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Or at least post your process for coming up with them.

Think of a business. Think of any phone call, incoming or outgoing, which is sufficiently standardized that you could teach any college graduate to execute that. That person can be replaced with a Twilio script, at a fraction of the cost.

My wife is sleeping in the room with my business notebooks so I'll hold off on finding and scanning it for the moment, but it was literally as simple as a) write down business, b) write down the calls they make, c) star the ones that sound like money.

I think bitcoin might be another technology that makes big "ripples", no?

We will have to agree to disagree on that one. Bitcoin's core innovation is the distributed self-organizing boiler room. As a transaction processing system it's technically innovative but wildly inferior to legacy payments for transactions which need to touch the real world. (It's interesting for transactions which don't, but could be replaced with a SQL update statement, which would improve upon it in virtually every way.) As a currency/commodity, the arguments in favor of it having a sustainable value north of zero are not credible to me. The main reason I have not nailed an 8,000 word stake in its rotten heart is that I think there's a non-zero risk that people will use every additional quantum of attention given to it as a reason to convince other people to "invest."
Verlet.js is a physics engine written in javascript [0]. It was posted and discussed on HN a few days ago [1]. OP didn't write it, but probably understands it very well.

[0]http://subprotocol.com/verlet-js/
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5580596
Special approximations called 'Galerkin approximations' converge.

Finite element methods are a special case of Galerkin methods. Finite element methods are good enough.
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Not, it's very pragmatic, based on a parser need (to make it simpler), and it's well explained in their docs.

Not to mention that's a well known style, has a lot of benefits (less wasted lines compared to the style that puts both brackets on empty lines, less potential for errors in than when you omit the brackets for a single statement), and,
most importantly, puts and end to all bikeshedding.

Especially along with gofmt, go is a bikeshedding free language in regards to syntax.
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Would love the ability to have one instance in US, another in EU, and have heroku auto-route to the best one...
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Great to know. Thanks Dan.

Time to setup my Oregon-based (no sales tax) package-forwarding startup!
Love to get your feedback on fork - ping me at: rd at heroku as you start using the tool.
I searched for the URL and nothing came up :-/ sorry for the repost.
I worked on GNOME for a summer, and can see Go being a viable option for DE's. GNOME has added a lot of libraries to bring object support to C, but Haskell has proven gc language is fast enough for a WM (xmonad).

Go might need to improve its gc to prevent the occasional stutter, but it would otherwise be sufficient.

However my original statement defined systems as kernel code, since HN tends to have many opinions on the topic.

> The problem with any systems programming language is that it is only used as such, if an OS vendor makes it the only way to do OS programming. Like Microsoft does with C++ or Apple with Objective-C.

I see plenty of new C code still be written outside of systems, the problem is lack of exposure. HN community is fairly web focused but HPC, scientific computing, graphics, engines are still predominantly done in C/C++.
> If you’re using JSON and your JSON is a mix of types, goooooood luck. You’ll have to create a custom struct that matches the format of your JSON blob, and then Unmarshall the raw json into an instance of your custom struct. Much more work than just obj = json.loads(json_blob) like we’re used to in Python land.

I believe you can use json.NewEncoder().Encode() to arbitrarily deal with interface{}'s
You misread my statement. The claim the parent made was that $15 was near cost, and I was stating my experience that the soup-to-nuts cost is closer to $10 (and could be lower)
Any idea why there hasn't been anything since 2009? Have they stopped publishing/presenting or just not updated the site?
How would you handle db/data sync between the apps?
Will this be integrated with the Wayback Machine?
Is anyone else disappointed to find that on a product demo, the top half of the comments page have nothing to do with the product?
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>> Dont' make the mistake of treating it as a minor tweak.
Yes. Exactly. With how rapidly I have been developing this (2 weeks in the making), I think I could pivot it relatively easily. Really however, classification is just an added layer on top of what I already have.

Thank you for your comment. I will look into the stuff you mentioned! This is all relatively new to me!
I had similar thoughts when David Braben was raising money for Elite: Dangerous.
Perhaps these are just side-projects and they (and their rich buddies) have better things to risk a few million on.
In other words they aren't that wealthy.
> The private sector has to focus on providing a quality education or their tuition will dissipate and they will shut down.

Or they could just inflate their test scores. [1]

[1] http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/02/whats-really-scandalous-abo...
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Anecdotal response - my mother-in-law could use her gifted iPad more fluidly than I could after just a few hours with the device (and me to assist). She's a seamstress, and could never quite grok her PC (or her Mac), but she flows between apps using gestures, and cut/pastes and uses Facetime, iMessage and Photostream quite frequently (mostly to check in on her grand-daughters).

