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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by cabalamat »

Zak wrote: post #140
cabalamat wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Detecting and punishing cheating in those circumstances sounds like a Hard Problem. In particular, when your software says 2 essays were probably written by the same student, but both students deny it, how can they reasonably be punished, since there is no proof?

Questions like "why did you say X?" usually reveal whether a person is actually familiar with what they claim to have written. It's imperfect, certainly, and I would never recommend punishing a student based entirely on an algorithm's result, but I think I can provide a tool to drastically cut down on this sort of academic fraud. I intend to make it very clear to customers that they should not punish students based o…

> Questions like "why did you say X?" usually reveal whether a person is actually familiar with what they claim to have written.

That's true.

If an algorithm flags someone as a possible cheat multiple times, it may be worth inspecting that person further.

> I intend to make it very clear to customers that they should not punish students based only on information provided by my software.

Good idea. Customers should however publicise that anti-cheating software is in use.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by usaar333 »

atomical wrote: post #126
_3ex7 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a discussion at PyOhio this past weekend, a lot of people were mentioning how they wanted a Heroku-like service for Python.

Is PiCloud unattractive compared to Heroku?

(I'm one of the PiCloud devs)

PiCloud (http://www.picloud.com) is not a web hosting service. Rather, it is a highly scalable compute service.

(In other words, you can't host a website on PiCloud. But your site can run all of its background tasks on PiCloud).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by sandipagr »

jtchang wrote: post #108
mleonhard wrote: post #102

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Please tell us more.

I have been working on it by myself for a few months (so have a working proof of concept). The idea is a data aggregation service that helps small to medium online businesses analyze common sources of ecommerce data. Most small businesses do not have the time or manpower to implement complex business intelligence solutions such as SAP, Cognos, or Actuate (the big players in this space). My product serves to bridge th…

you should think of launching soon if you have a working proof of concept. I'd love to see it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by wbond »

Noted (http://notedwiki.com), a wiki that will be easy to use, attractivelly designed, simple to theme and have functionality focused on small business and freelancers.

It will be a software product sold for a one-time fee and will be compatible with pretty much any environment that has PHP. The syntax will be based on the cross-wiki WikiCreole standard, but it will also support WYSIWYG. We have some great ideas and are gathering feedback from people who are interested in wikis or an easy way to store their information.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by usaar333 »

dannyr wrote: post #94
njl wrote: post #24

My Django hosting service. I looked at Heroku and thought, "I want that for Python." Yesterday, I got most of the http request path finished. There is some node.js work left, and I still need to do some more work on Varnish. I'm hoping to get to the Postgresql stuff next week, then on to the website and API...

njl, I hear people asking for a Django-equivalent of Heroku. You definitely have a market for this.

What were there opinions of AppEngine? (the closest thing there is currently)
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