skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idea( you have ) -> Stakeholders -> Requirements -> Features -> Evaluate -> Repeat

Considering the fact that you already received a grant, I would imagine you have a few details of what you want to build, but you will find the real tangles in the details.

I would greatly advise that you dive deeply into the various requirements and untangle the details and drive clarity throughout the design, before you start writing a lot of code.

Once you feel comfortable that you won't run into any big surprises and you understand your general feature set you should prioritize these features, I like to do the most risky and difficult features first, and then get started. You will of course have a lot of ground work to lay, but that could be counted as a feature.

After you have your first shippable set of code done, should take between 2 weeks and 2 months, shouldn't be perfect. Get it in front of someone that's relevant. As it will be hard to find somebody suicidal that also wants to review an app, probably somebody at a crisis center or a counselor that helps people in this situation.

After a few demos you should find plenty of improvements and features you never thought of, as well as defects. Now it's time to add these into your priorities and start over.

Good Luck, I hope this goes well for you. Let me know if you would like any further advisement, I would be glad to take emails and what not. I have been developing software professionally for the past 3 years.
I think it would only be good if its used as a learning tool and not a code-writing tool, compare:

write the best code you can -> run kibit -> spend an hour reading the docs and every blog post you can find about a feature you didn't know about -> repeat

write the best code you can -> run kibit -> show off your awesome code, you're a rockstar!
You could use this app for inspiration or research:
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/item/34863-tech-sta...
TIL: DOM elements with IDs are automatically available as properties of window. (ball, paddle, etc.)
Can I use curl to pull down fluid sims?
This is an interesting and weird comment. I'm the exact opposite of a communist or socialist, but I love contributing to open source. And I certainly don't see open source as communist. (I don't see it as opposite to communism either.)

I think there is a rather large distinction between "contributing to the common good" and advocating communism, which is a political philosophy. I think whether you want to help others is wholly independent from your political philosophy.
150 years ago: The Gettysburg Address
We will start with the oceans.. http://www.seasteading.org/

And we will gladly conduct free trade with the rest of the world. But I don't think that means we have to accept the status quo in governance or social systems.
Do research, read the literature.
The 80-year-old concrete arrows that helped deliver the mail
I think a more detailed description of things app ought to do would be very helpful.
I wonder how the number of daily submissions were tabulated.

If reddit were using an ID based on some sort of fixed constant (for example time) then these results could be in-fact fairly linear.

Please note that I do believe that reddit is growing!
>I'm worried because there is nothing in your voice that speaks to love, art, or beauty.

Give me a break. Nobody talks about such things during a crime in progress. All political programs promise to be the best way of bringing about what its adherents want. I'm not even talking about A or B or C being better. I'm saying it is undemocratic to be forced to choose option A, "democracy".

>Any sort of idealized community in the desert or floating around on a barge is going to need an umbilical chord to the rest of us. You can't leave and start your own brand new world.

This could have been said by an 18th century British bureaucrat too. The US was a noble experiment but it has failed, and, no, it's existence today doesn't contradict what I am saying. Tyranny was supposed to be kept at bay by a unique system of checks and balances + democratic representation. History shows that the US political elite has continually aggrandized itself instead. It's like a piece of software that is going to have terrible memory leaks no matter what. If you want a blazing fast app, you can't keep working with this setup.

Hacking can certainly be making the best with what you have but totally ignoring the possibility of the best option being to scrap it all and start over. I'd think that the startup world would be comfortable with at least considering such ideas.
"professional" solderless breadboard, obviously. Aside from 80 bazillion kit oriented "snap together" technologies and wire/spring technologies both present and past.

Also around age 5 I was soldering, there's some obvious "tricks" to it like wear cotton (never synthetic) gloves such that the cotton burns instead of skin, and attach the cord firmly to back of desk (stick a power supply on top of the cord?) such that its physically impossible to reach the lap, etc.

And eye protection when you're snipping off leads if you're doing old fashioned thru-hole. Old timers don't need it because we're good at blinking every time a wire snips, probably because it smarts when you hit your eye which makes it very motivational.

Oh, and wash your hands. Even if using Pb-free, don't be licking that stuff.
I choose to not sound cocky here. But, I have bookmarked it and I tend to bookmark stuff which I do go back to :)
Australia's Spying Franchise targets Indonesia
You are right Joosters, thank you for your comment. We will work on the rewards.
While it isn't a raw gate level ALU, it has a ATTiny85 that you can program to do your 8x8 (software) binary multiply.
As someone who used to play minecraft, this reminds me of redstone circuits brought into the real world! Cool!
Vim can work very well with Clojure (I use it). Look into ScreenSend, which lets you send code from the editor to a repl. You can use it with Python as well, and anything with interactive evaluation. You might also want to install paredit, which keeps your parentheses sorted out for you.
This is exactly right. There is so much give in the system, and there has to be, because enforcing all laws as written would be a truly dystopian scenario.

