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Poll: Who do you think will win Jeopardy with IBM's Watson playing?
IBM's Watson (http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/) - DeepQA designed to answer natural language questions

Brad Rutter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Rutter) - biggest all time money winner

Ken Jennings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings) - longest winning streak (74 consecutive games)

In case it affects your decision, the current results after Day 1 are posted here: http://twitter.com/robotwisdom/status/37200070742904832
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Visual balance.. The Y is too far left. You could have started with the simple and effective version you ended up with, not the "clever-negative-space" one. Abstraction provides better results when you have something to take away from. See if you can get an interesting result going the other way (removing instead of adding) from your current final design.
Then you'll love every 5th (and many 4th) generation fighter planes. If you watch a F-22 in straight level flight, you can sometimes see subtle twitches in the control surfaces. Makes you kinda warm and fuzzy. It's alive!
Gah I don't mind using Facebook Connect for sites but when they ask for everything and the kitchen sink in the permissions dialog I balk and drop out of the funnel.

Why does neovella need access to my facebook chat? Sure there might be a legitimate reason but they certainly haven't explained it to me!
The closed source or patented stuff can't be used regardless if someone is part of the open source community. No one gets sued for using the open-source stuff, if I got this right.

(IANAL) Patented stuff can be used as long as the owner of the patent doesn't seek to enforce their patent. Unlike trademarks, the owner of a patent doesn't lose it if they don't enforce it, and also unlike patents, the patent holder can choose to selectively enforce/seek damages from infringing parties. Does a company with as much market penetration and power as Apple really feel threatened by open source projects such that they need to threaten them with lawsuits, meanwhile not feeling threatened enough by them to use open source software? Patent holders, including Apple, could take the high road and say "While we own these patents, we're not going to attack or threaten open source products that use our patents because 1) we benefit from open source 2) we still have the advantage even if our competitors use the open source product that is using our patented technology". But they don't, I suspect because it's cheaper to set a precedent for the validity of their patent by attacking someone who can't fight back.
Really? This is kind of like some sort of weird time warp, and the Yahoo mentality of "curating" the internet is back in fashion. Which is weird, because Google came to power because that strategy doesn't work.
In addition to removing the blocked site from the search results would it be possible to be able to remove a site's contribution to pagerank? I feel that this would probably be more effective in the long run...
As would I, but the harsh reality seems to be that the demand is not direct enough to support that kind of effort. That intangible "passion" is not extrinsically motivated, and mass audience isn't willing to forgo convenience in the search of it.
Did anyone else notice that the vignettes about Watson's creation featured IBM researchers using MacBook Pros? So much for "International Business Machines." ;)
I don't know a single man that wouldn't do all of that given the opportunity.
There isn't. A lot of people would be likely to use code from something popular, like Linux or Quake, naturally.
But then, I still agree with tmgrhm in that Unity3D is both beautiful and clever.
Oh now that'll be nice. Wonder if they'll let let me future import ;) I seem to recall some restrictions in how they implemented the VM for AppEngine.
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Back in the olden days, we figured we'd just plug facebook chat in this to give us the chatroom functionality. Then we realized people detest facebook, which means not every user could chat. So now there's a non-facebook login. We're going to remove the permissions once we have some low traffic time to do it--too much server load right now to crash everyones' stories temporarily.
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Except me, after I worked through Knuth volumes 1 through 3.
Thanks. Is there anything I can read to learn more about how it works in detail? All the mainstream media articles I've read are very hand-wavy.
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That was my point: by choosing an esoteric language, you raise the bar for the people you need to hire, which makes hiring very challenging.

Now go scale that up to 50 or 100 engineers and you understand why it's not a viable strategy.

Try it yourself, go pitch a startup and then tell the VC's and their consultants that you're going to use Scala...

I know you're going to say that they don't know their stuff and you should be the one deciding, but it's actually the other way around: they know how to grow a business, and nobody with that knowledge will ever recommend to go with non mainstream language and technologies.
It's not so much about differentiation, it is the fact the Nokia alone can be the only manufacturer of low-end WP7 devices because the WP7 has rigid hardware requirements that Nokia won't have to follow.
Thanks, I agree with the first posters that you should always consult with an attorney to be 100% sure.

I know many in this community have dealt with the situation and have a story to share.

