skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats a pretty myopic view of data annotation. There is a place on the web, and in the marketplace for data annotated through markup and through ontology, just like there is a need for automated annotation. Its all about the ROI of encoding the annotation.

Granted, I'm not sure what role the semantic web, as defined, will play in this over the long term. And, to achieve optimal costs, I would tend to agree that the great majority of data will need to be annotated by machines.

However, I think it is important to point out that human generated annotations like markup and ontology can play an important role in 2 scenarios: 1) places where there is not enough data to make meaningful machine inferences, 2) vertical domains that have very well-defined structure where the cost of human annotation is actually less than machine annotation.
You might toss this off as the "buzz" factor, but a possible indicator of layman-users being affected by these subtle frustrations is the surging number of average users switching to the Mac.

And besides, everyone can see lag. My dad uses that term correctly, and he can't even tell the difference between "email" and "outlook".
You can give Pingus a try.
http://pingus.seul.org/welcome.html
There is probably no way of formally proving that an AI actually has general intelligence on a human level. The Turing test is merely a more elaborate way of saying "we'll know one when we see one".

A generally intelligent AI will not be passive, it will demand to be recognized for what it is and perhaps as an independent creature with rights. We would be wise not to try to enslave these creatures.
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Well "Spaces" mostly fits the bill after you switch off the 'change spaces when switching to an application' setting.

This setting it makes it very hard to add a 1st window of an application to the current space. For example if I want to open new Chrome window and I alt-tab to it, it will switch to one of the spaces that have it open. With the setting closed it remains on the current space and so Apple-N will open new window.

Once you remove the setting all other things works more or less as expected. Apple-Tab will switch to one of the windows of the application that is visible on the current space. Apple-~ will cycle through application windows on the current space etc.

The only problem is with applications like Skype, which have the single window that you need to switch to. Right now I need to remember on what space is it and switch there.
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Apparently Microsoft has one step in Apple Store with his iPhone app for OneNote. I see this as an interesting alternative to EverNote.
Radiohead is experimenting with the best model. Good for them. They've got the cash to burn to pivot and try something new. They may not be sharing their data with other bands (nee competition), but that's OK because they'll push everyone else in a similar direction if it looks that they are onto something.
Quora is an idiot. Internet should have its own revolution to get rid of such idiots from the wire.
Anyone have any connections at HackerDojo?
In terms of people writing metadata into pages by hand, then yes, I agree. But in terms of programatically generating this stuff from data that's already in a database or what-have-you, then I think it will see growing adoption.

The important thing here is to not commit the fallacy of the excluded middle... There's a place for the Semantic Web between "it's a total pipe dream and no part of it will ever come to fruition" and "it will be fully realized in exactly every detail as originally conceived by TBL."

People are already using Semantic Web technologies to some extent, the open question now is "just how prevalent will this stuff eventually become?"
So ... Quora doesn't want legitimate users?

It's a pretty sad troll that can't figure out they need to make "real-sounding" names. Basically you're filtering out the twelve year olds that will try to write 'fuck' and 'shitcock' everywhere. That can be accomplished more effectively with some simple analysis on post content.

Instead, you're really only making life hard on legitimate users that don't match your dramatically underinformed notion of a "proper" name.
Sure, but in our case we have an ongoing deal. What happens is that quality (think % of requirements met) varies to meet the estimate, and the customer loses. They are trying to control budget, but the granularity is wrong.

It's actually fairly easy to correct, but then it wouldn't be "best practice 2.0".
I partially agree, except that they've been known to make forwards-incompatible docks just so you had to buy new ones with your phone, even though it's basically just a USB extension. I don't think that's justifiable...
Well obviously everything is based on quantum effects. When a transistor changes its state, quantum effects need to happen. But I don't think it's legitimate to postulate that the whole complexity of the quantum state is necessary to simulate the behaviour of a transistor.
That's what iterative development is built for. Set the initial price as a small core object you can discern definitely needs to be made, then get the rest built as a follow on project from the customer after you've wowed them buy building the initial on time and to the specified parameters.
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Just leave off the trailing slash. Once someone pointed out that the sed syntax works for replacing, I started doing that.
I was a bit curious about the 90% figure, but a good deal depends on what point in the adoption process we're talking about, e.g.

Use 3D printing instead of milling or whatever for prototype.

Use 3D printing instead of whatever for mass production.

Use 3D printing at point of use.

