skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other articles, not linked directly here, indicate that there is a lockout on the buzzer if Watson hits it too soon. I've heard anywhere from 300-1000ms delay if you punch in the buzzer before Trebeck stops speaking.

I also read that due to buzzer experience, Ken Jennings also advocated to the producers that competitors should be given practice on the buzzer before doing the game. It would make a more fair game. Honorable "battle", if you will.
Well, I can balance it by saying that largest doesn't mean only.
He explained it more than once: Nuances are lost in the internet on one hand, and (apparently) Finnish culture is very in-your-face with everything made more extreme for dramatic effect.

You may not like it, but it is extremely effective, and Linus _is_ herding thousands of developers, he has to be effective.
A sign-in wall. Mega fail.
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This was a customer service fail, in that they didn't notify him. But this isn't a cloud or enterprise EMC fail at all. I think blaming all of EMC for this is a little over the top.
If I'm running Windows, why should I care that the browser doesn't work on Linux? How does that have anything to do with it being "modern"?

Your last sentence makes no sense. Instead of using IE9 to view Hacker News, I should go find a native app? Huh?

(I actually use Chrome and have no love for IE, but arguments like this are just silly.)
That's replacing one middleman (Amazon) with another (Apple). Also Amazon typically has much better selection then Apple, not to mention all the content you already purchased on the Kindle store and were planning to read with your iPad becomes inaccessible, if Apple does end up pulling the Kindle app.
So again, why isn't the inverse true? If I'm building something that helps sell an iOs device, why shouldn't I get a cut?

Maybe you are right, maybe you should leave apple and help Microsoft sell WP7 devices. They will be grateful.
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We moved to Austin for the summer to participate in Capital Factory. It was well worth it! Austin's a great place and the local business community is focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed.
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Instead of deleting it, you may want to share it in a torrent file. Maybe someone could make some better use of it.
I would define arguments differently than I would conflict (or resolved conflict) I guess.

So that might have some truth but I believe it blurs the truth by making the reader or observer (of research) believe that arguing/conflict is bad.
When we think of humans being replaced by automation we often think of robotic devices such as ABB arms, Asimo, and such.

But it appears the greater influence may come from "stationary," large-scale, HAL-like systems designed to interact effectively with human beings.

Watching Watson run-up the score so quickly was unsettling and I now understand why Kasparov cried. It makes one truly realize that nowadays, if the task can be automated, it probably will be.
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Experts-exchange is indeed an annoying site, but I'm not sure I'd classify it as a content farm. There is actually a lot of information there not found on other sites.
I don't agree with #1. I prefer Go error handling to pretty much any other style I've seen.
I also mirror your sentiment. I think that this will lead to lost hardware sales (I may have to buy a Kindle now) and may as well develop for that if I have one.

When did Apple turn from a hardware focused company to a software company/platform company only? It seems their platform is taking precedence to their hardware now.

Then again you can't buy iBooks on Kindle or Nook but the point of an iOS device is a bit of a smart phone singularity. I want all my stuff on that device.

This will not get me to buy more iBooks, it may make be buy a Kindle though instead of using my iPads for reading books.

Let's hope they all go PDF.
I noticed that, too; but a little later in the game, Trebek declared "leg" (instead of "he was missing a leg") wrong without hesitation.

So it's definitely being held to some standard.
I grabbed it out of youtube not long after it played on the East coast.

youtube search: jeopardy watson

search options: upload today

edit: I think I may have included the date in the search
I've never heard of a cloud compile service, but I think in this case, it's a good idea. Especially since not many people have experience with cross-compiling.

One of the things that make Arduino so popular is the ease of use in getting code a) to compile and b) get uploaded to the device. If this works via a service, then so be it.

But, I would like to see instructions for setting up a local amr-gcc toolchain, just to be complete.
Does the upcoming launch of Apple's NFC system and general purpose payments platform suggest that the same rules will be coming for ecommerce and general transactions? Sounds like bad news for people like Square or PayPal.
Indeed - it only helps for services that target many "normal" people. For B2B and prosumer services with a high cost per subscriber, you're a lot less likely to get a 30% boost in sales.
This one goes to 11.
Getting on a tangent here, but Google has a hard time crawling Google Groups? Have you tried emailing support@google.com? Just kidding but in all seriousness how is it that a Google property has bad SEO?
> Opera, Safari, Chrome and Firefox all run on a variety of OSs, which is exactly what a web browser should do.

