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I agree. CrunchBase 1.0 was rough around the edges but I think it was more usable than this.

I wonder if this isn't intentional. My understanding is that there are a number of companies that license CrunchBase data for their own paid services. From what I have seen, some of these services rely heavily if not exclusively on CrunchBase data. A more usable CrunchBase would certainly not benefit them.
I'm interested in the technology, but I feel it's lacking a real use case for me.

I really like the sample images where you can perspective shift slightly. So what I'd like to see is a two camera/sensor setup to capture a 3D image.

I can then take the result, stick my Oculus Rift on and view the result. The perspective shift lets me move my head around a bit.

Better yet, stick more sensors on, capture as wide a field of view as possible (closer to 360 the better), and recreate the whole scene in a Rift compatible viewer. You wouldn't have to move around, just have enough of the scene that you can look a bit to the left and right. It would let you feel like you are there to a greater degree. I'd buy something like this for sure.
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Unless you pay by credit in which case it's exact.

As to how it works, unlike VAT added into the price, we've HST (varies ~13%) or GST (5%) to round up or down by a few pennies on top of the stated price. I'm a bit surprised this is news. It's been well over a year.
I was about to write a list of feedback, but there was so much that I don't like that I couldn't continue. My best advice is either you make the site faster, or consider using more javascript (i.e why do I need to load a whole bloat of HTML and rerun all the same javascript when I click "see more" on the funding rounds ?)
Apparently this is a YouTube video demonstrating FenOS and the author(?) is replying to comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookZ59I9EyY
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The CSS looks pretty, except the landing page is a terrible UI.

Tip: click the dots in the center of the page to see what's trending.
Neat. Apollo 13's is one of my favorite little-known facts, so I thought I would mention it. They came so close to being famous for a completely different (and equally, perhaps more, catastrophic) reason.
Yes, I noticed that after my original comment and liked it a lot.

In my head (before I've used it) I'm thinking that I could edit these to match the client and what I think their knowledge level is.

Another pain point for me is getting stuck in extremely long conversations in person, over phone, or email before a proposal goes through when I'm trying to do an analysis of the customer's needs. Something that would keep me on track could help me close sales faster, so I like the idea a lot. More interesting than most of the SaaS things I've seen in this space.
Hey joezdeco,

I'm one of Mellow's founders/designers.

I'd debate that "the end doesn't matter"; I've eaten a lot of drastically overcooked sous-vide over the past years. But still, overcooking is not the point, peace of mind is the point.

Take 10 seconds to put something in a bag and plop it inside Mellow. Act on the notification when you want to, tell Mellow to have it ready whenever's convenient, and you're sure to com back to very well cooked ingredients. It's not prep, it's 10 seconds.

It's a shift from the regular way you cook dinner, and it's not ready for middle america yet. But we're getting there. We need the help of guys like you to try it out and call out the bullshit, and help us make it better.
I think it does. In your implementation of `square`, you could use `gensym` to first create a new variable to store x in. Then you would write a second statement that evaluates to that variable times itself.
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My guess is you'll probably know a year in advance if that's actually going to happen.
Well, as long as 2 am Chinese food is more valuable than a street drug deal with a slight chance of violence
You missed two key facts: 1. They can't recover all the pennies, so the recovery estimate takes that into account. 2. The Mint already made the pennies, there's no need to buy them, just collect during the usual distributions to banks, and process them after.
Woah there, Stalin. I'd hardly call transparency 'vitriolic propaganda'.
No, I realize that. I even spent a little time participating. I'm not sure I could have changed my registration after the fact and ultimately didn't find anything new. Since I was already registered in the lottery, I didn't spend a lot of additional time hunting.

So while I do think the scavenger hunt is very Googleish, I still don't think the overwhelming majority of attendees will have gotten passes as a result, so I don't think this game really does much to tilt the needle. Most of the attendees will have fronted their $300 or $900 and will have been selected at random instead of by merit.

