skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watson would likely lose if this was instead of jeopardy, a simple trivia test where contestants were scored for the most correct answers. Thinking about that really calls the contest into question for me. We let the machine off the hook for things people are good at but it is not (understanding speech, reading and vision) but we make no allowance for a machine's ability to press a button faster than humanly possible. If you instead phrased the contest as "machine presses button faster than humans" it doesn't seem impressive.
Seems to work well enough for stackoverflow.
Mesh networks have never been practical on that scale and a number of recent DS papers (c.f. ACM digital archives) provide no support that it will ever be practical on that scale. Even if all the protocols are rewritten (as they will have to be), it will cost way too much money to switch. I personally believe the entire thing is a giant pipe dream, but whatever keeps people warm at night, I guess.
> They had rendering problems with several successive versions, as the "bug fixes" didn't for a while.

Not so different than IE, right? It's really a speed of release issue, if I'm understanding you.

Well, it's a double-edged sword. Speedy releases mean speedy regressions and speedy bugfixes. Slow releases are the opposite.

> That's not the point

For me it is... but I think that ties in, below.

> significant number of large organisations even today because those organisations value a stable, controllable platform as a foundation for their in-house developments more than they value the latest bells and whistles on the public web.

We're definitely talking about some different markets here. The markets I work in simply don't target IE6 any longer. The baseline, if it includes IE at all--sometimes it's targeted at HTML-only specifically, is IE8 and whatever you can force IE7 to do.

When is IE6 going to cease to be the baseline in these other organizations? It's like its having a COBOL moment.
It's a delayed issue: as time will go, the chances to see API changes will become more likely.
Natural Language Processing != Voice Recognition.
Interesting story. After reading the story I still don't know the explanation of the damages that make up the number $4000. I'm just a developer but what kind of damages arising from their past infringing use of the image' are they talking about?

Bluntly: Is the $4000 number just high enough for the order to be taken seriously and low enough to convince an organization to pay up?
Show HN: TRZZL.co - a Google maps puzzle game
TRZZL.co - a google maps puzzle game

TRZZL is a puzzle game where you connect markers on a (google)map. You have to reach all markers before your fuel runs out or you reached the time limit (If your trip takes too long). There are three vehicles (plane,train and car), which share one fuel tank, and have different speed and consumption. Plane and train travel directly from marker to marker, cars have to use streets.

Best thing about TRZZL is, you can create your own levels with the built in editor. All you need is a twitter account and you are good to go. Share your levels with your friends via twitter and facebook or post the URL anywhere you want. You don't have to have an account for playing, but highscores and singleplayer campaign progress will only be saved if you have an account (account creation and everything else is free, of course).
TRZZL runs on iPad, no need for an app download.

TRZZL is a typical night and weekend project. I tried to ship it as fast as possible while including the most essential features only. If you are asking, the name is combination of travel and puzzle, something which should not be around yet. There are many more ideas for this concept, like a code for including a level on your homepage or add user created levels to the campaign, but first, I need feedback. Do you like the game, are there some serious game mechanics flaws, where do I need to improve the webapp?

Try the game at http://www.trzzl.co

Thanks!
Thomas Diehl
Then again, a motivated defender is a very though adversary. Think "web server serves plain files only and is disconnected from the internal network"[1], "secure OSes everywhere"[2], "password quality checker installed"[3], "full-disk encryption for all serious data"[4], "SSH logins only via public key"[5], etc. Yes, this takes (some!) real effort. No, getting 0wned by "please drop the firewall and send me the root password" is not acceptable if you're a security outfit.

Really, you can go years without patching if you choose your software properly. (Except browsers - those just suck.)

[1] e.g. https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
[2] e.g. http://www.openbsd.org
[3] e.g. http://www.openwall.com/passwdqc/
[4] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#RAID or the equivalent for other OSes
[5] All over the internet. Or set up a Kerberos environment and get single-sign on too.
PayPal is using Caja
Another similar project is http://www.Prosper.com
(recommended by user crasshopper)
I guess I've just seen quite a few releases lately that were also broadcast via HN.

There was also a previous discussion about guile's webby features: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2017419
Schmidt on Nokia: "We would have loved that they had chosen Android"
Shouldn't this be the standard, not the exception?
Greylock Invests $2.5 Million in 1000Memories
If Google starts incorporating blacklists into their search results, then couldn't groups of people coordinate their black lists to suppress sites they didn't like?
That's not easy.
What are the barriers for them to develop their own SMS infrastructure? Even if they got a crazy discount down all the way to $0.01 per text, that's still unreasonable for a message form that can fit in a single packet.

I heard somewhere once "if you own the infrastructure you can charge rent" :). Maybe at their volumes it's time they stopped leasing.
> Benchmarks aren't real world applications. I don't care if it takes 1s rather than 0.5s to run 1,000,000 operations, if all I ever need to do is run 5 of them.

