skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I will play around with that. I was/am just worried that w/out something saying "This is what we do" people will show up and go "Uhm... what?" and then leave.

Maybe a smaller tagline on the homepage not in a banner? The other thing is that banner is carried throughout the site design (and used as extra navigation in other areas) so it would be a bit inconsistent without it.
I think you missed the point. The author is a person who designs user interfaces. He knows that he can look up how to do what he wants to do by referring to material outside of the device. His interest, though, is designing user interfaces that don't require that.
clickable link: http://www.lifeentry.com

your front page CSS breaks in chrome.

with all the ajax-based page loading, why is there a separate popup window when adding in a new moment instead of a lightbox dialog or something similar?
Then you would also be surprised at the number of people who independently "discover" the system, and invariably lose their shirts when playing it. Such stories used to crop up in the old rec.gambling newsgroup many years ago.

Any hackers also trade futures? The trading system known as "scaling" (buy dips, sell rallies based on N-point moves) behaves a lot like the Martingale system ... risk a lot to win a little. It's not as foolproof at its proponents would have you believe.
I've used LogoWorks a few times with success. In every case some revision was required...most logos are a committee effort so users want to be able to revise them...it is also nice to get a couple different versions with the understanding that you can choose to have one polished into a final logo.

Some site feedback: the monitor with rotating logos on the homepage is somewhat confusing. It looks like there are buttons but it is just a graphic.

The video is cute but it is a little drawn out.

The site branding is strong but may be too unprofessional for the market of people looking to pay money for a logo. I don't know if focusing it on "web 2.0 logos" or something might help refine and differentiate the site.

Overall it looks cool-- good luck!
We should act now. It should be done independently from the big Internet companies

Here's where OP may have difficulties. He wants to make a major change that affects a lot of people. Better to dance with the elephants than in spite of them. Just ask Loopt.
Right, obviously there are plenty of systems that will tag all incoming mail and create a ticket for it, etc.

But I don't want 12,000 tickets for Out of Office messages in my CRM system, thanks.
I know. I was being sarcastic.
Here's a USB dome hub with 7 ports that weighs around a pound on Amazon with a $10 rebate (I bought one long ago from Circuit City with a large rebate)...

http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-DomeHub-ports-Weighted-3311...
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http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/

Was sold in less than an hour of reading.
It'd be nice to see a better description of the site's features. Perhaps a video walk through of the site with commentary. It could highlight the site's features, benefits and what problem it'll solve for your customer. You could also describe your competitive advantage over the Flick/blog combo. That'd give me a better idea of whether or not I want to take the time to create another account on another website.

Also, I clicked on the "Explore Our Site" but the link goes to the home page. Broken link?
Why doesn't FB do most of this?

http://blog.luckycal.com/?p=145
Releasing conscripts is hardly the same thing!
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There needs to be political will too. There are huge risks involved in taking on monumental projects. What if NASA spent billions of dollars developing a major project that fizzled? If there's no political power behind it, NASA risks losing all of the funding they get in the first place, and definitely not being able to get more to finish what they started. As an organization, it is safer to survive doing lots of small, achievable things, and wait for the day that the world-changing missions are an important political tool again.
With a little bit of creativity you can do a lot with language, e.g. there are hundreds of millions of names in each of the biggest namespaces (AOL/Gmail/Skype/etc).

One shouldn't assume that the John Smith you know has JohnSmith.tel, but to use a specialised search engine to find the correct one. You may already know one piece of his contact information, his location, or some keywords that might define him.

It's hardly expensive ($10 /year). Everything is open source and compliant with preexisting standards. You can run your own TelHosting provider if you want to. It's decentralised (obviously). Why would you say it's not scalable? DNS is the most distributed and well balanced network that we have.

Finally, you OWN your data. There is no malevolent third party.
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looks like it's only one chosen designer that will prepare the logo
"The Design of Everyday Things" would probably be a good start: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
I'm a big believer of the theory that if you let kids decide what they want, they actually find a good path for themselves. I've been doing a lot of research on the Summerhill School in Britain, and it surprises me how radical that approach is, yet what logical sense it makes.
At the moment this is not possible but you do raise a great point - we were not thinking about licensing in these terms.

It's definitely great feedback and something to seriously think about - thanks!
Hiya. Mind if I make some suggestions on how you can write better in professional communications?

Lead with your strengths. Your first paragraph, which is the most important one you will write because it is the one that determines whether the rest of your piece gets read, is filled with self-inflicted strikes against you.

English is not my mother tongue and I’m not a great writer, so I am borrowing the words JFK used in

There is a place for modesty and self-effacement. It is not during proposals.

