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That's good. A community writing different backends would be great. Do you want to take this to the open-source community direction or a for-profit webapp?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fianna_Fáil

At first I thought that name was some sort of joke.
I don't know about tears, as such, but the NOVA documentary about Watson included a video clip from the end of the famous Kasparov-Deep Blue game. It showed him angrily storming away from the table after being beaten; the way the video was cut, in combination with the narration, gave the impression that he was something of a sore loser. Note, however, that it was a very short clip, and there was probably a lot of context that didn't come through.
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The fact that it was covered as news to the degree that Engadget has to run a follow up is symptomatic of a far sadder state of affairs which exists in tech media.
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For easy setup and universal integration, you could serve some per page JavaScript that applies the corrections to the page (kind of like Optimizely). That would come at the expense of accessibility, but I think it would be worthwhile.
I'd like to learn the design side more. How did you come up with the nice color scheme for the site, just gut feeling?

I've heard recommendations of sites like http://colorschemedesigner.com/ but if I plug in your maroon flush color from behind "Inky Livie's Workshop", I can't get color scheme designer to recommend any of your other colors no matter which setting I choose.
That is an awesomely visually designed infographic. Well done guys. Complete with the hardwood floor motif! :)
Can someone throw light as to how this is done? It seems to use the native Safari app, unless I am wrong.
Another data analysis tool that has been around for some time is IBM's "Many Eyes" project: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/

There is quite a large volume of user-submitted data at that site, and some very effective visualisation options.
I had no idea. Out of everything I've heard, including the buzzer response time advantage, this seems to be the one thing that isn't really fair. If Ken was a narcoleptic and fell asleep every couple of minutes, he wouldn't have been allowed to be a competitor.

I still value what they're doing and of course it's fun to see the crazy thing play and win at Jeopardy, but I think the fact that it crashes continuously should at least be made more visible to the viewing audience. "Yes, folks, it can beat Ken at Jeopardy, but we still have to press the reset button every once in a while just like you do at home." Skynet may be getting smarter, but it still has fundamental problems.
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I'm sorry, but I believe gratuit is the French word, not gratis.
That's not their goal, but it's the inevitable result of the way their comment system is structured: they only show the last few comments, there's no or minimal threading, the user base is huge, and the moderation is ineffective. YouTube is a forum for unintelligent conversation, by its very design.
Here's the meat:
"They're not waiting for the light to come on," Welty said; rather, the human players try to time their buzzer presses so that they're coming in as close as possible to the light. Though Watson's reaction times are faster than a human, Welty noted that Watson has to wait for the light. Dr. Adam Lally, another member of Watson's team, noted that "Ken and Brad are really fast. They have to be."

What a deceptive little statement. If you set the "attempt answer" bit in Watson before the light comes on, and you have the humans attempt to press it as soon as allowable, they will never beat Watson.

Actually, they may beat him a few times per hundred-thousand attempts (assuming Watson gets the "light" and buzzes in via tens-of-microseconds-scale ethernet), but would have to be willing to tolerate what would normally be an unacceptable error rate (if you press early, you can't press again for ~2 seconds if I remember right).
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There are set procedures for banning books in particular.

There have been books banned in the US, however.

US went to court to censor The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence for its use of classified materials.

US FDA went to court and had Wilhelm Reich's books banned as "labels" for his orgone blank. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

So altogether, the procedure for banning books and banning websites is similar - in the sense that both approaches use "obscure clauses" and twist the meaning of free speech and due-process to suit their goals while covering up their effect.

The one good thing is that free speech still has popular support here.
I just heard about this today when I happened to speak with mrkurt and I immediately loved the idea.

After checking it out, I'm impressed with how well it's put together. Really simple, clean design and easy to understand.

Looking forward to watching this grow. I think there is a big opportunity here.
I think the bigger issue is the fact that they 'feed' Watson the question via a text file.

That was probably the most (only?) disappointing thing they revealed. It would seem that voice-recognition is far enough along where that shouldn't be necessary. Maybe adding that would delay Watson just enough to seem far? Or perhaps I'm over simplifying the difficulties of adding voice recognition to Watson?
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This whole indexing business worries me. They actually store my data internally to provide these "instant search" capabilities.
Im pretty sure this goes against terms of API use of many data providers.
Linked in for instance says the following at
http://developer.linkedin.com/docs/DOC-1013

"3.4 Data Storage and Conversion. You may not store or cache any Content returned or received through the APIs, including data about users, longer than the current usage session of the user for which it was obtained, except for the alphanumeric user IDs we provide you for identifying users, unless and to the extent that such storage or caching is expressly allowed in the Platform Guidelines. You may store the alphanumeric user IDs we provide you indefinitely unless we terminate your use of the APIs for breach of these Terms. The restrictions of this Section do not apply to “Independent Data,” which means data that users provide directly to you, provided that you cannot convert data received from the APIs to Independent Data (e.g., by obtaining it from the APIs and asking the user for permission); Independent Data must have been separately entered, uploaded, or presented to you by the user of your Application."

