skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Wikipedia even attempt to record all information about everything, who wants to know what I had for breakfast or what image is on my son's pyjamas; I contend that everyone that really needs that information already has it.

Who knows? I needed information on Alice ML today, but alas that was not to be. You are not the personal arbitrator of what I need to know any more than Chris Monsanto is of what languages are notable!

For at least the first half of it's life, wikipedia grew at an astonishing rate precisely because it wasn't being moderated by pedantic self-appointed editors. The rise of the editor class in wikipedia may have irreperably broken it as a compendium of knowledge. Imagine, people who know nothing about a subject telling you weather that subject is important to you!

Ridiculous? That's the current state of affairs. One could argue there is even a growing movement of people, like minded with yourself, that it should simply be reduced until it contains no more information than any other run-of-the-mill encyclopedia.

I have news for you, we have plenty of free, scope-limited, hand curated encyclopedias.

Here's what I came up with in 30 seconds. Go entertain yourself with these if you think having articles on obscure, but important topics is simply too much for you to handle.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/
http://www.britannica.com/
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page

The point of Wikipedia is to go far beyond these approaches by crowdsourcing the content. So that people can add what they personally know about obscure subjects. If I happen to be an expert in Korean clam harvesting operations, should I be able to write an article on that? Who the hell cares if you don't personally take an interest in it.

You're right if your response is "well we don't want to just copy what's on the web!" An encyclopedia is supposed to provided a summary of a subject, a launching off point, a confirmation of a subject's existence. It should provide exhaustive breadth. In wikipedia's case, it was even able to provide a bit of depth through external citations, and through hyperlinking to other parts of itself. But the number of subjects should be virtually unlimited. Wikipedia should provide the long-tail. As a pedagogic device, limiting what I'm allowed to look up limits what I can learn about.

To your example, it might be of fantastic importance to me to know what are popular breakfast foods in your country or what kinds of logos kids are wearing these days. A page about Breakfast practices or marketing to children then would be fantastically important to me, but maybe not to you.
Google Groups bug report interface
I would group it all into one tip:

Make an effort with your relationship.

Like everything good in life it takes work to have a good relationship. If you make an effort to have a good relationship, applying thought and energy day to day, you will grow a healthy satisfying relationship.
When there is a shortage of taxis, what makes you think this would get you one?
Comparative advantage is the name of the game. My parents have been doing that for years, even when my mom ends up with some manly work (tall house + lots of Christmas lights) and my dad ends up with some non-manly work. It works pretty well for them.

They even optimized which kid helps them, I worked better with my mom (I was all about getting a list of chores and powering through them when I had time, and so is she), so I ended up working with her for the weekly chores. Shutting up and getting stuff done really does make one happy.
The secret to writing a linkbait title: reinforce stereotypes.
If you already have advertisers then you should look at using a solution such as OpenX or OIOPubisher etc.
This one was fun at school today:

http://i.imgur.com/7aofj.jpg
The headline makes me think Arrington's first earnout calculation from AOL is close at hand and he needs a few extra pageviews to make it.
Maybe we're working on something related, cuphon.com.
A big reason our wireless infrastructure sucks (and won't improve a whole lot) is that we devote a huge amount of the best spectrum space to broadcast radio and television. Signals sent on TV or radio-sized frequency travel farther and are less vulnerable to interference than cell phone signals or LTE just about anything else except for some channels reserved for military communication. We have the ability to send a whole lot of data over the air more robustly than we can right now, but it's being used to support obsolete technology.

The FCC auctioned off or gave away a lot of prime spectrum to radio and TV providers back when it wasn't nearly as precious as it is today, and they adopted old, inefficient formats that need an enormous range of frequencies to transmit very little data. Do you know anyone who has used broadcast television over the past ten years? I don't, and I don't think I know very many people who have either. Yet we still use a whole lot of really good VHF space for wasteful analog communication. Meanwhile, the channels used for some of the most important things, like Wi-Fi, need to use some of the crappiest spectrum around, because everything else has been allocated already.

Things are improving, albeit slowly. The switch from analog to digital broadcast TV is opening up a whole lot of space, much of which is being used for WIMAX. But radio uses up even more space than TV did, and there are no plans on the horizon to change it at all.
Funny, I can't imagine being overweight as anything but irresponsible (mod specific health issues). And it is pretty much all on you.

One thing that can be very helpful is to schedule exercise with other people (e.g. spouse). It's easier to get going with a group, it's more fun, and there is a social cost to canceling. You don't even have to do the same exercises -- just go to the gym or pool or park or whatever and do your thing.

i.e. don't nag against bad activities, but support and encourage wholesome ones in their place.
I'm sure there are those that disagree strongly, but I feel like this isn't as much an advance for AI as it is another interesting combination of filtered human-structured knowledge and computation power. Just as Deep Blue brute-forced chess, this is mostly a brute-force of another, albeit more open-ended domain (i.e. Q/A).