Perhaps iOS is easiest for those who never really cared about or understood desktop/WiMP paradigm in the first place?
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Aye this sounds great for setting up staging environments, which until now we've had to do manually.
..I would let you (heroku) do that for me, magically? ;)
Don't accept ridiculous paycaps. They're stupid. A couple very well known startups cap their employee pay at $120k. One I know of hasn't paid raises for years.

That is startling. Is this a popular thing in the Valley?
Education is a big sector with a lot of problems that simply can't be solved with a "one size fits all" solution. It needs all the help it can get and that means ignoring the loud-mouth blame gamers who are more concerned with being right than they are finding workable solutions.
I think based on sexual preference you probably have different ideas of what "sex appeal" means and what your reaction to X word is.

That being said, titles are there to tell you what something is about, and to get you interested. This does both, and part of this example is surely sex appeal. You can debate whether it was intended, but that's how genders work.

Being blunt, how many readers with a sexual preference towards females considered whether or not the girlfriend in question was attractive when they landed on her Google+ page? I suspect the answer is greater than 0.

Gender plays a role in everything, it's human nature.
how effective will it be? It is 5 years old
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Perhaps I'm not understanding correctly. You didn't send a resume yet you were scheduled for an interview anyway? That doesn't make a terrible amount of sense.
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As a foreigner, I'm still feeling uninformed about what you are talking about.

What's about the cupcakes? Do US citizens buy cupcakes in high volumes and high prices?
how do you know he isn't putting any of his own money in as well?
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I work for a company that offers unlimited vacation. It works, and I think it's great, and it's a major hurdle for me leaving to work somewhere else. It seems that even top companies offer maybe 3 weeks vacation, which just seems pitifully small to me these days. I don't wanna sit around trying to figure out how to optimally use my remaining 1.79 weeks of vacation time, I just wanna do a good job and take time off when I need or want to.

I see this argument about unlimited vacation pretty often, and I think the people making this argument think they are out-clevering a clever idea. But it comes down to the organization's culture -- if you work for a place where taking time off is encouraged, then you feel free to take vacations and others do too. If you don't work in that sort of place, it doesn't matter what your allotted vacation time is because you won't use it anyway. Or if you do, you won't enjoy it.

Here's the real problem in a tech context, though -- conferences. If you can't get away, you can't go to conferences, and you'll end up forfeiting the knowledge and outside perspectives you get from going to conferences. It's just not the same thing at all as learning on your own.

I mean, I'm not in a situation where I think my tiny company will one day be worth untold billions. Maybe in that situation you need to keep your nose to the grindstone. But I think that sounds like kind of a grim existence.

I will say this, though: if you have a balanced life to begin with, the idea of laying on a beach somewhere kinda loses its urgency. Vacations become less necessary to keep your sanity or whatever, which is great. But there still is the need to step away and see something different for a while. There is value in that, believe it.
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Yes, it's a tool. I really don't want my phone to be some customization/hacking project - I do enough of that on my desktop and servers.

Perhaps this is a philosophy issue. Do you want a project you can sink lots of time and effort into, or a tool that gets out of your way for the most part?
Tried to compile with the Makefile they have, but it fails saying icc, ifort not found -- meaning they want this to work only with their own compiler. Is this intended or am I missing something?
What can really save Xbox next generation is games and price, tech be damned. Making another 'media box' just won't cut it. Tons of devices have Netflix and streaming capabilities; Xbox needs to focus on novel features, which include original games.
This is relatively new (early 2013 retina macbook pro 15", MacBookPro10,1, 2.7 Ghz, 16GB Memory), so I would think WebGL would work in both places ...
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Well I guess it depends on how you look at it. My goal with this version of my project is not to produce a summary that includes everything.

When I approached this project I looked at it with this problem: I currently read 10-15 news sites. I spend too much time reading the news. How do I get to the stories that really matter to me?

Producing text-extraction summaries solve this problem well in my opinion.

>> Isn't it always going to be more efficient for the producer of said text to produce the summary him/herself? Couldn't resources be better spent trying to influence the production process of various news outlets to provide summaries?

The quality of summaries would be SO much better if news outlets did this themselves. Again, I think it would be really cool to be able to have the influence to change the production process.