I am also considering the option of leaving the full time position and becoming a part time consultant to continue my work and eliminate the risk of the company claiming IP on my creation.
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Fair enough, I would advise going for the bare minimum of basic information and email address.
My advice ... continue to freelance. As every student knows, some weeks are just busier than others and leave you with zero free time. If you were running a business, how would you handle those busy weeks? Would you sacrifice studying or writing reports for your business?

The great thing about freelance is that you can do it whenever YOU choose! If you decide to take a few weeks off from freelancing to study for final exams, you can do it. Running a business will not necessarily give you that flexibility.

Best of luck!
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That would be a cheap promotion for IBM, who presumably is getting everything at wholesale price :-)
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You should probably flag them AfD.
I think your best bet is TC disrupt, or similar demo days. However the next TC disrupt is in NY, and I'm not really sure how you find other demo days. The only other ones that I know off the top of my head are the YC demos, but those are usually mainly open to angel and the like if I am not mistaken.
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I posted this question 5 months ago also at its launch and got great feedback here.

Now it has improved a lot and I need your feedback to proceed further.
(1) 1996 - Windows CE 1.0

(2) 1997 - Windows CE 2.0

(3) 2000 - Windows CE 3.0 / Pocket PC 2000

(4) 2002 - Windows CE 4.0 / Pocket PC 2002

(5) 2003 - Windows Mobile 2003

(5.5) 2003 - Windows Mobile 2003 SE

(6) 2005 - Windows Mobile 5

(7) 2007 - Windows Mobile 6

(7.1) 2008 - Windows Mobile 6.1

(7.5) 2009 - Windows Mobile 6.5

(8) 2010 - Microsoft Kin

(9) 2010 - Windows Phone 7

That's about 15 years and nine attempts

[Edit: reading further I've found Windows Mobile 2003 (and, I assume, 2003 SE) was based on CE 4.2, so numbers 5 and 5.5 should become 4.x and following numbers reduced by one]
IBM's Watson Ties for Lead on Jeopardy but Makes Some Doozies
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Great job, I think it looks really good as an MVP. Keep tweaking things, and keep learning!
it is the adminstrator's decision as to whether or not there is a consensus to delete (default is to keep)

The de facto process is to default to delete. As this embarrassing debacle has shown, there were no votes to delete, and yet poof! the articles were deleted and a day later, with significant backlash and discussion, almost all in favor to reinstate or at least open the pages back up to be reconstituted, are not back up.

Wikipedia's editing "process" is a shameful joke.
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This reminds me of a recent experience I had disputing some parking tickets in federal court. I did some research ahead of time and going in I was certain that if the case went to trial I would win based on the facts alone.

To avoid a trial the prosecutor first offered me 50% off my two tickets which I politely declined citing that I was certain I would win based on certain facts which I laid out.

30 minutes later while I was waiting for my trial to begin he came and offered to drop one ticket and give me 50% off on the other. I again politely declined stating that I was certain I would win based on the facts I had laid out earlier.

Then right before the trial was about to begin the prosecutor came in and dropped both tickets. I know many other people who got a ticket under the exact same circumstances and just paid it.

Point being whether a dispute is about millions of dollars of software patents or 160 dollars in parking tickets it pays to know the facts well and stand your ground convincingly and unemotionally.
Also if IBM were to cancel an episode that showed bad results, it'll eventually leaked out, especially for project of this caliber. It would be an instant negative publicity, since EVERY tech site would pick it up.

You'll have the scorn of all the geeks on the internet, which could be interesting lol
Let's not forget that web content has also evolved with search engines.
Would it really be possible to cancel the deal without getting sued by Microsoft?
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disputing some parking tickets in federal court.

Were you double parked in front of the White House?
I've been observing Apple and Steve Jobs since the late 1970s. I'm guessing that many of you were born well after that point, and have grown up your whole lives with this mythology about Jobs.

It's a load of bunk. Jobs is charismatic, but he found early on that due to his charisma, reporters liked to tell tall tales about him. Always looking for the "human interest" side of things, or something to spice up their reporting they'd exaggerate. So he stopped giving interviews, figuring that would give them less to work with, and in doing so he overestimated their integrity. Instead they quickly figured out he wouldn't give them the additional attention of debunking them, so they just started spreading whatever rumor or gossip or fabrications sounded good.