You are clearly forgetting where the web in general is going to. Browsers today serve as a wrapper to applications and NEED to be fast. Not a single web application today uses only 5 or 10 or 50 operations.

> IE has made a small impact in the speed of development of web sites.

IE has made BIG impact in the speed of development. The fact that it has not kept up with other browsers only made that worse.

Even IE8 rendering and its javascript engine have problems. Those are not present on modern browsers and it obviously impacts development because IE needs to have specific testing and specific coding (mostly workarounds).

Did you expect other browsers to be like IE, so that we could have a "standard" on not having standards?
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The author severely overestimates how much of a risk the iPhone was for Apple, and how unexpectedly it changed the way we interact with mobile devices. He is forgetting the iPod Touch, which was Apple's "concept" model (that actually shipped).

If the response to the iPod Touch wasn't as positive as it was, the iPhone may have never been released, or would've been delayed until a few more iterations of the iPod Touch product line.
Oh yeah. I travel to Europe every year or so and the colas there are great. Expensive, but worth it.

One of my biggest wishes is that Coke would bring the European formula of Orange Fanta to the USA. It's an excellent drink (and #2 in popularity to Coca-Cola from what I hear), but in the USA it's this thick syrupy supersweet undrinkable mess.
radical initiatives like seating a bunch of kids on the board of directors

This seems to be the clearest description of what this "plan" was about. A management of a big company is not a government that you can overthrow. Moreover, doing this is absolutely unnecessary: unlike being a citizen, being an employee is voluntary. If you do not agree with your company's politics you can always quit. Nokia's case is special with this regard: for people living in Tampere there are virtually no options for alternative employment. They do have my deepest sympathy.

As a side remark, I guess, nobody on HN doubt that Elop's business, strategic and management skills significantly exceed those of plan B authors. Turning to this "opposition" (pardon my political parallels) would be even worse for the company as a whole.
>> A commercial company’s ability to innovate is inversely proportional to its proclivity to publicly release conceptual products.

> This is nonsense since conceptual products are innovative by definition.

but they're not real products. The product of a company like microsoft is the products they produce and sell.
Mitsubishi, Kawasaki and Fuji Heavy Industries in Japan are building several of the components for the 787 and All Nippon Airways is to be the first airline to receive a 787.

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/275465_japan27.html

There were issues with where the wing meets the body (both parts built in Japan), but the responsibility supposedly lies with Boeing who designed the parts.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/200956...

Japanese and Korean suppliers are working to ramp up production of parts.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-01/boeing-787-supplier...
Middle click scroll is one of the greatest inventions. Some might say the printing press or the wheel, but those pale in comparison.
...presuming that human-level intelligence entails any sort of understanding that is fundamentally deeper than what Watson is doing.
The meta command support in the new REPL looks like it is copied from Scheme48.

How does Guile compare to scsh these days?
Constant Contact Buys Bantam Live for $15 million cash
You could not do much on an iPhone without the touchscreen.
Yours is actually fairly typical of many SO answers. Jeff used to say on the podcast that a load of the time you get people answering basically saying "that's not even the right question" which I actually think is one of the great things about it.

But this is actually why the SO voting mechanism works. Someone coming to this question now has two useful answers sat at the top of the pile - one which directly answers the question in an exact, literal fashion, and one which says "hold on, is that the real problem? Maybe you should think about this."

The rep / karma thing is only as much of an issue as you let it be as are comments from people you disagree with. There are always people who have another view (be it right or wrong) but your rep said that you were helping a whole bunch people so I'm surprised that you take one negative comment as something which should override 150+ up votes.

I'd certainly say that in terms a level of grief (150:1) to me that feels more amicable and agreeable than HN can be when it gets feisty.
The Battle Between Twitter and the Ecosystem
So today, we learned that machines can push buttons faster than people

I'm not gonna lie... it was pretty entertaining watching Jennings squirm every time Watson beat him to the buzzer.

Also, there wasn't any mention of Watson having adaptive artificial intelligence but I would guess it's safe to say IBM was smart enough to include something like that. That in itself would be crazy hard to implement given the magnitude of what it's already doing... but not impossible. Maybe there are a few corrective algorithms in there somewhere.
You mean open to their customers and leverage their not-insignificant technical base to nurture creative development and create a genuine ecosystem around their products? That'll never work!

Meanwhile, I'm a little bit smug about the shout out to NokiaPlanX.com. I feel like the meme has come full circle.
Initially SO talked about EE. (In some of their early podcasts and videos, they talk about "the site with the hyphen").
I agree. If the books make it worth it to you, then by all means, but apart from getting to gape at his very expensive antique books, I didn't get much more out of seeing him live than I got from his books.
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1000memories, Backed by Greylock and Top Angels, Capturing Memories of Deceased
Ending support is only going to make it worse.