I really appreciate your insight here!
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and I have searched the internet and found out that people will even pay as much as 5000$ to get a ticket, and I thought they could use this money to buy every product demonstrated there and not just watch apple executives talkin about them!!
This made me think of Bret Victor's talk Inventing on Principle where he encourages the audience to basically do what you're criticizing - sort of developing an activist mentality for the problem you're trying to solve, even if it may seem trivial to some.

http://vimeo.com/36579366
A parable is a kind of short story that uses metaphor or example to make a single, obvious point (sometimes explained outright). It's exactly the right word to describe the story Steve Jobs tells in the quoted section.
It addresses that too. The states have to provide an API where you give them the address of the customer, the type of transaction, etc. and they tell you what the tax rate would be for it.
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"A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or (sometimes) a normative principle."

It is a story with an instructive principle. Shrug.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
The second iteration of Counsyl's test is a sequencing test. It's already been launched. It was referenced in the article. Expect a third iteration to include additional diseases in the near future.
Do npc's in video games use one of these methods? I cannot figure out how characters in games are 'so bad' at just following the main character sometimes..
I've read a lot of literature on classification, but nothing about summarization. Do you have any recommended literature/libraries?
By viewing the Google web cache of it.
Wouldn't that be nice!

I work on Heroku, on the databases, which are rather thorny in that department...

...it's going to take some evolution in how applications are written to make that work not uglifically (and it'll probably be ugly at first and for a while), but it's the dream, and I think it'll come to pass over time and with work from many people.
There is no reason to keep more than 3 months in a checking account. Past that, CD it.
It was literally put together in 7 days. It's buggy and far from pretty, but it is functional.
Came here to ask this. Your call to actions, etc are kind of lack-luster (although I have been waiting for a product like this for quite some time).

Are you optimizing your own funnel(s) with this? Please tell!
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This post makes me want to work at 42floors. Mission accomplished Jason ;)
I don't think WebGL is used with the original, since it was working just fine on my eeepc with linux (which does not do WebGL, last I checked). This new one barely works in chrome on windows on this T420 though.

I don't know what the cause is in my case, maybe WebGL on this thinkpad is really slower than CPU rendering on an Atom?
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The Contour HD with a side rail mount (so it fits close to the helmet on the side, usually just above a light) is fairly popular for people who don't have the $50k budget. Way less obtrusive than the GoPro mounts I've seen.
I can't wait to check this out in my Flock web browser!
Seriously? Using a rounded rectangle is fodder for product speculation?

It's a goddamn curve.
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> But if you give people a set number of vacation days per month or year, and refuse to roll them over, aka "use it or lose it" policy, then you will see them start taking vacation. (This part is my observation, not the OP's)

I would say that, for getting true workaholics to take time off, even that's too lax. Enforced paid leave for all employees might be a better solution. For that matter, if it won't kill the company, try closing the office for a month each year. :)
Interesting performance numbers. I am happy to see something past java frameworks working out so well.
Did she have any particular knowledge about those countries and their education systems? You might want to invite her to give you more information.

Of course, maybe she's just knee-jerking against something. I don't know what though.

Many countries charge for education. This means that girls especially miss out on education.

You do need to be careful when money is involved. Unfortunately corruption is rife. There are many "libraries" that are unsafe, and filled with old, mouldering books. People send "recycled" PCs abroad, but the usable machines are filtered out and ewaste is illegally dumped. And as soon as money is involved there are crooks trying to get it. (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/the...)

So, in general it's better to find an existing NGO working in the country and area you're interested in and see what they need. Sometimes that's money, but sometimes it's more awareness, or people to volunteer a few hours for better web tech, or other stuff.

Your last question presents a dichotomy, but you don't need to do either / or. You could do both, acknowledging it's sub-optimal but pretty good in a lousy situation.

I'll edit in some links that may be interesting.

IRIN has some great photos of children and school. (http://www.irinnews.org/Photo/Result.aspx?ThemeID=EDU)

Here are children BREAKING ROCKS TO PAY FOR SCHOOL (http://www.irinnews.org/photo/Slideshow/83/Children-break-ro...)

I particularly like this one, of a child walking near (through?) minefield to get to school. (http://www.irinnews.org/Photo/Details/201104041243130656/A-c...)

And this one of a girl doing her schoolwork by lamp light, in Kandahar. (http://www.irinnews.org/Photo/Details/201102171228410821/A-g...)

(http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/02/19/no-place-children)

(http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/03/07/old-man-can-feed-us-yo...)

(http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/12/08/how-come-you-allow-lit...)

(http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/09/11/classrooms-crosshairs-...)
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Danso, You just opened up an entire new wave of thinking in my head with this line I'd rather see something like, how many popular users on Twitter (i.e. not spambots) have tweeted this post, and what are the best comments that are not merely tweets of the title? Or, maybe just pull out the best comments from the stories if Disqus has been enabled.
:)

Do-people-need-it? No probably not. But I think for me it helps get to the news articles I really want to read. If I read an interesting sentence or two that was extracted, I feel like I am more likely to go on and read the article.

