skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter is not a status message service. It is an instant information conduit for people. Its continued evolution in that capacity gives it a shot to be even more enduring and meaningful than Facebook. I love how you claim TW is what FB was 5 years ago... given that 5 years ago nobody would have bid $8BN on them. Further invalidating your assertion, is the fact that FB itself is bidding for Twitter
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All pushState does, AFAIK, is add things to your browsing history; it alone doesn't affect the content you receive. It does, however, make it possible (for recent browsers with JS enabled) to use the back button to navigate through AJAX-ed sites.
I love seeing this type of response. It's similar to the race to put a man on the moon. Some technology should be there to inspire.
I agree with you on the form thing, which is something that I'm adding within the next week (the ability to add something to a list without having to fill out the second form [this was something that the users asked for]).

That said, people are willing to fill out extra information about (look at digg, reddit, youtube, fark, etc. etc.)...maybe not for status updates, but thingist isn't about status updates.

Use cases for twitter? I get hashtagging events (I saw this first hand at the intel appup conference last week), but what else beyond that?
Hmm. There's something appealing about tweaking a bunch of fairly mundane parameters (button color, for example) in order to more effectively allow people to come together and make something interesting with your site.

It might not be as interesting on face as game design, but it can be really rewarding when you get it right.

edit: and quora is an example of extreme attention to detail enabling a really great site to flourish.
Indeed. I have no idea why they would want to include solving the "don't cook the neurons" problem in their road-map to a usable product; there are other feedback methods available.

A haptic display of some flavor would certainly be plenty to close the loop in controlling the important variables like "are any of the motors encountering resistance" and "how much pressure am I putting on this thing I'm squeezing in my robot hand." A more advanced haptic display should allow enough feedback signals to hold much more than that. Heck, if one is going to go electrically stimulating neurons, better to do that to sensory neurons in the user's skin than in their skull.
They can win at Jeopardy but they can't build a URL structure without annoying machine/network identifiers. :)
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I actually started from the viewpoint that I hate all the hating that goes on around here sometimes, and worked backward from there. I don't feel strongly about fight clubs one way or the other.
Electrical stimulation cooks the brain and causes seizures

From Wikipedia: deep brain stimulation has been FDA-approved for tremor since 1997. More treatments have been approved since, like Parkinson's, dystonia, major depression, and chronic pain. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Deep_brain_st...

Then you show that they continuously integrate it into their body representation

This part is easy, isn't it? People integrate tools into their body image innately and easily. I don't think that will be very difficult.
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I'm sorry if I implied that curl/wget handle this already. However, they could handle this with a very small wrapper script, maybe 3 lines of code, or a very short patch if the convention becomes a standard. That's not nothing, but it's maybe 7 orders of magnitude lighter than a full JS engine, and it's small anyway compared to the number of cases that a reasonable crawler needs to handle.

Also, with that wrapper or patch, curl & wget will still not be remotely HTML5 ready, which I hope demonstrates that HTML5 is not a requirement in any way. A single HTML5-non-ready browser that can't handle this doesn't mean therefore that HTML5 is a requirement.
Excellent suggestions. The awesomeness of App Engine should not be under estimated. It makes running a web app extremely easy and painless (and free, at first).

It has some gaps though depending on what you're going to use it for. For example, its sending/receiving to/from custom domains is quite limited.

To fix that I've used:
-To send emails from a custom domain: SendGrid.com
-To receive emails sent to a custom domain: CloudMailin.net

For buying domain names, I've switched from GoDaddy to name.com, just to get away from the awfulness that is GoDaddy's UI.
Sorry, I think I downvoted by mistake - I went and upvoted a few of your other comments by way of apology. :-)
You may have to hold on for the dinner treat til Dec'12 then.
Sorry, but your friend lived under a rock and had no clue how the events on the ground were unfolding. I would make it a habit to bet the guy from now on.

Mubarak was destined to leave if for one reason: the opposition refused to bite the various baits thrown at them. They refused to get violent, they refused to split into factions, and they refused to disclose any unified position that he could negotiate with, other than "get out".
There's a lot of assumptions in that question: 1. that programmers are paid less than business analysts and project managers, and 2. that "programming is much more difficult than creating documentation or even creating Gantt chart and asking progress to programmers".

