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very good points! i'm moving back into this field again. would you be available for a thought exchange?
It seems to cycle through different videos, I think this is the one they are talking about: https://a0.muscache.com/airbnb/static/Paris-P1-0.webm
Its worth pointing out that this all works because of the rule:

* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}

This rule enables you to set a % width of a column and specify a padding in pixels without pushing the width of the columns beyond the 100%.

(I spent ages trying to replicate the bootstrap grid system and just couldn't get it to work until I discovered this rule!)
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Very slick looking site!

On the code side, how was your Dart experience? How does it compare to other things you've build with different tech?
If/When my kids ask me, I'd say...

"Look kids, you will want that high school diploma. I know it's an awful experience at times, but you gotta survive it. There's nothing wrong with you; high-school just messes with people's mind. Some way more than others, but these experiences will make you stronger. Your old & out-of-touch dad doesn't know much about today's teens, but I do know that skipping highschool will cause problems for you later on and you'll regret it. Sure some people are hugely successful without HS-diplomas, but that's not the norm. Don't drop out. Talk me or your mom about the issues. We might not be able to fix it but talking about things help and perhaps we have a similar story to share about our school experiences."

Sidenote: I don't know if this was a Nigerian-culture thing or just me and/or my parents, but when I was growing up the concept that I could drop out of highschool or even not go to college never entered my mind. It was mandatory from the get-go. In fact, it wasn't until my 2nd year in college when I noticed some people missing & asked around that it fully dawned on me - less than 100% of the people in my highschool graduated and went to college.

Could be that my dad's dad was a teacher, so education was a huge thing.
I've never used Tinder, but I've had multiple men tell me they swipe right (I think? whichever is "yes") on every women, and multiple women tell me the response rate from men who have swiped right on them is very low.

That doesn't sound like a very good system to me...
This is a perfect opportunity to crowdfund something really cool.

If you use Crowdtilt, you don't pay any fees since they are a YC company. Just use this promo code: hnfriends

https://www.crowdtilt.com
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I think the most exciting opportunity here is actually compiling models to run in specialized inference hardware! Lyric semiconductor a.k.a. Lyric Labs of Analog Devices is working towards such goals (http://dimple.probprog.org/, http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2991). I hope that they will get some hardware out at some point.

Also, doesn't it strike you strange that we are building simulations of stochastic phenomena (MCMC) using deterministically behaving components? What if we used stochastically behaving components as building blocks to begin with?

Most electronic components start to behave more or less stochastically when you try to run them with as little power as possible, and try to scale them down as small as possible. What if you could build MCMC simulator for the problem of your choice directly from stochastically behaving components? Just think of all the transistors you nowadays use just to generate a random number for simulating 90% probability of something.. they all are components that are manufactured to such tolerances, and run with such power levels that their probability of error is something like on the order of 1e-24 (for one computation). Doesn't that strike as a humongous overkill, when all you needed is something like "1, most of the time"..?

For more related cool stuff, google for imprecise hardware.
Yeah, I am going to work on it once I am done launching my main product. My main product is for in-person customer acquisition, so I should be able to seed this properly.

I am thinking:

* Schedule pickup (I made a scheduling product a few years ago with a nice algorithm)

* [Innovative revenue source that is the secret sauce, not involving ads or subscriptions]

* Request hold on the item (with ability to flag no shows)

* Hyper-detailed categories (I have a very interesting plan for that)

Open API, but anyone including us is free to clone what you build :)
Ultimate proof of the total and utter vacuuous retardedness of 'social media'
Well, it's funny you mention that, because I think kids are right to question compulsory pedagogy:
http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm
This might actually make audible worth the money which is way overpriced right now.
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Is there a way to re-arrange columns? I couldn't get negative pulls to work :(. I think bigger column names, or different column colors would improve the usability once you have push/pull in. Right now if cols are different sizes its a little tricky trying to figure out which one is which.

You could auto-name them with silly generated names or something; like what github does when you create a new repo
(And who doesn't loathe the Audible ebook downloader software? I don't think it's been really updated since the 90's.)
"we'd have to ask them to take time to do something that would be helpful for us and not for them."

I see it as what is good for you is good for them.

Knowing jobs allows you to influence policy because info like that is often used by politicians as a reason for agreeing with a particular position. Also a politician that is impressed with YC (for whatever reason "hey they create jobs") would be more likely to help a YC company (or YC) the same way a politician would take note and help anything that he personally has experience with. So keeping up the YC brand is important. [1]

I'm also not clear on exactly (with respect to jobs for example) how much work is involved in supplying that information. (Obv. someone at YC has to keep track of it of course which is work but it certainly seems worthwhile to do.)

