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Self Experiments: Its mission is to make inhumane animal testing obsolete by using “open suffer” collaboration of volunteer testers from around the world.

The first experiment is launching next month: http://selfexperiments.com

What could be more cool than that?
mk (et al) have done a great job.
Yeah, zipcar was what I had in mind.
Http://ineedthatmug.com

Fun side project to scratch an admittedly very small itch I've had for a while. I've collaborated with a local company who is handling all order fulfillment.

Working on adding font chooser, image upload, and a more elegant customization form.
What if you can't detect the painted lines on the road, because of snow?
Have you tried Postbox? (http://postbox-inc.com/) It's a commercially maintained fork of Thunderbird that runs on Mac & Windows, and it's the only email client that keeps my email life sane. (Though I've had to install a plugin to add back email-priority functionality.)
View/controller separation, view models and query abstraction are framework-level features. The author of this language is seeking to take the qualities of PHP that make it a 'hypertext preprocessor' and mixing in the no-frills syntax and vocabulary of ruby or python.

I don't understand why you wouldn't just use a framework like Sinatra. It's simple in every way that qualifies it to contend with a 'hypertext preprocessor'. Add it to your gem file, bundle, git commit, push to heroku, deployed! It even has inline templates[1].

You could argue it has a learning curve, but is resistance to learning a good argument against a solid & simple, versatile framework?

[1] http://www.sinatrarb.com/intro.html#Inline%20Templates
https://kwelia.com -- we are taking a quantitative approach to determining the market rental value of apartments. This has not been done accurately on a large scale in the past, and I think we are the first to do it well.
Worldcredits.net
Global loans. Cash loans and credit cards
We're working on an app for developers that collates all of your saas products into one mobile feed. It helps you stay current on what's happening at work, both what your team and your machines are doing. It also helps you quickly dig deeper into issues & triage important events.

It's cool because you can keep track of a lot more than previously possible, communicate with your team, and act on it - from your phone. And it's damn good looking too (but we're biased :)
It used to be that you kept your email private and didn't share the details with anyone. Now, you have to be very, very careful about other 3rd parties trying to access your email - or otherwise convince you that they should be trusted with managing your email account so that they can fulfil their business purpose of building a social tree.

This wasn't really an issue pre-Web2.0. But now with all the effort to construct billion dollar social networks, its quite a common thing for people to just hand over the keys to their email and ignore the risks.

Back in the 80's and 90's, your email password wasn't something you ever shared. Nowadays, its almost like the other way around.

Oh .. as for your criticism of my 'rant', well I suppose I could also finger GMail for the mess that email is in these days ..
The answer should be no. But I don't know.
A legit way to get more followers on social media. Helps you build high quality one-to-one relationships with new people. Pick a keyword like "startup school". Our system will detect when "startup school" type conversations are going on in real-time and performs sentiment analysis. That's a highly targeted opportunity for you to start engaging with that user. And we deliver that user to you on a silver platter. It's up to you to keep the relationship going (put them in your sales funnel).

It was a bitch to manually get followers on Tumblr to sell t-shirts to. I had to seek users out, make sure they fit my target audience, and insert myself in the conversation. All without it looking like self‑promotion. That's a lot of mental energy just to reach out to one person. Once I built a fairly large sized audience boat loads of t-shirts started selling. Then I figured startups and businesses on Twitter would find it useful. And they did. Paying customers tell me it works 100 times better than Twitter ads.

If you're interested: http://audience.goodsense.io
how many people would look at this commute (at least 3-4 hours each way) and think its doable?
Sounds kinda like the fictional Arsenal Gear ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_%28weapon%29#Arsenal...
Apple is the new Microsoft.

Unfortunately Microsoft is still the old Microsoft.
This is, I think, the only valid argument against knocking.

The standard (and always condescending) responses are that it is either a very small password and/or that an attacker can record and replay the knock from an eavesdropping position.