I'm still looking forward to the event but I can't help but be disappointed by the result and I'm not sure this particular selection process will have generated the best pool of attendees. Demand simply exceeds supply, and no matter what selection criteria have been used, someone more deserving will be left out. I don't necessarily qualify that by suggesting that I'm more deserving, just that this process accentuates it.

Ultimately it is Google's event to run and there is something to be said about providing an equal chance to everyone, but there are tradeoffs with this approach.
Split I&D caches on the PPC complicates things.
i mean, there are a lot of public interest advocacy groups that accept donations online, but i don't think they fall under the category of start up, and i think most of their funding comes in larger donations from individuals and orgs they have relationships with.
> BTW, they're university-educated CS majors

Not true, see jukay's comment downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7631440
> US Based

No thanks.
Small denominations also cost more to handle, for vendors, banks, any one that handles cash, really.
Here's the Go 1.3 Release Notes:

http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.3
Actually, that's an interesting thought.

If you asked high-schoolers (not necessarily even seniors) which of their peers would do the best in college, do you think they would give useful answers?
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what I just said.
It took Java 5 versions over 8 years to get generics. It's not going to happen in a minor release.
The term "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" sounds like meaningless marketing babble. I would have liked to believe otherwise, but there is no substantial technical information that I can find on that website. If anyone can explain what the author means, I'd appreciate it.

In terms of OS security, an integrated anti-virus package and a claim that no "external protection software" is needed to make the OS secure don't exactly inspire confidence.
"If you had an account on CrunchBase previously, you will need to register again. - See more at: http://www.crunchbase.com/login#sthash.r9mOCw4r.dpuf"

Not loving that. I actively maintained my Crunchbase account and now I have to re-register?

Did not come here to complain, but did what to report this very odd fact.
> Protocols need only be human readable not human easily-composed-for-formatting.

No, but being so is incredibly convenient.

> This isn't the 60s or early 70s where you're writing all emails and headers by hand.

Again, no, but, again, it'd be very convenient to be able to do it.
Ask HN: Who wants to build a crazy off-grid security system?
I've tried asking my "in" at SparkFun, but nobody there seemed interested (or had the time).

Background: Have a mountain valley property in Colorado which I frequently leave, and recently an extraneous wood stove was stolen...so now I need a security system. I don't have the time to fully implement what I'm thinking (though I will probably implement any software mobile apps or server logic necessary), so I want to pay someone to rig the hardware. I have no interest in reselling what we develop, feel free to take it and run, open-source, sell, blog, etc.

I'd like most of the hardware to be be Pi/Arduino/iOS/Android based (shit that's easy to come by and easy to hack on), and I will provide an internet connection via a wireless router.

For example...

Power: Solar
Platform(s): Pi/Arduino
Systems: Remote video/still monitoring, motion-based alerts, motion-based two-way video/still/sound activated link from my phone to property-based hardware, drone paintball rigs for further back on the property (the house is a ways back from the road), auto-turret water guns, broken window glass detectors, etc.

PM me with $$ per hour and we can scope out the details for hours to implement a system, etc. franklovecchio at gmail dot com !
Thanks! I'll just try to be patient though :) Good luck with the product :D
Semantics I guess. To me the internal db is a feature and not wanting it falls under the category of the application not fitting the need. Instead of a problem with the app itself.
I'm still not following. It's definitely still prep. You're just doing the prep a day or two earlier. But you can do that with any water bath by prepping, stashing in zips, and sticking them in the fridge.

I think I see the value of being able to start a cook at 2PM as opposed to sticking to things that can run all day.

