skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As would I. However, due to the computer resources it takes per question it would be extremely expensive to scale.

Watson is made up of a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers (plus additional I/O, network and cluster controller nodes in 10 racks) with a total of 2880 POWER7 processor cores and 16 Terabytes of RAM. Each Power 750 server uses a 3.5 GHz POWER7 eight core processor, with four threads per core. and it still takes ~15 seconds a question.

PS: Rough order of magnitude: 90 IBM Power 750 ~= 180 EC2 High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Instance * 15 seconds ~= $1.50 a question. (Edit: that's probably still low, each of those 750's have 16TB / 90 = 180GB of ram).

Edit2: Ouch 90 times 32 core IBM Power 750 list price is 492,210$ a month or 2.84$ per 15 seconds (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/750/browse_aix....) and those only have 128GB of ram,
It's completely news to me, but I don't have strong ties to the infosec world. This could be standard practice as far as I know.

Is it usual to find analysis/info traders doing this brand of malicious software injection? Are a portion of active worms and rootkits used today derivations of tools built by infosec companies?
Continuous iteration towards continuous improvement! That final logo design is very good and clean.
Lemmini (http://lemmini.de/) is a fantastic way to play Lemmings on modern hardware. (The data files you'll need are easily torrentable.)
For the love of god please stop supporting IE6 people. It's not the Enterprise that's keeping it around it's US (developers that continue to support it).

If the entire internet didn't work on it, you bet your ass these slow-poke Enterprise folks would figure something out ;)
At first I was going to say that we need some sort of dependency graph to focus on what needs to be ported first. As a Plone developer, I see lots of stuff down the stack that needs to be done before Plone could move to Python 3. However, simply ranking based on number of downloads seems to do a pretty good prioritization.

Out of the first 10 packages that haven't been ported to Python 3, I think nearly all are needed for Plone. (Although things like virtualenv are not a requirement for Plone, they are widely used in Plone development)
I like that idea. There needs to be a startup accelerator based on solo founders. We could definitely collaborate on ideas and strategies.
I'm in almost exactly the same boat, except you'd have to transpose the digits of my age. I almost quit my job today. I have about the same amount of "runway" in savings. I'm planning on moving to Austin instead of San Francisco, though.
There are plenty of positions where "ass-in-seat" IS a measure of productivity. I doubt too many HN readers are in one of those positions, but I can imagine plenty of managers reading the WSJ who could be managing those sorts of positions. I'd say that including that concept in the article would weaken its generality.
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This also doesn't take into account the people that paid X for the album and then went on to see them in concert, making them Y more (and I'm pretty sure Y>>X)
Ultimate sign of a bad boss, they drastically lower the productivity of the people under them by introducing politics, TPS reports, Meetings, status reports, adding work for work's sake and turning work from an exciting exploration into its opposite.

Adding a person who makes sure other people work to a team can be one of the most retarded things ever to a profession where creativity and excitement keeps people in the career to begin with.
And you don't want to. Trust me. But yeah, I agree with the OP. The name "Hard Candy" immediately inspired thoughts of castration.
"Candy Schell" is the name of a real life musician I know.
Op, I put up the wrong link to the hnhackers.com discussion thread - it should have been http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1264544

I think the rational was to make it searchable and less prone to abuse than the spreadsheet.
I guess that depends on how far you want to take causality. As in, do you want to attribute the Manhattan Project solely to the participants' endeavours or go further and attribute them to the aggressions of Hitler?

I'll certainly agree that many technological changes owe their origins to war. Rocketry is a prime example. Another is the steam engine. The ability to make pistons was a direct byproduct of the technology developed to make cannons.

War is an interesting phenomenon. By our nature, we compete. We've competed since we climbed out of the primordial ooze. Actually before.

One can view war as the ultimate means of settling accounts but even that's an incomplete picture as many wars have their origins in culture and religion.

Anyway, my point isn't that greed and profit motivated ALL advancement. The people who invented the solid state transistor but companies who fund such research do so typically with a profit motive. It's that profit motive that also takes a scientific discovery and mass produces it into something people will buy.

Without that profit motive, many such advancements might otherwise be laboratory curiosities.
Aw, sweet - I'd never heard of this service, but the idea is fricking brilliant.
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That's really overkill for a vim-powered wiki. All you need to do is to add: map gf :tabnew to your .vimrc.

see also: http://idoh.com/post/2365733587/personal-wiki-using-vim
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"...they assume games are made in chunks, and they have an even progression from beginning to end. Unfortunately, they don't."