We don't want to live in the a world where it is impossible to get away with a 'crime'.
How will we live if people aren't artificially pressured to consume their wealth as quickly as possible? And we know those 8,000 years of civilization using metallic money were not all "economically disastrous".

History gives us plenty of episodes of deflationary growth, such as America after the civil war during resumption of the metallic standard. Yes, a sudden collapse in a money supply is bad, but economies work fine under slow deflation.

Economists are the worst intellectuals. Their predictions are always wrong and their growth advice is ineffectual. I wouldn't take what you read from an economist in a newspaper op-ed page at face value.
Yes, yes, yes.

I'm writing software to automate a painfully manual, error-prone process. Suggesting that I continue to do it manually, only charge people money for it, isn't viable.
> deflationary, which would be economically disastrous

Citation of deflation caused by an increase in productivity or population has caused an economic disaster?

I've searched and came up empty. Thanks in advance if you find something and reply.
So sneaky.

Aren't they also depreciating the asset over time? So after 3 years its worth zero on their books yet they've taken income in it.( don't know the depreciation schedule for laptops)

Also, a 3 year old laptop is not worth 75% of its msrp over 3 years. Why would anyone do this?
It's time for Google Code-in
I've only run a couple of CPC campaigns but even as a reasonably clued up and very technical person I struggle to understand what's going on.

Is there software out there that effectively closes the loop between adwords and analytics and help me optimise my search through keyword and bid-space?

I would expect the system to work by letting me "seed" it with a few search terms and adverts, set in the acceptable margin per product and then let it search the space to find the optimal keyword portfolio and bid-amounts. Does this exist?

EDIT

As some commenters have pointed out, there are lots of bits of software out there that do this. However they all have either a snake-oil feel or a snake-oil feel combined with an enterprise price point. Is there an "Optimizely for adwords"? It all seems far too difficult at the moment.
The co-author of the study (Ridker) and the Brigham have already issued a Press Release disputing the reporter's spin.

Ridker portrays the calculator issues as minor, and offers strong support for statins in risk reduction (which is what the data /strongly/ support):

http://www.brighamandwomens.org/about_bwh/publicaffairs/news...
I was surprised too. I thought you would have to explicitly select it with getElementById()
33 million new americans on the drug[1], $12 every three months, that's about $1.5 billion dollars a year of new business, by just issuing a new "guideline". In just one country. Not a profit source? I don't agree. Edited to add reference to the 33 million new users.
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-gu...
Automation is a big unknown facing Chinese manufacturing. Eventually the West will have robotic lines that can manufacture iPhones cheaper than Chinese laborers. When, and what happens next, is anyone's guess.
Reddit has an endpoint where you can download all submissions. (however, due to the API limit of 100 submissions / 2 seconds, it took me about 1.5-2 months to get the 41 million submissions)
Tweets Machine - #df13 (dreamforce)
Anecdotal note: Our son wanted to watch Thomas the Train. The CGI version. We noticed that while he watched a ton of Team Umizoomi, some Paw Patrol and Diego... Thomas seemed to follow right along with some incredibly new behavioral issues. He was just a little badger.

We cut-off Thomas. Within 2 days, he was much easier to get along with. The books and toys were fine, just not that one show. His daycare said, "Yeah, he's been tons better. I didn't want to believe you, but he's had no timeouts and he's been much nicer."

Our running theory is that he was paying just enough attention to see when the trains were bad, but not enough attention to see how the bad behavior turned-out for the trains.
As someone with barely no knowledge of AdWords, I found this very interesting. Does anyone know of any software that helps automate / efficiently manage AdWords campaigns? I read a few years ago about this startup created by ex-Googlers that did just this, but apparently even before launching (or shortly after that) was bought by either Google or Twitter, not sure. Damn shame that never actually came out. Anyone remember which company I'm talking about?
A temporary spreadsheet like notepad.cc does for writing. I'm always opening excel spreadsheets to use for making simple lists or tables and would rather do it in the browser.
Me too. Anyone know what browser support is like?
I clicked on FAQ hoping to learn a bit about how featured favors are selected, what principles inform the selection process (Christian charity as the Mother Theresa quote suggests, or something else?), and what level of vetting goes into it (e.g., in the current case, did you make some calls to find out whether the person really is ill?).

