skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is certainly rare, but Numenta has been doing it for the past 6 years, and for several years before that at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute from which it spun off. In doing so, Numenta undoubtedly stands on the foundation of significant progress in academia, but still has to do a fair bit of what one might call "research engineering."
It's even worse than that. As I understand it, the definition is not "a measurement of how often a user executes a search, and then goes to a webpage from the set of links" but rather "a measurement of how often a user executes a search, and then goes to a different website." That is, I believe Hitwise has no way of knowing whether the user clicks on a link from the search results vs. just navigating to a different page.
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A pretty cool event. I guess the Kauffman foundation does a great job of organizing such events and at such an affordable price. Around 50$ entry ticket (INR 2000)
Traditionally, it was the AI researchers over-promising. See the Wikipedia article on the AI Winter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
As long as the same folks who mention bias would critically look at Google biased news, we are good right?
Dogs' visual systems are pretty sophisticated. Trying to mimic one of those first allows one to somewhat simplify things while getting a lot of insight into the human visual system which operates on basically the same principles.
I'm not even sure what most of the important people in tech look like, outside of the big-names that get their pictures put on websites.

I like it that way in many aspects, because it provides a clear disassociation with physical externalities and allows a clarity on their ideas, unclouded by whatever biases I have. It's one reason I prefer all-text chat to avatar chats.
They are leaderless in the fact that there is willing cannon fodder to take up 'arms' at will. The action is similar to a 'pick up where others left off mentality'.
I do too, but I find for non-trivial searches, I often have to make use of !g.

More than once I've spent time doing multiple searches for the answer of a tech question, re-wording the search to try and find a hit, only to have an a-ha moment and say, "oh! hey! '(original query) !g'" and bam, first page, The Answer.
I love webOS and would own a Pre if iPhone didn't exist.
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Looks like the gtk.org all-in-one bundle hasn't yet been updated. If you're feeling bold, you could try and get a build going with MinGW+MSYS.
I'm building a dating site. Contact me if you want in on the beta. NY for now, expanding later.

The first thing to understand is the dating world is fraught with mishaps and frustration. This is often misinterpreted as specific shortcomings to various approaches, "bars suck!" and whatnot. The real conclusion is that there is a lack of transparency in dating: signals must be interpreted; brutal honesty is simply not socially acceptable. Because there is so much confusion, everyone has an opinion.

Lots of people want to go beyond their social networks to meet people. There is no doubt about that. Subscription models are also proven successful at critical mass.

The challenges are building to critical mass, removing the stigma, encouraging best behavior, removing spam, keeping the most desirable members, among many others I'm forgetting.

Dating won't go away, the web isn't going away, and we have fun new social tools to play with. Lots of opportunity here to go beyond what the traditional dating sites have done.
Coffee is effectively a metaphor for a highly public, time-limited meeting that either party can escape at any moment. It can be conveniently extended ("I'm could really go for a burger, you?") or aborted ("I'm sorry, I agreed to meet my friend in ten minutes, it was nice meeting you"). It's low cost, with no obligation to stick around to get your money's worth. It's not literal.

Paddling on a lake is not a safe, easily aborted situation.

Group events are where it's at. This is socially similar to meeting by networking through friends, even if you have few close friends, or boring ones.
Fair point. Have you seen http://mailinator.com/ ? It lets you receive email with zero personal details and no sign up.
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Good question. I think app-specific passwords have full access.
You're not going to find accurate answers to questions about bottom-line numbers of a privately held company by asking in a public forum.

What is publicly known is that Dropbox passed 4 million users a year ago (http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=339), and that according to Crunchbase they have not raised any outside funding since 2008. Infer from that what you will.
I don't think its all that hard to believe. Remember that Watson also has to depress a physical button (the same buzzer everyone else uses).

The eye to finger path for humans is about 200ms. It probably takes about 100ms for Watson to physically press the button. So Watson is about 100ms faster. But that also gives humans about a 100ms window in which to beat Watson. This means that you need to start your press 100-200ms before Trebek finishes his last word.

That's pretty good sized window for most people given you are reading the question along with Trebek. If the person who turns the light on is very consistent, I think a human who is good at this could consistently beat Watson.
Speaking from a researcher (both academic/industry) in vision for almost 10 years, I am afraid that they founders have quite underestimated the difficulty of the problem. Even a dog's visual system is very advanced, if you consider it from the big picture in evolution of visual sensory system in animals. So in the interview "if you can make a vision system that’s just as good as a dog" is in some sense analogous to saying "if you can simulate what's produced from 90% of visual evolution over these million years", which is clearly, a bit over-optimistic as a starting goal.