I wish I could help more clients understand this. Anyone care to share techniques?
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I would totally use it in NYC - as an out-of-towner lacking confidence or whatever. I really like the idea of their homing in on my phone.

Not to mention the sheer delight of it! I push a button and a black car comes to me and takes me where I want to go!

Wow. That is just fantastic.
Let me see if I understand this correctly: you are making print copies of websites without their permission?

Even if you did not take a percentage of the cut, or charge any money, this would be a per se copyright violation. (Instapaper itself rests on shaky fair use grounds, close to but not quite over the edge into copyright infringement). You've jumped into the chasm.

If your service was intended for websites to allow people to make customized print copies, it would be okay, because the copyright owner would be opting into your service. The website would be, explicitly or in effect, providing a copyright license allowing for the service/users to make print copies of their website.

And that's assuming you are in the U.S. If you're in Europe, fair use laws are far less permissive.
It's under very active "live" development, so yes, it often does not work, sorry about that, when things stabilize a little I will obviously move to a different development style (without untested updates), but at this point I feel like this would reduce my velocity... :) Maybe it works now, http://simpliwiki.com
This is largely the result of cynical MBAs running companies. Can you imagine Google trying to water down terms to this degree? -- muchless just inventing buzzwords for "new technogies" out of whole cloth and cynically marketing them?
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Oh, very nice article ! thanks for sharing... helped me a lot.
That just looks like insanity. To think, Americans are confused by simple one-lane roundabouts.
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Yep, I worked out of their headquarters in McLean, VA. I would definitely like to keep in touch. Good luck!
As Grace Hopper said, "It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Agreed, if the average-user only knew how prevalent this is. We're an e-commerce site and constantly feel in the minority for not buying links exactly like JCP did. Almost all of our top competitors do the exact same thing and have gotten away with it for as long as I can remember. The only reason we don't is being too afraid of the supposed "wrath" that doesn't ever seem to come to them (that is unless you can get a NYT article written about it).
I wonder how many people got up in arms when they saw the "Monsanto" and thought a patent-hoarding Satan was running around Wikipedia erasing programming language articles.

This wasn't really a valuable comment, but I couldn't help it.
Yeah, OCR (optical character recognition) would probably be used for reading the questions. The speech recognition would be for listening to other people's answers so as not to duplicate wrong answers.
Created this: https://convore.com/single-founders
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Congratulation. Good for you to save up 12-15 months for expenses. Try to stretch that out to 24 months. Enough financial reserve will give you peace of mind to pursue your startup goal.

Spend your biggest asset, time, wisely. Block off HN/Reddit/Facebook/etc. Turn off IM and set your email polling to a hourly basis. Try to contract yourself to do the work. Set up a hourly rate for yourself and bill yourself to do the work. It's easier to see the value of time once you translate it into money. But don't get burned out either. Exercise. Jogging or walking in the park or along the beach is free.

Try to work at home, or go to library and cafe if need to go out. No need to rent office space or share-workspace. Most libraries and cafes have free net connection. Get a Google Voice number as your work number and route it to your phone.

If you are in the SF Bay Area, there are events you can go to for learning and socializing.

Hackers-and-Founders, http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders

BAYCHI, http://www.baychi.org/program

SFBayACM, http://www.sfbayacm.org

ETL, http://etl.stanford.edu

Android Developers Meetup, http://www.android-android.net/events/

Search the web or wiki for other interest groups.

Good Luck!
Thanks! It looks like there are several people from Booz leaving to work on a startup!
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I just tried to login to Quora and discovered that I, Blue Cobalt (true legal name), have indeed been blocked as well. Quelle surprise!

I understand their tired reasoning, but don't agree with arbitrarily forcing your users to do anything.

I've messaged them and am awaiting a reply.
I wanted to say good luck with your startup/move. I once had a nice big corp job on the east coast but I always had a startup I wanted to take to silicon valley.

I quit the job, moved out to San Francisco, started a small but successful consultancy doing what I love (SEO) and am using half my time and the bulk of my consulting revenue to fund the startup.

You don't even know how right you are about finding like minded people out here. Everyone is interested in tech, excited about new startups, supportive of new startups, and there is a ton of talent and $ throughout silicon valley.

Best of Luck.