Most of the things that work really well in a water bath also hold really well for a day at temperature. I think you're right to feature white meat chicken in your marketing copy, because that's one protein that is iffy at long temps, but I can't think of much besides that (and eggs) that I'd worry about holding at temp a few extra hours.
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Grayce: I Love You...But Music Video Sounds like Adele looks like Liv Tyler
I do agree 100% with the comment about the graphs.
Also, I'm surprised to see UTF-8 in the wordcloud. Is it an error or is a real spam word? I don't know if I'm missing something but I would have add it to the stopwords.
but anyway, very interesting read, thanks.
That's unfortunate. I looked around this post details why it was pushed: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-dev/bShm2sqbrTY...
I don't know. I lived in Cheyenne for five years (nuke officer), and to this day, whenever I get caught in an afternoon, car door bending wind, I think of those days; the air continuously rolls down the Front Range whipping through town...but Vedauwoo was beautiful, and thankfully Ft Collins was just a hop away.
You're still assuming an even spread amongst the ones that are in that 1M. My point is it's usually hard to tell, and you should assume very few sites hold most visitors. Just keep re-applying the concept (of the 1m, 1000 account for 70% etc).
If you shrink it even further still you'll find 100% isn't being occupied! That's assuming each person occupies only a point, or pretty close to. That's why this map is so misleading even if it is fascinating. The size of the blocks has a huge effect on the result.
What temperature-safe bags are out there?

I did some digging into this a few months ago and couldn't find anything conclusive. All I found were blogs, quotes, etc by wannabe scientists.

Of note:

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/

Nearly all plastics (even the BPA-free ones) leach estrogenic activity chemicals

• http://pprc.org/index.php/2013/networking/p2-rapid/do-plasti...

Basically said that there is little evidence in either direction

• http://www.codlo.com/faq.html#.Ux5Ly-ddWlg and http://www.chow.com/food-news/107898/cooking-sous-vide-in-pl... and http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Author-says-use-of-plasti...

Says that bags made from polyethylene (PE) are safe while bags made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are not.

• http://www.beyondsalmon.com/2010/08/cooking-in-plastic-how-s...

SC Johnson (Ziplock manufacturer) themselves do not recommend cooking w/ their bags. Note their bags are made w/ the supposedly safe (per the links in the previous bullet) polyethylene (PE)

Right now I'm very intrigued by sous-vide but am too paranoid about the plastics to make the jump.
This was a key takeaway for me from "Land the tech job you love" published by Pragmatic Programmers. Highly recommend this approach, with the caveat that you should either find out what the company is willing to pay in advance or really want to work for the company. Remember, money usually isn't the primary reason to leave a company. That said, I'd also suggest a little negotiation. I played this game and forgot it was an offer... ;-)
also, holy ads! Just logged in and I am seeing a horizontal banner across the top and 2 huge skyscrapers on the side. wowza.
You are clearly too young to recall the Half New Penny piece. I visited the UK in '84 as a young'un, and recall the half-penny being useless, since you had to have two of them together to purchased the cheapest things (at a penny). Before decimalisation, what was the previous smallest coin? The farthing was pretty common, but at one stage it got down to the quarter-farthing (roughly one-four-thousandths of a pound sterling). We also see it in modern currencies, as Bitcoin gets traded in smaller and smaller amounts.

Ultimately, the smallest useful transaction is the smallest value you need a coin (or token) for. Here in Australia, we abolished our 1c and 2c pieces decades ago, and apart from very temporary hand-wringing from some quarters, it's never been an issue. People just weren't purchasing things with a value of 1c and 2c, and getting that in change meant that you had to collect a bunch of them in order to purchase something else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfpenny_%28British_decimal_co...
The Windows application have orange borders, very similar to VMWare Unity mode.
From the NYT article on this: “Your technological model,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. told Aereo’s lawyer, “is based solely on circumventing legal prohibitions that you don’t want to comply with.”

I hate to uses loaded terms, but it seems like we are about to see some legislating from the bench.
Every decent IDEs have a code formater, but not everyone uses the same IDE so its usefulness is limited. On the other hand, gofmt comes with the platform and make it easy to enforce a common standard between developers.
I love that Solaris is such an essential target... Oh, how I miss you, Sun...
Please don't apologize, I'm happy to be challenged on these things. It's the way I learn to explain them.