[1] For example say I am contacted by YC for something that I do. Don't you think because I know who you are I am going to take notice and possibly be a bit more helpful than if I got a call from an incubator that I had never heard of?
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Looking at the game pictures of people pointing and laughing when the main character falls sent a chill down my spine. Everyone has at least a few horrid memories of school years, so this definitely seems scarier than zombies or aliens trying to kill your character.

Hopefully it doesn't push the concept too far and become depressing to play. Either way it looks interesting, so I'm in for one.
I would agree that in my personal experience, those people do tend to be quite intelligent. However, I have not found them to be more productive (and in some cases, they seem to be less productive, because they spend so much time fiddling and tweaking instead of just finishing things).
I am disputing that "the physical aggression comes after the emotional manipulation" is always the case. Sometimes it is provoked by little more than a snapped towel (good fun) accidentally hitting somebody's balls (not good fun, and likely to start a fight). Fights that break out during or after contact sports are another obvious example, unless you are defining "emotional manipulation" in such a way that you can say that hockey players tend to do it non-verbally while on the ice... Consider also a snowball fight that involves increasingly hard chunks of snow or ice which eventually escalates to grappling in a snowbank.

"Real provocation" in my above comment would be the sort of "emotional manipulation" that you are talking about.
Since I'm currently in a relationship I have not looked at Tinder. Is it exclusively picture based? Since I'm blind I actually had to read dating profiles and determine if someone was interesting and deal with the looks portion if I got a reply. I could see this being useful for me but I could also getting a bunch of hits on people I have no interest in.
Read the doc and the Less files. To really use bootstrap, you gotta use their Less and then your own on top of it.
> Kindle Fire has not significantly impacted the tablet market

I don't think that's the point of it. Tablets and phones are insurance policies for Amazon; so that they can have some minimal leverage with Apple and Google going into any negotiating table. I don't think it's a coincidence that they started working on them when Apple started messing with the Kindle app.
What problem does this solve? And does it do so without introducing a half dozen more?
Except, the proportions make Automation's look like a clothespin, and AirBNB's like.... well, a vagina now that someone has pointed it out to me, but that definitely wasn't my first impression.
Just having some fun. One of our out of state interns was playing on tinder (doesn't really know anyone around here) after a long day of work and we thought it might be fun to see if we could automate the process. No harm intended; just blowing off steam.
I absolutely love the new branding & fluid logo. This is one of those gigantic branding leaps that makes everything that came before look instantly outdated. Nice work.
Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History
The basic $69 one does not have a speaker. I think the $129 one may though.
If only the BBB had any actual power!
it's a great story.

BTW, can anyone give me perspective on what it would take to recreate this in Python? As a learning exercise

Is it possible to do? how long would it take for someone relatively new, etc.
Touch display feels like the real thing
http://podcasts.joerogan.net/
https://freedomainradio.com/
or maybe that's sexual. BeLongAnywhere?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oTEQf1d9Iw
Let it go.

He's not going to last long in the recruiting business pulling stunts like that. Those guys get most of their candidates from personal referrals & their clients from people like your employer. Both of those bridges are burned.
Idea was to minimise the work needed to collect the sugarbeet, I could be overestimating the automated collection of sugarbeet from the ground though :)
Testing robots.txt files made easier
Anand, you have SERIOUSLY outdone yourself on this one. I continue to aspire to attain frontend design chops as good as yours.

I remember watching Iron Man with this guy in his apartment in LA while trying to convince him to move to SF. He took meticulous sketches and notes on the UI used in the film. I look at this, especially the initial circular ui, and see the culmination of those notes with amazing use of frontend technologies and near perfect 3rd party integrations.

Well done, man. You are an inspiration to me.
I thought they didn't do 20% time anymore.
“Simple” performance modeling:  The Roofline Model [pdf]
Basically yes. There is a "tagline" section, but the point of the app is to find people you think are attractive.
I would say Ocaml code is much easier to understand as a beginner than Haskell. Even with context I've never been able to just look at some production haskell and get the gist quickly. Ocaml takes work, but I at the very least have an idea of what's going on after giving a chunk of code a once-over.

Here's an example: http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/OCamlLangImpl1.html
>Not that I'd want to suggest that a discussion that starts out with "that's interesting but it doesn't matter because there's no such thing as due process in the US" is going to be productive

I have found that most discussions you take part in are not terribly productive in the first place - though they never lack for postcount, so I'm not going to be too hard on myself here. That said, I didn't say there was no such thing as due process in the US, so your summary of my post misses the mark. I believe Assange should not have any expectation of due process, and that his treatment by US authorities, while perhaps not as brutal as that of prisoners in Guantanamo, would not be considered fair.