The quote from JFK does not give me a reason to entrust you with money. That suggests cutting it. Ruthlessly eliminate any distraction from the goal.

First of all: I to say I have applied for Winter 2010 YC funding with this idea (still have to make a video). The problem is I don’t think this is gonna get funded for two reasons: I have no team mates (YC tends to fund teams composed by 2-3 people) and I don’t have any solid idea on how to make it profitable.

Here you are again telling me how you're not the right man for the job.

So since my desire for a better Web to live and work in is kinda huge I am writing this article hoping that maybe it’s going to be an inspiration for someone else, or act as a catalyst. Or just to state the obvious. Whatever.

In addition to not being the right man for the job, you're diffident about even wanting to do the job. You are not projecting the image of a driven, with-it individual who is going to take a difficult technical, social, and marketing problem and solve it, making very rich rich men out of everyone associated with the project.

Look how differently your first paragraph reads from my reimagining of it:

The Internet as we know it is broken. Dozens of accounts per user -- broken! Web services that can't speak to each other -- broken! Our lives and friends scattered over a hundred web sites -- broken! Our identities owned by service providers -- broken!

We can fix the Internet. It will not be easy. Worthwhile things rarely are. The fix is a federated identity gateway, built out of technologies which are already accepted and in common use. The rest of this proposal will outline a sketch of what the federated identity gateway is, how it fixes the Internet, and why the first group who succeeds in building it will realize profits beyond the dreams of avarice.

Commentary: start with the problem, offer a solution, whet people's appetite for reading about the solution. Don't focus on yourself, most particularly not on your faults.
"Pseudoscientific theory?" "Unevaluated claims?" Give me a break.

The formal scientific study of certain subjects is not permitted in our society, so whenever anyone attempts to study them anyway without official sanction, or simply compiles honest observations, they will be smeared like this.
I don't know about you. But I'm 100% satisfied with the US/State govt services I've interacted with (IRS, USCIS, DMV, Social Security, USPS, BART).

My most horrifying experiences were with the private sector (1) to clear up identity theft that happened to me, (2) admitted inaccurate billing by a dentist.
Yeah, if there are reports of criminal activities the cops should stay away and not look at what's going on, dam those meddling cops stopping criminals from doing their deals. </sarcasm>

Presumably you'd like patroling officers to be fitted with blindfolds to avoid them surveilling people from the street?
One important thing is to find out during the interview whether the company has a plan and they are not just hiring you to perform monotonous, undemanding tasks. They should be able to tell you what upcoming projects you are most likely to work on in the near future. Also thoroughly research the company and its business domain, and make sure it is a fit before accepting an offer. Fog Creek scores a 12 on the Joel test, and it is not a bad place to work, but a lot of people would be bored out of their skull working there.

Management is also very, very important. There is not much use having rock stars as colleagues if the people at the top making the decisions are not competent. That's a situation I found myself in at my last job, and it was very demoralizing.
If there is anything that would put a major dent in piracy it is a reasonable pricing scheme for music. 15 cents is 'in the ball park', iirc there was some study done which found that at general availability and 25 cts piracy would drop drastically.

Now for a unified catalogue and a one click style shopping interface where I can browse all the music ever made.

Believe me I would have to cut up my credit card.
Sigh...where to start?

First, I applaud your passion for making the web a better place, and for being willing to put yourself out there and be open with your views.

That said, there's a number of problems with what you're saying and the proposed solution, but let me point out just a few:

1. Normal people don't care. Seriously, my mom uses a handful of websites and doesn't really care about any of the problems you mention. If a solution were offered and it was more convenient, she might use it, but it's just not a big deal to her.

2. Identity and data centralization seem to offer a lot of security risks and the philosophical problem of putting all that data into the hands of one company, or even just a few companies. Making an open, distributed standard sounds good, but in practice, I think a few companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon) would end up handling the gateway role for 95% of users, which puts you in an even more dangerous position.

3. The big players have little incentive to lower barriers to entry, and you have a chicken/egg problem in trying to force them to 'adapt or die'. Also, see #1.

4. If OpenID and OAuth aren't working (agree on the 1st, not sure on the 2nd), why not, and why would this be any different?

5. I don't see any way of implementing something like this over the next 50 years without either a) government mandate, or b) every internet giant getting involved. As I pointed out above, the internet giants are unlikely to do this, and the government getting more involved in the web is the last thing we need.

