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That machine can only handle computable functions (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function)

Although many reasonable choices are equivalent, you should also be more precise in what you mean by 'a machine'. If your machine is a regular expression matcher, for example, it cannot determine whether an arbitrary string contains matching parentheses pairs (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy)
HTTPS traffic is actually easier to track
Thanks trcollinson, for your detail reply. Very few good wishers like you spends time to explain or suggest on someone Else's mistake. I really appreciate your time.

Now,
1. Single Founder: I guess, I have to work on it. The idea and prototype was build as a side project thus no other heads... nevertheless, its one of my top priority to get it going....

2. How to Monetize: Ads is easiest but as you said its challenging. Also, as I have mention earlier I am here to complement not compete with big guys. having said that, this is my thinking....

Though like any consumer web company, I would need a large use base (~1M) but here are my thought for it,

- Subscription to watch premium content.
- Feature or Promotional or Ad. Videos
- Targeted Video Distribution (revenue share)
Similar to youtube ads but for videos, we have rich data about user likeness thus can facilitate target video distribution. Content creator can distribute paid content to their target audience based on our data. I called it, CPV : Cost per 1k Video Views.

3. Machine Learning and getting like minded people together... I'm on it. would love to get more inputs from you... i'm at, nish at joday

Thanks again! really appreciate your comments!

--Nish
I have been more interested in Parrot VM rather than Perl 6 itself. I like the idea of a unified VM, though it looks unlikely to take off. The ability to share code/libraries between languages would be awesome.
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Since CurrentC blocked NFC technology at the terminal, it would be funny if Apple and Google blocked CurrentC from their app stores.
For anyone unaware, the author of this article (Jonah Lehrer) has been disgraced after he admitted to fabricating quotes.[1]

His loss of credibility has tainted his articles. The book publisher pulled his books from the shelves but apparently, many of his old magazine articles are still online without any editor's note to warn readers to proceed with extra caution.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Lehrer#Plagiarism_and_quo...
I have attended Berlin Mathematical School, a joint program by the three renowned universities from Berlin. The program is specifically set up for foreign students and is absolutely feasible for foreigners!
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This is a common misconception of translation: the idea that you just need to "flip" words from language A to language B and you're done. This is quite naïve. In professional translation circles we talk about transcreation and localization. When you need to sell an English speaking book in a different country, you can't just convert the books' text strings from language A to language B. You need to RECREATE the book in the second language. There is one rule in quality publishing: the reader SHOULDN'T feel that what he/she is reading is a translation. The reading must feel natural. IT prose, on the other hand, is comparatively poor and is indeed subject to automation. It's a matter of quality. If you just want to "feel" that you are already "present" in the global market just because you did a cheap text conversion, a couple of dollars will do the job. If you really want to CREATE a product with different, same-quality versions for several cultures/languages/markets, you definitely need better informed strategy.
Definitely fair points. I appreciate the feedback!

We are hoping some of the features that a blog can't (or at least not easily) provide would make people want to covert. For example, your customers can subscribe to be notified of updates automatically, easily search through the version updates, submit feature requests to you, download a printer friendly version, etc. all from one nice interface.

Of course if some feature does come to mind that you think would make you want to transition if we added it, do let me know. I'm always open to ideas!

You're right -- it is a small problem that needs solving but one that we've seen time and again from building our own Web applications. So we're happy to solve it and see if there's a larger market of SaaS apps (and others) that could benefit from it.
Interesting idea, but it's going to be a hell of a sight when the first one goes catastrophically wrong. Think back to the Boston bomber hunt - in a repeat of that incident, not only does Reddit accuse the wrong person of being guilty, they also crowdfund an attempt to track him down with private detectives or something.
Really like the design, nicely done.
Insider trading should generally improve pricing of securities. It is the primary argument for legalizing insider trading.
I grew up in Germany, but studied in Holland.

As far as I know, all universities in Germany are more or less equivalent. In Germany no one will ask what university you went to, when you apply for a job. Unless it's an applied university (Fachhochschuhle).

With that in mind, I would recommend you to choose your mayor first and then figure out which university has English speaking programs for that mayor. In Germany you have to choose your mayor before you apply to University.
Note however, that this example doesn't fit in at all with the contrarian view in this thread. Feynman's report was about accurately estimating the failure rate of the shuttle and about the bureaucratic culture that popped up to protect itself and ended up making that failure rate worse by not letting engineers do their jobs.

But if during the Challenger investigation an engineer or a manager had told Feynman "There are place and time for failure. Failure on a launch operation isn't one of them", he would have regarded them as completely incompetent and part of the problem.