Nevertheless I found rogerhoward's response interesting, making - for me at least - the signal-to-noise ratio temporarily high enough that my previous post was worth it. But, now here we are. In the future, maybe if you don't find a line of discussion productive, you can try not posting.
> If the meal provides experienced utility (enjoyment, etc.) that justifies the cost, why do you care?

Why wouldn't you care? Knowing that the meal has been prepared by the restaurant instead of an industrial factory somewhere does improve my enjoyment of it.

A meal at a restaurant is more than just taste and nutrients.
IANAL either, but I think it would be against craigslist terms for me to continue to use their website while “providing” my accessibility extension. So I could publish the extension, but I would have to stop using craigslist. Additionally, the Chrome Web Store developer agreement[1] prohibits publishing an extension that “knowingly violates a third party’s terms of service”, so my guess is that the lawyer would then ask Google to take it down since any user of the extension would be violating the craigslist terms and thus (after the C&D) I would be violating the Chrome Web Store terms.

It’s pretty airtight, so I took my extension down.

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/terms
It was also a bit of a teaching moment. I was trying to show our intern how to use http://www.cycript.org/ for fun at night and he happened to have the Tinder app open. We love hacking things.
> A stereotype of a father and a son is that they will both suffer through their own problems, individually, in silence.

The trick for me has been to find things to do with my son. My daughter's will randomly unleash a torrent of emotion to me, but my son only talks when I do things like take him fishing or flying kites.
While your mileage will vary depending on the nature of your startup, I can point you to a paper we wrote summarising our experiences using OCaml to build the XenServer toolstack in a startup environment [1].

You should bear in mind that OCaml represents almost twenty years of continuous development (see the history chapter in Real World OCaml [2]), with a community steeped in some of the most cutting edge technology in modern programming languages (e.g. the Coq theorem prover or the CompCert certified C compiler).

I was the startup manager at XenSource that took the risk, and all of your points were not true for us:

- by joining the Caml Consortium (very cheap), we got access to the core developers and a yearly face-to-face. We're talking about Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez here. Do you get that with Java?

- the compiler and runtime are utterly rock solid and engineered for a modern Unix environment. We found more serious gcc bugs (5+) than OCaml bugs (one, to do with compiling functions with >32 arguments, and was already fixed in trunk and a backport available inside a day).

- Hiring OCaml developers gave us the cream of the crop even for entry level jobs, and I work with several of the original team that we assembled to this day. See the paper [1] for details on several of the responses from within the company and how we responded.

- The OCaml community is very pragmatic, since the language is used in quite a few large codebases like Coq, CompCert, Why3, XenServer, Pfff (Facebook) as well as closed-source codebases such as Jane Street and Lexifi's. Most language evolution discussions are evaluated against these large users. I consider OCaml rather unique in that, despite being a small community, the ones that do use it do so seriously and often at scale.

I find it amusing that so-called "risk-averse" startup managers discount a 20-year old language with legendary stability in favour of relatively new languages. Nothing beats having developers that deeply understand their language and libraries, and that's only imparted with age and stability.

I would also note that being based in Cambridge, it's quite easy to grads that know ML (and the same is true in many US universities that teach OCaml, like Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale).

[1] http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-icfp-xen.pdf

[2] https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/prologue.html#a-brief-...
We cannot have a meaningful conversation. You are high on propoganda. I'm not going to talk to a disingenuous fuck. If you have no regard for the truth, what am I supposed to say. Is this fun?

Bill Gates should be locked-up for allowing DOS on the market for ten years. He endangered the public and caused countless harm to individuals.

I proved God. You lost ten years ago. You are a walking-dead zombie. I am tired of bashing you to make you stay the fuck down. I proved God. Game over long ago. You are walking dead. What's the point? I bash the fucken zombie head somemore... won't stay down. I fucken bash the zombie head somemore... won't sdtay down. Day after fucken day I brutalize the fuck dead zombie fuck. Won't stay down. You died. You lost. Stay the fuck down!

A government random number site public to the world. Can't be any plainer. Stay the fuck down.
When I was in early grade school, I was unpopular and a target for being picked on. I was unhappy about that and launched an in retrospect quite cynical campaign to increase my status. Basically, I targeted the highest-status boy in my class and devotedly worked to become his friend. I invited him to events and talked with him and laughed at his jokes. I didn't particularly like him, but I was successful and took up a role of second-highest status boy. Then I ruthlessly defended my position.