Basically Linked disallows storing data directly or converting/hashing/indexing it and then storing it. It only allows storage of user ids.

Yet greplin is getting away. I suppose they pay for special data licensing.
If you set the "attempt answer" bit in Watson before the light comes on, and you have the humans attempt to press it as soon as allowable, they will never beat Watson.

There were at least a couple of questions for which Watson had 90%+ confidence for the right answer and also way above its buzz threshold but could not buzz in.
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>>It is basically ... http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/<<;

Wrong.

It is basically the old Doug Bagley programs which were replaced 3 years before the zi.fi/shootout article was posted.

A little history - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreatComputerLanguageShootout

In this new decade -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/java.php#faster-progr...
Why are you studying pharmacy if you love coding?

It will be very hard to reconcile school, hobby and actual entrepreneurship when they are all in diverging areas (and "coding" has very little to do with entrepreneurship). My advise would be to find better alignment in your activities. Otherwise you will end up doing all three just well enough to fail.

For example, you could do an internship in a bioinformatics start-up. Learn about entrepreneurship, network and still get to practice your interests/skills - all in one shot. Not everything has to be about Web2.0...
Kinda like Congress, huh?
It's unfair that Watson is allowed to basically use it's robotic reaction to time ring in instantly when the light turns on, but all audio and video daily doubles are avoided because IBM didn't bother to add audio and video inputs.

If the show is catering to Watson's shortcomings, why couldn't they cater to human reaction time shortcomings?

Edit: punctuation
A nice concept, and the collaboration aspect is great. But this won't get me away from the task management desktop apps I am used to.

The plugin has no concept of projects as far as I can tell, which could be by simply tagging in gmail. As it is, I can simply drag the gmail url to my current desktop application icon which creates a task.

Perhaps for someone whose only work related tasks come in through gmail, this would be an improvement over just tagging an email.

Even if it were my case, I cannot see myself relying this app. I moved away from Things to The Hit List because it had VIM-like keyboard controls, and am used to being able to move around in gmail with the keyboard as well. As far as I can tell, there are no keyboard controls for this plugin.
Think more and you'll only get an answer of "yes".

Throughout history there has been areas that excel in certain trades. Steel Work and boat building moved from highly talented areas in the UK pre-WW2 where workers were underpaid compared to their skills. As wages rose, this era ended and the steel work and boat building jumped straight to post-WW2 Japan. Similar things transpired as wages rose and it shifted to South Korea that the government suppressed unionization and allowed its steel industry to flourish and still only appears to be in the declining phase of its ship-building.

Whilst the elite of the worlds technology reside in the valley, good developers will be underpaid. When the workers get stupid and want to be overpaid for their work (IE unionise) then there work will move to the third world overnight.

Then there's the other valuation of income. I always make less than I should, simply because if I worked for myself doing whatever job I do I will be making more. If you're an employee, you'll never make what you would as an employer or as a self-employed.
This is how crowded Australia's group deal market has got in Groupons absence
i wish watson had to do speech/text recognition of the answers. it would slow down watson's response and put it on par with the human contestants who don't have the answers hard-wired directly into their brains and still have to spend time reading or listening to alex.
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Ugh, yes. Hitting a problem with my code, I would ignore the site for days until I realized that I was just procrastinating away from the uncomfortable. It sucks when you feel completely out of your element (me, learning design, others, perhaps working on design), especially when I was stuck on a problem and had no idea how to go further.
Beautiful site. Congrats on the launch and getting up to speed so quickly with Django and Python. All of the resources you mentioned are excellent for anyone trying to learn Django/Python.
I built http://www.scoratic.com/ Its a daily list of the most valuable dropping domain names.

My biggest problem was ingesting data. The CSV file I needed to process was above 10MB and unable to be divided using range headers in my requests. This file size was too large to be requested by App Engine. I had to write a separate app on a VPS to process the raw file into a smaller and smaller more efficient file and then ingest that file to app engine.