Mike Coughlin
Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup
So Daniel was a solo founder, for Greplin?
A few ideas:

* build a easy and very powerful ETL tool for data cleansing

* take genetic data (e.g. from 23andme) and offer people information on work related characteristics (like leadership ability)

* offer a service which predicts traffic jams and estimate how long it will last

Anyway, look for an industry sector which interests you. Learn about it (reading, talking with people, etc) and you will probably see problems which could be solved.
From what I remember reading at the time, Accenture was the consultant that implemented the system, but that Redmond itself was heavily involved in the design / coding for the system.
It's only strange because intelligence has never (by us, at least) been constructed before.
It's tough. I certainly haven't mastered this, but it takes a reputation of delivering outstanding products, which often comes from passionate developers. Feeding that passion is key.
Might be biased as I wrote one of those, but feel free to email me with questions or suggestions for improvements :)

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Nobody is trying to "pitch" you anything. Take a look in the search tab on the page: this is a product that people on this site already recommend to each other.

The whole purpose of the site was to take things you were already recommending to each other, write up a comprehensive review, put all the information available in one place, and then provide links to get it if you want. The article clearly states that you can do this without using the tool. It also states you can use the tool for free.

The purpose of HN, last I checked, was for people to try out different things and share them with each other. I don't mind criticism. If you have it, bring it. I criticize people all of the time. I want to do better. Please tell me how I'm screwing up.

But when you criticize somebody, the point is to help them make their work better. I am doing this to help the community. If you don't like it, tell me what I can do to help the community in a better way. You want more of a warning about outgoing links? Fine. You want free ebooks reviewed? Fine. You want step-by-step instructions on how to use tools that startups use? Fine. Don't want any kind of commercial activity? Fine, go ahead and suggest it, but I'm going to tell you to go climb a tree. But don't just throw out snarky comments and imply things that aren't true about somebody's else's character and reason for doing something. That really sucks.

I have thought about the proper tone for my reviews for some time, and I posted a long blog article about my ethics and what appeared on hn-books or not ( http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/02/media-morals-...) To summarize, I only talk about things you guys already use and like, and I only choose things that have a great reputation in the community. That means that there aren't going to be many negative reviews. That doesn't mean I'm pumping, or pitching, or anything else. I'm simply sharing. It is the nature of the site to collect the best of the best.

This thing is a hobby for me. Last I checked, there's a voting system right up top there for things on HN you don't like. So use it. Why so much ugliness? We're supposed to be helping each other. I post something in good faith and folks tell me I'm using bit.ly to hide affiliate links? That I'm reviewing a tool so I can "pitch" it? Come on, guys. We can do better than this.
Watson isn't an "end all" final solution, it's a step on a very long ladder.
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Why would you do that to yourself?

Because it would free me to focus on other concerns. As long as I found the scale reasonable, I could focus on other ways to ensure that the job is rewarding.
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It would have helped to see the mobile icon in context (ie, on an iPhone homepage or dock/shelf)... hard to see the faults with the brightness without seeing the "pudding".
I also loved the fact that I get a message from a Anon admin telling me the rules state everyone has to use their real name. Coming from an Anon admin..if it's automated at least tell me the host name.....
I never really got the "we invest in founders" idea until now. YC funds people who execute.
I don't have a dog in this fight whether people think of him as successful or not, but by most rational peoples definition of successful, he is.

I never thought I'd be a massive fan of a wine blogger, but here I am defending him. I've been following him online for a few years and he (in my opinion) is the most genuine author/blogger/tech commentator out there. If you say something good or bad about him, he goes out of his way to respond to you. He doesn't have to, but he does. And the message you get is that he genuinely cares what people have to say. I wish some of my other favorite authors would give at least half the effort with engagement that Gary does.
Doesn't work on anyone with dark skin.... but then I didn't expect it to since all of the out of the box OpenCV algorithms have the same problem.
As a single founder attempting to bootstrap, would love that!
Sure they do. Because if you don't socialize, have a family, and learn macrame, then you'll have a nervous breakdown before you get to be a great hacker.
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Alerts and search.twitter are huge for me, not much else I see
Not that anyone appears to be reading this, but here's where I'm at so far.

I really, really like Assistly's interface for dealing with tickets. It loads new tickets as they arrive into the appropriate place via ajax, so I don't have to keep refreshing the page. All very slick. With zendesk you have to reload the page to see new tickets, which means tickets might not be seen as fast.

However, Zendesk allows commenting on all articles, which Assistly does not. That is important to me. It also is $10/month/agent cheaper, which isn't as important, but helps.

Zendesk also has some spam automation built in, which Assistly does not. Though some users were complaining that it was very bad, which may have been resolved.

I also like that I can use my own custom link shrinker, which is important for branding.

