skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great - We'll really be looking forward to hearing more and seeing some numbers. Thanks in advance for being so open about it, so the rest of us can learn from you.
Ask HN: Is artificial intelligence/natural language processing a futile pursuit?
Hi. I am a sophomore with a start-up that builds sentiment analysis technologies. We currently work on sentiment summarization and classification. Using papers and patents as a starting point, we try to create our own algorithm that we hope will outperform state-of-the-art approaches. We have been working on it for the past 2 months. Call it an irrational mindset, but we're adamant on building something that is not only tedious to copy but also fundamentally hard to duplicate.

We have concerns regarding what we are doing, namely: technology and market risks.

1) Technology risk
We are worried that we would hit a dead-end and not be able to build what we set out to build. AI is a hard technical problem, and Marc Andreessen has described AI as an "equivalent" of rocket science. We are making progress but our chances of technologically outperforming Google or other AI-based companies are inherently not good. We fear that we might have picked the wrong beast to mess with but we're a little too involved right now to switch paths.

2) Market risk
Other than social media monitoring tools, I haven't come across any solution that deals with sentiment analytics. The social media monitoring scene is crowded, so we hope to apply what we build in other unexplored areas. Our vision for now is to tackle the problem of information overload within consumer review platforms: think Amazon reviews, Yelp reviews, IMDb reviews, etc. We hope to offer an on-site (within-the-page-itself) dashboard that categorises raw data by mentioned concepts and their frequencies, the sentiments (positive/negative) with regard to said concepts and selected quotes that incorporate said aspects, along with sentiment insights in visualised forms (e.g. pie charts). End-users can interact with the dashboard and use any variable as an anchor to obtain insights (e.g. give me the raw data that mention concepts 1 and 2 in a positive light). This, we hope, would help people consume content more representatively and faster, without having to read through every single review from top-left to bottom-right. Hopefully, this would increase user engagement and shorten sales cycles. Naturally, the fear is that nobody wants our product, much less pay for it. Personally, as an end-user, I would find something like that useful, but I'm obviously biased.

Looking forward to some input for my current situation.
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It looks like Sinatra for PHP.
I have done something similar and I share your viewpoint, it is not a replacement for a real company in real economic circumstances but I did need to develop a lot of skills that I wouldn't have learned in classrooms.

I'm still in college though so I can't tell you how beneficial these skills will be when I either startup or enter the workforce.
I expected that they owned this disruptive tech and tried to fund it, but no.
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Agree, usually i'm more interested in the comments that follow than the original submission and sometimes even an uninteresting (at least for me) link leads to a great discussion.
And regarding the community turning into something different or getting polluted by off-topic submissions, the ones who can down-vote shouldn't prevent this skimming off this kind of link?
I stand corrected, just read in the FAQ that links cannot be down-voted. Interesting.
Jim Corbett National Park, the first wildlife reserve of India, extending over an area of more than 500 sq km in the Himalayan foothills. Corbett national park was established in 1936, as the Hailey National Park. In 1955-56 it has changed to Ramganga National Park and finally Jim Corbett National Park in the honor of legendary hunter-turned- conservationist, best known for hunting man-eating tigers and leopards in the Kumaon and lower Garhwal in the 1920s.
One reason would be to reduce executable size on systems where you are sure the correct DLL exists. This made a lot of sense when executable sizes were critical. Install the CRT once, and any app can use it. The MS approved solution as I understand it is to bundle the CRT installer in your own installer. This of course makes no sense if you have no installer. So it's a better idea to statically link the CRT and not worry about what your users have.
Right and it's vital for people to know this. For anyone who wants to know more I recommend starting with
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/03/2...
Mercola is not an original researcher but he does substantiate his views ('Soda should almost be illegal to give to children. I can't think of any reason or justification to continue such a disease-promoting practice') with links to the many peer-reviewed publications.warning against its use. This sorry story of HFCS, obesity and ill-health is gathering momentum.
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http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/79/4/537
The idea represents a fundamental misunderstanding of optics. Multiple pictures would only be required under low-light conditions when a suitable tripod is unavailable or to capture a subject in motion (both cases require a higher shutter speed, and therefore a larger aperture). In either case, a single camera could not capture the same subject in the same position and with the same framing, either due to subject or camera movement. The continuous-focus problem was solved a long time ago, first by the pinhole camera, then (when faster films began to appear) by photographers such as the members of Group f64.