Google and Mozilla are committed to security. Microsoft is too, and that is why they postponed the ending of support. It will be a chaotic world if Microsoft stops releasing security fixes to XP when it still has a big market share and allows malwares, botnets, etc. to be installed and propagated easily.
From the link, it seems like you get four of Mr. Tufte's books for the price of $140; if you're planning on buying the books.
Among the least profitable jobs in aircraft manufacturing, he pointed out, is final assembly — the job Boeing proposed to retain.

...and...

"I warned Boeing not to make the same mistake. Everybody there seemed to get the message, except top management."

If top execs aren't keeping an eye on where the profits are, you're screwed. Are they compensated too well to care?
Startup offers penalty-free file data reduction
Loved his talk at RailsConf. Was a longtime fan of his show and he seemed like a real genuine dude. Great off the cuff too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWHkcCP3tA&feature=playe...
Similar example; the Wright brothers refused funding from the aviation financiers at the time, funded their own work and solved the problem of powered flight in a much shorter time than others had been fruitlessly working on it.
Plan Y was my fav!
Nossa bem legal isso !

Very Cool !
Looks like someone else hasn't heard of the internet.
The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different.

From "Think and Grow Rich"...

Early in the age of the automobile, Ford decided to produce his now famous V-8 motor. He chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was put on paper, but the engineers agreed, every one of them, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder gas engine block in one piece.

Ford said, “Produce it anyway.”

“But,” they replied, “it’s impossible!”

“Go ahead,” Ford commanded, “and stay on the job until you succeed no matter how much time is required.”
Thanks. Will it support snapshot forever if subscribe now, or only up to a certain moment? BTW why is it not stated in the homepage?
Here's the problem, though: Who is capable of doing the due diligence? By outsourcing, you end up losing a lot of the in-house knowledge necessary to spot problems early on.
The Unit Effect. Something to Keep in Mind for PR.
I just want to tell that I've been using virtualmin every day for some years now and it helps keep me sane while managing my virtual hosts. It is a great tool and worth every penny. Now, every time I see something like cPanel, I scream in horror. Thanks for your hard work!
Aim to establish India in global supply chain: Boeing
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/A...
No.

http://swombat.com/2010/12/14/how-to-safely-store-a-password
First Click Free
Sure, it's immoral to abandon your loyal American workers in search of cheap labor overseas.

I know a lot of people who talk like this. However when it comes to spend their own money, they always go for whatever's cheapest, whether it's clothes, electronics, whatever. You can literally see these people ranting about worker's rights while wearing Primark and talking on a Huawei OEM'd handset.

Me, I'm a capitalist, and proud of it, but y'know, I'm the one willing to spend a little extra for a UK PLC product. Bullshit talks, money walks.
wingo:s blog software Tekuti seems really neat:

http://wingolog.org/software/tekuti/

http://wingolog.org/archives/2010/12/13/meta-data
Microsoft: No GPLv3 Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps.
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Intuit Extends Free Version Offer For Square-Competitor GoPayment Indefinitely
Jdrop: store JSON data from mobile devices in the cloud
Yup, and at this time it was SO who were obviously the runner-up. How quickly this has changed!
Ask HN: Best introduction to Web-Application programming?
Hi all,

I'm a recent graduate. My work is on a Java-based web-app:
-Essentially all Java, except for views in Groovy;
-Using Hibernate for ORM;
-Using Guice for DI;
-Mostly deployed on Tomcat.

Now, as an inexperienced developer I'm quite comfortable with
Java but the rest are new to me. Of course I would like
to learn more about them. Could you recommend any
books/lectures/online resources for

-something rather general as I never did any web-development
(html/css, POST/GET, sockets, deployment);
-ORM/Hibernate;
-DI/Guice;
-web-app architecture/design?

Preferably not deep reference books at this point,
but something that would allow me to better understand

-what they do;
-how they do it;
-and how that fits into the whole picture.

Thank you!
Will be interesting to see how Hunton & Williams come out of this one..
Rolling out a new design - it will stay supported!
Wow, great insight for a fellow non-CS person who wants to build their own site anyway. I just subscribed to your blog. Thanks!
Node.js Tutorial Roundup
Dell "masked gunman" marketing stunt causes panic
Nokia CEO: Why We’re More Relevant Than Ever
The point in general is valid, but picking someone out and showing them up in public was unnecessary.
I wonder how many of them partially fit the mold of having an airport named after WWII battles/heroes?
One example was in an online debate about a report of necrophiliac abuse of cadavers in a funeral home.

OK... but let's say that most topics in HN are of a different kind. I doubt you will receive severe stalking because you, say, praised Emacs =).

