Ask HN: What are you working on?
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
While in principle I think the approach is great, I have recently learned that some of your "volunteers" are in fact people infected with spyware. Can't find the corresponding article atm, though :-(
They're not infected with spyware. Some of the computing power comes from the users of freeware applications, who are asked _during install_ if they want to enable the grid system that powers us.
Have you thought about the economics of having a program where people earn money from allowing use of there processing power vs paying for it regularly/ having your own processing power.
Even if it was barely worth it for the user after factoring in electricity costs the novelty factor might attract people.
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#203http://www.caterpi.com -- Crowdsourcing freelance translation
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#204Making our e-commerce platform http://www.enstore.com available to everyone. With a nice frontend built in Cappuccino/Atlas.
I've been following your company's work on HN and the Appengine group. Just wanted to say, you guys have some very talented designers!
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#205Started yesterday: Lark, a toy Arc-like language implemented on top of Python instead of Scheme. ([link redacted]) I've never implemented a Lisp or used it for anything serious, and I've been trying to figure out for myself whether there really is anything to macros or if they're just fancy compiler hacks, so I decided to write Lark as a way of learning what precisely pg is so excited about. It's a direct, lazy trans…
just being able to create and call lambdas is enough because you can count, branch, etc. Is that right?
♫ All you need is Lambdas ♫ :)
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're not infected with spyware. Some of the computing power comes from the users of freeware applications, who are asked _during install_ if they want to enable the grid system that powers us.
Have you thought about the economics of having a program where people earn money from allowing use of there processing power vs paying for it regularly/ having your own processing power. Even if it was barely worth it for the user after factoring in electricity costs the novelty factor might attract people.
Some people leave their computer on all the time anyway, so they would probably be interested.
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#207Still working on http://www.RateMyStudentRental.com, trying to improve student rental housing one school at a time.
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#208"Crowdsourcing" for grassroots activism: http://dreamact.info/
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#209Making our e-commerce platform http://www.enstore.com available to everyone. With a nice frontend built in Cappuccino/Atlas.
Just curious, is the storefront in Cappuccino, or just the admin section?
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#210I seem to have invented a new datastructure, so I'm analysing it to check its performance before writing it up and announcing it. I've also invented a variant of an existing data structure that has some nice features. That will accompany it. In the meantime I'm starting a re-write of my alpha 0.1 web service to help connect people with friends and friends of friends. The existing one still exists, and I'm still colle…
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do once you've invented new data structure? I think I have recently, too, but (besides thoroughly documenting it and posting a library based on it, soon), I'm kind of at a loss. I'm not in academia, so publishing in an academic journal isn't the clear choice. I've been trying to find prior art, but thus far haven't found anything similar. My e-mail address is in my profile.
I hope you share the details of 'what to do after you ...' here.