I would like to see some real-life numbers about point #1, and #2 is clearly biased. How can you compare two things that have so little in common? For one thing, you can't reduce BA/PM to this, and regardless of if #1 is true or not, the salary is not just based on skills. If having a good PM means that the project will be delivered on time and that it makes a big difference for the company, they might deserve more than the people who made the product. If the insights from a business analyst means that the product is exactly what the market wants, they might deserve more too.

It's very easy to imagine two products that require the same technical abilities but one being very well-defined and on-target, while the other misses the mark. The programmer's work in both cases would be the same. The work done by BA/PM makes the difference. (in that particular imaginary example)

And, of course, it's very easy to imagine the same product requirements being a great success or a fantastic failure, depending on the dev team that implements them...

TL;DR it's not as simple as that. And check your assumptions first.
In the '80's it was the Japanese (back when this meant physical access, and not necessarily the oil industry).

If companies -- particularly companies with these kind of resources -- haven't figured it out by now, I don't have much sympathy for them.

A decade or so ago, I knew a geologist who was regularly consulting with overseas teams via AIM. I tried to convince them to at least go with a third party client offering a plugin for encryption, but they couldn't be bothered. (Not to mention concerns WRT email.)
Agreed - it usually falls on a few people's shoulders, BUT I am curious, why is it riskier? (I am sure I can guess as to what you will say but just interested in your reasoning..)
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Devil's advocate here:

If I can trick a user into submitting their username and password on my site, I can send a request to Google using that username/password and trigger a message to the mobile application. The user continues with the flow, enters the code on my screen, and I now have access to their account, same as before.
"Growl for browsers." Sounds like a good startup pitch. Tough to monetize, perhaps (tiny ads?).

Boxcar is doing it for iPhones/iPads.
Why does the Android app "Google Authenticator" require ZX Barcode Scanner when Google Goggles has a faster barcode scanner built in? Sometimes I just don't understand Google's inability to be consistent. For example, why do Goggles and the Gallery hide the notification bar. Attention to details Google...
I see alot of recruiter bashing here. Can someone fill me in? I don't understand why. I mean, yes they make money off of you getting job, but they do help you "get a job". Alot of people need help getting jobs, so I don't understand the animosity. I've been contacted by recruiters, but have never used one, but each time, I politely say.."thanks, but I'm not looking right now. Perhaps I can contact you in a few months if anything changes?" That has worked fine for me..so I don't understand all this hostility
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I thought the conditions were interesting, and they sparked thought. Such as to what extent foreign support is considered "cheating" in this sense; apparently troops is too obvious, funding is OK. ;)
I definitely do the "want to share but also 'bookmark'" thing with my Twitter updates. And, yes, hashtags somewhat solve this, but not really - at least not for me. I like the idea of lists on Thingist, but I don't want to have to categorize all my tweets.

If Thingist could automatically categorize my updates, but have a way for me to re-organize them, that'd be ideal. Seems like a decent amount of people fall into your same use case, where they tweet quotes, songs, videos, etc. Some of these would be easier to detect than others, but it's somewhat doable.

This seems some like weird cross section between Twitter, Tumblr, and delicious to me.
You forgot "successfully kowtows narcissistic bureaucracy" and "tolerates toil" Hire indeed.
This installed node 0.2.6 on my machine.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure those 37signals pictures were taken right after they moved in. Imagine what cubicle hell Zappo's would have looked like when they first moved in.

It would be interesting to see any changes made after a year or so once everyone has settled in a bit.
There are services that add links you tweet to delicious
Also, apparently HN is having a reading problem today.

>Over the next few days, you'll see a new link on your Account Settings page that looks like this:

Yes, it's not available yet. And the second password page is very clear about what it's used for. Reading people, it helps a lot.
The best science PhDs are neither willing to follow orders nor conforming, but you're right about #1 and 4 :)
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I agree about the simulation part, does it have a sense of self? Or can pose questions to itself such as "I think therefore I am"?
I think it would be cool to see IBM's creation versus a creation from Google versus (a person or another machine), although I doubt another company would want to make such a risky move. If Watson wins, huge PR win; if Watson loses, still a pretty big PR win.
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I switched from Blogger to WordPress and began learning PHP in January 2005. In August 2005 I went to work for Automattic as the second full-timer (after Donncha, inventor of WPMU). That was before WordPress.com was announced. I am still working for Automattic.

Byrne, in his MT-centric worldview, fails to mention a man who contributed more to WP's success than MT's failures could. The name "Matt" only appears within "Automattic" and the name "Mullenweg" doesn't even show up until the comments.

