skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you still have your notes for that course? I've been meaning to reread Gatsby for a while, and it sounds like this could be an interesting way of looking at it.
Is anybody else tired of the whole Nokia-Microsoft tie up already? Just give them space and let them do their thing.. Obviously some people still hate Microsoft and some others don't really get the long term economics or even the short term economic choices faced by the board.
This is pretty much what we do at SproutBox. Though we offer a whole team: designers, coders, accounting and HR support, etc. It's pretty rad.
One reason Government has to come up with restrictions like that is because banks and credit card companies do not protect the consumer in case of card theft unlike here in the US where the customer is liable for only the first $50.

All the fraudulent charges are the customers responsibility.
Hackdays
I am glad Apple put this in here. After the issue with the ambiguous working on purchases made outside the App Store, this is something more consumer friendly as well as publisher friendly.
Is there anywhere online to watch it? I'd even be willing to pay for it on iTunes, but doesn't look like it's there.

FYI I'm in Thailand and do not have cable/satellite since the 'net works for almost everything else
Would apply to a services back-end to an application?

As an example, the ubiquitous grocery list: the app is functional stand-alone but has a subscription syncing service that allows for sharing lists and update.
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Where My Customers Came From in 2010
The UK needs a safe-harbor provision that protects UGC sites.

The patent office needs to stop software being patented. UK patent law specifically excludes "programs for computers" but nevertheless the patent office still grants software patents.
That's pretty impressive, mind sharing a photo with us? I just want to understand what this level of awesome looks like.
If you want to watch it but have no way of doing so, the game is (still?) available on YouTube and easily findable. It will also be available on the IBM Watson website (http://ibmwatson.com/) the day after tomorrow.
Nokia Plan E
And http://nokiaplank.com
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No. And thank science for that.
Whats your visitor:signup ratio ?
The Entrepreneur’s Brain
I was interested in this too - http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/fl477/tonight_a_... was the first few clues fed in to Google.

What I found was that the answer was in the snippets on the first SERP but certainly for some of the questions it seemed pretty hard to parse it out.

Also I think Jeopardy got 1 or possibly 2 answers wrong

- White City was the City of the 1908 Olympics, it was in London Borough or Greater London but not in the City of London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London). White City is a borough and not a city, which makes this a really hard question for a computer to answer I think.

- Nagini killed whatever Harry Potter character was mentioned ; I'm not familiar with the series and didn't see this question this was just based on a comment on Reddit and a Google for "killed $CharName" (I have a really bad memory).
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Learn to Touch Type (1983)
After having watched the first half of game one: Another interesting category that Watson seemed to have a lot of trouble with was a category where all the answers were decades (1910s, 1920s, etc.). The top answers that Watson came up with were always years, but he was never that confident, and he never caught on that the answers were supposed to be a span of years.
Your fingerprint is yours and yours alone. An access from an IP could be anyone who had access to the system with that IP.
And why should developer bother to know how to deal with pointers ?

And since when does writing "Hello World" in C teaches you how to use pointer and how to deal with it.
I think many people were hoping for it but Go fell fatally short in 2 key areas IMO:

1 - Error handling - Go doesn't have any powerful mechanism for error handling. The code I have seen is rather inconsistent and it doesn't solve the main problem from C of forcing people to handle errors.

2 - Polymorphism - They left any kind of generics out. I think this could go a long ways for (1) too, just look at Either or Maybe type in Haskell. Combine this with some pattern matching and you have a really powerful way to enforce error handling and have polymorphic data structures and functions. IMO this is the biggest failing of Go.

I think the failure to provide those two things also makes Go a future mess. Adding them later either breaks a lot of outstanding code or it means you have to versions of Go, the original and new which is a mess.
Interesting that Steve Jobs is still giving quotes for the press releases.
Video:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PSPvHcLnN0

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtHlxzOXgYs
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2220667

For those that missed the game, or can't remember every question, a nice spreadsheet/empty discussion made by ckwalsh.
And as someone noted earlier, a lot of people formed their opinion of C++ a decade ago. A decade ago C++ compilers generally sucked. Templates were usually broken, exceptions were usually broken, and the STL was generally broken.

EDG was the first front-end to really get solid. Then Visual C++ got its act together and started releasing highly standard comformant C++, and then GCC did.

Now if you're writing standard compliant C++ it will likely work on the big 3 front-ends.

With that said there are some complexities in C++, but fortunately you can largely be oblivious to it until you need to use them.