Needless to say, I came up short. I think I'm not the only one who'll want to know some of these details before bookmarking the site and returning on a weekly basis.
I'd love to see a chart showing work hours spent per minute of animation produced over time. Over the last 30 years I'm sure things have become MUCH more efficient, but it would be interesting to see the shape of the curve.

Is that sort of data publicly available anywhere?
The problem is then when your customer requires support for an endless list of browser versions each one with its own set of quirks.

I jumped into web development with both feets back in 2000, nowadays I jump of joy every time we get to do a native application.
>Short of some weekend hackathon you did with your buddies or an internal tool your company uses that took off unexpectedly, every feature of any product you intend to sell or monetize should strive to be as polished as reasonably possible and function just as your end-user expects it should.

The very point of the M.V.P. is that you are setting out to create an "internal tool your company uses that took off unexpectedly".

You can polish the one that won't take off all you want, but the one you should be building will take off regardless. When it does, you polish it.

If more people built "tools" we'd have a lot better world. Anyone can pay for a tool. It does something. So make one that works internally and solves your need, then let other people see it and let them solve theirs. That beats the hell out of polishing something that doesn't meet a need.
Pentagon to Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War
Marketing/design background here. If you (krrishd) are assembling a posse, this subject is incredibly near to my heart and I would be happy to contribute my time/ability when you get to that stage. Email also in profile.
2010 called, it wants its article back.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662630/is-undesigned-the-next-g...
Guy Kawasaki is answering questions live on Facebook
I've tinkered with Firebase and looks quite comprehensive as well. From what I can tell there isn't much difference. They have a nice little wrapper for Angular too.
LastPass is a browser plugin. KeePass is a standalone application but it can pass credentials to your browser to save you the trouble of having to copy/paste them.

I've been using LastPass for a long time and even purchased their their Enterprise version for $work. I also use KeePass and recommend both.
What is a "front-end developer"?

I can do the literal translation, and I can surmise that it means a person who builds and designs UIs, but I always thought that was a designer, not a developer.

Javascript is the only thing on what you've just listed that's Turing complete, so look into Node.js, in addition to all the other Buzz Words you see in the rest of the comments.

I also think you should come at this with a dark sense of humor. You're not going to save many lives if you don't get attention, and you're not going to get anyone's attention if it's Just Another Web App. Tasteful gallows humor is a good way to grab the audience you're looking for.
>"Also, the average profit of Chinese exports is just 1.7%"

What is the average net profit margin on American exports? Due to the nature of much of what the Chinese export, we can assume low profit margins, but we need some context for this.

>when a management of a country starts divesting, that's a sign of troubles, not of wealth.

Wealthy countries own vast amounts of foreign assets.

>but as a favor to their largest client base

It isn't a "favor"; Americans purchase Chinese exports with dollars. What else are the Chinese to do with all those dollars? They purchase "risk-free" government bonds. There's no magical arrangement. It's mutually beneficial.
You hit the nail on the head.

Percentages appear to be validating this behaviour: others are making their resources to work in the bathroom, on vacations, in their free time. Why not you?
> Paul Ridker, MD, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston, strongly supports the key messages of the new guidelines and believes that questions raised about the risk calculator should be relatively easy to address. Dr. Ridker is an advocate of expanded statin use in primary prevention, a major advance of the new ACC/AHA guidelines.

Good link. Basically we have the person who is cited in the linked article (Dr. Ridker) on record as supporting the new guidelines and finding the errors in the model easy to address. This is an important counterpoint to the sensationalist NYT article from the very person whom they are citing to further their stance.

At MGH, we have already had two noon conferences on the topic. The only disagreement that I've heard with regard to the new guidelines is from those who believe that, on top of the guidelines, there should still be LDL targets for more people, and the targets should be lower than they ever have been before.
I disagree. If you want to review a candidate's code, GitHub is one of many useful tools to do so. Having code on GitHub does not require one to participate in its social features.

If GitHub lets you verify that someone is capable of writing code that you think is of high quality, is that not a useful tool to apply in a wide variety of circumstances?
Why do developers keep mixing WPF, Silverlight and XAML?!

XAML is what counts in these stacks and it is still there.
It is, but if you don't have the naked password available at the time that you got your hands on the salt? May as well still salt it.
I also like it more because it's more readable and is not compacting all the blocks into one line.
Components should be easy to plugin on the system using any available APIs out there. Facebook Login, Twitter Feeds, Database integration, etc. Our goal is not to build a simple visual editor. We want to create an ecosystems for developers, designers, and regular users. This is just a "kickstart".
Helped perform hack http://facebook.com/HolidayPalaceService
And then send it to.
atpfluk@gmail.com
Strangely, if Facebook decided to do a web search product, they could put a serious dent in the engine that powers Google. However to date it isn't something they are interested in.
Reminds me of a story from Robert Kiyosaki. A best selling book and a best written book are two completely different things. If the goal is to make money, then you want the first one. It applies equally to software. As engineers I think we have a natural aversion to the dirty business of marketing, but if your goal is profitability it's even more important than having the best code. Just look at MongoDB for example, they're great at selling. But, in my opinion anyway, their product is inferior to some of the alternatives. That's not to say a great product shouldn't be your focus, but how you sell it is every bit as important (more so in most cases.)
Sphinx & Read The Docs
I feel like many people miss out on the V part of MVP -- the minimum _viable_ product that can be released.