Both of those are true, of course, but they neglect that the knock is always in addition to whatever else you are already doing to protect ssh.

So I have always rejected those arguments and continue to evangelize for port knocking.

BUT, the added complexity part is a valid point. I try to keep systems as bare and simple as possible and hate to add even a single unnecessary dependency package. I am happy to say that (on FreeBSD, at least) knock[1] is light, simple, and has run for thousands of days on busy production servers as well as my personal servers without even a single incident.

[1] /usr/ports/security/knock
No, not necessarily. What is a "C-style" language, anyway? Most imperative languages today are descendants from the ALGOL syntax, it's just that C modified some of the more inelegant aspects and made them more terse. Whereas Pascal stuck directly with ALGOL operators and blocks.

Just look at environments like Delphi and VB.
I've got every email I ever sent since 1980. I think it worked pretty well during the 80's and 90's .. but the desire to have control over peoples' social trees, and the construction of such data structures by analysis of email archives, has sort of made a huge mess of it ..
Apple iPad mini. What Rubbish
Toy project: an HTTP(S) brute forcing tool using Python as a templating language. Why is it cool: high performance using async IO, powerful templating for Python programmers, very easy to take HTTP requests and turn them into a fuzzing template that mutates request in a combinatoric fashion. Similar to features built into Burp proxy for those that are familiar with it.

Real project: A system that will help organizations understand their overall, and application, security risk and manage it across time. Why is it cool: because security is hard and this will make it easier in a non-snake oil fashion. Many organizations are flying blind about their actual risk. A good view of your risk can help you prioritize security budgets.
I work in Orange County, not far from the airport (and even closer a few years ago) I did the napkin math on commuting from Arizona every day at one point, and it definitely worked out. I would've saved money doing that.

Of course that presumes that my sanity has no value, but I'm not certain how much worse it would have been than some people's driving commutes.
Not the only thing. The other major factor is housing benefit, in which a landlord can charge well over the odds, and the govt just pays it. They are trying to cap it, to howls of outrage but from whom? Not the tenants, they never see the money. But from well-heeled buy-to-let landlords whose cash-cow is about to be slaughtered. That's why papers like the Graun oppose it - that's their readers!
Yep.

What real innovation has there been on Mac OS X since Bertrand Serlet left?

Where are all the adult engineers?

I've met a few people now who are contracted by Apple to work on their customer facing Apps. They commute to Cupertino from the Bay Area every day. Nice people but they're second tier. They never critique Apple, think Apple is the best at everything, and shrug their shoulders at any technology developed outside of Apple. There's always an excuse for things that don't work, from broken iCloud APIs to Apple Maps.

They're competent engineers, they'll do what they are told, but they're not the mavericks who will break new ground. Just my opinion, but perhaps this is something other people have experienced.

EDIT: To poster below, with regards to the Bay Area which covers a large geographic region, I'm talking about the San Francisco peninsula area. Amongst people I know, Cupertino (which is in Santa Clara) is generally referred to as being in South Bay rather than the Bay Area.
Working on a js library to create an ASCII canvas, and have drawing functions much like an HTML5 canvas. It will have the ability to create canvasObjects as well, which can be drawn and interacted with.
I just launched http://builtFromIdeas.com - my web app developement services as a package.

It's cool because it automates most of the sales process. It generates an NDA, and work-for-hire, invoices, and accepts electronic signatures for approval. Customers can review and approve milestones, make payments through Stripe. It even schedules calls!
It is well established that prices RyanAir advertises are not prices passengers pay.

Given the option of the hassle and commute, people would prefer to just live in London. Which is the whole point- real estate pricing is efficient in this case.
I'm working on http://wehighfive.com because I think 2 things:

1. Remembering people you meet is hard
2. The iOS (and Android) Contacts apps are horrible.
Thing the answer ids Erlang, which makes parallelization easy. No relative qualification required.
I'm working on making virtual reality as compelling and comfortable as it can be with mostly off the shelf components. It is cool because seeing virtual reality finally work puts a smile on the face of just about everyone we try it on.
Just started working on something to attack SharePoint that is based on sensible standards (REST, JSON, etc.) with the front end completely in something like AngularJS or Ember.