Crockford correctly points out that Javascript has a very solid core. C++ shares that. With that said, I still prefer not to program in it... Just not a fan of non-GCed languages for the most part.
The verbosity of the language?
The US date format isn't unintuitive if you're fluent in colloquial American english, because that's how we speak dates aloud. You're more likely to hear "March 12, 2010" than "12 March, 2010" in casual conversation.

That said, I try to stick to 12 Mar 2010 (abbreviated textual month) on the intertubes in deference to the fact that the rest of the world formats dates differently, and I find that to be a nice unambiguous middle-ground.
Is this another result of the random startup generator? What's with all the clouds? What's with the Apple Product Placement?
Online banking based payments work just fine for local Indian sites, but I haven't found a way to pay US based businesses without a credit card. The only use I've had for using a credit card has been to pay for AWS and Linode.
There's something fitting about fashioning your own antenna to watch AI compete on Jeopardy. True hacker.
There's a nice one around Boston (much smaller, obviously, but might be more accessible for HN readers): http://www.mos.org/sln/wtu/css.html
On Windows I recommend Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org )
"Watson can’t adjust its answers to what the other players say and so it simply answers with whatever comes up as its top answer."

This is false, in fact they specifically mentioned Watson learning from the answers of the other players.

In the game, Watson answers "The 1920s" after Jennings answers incorrectly with "the 20s". Basically, it didn't write off its own answer because it thought Jennings' was different enough that it might have been incorrect for the way it was phrased. The same way you might correctly answer "inner ear" after someone else incorrectly answers "ear".
I think WP7 + Nokia is a great move. Nokia makes great hardware and Microsoft makes great software and has a HUGE developer base.

I have switched from iPhone to WP7 after 3+ years and I am really happy with it. I do miss some of the apps and games but love other features that make up for it.

Hate Microsoft all you want but they have made great software (and also bad).

Great = win7, wp7, zune, visual studio, expression suite, office suite, sql server.

Bad = well you all know the list: IE8,7,6,5,etc..., hotmail, windows me and a ton of others that I am too lazy to list.

If history is any indication, Microsoft will eventually dominate the mobile marketplace or at least be a very close second.
I agree, Complex does not necessarily mean Complicated. In C++, it does.
For me, Wave had one very strong use case: collaboration and discussion intended to result in a persistent document. Forums, mailing lists, e-mail, etc. are great for discussion, but they are generally ephemeral. Documents are persistent, and with Google Docs can be created collaboratively, but the communication channels around them are weak. You're limited to distracting in-document text, limited comments, or entirely out-of-band communication e.g. e-mail. With Wave you could have the document, editable by anyone, and embed discussion in it and around it. You can discuss a point, updating the base document as discussion converges. It's a brilliant medium for group brainstorming and drafting.

That use case alone is enough to make me miss it.
The problem with saying this is not a failure is that it's not clear what ever would be.
Which you really shoudn't eat.

But sure I spend more on electronics than I used to.
Didn't pay attention to the 'Generator' part of the title, and got "Market schoolchildren to schoolchildren". I was confused for a good ten seconds.
What a mess. It's really too bad that Oracle seems to be fouling up every aspect of their relationship to the Java community. I am truly worried about the fate of JVM libraries and languages.
Apple to expand iPhone screen size to 4-inches
Incentivized Referral Programs for B2B companies - do they work?
love the comment on the end of the video "this will work in internet explorer 7, I mean I haven't tested it but I think it will"
The ISP cannot say you had this address, but only your computer. With public Wifi, several people will have the same IP address. The possibility of being hacked or having someone "borrow" your connection are also possibilities. Households, businesses, and schools may share a computer.

Sharing a fingerprinting, hacking a fingerprint, or being away from your fingerprint for a short period of time is nearly impossible. Your fingerprint is intimately associated with you, therefore the link to your identity is stronger. The law doesn't have to enforce this link because it is natural, biological. You are the owner of the fingerprint.

The danger with treating IP addresses as a strong link to a person is that a court is effectively legislating that IP addresses should be tied to a particular person who is responsible for it. That means you cannot share your IP address with others and cannot share a public computer.
Very impressive. Not only are the distances in proportion, but also the sizes and the sizes to the distances.

Didn't know this was possible.
doubt he has anything more than hearsay. He's always on the anti-india bandwagon every time such a story breaks out ..

Now, I know Black money is rampant in India and that it's almost a parallel economy in some respects but I'm not so sure it's a number as high as this guy claims.