Look at the part in our video where Catarina (catv here) walks you through the use-case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNmTI51GPw&t=1m17s

If you notice, the bag she puts inside Mellow is a HDPE bag for vacuum sealing, unsealed. There's a jump cut or whatchamacallit, but that's how we cook using Mellow. Regular non-ziploc sous-vide bags, open.

Did that help at all?
Here's a link to their demo day
http://youtu.be/AS35Lxv6WRM?t=39m2s
Wondering how much of http://Crunchinator.com we're going to have to recode. The only people they have advance API access to were the paying customers.

Hopefully it's not too much work, but then, we don't have 25 people to throw on rearchitecting for a year.
Magic.

Indistinguishable from magic.
Hey...I like this. (I'd better...I wrote it!)
"all binary formats out there" is a bit of a sensationalist title and doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere on the site.
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I have a Canon T3i and 2 young kids. AI servo is the right idea in theory, but on even a lower-end DSLR it just doesn't help much. If a kid is running towards the camera, it will keep refocusing as the subject moves, but it's always focusing on where the kid was a split second ago.

IIRC the higher-end cameras have algorithms to track the subject and predict where the subject WILL be and focus accordingly. However, I have many friends with Mk III's and they say it's a very hard problem that even the high-end DSLR's don't solve. As you can imagine it's not actually a solvable problem with the present AF latencies as the subject can change course after the algorithm guesses. And when you're shooting shallow DoF even a small mistake will kill the focus on the shot.

The question is whether the Lytro can operate at 1/200 or faster to solve that problem. The specs say 1/4000 is max shutter speed, but IIRC the actual capture speed isn't that fast...
It could have been a 95% approval rate and I still would have told you this campaign would backfire like this. The minority that dislike the police include many activist groups; if there is anything these activist groups are capable of doing and have the motivation to carry out, it is causing a shitfest on twitter.

Even if you write off those activists as "slacktivists", social media is still their game.
Mushy breasts?
Welcome to Hacker News, where a spontaneous public outcry is considered fascism.
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Hey jadence,

The bottom line: No one knows how safe HDPE sous-vide is in the long run. There's nothing conclusive out there, though what little evidence there is points to it being safe. Nathan seems so think so, too: http://modernistcuisine.com/2013/01/why-cook-sous-vide/

In the end you have to make a personal call. For me, the risk of undiscovered effects is vastly outweighed by the awesome food I serve.

I respect your concern, even if I don't share it, and I'm hoping to solve it soon enough, too. Be on the look out for a new product from us in the coming year.
Dave Arnold talked to (IIRC) someone from SCJ and below boiling, the Ziplock freezer bags supposedly won't leach plasticizers or anything like that.
I'm excited about sync.Pool:

http://tip.golang.org/pkg/sync/#Pool

There are a lot of cases where people write their own version of this (myself included, but also the connections in database/sql for example). It will be great to have an implementation in the standard library. This technique has been very, very useful in StatHat's production code as we have grown.
I just did some quick comparisons of my own.

Rust, by the way, goes back further than 2012; it became public in 2010.

IRC:

- irc://irc.mozilla.org/#rust: 480 people

- irc://chat.freenode.net/#elixir-lang: 158 people

On GitHub:

- mozilla/rust: 414 watchers, 4,776 stargazers, 993 forks.

- elixir-lang/elixir: 217 watchers, 2,317 stargazers, 323 forks.

Reddit:

- /r/rust: 3,754 rustaceans, ~30 users here now, 172 posts in the last month

- /r/elixir: 448 developers, ~6 users here now, 14 posts in the last month

Mailing lists:

- rust-dev (it hasn't been split yet like elixir's are and is mostly development stuff; /r/rust is used more for other talk): 50 threads this month

- elixir-lang-talk: 45 threads this month

- elixir-lang-core: 23 threads this month

Stack Overflow

- [rust]: 294 questions

- [elixir]: 119 questions

Google Trends: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=rust%20programming,e... shows "rust programming" at around 3× "elixir programming"

I agree that elixir is a little closer to being a mature language (for Rust, 1.0 is not expected for some months yet, though probably still this year), and the elixir community does appear to be more active and mature than I had thought, but overall it still looks to me as though Rust has at the very least the larger community (I'll drop the active claim out of laziness and the mature claim for insufficient evidence) by a considerable way.
Medium rare chicken is like medium rare pork. If you can get over your upbringing enough times to get used to it, you can never go back. It me took 3-4 times for each, and the only reason I stuck with it was that my snobbery overpowered my mother's education.