This is cool as, in my opinion, SharePoint Must Die.
Yes the London market is a bit nuts, but if you're paying anything close to 25k/year (that's 480/week!) for a 2 bed in a "not great" part of London then either you have very high standards or you're being seriously ripped off.

For example see what this gets you N1, a pretty central and desirable postcode:
http://www.nestoria.co.uk/n1/property/rent/bedrooms-2/maxpri...
TL;DR: Author is in South-Africa and does not have access to 80%[1] of the apps that are available in the US and "European" stores. He's not ranting about the iPad mini, but about the availability of apps.

What a stupid title.

[1] According to him at least
This also happens in the drug trade.

But I don't think we can attribute it to finance domain knowledge.
I think i am addicted to micro blogging
I loved this micro blogging platform with it's simple interface and the smart technology behind it. http://www.pngine.com
Who have the same opinion ?
How do you know where there is gravel? Why do you think software can't know it as well?

Actually, how do you face any particular situation X? Why do you think the machine can't handle situation X?

Can't handle every situation, you say? Then just put the sensor's on manually driven cars, and build a corpus. It won't be foolproof, but I bet my arm it can be much more reliable than a human being.

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Your objections only work with current technology. One day, you will see that self driving cars have less accident than human driven cars. And soon you will be faced with a tough choice: let the car drive for you, or pay more money.
http://www.collegeanswerz.com/ - better college reviews. Most websites just have a reviewer answer a few questions about their school. This doesn't work. I have a bunch of specific questions that reviewers answer.

http://www.collegeanswerz.com/university-of-pittsburgh/ is the only school with answers right now. I'm working on getting other schools.
http://xoxo.gl (hugs and kisses, good luck) - a web app to play family-friendly, traditional board games.
Still prototyping for now.

My goal is wide in scope: to build a site that allows you to take a few minutes to have a positive social interaction with friends and strangers. An anti-Zynga, if you like.

I still have a lot to do. With a goal of universal accessibility, I am working on progressive enhancement - making it work adequately for users with poor connections and noscript, and excellently for users with fancy AJAX.

It's cool and I think it fills a gap for people who want social games without spam viral marketing... as an anecdote: by playing Boggle online, I made friends and ended up visiting a couple on a different continent. I'd like to enable stories like that.
An easy way to enter the name of a specific drug or side effect to see its effects as reported to the FDA. One of the primary ways that the United States Food and Drug Administration monitors the safety of marketed drugs is the collection and analysis of reported adverse events (an event that was not the intended outcome of the prescribed drug and has a negative impact on health) through the FDA Adverse Events Reporting System (FAERS). These reports are submitted by physicians, healthcare consumers, lawyers amongst others, and then the FDA scientific staff will assess these events in the context of other databases to determine if a particular safety concern is associated, and possibly caused by, exposure to a particular drug. Since this is a public database and useful to prescribers and patients alike to know if "has what I'm experiencing been described in patients taking this drug before?" DrugCite has created a more friendly interface to answer that question. The data can also be sorted by Age and Gender in most cases giving a more detailed view.

http://www.drugcite.com/

We use several data sets including FAERS, Meddra, Medical Device Data, UMLS/RXNORM and DAILYMED/Structured Product Labels to name a few.
Much of a car's weight is safety cages and crumple zones. Leaving out all that superfluous metal will save lots of money.
Im curious, how does enforcing a 4-day work week help? Job sharing?
Oh yes, if cars would communicate they would behave better. But they don't have to do that to be effective.

If A B C are all driven by humans, C could move over or slow down if it sees that B is steering into it. But self driving cars could do that as well.