Also, a whole lot of black money is being "cleaned" up by many a politicos and funneled back into the country via Mauritius and then that money's reinvested in legitimate businesses like real estate/property development as financiers
(source: my family friends have a business partner or two with such financial backing)
The MBA's last gasp
Not sure if it does it during the question though. The NOVA documentary on Watson[1] mentions having problems specifically with time phrases like the '20s, and it also has a part on giving Watson text input of the correct answer to improve performance after the question is answered. Nothing on getting every response from the other players.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth....
Introduce your friends to each other
Introduce Me is a web app for introducing two of your friends to each other. Sends a message to the two people you introduce and creates a page where they can see each other's profiles and have a private discussion with you. Uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn APIs.
I couldn't have wished for a more exciting opening to this game. Watson just shot right off into the lead like there was no tomorrow, jetting ahead by thousands! I was blown away. Then he slowly started to crumble a bit and his answers were faulty more and more. But his strategy is amazing! He hops from category to category, while most humans pick a category and stick with it. I wonder if IBM has him do that purely because it might throw the humans off a bit. Totally awesome. I can't wait for tonight's show!
> Wave is going to be one of those things people talk about for years afterwards wondering why it failed.

Which is funny, considering that the name is inspired by firefly.
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They said he'd still be involved in the strategic stuff. I'm sure they need to put his name on a few press releases to make sure investors know he's still alive.
"Publishers of content-based apps"

I wonder if this can be used for other non-content-driven applications.
Counterexample: 401 pops up an authentication dialog.
I suspect the hopping categories was to try and buy time to calculate what sort of questions would be asked in each. But it's first move of getting into the lead (and the daily double) I would say is a combination of good strategy and PSYOP.
Being financially conservative is different from making adoption of new technology difficult. Today, Paypal doesn't work in India, the payment gateways are in a horrible mess and the one-time-password rule has given mobile commerce a huge setback. I believe the problem lies in not going into the details of implementation. There is a fine balance between security and usability which has to be maintained. As someone who is looking to start a web startup in India, I am disappointed by how consumer concerns are being ignored and online commerce is becoming more and more difficult here.
First of all: I am one of the people you are trying to reach with this sort of programme. My comments are intended as feedback on how you present yourselves, I'm not trying to to imply anything about the quality of the programme or the people involved. I certainly didn't come into this discussion with any kind of negative bias.

If I'm giving up equity, especially for relatively little money, I want to know I'm getting a good deal. pclark's comments on this thread are basically spot-on in this regard, so I don't need to add much. These concerns do need to be addressed though.

I thought it would be useful for readers to know this is a real programme with real mentors and not, for instance, some kind of scam.

It's good to know that it isn't a scam, though that's kind of a minimum requirement. I'm curious about the alignment of interests between investors (who presumably own the equity the startups are giving up) and mentors (who seem to be doing the leg work).

Quoting your comment elsewhere: "I am helping these guys out as a mentor. Seems like a good idea."

With all due respect, that doesn't sound overly enthusiastic. From your comment above, it sounds like you don't receive equity. Do Springboard pay you? If not, what's in it for you, other than karmic retribution and a CV bullet point? Why allow Springboard to advertise using your name?

These questions may seem nosy, but I think they are legitimate concerns. I'm trying to understand the "product" here.
Stealthy Plexxi raises $8.3M, names David Husak (of Reva Systems?) director.
268 visits - 21 signups

or roughly 8%
If Wave were created by a smaller company, it would not have been able to garner that much hype and tech blogs ink and therefore wouldn't have attracted that many adopters. In fact, without Google's reputation, a small company creating such a product and protocol would be dismissed as too obscure and complicated.

I thought Wave was awesome when I tried it out with all my engineers friends. But then we somehow stopped, I didn't even remember how or when we stopped. Wave just seems like a really cool software that solves problem nobody has.
Forgot to change this from local development. Thanks.
Adding them later either breaks a lot of outstanding code or it means you have to versions of Go, the original and new which is a mess.

Actually, the creators of Go are still not afraid of breaking things. For example, recent release (2011-02-01.1¹) changed the syntax of non-blocking channel operations, and it broke code.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/uHfjRyO1Q6c/di...
wow that's pretty fast, 5 hours ago when i just quickly whois'ed, it was still available
Just checked the site btw, I hope i got it right, Finland (suomi) is going back to 19th century? Kudos
You can hardly call that a 'marriage'. Its just another adjustment you would do even with your roommate.