That being said, wish them luck. It's a worthy try afterall.
Nobody would believe that. Know your market.
I'm going. I have my own full time project, that I am trying to spend every minute I have on right now. But, I want to work with some clever people on something that I can see really working over the weekend. It doesn't take TOO much time and the mental exercise, and fun to see some cool quick projects happen will be a great energizer to keep me going on my main project and see it through.

The idea I am taking to the hack day is a mobile to mobile one-time-pad twitter encryption tool so people like those organizing the protests in Egypt can communicate and organize in the open with those they trust.
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To me the Qt and Cocoa approaches look the same. Qt is built on top of C++ pretty much the same way Objective-C is built on top of C: there is some syntactic sugar to allow dynamic binding and you do not ever have to look at the intermediate results if you do not want to. You can hack into the details of the implementation if you prefer, and you can do it in both frameworks.
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"Doesn't Google use Chrome to get traffic statistics, through the opt-in "send usage statistics" and the malicious site protection?"

I saw that Peter Kasting from the Chrome team commented on this question at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-bing/#comment-712619 . Here's what he said "I work on Chrome and we absolutely do NOT collect clickstream data through Chrome. Not even when you turn on the off-by-default “anonymous usage statistics”."
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From Twitter's biz perspective this is probably a good thing. They keep the social network bits that might potentially be monetized and let third-party devs create pretty chrome around the streaming data that most users interact with.
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thanks jim for the comment,
1. English : yes it should be on English, but yes i know, and im very sorry about it, but i can tell im working on it.

2. i dont know about it and what makes it special: yes that's why, here its extremely difficult to find people like me to share ideas, and im hopeing working there will make me have some expirence about things like this.

3. loading: yup its on iix ( indonesian datacenter ) so i am expecting it.

4. well yeah. im expecting that too. i really want to meet some people to talk to, skype ? ( adamramadhan ) or anything so i know, what do really they need, and how we do things later on. about dedicated, yeah im a bit desperate that is im writing this now at YC. ( ive been here quite long but just for the great news, friends told me to take a leap or whatever they call it :) ).

* and what im thinking is, indonesia is a social addict if you have twitter or anything else, but its epic hard here, we have no trust on the internet ( cause of scammers etc. )
and second i believe no VC will invest on any product, that they dont know or have meet the founder facetoface, not just that, they just dont believe it, especially if we have no experience on startups ( again that's why ).

if there is information about VC or angels that is on indonesia, or currently have done a research about indonesia. please pm.

Thanks again.
And yet facial-recognition is now freely available to consumers (Picasa, Facebook etc), our phones have blink detection, 3D motion detection and tracking is available to consumers for ~$100 (Kinect).

I'm not familiar with the PASCAL object detection challenge, but I just had a quick look. It's hard - if I understand it correctly, classifiers had to categorize photos into containing 5 types of objects form the 1000 leaf nodes of http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2010/browse-synset.... (Based on the description from http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2010/pascal_ilsvrc...). I'm having trouble understanding the scoring scheme (how is flat cost calculated?), but based on this I'm quite impressed.

I'm human (yes, I swear it's true), and I couldn't classify things like different breeds of poodle: http://www.image-net.org/synset?wnid=n02113712
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Hashbangs are a workaround. A good _solution_ would be something that doesn't require running JavaScript and doesn't mess with URL/document models most of the Web is based on.

For example, browsers could implement partial caching. Here is how it could work. The first time the browser requests a page, it gets all the content in the response. However, some fragments of the content are identified as cacheable and marked with unique ids. When a browser requests a page for the second time, it sends a list of identifiers for the cached fragments to the server. The server then doesn't render those fragments, but places small placeholders/identifiers where they should be substituted into page content.