Jonathan Schwartz is not a reporter, but he can say whatever he wants, knowing that Jobs is not going to waste time disproving it. Doing so only brings more attention to the faux controversy.

And of course, Apple haters, who really don't need much prompting anyway, will simply take it as the gospel truth.

I'm sure Apple's right and attempting to point out this is just silly, because those who believe will believe anyway because they want to.

Look at Job's stanford commencement speech. That's the real guy. Always has been.
Wow! This article certainly gives you a different perspective on how companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft really are small as compared to giants like GE, Exxon, etc.

What blows me away is that Wal-Mart has 2 million+ employees! A piece of information that would be interesting as a comparison is the number of government employees there are in different countries ...
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Really its out of comfort and fear of the unknown. I do freelance development and it scratches the itch I have to do interesting work for now. I also have decided to wait until I stumble upon a great idea. Really I'm to the point now I'm just working for healthcare. Meaning I'm paid well but spend nada.
'Put together a business plan to raise the $1million needed to take it from an idea in your head to an actual business'. How would you possibly spend $1M simply getting a Groupon clone started?
Great article, enjoyed the comments too.
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Yeah! Don't break the rules man! What were you thinking???

(that's sarcasm of course)
a lot of people... seem to think that I singlehandedly deleted the articles in question

In the case of Alice ML, it was just you and SarekOfVulcan (the admin who closed the discussion and deleted the article). Every single vote in the discussion was to keep. I'm not going to attribute false motivations to your actions as I have no idea what your actual motivation was (care to fill us in with something other than "it is consistent with WP policy"?).

As an aside, I agree that deletion was appropriate for a number of the stub articles; they had been stubs for a long time and didn't contain anything beyond "this language exists". Such articles didn't add anything to Wikipedia. Articles on languages like Alice, Nemerle and Joy might need improvement, but probably shouldn't be summarily removed.
No, the parent propagated the dishonest claims about Apple that android fans like to spread, and for pointing out the truth I am downvoted and for attacking me personally, you are upvoted.

Frankly, if your ideas were superior, you wouldn't need to rely on lies and censorship to propagate them.

This tells us everything we need to know about the lack of integrity of the average HN poster.

I find the level of dishonesty quite disgusting.
They can't. And they really are quite liberal in their screening for the most part. But they are trying to provide a good experience for their customers.
Agreed, a friend of mine and I both did NaNo this year and there were plenty of times when we would have loves something to give/get live feedback on sections.
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If smallblacksun wanted to refer only to stereotypes about gender roles he/she should have said 'those stereotypes exist for a reason.' Instead he/she said 'stereotypes exist for a reason,' which is a much broader statement.
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Links to relevant websites and books would be much appreciated as well. Thanks!
After the first commercial break, I was too busy packing ammo for the upcoming War Against The Machines to pay much attention.
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Uhhh San Fernando Valley is a region of Southern California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley

"The Valley" has different meanings to different folks.
Am I wrong in assuming that if you don't power down your x86 system then it will still draw power when you toggle the switch? It seems more like a nice solution for people who dual boot win/osx and linux.

I applaud the novel use of the optical drive space and I'm excited for the time when hardware shrinks past the usable threshold and we can cram more components in a 13" laptop form factor.
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Website design and development, sales staff to get the deals to populate the site, customer support staff to keep customers on side, system administrators, a marketing person or team, advertising, PR, office space... the list goes on.

Sure it doesn't cost $1m to get a Groupon clone built in php on elance.com but if you plan to succeed in an increasingly crowded space you're going to need money.
I was a little off. I could not remember the actual heuristic.

marital happiness = rate of lovemaking - rate of arguments

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Watson only wins 60 percent of the time but the odds are 1:∞:15 (15 votes for Watson, 0 points for Brad Rutter, 1 point for Ken Jennings). =)
We're actually using a slight variation of the second technique described, which involves maintaining a sorted set of the most relevant results for every possible prefix.

A query for a single-prefix term (i.e. "yank") is technically O(log(N)+M), where N is the # of items in the sorted set, and M is the # of items returned. But since in practice we often want a small # of items, we can keep both N and M small.

One tradeoff we made is that this approach doesn't support incremental updates easily, you can always add new items, but it would take a good bit of work to remove items that have expired, or update the scores of items that change.