If you want to learn a bit more about the subject, there is a great book called "The Ins and Outs of Focus" that is now available as a free download:

http://www.trenholm.org/hmmerk/download.html
How to generate white noise to help calm down your baby:

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
The Ides of March were brutal - I saw elsewhere echoes of one analyst setting Palm's stock price target at zero ...
You don't need to contribute to HN in order to appreciate what makes it special - the focus of submissions and quality of comments. Petewailes seems to understand this, so I see no reason to raise some silly "rule" (a general guideline, really) as an excuse to ignore the point he's trying to make. If you disagree with something he said, how about you say so and explain why. Pretend I said it, if that'll help.
yeh it's nice work - I'm really interested in ways that web-based infographics and usability ideas move into the real world - the Guardian/Observer print design has some good examples.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubmedia/4383021104/

I did a similar paper-based project a while ago - the business-card yearly planner:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/367425390/in/set-7215...
This is much better advice than much of what's been posted here. The idea that you can simply wish away shyness is a little silly; you'll be much better off talking to someone who has training and experience in dealing with social anxiety. Trust the experts on this one, and you've got a very good chance at achieving your goals for being less shy.
Skype was sold to Ebay in 2005 for 2.6 billion US$, so one would think that the founders have plenty of money. Why did they just raise what seems to be a petty amount instead of just ponying up themselves? Is it risk management, to work with other smart people, broaden the base of potential deals or what?

Or was Joost an expensive venture that left them with less funds than desireable?
MVC ≠ What your pet framework does

MVC is a descriptive point of view, not a prescriptive implementation plan. It's one of the only software idioms that's actually an Alexanderian Pattern, unlike the vast majority of the GoF that's just reflective of language warts/features.

There are tons of completely different ways you could describe the web as MVC:

Model View Controller
URL Response Request
DB Response Request
Response Hypermedia Sub-Requests
LocalStorage DOM Javascript
data:// JavaScript DOM Events
...
Starting A Successful Blog Is Like Planning An Invasion
Declarative processing for computer games (2008)
It enables someone else (a system administrator, microsoft patch, etc.) to redirect it to a new version without your intervention if a security issue is identified in the version you have shipped with your application. It's actually a very sophisticated system that allows any number of versions of the same dll to be used simultaneously within the system. It is also a nightmare for unsuspecting developers when it goes wrong.
Folded in four it is about the size of my iPhone which has calendar app in it
Blogging: helping people make money is what makes money
Yeah, it is bizarre how bad Microsoft error messages can be. I can just conceive designing a system that works this way, but I have absolutely no idea how someone would design such a system and have it produce absolutely no useful diagnostic message anywhere when it goes wrong.
There may not be much left as it is now but I can say without question that I would rather find a way to maintain the community without the submissions than to have submissions without community (or a community of lower quality).
The liberty of doctors and drug makers to set their own prices, the liberty of individuals to decide their own degree of health insurance coverage. Today we have precious little of this liberty already (I suspect that you imagine that square 1, the present situation, is some sort of laissez faire free for all market economy, but that couldn't be further from the truth), tomorrow we will have even less.

Given that the US has been the engine of medical advancements in the world for the past several decades (though you'd expect the EU, with a similar population and wealth to at least match America's contributions), it seems that perhaps there is some correlation between the ability to earn a profit on the sale of new drugs and new treatments and the development of those treatments.

Now, indeed, this correlation seems to hold in every other industry as well, and everyone accepts that. We understand that Apple would not spend its efforts developing the iPad were it not assured of a hefty profit. We understand that Tesla motors would not have poured the significant amount of R&D into developing their roadster if they did not expect to make significantly more in sales.

And yet somehow our reason flies out the window when it comes to medical care, because we can't imagine the "unfairness" of a system which doesn't cover everyone exactly 100% equally. Sad to say but the universe is unfair. I believe that it's important that we ensure that life-saving care is always available to people regardless of whether they are able to pay or not, but I do not believe that medical care can or should be "free" or entirely government subsidized for everyone.

That path is the way not only to the stagnation of medical advances but also to the ultimate bureaucratization of the medical industry. We can look forward to more and more people deciding to become software developers, lawyers, or oil and gas engineers instead of doctors, nurses, or pharmaceutical researchers. And we can look forward to a system ever more encumbered by red tape and the inefficiency of bureaucracy at every step. In what fantasy world could anyone imagine that the results will be any different?

We should rejoice that it's even remotely possible to trade dollars for health. We should thank all of the people who spent so much effort going through medical school, nursing school, or acquiring chemistry degrees, and who spend so much effort keeping up with the state of the industry. If instead we vilify these folks as extortionists and financial nuisances, if we portray them as providing services that we DESERVE to receive as a birth right for a pittance, then we will drive them away. We will end up with fewer and more mediocre doctors and researchers.