I'm not arguing that this isn't an impressive accomplishment, but that the statistical-learning stream of research is likely a conceptual local optima that yields the best results in the near term but is probably unrelated to the way we ultimately achieve a creative, general AI.
The President and the CEO of an Application
I'd greatly prefer if my freedom coincided with me being alive.

Well, a free enterprise system is just that: one in which consumers have choices. The fact that Google dominates search, or that Apple dominates mobile devices, or that Microsoft dominates desktop computing hardly limits my "freedom" in any real sense of that word and, in the meantime, I will gladly use Google over AltaVista, Apple over a Brand X music player, and Microsoft over WordStar for the benefits I derive from those offerings. In other words, I don't have a problem with a company making proprietary offerings if such offerings give me better value than what otherwise exists and, if I don't like them, I don't have to deal with them.

So, I feel I have my freedom today, just as I did years ago when IBM dominated enterprise computing, and that is why I am (as I said above) quite relaxed about the idea that private corporate interests can control and dominate their respective fields of activity. So long as no government entrenches them permanently as monopolies no matter what their virtues, the activities of Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. are entirely consistent with a free system of economic activity.

If you would abolish the idea of market-leading companies in a free enterprise system, what would you replace that with? In other words, how are you using the word "freedom" and "tyrant" in this context? These are genuine questions because, apart from your use of the term "tyrant" for rhetorical effect, I don't understand where you are going with this idea.
Worth reading: the open source library of Similarity metrics: http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/S.Chapman/stringmetric... (comparison: http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/S.Chapman/images/strin...)
Google should have launched one for Firefox too. Anyway the likes of experts-exchange etc will take a hit now.
I have thought about that and I cannot believe it is really a problem.

My small negligible personal website notifies Google, Bing and Yahoo immediately and automatically as soon as I publish something new. It also publishes a feed. Even if the content is picked up and republished right away by a site that is indexed every minute, it should be possible to determine correctly the original publisher.

In some cases, I can think of more ways to determine the original publisher. And certainly Google can think of even more.
The longhand version looks more professional.
Ryan I am impressed with all of your achievements including http://thinkvitamin.com/ but I am not sure your advice is as sound as your business. Your team has built a great brand globally over many years with the conference business, and in my opinion you have done a nice job leveraging that brand equity for your new startup.

I do agree that if you are building a revenue focused company, you don't have to go to San Francisco.

But it's hard to argue against how easy it is to raise money or get acquired in the valley vs anywhere else in the world. Look at how easy it was for Path and Instagram to raise money and to get cheap money at that. In other markets many VCs want to see revenue not just traction and that revenue can work against you and lower your valuation - making the money more expensive.

For reference to Instagram, see this Chris Dixon interview with Kevin Systrom

"He also talks about how the serendipity of Silicon Valley contributed to the formation Instagram, remembering a party that Dixon once threw in San Francisco where Systrom ended up meeting his key angel investors."

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/founder-stories-instagram-l...
hey, I have actually just started an organization to help entrepreneurs gain traction

http://www.meetup.com/traction-bootcamp

Unfortunately the first group's meetups will be in New York, however, maybe we can include you virtually in our program.

I started this program because I meet a lot of entrepreneurs like you... a lot of people are good at building the initial prototype, but sucks at getting traction.

The two major reasons being

1. Entrepreneurs don't quite know how to gain traction

2. Entrepreneurs don't necessarily have the support system that goad each other on to get traction, especially when the going gets tough.

Love to include you in the program, email me (the organizer) if you want
Looks amazing...any chance on an Android version coming soon??
Chomsky's work again and again focuses on how language develops given the paucity of data (linguistic examples) the child is exposed to--Watson and Google Translate (according to Norvig's NY Post article) both rely on orders of magnitude more data.

Brute force is a good approach given our current technology and understanding, but it isn't necessarily similar to the brain.
Daniel's coding ability, or love of writing code, isn't the reason he's managed to get this far. I remember meeting with him regularly after demo day; no investors were interested, he had no co-founder and an idea that was all of a week old with a very buggy prototype (by very buggy, I mean didn't work). Things looked bleak. I still believed in Daniel's determination but even I was thinking in the back of my head, at least he'll be able to take these experiences with him on his next startup.