Simple example: I bought a porcelain teapot a few weeks ago. A few days later we broke the lid. So I bought a new teapot. (The old teapot with the broken lid is sitting on a window sill above the kitchen sink, waiting for glue. A tube of glue costs a substantial fraction of the price of the teapot.)

3D printing could eventually lead to a tectonic shift away from planned obsolescence and disposable culture (which, let's face it, is purely an artifact of mass production).
> There's nothing technically noteworthy about the idea or the platform.

Don't quite agree, I think their real-time update system excellent and sets them apart. It definitely (IMO) makes the site more addicting. Not that it couldn't be written by competitors of course

I don't disagree that Quora is overhyped though, they seem be Techcrunch's pet company of 2011.
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They are a good customer, with a bad process that was given to them by consultants.
I probably wouldn't pay because there is a free backup tool (http://www.tumblr.com/goodies). Though for non-tech folk it could be cool to get automatically updates and restores if such a fatal error occurred.
I work for a well established classifieds company.

This market has very low barriers to entry & this has resulted in many people setting up classified apps, only to fail to gain traction. I've seen literally hundreds of people attempt this over the last 5 years and fail.

Advertisers won't place ads with you unless they see many listings on your website and / or have heard of you from some credible source, they will place ads where the most amount of people are likely to see them and these days that still means craigslist or ebay for most people.

What is going to be unique about your app?

Why would I place an ad with you vs craigslist? Esp when they are free and drive good response rates for most people.

Asking someone to actually pay for a classified ad is a big ask these days when there are so many free & popular options out there.

If this was me, I'd forget about running my own classifieds app and instead provide a platform that will allow other people to start & run their own classified apps - kind of like a shopify solution except for the classifieds space.
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No, it is fed the correct answer by text once the question is completed. They said "listen" in the documentary, but later, in passing, specified what they meant by that. In particular, the demonstrated the active learning when Watson failed to understand a category required dates as answers. After 4 it learned that dates were the type of answer required and got the last question correct. Again, the feeding of the correct answers was happening after the question completed and via text, not speech.
Neat use of an SMS anonymous relay, very cool! Ditto on Twilio, we use it at GroupFlier.com and love it, definitely an enabling platform.
Godwined in the title. Wanting to be able to conclusively identify someone you are doing business with (as Quora is) is not being a Nazi, it's a foundation of civil society. It may be a bad choice by Quora for other reasons, they may be handling it poorly, you may disagree with them even if it is otherwise perfect, but it is certainly their right to decide with whom they are doing business and with what level of reliability in the identification. They aren't Nazis for that. Unless they're actually collecting accurate identities for the purposes of more efficiently murdering entire ethnicities at some point in the future? (And I mean, killing them, not merely "killing their account on Quora". I think the Nazis would be a smidge less reviled if they had merely cut the Jews out of participation in public fora.)

And this article takes other political potshots for no good reason... "birtherist"? I think birtherism is silly too, but what's that potshot doing in the middle of this article?
It is sad that the underlying system gets blamed in these cases. While it is easiest to simplify and the blame gets passed around, there's no reason why you can't build a fault-tolerant system on-top of Windows. In fact, there's nothing particular about Linux that makes it immune from failure or bottlenecks (hardware, infrastructure, etc) that a high availability, high throughput system would need to overcome, nullifying any increases in stability or performance innate to the OS.

While I would professionally recommend Linux over Windows, it wouldn't be for reasons of "stability" or "performance" but that it was simpler and more straight-forward to sanely manage large farms of interdependent Linux boxes and that Linux provides a better development platform for these types of distributed applications.

I agree though, it would be a nice anecdotal win for Linux.
Alan Perlis said "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." The whole point of learning a new computer language is to change the way you structure your thoughts and to give you a new mental vocabulary for expressing ideas. I believe a similar argument can be made for human languages, and I think that's probably what EWD was getting at.

I was, at one point, fluent in Latin (that is, could converse with a knowledgeable speaker at full speed), and I believe that my knowledge of Latin had a profound effect on the way my brain analyzes languages. I'm sure that, if I learned Japanese or another language that is drastically different from English, it would have a similar effect. Would it directly make me a better programmer? Probably not. Would it make me a smarter human being? Probably so, and in doing so, it could have an indirect effect on my programming skills.
isn't this the same paper that prompted alan-kay to remark that hubris in computing is measured in nano-dijkstra's ?

imho, he forgot to mention the conversion rate to micro-kays to make the
comparison complete :)
I recently created an article about Sunder Katwala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunder_Katwala) who is the head of the Fabian Society (a prominent UK think tank).