As for memory usage, we only store each item once (in a redis hash table), and use the unique ids as entries in the sorted sets. Which sort of approaches a trie, since instead of:

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we have:

ya -> 101

yan -> 101

...

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It also depends on the locality. I've found it a lot easier to get rid of tickets/citations in larger cities than in smaller towns. The smaller towns like the revenue, and maybe depend on it more.
I think it's fun to think about how Watson type intelligence will be at the average consumer's figertips (and affordable, to boot) in less that 20 years.

A quick look at the TOP500 supercomputers puts about a 10,000x increase in raw flops since 1993. Using that as a rough benchmark (a very rough one), we're looking at some impressive stuff in the next twenty years. It's not unreasonable to think that:

current consumer processor in FLOPS * 10,000 < Watson's grid's FLOPS

Naturally, that is a very rough estimate and has no scientific bearing at all.
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Apple designs the software, the hardware industrial design, the circuit boards, the processor and even the screens. Samsung merely manufactures things, and does not design the software (for android phones) or the CPU etc.

But of course what matters on this site is bashing apple and pretending like they suck, even if you have to redefine terms like "Vertically integrated" and be snide about it.
The comments in that article are bizarre - there's a lot of frothing going on. Particularly from young, unmarried women who seem to have missed the point of the article. It's like they hate the idea of being a housewife so much they want to attack anything that even remotely suggests it.

The problem in all this venting is that the advice is given to both sexes - it just discusses using comparative advantage to split up tasks, don't nag each other and slip between the sheets as much as possible. If you realise that the advice could equally apply to a gay couple you can see there actually isn't any gender bias in the article at all.
How cash balances are measured is a matter for considerable debate.

In general, it's important to distinguish cash balance and flows from investments vs operations.

Banks often report their vast cash balance under operations, as holding and lending cash is their core business, not something they do on the side.

Accountants like to project this aura that they're perfectly predictable categorisers of financial truth, but it's bunk. When you can change a company's reported cash balance by billions of dollars through a clever argument, you're well and truly into the land of politics.
We are seeing the beginning of the commoditization of the smart phone industry. Smart phones will become ubiquitous and intense competition among handset manufacturers will erode profit margins.

While I admire the passion that fueled this letter, their goal to "offer overwhelmingly superior experiences" seems foolishly optimistic. How will Nokia differentiate from the plethora of Android derivatives, iOS, WP7, Web OS, and Blackberry?
Yeah, what are the chances they would come out with a compelling smartphone software platform in the next few months? It's hard to do good work with flames around you. ;-)

Maybe MeeGo would be great but that's certainly unclear at this point. They had years to come out with compelling software and they did not deliver. Essentially these guys are asking for more time.

At this point the steamroller that is Android is up to speed. I don't see how MeeGo is going to make inroads anymore unless it is drastically better. Even though WP7 is actually shipping, it has a similar problem. IMHO, it has to be quite a bit better than Android in order to gain much market share.
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You are the one calling him names, and you are the one engaging in ad hominem, and you are not even being honest about what he said. (eg: he never said "climate research is wrong")

In fact, you jumped in here, depsite knowing nothing about the science, and have made quite an ass out of yourself.

But of course, the reasonable people who have been patient with your are down voted and you are upvoted.

Because you support global warming.

This site is a hive mind, full of unthinking idiots and thus not worth wasting time on.
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yes but it's something they've been failing at for years. People buy their phones (around the world) because they make the best hardware, but they're losing ground to others who can make much better software.
Seems awesomely abusable from basically all directions.

Well, except for providing exculpatory evidence, of course.
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I find it amazing that global warming proponents who, frankly, never seem to know anything about the actual science are so snide whenever they encounter someone who does know the science and who points out holes.

If science really were on your side, you could make scientific claims, instead you just attack him.

This is proof that you reject science, and that you are defending a religious belief.
>Because it's [stereotyping is] easier than critical thinking?

In a way, yes.

In fact stereotyping is like writing a script rather than repeating the same process over and over. You may need to amend the script for a given situation of course, but it serves as a useful first approximation of a solution.

It is critical thinking that leads one to effective use of stereotypes: it's not always raining when it's cloudy outside but it's a useful indicator.