skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually what I'm trying to do with my product

http://gitsense.com

GitSense is marketed as a Git solution but it's also a proof of concept for a much bigger problem that I'm trying to solve, which I believe will be critical for being able do develop tools that can work in any environment, regardless of size, process, politics, etc.

What is not obvious, which is mostly my fault due to poor marketing, is the tools in GitSense are context aware and adaptable. With GitSense, I can drop it into any enterprise environment and have it work in a way that makes the most sense to them. And what I have learned from developing GitSense, we'll be the basis for creating smarter wikis, bug trackers, continuous build systems, etc.

I'm currently working on a blog post right now that talks about my programmable metadata technology, which demonstrates the benefits of having context aware and adaptable tools.

As a side now, I'm also looking for one or more co-founder to execute this larger vision of mine. So if you are interested in tackling this problem, send me an email. You can find my email in my profile.
Chrome is proprietary, use Chromium instead. If they aren't doing bad stuff today, they might implement bad stuff tomorrow and automatically push that update to you. You can't turn of updates in your browser, you have to edit the configuration file for the autoupdater. I prefer any Firefox or any Mozilla based browser, but that is just personal preference.
I have seen this a number of times but the money goes to a charitable cause instead.

Oprah Winfrey also pioneered it via television.

Not totally sure why a random stranger would forward you money for procrastinating but that does not mean they won't.

In Europe anyone accepting transactions online is bound by Distance Selling Regulations which means they can demand their money back within 7 days, no questions.

I would factor that little admin nightmare into your business/legal plan.
More like "12 (weekend/hobby) projects in 12 months".
there is a lot of activity in this sector right now, including some VC funded startups, the approach they are taking is to grab instagram #forsale pics then post it on their own storefront site
"the best ever".

This kind of expression is getting on my nerves, as it is used as a catchphrase for an obvious expectation about the product: "great news, no regression about it". Apple uses it too ("the best iPhone we've ever built") and it is losing all the little meaning it had thanks to the usual marketing hammering ; people probably still use it because it features the product name + best.
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The option pool issue is obviously a hot button here, but remember that Sam Altman's commentary on it ends with "Option pools are complete fiction; boards can increase them whenever they want. It should never be used as a reason for not making a grant.".
No, I think Hejlsberg knew perfectly well that he shouldn't attempt to do "GUI for C++". Borland tried it. The end result was, and is, terrible, and the sheer awkwardness of C++Builder was not really a matter of design or implementation, but due to the nature of C++ itself.

Delphi worked because they could control the language and mould it to fit the requirements of the VCL and of the IDE. With C++Builder, they had to introduce special proprietary extensions to C++ (which may have been, like Qt, implemented using macros internally, I don't know) such as "__published" and "__closure". Another factor was that Delphi's fast one-pass compiler allowed incredibly fast GUI-development; the "modify, compile, run" cycle could take literally seconds. C++Builder's use of C++ meant this cycle slowed down tremendously, even with tricks such as pre-compiled headers. C++ had other problems. It just wasn't a good idea.

Hejlsberg's C#/.NET design was necessary, although I agree with your other assertions. As far as I know, .NET was never able to replicate Delphi's genius, and a one-platform, proprietary language was a bad idea even back then.
Thanks!

Could you also recommend something on how symbolic computation works? I have used computer algebra systems like Mathematica for long; would like to understand how it works internally.

I currently understand some basics like DPLL, semantic first-order unification, methods of solving specific equation systems like linear systems, numerical differential equations, etc. I am missing at least how the "top-level" of symbolic computation works.

For example, from what I currently understand, first-order semantic unification can find "x = Cos[y]" from "Sin[x] = Sin[Cos[y]]", but cannot solve "Sin[x] = Cos[x]" for x, and cannot simplify "[(Sin[x])^2 + (Cos[x])^2] = 1" to True.

I am hoping to find something simpler than reading through SymPy source code. :-)
I'm familiar with the term. My argument is that the fact that device X is fixing an impairment should not make a difference vs a device that augments me. Tongs let me flip things on the grill without burning myself. If everyone but me had fireproof skin then that would be an 'assistive device', yes? My rock climbing shoes give me grip on the rock - is that not correcting an an impairment in some sense? I use stools to correct for my relatively short height - people fall off stools every day. Shall we require stools to cost $20K, complete with stabilization arms, railings, and a safety harness? My keyboard & mouse bothers my carpal tunnel. Would you like to have to pay $10K (say) for a keyboard? Artifical legs can cost over $100K, yet people get by hobbling around using a stick for support. IMO, it's madness to regulate at this level.