"Extraordinary skill" or not, the fact is the majority of people would have given up at this point. Daniel instead kept doing back to back investor meetings during the day and coding at night. He's of course benefitted from being smart and part of YC but clearly those can't be sufficient conditions for success, if they were we'd have a 0% failure rate at YC.
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Simplistic messaging site. Trying to cash in on Valentine's Day Rush.
dude, if you want us to look at something you made, just post it with "Show HN: ". don't try to link bait us: we're not stupid, and it makes you look like you are.
If this ends up being used as a "voting" system that factors into determining what sites show in public SERPs, folks could crowdsource competitor blocking using say Amazon's MTurk to knock competition off of Google, no?
Marriage is not "50/50" ... it is 100/100 ...
Perhaps, it's something I have been considering.
February 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
@'s are fine as long as they are escaped properly!
How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript
I suspect you're already violating the license terms by coercing it to run on Linux, so what's the difference?
Project to add F-Sharp Intellisense to Emacs progressing
How about instead of deleting them they are blocked from crawlers and all links are rel=nofollowed? That way the information is still available to anyone who knows it exists, but it won't show up in searches. I'd be fine if this is done via an overlay site with Wikipedia as the backend, or better yet, like showdead on HN (which I keep enabled, since sometimes an account gets killed for a single post and the other posts are interesting).
Why should I have to be signed in to my Google account to be able to use this functionality?
Nice. The too-smooth gameplay (and the all-star credits) give it away. I like the Mega Man-esque ending.
Have you found it easier?
I don't think Dr. Feynman talks in such a cryptic language, if you've read his books you would know that he actually talks/writes in a very lucid language. But the person mentioned in the interview does sound like a certain "Sheldon" from the "The Big Bang Theory".
Well, the part that says "young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more" in the Valley, will only make engineers want to move to the valley... Who has the name of a recruiter? Maybe it is time for me to move out of LA and to the Valley!
80-hour weeks amount to less than 12 hours per day if you work every day. That leaves you 4 hours to do whatever else you need/want to do, and you can still get a nice 8 hours of sleep per night.

You'd be surprised how manageable that is, especially for introverts for whom social interaction is more of a chore than a joy.
You might want to take a look at this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152286
Making part of your art piece intentionally slowly degrading seems like a strange choice. I guess that part of our culture won't last for generations to come.
Flash animation showing examples of East to North and North to West turns - http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_Roads-Travel_mic...
Asserting that something is true doesn't make it so. I can say that you look like a ham sandwich but that doesn't mean you look like a ham sandwich. There are a number of reasons that it isn't a legitimate strategy. This story illustrates a few of them, namely that false positives and false negatives are hard to detect, and that alone is reason enough to reject the idea.

Perhaps it is useful to examine the reason for identifying people. If it is, as you say, to maintain high quality, I would ask upon what causal basis that that conclusion rests; I submit StackOverflow and HN as examples of entities that show real names not to be a requirement for high quality discourse.
Notifixlite : RSS to IM
Brushed Metal and Glow is the new Individualized Helvetica Nameplate on Stark White Paper (Just Like Everyone Else). It's hopelessly derivative and is rapidly having its meaning and impact sucked dry. It's also a pretty effective signal for (1) I hired a designer because (2) this is a high quality Mac/iOS application.

I don't really have a problem with it and it kicks the pants off an icon that didn't get that kind of workup in terms of visceral Polish, but as others have noted, it pretty much tells no story of the app at all. I'm not even interested enough to click on their header and learn.

That's fine though. Commodity design doesn't have to have an impact, and I prefer a world where commodity design is valuable and practiced over one where people just don't care.
You sounds like me - background in ecommerce, learning RoR and wondering about moving to SF.

What kind of project are you wanting to work on?
And Google just leased an office to hold over 1000 people in L.A.
the least important or interesting parts of a db are its api and storage format
[Crowd Leader] David Alan Grier: A Bill of Rights
I don't know about multitasking, but they did specifically say that adding cut and paste in the first update was a change in plans in response to feedback, and wasn't on their original schedule. They originally thought the features they intended to replace c&p (it detects things like phone numbers in text and automatically links them to the relevant applet, with the text auto-pasted in) would work better for covering the common cases.

cite: "And I wanted to announce today that we've heard feedback from a lot of people who have had our technical preview. There's a feature we're going to bring onto the phones in early 2011, copy and paste. This is a feature that we initially did not put into our development schedule, because we focused instead on things like automatic touching of phone numbers and touching of addresses, but we're hearing from our customers, and we're going to get this feature in, so everyone who buys a Windows Phone this holiday will be able to get an update with copy and paste in early 2011."
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2010/10-11wind...
For the extension developers: How about a way to import lists of sites like this?
I don't think so, this was a subject at last weeks Twiistup8.
thks! :)
I can see where he's coming from: it has information on a lot of different topics and it's full of ads, therefore it's an evil content farm.

