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Hey underyx! Would you mind referring me as well? (Email in profile). I'd love to give Superhuman a try! Way too many emails, and always looking for more efficient & effective ways to communicate well with everyone. (Happy to return the favor in any way!) Thanks!

ROS is definitely the way to go. Aside from the plethora of existing libraries for preexisting robots, its the 'industry-standard' for personal robots. Plus, its really quite easy to learn, well-documented and capable of really impressive things.

I think people are seeing the products that Google has to maximize profit on (Youtube, AdSense, G+, etc...) and using those as the basis for the entire ecosystem that is Google. Google, as you pointed out, is much more than just the products that make money. I find it incredibly shortsighted to fault a company that tries to make money in order to pay for these great research projects.

I really don't mind ads. Its a free service to use, I can live with some ads, I still get my search that I like, I still get the experience that I like, and I patronize the company that provides this without any dime out of my pocket. Plus, Google is using these funds to research these multi-billion dollar initiatives like self-driving cars that I couldn't fathom to undertake on my own.

My droplet has been working fine in NY. There was an email earlier today about a problem detected and expected, intermittent downtime for tonight. Not sure if that is related.

Heh ;)

For clarification, I was meaning pure C.

It might be wise to contact DigitalOcean support (or on their forums) before posting this on a public forum that they probably will not read. Even if you are completely wrong, there is no problem in letting their support know.

I've received replies within a day or two from them. Depending if you sent yours during one of the bursts from an HN thread it might of got lost. Try sending them an email now?

As a current student, I think what you are doing is quite wonderful, and having just read PG's 'What You'll Wish You'd Known' Speech, I think that such a talk like this could be incredibly powerful and might make a difference in some lives. What I would stress is the abundance of possibilities available, just the sheer amount of magical discoveries that they can go on to accomplish, or discover an hour after your talk (on that point, stressing action now, what they can do as a student is paramount to reaching them and getting them to really take you up on your offer). Too many times, speakers come in and give these lackluster maxim-filled speeches about life, and roads ahead of them. I would try to really imbue within your audience the fact that they can act now, and grasp at openings that could propel them to discoveries 10..15 years from now.

I do think it is quite admirable to try to plant the seeds of this career and of possibilities in these fifteen year olds, and think you could really make a difference somewhere.

If you need anyone to bounce ideas off from the perspective of a current student or give any critiques, feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), and I would be happy to look it over. Good luck!

Definitely check out Kyle Rush's report on the optimization of the Obama Campaign's donation page via A/B testing. Here's the link:http://kylerush.net/blog/optimization-at-th e-obama-campaign-ab-testing/

It would be interesting to correlate this to number of views it is likely to get. Hitting the first page at 3am is not nearly as valuable as hitting the first page at prime time despite it being easier to get there.

Clickable: https://gist.github.com/grownseed/5384323

Actually found these really interesting and started playing around with the selective sight, although I used to do that when I was younger with my fingers, making them disappear. I think that's more of a physical action to do with your retinas, but still. Regarding the "illusions," how detailed of an object can you perceive? Is it actually tangible in your vision or just a projection of your imagination onto a location in your sight?

Ads are also the thing that enables really amazing things to exist. Regardless of your feelings about facebook, the community it has created has had drastic impacts on the world at large. Almost the entire knowledge of humanity is now in anyone's grasp with a simple click of a button (Google). That was only possible because Google was able to make money off of it through ads. How do you propose that the internet pay for its self without ads? The whole freedom of the internet is because they can make money off of ads.

Not everyone needs to cure cancer to do something great.

"Instead, I would like to know what is your recommendation for an easy to use, safe and practical way to encrypt my email communication that I can set up right now?"

None. Although, thinking about it right now, it might be possible to develop a simple Chrome extension/userscript to provide easy encryption/decryption for clients using PGB or some other method. One could have it plug straight into gmail (or any other client) and decrypt on demand / encrypt.

The problem is that it is doable to create an encrypted email client, but the problem is how does one then send this off encrypted to a gmail account? There's no practical solution to handle that unless you want everyone to be on the same server, which then makes email pointless since there would be better solutions. But, unless google and the other big players adopt encryption, there's really no real way to do it streamlined.

I would, however, recommend adopting PGP, as that seems the simplest route to go.

Clickable: http://s-crit.com

Heh, see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5318632

Yes, it's a joke.

URL shortener for music links that then redirects to user's preferred music service (saved for future) anyone?

HN is actually a great resource for this.

I would suggest expanding on your OP here with some details about the app, perhaps I might be interested :P

I'm looking to get started with playing around with Clojure web apps. Could you link me to any opening tutorials or explanations?

Thanks for including the source. Really nice resume at first glance, looking over the source right now.

I'd recommend you post more about what you are looking for at the moment. HN can be a great place in itself to find someone.

Well, first of all, just glancing at that website you linked. I am sure you will have an all-new decked out one once it is actually launched, but for people like me, who you are linking to it right now, it isn't the best at first glance. Not because of any design aspect, just because I have absolutely no idea what your product is when I open the page at first glance. I should not have to click a "How does it work" to understand what your product is, and am much more likely to just leave the page after failing in my quest to discover what this new website is. A huge part of launching is about the hype you create beforehand, so I strongly recommend that you add a line or two, perhaps a working screenshot right under that first bold text, just to tell me what exactly it is that I should be looking forward to. I don't mean advertising jargon like, 'get more quality content, save time and engage their audience.' That is good, but I need to first know what it is that will do that. So give a short description of what your product actually is.

I have been meaning to dig deeper into functional programming, specifically Clojure, but as a newbie to functional programming, I am finding it hard to find a detailed tutorial that I can start to get started with the concepts and programming used in Clojure. Would anyone have any recommendations for a guide?

For a complete beginner into server management, who is looking into setting up some servers in the near future, why should I not use Ubuntu for server? And use CentOS instead? Is there a solid reason for this?

I do have a startup idea and I am very interested in this proposition. But, the idea is still fully in development and no actual "beta" is available, as I am still developing the product. Is this proposition still open for just an "idea" test?

I think it is the fact that they are "new" at this. For me, if they put "First App" instead of "I am 14" in the title, it would be the same thing. The point is to help encourage new, and usually young, people with programming and technology. The kid is probably just seeking more attention and praise by including the "I am 14 years old" in the header, but underneath, they are still looking for valid critique.

I do not think a 14 year old should be given special privilege over a 40 year old. But, posting "I am 14 years old" is not a bad thing, but a sign of putting one's self out there.