I agree that there is gray area, but these are people with very real needs that are finally being addressed in a cost effective way ($2000 or less!). There is a world of difference between open heart surgery and uninvasively strapping something on the end of my arm.
A twist on a simple timer / productivity app.

When you want to focus, instead of pressing start, you ask for time from someone else.

Once you've completed using that time, you get to pass it on to somebody else.

Completion depends on approval from the previous owner of the time.

As the time gets used, it gets passed from person to person, creating a "time chain." Participants get to see the history of the time chain. Established users can create new time chains and watch them grow.
there is a startup doing this and launching soon, can't track down the link of their site right now
I prefer Stephen Sackur to Paxman. Sometimes with Paxman it seems a bit unnecessary. Stephen Sackur treats the whole thing very professionally, but will still ask the difficult questions.
>Maybe some financial transparancy to silence all the jew-insults?

I wonder who's behind this post.
try codio.io or codio.com, cant remeber url
Maybe that's why Churchill stopped being a supporter of him.
That (earlier) thread has now been killed.
And it requires all five to connect, rather than just one?
So how much regulatory tax would you think is acceptable to add to a $50 hand? A few thousand?

How about a simple disclaimer - not to be used in safety critical applications - and let people have their $50 hand? When people start selling hands with bigger promises that have more grave consequences, dial up the regulation on those.
I do agree with him on that, but ask any founder if they feel like that's a real option. Any VC pre-closing will certainly give the impression that it is not.
Thanks for the feedback!

Ah ok, in that case yes we do hope to expand into those areas you mentioned. Our overall goal with Metamorfus is to become a really good resource on getting better at socializing, regardless of your background or goals. We definitely recognize a website can only do so much and people will respond differently.

We are still building the core of the site and bootstrapping. But we hope to eventually team up with therapists and relationship/communication experts to help provide content and guidance for people. So if you decide to take on a "go to a party" challenge, we hope to also provide tips, advice, and steps you can take to help make going to a party more successful, and cater that advice to your needs and skill level. One member of the team is a therapist who specializes in anxiety, and so we already have a good start on that.

I think the PUA gets a bad rap. Yes it has its problems, but at its core it always felt like a positive thing to me. I don't mind getting compared to it. We will definitely strive to keep metamorfus gender neutral and not make anyone feel uncomfortable though.

Honey badger is the "don't give a f movement" (http://www.reddit.com/r/howtonotgiveafuck/), their overall goal is to flat out not care about anything at all. Which has its pros and cons, of course. But so far metamorfus has responded well with that community, many of metamorfus's current members joined from htngaf communities. And No More Mr Nice Guy is this book -- http://www.amazon.com/No-More-Mr-Nice-Guy/dp/0762415339 -- there are in person communities around the country that follow the book, and the book itself contains many challenges and exercises, so a Metamorfus-type site could potentially become an online NMMNG community.

and btw, if you come back to the site you should find it much faster now. It was embarrassing how slow it was, we found and fixed the bottleneck :)
Well, this is what "security theater" is. If you said that exact thing in the context of a TSA screening program there would be no one here going "yes, that makes perfect sense", and it's even easier for network attackers; they have to fix their attack scripts once and they work for good until the next countermeasure.
I would venture to speculate that not many OpenBSD developers are familiar with Rust. They are familiar and very practiced at writing secure C.
What I find even more interesting is that in our time class is not a subject at all. We go along like the concept of social classes was never thought of.

And as for the subject of revolution, we glance over it like a ghost from the past. We act as (a society and a culture) though the current system will last forever although history, as both Stalin and Wells points out, shows us that social and economic systems gets replaced, in many cases by force.
Such a smart TV would have to be really well done in order to justify keeping the same privacy-invasive firmware around for the 5-10 year life of a TV.
This is so wrong I don't know where to begin. Your comment is also blatantly ignorant of the high output of artistic work that was produced "on spec" during the renaissance and other artistic periods.

52 paintings in a year was not uncommon for painters that are now revered as old masters.

Good ideas and inspiration are, despite your opinion, largely a product of routine.

The routine of capturing thoughts and directions followed by the routine of planning, implementation and possibly review.

The idea of a tortured artist throwing a smattering of paint at a canvas in frustration because his "spark" is gone is largely a figment of the modern imagination.

Art has been made to order on demand for most of history.