At the end of last year, App Engine lifted this file size restriction and have been able to adapt the code and now it is full automated.
How will you notify the site's owner?
How is working from home viewed at Google?
That or...
Rad.io
Rat.io
Portfol.io
etc..
Does it really? Vancouver is ranked something like #1 most unaffordable housing market in the world. As in, the average salary is $50K but the average home price is $500K. I guess you're right, if you actually ARE making $100K in Vancouver, it will be easier to buy the $500K house. However, the reality is that programmers there make about $60K, so you're better off being a real estate broker.
It launched but almost instantly crashed.
Ask HN: Was Apple's Ping Successful?
Of course there was a lot of hate spewed across the interwebs about Apple's ping being a complete #FAIL. But was it successful in terms of Apple's goal for it--to get people to buy more music?
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I guess you can make a public repository of sites -> owner emails. If one is missing, you try the whois. Not close to bulletproof, but a start.
Are you running on a 64-bit computer? That might be too many bits; try running on an 8-bit machine.
The interesting question is whether the computer can do natural language processing, not whether it can recognize spoken words.

Even the human contestants don't rely on the host reading the questions; they read the board. I guess you could argue that Watson should do OCR of the board, but that's not actually a hard problem, so it wouldn't really add much to the challenge.

They're focusing on language processing, not environmental sensors.
I think his point, without the "jackasses" part, is this - value creation is not zero sum, but value claiming is, so if you're creating more value than you're claiming in compensation, it implies that the person on the other side of the table is claiming more compensation than they've created value. This is what you're negotiating when you negotiate salary, benefits, and working conditions, and a lot of that has to do with your BATNA - the pay you could be getting elsewhere, and the others your employer could hire.

So if you could be getting more elsewhere, then the others who are splitting up the profits are getting more compensation than they created value - others who are getting far less than their market value aren't part of the negotiation, unless your employer is thinking of hiring them.

In short: If you're thinking of working in Finance, and your employer has no intention of hiring a starving programmer from another country, then you're underpaid. If your employer is looking into outsourcing, and you're not searching for jobs, you're overpaid.
Ask HN: So I just bought Rap.io What should I build there?
I am feeling like a fun weekend project and just picked up a cool domain (rap.io), please suggest ideas for what I should build. The one with the most votes is what I'll build!
I'm still holding out for http://nokiaplanxp.com/
Our goal for Cloudy, at least right now, is to get as many people as possible using the app. When a user asks a question using Cloudy to a non-user, we send that friend the question by SMS, along with a short blurb to the effect of "Have an iPhone? Download Cloudy for free here to ask your own questions!" and a link to the App Store listing. So, the more people that use the app, the more viral growth we can have.

In order to not be eaten alive by SMS costs, we are working with 4INFO to include short ads at the bottom of texts sent to the SMS users (users who receive and reply to questions by SMS, but don't have the app) who received the highest number of texts over the last week. Once we hit a certain number of ads included per month, we will actually break even on SMS costs, all while only showing SMS ads to a small subset of users.

Beyond SMS, we have monetization plans for the app itself that will come a bit further down the road.
I don't think your understanding of the situation is accurate: http://live.washingtonpost.com/jeopardy-ken-jennings.html#qu...
Heres one with 65% confidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2_M8kL_3o&t=3m58s

97% confidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2_M8kL_3o&t=4m26s
Kinda different than my model. I am a company based in Jamaica - with US & EU based clients (to be).

So it's kinda the opposite.
I don't agree with the conclusion because I don't agree with the premise: that most programmers are irreplaceable ninja rockstars that single handedly make their employers millions a year. We're talking about average salaries not outliers that have no bearing on what most of us should consider fair pay.

I'm saying if you make 100-150k a year, sitting on your ass, doing something you enjoy then perhaps you should feel pretty fortunate. Stop thinking about the few % above you and consider the vast population below you.
I'm not entirely sure yet. At first, I'll probably just go hand email various sites and say "hey, people are looking at your site and making these corrections". It seems like good marketing.
Got .03 here

But that was after I figured out that you could just continually click the button and score much lower. Advantage humans.
A locally-hosted Greplin-like service is an idea I've been kicking around for a while and slowly prototyping -- my angle is more on the archival side, but once you have the data search is a natural step. Another interesting attempt down these lines is the (just recently announced) Locker project https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker (being written by the guy who created XMPP).
The reaction timer was interesting -- I managed to get 0.16s in one attempt out of ~15, with most attempts ranging from .25-.35. It reminded me of exercises they had us do in driver's ed in high school to show how reaction time+braking distance was affected by alcohol.
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Maybe he was angry because he felt like he wasn't performing at the top of his game, and that if he did perform at the top of his game, he might have won. I'd feel pretty angry if that were the case.
I have a for-profit plan that this complements. I've been extracting things here and there and thinking about open sourcing them though, like this: https://github.com/mrkurt/cloudseed
Exploiting death like a funeral home. Think about it...