And we will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I wish it was titled: "Making games enjoyable." Addictive is not a good word.
Really? I honestly didn't think it was a problem for web apps. What's the issue here?
Originally, I think it meant: "Too Long; Didn't Read."

In reality, it means: "Too Lazy; (I) Don't Read."
Ha. I guessed what the article was about before reading it. And I'd still use "guys".
Be careful of advice involving putting yourself in stressful situations, eg public speaking classes, improv, talking to strangers, approaching women, etc.

Shyness is a generally a combination of the emotional (painful memories of embarrassing/humiliating situations) and the physiological (neurological stress & oversensitivity). These two aspects can influence each other, making the situation steadily worse as you pass through life, and can push you to breaking point if you can't work out how to escape the cycle.

If you have become hypersensitive to criticism or the feeling of embarrassment, that's a real physiological condition, and deliberately invoking this sensation through "fear conquering" exercises can make the situation worse - ie, add to the pile of painful memories and exert further physiological strain on your body.

There's a bunch of ways you can make your nervous system more robust, through nutrition (food+supplements), physical health & fitness, and crucially, "letting go" of painful memories (it seems wacky, but many people find "tapping" or EFT to be really effective).

Over time, this can enable you to be more relaxed and confident.

If you're going to do anything to challenge yourself, make sure you're taking small incremental steps. It's important to get yourself on a success trajectory, where each day or each week you're getting a little better than the last, and never suffering a major fall or setback. Minor setbacks are OK, as long as they're not too painful they'll become a way of figuring out when you're going right or wrong.

I'm aware some of this stuff may sound absurd, but it's based on my own experience, which includes learning that common "wisdom" about this stuff, including conventional advice from mental health "professionals", is ineffective at best and terribly damaging at worst.

The good news is you really can overcome the difficulty you find yourself in, and life can be far more enjoyable than you ever imagined possible.

If you want any more advice, email me: tom.howard/gmail.
Sure you can contribute tertially in the same way that happy users of open source projects contribute by attracting more happy users — except for the fact that more happy users is not an unqualified improvement — which happens to be the subject of petewailes' complaint!

My main point is that if you're not posting and getting feedback, your conception of the community is completely untested conjecture.
I think you're overly optimistic about what's going on here and
overlooks trolling. I don't know if the video was edited to not show
the offending ones. But I'm pretty sure if this becomes a popular
trend, you'd have to deal with more trolls than you'd like to.

Maybe you're right and there's some hidden potential behind all of
this. But the cynic in me just imagines 4chan members drooling at the prospect
of ruining a show with shocking images and videos.
Agreed. I often find myself checking the comments on stories that I don't really have much of an interest in because I can be quite confident that I'll find a brilliant comment or two.
The world wide web, for being so relevant to many things I do.
This paper gives you some structure if you think about integrating game aspects in whatever you are doing.

Here is a link to the Google PDF Viewer if you don't want to deal with browser extensions:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nickyee.c...
I've personally noticed the quality of submissions drop recently. I'm also nowhere near part of the original crowd (although today is my 1 year anniversary of registering), but there has been a steady degradation of submission quality starting probably two months ago. There was a time when I'd read practically every article on the front page. Now, I pick a handful that tend to be towards the bottom. It's done wonders for my productivity, though, so I guess it's not all bad.
Ask HN: Exclusive startup coverage  TechCrunch vs Mashable?
If you had a startup that is the type that these two sites cover, who do you choose for exclusive coverage?

Some things to consider: Type of readers, how sticky are they (historically), which gives better feedback, etc.

Background info: I read that TC won't cover you if mashable or other sites have covered you.
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Is Dropbox about to launch their Android app?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/84655/android-app.png

I saw this in Google reader this morning, but the post no longer exists. Letting the cat out of the bad too soon?
I think that the confusion comes from the fact that the original MVC was a prescriptive design pattern, but use of the term has expanded way, way beyond its original intent.

For instance, events between M and V are pretty much required if you're doing it the "old way," but people tend to ignore that and just explicitly route messages through the C. The expression carries a lot less meaning now than it used to.
Atomico's first fund was internal; this is Atomico II and they went out and raised a fund for this one. They've already done a handful of investments in the past:

http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/atomico-inv...
This video represents an important milestone showing the evolution of the platform as celebrities adopt it.