I think I'll end up going with Zendesk, though I would prefer to be using Assistly as a support agent because of the UI. I'll be keeping an eye on what they both come out with and will reevaluate eventually.
As a former Michigander, I would disagree. I miss the Michigan left, I find it's much faster in heavy traffic and makes traffic flow more efficiently.
There must be some interest because I am build a "stripped down" wiki myself too... http://simpliwiki.com

I actually think that there is a "Wikification" thing going on, largely unnoticed.
Sounds like a great example of launching, then improving: if there's a real market need, users will forgive everything else.
It seems that the vim guys are getting jealous of Emacs org-mode :)
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We might not be as confused by them if they were more common. I'd like to see more roundabouts.

However, I think the magic roundabout can wait until the next generation...
I find it interesting that so many top-tier social offerings leverage various shades of blue (facebook, twitter, yammer, linkedin). There are multiple psychology discussions (color theory, herd mentality, etc.) in there somewhere.

To be honest, at first glance I was reminded of Yammer's iPhone icon. But I think this treatment stands on its own.

Very much like Yobongo publicly discussing their brand's visual evolution.
I was initially skeptical of NYC too until someone at Uber pointed out "New Yorkers don't realize how often and how far they walk to get cabs". It's true - people forget that they'll walk a few blocks to get a cab. Uber literally comes right to your door, and people are lazy. The success of services like delivery.com and Seamless Web show that if your service involves not talking to anyone and not having to move, your chances of success are high, even in a market as crowded as New York City.
For now. It would be a mistake to assume their system is so secure now (and forever into the future) that the data can't be found, or simply leaked inadvertently by Quora.
Well, if that one interests you, mine may also :) http://simpliwiki.com -- it's nodejs & open source.
Looks like IBM will have it online in a few days http://twitter.com/#!/IBMWatson/status/37223337453158400
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In NYC, getting a taxi during rain, rush our, new year's eve, or outside Manhattan is still very difficult. I'd use it.
You can go too far in the other direction, however.

I once had a boss who would write emails to us as if we were clients, not colleagues, with a completely formal style.

Internal emails should match internal conversations - not completely blunt, but not sounding like a job application letter, either.
I can't argue with you on that - poor 1st experience. I assume you'd rather not share your domain submitted here... if you have a moment, would you mind emailing me the domain and/or account email you signed up with to todd@buysellads.com so that I can look into this for you?

It seems likely that you're somehow not receiving emails from the app, and I should be able to figure this out for you.
Good luck! Have you decided what you want to work on yet? Look me up if you want someone to bounce ideas off of, maybe we can hack something together.

I've got an invitation to Sparkmuse (about to enter beta) for you if you would like to discuss some of your ideas there too.
This is a great perspective. I would add that people are less impressed by Watson not just because it's an incremental step, but because they don't understand the principles and advances Watson is designed to showcase.

From what I gather about the coverage of Watson in traditional media, this seems to be billed as, "Can a machine out-think a human? Tune in at 7:30pm to find out!" To most modern people, this is kind of a yawner. Of course a machine can "out-think" (read: think faster than) a human. It wouldn't be very exciting if the news came on and talked excitedly about a computer that could perform long division faster than a human, either.

But that's not really what Watson represents, is it? The importance of Watson is something that doesn't register with most lay people: The processing of natural language into 'machine readable' data, then querying an enormous database to find relevant info, then choosing the best answer.... "Isn't that what Google does? Like, millions of times a day? What's the big deal?"

(Disclaimer: Most people have better things to worry about than advancess in AI and ML, so I'm not saying it's a bad thing they don't understand what makes Watson special "under the hood." And to be fair, I was way more impressed by Word Lens than I am by Watson.)

tl;dr: The concepts that make Watson so impressive aren't easily discernible from what already exists in the world, for most people.
I live in B, Alabama and can attest to the excellent cost of living here. My runway lasts over twice as long here as in the NE or SV.
But does America want to pay for group text?
Doesn't have to be. It could just be:

Average price of those who paid at least $0.01: $5.87
I'd avoid hyphens when selecting domain names. How many of the really popular domains have hyphens? Not many.
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The best machine gun in Mass Effect 2 has "Fabrication Rights Management" technology which prevents you from printing one for each member of your team. I doubt real-world engineers for companies whose products would be most affected by downloadability are too far behind.
I too support the idea that "CamelCase WikiLinks rule", Ward is my hero. However I "slightly" extended the definition of what a wiki word is to accomodate: #categories, mail@addr.esses and @jhr twitter names.
... who mandate darkness as an industry standard. Why are they even asking about light bulbs?
Face to face is by far the best. Attend conferences. Meetup.com is an excellent resource. If you live in a major city, look up all the developer meetups in your area and start attending.
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