EDIT TO ADD: Downvoting without a response? Thanks for proving my point.
> but the answer cannot be even in the short-run to let a browser vendor tell us which revocations are worth knowing about.

So you trust the browser vendor to ship you executable native code but you don't trust the browser vendor to apply reasonably decent criteria for the top x% most-needed cert revocations on the Internet?
I didn't weigh it, but before it was probably 2 or 3 pounds and adding everything to it was like an extra two pounds. As it is, you can do anything you could with a regular laptop and wifi card, but if you added an SDR, you could measure I and Q and do whatever you want.
What's wrong with that? You said 4chan is moot personal project, he can do what he want, if you don't like, you can suggest, you can leave, why to force moot to accept your thought?
How does this compare to the following which I've seen mentioned lately:

* sayI [http://www.ethos-os.org/~solworth/sayIgroups-20130614.pdf]

* MinimaLT: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/310.pdf

* CurveCP: http://curvecp.org/
> what really bothers me is that you got a reply from a no-reply address

I had pretty much the opposite rejection experience. I had interviewed on-site with Stripe, but for some reason was turned down. A week or so later I got a thank you card signed by all the people who had interviewed me. (Actually, the reason I applied was because of a handwritten card in response to the first Capture-the-Flag.)
Wealthy people who are in a physical condition to do this, don't have time.

Wealthy people who have time, don't have health.

And those who have both, won't even talk to you.
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It's interesting how throughout the 1930s we see almost no mention of this in the New York Times. Which is what your link is pointing to.

Now that armed right-wing bands have staged a coup in the Ukraine, we suddenly are hearing a lot of discussion about this right here, whereas when it was supposedly happening in the early 1930s, we see almost no mention of it in the press.
I frequently wonder if there is a place on the planet I'd be happier in. The idea is a site that allows me to select a wide variety of attributes and then search for places in the world that match those attributes. For attributes that I only care about only generally, I'd be able to select from a broad category. For those that I care a lot about, I'd be able to drill in to highly granular selections.

For example, I may only care that:
: Government = Democracy

But for climate, something a little more specific:
: Climate : Rainfall < 200 cm
: Climate : Snowfall = 0 cm

And then something really granular:
: Sports & Leisure : Adventure Sports : Sky Diving < 50 km

Major categories might include:
•	Climate
•	Geography
•	Demographics
•	Government
•	Infrastructure
•	Security
•	Entertainment
•	Recreation
•	Culture
•	Education
•	Economy

It could be marketed as a branded plugin for company web sites in travel, real estate and jobs. They'd pay for clicks and then use the results to market their services.

I've found sites that offer this, but none have been quite what I wanted. One requires you to enter the locations you think you'd like and then helps you decide. Another was pretty close, but only covered the USA.
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My basic Windows 8 (and WP) app, Meeting Money, does this.
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/meeting-money/83826295...
Quotation marks for startup as if you are trying to express disdain? You might want to actually structure a coherent, credible response otherwise you are simply lowering the quality of posts of HN.

Regardless of your opinion of the idea/execution it qualifies as a startup.

The same "startup" tags could be applied to Quora (I write content for free, you make people log in to view it to profit) or any other number of enterprises.

EDIT TO ADD: Poster has removed the tags around startup without adding in his edit history to show it.
It's totally fair for one to start with that assumption, and stick with it until proven otherwise. But it's just as fair for me to be skeptical of the analogy. Before the concept of computers existed, people (very smart people) thought the complex organisms worked just like mechanical machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_philosophy), and I'm sure there were - and are - many similarities and likenesses to be drawn. However that analogy wasn't correct as we now know. So we're on to the current thinking. Fair enough.

I also think it's a jump to go from "if brain isn't a computer - then magical". There's a lot of room in between. And there are plenty of reasons to think that what goes on inside the brain cannot be mimicked by a computer or algorithms as we currently know them. We don't even know what consciousness is! We should at least admit as much...
I think that game a month challenge was primary meant to be for fun, learning and to motivate rapid prototyping. It has nothing to do with generating big hits.
I like the idea, but would love to see it taken a couple steps further. To me, the biggest issue with selling things online is dealing with the people who are interested in purchasing them. I have had less than stellar experiences with both eBay and Craigslist. I would love something like an expanded Gazelle that was not just electronics. Perhaps even with physical locations for things like furniture, exercise equipment etc. The company could then either sell on consignment, charge storage, or more riskily buy and try to sell at a higher price point. I have a spare bedroom filled with crap I would love to be rid of but dread dealing with.
sounds similar to offerup (http://www.offerupnow.com)
I know some people working in this area and they tell me that there is absolutely a problem with hunger in the UK. The existence of the safety nets is more a sign that there is a problem than that there isn't, as such charities get started when people who have the wherewithal to act realise how bad the situation is.