I think some of the problems you pointed out are legit, but I'm not sure that this kind of a system is really any better. It seems you'd be swapping one set of problems for another, and the new set of problems would seem to make the web extremely vulnerable to being controlled by a few large organizations, or the government. Over time, I see this kind of centralization and "perfect system" model resulting in stagnation and oppression.
"intents and purposes"
What about when you're working with Java? Do you still use emacs?
> to the point where we assume that all children learn the same and if one has a different route to learning he's dull or disabled or disadvantaged

That's why you would have different tiers. To help each student as much as you can at his or her own level. "Lower" tiers focus more on practical and artistic matters, while "Upper" tiers focus more on theoretical and intellectual matters. Note that countries that have such a system generally refer to it as columns, not tiers, because that name does not do it any justice.

It doesn't really solve the major educational problems (e.g. parents), but it does help to take the diversity of children into account.
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Before you had to write:

function is_not_numeric($num){
!is_numeric($num);
}

array_map('is_not_numeric', array(1,3,5,'a','c',3));

The fact that php used to take a string as the callback and not an expression is seriously broken.

Now (presumably), one can write:

array_map(function($x){ !is_numeric($x) }, array(1,3,5,'a','c',3));

Although, ideally it would be:

array_map(!is_numeric, array(1,3,5,'a','c',3));
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I'm sorry if I was unclear, but I still don't see any problem with this being called a compilation of one format into another.
Let's play dress-up for a moment. I'll put on my investor's hat.

You are going to have problems with funding for two reasons (you mentioned one, and I'll disregard the no co-founders thing for a moment):

A) No clear path to monetization and

B) I can't see a reason for any site to go through the effort of adopting the technology you're suggesting, even if it was already written and easy to use. NIH syndrome is very big amongst companies for good reason - if they own all the technology front to back, then they can change it any way they see fit, and not have to worry about someone else's changes.
The interresting part is that you can define on the spot a single usen, throwaway function to be used as a parameter of a function that accepts functions as arguments.

Another property of lambdas is nested defines with the possibility to return an inner function (be it anonymous or not) from an outer one.

At last their lexical scope allows, in the inner/outer functions described above, to keep the scope of the outer function alive as long as the returned inner function is referenced. This allows to make them work as lightweight objects (or even to define an object system if you want to).
Pointers can break easily. It's entirely possible to add or subtract from a pointer, which drops you in a different memory area. This isn't possible with anonymous functions, making them more safe.

It's the same with references vs. pointers. You can't do any calculations with references, but you can with pointers.
Why should NASA try to provide jobs? They are funded by taxpayer money (i.e. our money) and we have given them money to do research not to provide jobs.

They try to provide jobs because they are funded by taxpayer money. Their primary stakeholder is the American public; it is their job to benefit their stakeholders. Employment is a benefit, in the eyes of the great majority of people.

Secondly, this is hardly "out of thin air." Assessing the manpower needs of a project proposal and selecting for the ones that rank higher on the scale is very different than the government going "Break some rocks, collect a paycheck lol."
It's functionally the same.
For those that haven't taken a serious look at why google have built a lot of their applications in gwt (wave, health, adwords etc), and require google-like ui's, I'd recommend learning. Keep an open mind (find out WHY java is used, and what benefits you gain from it).

GWT is amazing, and the engineers involved like Ray & Scott Blum are second to none.
The surveillance footage is rarely reviewed by the police and is saved for just a short time before it is erased.
I think you are conflating a call for action with an idea for a startup. To be more effective you should focus on one of these only.

As for your proposed solution, such services already exists, i.e. webfinger which Google may be supporting in the future.

So the challenge is really, how to enable widespread adoption for webfinger or something similar. If you have an ingenious idea how to support that, lets hear it. Because you are right, it would mean a lot of progress for the web.
Thanks. Have contacted a few distribution sites (I think they're distribution sites) but haven't had much response. Will keep trying though.

If you know of any distribution sites you can email me jaisen at jmathai dot com. Would be much appreciated.

We're definitely going to lose the spammers. The hope is that once we put in a payment model that they'd naturally disappear.
Seems another version of the "caveirão" we have here in Rio.
For this to work you would have to convince all (or at least a lot) of established players to do things differently than they do now. They will only do so if they see other major players doing it. It's a classical chicken and egg problem.

The technology is the easy part.
I've done a lot of candidate interviews in the past, and your #3 question is killer - Almost nobody asks that question during interviews; the ones that have asked it have almost always gotten an offer. (In that they have almost always been the highest quality candidates anyways.)

Beyond that, I like to ask about the longevity of the people that I'll be working with; i.e. "What is your turn-over rate like?" or "What is the average number of years people on this team have worked here?"