I personally want to see more stories that indicate further milestones (probably some funding and a recommendation engine/filter I'd expect)
Thx. Any particular queries? I am dedicated to making a better search engine for programmers: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/hack-hack-go.htm...
In both jobs, she's still typing. @'s job denoting "pricing at" closely resembles @'s job denoting "recipient at," but there's a key difference.
Tell HN NYC: Back at Shake Shack! Hackers & Founders #10 (3/12)
Does my new about page get any further in explaining it: http://duckduckgo.com/about.html ?
The founders got back 385m worth of Skype in the JoltID settlement by giving back the p2p IP and cash: http://about.skype.com/2009/11/joltid_settlement.html
Totally agree - you'll find that people who know you will expect you to act a certain way. And if they've always known you to be the shy person who doesn't speak out then thats how you'll behave (I mean they're friends with 'old' you not 'new' you right?) What you've got to realise though is that people actually don't mind when people act a bit unusually - especially if its 'baby steps' like you suggest.

And the part about playing the rockstar role approaches the problem from a different angle - go and see some people who don't know you as 'old shy person' and instead see you based on their first impression.
The point he's trying to make is almost as old as HN itself. That's why the guideline is stated the way it is (from the founder no less). Instead of these metadiscussions it's much more valuable (but difficult) to show exactly how the community is changing, not simply claiming (or fearing) that it is. An analysis of those supposed changes would be informative and interesting.
I currently get a fairly good glance at that from all the racist edits logged by Wikipedia as coming from behind my offices NAT firewall.
It's a simple statement. You confuse naïveté with stupidity. If there is a "ceiling" as you describe, then Sergei and Larry must have godlike intelligence to have 20,000 engineers working for them.

The point is not "I'm not capable of coding this, I must hire someone smarter", it's "I'll manage someone to do the coding I don't have time for, and they can observe my attempts to run the rest of the business (or whatever)."
You don't rate ReadWriteWeb or The Next Web? Read somewhere that RWW drove more traffic to a startup's website than TC. TNW has grown a ton over the last year.

Anyway, i suggest email them all and see who bites first.
This trend is really depressing me. Most of the time it's cheaper to buy new stuff than to actually repair it.

This weekend I was trying to repair some bike's wheel, some spokes (4) were broken and needed to be changed, I called the bike shop and the guy told me he doesn't keep a stock of spare parts anymore. That he would have to order them by a box of 100 for me. If I let him repair the wheel (having only minor damages) it would cost me more than to buy a new one.
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That is indeed exactly what I meant. Sorry about the ambiguity.
Without the '@' how would we ever play nethack?
In a startup it's essential that every "hat" has a corresponding head it's on. Being a startup, it's likely that many heads will have many hats; to mix metaphors just make sure all the bases are covered.

Drilling down, as "CTO" I'd consider myself responsible for making sure of all the following (needless to say, this isn't an exaustive list):

Business continuity: if you're the only one diligent enough to make sure you're backups are happening and work, do it (in the bad old days that meant running the tape backup every day). Never be too proud to sweep the floor.

As CTO, you're responsible for "what": the architecture and consistency of your systems. Visit the Joel Test and do it in reverse.

Depending on the people below you, you can leave a lot of the "how" to them, ideally you'll mostly supervise there. Ideally they'll come to consensus on contentious issues, beware of playing the role of a tiebreaker.

Ah, yes, the people: learn how to recruit well. There's lots of good advice to be found there (e.g. go to the Ask the Headhunter site and use it in reverse). For specific advice, I'll note that one of my best bosses would never hire someone who he had doubts about. In a startup, it's generally the case that a wrong hire is worse than no hire at all.

Sales, marketing, manufacturing (if that's an issue) and technical coherence. Make sure everyone is on the same page. That's one of the things that killed Symbolics, e.g. they spent a lot of money on a factory that couldn't make what engineering was designing, not that marketing was promoting what engineering was designing or the reverse.

Make sure there's a product manager for each product, his job is among other things to help make sure the above is happening.

Good luck!
This is pretty much the worst case scenario in the fight between maintaining nice, human readable error messages for unsophisticated users and ugly, information dense technical error messages for aiding debugging for technical users (and developers). The result here is a message that helps neither users nor developers understand what went wrong or how to fix it. A message such as "fault in module Foo @ address 0x921851" or somesuch would be no more incomprehensible to the average user than this and a message such as "something went wrong, oh noes!" would be no more useless to developers. As it stands it's only through the magic of the internet and the fact that, thankfully, this message is at least a little unique that people are able to find out what this message really means and how to fix it.