And I don't mean exploit in a bad way.
I am not creating a Facebook account so that I can see this. Can someone summarize what is so creative about this resume? Is it, by any chance, related to http://jimplush.com/blog/article/177/This-may-be-the-best-re... which was discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2184024?
Great. Is always good for designers to look under the hood of apps then apply function over form.
But i am concerned deeply that startup mania is looking for the mantra "Do it first than think how to monetize".
It must be opposite. Think about business idea or how to make value for someone than make something.
On the other side.
I have similar experience with my developers they were so proud of them selves and start to think that i am stupid because i am designer and don't know nothing about programming. After a year dedication what a surprise
- now they don't mess around::))
Programming is not for every designer, but if one can put an effort and be persistent it pays big in t he end.
I feel the reason is that there are many very good tutorials and open source code to teach people how to develop applications. However, there are not many good resources for learning design. There are many tutorials on designing simple buttons or photoshop patterns, but there is a huge gap between those tutorials and creating modern and functional website designs.
I have no idea what your startup does. Your description doesn't make sense:

> The emotions of the board games, jokes and stupid challenges with your friends.
I wouldn't go quite that far. In PHP, for example, it's still the most straightforward way to use dynamic sql statements built up as concatenated strings. It's easy enough to skip input sanitation here or there on accident.

That being said, there's absolutely no excuse for that sort of slap dash engineering today. It's dead simple, even in PHP, to use input sanitation, or to use parameter binding / prepared statements to avoid SQL injection vulnerabilities. Those sorts of best-practices have been well known for at least the last half decade.
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Well, let's see:

1). Does the market clear? Can every company wanting to hire someone for $100k find someone?

2). Do different firms routinely value the sane person consistently, such that switching jobs results in no significant salary increase?

3). Do developers routinely capture gains made as a result of productivity increases? For example, has the adoption of frameworks which make web sites about 10x faster to build in ten years resulted in 10x increases in salary?

...

Well, look on the bright side: you're not Japanese engineers.
As a backend developer, I'm more productive with a top down approach instead. In a bottom-up approach I always fall into the trap of making an amazing backend full of cool features, when then I realize that only the 30% of them is required by the frontend.
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So I can't have a watch and notification app running on the watch? Guess you'd have to make them into one application?

If you do get that working, does that mean new hardware?
It's my belief that the better someone is at designing the worse they are at programming, and vice versa

It's been my actual experience that good designers -- i.e., the ones who actually know more than just how to use Photoshop -- tend to be quite good at picking up programming when sufficiently motivated.

It's the transition in the other direction (programming -> design) that seems to be the killer.
I'm surprised - the market in Australia actually far more crowded than that.

They seem to be missing loupon.com.au houpon.com.au woupon.com.au froupon.com.au doupon.com.au boupon.com.au zoupon.com.au and of course groupon.com
A hoax, or is it only being called a hoax because it failed?

Seems like it's an extra attempt at extending the 15 minutes.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228057
OK, pretzels. Your analogy looks like this to me: Pretzel guy has a stand inside the park, where he gives away pretzel tongs for eating hot pretzels. You want pretzels, he used to give you his mobile phone, you'd make a call, give somebody else your credit card, and the pretzels would be delivered to the park.

Now Apple says that (1) he has to sell the pretzels inside the park if he also sells them outside the park, (2) he has to charge the same price, (3) Apple muscles him for 30% of his action on sales inside the park, and (4) he can't have pretzels from outside the park delivered to you in the park. You actually can buy pretzels by phone from his store in the park, or with your web browser, but he can't put the link to his pretzel store or the phone number of his pretzel store on the pretzel tongs he gives away.

If pretzel guy can't make a profit, he leaves. If enough vendors leave, the park is less attractive and fewer people buy tickets.

So yeah, maybe as a customer you won't be happy if pretzel guy can't figure out how to make money at Apple's expense. And yeah, maybe as a developer you aren't happy if you can't figure out how to exploit Apple's customers without Apple exploiting you. And maybe everybody goes somewhere else.

Seems like the free market at work. So what's the problem here? You have choices, exercise your right to choose.
Or open 8 more copies, that should be enough bits right?
I doubt that OCR on the nicely formatted question screen would slow it down appreciably.
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Well, for one, it's more dangerous than programming. I've heard that welders with SCUBA-diving training make a ton of money (easily $100k/year) simply because the job is quite risky.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics actually has a really nice website with more info: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos226.htm