What do you mean? The web itself should be accessible on a variety of platforms. It doesn't matter in the least if every platform has its own unique browser so long as they are all decently compatible. That's why we have open standards.
It's certainly easy to use, as long as the server remains up. But do I still have full control over the code that I upload to you, or does it count as "user-generated content" in http://www.getinpulse.com/terms/? What privacy guarantees do you make regarding the code that I upload? (Hopefully very little; it is transmitted in the clear, after all..)

We live in a world where device vendors (even small ones) routinely use technical means to thwart hackers and other tinkerers. Often, this is done under the guise of usability or security (sometimes with some justification, even). Plenty of people don't mind trading away some control for stability or ease-of-use.

This is a forum for hackers, and you just called your device "hackable". I'm saying that it's not, currently; it's a black box with an SDK that does cloud compilation. You don't document that fact anywhere or provide an ready alternative, and there's no information about what's underneath your API, either OS or hardware.
I hope it will put the following jobs in jeopardy:

- secretaries
- receptionists
- middle managers
I whole-heartedly agree. You don't need to do anything yourself, except for releasing the data. Please don't, under any circumstances, delete the dataset.

Edit: Regarding your original question, I think that a torrent would be much more useful than an API.
Where is CoSupport for sales? This is an awesome idea.
That's interesting. I've never heard of Weka before.
Ahh, silly me. The reason I'm not seeing any ads is because I'm using the Chrome Disconnect extension (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomh...).

Sorry to bother you w/ that question, but thanks for taking the time to post the extra info. ;)
Where?! I want some please!
Then don't add it to your block list... That's the point of customizable block lists. I agree there's a lot of content there not found on other sites, but there's also a lot of content on eHow not found on other sites. The content's junk though, which is the point and is why I blocked both.
My eZ430 only took a year to ship. Can't wait for this :D
Hmm, how do you plan on getting to know the product/codebase intimately to provide support? One thing people love about historious is that simple features are added by the time I reply to their support emails and that I know the entire codebase, this is lost with this sort of support scheme.
So let me get this straight... IE9 is not a modern browser because it is on par w/ Mozilla's shipping browser?

If IE stays one rev behind Mozilla in terms of standards conformance, but keeps up the great perf work they're doing then I think that's actually really good. Especially considering where they were coming from.

I've been using IE9 RC (after having to revert IE9 beta -- too many bugs and issues) and it has been near flawless. I'm not sure if its a better browser than Chrome now... but its close enough that I don't miss Chrome.
Imagine heading to your Applications directory, selecting all, and pressing CMD+O to open them all. Even if you're a typical user, and your apps are mostly just run-of-the-mill light Cocoa apps, having 50 running concurrently will take its toll on the system.

Chrome's tabs are each running in their own process, it's very similar to running 50 copies of the same app. Modern websites are hefty even for just one tab (this is why Safari on iOS struggles to keep more than a few tabs in memory at a time).
Tell me I was not the only whose first thought was how cool it would be to build a cluster out of these things.
But props to the OP, it looks like something I would spend hours playing with.
their own perceived rules, and so do the slow people

My perceived rule is that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. Perhaps you've heard of it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
Problem is, recombining.

Since you're not just using raw chemicals to produce the final product reproducing it is very expensive if this is the way that you're going about it.
I have zero experience in this area, but could it be that the manufacturer has to go through an approval process and/or have liability insurance in each country they ship to?
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I will be using "you" to mean people that rage in general, not specifically you because I do not know how you react. :)

First, you bring up a different subject: Are we talking about freeway signs or sidewalks? I was going with the sidewalk examples. Why should the same rules apply? Why would you be angry if a walker on a sidewalk was not following the same rules as a car driver on a freeway? It is insensible anyway: humans are not equipped with turn signals, although sometimes I wish they were. ;)

Let's talk about road rage now. In the presence of signs that clearly state "slower traffic keep right", why would you be angry if someone drives slower on the left? Sure, they are disobeying traffic signs, breaking the law, etc, but why is that your concern? What gives you the authority to "punish" (honking horns, riding a lawbreaker's tail, giving the finger on your way by, swerving angrily around to indicate your opinion, etc)?

No, the signs are not products of self-absorbed narcissists, not for these situations; those individuals may very well fit that profile in spite of the signs, but we do not have direct evidence of that in any scenario described so far. The anger reaction from the perceived slight in these circumstances is.

Ironically, when we talk about narcissism, we probably need to self-analyze, too. All of us have a certain amount of it, or we would not be gracing the rest of the Internet public with the bounties of our posts, believing that people might actually care about our opinions. :)
Thanks for the reply Todd. We aren't serving ads quite yet (no ads served during beta) but I will be in touch when the site goes live!
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> Note that since switching to that resume format, I've been offered substantially better jobs. (And I've landed another good one.)

Congratulations!