The very nature of the enterprise is risky, and so the goal was to manage the risk of failure to an acceptable limit. Cover-your-ass culture can be improved, engineers can be allowed to do their jobs, but you aren't going to eliminate risk. The fact that we can even try to put a number like "1 in 50" or "1 in 100" on estimated space flight failure rates is exactly what blhack is talking about. We could judge that too high a rate, but if we did, we wouldn't be going to space at all, at least not anytime soon. That's the tradeoff.

Note that the engineers and especially the astronauts were well aware of that risk, and you can find almost exactly that sentiment echoed by them in interviews after the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia accidents. Many astronauts were most worried that the American public couldn't stomach the idea that failure came with any ambition in spaceflight and so would shut the program down.
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Even when the part is normally a replaceable part? Perhaps this explains the increase in difficulty in repairing cars nowadays.
Got rejected to YC and now feel happy about it:)
Well... It was really disappointing to get the rejection, especially when we've put so much work into that YC application. First idea when I saw the email: Damn! How could they do not invite us? We have such a great mobile email app! Disrupting! Fantastically awesome! Totally new approach that blows Google's Inbox and Mailbox out of the water hands down. Cool traction with early adopters and even a 200M users company as a partner that opens their audience to us. But then the second thought came. Thank you! Tanks for not inviting us to the interview for this W15 batch. We'll work our asses off to get into Summer batch. It is obvious that we didn't work hard enough to get invited into this one. Thanks for the motivational ass kick! Let's talk in April.
How is this considered even remotely good advice? I agree that you should definitely do all of the other things advocated by the author, but why not use HTTPS everywhere? Because of the risk of engendering a false belief that your site is secure?

This is a rant based on a flawed principle; that if you can't do it all, don't do any of it. If you don't use HTTPS, you will open yourself to many additional attack vectors. Why would any security professional give this advice? It makes no sense at all.
The business model relies on a monopoly, an information monopoly. If the mass's interaction at POS is with a software or a hardware that potentially allows id-ing the patron, preferential pricing becomes possible, security is anon issue -- it seriously damages the value of the middleman.

So that the secure element(yeah right) that's on your plastic or your phone only communicates with OSes and HW that limits the ID-ing of the cx and provides the strict minimum of info to your POS is the critical part, in my view.
True, but no one wins if the user leaves your website frustrated. Gracefully degrading in absence of a full-fledged scriptable web browser should be considered best practice.
Looks really good. Congrats.

Not sure I like the pricing though.
I would certainly not mind carrying a bulkier phone in exchange for modularity and personalisation.

I may not be in the majority segment, but I'd wager there are others who feel the same.
The recent update that moved Google Voice into Hangouts [1] has made that a reality for me. My phone took a swim a week ago and so I've been using a Nexus 7 as a temporary phone.

The only thing missing is that I had to set up my launcher, install all the apps again, configure my IMAP email client, and configure some third-party apps that didn't sync notification sounds.

[1]: In case you're not familiar, it added the ability to make and receive VoIP calls.
* Plenty of online retailers won't take cash

* Both coins and high-denomination bills can be and have been refused by brick-n-mortar stores (not all or most but they are within their rights to refuse it as payment).
Straight from the horse's mouth [1]:

"On the data security side, the technology choices we’ve made take consumers’ security into account at every aspect of their core functionality. We want to assure you, MCX does not store sensitive customer information in the app. Users’ payment information is instead stored in our secure cloud-hosted network. Removing this sensitive information from the mobile device significantly lowers the risk of it being inappropriately disclosed in a case that the mobile device is hacked, stolen or otherwise compromised."

There are simply not enough faces to palm.

[1] http://www.mcx.com/blog/answers-to-your-questions/
Well, I spent my time in S.E. Asia and people either don't have a tablet at all, or more frequently they have an iPad. For every Samsumg I see there are like 2 or 3 iPads.

Now, I'm in perhaps the richer country of the whole region.
>and a lightweight custom JavaScript binding system

I wonder what the reason was for not using a smaller binding library like Knockout vs rolling their own.
For what it's worth, most programs really can't assume much about incoming classes having a solid background, so there is a lot of remedial effort in first year anyway.

So yes, if you were basically competent but didn't put the time in in highschool, for whatever reason, then sure - if you're willing to do the work no reason they can't succeed.

And given that high schools are such a mixed bag, I do think it's worth at least looking at giving more kids a shot. It might be interesting to have a slate of such scholarships reserved for students who wouldn't qualify on entry, but would after first semester/year.