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First Request

GET index.html

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First Response

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bla bla bla, header content
[/cacheable]
...
Page content
...
[cacheable id="xyz"]
footer content
[/cacheable]

---

Second Request

GET index.html
Cached: abc, xyz

---

Second Response

[fragment id="abc" /]
...
Page content
...
[fragment id="xyz" /]
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You shouldn't confuse legality with morality. Pointing out that something is illegal is not a very compelling argument that it's wrong. Imagine how ridiculous it would sound to chastise the Egyptians for breaking their curfew.
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I quit my job around six months ago to start my own thing. Thought through a lot of possible distractions, technical/financial blocks, how much runway I had, etc. What wasn't anticipated was meeting someone and falling head over heels. Well, it's a few months later, and I feel a bit like waking up from a dream, but the project seems to be on the right track again, slowly building momentum. But I wonder if I could have done things differently, taken on a different attitude, basically done more in the past few months instead of behaving like a smitten puppy with all the time in the world.

The amount of focus and effort required in building a startup is incredible, but molecular chemistry is a tough adversary that doesn't fight fair. I'm curious how others have dealt with similar situations. Really love to read some war stories. Anyone?
For a while I helped out at a local high school, in a class on basic computer skills. The one thing I did that really seemed to engage the kids was an exercise drawn from the book on which this article is based-- Huff's "How to Lie With Statistics".

The exercise was to take a set of data and make two graphs, one demonstrating a point and the other demonstrating its opposite. I think the data had to do with student test scores over the years-- they had to prove that scores were going up, and that they were going down, by their choice of what to plot out of the dataset.

I really liked working with that book in the class. Its form factor makes it non-intimidating, not like a textbook. And I felt like the title added a frisson of transgression.
I really dislike the fact they as the average developer doesn't get anything like this at all. Its pretty upsetting that companies that are major software companies spend massive amounts of money on their devs, but those companies that aren't fully software could give two craps about their devs. Its just disappointing that I have to work for the latter.
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The fact that at the peak of Apple's success, a question about their survival is even meaningful points to the difficulties Apple faces going forward. The core problem Apple faces is not Steve Jobs leaving - though it doesn't help.

Despite the iPad (which lest we forget spent years in development and is basically an extension to the mature iPod product line) the past year has been full of lackluster product announcements - Mac apps, Beatles, Verizon, and Newscorp. Jobs didn't even show up for most of those and even the flagship announcement was marred by Antennagate.

The core problem is that their own mythology will make them increasingly risk adverse (if it hasn't already). Their $60 billion cash in hand presents them with some really tough choices - admit that their ideas are not good enough to spend that kind of money on and pay a dividend, hold the cash for a rainy day and signal pessimism about the company's future earnings, or make a big acquisition/merger of the sort that rarely plays out well in the initial press coverage.

Given the way in which Apple is perceived and the amount of cash in hand, it is difficult to spend a significant portion of that money in a way that does not have significant potential to be spun as a spectacular failure - and Apple has its share of failures, Ping being the most recent and AppleTV the most enduring. Other than purchasing Disney, there really isn't a good option for Apple and even that turns them into a company like GE. One might say that Apple faces an existential crisis and the question reflects that.
the funny thing is, this doesn't sound more or less patronizing than anything else that comes out of richard dawkins
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That is mindblowingly stupid. (I know it's not your fault.)
They definitely are. And unlike some comments theorize, they're not just looking for Stanford students.

Proof: http://twitter.com/pjhyett/status/27159671752101888
It's a lot of work arranging travel and accommodations.
How is the app store for webOS?
thanks for sharing but this is the source of our article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2205250. I'd imagine most on here would rather be directed to that:
Interesting, but I'm not sure why I'd use this rather than doing it on my own website.. I suppose it has a decent template, but couldn't I just create one in LibreOffice, export to PDF/etc and post it?

If the appeal is the Video, Maybe you could push that more?

If you're going after non-technical people (who couldn't do their own site), they're likely to just email a .doc, aren't they?

I don't mean to be critical, I'm just trying to understand who would use your service.
This paper is significant because it finds a precise molecular mechanism whereby reduced telomere function affects organ health. From the article,

"We demonstrate that telomere dysfunction activates p53 which in turn binds and represses PGC-1α and PGC-1β promoters, thereby forging a direct link between telomere and mitochondrial biology. We propose that this telomere–p53–PGC axis contributes to organ and metabolic failure and to diminishing organismal fitness in the setting of telomere dysfunction."

Physorg isn't the most reputable science journalism around (heh), but Nature is arguably the most prestigious journal for life science in the world, and everybody involved in the process of publishing this paper, and writing the News & Views article about it, is aware of Elizabeth Blackburn and telomere research.