Second grade was kind of weird.

Anyhow, I have to say that as weird as I see it in retrospect, it worked pretty well for me. I didn't super enjoy maintaining my relationship with the other boy, but I liked it a lot more than being a low status person others picked on.

I make no grand claims to universality.
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All software has bugs, and professional end users often hit edge case bugs that affect few others.

Do you push fixes for these back into your distribution (or upstream and cherry-pick into the distribution, etc), or do you maintain your own private repositories containing your modifications?

If you do the latter, then you have extra maintenance costs. If you pay for support from a distribution vendor, then you save that cost. Even if you have the expertise to do everything yourself, it still costs you time (and therefore money). Working with a distribution vendor amortizes that time between all of their customers, saving everyone money.
You write as if your original comment wasn't right there for everyone else to read. Also, you write without addressing anything in the comment to which you're replying.
I love your idea :)
Bullying and/or emotional manipulation is different from being overly sensitive. Being overly sensitive is about being easily offended when the other party does not intend any offence, while emotional manipulation and bullying is more of a dysfunction on the part of the bully, than it is a dysfunction for the person being bullied for not having thick enough skin to simply take it in stride. Get the picture?
Hook it up to a chat bot and BAM, hundreds of thousands of dates lined up in less than 24 hours.

Efficiency!
It's been renamed from "Thread Breaker", hasn't it? Because it's still called that in the screenshot of the 'More' menu, alongside "Split the Thread".

(Thread Splitter's a much better name :)
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This article shows some small scale grain harvesting devices. They also sell small scale grain drills, mini-balers and some cool looking walk behind tractors.

http://www.ferrari-tractors.com/smallscale.htm

But for a very small patch of an acre or less, it seems that a scythe, then hand threshing with a stick and a tarp might be the way to go. That's how they did it for thousands of years. I understand it goes pretty fast if you learn how to use a scythe. The tools would cost around a hundred bucks and you would get a bit of exercise during harvest season at least.

http://www.amazon.com/Seymour-SN-9-Aluminum-Scythe-Snath/dp/...
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Yeah it's sort of overkill for the sundial, and doesn't necessarily explain how you construct such a fractal, only that it exists (although the proof may be constructive, but it isn't given).

I appreciated the math, as someone with measure theory and analysis experience, and the result is very cool, but it's a bit funny how it's just thrown in there.

That said, assuming the reader knows the requisite math it's a very concise explanation of the necessary theory. I tried to explain the math somewhere else in the comments but I'm afraid I didn't do a great job.
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what exactly are they doing that sucks? I was thinking about giving 'badges' that you can earn for various things like working out 7 days in a row, completing your 100s workout, etc. which people could share on FB/twitter. is strava doing something similar or what are they doing for peer pressure?

edit: as for your feature requests: they are noted, watch out for the next version :) thank you for your feedback!
Ask HN: What's the best way to discover great crowdfunding campaigns?
For those serial crowdfunders out there: I am curious 1) why you invest, and 2) how you personally find great crowdfunding campaigns that you want to look at and potentially support. Has it usually been through a friend, a blog, an advertisement, browsing a platform, or something else?
Exactly this. If you want to create a bleed, don't use a container, but if you want content inside that bleeding element, put a container inside of it, which will keep content from bleeding.

If you need multiple bleeds on a page, use multiple containers. Just don't nest containers inside of containers.
I think that I accidentally took the quote out of context. I think it was meant to indicate that the legislators of 1934 actually cared about the public good. As in: 'This stuff is pro-consumer, and there's 100 pages of it! Awesome! Let's use it against Comcast, posthaste!'
Two Entrepreneurial Firms Tie The Knot
I'd go a bit further and say that the scariest thing as a teenager is yourself. It hasn't been that long since I was a teenager in high school, so I can still remember the insecurities that ran the whole gamut - physical, sexual, intellectual, social. I wasn't even bullied - I was mostly just ignored. I think that at a good, affluent school any kid should be able to avoid most physical or overt verbal abuse.
Hm. So females are an abnormal, minute percentage of the population not worthy of any attention at all? And when you said absolutely anyone could do it, I guess that doesn't include women, right? They're not really people I guess. Or at least, they're not adults. Just emotionally immature children we should shepherd and guide. Obviously they should not be allowed to affect important things like work or politics, since they don't have the emotional maturity. /sarcasm

Wow, I almost forgot people like you really existed... Who let you into the civilized portion of the internet? Can somebody check this guy's pass? I think he's in the wrong section. His misogyny is leaking out.
At no time in the course of human existence have we ever eagerly read long books
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