Many have said it and I agree: WordPress is shitty software. Having written a significant percentage of the code in WordPress since version 2.0, I can proudly accept the blame for some of the shittiest parts of WordPress. I was responsible for the integration of the rich editor, the widgets system, the media library, and many other poorly-designed components I have since expunged from memory. I wrote this crap because Matt asked me to.

In wisdom or dumb luck, Matt saw that a feature that mostly works for most users next week is better than a perfect feature next year. He coded as much as he could, then he learned to delegate and trust others. Then, as far as I could tell from inside my coding cave, he shifted most of his attention from engineering and design to promotion and business. He brought Toni and Raanan into Automattic and that's when the switching campaign really took off.

From the early days to now, Matt has exploited every resource for the benefit of WordPress. Even now, non-WordPress Automattic projects help subsidize the core development of WordPress. I don't know how much money Matt has made but I know that everyone who makes a living with WordPress owes him some credit for feeding so much power back into the project.

Matt wasn't the only contributor to the success of WordPress. It would be impossible to cover them all; go look at the About page on wordpress.org to get a taste. But if you could use a time machine to kidnap one person off that list, you would do the most harm to WordPress by choosing Matt.

Byrne says in a comment that his piece is about WordPress, not Automattic. He works hard to avoid delving into personalities. But the story of WordPress can't be told without discussing Matt Mullenweg. If your goal is to "see what lessons can be learned from WordPress so that others seeking to build a successful product can learn from it" you really should be looking at the people and the work they did more than the project that they worked on.
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> Mubarak was destined to leave if for one reason: the opposition refused to bite the various baits thrown at them.

Huh, that's a fascinating analysis, especially the point about refusing to give a position to negotiate with.

Also, I laughed about the betting point.

Sidenote: I live on the road, and my next travel plans after Asia were going to be Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, and Greece... I'm thinking those don't look as appealing as when I set them in late 2009...
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about brevity. But there are more things in life than just brevity.

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My favourites would be:

- anything written by Serre,

- Shafarevich's Basic Algebraic Geometry,

- Silverman's The Artihmetic of Elliptic Curves,

- Milne's notes (available at http://jmilne.org).
The unifying concept is the half-life (exponential decay) of plans and information. The older your intel, the less valuable the plans you have built off of that information.

Top-down and waterfall approaches institutionalize this in order to provide an illusion of control to the executives and shareholders. Agile development and maneuver warfare each seek to tighten their feedback loops.
Thanks for the link. That looks really impressive. For IBM this is presumably PR for their products/services. I do hope they disclose more of the architecture as I'd love to build out a system like this, even on a smaller scale (takes 6 hours to come back with an answer rather than three seconds).
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Blarg ... Please no more posts about the Deepak Chopra of technology
that is actually my bad , this URL works too http://www.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/ - basically this sends a request to the main front end proxy and because IBM hosts like a billion URLs the front end proxy redirects to the appropriate cluster
Deep-brain stimulation is different than cortical microstimulation. DBS is injected into the basal ganglia and excites an area of the brain that's effectively atrophied. This can be done relatively safely for things like Parkinsons, even though it's definitely not your first choice of treatment. It's still somewhat cooking the brain, however; in the cases where DBS is used that just doesn't outweigh the benefits. Cortical stimulation into primary sensory cortex is a totally different animal, and tends to cause seizures much more frequently. The brain is kind of wired to seize, when you look at it, and it's amazing it doesn't more often. Also, you can't map receptive fields -- which specific areas of cortex correspond to what sensation in what part of the body -- if your patient is an amputee, and there's no "master map" that's precise enough since it varies between individuals widely. Further, DBS is just designed to grossly "drive" an area of the brain; in ICMS you'd want to precisely excite a few cells to create a sensation. ICMS in practice just floods its surroundings with current in a rather blunt way. Optogenetics are a solution but have their own problems (i.e., requires genetic transfection) that make them unacceptable for use in humans today.

This part is easy, isn't it? People integrate tools into their body image innately and easily.

Yes -- but as a patient lives with a prosthetic full time, as opposed for a few hours at a time like in most monkey studies, the brain will adapt to the prosthetic and the neural representations shift. You need to be able to deal with this and understand what that learning looks like, which we can sort of do right now, but no one's really done a long-term-continuously-living-with-a-prosthetic study. You generally don't try to solve complete unknowns like that for the first time in humans. Humans would be a poor platform, anyway, since you can't observe and record from them 24/7 in a controlled environment.
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Three to four days ago was very near the low point (besides the night they fought the mobs). There weren't many people and I kind of feared it would fizz out too because it wasn't clear if most Egyptians bought the propaganda. But then there was the Ghonim interview and Tuesday there was no more doubt.
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USA Today? Really? How about,

AP http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ipbX3bCpn8...