(For the record, "I'm not worthy" (at least yet) to put a link or my real name in HN.)
That's not necessarily true; systems integration is a skill in its own right. It's just about what level of abstraction you work at. As software people we ought to understand this better than anyone.
Undo send is awesome - my ADD ass always remembers one more thing just after hitting send. The delay helps on a mental level oddly enough.
Interesting tactic but it would defeat the object of signing up to gain access. Even if you lost access by clicking, you can just open up a new browser or view the cached version.
It might be better to have an average programmer than no programmer at all.
Tweet on your iPhone about your alcohol level - with an iBAC alcometer
http://nokiaplanv.com could really do with some filtering to remove javascript on the output page after the form... :/
There are quite a few of these already. The biggest difference(and most useful) is the level of integration between the event management and registration software and the app.
Make your product better than theirs. People pay for quality.
Ten Tips to Business Risk Without Reckless Abandon
> Nokia was close to launching N9? Where does that information come from?

The post is written by former Nokia exec, Tomi Ahonen. It might be reasonable to assume he had/has insider information that the public is not privy to.
It's the Aerospace industrial complex! Only instead of representatives and US states, it's corporate boards and other nations.
I've player Great Giana Sisters and it's closer to a copy than a clone. The game mechanics are identical and parts of the levels are straight clones. For example the first set of blocks where you get the "grow massive" bonus is identical to that in SMB.

It's essentially Mario with a different sprite set.
Despite the 300LOC stuff, it's still a really inspiring story. You started with a hack, learned a bunch, wrote some code in two weeks, and sold it for, what sounds like, just over the non-trivial threshold. Good job :-)
isn't this how you kill innovation?

The problem with apple is that it thinks it can out-innovate everyone in everything.
E.g.
Processor - Check
Hardware - Check
OS - Check
Store - Check
Content Distribution - Check
Content Discovery - Check

And even If someone tries to compete with them, they end up getting 30%.

Also is there any alternative for App store???

No!

Welcome my friend to Apple life, Apple now owns you. unless you break from this jail.
Is Flash dead yet?
I use the internet for most things, simple searches are the best place to start e.g. "php turorials" etc

If you want a book, The Missing Manual series are a great resource, I refer to my copy of this all the time: http://www.amazon.co.uk/CSS-Missing-Manual-Manuals/dp/059680...
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> Natural Language Processing != Voice Recognition

This is what I don't get, why should be "language processing" tied to written text? Part of the answer I know, because it's easier for computers to parse, but other than that it doesn't make sense.
There was this time when Google used to let me remove links from the search results (personalization, I presume) and I would RELIGIOUSLY remove expertsexchange.com. It also used to fill me with warmth to know that several other geeks probably did the same! :-)
"This is one of the most stupid ideas I have ever heard. A manager decides to dress a co-worker up as a biker wearing a mask and carrying unidentified metal objects while yelling at people to go to the lobby. My initial thoughts in that situation would probably be that this guy is an intruder and is on his way to hurt somebody or blow something up."

Sums it up nicely
Be a customer since 2007 and keep calling for the higher rates at the same price. I'm also grandfathered into the old TV plans. I refuse to switch to the new ones since I'll get less channels at the same price.

You really need to call them. What you find online is nothing compared to the deals you can get over the phone.
It depends upon how the outsourcing is managed. By outsourcing you're adding extra complexity, unknowns and unmeasureables to the problem - increasing the variety in cybernetic terms. Unless you have a sufficiently good way of managing that additional complexity you're going to get into trouble, which in business terms means overruns or in the worst case failure of the enterprise. See Ashby's law for details.
This person has 13k rep, my hunch is he saw at least a fair amount of corners of SO.

But bringing up that specific page was not the basis of my generalization. It was rather a direct case to my observation. It felt like racing, and not fun.

I'll definitely improve the stuff I find useful on SO, but I won't hunt unanswered questions anymore.
Don't try and sell it like that. The "services" you obliquely reference (name one) are most likely intended be used at the OS level, which is against the way the platform is built.

The entire model of iOS is a node that downloads from several sources, which 3-rd party content providers are calling foul about. The platform is effectively binary: it either works or it doesnt, out of the box. There aren't any drivers or codecs to install.

If you don't like it, build your service for some other platform. I hear there's one that's got more marketshare.
Thanks for the heads-up. It looks promising.
Did Intel Just Leak The New MacBook Pros?
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Pretty amazing vibe.
You need freshmen code grunts first to become analysts later. Once you remove the low level design work, you lose (in time) the experts as well.

You can't have someone figure out how to put wings to hull properly if he never ever drawn a single fastening bolt in his life.
The license in question forbids GPLv3 by name. It does not appear to forbid the BSD, MIT, and similar permissive licenses.
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This is actually cumbersome to implement. I think it is very kind of him to share this little bit of code.
"Is it cyber war when a Nigerian prince tries to get my bank account info?"