I've found that turnover is a pretty decent indicator of employee happiness. The lower the better, of course.
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Not much. The other difference is that closures can access the local variables that are in scope at the point where the function is defined. I guess you could hack this together in C by packing and unpacking the variables into a struct together with the function pointer. It's a bit long winded that way though.

In smalltalk and ruby closures are used extensively to define new control structures using the block syntax.
I don't generally work with Java, but I reexamined Eclipse when playing around with Android apps. I find that it still gets in my way, but at least this time around I had enough RAM to run it well.
Whoa, whoa. You're lumping practical and artistic? Methinks you don't have a clue what art is, because it's way way up in the theoretical.

My point is that students don't have levels. When I was in middle school, I was somewhat brilliant at math. (Not honking my own horn, but it's true: I was a beast.) I could handle pretty much anything that required formulas and logic and calculation. Once I got to high school, I had a slew of shitty math teachers, and an incredible English/humanities department, and so I shifted focus and found where I was happiest anyway. While I can handle left-brained stuff, I really shine when I'm dealing with hazier, foggier stuff and giving it meaning.

One is not better than the other. I have friends who are way over on one side who are just as bright as I am. My cofounder, for instance, is a massive Linux geek who is completely at home messing with code and fixing it up. The stuff that I do primarily online, design, he treats as a hobby. I treat learning to code as a hobby, meanwhile, while that's what he's studying. I'd never presume to call my job more important than his is, and vice versa. People are different. It's okay to like completely different things. It doesn't make you lower or higher in any way.
Your video is long and boring. Make it quick and simple; to the point.
glad to know it was fun to browse around :)
Its called Perl6 / Rakudo & Parrot
Only 7 bad signs?

What about the work environment? Working in a cube farm with the cheapest kind of free coffee is a lot worse than working for a company that has free Starbucks/drinks/food and that gives you a private office and lets you work from home whenever you want.

What about the interview process? I would rather work for a company that puts me through interview hell than one that just says "you've got the job."

The problem with these authoritative lists is that they're anything but.
no, MVC is perfectly possible. Think of the server model as the persistence layer then it will become clear to you.
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Basically you're proposing a much more involved OpenID. I'm sorry, but beyond everything that was already pointed out, you also clearly don't know enough about the space that you want to "revolutionize".

Hint: what you propose isn't all that new, you're still suffering from the same chicken and egg problem.
I guess I'm getting negative points because some people either disagree with questioning faith, or because others consider this flameworthy.

But I assure you, my goal was merely to probe the OP's lack of conflict between science and faith.
Well Perl Mongers have already re-written Lisp in Perl so i think Lispers could return the favour ;-)

ref: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-lisp/
note that amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, not DNA. Also it's worth bearing in mind that DNA is a complex and fairly inert molecule, whereas RNA or TNA are often catalytic, thus potentially both simpler to spontaneously originate as a standalone, self-replicating entity (life!)
If they'd take the '6' out of that sentence, I'd be in total agreement.
"1. Normal people don't care. Seriously, my mom uses a handful of websites and doesn't really care about any of the problems you mention. If a solution were offered and it was more convenient, she might use it, but it's just not a big deal to her."

+1

The OP says why YC won't fund him (single founder, no biz model), but he's overlooking the doozy. YC has freakin' T-SHIRTS that say "Make something people want". Not is this addressing a problem that 99.9% of people don't have, but it's also something that the big web properties don't want (for a number of reasons).

Solve problems. Solve painful problems. Or, if you're more consumer focused, get smart about dopamine.
Not if you're solving a problem you yourself have encountered. And, a cofounder can help with the difficulty in seeing the perspectives of others, although Asperger's Syndrome has more to do with difficulty in social interaction than being able to observe why something sucks and requires fixing.
This idea seems contrary to Gates's goals. He's said that he wants the money he's giving to charity to be spent in his lifetime. Endowing a school would necessarily prevent this goal.
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Right. It is not that.

You can now share a document with the groups that you create in Google Apps. It's right there in the user management panel for Google Apps administrators.
It's on my list! If we're doing a feature comparison of web scripting languages it was obviously lacking from PHP and present in one form or another in everything else. Not sure about the use syntax but at least it makes it clear what variables are closed over.
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Reminds me of the NYPD SkyTowers, which from what I've read are generally unmanned and the footage is never reviewed: http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?ArID=64500&SecID=1000
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You just described my original idea in that site (sorta)! But I changed it cause i realized normal people usually use , as Ryan said, a handful of applications. Th is idea would work better as a marketing tool for someone who wants to maintain a presence on various networks though.