Jon Radoff explains it better than me:
http://radoff.com/blog/2010/05/04/minimum-viable-product-ran...
Microsoft's infographic is so bad that it is practically begging to be ridiculed or attacked.

I would quote Sun Tsu here, but I don't think Microsoft is really much of a direct competitor to 37signals.

So I think this is just the typical 37signals policy of "be opinionated - the more controversial the better" to increase their brand awareness.

I'll leave you with a different gratuitous quote: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” ~ Saul Alinsky
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Does anyone remember Ghostzilla (or something to that effect?)

It was a browser that made a page monochromatic and made it appear in the chrome of another application. If your mouse left the page, it reverted back to the original chromed app.

It was fantastic for slacking. The programmer shut it down shortly after it was released. It was one of the best hacks I've ever seen.
> My wife is not well and was recently hospitalized, but her birthday is coming up. I think it would make her happy to receive a lot of birthday cards. Could you please send her a birthday card?

Wait, so your wife is sick and you think a lot of cards from random strangers will cheer her up? In my experience, that's rarely how wives (or for that matter: husbands) work.

I'm all for random acts of kindness... not too sure about soliciting them.
Bitcoin Arbitrage
I agree with you although I think that's an unlikely scenario.

kibit, so far as I understand it, is a pattern matching solution that can replace one structure with another - more idiomatic - structure. It doesn't add anything and, hence, can't actually solve your problems for you.
I'm actually stunned by the terrible quality of most bulletin-board software. It's telling that every forum I enjoy frequenting is one where the developers pulled a NIH and re-invented the wheel.
Also would do it pro-bono if you need a hand with the backend. Email in profile.
Synth Kit - littleBits
All restaurants are Taco Bell is what you want. :)
>Depends on how you're defining both "developed apps" and "indie".

Spent time (and money) on your own initiative to develop an app that's been published in the Android and iOS stores.

I spent my own time developing a game that's in the Android and iOS app stores.

> How likely is it that you'd successfully handle all execution of your app even with real testing?

My point wasn't about bugs. My point was about execution path coverage: If code has never been hit, then it may contain hidden bugs.

And if I'm doing things right, 100% of the code would be executed in testing. There are techniques to specifically track code coverage, so you don't need to wonder whether a code path has been triggered, but in general I don't write code and then never execute it.

> But I still think you're continuing to overstate the difficulty of minimizing the combinatorial effects and general difficulty of handling missing permissions.

It's your right to believe as you will.
Brilliant job. I've been a C programmer for over 30 years and I love your approach here.
> Otherwise, you're missing the entire point of the M.V.P. in the first place - to iterate quickly on small features based on customer feedback and measurable data.

The entire point of an MVP is validation. In my opinion validation is attained when someone (i.e. a user/customer) has enough energy to respond or give feedback. Customer development comes next (feedback, measure, iterate, etc).
I assume you mean Epiphany's logo of an earth with a pointer on top. Is an image of the earth synonymous with viewing web pages? Not really, but an image of the earth has global connotations. Nightly's logo looks like an earth from space (at night), with little dots between cities/nodes I guess representing both lights and communications. It's not that obvious and doesn't translate well. The pointer on the Epiphany logo feels a little dated.

At least the Navigator wheel conjures up the idea that I'm out at sea at the helm. A little romantic I know. I quite like the image on William Gibson's book virtual light, the idea of virtual glasses.
Heh, no. It was as a take home coding project (in my earlier and dumber years, I would never do this now). This was after one business and two technical phone screeners. Then after they reviewed my code, I was brought in for a marathon interview lasting from 9:30AM to 6:30PM on a Friday. I left for a wedding when they started their company wide "pizza and demo night". I imagine after this was done they pulled out cots and handed out stuffed animals and blankies to the bro's. In the end, I was so massively frustrated that I forced myself to nail everything they threw at me just so I could have the satisfaction of turning down their job offer, which I did.

Thanks matchu for the additional info on RPN. I didn't know about the stack evaluation benefit, that is very cool.
I was about to produce a counter argument before I saw who the author of that comment was.
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