>>And for sites that do it poorly, I would suspect that their articles will have equally poor extractions.
You could not be more right. I have been experimenting with an "Entertainment" section. You will not believe how poor some of the extractions are purely based on the writing style.

I don't think that this solution is perfect, but the wheels are turning inside my head on where I should take this.
He gives you a hamburger, but it turns out you don't actually exist. He gives you terabytes of data. Something good comes out of it in the end.
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Nice try, but a few thoughts from someone who now spends a lot of time in Hadoop/MapReduce. I will admit it took me a while to warm up to the whole concept, but I'm now so familiar with it that I'm not able to think of compute before Hadoop.

I'm able to fire off pretty intensive MapReduce jobs on an Amazon Elastic MapReduce cluster with many nodes for a fraction of the price mentioned in the post (less than $100).

While I can imagine I could repurpose all my MapReduce/Hadoop code to run on a single box - especially since Amazon does offer several high-memory instances today - I would be loathe to.

The MapReduce framework provides a really nice framework that lets me horizontally scale out compute, rather than vertically, and that is really handy at terabyte-data volumes (data warehousing and large-data analytics.)
Respectful - agree with that.

But this: "The HN community has deemed this post relevant to the front page"

The HN community is only one part of something being on the front page. The other part is the admins who apparently (no transparency here btw.) can control what appears and also make it disappear as well.
The video was great! It would be nice to hear about how you get people into the funnel so that we could do a lot of the things you recommend. You already covered SEO, do you have any other customer acquisition techniques?
If it weren't for the tyranny of C, that doesn't mean we'd instead be using whatever you want - maybe today we'd all have to be using Pascal, or some other worse-is-better tool. Better result with concurrency? Probably not.

Anyway, popularity isn't the same thing as tyranny, there isn't some conspiracy to keep other languages down
Counsyl's test is at most $99 if you do not have insurance. Most major insurance companies now cover the test, so you're usually just making a $20 co-pay. You're looking at the insurance billing rate - compare $599 to tens of thousands of dollars that Lab Corp or Quest charge to screen just a few diseases. Counsyl screens for over 150+.
For those who want to read the article despite using Ghostery, the tracker you want to allow through is "Adobe Digital Marketing (Omniture)". Or just add it to Pocket and read it there.
Okay, so use my programming ability as a tool that solves business problems. But that seems a little too abstract. What are some "business problems" that I could solve with RoR? What are some of the ways I could discover them?
Use the european pronunciation: user-eee-um.
Wow these are beautiful! Thanks for posting, i had yet to find a solid tutorial on the anuhlar
That is kind of the point of an archive, no? Keeping old stuff for further reference?
Actual link: http://blog.pixel2html.net/2013/design/mise-en-place-or-how-...
http://news.thetechblock.com does an outstanding job with relevant tech news in my opinion. It's hand curated, though. There's also no summary. UI is great.
> it's also good to have perspective

I would argue the opposite: if everyone took a global perspective on everything, nobody would ever do anything except work to extend the human lifespan. For humanity to be worth anything, it needs to strive for "useless" goals--art, humor, making money, etc. And to be motivated to strive for these goals, you need to think what you're doing is the most important thing you could be doing--even if, in a global sense, it's not.
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Sorry, they are using correct English. The male gender is used for the gender neutral case. We need something that is truly gender neutral, but all attempts sound wrong to anyone who made it through high school English. S/he is unpronounceable. They sounds strange when talking about a single individual, but kind of works. You works somewhat, but in an employment ad sounds like something out of "Mission Impossible".
>readers with a sexual preference towards females

Women are also conditioned to judge the competency of other women based on their appearance. This isn't relevant to the case at hand however. Personally I welcome a lot, lot more posts with women somehow in them because at the sheer mention of women in HN the thread jumps to the topic of gender and I don't see that changing until there are just a lot more women posting and being posted about.
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Hyperberry,

You are on point with that comment! Actually all of the tech is my code (outside of scraping the image and a few packages via npm). To be honest, I worked pretty hard on some of the NLP for sentence parsing. With that said however, I don't think I am in that high of demand as a developer (yet).

In terms of fair use... I am scared shitless. Right now I am not overly worried because I am not a huge site. The way the algorithm is set up is to take 15% or 3 sentences at max, whichever is less. This is something I will have to approach extremely carefully as I move forward.

In terms of this project's future: I doubt it will get acquired. But I really really hope it will help me get a job once I add it to my portfolio. (I am about to graduate in 1 year!).

Thanks for your reply!