The article had been up for less than a month when someone requested speedy deletion, despite the article having ample evidence of the subject's notability. Deletionists are out of control on Wikipedia, and need to be stopped. I've thought about writing articles and though "no, why bother, some deletionist will just delete it." and I'm sure many others have been similarly dissuaded.

To this end I'm building an inclusionist fork of Wikipedia. The main difference it will have is there will be no notability guidelines, only verifiability ones.
Sounds like this customer needs to work of a priority list. You get all the features you could implement, and stick them in a list with rough estimates of time (at like a small medium, large, very large type sizing). You then get the customer to reorder them. Then, work from the top down. You can likely predict a certainty line and a maybe line. Share these depending on customer "maturity".

The same "don't get all the features done" thing you were suffering before will happen with the client, however this time, they'll get the most important ones done, and they'll understand "oh hey, giving a bit more time will get X out the door".

And this can be done "outside the process" possibly slipping past the consultants dicta as just "helping you out to figure out what's most important to them".
I also think that general AIs will not be the kind that simulates brains.

But I think its wrong to tie consciousness to the hardware its running on. Consciousness is a property of the software. I think its fallacious to postulate a difference between an intelligence that runs on brains and an intelligence that runs on other machines if the difference can't be observed.

And yes I would be worried that a robot might suffer if it is sufficiently advanced to exhibit the same behaviour as, say, a cat.
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Doesn't work for me. Uploading a 124kb .jpg of someone looking at the camera with a fairly boring background. It starts "searching for laser mounting points", gets about 1/8th of the way down the image, and hangs.
I don't mind downvotes, but what are they for? (I upvoted the parent post out of the negatives and now I'm there... I guess that's karma huh.)
Hi Curt,

I see two considerations for hosting: budget and technical ability. For example, using Media Temple's DV service is going to be inexpensive ($50/mo to start out), scalable, and simple to setup. Compare that to RackSpace Cloud Servers (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/server...), which is even less expensive up front ($12 a month or so), but from what I understand requires a bit more technical ability to setup/configure the server (please correct me if I'm wrong folks, as I haven't used Cloud Servers yet, just talked w/ people that have). Either option will easily scale.

There are many other options, but don't want to provide "advice" when I haven't used solutions like http://www.voxel.net/ or others.

Other considerations - is this going to be a global audience? If so, look into using a CDN. You could use MT's CDN (http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/procdn/) if you use the DV service since it is currently only available for MT customers.

I don't have much experience with ecommerce platforms, but your needs seem pretty basic and should be covered by any opensource option out there. Can you think of anything specific that you'll need in the longterm spec - multiple pricing options for consumers or wholesalers, discount codes, etc.?

Good luck with your startup!
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Just a heads up: not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but it looks like I can submit the same link twice if I change "http" to "https".
By what measure of good customer? A customer who pays on time and has friendly employees but insists on a process which leads to repeated "failure" and bad blood can still be a bad customer.

Sorry you're the victim of consultants. I've replied in a different post to a more explicit project management scenario I've seen work in a past with this sort of "Too much for the timebox" issue.
Xerox didn't "invent" the GUI any more than Apple did. (Xerox got its ideas from Englebart et al.) Apple's desktop UI was "original" insofar as anything is. Windows (and for that matter NeXT) pointedly was not. Similarly Newton had a complete and "original" UI. Then there's iOS.

Apple's track record here is pretty darn good.
There is not much of an objective difference between the pain reactions of e.g. insects and robots we have today. So I would say yes, those robots experience a similar reaction as insects. But then again, I don't think insects have a sufficiently advanced neural system to suffer, so it's okay to kill the critters.
... and interests. If you're in software there's a lot more flexibility but if you're going to build something with complex electronics or even mechanical elements you may be better off at a larger or even huge company.
Well, it seems like you haven't had much exposure to Wikipedia's user-contributed 'guidelines', for which you should be thankful... Wikipedia has lots of rules to prevent their other rules from being refuted, giving leverage to insiders when discussing decisions. Case in point:

* Disruption to make a point, which would be used to shoot down Plan A - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POINT

* Strict invocation of the rules - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:LAWYER

* 'Gaming the system' in general. See how they forbid pointing out contradictions in the application of the rules! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gaming_the_system

I can see how the spirit of them was to lubricate discussion and decision making, but when you have such a complex etiquette which can be used to silence newcomers upon breach, you have just a recipe for abuse.
> Perhaps it's personal preference, but I find such "long tail" articles useful, even if that means WP contains millions of articles on topics I personally find irrelevant.