You seem to be dismissing it on the basis of the fact that you simply haven't heard about the problem, which is partly because there is no official monitoring, and the current government like to claim that it doesn't exist.

The red cross apparently stepped in last year to try to help:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-red...

If you want to know more, check out some of the charitable campaigns:

http://endhungerfast.co.uk/

http://www.trusselltrust.org
So a few buttons and a credit card field is all it takes to be a "startup"? I think I'll write myself a startup tomorrow.

Edit: Or today even, you know, in the true nature of the post.
Thanks for the tip - I watched the trailer and I now have a movie to watch.
Thanks for taking the time to write such a thorough reply. I find Abbott a bit imprecise sometimes, but Courant is a fantastic book. Could you also mention to some of your favorite math references, in particular those that deal with probability theory and statistics?
One day, perhaps. Automatic checking of proofs is nowhere near there yet for most serious mathematics.
Yes, this is definitely not a real rifle and would definitely freak people out if you walked around with it, which I'm not going to do.
It's actually a great idea. May need some refinement, but it has potential for all the self-employed people out there who struggle with meeting deadlines and achieving goals...
After reading the LBNL study mentioned in ecovent's whitepaper I do not know what is going on here. The LBNL study concludes:

The closing of registers led to an increase in energy use for the
typical California house and duct system used in this study. The
reduction in building load due to not conditioning the entire house
was more than offset by increased duct system losses mostly due to
increased duct leakage.

The register closing technique has less impact on energy use if
registers furthest from the air handler are closed first because
this tends to only affect the pressures and air leakage for the
closed off branch. Closing registers nearer the air handler tends to
increase the pressures and air leakage for the whole system.

Closing too many registers (more than 60%) is not recommended
because the added flow resistance severely restricts the air flow
though the system to the point where furnaces may operate on the
high-limit switch and cooling systems may suffer from frozen coils.

Register Closing Effects on Forced Air Heating System Performance: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vw4v8wz
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I hope you can sleep this night not worrying about the "Terminal" monster below your bed.
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We are well funded company by top tier investors (including Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, and Peter Thiel) and offer a competitive salary with matching stock options. We are located in the SOMA district of San Francisco close to BART and Muni.

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Take a peek at http://groupbuzz.com , developed by one of my students for just that problem. Its best use case is for paid communities of one kind or another.
What do you think a startup requires?

The idea scales, it is not spec work. According to YCom criteria it is a startup. shrug
> What type of application is that, in your opinion?

Not the OP, but I wanted to chime in that I think Delphi's forte is, was and will always be desktop-based GUI apps. That was always the main point.

Admittedly, I haven't touched it since the early 2000s, but I can't imagine that it could compete as a language/platform for anything else these days. Its power comes from the tight GUI design/language integration, the brilliance of which is still unmatched by tools like Interface Builer; but the language — even with features like generics — hasn't been able to keep up.

That said, in the late 1990s/early 2000s, I was actually using Delphi for headless backend apps. They were distributed, fairly complex backends connected using DCOM and interfacing with Windows technologies like TAPI and MAPI. We had to integrate with C libraries (linked as DLLs) and had to convert the header files to ObjectPascal. I actually wrote a tool called htrans that had a hand-coded C/C++ parser that produced very good ObjectPascal translations, but it was still a chore. Talk about going against the grain.

In hindsight, I should probably have been using C++, and a lot of the problems our team had was due to the fact that we were trying to use Delphi for something that Borland just wasn't focusing on. But we did love the fast develop/compile/run cycle that Delphi provided, Delphi's OO was great at the time, and the apps worked. The difference between Delphi and C++ back then felt a lot like Rails versus, say, J2EE. It was incredibly easy to develop stuff.
Why not a telescope?
Peter Norvig's PAIP book has a chapter devoted to Student, a computer algebra system. It's very didactic:

http://norvig.com/paip/student.lisp
I think you've altered your settings at some point. It's not the default.

You would see a huge influx of bugzilla entries of "Firefox is broken" if hard fail was the default.

edit: the checkbox in the validation subdialog (ocsp.xul) is tied to security.OCSP.require, which is set here with a default of false in the Firefox source: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/p...
Nope, currently in Finland.

Mind if I ask why? :)