But really, sous-vide, medium rare chicken breast has a taste and texture you'd never think chicken breast could have. Same with pork, it's a revelation on all the things you miss out in the world due to prejudice and bad information.

EDIT: I've never gotten mushy breasts tptacek, how long are you cooking those things for? I do 1.5 hours@57-60C or so.
No net currency value has taken place. Party A gives $1 in the form of 100 1c coins, Party B gives $1 in the form of 1 $1 coin.

It's the same as when you give change to a stranger on the street - exchange two fives for a ten, and you're no better or worse off financially. You haven't bought anything, just exchanged for a more convenient set of tokens.
This is basically a Mr. Coffee.
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Surprised not to see any positive comments here – this is exciting stuff. The IoT should be changing the kitchen faster than any other room in the house (it's the room with the most gadgets to begin with, with the potential for the most time savings / life improvements). There's not a lot of serious projects in the kitchen yet, and there should be so many more!
I quite enjoy WUT.
Hmmmm... at first I felt I have to complain, then I remind myself that new designs mostly are very controversial because humans on average don't like changes that require them to adapt to a new usability pattern. So maybe I need some time to adapt.

Here is my first opinion: The new page looks a lot more fancy and modern, but the company detail pages just waste a lot of space. The older version wasn't that pretty, but it had all necessary informations on one page without much scrolling. Now I need to scroll a lot, which is a thing that I really don't like. Might be better on tablets, thou.
You already round to the nearest penny on your transactions, rounding to the nearest 5c isn't that much different. Especially when it only applies to cash transactions.
This is very suspicious and if I had to make a bet, I'd say it is a scam.

First "Exo Core Intelligent Operating System" is marketing BS. Which would be fine except they claim to be architecture agnostic which if true requires expensive cpu emulation. This is a warning flag, a real OS would warn about the massive downsides.

The big flag is they are taking "pre-orders" and are taking money only through Skrill. Skrill is the new name for moneybrokers, one of the only methods for unreversable money transfers. The only thing more suspicious would be BTC only payments.
> the alleged victim is ... not a very sympathetic character

> does little to help set an example for why the real instances of harassment are so wrong and terrible.

Ah, but this is why most victims don't go public. Very few of us would look good under intense scrutiny. And I think this whole process has demonstrated how tilted the playing field is, against those who do go public.

Some people say that this is why people claiming to be victims deserve a kind of automatic support. I struggle with that, but only because I've personally witnessed a couple of the rare cases where that empowered someone who was slightly deranged.
I put my money in us treasuries. I think the market is probably going to not go up much but it could go down a lot. I'll put it back in after it crashes.
What if you flushed the container with cold water? Seems easy enough to rig it to a cold water line and have a hose going into the sink to dump the hot water.
I typically do the veg in bulk for the week and ice bath->fridge them, then reheat in the water bath while I'm finishing the meat, but yeah, it wouldn't work to do simultaneously (unless you e.g. wanted traditional-texture braised meat, which works quite well in a veg-temp water bath).
The problem the author is hitting on is that there isn't any standard language you can use. Every language will express some things better and other things worse.

This is a philosophical problem in how we should do induction. It's also a practical one in creating artificial intelligence.
>no one is buying the bullshit

Here is some writing feedback for you: this style of discourse isn't wanted here.

The vast majority of STEM undergraduate courses fit very well into the format and are very arguably better suited to computer delivery.
What details exactly do you mean?
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Might want to see how things work out for most people with that loyalty bit
I'm sorry, but everything about this is awful. Terrible usability throughout.

What if I just want to browse by industry? Where do I find that?