So do I. With an encyclopedia of universal scope, there are bound to be articles on things that any particular person doesn't care about. The important thing is that for each article, some people find the information useful.

Wiki is not paper.
Why after seven years? From the time TBL invented the original web to the time it saw massive adoption was a decent amount of time, depending on exactly how you want to define "massive adoption." And the problems that the SemWeb are trying to solve are arguably harder, so it makes sense that the ramp up would be slower.

And never mind the fact that there is real world adoption. Google and Yahoo both embraced RDFa a couple of years ago, and have you checked LinkedData.org lately? There's a constantly growing body of data out there in semantically interoperable formats: http://linkeddata.org/
Twilio is great. I was hoping I could get this feature coded in a day. Actually, it was done after 2 hours.
Computers also calculated pi long before we used them to design circuits.

"However there is a danger that if machines do become sapient and surpass us in intelligence that based on such arguments they will conclude that human beings are merely an inferior form of intelligence which is not worth preserving"

You mean like we act towards animals today?
It's like the parent said "blah, blah blah, blah, I may (blah) not like Apple blah, blah, blah".
(if you're in the United States)

Amazing that PBS is locking down their videos. They're public television fer cryin' out loud.
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I either read an entirely different article than you or my Search feature is broken in Google Chrome.

I found 0 instances of "Nazi" or "bitherist" in the TC article linked.

Have I missed something?
FWIW, I did the mod, but I don't have an effective way to AB test. Tried one ear at a time, but could not detect the difference. Went ahead and removed the foam from the other, and the increased sound stage sounds great (though without an accurate test it's difficult to say how much of a change is placebo vs. noticeable).
You manufacture your product and you intentionally damage part of the volume to sell it cheaper only to make the price of other part of the volume justifiable.

If that's not sign of pathology of free market than I don't know what is.
I'm a huge fan of Amazon EC2. They charge base on what you use and most likely where you're at now, you can fit on a small server. The cost will vary depending on usage but I presume for where you're at, it should be under $100/month although that might be more than what you're willing to pay.

You can also go with some VPS for now until you're ready to jump to AWS
Can you detail more the terms of the job?
The retailer will ship other products by the same company? A lot of other electronics products have more equitable international pricing models and value that can be assessed more objectively.
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My name got me made fun of constantly as a kid, but if someone asked me if I would have rather been named something else, the answer is an immediate and resolute no. These days all I get is compliments for my name. Yesterday a new person at my tai chi class heard my name as I was showing up and started shouting out loud how awesome it was, then asked if we could switch (she had a pretty unique name as well).

Weird names get you made fun of for maybe 8-10 years, but then the rest of your life is filled with compliments. Think of it as an investment.
"Make it correct, make it clear, make it concise, make it fast. In that order." Wes Dyer

"And companies should put more effort into strategies how to handle occuring bugs, instead of a "it-mustn't-be-so-it-can't-be" mentality."

"Though displays have grown in size and resolution in the last few years, eyes haven't." Will Harris

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Looks like I really ran into a buzzsaw here. Sorry for not presenting a magical unicorn for you on demand.

Sure, maybe in 10 years after they grow up and develop some interests besides Star Wars, that person might have something more useful to contribute.
isn't this the same as AS-7007 incident : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident ? or am i missing something fundamental ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ROTJKkhuI

OOPSLA'97 keynote; mandatory watching :)
When the original "If Feynman Applied for a job at Microsoft" was posted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866305), a lot of people commented that this doesn't actually sound like something Feynman would say. Sheldon Cooper, maybe, but Feynman would have loved the simple, elegant solution that relied on no extra tools.
The question is fed to Watson as text

Aw this seems rather half-assed to me. I hope at a later time they do another one of these with a new and improved Watson. I really want to see a humanoid robot standing on the podium (connected by wifi to the supercomputer) and using OCR and speech recognition. I also think Watson's voice should be more authoritative. It's like they went to extraordinary effort to make Watson sound unimposing.
Also Apple doesn't allow to make voice navigation applications, applications that competes with their core functionality etc etc. So no, Apple does not allow to run ANY software you want on your device.