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Serious question here. Is microfinance a good thing? What do we know about how it affects the borrowers? Most of the things I have read have been from a lenders perspective. About profit, and investment. Is that really the goal?

Sigma is significantly faster than D3 for drawing large graphs; however, it's only able to draw graphs. D3 is a multipurpose library for many different kinds of visualizations.

Check out Datalog the query language used to interact with Datomic, www.learndatalogtoday.org

William Byrd & Daniel Friedman wrote a book called the Reasoned Schemer, which walks through the implementation of a Prolog like logic language called MiniKanren, check out a recent presentation they gave where they show quite a few interesting examples and uses, http://2013.flatmap.no/danwill.html

I know this is not a definitive answer, but having a look at those resources may highlight some of the areas where logic programming can be very useful.

It's not too hard to imagine a user group that is good at predictive modeling, but bad at setting up a reliable service (mathmaticians, statisticians, other similar disciplines). These users may be familiar with R or numpy, but unable to build a web API quickly.

Hey, I helped out on this. We got some great feedback as we built the site, and have gotten some ongoing interest and activity on the alpha site since the competition has finished.

Here's the site, http://bucket.onfrst.com, we also have a market research survey, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFgzdVN...

The current site address is just a temporary spot, we're likely to change the branding and name as we continue to work on this. Also for those interested in statistics, and I assume HN is, we've got the git stats on our run, http://bucket.onfrst.com:8000

Thanks for any feedback!

My last company hired a guy who claimed to be one of the top engineers at EE. Crystallized ancient knowledge is appropriate. Then again the company I was at is still using classic ASP in production, so even that ancient knowledge can at times be a bit useful. I agree with icco, I've heard bad things from friends in town, never checked it out myself.

I started using CouchDB to save locally, or anywhere. It seems to be working out well. What are your plans with the future of this ide?

Dropbox definitely has version control, you are able to move back and forth between different versions of a single saved document, that's definition enough. It's just not meant for fine grained control like Mercurial or other DVCS. CouchDB has version control, would you ever use that?

Looks like the frontpage was stolen from hulu.