Which isn't to say everyone should go, I really wish there were more real vocational options. But if they want it and can do the work, absolutely.
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Yep. And that's why I believe it's a great way to test/improve VODKA.

PS: now I'm not sure if it applies considering that the data is actually normalized inside Postgres.
I think your fundamental assumption is based on "possible" performance. I would argue that required performance has flattened over the last few years. A nexus 4 is a perfectly serviceable phone still.

I think as technology improves, the advantages of modularity with trump any loss of performance.
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The swoosh sounds are pretty funny: sounds like someone recording themselves making swooshing sounds :-)
I'd be interested to see if you could provide a reference for that statement. My experience with undergraduates I've met at MIT and Harvard, for example has been that they are predominantly middle class - however with still predominantly more upper class students than working class. Of course, that's just my subjective impression.
FTFA:

> Teaching students how to think is a fuzzy, amorphous idea. And so [they] crafted a [...] list of [...] "habits of mind and foundational concepts" that they want every student to learn in their first year. There are 129 of them.

I'd pay just to have that list. That list would be a huge source of constructive discussion around how to teach critical thinking skills.
For me, 70% of the time... this works every time.
I think Leap still has huge potential (mainly commercial) but unfortunately not as a general purpose UI device. In fact, it's much worse than a touchscreen for all 2-D situations (ie, pretty much everything that's being represented on a flat screen).
Isn’t CurrentC a “physical-only” payment system, i.e. not supported for online transactions?
Your website doesn't work on osx with chrome 38.0.2125.104.

clicking on 'contact' scrolls down and when it reaches the bottom it just snaps back to the top.
Thanks for the tip. I haven't used any puppet accounts to upvote or comment but my friends did upvote this post... mainly because they are my friends. Is that against HN rules? I think this is something the community at large would appreciate and I don't think it's reasonable to knock it from the front page because I have friends that work in the same building. Is there a better way to approach this? Thanks man!
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I assume you haven't used Chromium. It's not an issue, as I said they don't come by default as in Chrome, but those codecs are easily installable through the package manager.

I hadn't even noticed Chromium doesn't have support by default for those codecs as I have used HTML5 audio and video without an issue. Really, for a non-expert Chromium is just Chrome with a blue icon.
That immediately puts non-English speaking universities at a huge disadvantage

How so? I studied at University of Amsterdam, everyone spoke English at graduate level and everyone published in English. Many faculty where not even Dutch. I would expect the same from any international class university.
I know you're just joking, but I think it actually makes a lot of sense. Reddit has given birth to a lot of successful businesses, websites, projects, and careers. I bet internally the question was more along the lines of, "how do we monetize without taking away from the community, and perhaps, even further enhancing it?" This is one solution that helps them monetize by further supporting the community.
It's on the website, under "Closer Look".

"1024 x 767 DLP projector"
Looks cool to me.
Hi OP here. Thank you so much for pointing that out. That was a big mistake I made while trying to bring readers to a different way of viewing limit, which can be useful as an introduction to the (ε, δ)-definition. Yes, limit shouldn't be defined this way, which was the reason why I used the expression "can be viewed" rather than "is" at the start. But I got too carried away and forgot to clarify that there're cases when we shouldn't view it such way.

So I would like to thank you once again for letting me know about this huge mistake of mine that I failed to notice. I was busy and didn't see your comment until now. I have just added clarification for that in the article.

The reason why there's so little about limit in this article was that I intended to go through the limit section as quick as possible and get started on differentiation and integration, which are what most readers are on my page for. On a second thought I decided to at least pen down the (ε, δ)-definition, and so I added the blockquote with the "biggest/smallest-impossible" analogy which unfortunately ended being the last thing you saw in my article before you closed your tab. I'm actually planning on writing another article, one specially for the concept of limit, covering topics from continuity, existence of limit (as you mentioned) and one-sided limit to sequence and taylor series to limit point, neighborhood and a bit of topology.
What are the living costs for a student couple in Germany? I'd really like to learn German and want to get a Masters degree soon. I could work while studying if I find a job.
You're misunderstanding the point. Pretend you're a cash-strapped startup, still financially in the red. You discover a security hole in your software. You have these choices on what to do today:

1) Spend the day implementing a new feature that will very likely improve revenue/traction

2) Spend the day doing preventative security measures to protect you from something that might only be a problem when you're actually making lots of money

You choose option #1. Choosing #2 is "harmful" to you and your investors.
Thank you. I'm glad you beat me to this.
Yup, work harder.
"A fool and his money..." These people are going to manage their money poorly no matter what, and if you have a gambling prohibition you're going to just make it more dangerous for them. This seems like the best use of their citizen's need for gambling.
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"HIGHLY profitable"? Even at the highest price quoted on this thread, this looks like a rounding error --- in the sense that if you were a startup providing this information at these prices to its total addressable market, you'd have a hard time even getting funded.

