguez warned at the very end of the article that carcinogens and pesticides in the butts may have negative effects on the birds which we don't yet know about.
Yes, if you do not travel, it is a perfect car.

I would not take Tesla on my camping trip, or my ski trip, or my ~700 miles road trip. And I honestly do not want a car I cannot use outside of my commute.
Circa creates a web view for their fact-based news machine.
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CERN and some other Universities, French Police service, Munich &c. Quite a few places using a Linux based desktop for office and stuff, probably a lot of Web bases business applications. Android based desktops might take some of that away I suppose.
I find this facinating that birds are somehow able to detect the chemical compounds needed to kill mites and adapt. Questions it raises are many. Was this learned thru trial or error or are they able to sence the needed chemicals to keep mites and bugs at bay.

Either way this certainly defines the term Hacker if this was done by humans. With that don't forget to put out some bread and nuts for our fellow avian hackers during the winter.
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I agree this is so annoying. I love the idea though... I have a good idea -> I pitch it and then 100 people start building my idea too. Nice!

Now I don't think having an idea is the same as executing it well, but I could imagine people being hesitant.

Oh and because of the annoying landing page I vow to never to use your site, nice try.
1.) Citizens can't afford a Narus device, let alone what they're offering now (more service oriented, less local hardware)

2.) Narus doesn't sell to citizens. Citizens aren't allowed to have information on what kind of monitoring Narus does because it's national security classified.

>The exact use of this data is not fully documented, as the public is not authorized to see what types of activities and ideas are being monitored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus_%28company%29
It's funny you should mention godlike powers. We're pretty fast reaching a point where an individual can have "god like" powers for not very much $$$. You could argue that the genie isn't out of the bottle yet, but I think the point is arguable. As reprehensible as this sounds, maybe it'll turn out that whoever did the 2000 Anthrax attacks did the human race a favor.
It using last.fm to grab related artists and generate a playlist. Each playlist creates its own session that you can share with other people and watch in real time.

Here's an example: http://demiba.com/radio/red-hot-chili-peppers

We're using it at my job right now. It's great when everyone is wearing headphones but wants to listen to the same thing.

As for linking to last.fm accounts, its on the way. We're planning on making the 'favorite' button update your last.fm profile among other stuff.
Downvoted possibly because of form, I've seen a number of down votes on comments to "Show HN:" posts that were essentially "This is better: competitive link." It doesn't help the person showing us their tool because the comment doesn't say how its better. A better comment would be "I'm currently using a competitive service X, and I really like features A, B, and C, but don't like features P, Q,and R, your product seems to fix P and Q, but doesn't offer B or C." which is evaluative against a competitive product (no doubt the poster has done those evaluations as well but its useful to have actual customers and their feedback.
I plugged in my current policy (as close as I could get it) into Leaky and it got reasonably close. I have a custom policy ($200 deductible for comprehensive and $500 for collision) and higher than normal coverage for BI and Uninsured ($100k/$300k).

Leaky told me that Geico's 6 month for a policy very similar to mine would be $681. It is actually $516, but it correctly stated that Geico was the cheapest (which it was as of a month ago when I compared them manually).
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As I wrote here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4872853) please fix the issue of enabling the user to edit posts after submission (in a time frame like 1 hour or 1 day). And enable users to delete their own submissions.
From the comments here I understand you provide a ZNC bouncer. You should advertise that, as your target audience is interested in those kind of technical details.

ZNC provides plugins as well, will I be able to use those?

I'd advise you to drop or heavily increase the 10,000 message limit. A moderately busy IRC channels would easily get 1,000 messages a day. Say I'd be on freenode's #ruby, #node.js and #python, I'd be able to use your service for 3-4 days at most with some luck.
Why I use Eclipse ?

It has much, much better plugin support e.g. AWS, Google CodePro. If you use the slightly older version then it is an order of magnitude faster than IntelliJ and generally works much nicer on OSX. It is also less cluttered meaning more room for code for those on laptops.

Also IntelliJ's indexing of files on startup is completely insane. It maxes out my CPU for at a minute or so which is never good on a laptop.

IntelliJ is nice and I use it at work but it is hardly some amazing piece of engineering that its supporters love to tell me it is. In fact I have found it to be generally quite buggy.
Very cool. I envision a future where everyone gets their media through an "agent" that is truly tailor made for them. This looks like a step in that direction.

How will Prismatic monetize? It would be a shame to see a service such as this offer featured articles or some other form of influence for pay. In fact, it would defeat the purpose of having something like this that would bring smaller media companies to readers who want the content they provide.
This strikes me as a clone of Kickstarter but in place of funding you're giving people the ability to vote, and vote for free.

I think it has its uses but ultimately to me, votes hold no value because they aren't inherently valuable to a user. I would back projects all day long on Kickstarter with someone elses money but I have never backed a project myself.

Think about how downvoting on StackOverflow works. It costs you karma or points to downvote somehting, it's not free.

I think I would probably use LaunchSky as a way to make sure people didn't think it was potentially the worst idea they've ever heard of but outside of that I couldn't place any real faith in the platform for big ideas. I would probably limit myself to posting ideas which I felt I could build in a few evenings.
Phpstorm user myself, it's as overloaded, but having used most of the competing IDE's I think Phpstorm is one of the cleanest / lightest.
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Agreed, it's almost as annoying a word as "blog," and look how that one caught on. :(
It seems to me that this will provide customer validation of questionable quality to the entrepreneur. You can't effectively gauge the viability of an idea by asking people to predict the future. When asked; "Would you use this awesome service?", most people will say "Absolutely"! However, when the time comes to pay for it/download it they will not actually do it. Great looking site, however I feel like the data generated will be less useful than talking to your customers about their past behavior.
Right, that's not the first "infinity scrolling" thing I've seen so it falls in with all the rest. My favorite option, I think, is to be given a drop down/combo box that asks me how many I want to see (and is populated with 3-5 options). I like having that separation. I think it's a more efficient way also.

Let's say that you and I both search for a topic. The result we both want is result #33. We both find it, read it, and close the browser. The next day when we come back to the computer, we need to find it again. I think it's much easier to remember "That was at the top of the third page" than "I had to scroll maybe 5 or 6 times".