Just like how someone that weighs the same as a duck must be made of wood, and therefore is a witch.
The app is about chatting with people near you. First of all, that's been done before...many times, and it has not worked yet. Secondly, if they are spending so much time & money on just an icon, and ending up with an icon that does not work well in the app store, then they clearly have no clue what they are doing.
Japan Gets “How To Use Instagram” Book
> In his 2004 short essay The Python Paradox, PG argues (perhaps controversially) that a company can hire smarter programmers if it chooses to write its code in a “comparatively esoteric” programming language.

Yes, because as we all know guys messing with Ruby and Python ―mostly to create trivial and irrelevant web 2.0 apps and frameworks- are above average programmers...

And node.js dilettantes are the next Bill Joys...
This is the first popular publication article I've seen that has given the very important cognitive overload aspect of nagging--and especially multi-pronged nagging litany, which seems to be the most common kind--the treatment it deserves:

But when it comes to nagging reminders about what your
spouse still has to do after a long day working for the
man—take out the recycling, walk the dog, write a
thank-you letter, defrost the chicken, fix the
stereo—keep a lid on it. Economists talk about
“information processing costs,” or the costs incurred
from processing, absorbing and filtering information.
When information processing costs get too high, we
tend to become paralyzed.
A Comprehensive History of Computers  Infographic
Lets sit back and think about what life was like before computers were everywhere. You actually had to send letters via the postal service, go to stores to buy things, and actually visit Uncle Larry at his house instead of at the prison where he is serving time for a hard drive full of illegal images.
On the subject of eHow, here's another reason to consider blocking them, Google for "no text to spin" (include quotes).

That's an error message from bots that are spamming random wikis. I wrote more about it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215993
I did write this piece so my comment is bias...The first piece of logic makes sense in early stage startups. If you are looking for a technical cofounder you should stop searching and learn to code. And while just building your founding team and trying to get press in its earliest stages you should not hire a VP of engineering and do it yourself. The same with PR. It does require some blood and sweat, but that is the sweat equity that every founder must endure.

In the article, I don't mention anything about the effectiveness of PR firms, we all know that they are good at what they do, but at a cost. And I keep seeing big name firms repping pre-funded startups, which is a death wish in my opinion.

You bring up a great point of having a journalist telling companies how to run their PR. There should be more of this. Companies and PR firms just throw up garbage press releases a lot of the times and this could be some valuable feedback for them.

Great point, we did publish an article about Why Your Startup Does Need PR though.

http://bostinnovation.com/2010/12/17/why-your-startup-needs-...

Thanks for the input.
Looks amazing. I've seen similar devices before but nothing as beautiful as Notelate. Definitely getting one!
Consumer Behavior For Startups
So, does this mean expertsexchange will eventually get shoved down the search results?

(AKA great stuff!)
Indeed,

I think what those pushing real names for their site don't get is that the closer the site gets to appearing to only use real names, the more dangerous and potentially damaging it becomes for the real name users.

A random site where anyone can post as anyone else has some plausible deniability. A site where everyone is really themselves has less deniability. A fake facebook account claiming to be X thus is more damaging to X than a totally random website talking about X. And that's not even getting to the dumb stuff you say on your own...
Except Android's copy-paste still sucks and early solution for multitasking brought a wast selection of task killer apps.
So, you know, those comments don't help his cause...
ok, good point. sorry. i didn't think about it that way.
Marriage satisfaction = love making - fighting
Nokia Simplifies the Mobile Landscape
WolframAlpha is the web's most handy nutrition site
This is a great program!
ChromeOS/Chromium has been running on various ARM boards for 9 months or so now. Here's an early build on iMX5 (ARM Cortex A8, equivalent to the OMAP3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfCEoSwaDJU

About that time I asked Freescale if they could point me to a build that I could test with on my iMX EVK. After much hand-wringing I eventually got my FAE to admit that Google didn't want Chrome running on these kind of systems - only laptops.

I see these demos every MWC and then see the industry do something different.
(Disclosure: Founder of isocket)

isocket is used by the web's premiere publishers like TechCrunch, Cheezburger Network, Lookbook.nu, GameZebo, Vator.tv, etc etc.

@Dawson - OIO is free, but it puts a lot of the support on your shoulders. So you've got a mix of options - SaaS software like isocket that includes support for you and your advertisers, brokerage services like BSA that include support and commissions, or total 'on your own' stuff OIO.

You mentioned already selling some ads on your own / having interested from advertisers. Congrats!
Same one used on YouTube:

http://www.google.com/tools/feedback/
Buy both.
A Quad-Core 2.5Ghz Chipset For Mobile Devices from Qualcomm
Google has had a small office in Pittsburgh for a few years. They moved into a much bigger space recently and are hiring pretty ferociously out of CMU.
What is a database, if not an API for a storage format?
Right, what's commonly meant when people say 'discrimination' is that someone is making choices between people on criteria that shouldn't matter, such as skin colour, sexual orientation, gender or ... name.