That self driving cars could communicate is an argument for the self driving car, not against it as the parent made it out be.
Quant's Desktop
H2O-Pal Helps You Get Your Two Gallons Of Water A Day
I'm working on first startup as a sophomore in high school. It is basically a PHP login/registration system styled with all the bootstrap templates. (You can get the PHP login/registration system with any Bootstrap template. Coming soon. https://www.phpstrap.in/
I'm working on completely rewriting my app (Stamp Trader). It's the only native BitStamp client I know of but the UI needs a ton of work. Why it's cool - you can quickly buy and sell bitcoins with your phone, you can scan and generate a QR code for addresses to buy and sell bitcoins locally with ease. I plan to open source the rewrite when it's finished.
A biodiverse, edible forest garden in the center of an public high school. We are breaking ground with a team of students in about an hour.

This is (very) cool because it will expose adolescents to a variety of concepts, perspectives, and phenomena that are severely lacking from most urbanized places.
Drywall - A website and user system for Node.js
http://jedireza.github.io/drywall/

Recent cool news: got word from the hosts of Node Knockout that submissions are allowed to use it in the competition.
Building on Hofstadter's models of analogy-making to build pattern recognition algorithms that work in a more human-like way. At least, that's my hope!

My background is in computational neuroscience, but I'm doing this on my own, mostly for fun. If it sounds interesting, I'd love some company! greg at gregdetre dot co dot uk
I think you're making a correlation/causation error here. Housing benefit has crept up over the years because the property market was inflating steadily and no government dared bring it back down (middle-class home owners vote to punish governments who hit them in the wallet). Housing benefit rises stuck a plaster on the chest wound by allowing low-income workers (bus drivers, shop assistants, nurses) to live in places where they were needed but could no longer afford to rent or buy.
A statically-typed, JIT-compiled dialect of Lisp. I felt that there was a spot between performance and low-level control, and high-level metaprogramming that no language right now occupies (Except possibly Rust, which looks pretty promising).

https://github.com/eudoxia0/Hylas-Lisp
You are oversimplifying a lot of the problems. And saying that the problems won't even arise until we start to sell these cars is just nonsense.

Also enforcing a 4 day work-week? How does this lower unemployment, except on the paper? And keep in mind this solution would come with it own bag of problems, like administrativ overhead for more employees etc.
Bicycle Anecdotes From Amsterdam
I'm working on an aggregated information panel for the novice Bitcoin day trader.

It's great for Bitcoin buyers & sellers because the panel is consolidated around the more popular exchanges & wallets, its cleaner & easier to read than most financial-type sites, & all the data is real-time. Also, I'm working on supplemental features such as a live balance & calculator page to help make more informed decisions without having to navigate to other pages.

It's cool to me simply because its a site I myself want & need and mostly, its an excuse to play with technologies I've always wanted to learn & use so I'm glad I finally took the time to do so.

i.e
-Django as webapp front-end with Gunicorn & nginx in the mix,
-Gearman as a background worker pulling data and storing it in a DB,
-nodejs + socket.io pushing the DB data to Django,
-supervisord controlling Gunicorn & Gearman processes

And all of these living in their own VM environment for load/performance & decoupling of the usual silo of services.

Ping me if you're interested in finding out more about it :)
Your concern is at the heart of the effort to redefine the kilo. Everyone wants to link it to fundamental constants. The trouble is that the IPK is still more reliable than our measurements of Planck's constant and Avogadro's number.

The meter was an artifact until measurements of the speed of light surpassed the prototype. The situation here is the same.

If the world ended and all of the distributed artifacts were lost, you could use existing measurements of fundamental constants to redefine the kilo at slightly worse precision.
Terribly argued. I've left a comment fisking it, but I see it's moderated...
He's simply incorrect. He's confusing the 'due regard for safety' standard with 'right of way.'