The format's appeal to business-minded folks with no technical background is clear. Everywhere I have worked and would want to work, hiring decisions have been made by technical people, so this is never something I have had to worry about. I can see how the dynamics would differ elsewhere in the industry.

The general lesson is to think about your audience. Another reply to your post suggested you should have a scannable list of technology buzzwords to pass HR screening. That might be good advice most of the time but bad advice if you're submitting your resume by an inside track that goes directly to the hiring manager. If you were submitting your resume to a company whose culture is engineering oriented from top to bottom, you'd want to put a different emphasis on things, and so on.

Best of all, of course, is to have your reputation precede you so that the resume is nothing more than a reminder and a set of talking points for the interview. I've been getting used to that with my last few jobs. Unfortunately, right now I'm in the midst of applying for an O-1 visa, so I've had to minutely enumerate my technical accomplishments, explicate their business relevance, and just hoot my own horn endlessly for the benefit of visa examiners who are industry outsiders and understandably cannot read between the lines. The level of documentation and the burden of evidence is immense: 180 pages and counting.
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According the designers they considered it, but finally decided to concentrate on the question answering. OCR for this situation could probably be done in fast and reliable way, so it wouldn't make much of a difference. Speech recognition would be harder and less reliable, but redundant most of the time (though it presumably could have helped for the 1920s question).
You should add the "rel=nofollow" attribute to the links that you show on your website. You can damage your search engine rankings with spammy outbound links.
I didn't mean to sound ungrateful. I appreciate the list.

I just meant to inform that, by definition, I don't believe e-e is a true content farm. For anyone adding these sites blindly, you may miss out on that obscure answer you've been looking for.

[edit] I don't know how I find myself in the position of defending e-e, but there are lots of SQL Server related answers on e-e that haven't yet been duplicated on Server Fault or other more friendly sites.
It's more than just providing a subscriber base, it's the infastructure to process recurring payments, while making it stupid simple for the customer. Whether this is worth 30% is debatable, as some of us know it's not trivial/cheap to do on your own.
Why should Slice be fully implementable within the language?
C++ is another systems language that decided that everything should be able to be done in libraries, and we've all seen the complexity that results.
Well hopefully someone with more experience in the shopping cart area can respond with some good advice for you (because I definitely don't have the background to comment). Good luck with your startup!
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According to the designers Watson waits for the light indicators (not seen on TV) that you can press the button, so no lockout. Humans often try to predict when the light will turn on instead of waiting, so sometimes they press the button faster than Watson.
Does Valve make much off of those? Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Source_engine_games, there don't seem to be too many "other" games.
Amazon takes a 30% cut of those.
Even if WebSocket didn't have supposed security concerns when used with buggy web caches, I'm extremely doubtful that MS would have supported them.
I suppose you could experiment with no flash at all using an extension and see if that changes things. Certainly flash has it's own memory cache and Apple is none too pleased with it.

Personally, using a Cr48 with 2GB memory, I don't see much performance difference between that and chrome my 27" iMac with 8 gb or winxp at work with 4gb.
it really depends on the culture of the location you're planning on attacking. While Reddit/Digg is hot here in the states. the same concept might not fly in other countries. I had a few buddies who started a Digg-like site a couple years back in Taiwan. It never really took off because culturally people over there just wasn't into it. Majority of consumers are still using BBS systems to share news and info even though there are plenty of 2.0 social sites on the market.
Good point.

As I mentioned, we're releasing the entire SDK with instructions on how to compile using the full arm-gcc, right on your local machine. We just started off with this cloudcompile service to make it super easy for everyone to get Hello, Watch! (http://getinPulse.com/apps/hello_watch) running.

We are developers ourselves and committed to providing the best experience possible. We'll work fast to get the full toolchain out there.
Because there's less cognitive overhead in learning 5 variations on one language to do 5 tasks than there is in learning 5 languages to do 5 tasks. You don't have to relearn what semicolons, parentheses, braces, colons and so on mean. You just have to learn how inheritance works. Or the STL. Or whatever.
The mentors of Capital Factory want you to succeed and they commit great amounts of time and energy to insure that by the end of the program, you are ready to present your business to the world, investors and the press. Add to that weekly expert speakers on a wide range of topics and access to some of the best support systems, software and connections. And although the program does come to an end, these successful entrepreneurs are now a part of your network! Not to mention Austin's startup scene is dynamic, spirited and supportive....Austin, as a city, just kicks ass. Ask some of the out-of-state teams that have participated and never left!
I've seen a couple videos of "behind the scenes" at the Valve offices and Gabe is a weapons nut: lots of framed knives and things used as decoration.
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You're proposing publishers cut out Amazon as a middleman and replace them with Apple, another middleman. I don't know Amazon's cut, but it may not be worth the effort to switch if there's no financial gain.