The number of firms that can profit from trading off realtime access to fundamentals is not large. It's a market where viable real products need to have customer lifetime values in the many millions.
I guess if you spend most of your time at a desk. But that sounds dreadful to me.
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Basically, all state universities have a good level of teaching, it doesn't matter where you go on the undergrad level. Later, your field is important; universities have different specializations. Some people prefer smaller universities (more intimate teaching), others bigger universities (more different lectures - more choice). If you only know English, it limits your choices of course.

So start with the subject you want to study, or with the kind of city you want to live in. Do you want to live in a big city or a small city? Do you prefer a big university?
What's your level - do you need general teaching or do you want to get into specialities? In the first case, any university that offers the course is fine, in the second, look closer.
Diogenes of Sinope. A philosopher, cynic, and has legendary altercations with Alexander the Great, Plato, Socrates and other famous figures during that time. Unfortunately most of his original works were destroyed, so we only have bits of anecdotes and hearsay.

Of all the people I have read about, he lives the most congruent life and thoughtfully challenges status quo.
This product must have sounded like a good idea to some clueless but slightly rich tech charlatans.
Looking at the product page, a mediocre genius like me can tell:

The intro video tells zilch about the product. Tries to sell some grandiose vision about hands. As if they have evolutioned hands for snakes. That's a sore sign that there's not much to the product.

"A creativity station. A fully functioning PC. Whatever you want to call it, Sprout can do it. " I want to call it the spaceship voyager on a mission to the planet of the MBAs.

"Blending the physical and digital worlds that you live in, Sprout unleashes your creativity like never before." if by that you mean it makes you want to rant creatively, sure.
I'm wondering if it's true usefullness is potentially in an Enterprise supplemental tool to cobble together some quick apps, maybe like what MS Access was used for a long time ago, except this time you get nice browser-based, reactive applications.

I'm not sure you'd use it to build the infrastructure of your startup on. Or a content heavy site. But I see building tools like for managing a lot of developer instances, internal tools for config, etc to possibly be pretty sweet for this.
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Has no processing fees for the customer. Business banks charge dearly for cash handling.
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Maybe we need a law making it a crime to illegally violate somebody's rights. Throw a couple of cops in prison for stunts like this, and we'd probably see a lot less abuse.

Otherwise upstanding policemen are being pushing into violating the law by their superiors. Make it a crime, and the police unions would help make these problems go away.
The point that you make about the "old" paradigm is completely valid, in the fact that we're seeing a shift away from towers with interchangeable components to something like a NUC or mac mini for the "average" user, as these smaller formfactors are "good enough".

Project Ara on the other hand is trying to do something else entirely. They have the formfactor defined already, that of a modern smartphone. What makes it so interesting is the fact that they're trying to take that formfactor and add the inherent flexibility that comes with a larger system, but without changing the formfactor. This is akin to getting ATX full tower expansion in the same space as the mac mini or even mac pro. It's a daunting task to say the least, one with a constantly changing frame of reference, as the smartphone evolves into a thinner sleeker and lighter device. This makes the Ara developers jobs doubly hard, as they have to develop for 2 generations ahead of where we are for size and weight constrains, while still keeping the bulky, power hungry, and prone to failure interconnnect that is required to assemble disparate parts into a whole unit, as well as all the modules within this target.

It's a race that they may never win due to how rapidly those targets shift, but we can hope that it's a moonshot project that one day renders tangible benefits for the everyday phone.

To be honest, i'm less and less excited about these physical devices with the set of constraints that being physical devices imparts to them. I really wish that within the next 10 years we hit a Virtualization-level jump in how we interact with information, allowing us to abstract away trivial things like screen size and compute power. The only way this is going to happen is through augmented reality, a clear moonshot project i wish a few more companies invested in rather than the halfhearted attempt that is google glass.

Whee I went off on a tangent there.
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I deeply believe in this. Classes on formal logic and formal induction, cause and effect, Mill's methods; that's a path to creating a better world rather than just better consumers and wage laborers. Basic reasoning skills are difficult to come by, whether you're looking to learn them or hire them.
Salary range is the most crucial point. I would not take a sub $120k job under any circumstances, so please don't waste my time. Sub $140k would have to be a very good opportunity at a rocket ship with boatloads of equity. If you want responses, be honest and up front on what you are willing to pay, then we can start to filter through the other information.