> I got an open ended problem that would take a measure of forever to solve: Specifically to write a program (in your favorite language!) that would do natural

> I got an open ended problem that would take a measure of forever to solve: Specifically to write a program (in your favorite language!) that would do natural language processing and discern emotions and feelings about subjects from text. We were supposed to include our own lexical parser. I know of a YC alumni company that asks for a weekend project on roughly that level and when rejected candidates ask if they can upload their work to Github, the company declines because they'd "like to keep an even playing field for future candidates." Then you're left with choosing between having an awesome project you can't show off and being an inconsiderate jerk who uploaded code despite being asked not to. Doesn't really make one enthusiastic for the next time you're asked to do an "exercise" or a "project."