An emergency vehicles with its warning signals activated preempts right of way in every V&T code I've ever read.
I'm working on something of a responsive.io clone that uses Flickr as an image store. Not sold on the name yet, but I'm calling it Fittr in the mean time. It is mindful of retina displays, only requires that you know the flickr id of the image in question, and will optionally load a smaller image first, to make larger images appear to load quickly.

https://github.com/bichiliad/Fittr
I'm moving to zambia for the winter to start an after-school program doing basic computer and internet literacy skills with kids.

It has been really fascinating watching all of the tools and projects that have popped up over the past few years attempting to make really high quality educational resources widely available, but these tools remain generally out of reach for those people that would most benefit from them.
And each employee making less money but cost of living not going down. With more administrative overhead wage would decrease or the cost of living would increase in order for companies to keep the same profit margins.
> He was told that they were carrying rifles on their shoulders, but for all he knew, they were shepherd’s staffs. Still, the directive from somewhere above, a mysterious chain of command that led straight to his headset, was clear: confirmed weapons.

Can someone elaborate on how these decisions are made?
https://starthq.com - a web app launcher & new tab replacement extension - like the old Chrome new tab page, but better.

What makes it cool is that we are implementing a number of desktop and mobile OS features, like multiple, screens, fast shortcuts, cross app search, notifications etc. but for web apps.
In Settings > Mail, Contacts & Calendars, there's a section called ACCOUNTS. Click on all of them and turn "Mail" off. This way you'll still get everything else in Calendars, Contacts, et. al., but when Mail.app opens it will be empty.
I could ask my colleague Kieth Flett for his view but i suspect that even admitting that I know him might get me hellbaned :-)
Just wait for the collector's edition. Elite: Elite.
I'm not sure I understand: surely we can just say that one kilo is a certain number of carbon 12 atoms, and have done? Would seem sensible to me.
> commute to Cupertino from the Bay Area every day

Cupertino is part of the Bay Area. 1 Infinite Loop is just south of the Sunnyvale border and 280. About two miles from El Camino Real. If you're going to make stuff up, at least consult a map first.

> EDIT: To poster below, with regards to the Bay Area which covers a large geographic region, I'm talking about the San Francisco peninsula area. Amongst people I know, Cupertino (which is in Santa Clara) is generally referred to as being in South Bay rather than the Bay Area.

South Bay, like East Bay, is a qualifier for a sub-region within the Bay Area. The peninsula is referred to as... the peninsula, not "the Bay Area". San Francisco specifically is either referred to as San Francisco, SF, or "the city". Santa Clara County is almost always referred to explicitly as such lest it be confused with the City of Santa Clara. When not speaking of governmental/political boundaries, one would more commonly say "Silicon Valley", "the valley", and sometimes its proper name of "Santa Clara Valley".

You have clearly spent little if any time in the bay area and are hardly qualified to make bigoted judgements about the caliber of engineers based on where they choose to live within it.
Betathegame.com - Beta is a game that teaches players programming, game design, and facilitates synergistic learning.

I think it's super cool because it's one of the few games I've played that has a heavy educational component while also being fun. It's also cool because it's extremely open. Through the use of the in-game terminal, players are able to build intricate levels and puzzles, then share them with others.

Due to the extremely customizable nature of the game, I foresee teachers being able to create homeworks/tests/assignments within. That's the synergistic learning part :)

We've done workshops with Black Girls Code, DIY Days, The Village, and the Grace Hopper Convention in places like NYC, Sheffield (UK), Philly, Minneapolis, and most recently Toronto. With each iteration we are seeing more and more excitement, from kids and adults as well.

If your interested and located in NYC, we're doing a game demo this Monday night (10/28) at Microsoft HQ (www.meetup.com/gaming/events/139786752/). stop by, play our game, chat with us, play other cool indie games and have fun!
Another age old, useful feature that is absent from the "modern" mobile ecosystem. Copy-Paste loves company.