The more we know about the pathways involved, the more avenues we have for drug development.
I'd even say hopefully at the expense of driving up traffic.
Dmoz is losing its appeal, as if it wasn't already.
Sometimes it is not about the money, but more about exposure, mentorship, and helping you execute your idea better. 37s did the same with Bezos...
Dropbox has lots of engineers and needs a lot more: http://dropbox.com/jobs

The support team is pretty solid though. They have a hard job and do it well.
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I was going to challenge the assumption in the question but it seems that it might actually be correct: PMs and BAs do seem to make a bit more, on average. [1, 2, 3] At least, if one trusts salary.com's figures-- I can never decide if I should or not.

Nonetheless, I don't think the salary differences there are huge, or unreasonable. While I'm passionate about the importance of excellent engineering, I think excellent project management (and to a lesser extent, business analysis) is just as crucial to a business' success. Coders (myself included) tend to focus on the technical challenges of a project to the exclusion of the "why" behind it. As an illustration, I'm reminded of the frequent articles here and on proggit about programmers who built some awesome sprocket, only to later realize that there wasn't a market or need for the sprocket.

There's also a lot of truth to lionhearted's point that programmers often aren't the best negotiators. His advice is awesome and of the best variety: encouraging folks to make themselves more valuable by actually generating more value.

[1] http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/Programmer-V-Salary-Detai...
[2] http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/Business-Systems-Analyst-...
[3] http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/Project-Manager-III-Salar...
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I'd like to see this data adjusted for comparative cost of living. I don't think that was done here. E.g. Mormons in UT earning 75k are essentially in the same earning bracket as Hindus in Silicon Valley making 100k+.
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I'm not sure that being "better" is what they are going for.

In one corner you have wikileaks, and anonymous challenging the state and a security firm, showing their cards against their will. In the other corner you have the government and a corporation trying to eliminate sources of criticism and dissent.

Wikileaks and Anonymous have won this round it seems, but when you have a battle on this scale that touches the very foundations of our government -- the very organism that determines what is legal and illegal, it seems that the normal rules just don't apply.
Point and case - the number one firm on their scale 'Ambac Financial Group' has declared bankruptcy - turns out not so productive per employee after all.
You make good points but I think you're looking at this from a slightly different point of view, than might allow you understand what the writer is trying to say

True ... users don't care about what color you are. As long as you bring something to market that they like, they will buy it. But what about all the little steps needed to get you to that point?

You know, getting a developer/business guy to partner up with? Getting someone to fund your idea? Getting the meeting to even see that guy? etc etc ...

You see, race plays a very subconscious (and sometimes a very overt) role in the way some of these things play out ... and without screaming "RACISM" ... I think people need to be open to the idea that there can be subtle biases in the entire process that makes it so that ... if you don't fit a certain profile, you don't get funded.

There is also the more cancerous problem of some minorities not having an example they can follow ... if Obama didn't become president ... there would still be an entire Generation of kids that thought it wasn't possible for a Black person to be president in America today.

Obama didn't give a fuck about that, which is what makes him so special ... but you have to realize that he's an outlier ... and not everybody has his kind of brilliance and just plain cojones to actually do the very thing that nobody thinks you can.

Yet its undeniable that once there's a visible minority role model to point to, people will actually look up to them and follow in their footsteps.

So yes, I realize the author makes that point in a very accusatory way ... it irks me too. But if you put that aside and realize that by actually going out of your way to hire/mentor a black/latino developer/designer/business analyst to your start up, you're opening that world up to an entire generation of minority kids that would never even have had that shot ... then I think we're halfway to where we need to be.
over the past years I have kept a bunch of resumes that were always outdated and every time i wanted to change a design, or to update it I did not know which was the better formatted one. Having it online, it is always accessible to you and anyone else like an employer to view it, see your video pitch etc...
Said more succinctly than my comment.
I think you are in a great position.

1- You will see if there is a market.
2- You will evaluate their execution and learn. now, do it better than them.

Execute better than them and you will win.

Dont plan too much, and ship! It is taking too long.
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I'm saying that Watson's advantage in trivia-answering comes mainly from aptitudes which are already well-known to favor the computer.

Watson's human-level performance at Jeopardy comes from the combination of highly superhuman data retrieval with highly subhuman language processing.

Watson is more a spectacle than an innovation.