I've been married for last 8 years and also have a kid. I feel, the best of marriage is lived when you share everything - talk out every feeling - help each other achieve the small dreams - LIVE together! Every relationship, even a mother-child/friends/brother-sister - they all have conflicts - and most of it because of expectations. Without 'expectations' there cannot exist a relation. The key is to achieve the balance - try to give enough space/freedom to each other so that both gets to do the things they enjoy the most - try to find your happiness in the same, if you can, or at least support it in some way.

For household responsibilities, it should be equally and mutually shared. But 'don't talk so much' is definitely not the approach to avoid conflicts. We are not machines; the whole point of 'living' is to 'share'; and Humans Do Need to Share. What else do you need to marry for? Better stay bachelor, if you don't think you can shoulder the responsibility to 'share' and handle 'expectations'.
I thought this goes against 37signals advice to get actual real people doing customer support?
And with that, Apple just gave up the content app space to Android. Do you think the Economist, the Financial Times, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Rdio and others are really going to hand over 30% of their subscriber revenue?
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Apple: if we get you subscribers, we deserve a cut
It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

The user is paying for the device, they are paying for the bandwidth, they now pay for the content. Fine, great.

The publisher is paying to build the app, they're paying even more to acquire/write/edit/host the content, they're paying a cost to make it available. Okay... whatever.

Apple claims 30% just for being there.

They don't add to the discovery of most content apps (we're all aware of the big name ones a Wired, NYT, USA Today, etc), discovery is what could happen in the app but not the app store itself.

FYI: I work for the NYT so while I think my issues are critical and fair I want to be upfront about that.
Personally, I've never been surprised at Wave's apparent failure. To me, it was no different than any other attempt at a "revolutionary idea" that didn't work later in another revision or iteration (I think Hacker News readers understand this very well;a poor analogy would be a Microsoft Tablet and an iPad). A lot of discussion about it's failure is a direct result of Google's status and the amount of resources required to come up with a product like wave.

When I consider Wave in retrospect, I really think they limped in on this . It was a grand experiment. If they really wanted this to succeed, I don't think they would have proceeded with the launch the way they did. Reading the Quora answer sort of jives with this.

I'm surprised no discussion touched upon the Anonymous response in the Quora thread. It's more interesting than "why Wave failed" and is indicative of the state of Google. It brings an additional perspective to the discussion around Google's (apparent) talent retention problems. Combined with other anecdotal evidence, it really look like Google is at a loss for how to continually motivate employees with their current organizational structure
I don't disagree. Which is why I feel the problem lies with the marketing of Wave. They marketed the UI. Oh, I think technical people should have known better. But even then, so much emphasis was put on the UI, I can see it being a problem.

Basically, I just feel Google didn't do Wave justice by only providing that one client.
He hops from category to category, while most humans pick a category and stick with it.

I noticed the same thing, but I really hoped it was unintentional. It doesn't feel like it's a fair fight otherwise, since it means he's exploiting a weakness intrinsic to his competitors. The whole point of this competition is to show that a computer can compete and win at a human level. If it weren't, then why force him to physically push a button to ring in? If Watson is intentionally jumping categories to confuse humans, then it sort of feels like he's cheating a bit.

As I write this, I realize a lot of this comment is motivated by my bruised human ego, but it just doesn't feel quite right to me.
At http://www.dashboardtosuccess.com/take-a-tour.html the smaller photo has a visible iStockPhoto watermark. You probably forgot to replace it with the right one I suppose.
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Because there are a few rogue players, should everyone be denied from using a subscription model. How painful will it be to actually subscribe to something and go through this slow painful process every month ?
Does anyone want to create a community site for the contest? I am looking for another Django developer who can participate in an all-night code sprint. The site would:

1. Show an online score board.

2. Track Watson's performance (like shkb is doing on Google Docs)

3. Aggregate pictures, videos, and written analysis of the event
If it starts accepting contributions, it will become a killer app! Or a killer plan, or...
I don't think anyone is suggesting that IP addresses provide no evidence whatsoever or that they shouldn't be used as evidence at all. Certainly, they do narrow the possibilities down. However, by dismissing arguments of hacking or sharing an IP address as rubbish, an IP address effectively becomes a person's identity regardless of whether they can completely control it. Since many users are not technically savvy, they cannot control what happens at an IP address. Hence, parents and grandparents get sued for their kids behavior, coffee shops with open wifi face litigation, schools and businesses must enforce draconian security measures just to enforce a strong tie between a person and an IP when that tie is not natural.
All good and sound advice. But Nr.2 I don't understand. Why is pivot'ing not good?