WP http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02...

WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110210-713568.html

NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/world/middleeast/11egypt.h...

BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12421000
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I'd better elaborate here. No, I do not suggest that the 3rd party APIs should pass customer credit cards to instapaper before recieving an API key.

Instead Instapaper should allow developers (or any user) to have more than than one API key/subscription associated with a single card or account. That way if I'm a 3rd party developer, I can create 100 subscriptions myself, and attatch them individually to each program I release to a customer.

The customers information never goes to Instapaper.

My account can be pre-billed if that's what it takes to stay within fincance regulations, but once there's a certain amount prepaid into the account I should be able to create a working subscription key via api.

One benefit of this is that Instapaper doesn't have to worry about dealing with front-line customers---that's the 3rd party developers responsibility. If one customer overuses the API, Instapaper can just cut them off and leave the investigation up to the 3rd party developer.
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This is something that I've been trying to figure out for a while now...

Categorizing them is really, really hard to do. Look at the ways that this user uses the site: http://thingist.com/t/item/3051/

"Things that make me feel better when I'm sad" would be impossible to detect programatically.

"Show me all of the links to youtube or soundcloud I have posted" is totally doable, and is something that will probably happen within the next couple of days.
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Cheers for the clarification.
Same here. I do both recurring (over a time period, recharge) and on-use (essentially saving their cc info, but without storing the cc number...)

I think if I did it over, for the time-based recurring payments I would use chargify or one of the others mentioned in this thread.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll see if we can enable it to use Google Googles as well.
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> I think strong AI isn't that far away

But we don't even have intelligent humans yet!

But seriously, I am not sure it can be said to be near or far. Think of it analogously to physical capability. Have we developed 'strong' Artificial Physical Ability? Do we define and measure our physical machines in comparison to human physical abilities? Was the aim of inventing machines just to make artificial humans? No, we develop every kind of physical machine, and in fact we really aim to make all the kinds of things that are not like what humans do.

So why shouldn't informational machines be the same? Is what humans do with information the only thing possible to do, and the only thing we might want to do? No. We won't be making AI to be like humans much, but for a great range of other, non-human-like, applications. Using human intelligence as a single simple measure just will not work or mean anything much.

We think of 'strong AI' as being an ultimate image of the future, but really it diverts us from imagining the much greater range of possibilities the future really holds.
I've heard (from Engadget) that it is given text on the fly. It does not do speech or visual recognition. But it gets the question the same time the contestants see them.
If you're seeing any crazy issues with the IE9 RC, please continue to submit feedback through the right channels [1]. However, I will be monitoring this thread too. Also, I wanted to express my thanks to the news.yc community - I saw some great commentary when Beta shipped, and some neat bug reports too, thanks for helping shape up IE9! :-)

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To help: Education. We're sitting on the best tool for disseminating information ever created, and things get better when people are educated. If they can do math, they can better run businesses. If they know history, they know politics. If they are taught marketing, they understand propaganda. The best way anyone in the world can help make the world a better place is by providing education to as many people as possible.
And despite following Marco.org on RSS managed to not notice that! It sounds like it is certainly not being aggressively marketed on established users, but hey, I wasn't kidding above.
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To whoever is downvoting this person (it was at -1): knock it off. This was a valid question that sparked a valid discussion about how to monetize twitter.

It's not spam, and the user doesn't deserve to be effectively punished for asking the question.
Sure, intelligence is much like religion or faith, what it is is a very personal matter as well a philosophical matter to each observer. To me if a machine can make a logical decision that it arrives at via it's own conclusion independent of human involvement (after the initial construction). It can be said to be intelligent. I personally think we have already achieved intelligent machines. Granted not intelligent in the traditional biological sense but intelligent in their own right. I do believe that we are close to hyper-intelligent machines than many think we are. I personally think it will be the next big step. I also believe that it will fundamentally and irrevocably change humanity. It is a Pandora's box that we will not know the ramifications of until we pass that event horizon, it is much like Schrodinger cat, full of possibilities but until we experience the event we will not know how it affects humanity.