If content, quality and prices are equal between the AppStore subscription and the Kindle store versions, I have no incentive to buy from the AppStore when it's less feature rich than a Kindle version which can seamlessly sync and move between PC, Android and iOS. AppStore purchases are stuck on iOS devices, and the Kindle's display is the preferable reading screen for many people.

To be fair, it's not limited to Amazon either, B&N and the Nook are in the same situation.
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Can the watchband be removed to make it a pendant (or pocket watch) ?

Looks too big for a woman's wrist? Can't find actual dimensions...
And if the browser industry were as big as the beverage industry, and if Firefox had the kind of advantage Coke has, I am sure people would be doing it.
I thought you sold subscriptions through your site, and they could then be viewed on the iPhone? Can you purchase your content via in app purchases presently? I don't see how it changes for you guys.

Apple only takes 30% if you use their payment platform - if you offer a subscription service outside of the iOS application, you're free to use authentication and let users transfer their subscription from the web to iOS and Apple never takes a cut.
As a society it should be our goal to have all the repetitive and dumb work been done by machines. If a machine can do your job it wasn't that challenging in the first place. In that case your job provides absolutely zero benefits to the society.
Apple is trying to prevent the following maneuver:

¶ FooPub Inc. publishes FooMag through the App Store, at a price of $1/year.

¶ Each issue of FooMag contains some small amount of content and a link: “To read more, go to foopub.example.com and subscribe to FooMag Deluxe for $20/year!”

¶ Users download FooMag Deluxe through FooPub’s own servers, bypassing the App Store completely.

¶ Scads of people discover FooMag through the App Store, subscribe to it (giving Apple 30¢ out of each $1 subscription), and a significant fraction of them upgrade to the deluxe version (giving Apple nothing).
Whatever. The fact still remains that IE is the dominant Browser, and being the weakest link, you have to just be happy for every feature that they add or fix, because as soon as that happens, there's a hope of you actually being able to use it.

If I were to say anything to the IE team it woud be, "Great job! Now keep going, please."
I checked out the aloha editor and am really impressed. My challenge right now is that I don't fully understand what AGPL licensing means. Could I use this unmodified in a commercial project (web application)? What does that mean for the project (source code and running web app)?
Wouldn't this be equivalent to somebody finding out Google's exact ranking weights from 2005 ?

The recipe has changed/been tweaked alot & the true strength of Google is now in its worldwide brand rather than its ranking algorithm.
This is NOT the NYT viewpoint but my own. I am a developer with the NYT but I'm not speaking for the NYT nor claim to be reflecting their views.
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If you don't like Java, you can use Python with the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and do the same thing. Please do provide the dataset for download.
Close 356 days, not 365, though still close enough to be a note-worthy coincidence!
Ah good point. Maybe they just pick people like you for truckers. :P

"driving a truck from the orange oil plant? must be sugar!"
This is consulting packaged as a product. But just because this product fit isn't right for you and your humblebrag doesn't mean the entire premise fails.

The right fit would be a burgeoning company hitting their stride but don't have enough cash to spend on maintenance and service until another 6-9 months. They would jump on this to get the proper process in place and start hiring.
Wow, may I ask what kind of software creates such an astounding change?
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It doesn't happen overnight. I'll go out on a limb here and say that we are only 10 years away from the first completely autonomous delivery trucks.

Google is already doing this with human co-pilots. Once there is solid statistical data showing that a computer driver is safer and cheaper than a human, the phase-out of the human drivers will be pretty swift. After all, imagine the competitive advantage you'd have if your trucking company can replace a human driver with a computer. One that can drive 24 hours a day while making fewer mistakes. Even if this technology cost half a million dollars (and it won't), doing so would be a no-brainer.
Pepsi actually beats Coke in most taste tests.

edit: I know, Pepsi isn't a "generic brand cola", just saying, Coke isn't usually rated the best.
Just to clarify, I didn't do anything but link to what ckwalsh made and posted at I guess a bad time to draw attention. Least here, the reddit discussion seems to be going well.
Oh, that's why I didn't have to pay for my iPhone, then.
If you just want the cane-sugar coke, I've seen Costco sell it (imported from Mexico, IIRC).
Oh wow! I totally missed the .com vs .org thing. I totally see the difference now that I actually visited both pages.
From the post it seems that the user has their data deleted but the account remains (as he was able to log in still), but that is a possibility.
The middle manager's only job is to retain the appearance of usefulness to remain employed.
Secretaries will only be threatened once they can put Watson's computational capacity into about a kilogram of mass and install it in one of those Japanese girlbots.