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pls pls pls email me and put hacker news in the title
I don't really know what system could work. The current "max out publications" approach apparently doesn't work, as it only leads to mass production with low substance. I guess it is unfortunate that the people with the money (politicians) are not in a position to really judge the science they are supposed to fund. So superficial judging criteria are bound to happen.
It is definitely a hard engineering problem, but a fundamentally different one than engineering something that thinks, since the goal in this case is simply to answer jeopardy questions correctly.

As Eliza demonstrates, simply doing something that seems "smart" is often nearly trivial.
this is really nice of u man! thnx!

-gv
I probably would have said "It supports sed-like substitution" (or maybe even s/sed-like/vim-like/). Generally speaking, regular expressions denotes finding something while this does more than that. Regardless, this level of pedantry shouldn't come as a surprise on HN (I admit to being guilty of it myself).
I am going to risk being downvoted to hell on this.

Maybe Daniel isn't "persevering against crazy odds" and "willing himself to success". It's apparent from the story that he's a really fucking good coder. With a reasonably accurate estimation of his own abilities, and with all the support and inspiration around him at YC, it didn't take much perseverance and extraordinary will to put something together. He just had to continue doing what he loves and does best... writing code.

I certainly can't speak for Daniel. I get tired of these descriptions of entrepreneurs that make them sound like cancer survivors. I think founders often have extraordinary skill, and that changes the required personal characteristics considerably.
You forgot bytes.com and bigresource.com, holy fuck I hate them.
does this highlight how hard it is to move from python 2 to 3?

sidenote: love the pink select must be html5 boilerplate :)
Great point - the implied equivalance between posting on the internet with a real name and having a real-world conversation is wrong. Posting on an archived system available to everyone is more like writing an editorial or giving a speech, something which many are uncomfortable with.
How is deep blue playing Jeopardy anything more than eliza + google search?

The steamroller metaphor is intended to illustrate the brute force aspect of the approach. Google + deep blue burns many many orders of magnitude more calories than a human.
what precisely differentiates this graph from the original post? i feel like they're equally [relevant/irrelevant].
Developing with CouchDB on Android
DESIGN:
It's cool and awesome for minimalist design nerds like myself, but I'm not sure if it will convert well. That's speculation, so you might want to get a more authoritative view point on that.

COPY:
I think you need to get a little more niche on your target and add one more layer of benefits to your copy.

1.) Working in a small team? -- Of what? Of programmers? Of elephant trainers? Of baristas?
You'd be surprise how good people feel when you call them out specifically.

2.) Use Xau to stay connected and task-focused. So what? I don't think anyone cares about staying task-focused. They want to stay task-focused so they can make money, or build a great product but staying task-focused for the sake of staying task-focused doesn't sound very compelling. I would personally change it to: Use Xau to stay connected and task-focused so you can...[insert benefit your clients care about most]

Hope that helped!
I live in the United States, and these double-names do sometimes occur. For example, I met someone named Daniel Daniel, who is a very successful analyst at an investment bank in New York. (I'm not him, but the name stuck with me when I met him in business school.)

You can find him on LinkedIn (along with other similarly named folks): http://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldaniel
You might want to take a look at http://code.google.com/p/scipy-cluster/ for some code in Python that allows systems like this to be built quickly.
It should be a bigger part of one's happiness factor to believe in your companies mission. If you don't, you feel like there is no point/goal to your work. Good article.
Easy fixes for leaking pipes
I think you're having trouble with this because you're looking for the words to have a meaning in a context where they don't.

Tatamae is most literally equivalent to the English "putting up a front" — it's a wall of propriety between yourself and the outside world. It's not something you say to people; it's the reason you say those things.

Honne means something like "true thoughts." It's what you really feel. Exposing your honne in situations that call for tatamae is a bit like exposing your genitals in a situation that calls for pants — and like pants, tatamae is what you're expected to put on most of the time.

Of course this kind of behavior exists everywhere to varying degrees, but it's rarely as formalized (both in practice and in the language available to talk about it) as it is in Japan.
Don't move to SF at all. It never ceases to amaze me how 1st time web start-ups think moving there is the only way to succeed. Grrrr.

We're located in Bath, England. That's right, not even London. We launched our new startup in June 2010 and we just hit $600K in yearly recurring rev. MRR grew by almost 20% this month. Don't believe the TechCrunch hype about funding and the Silicon Valley scene.
There's a Valentine's card in there somewhere:

You are the sine to my cosine... cos(theta) + cos(2 theta) polar
IBM And WAC announce "White Label" app store.
I created a site on app engine that essentially does the same thing via Google Custom search engine. Granted mine isn't as integrated or user friendly but still. The site is: http://blacklist-search.appspot.com/

Why can't Google offer something like this rather than only allowing it via a Chrome extension?
Meanwhile, the local taxi company I use the most in Stockholm has their own iPhone app which is basically a button for "I want a taxi at my current location now".

I don't understand, how can you make money for this as an external service? Aren't there local taxi companies in the SF or NYC that could do the same in an instant?
Wow, I was up and running a lot quicker than I thought I would be. Hope this is some good feedback for you!

What I like:
- Setup was really easy; I entered my credentials and was done
- I love being able to filter by stream or type of posts
- I love address book integration
- Love notifications pulled in from across all my different social media outlets
- Great presentation of my profile + tabs

What I don't like:
- Lists -> My Profiles -> Great design, but it pulls quite a bit of info off my Facebook account, and unless it's a URL, tapping on it does nothing
- Lists seems redundant, I can filter by stream anyway, can't I?

Just some initial thoughts, might come back for more later. Awesome work!
3d version: (x^2+(9/4)y^2+z^2-1)^3 - x^2z^3-(9/80)y^2z^3 = 0

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ContourPlot3D[%28x^2%2B...]
You were interfering with the results and efforts of others. Surely, it isn't hard to understand that such interference is one of the few things guaranteed to antagonize people. Insisting that they should hold a coherent argument, after your provocation, is very unfair. Most people understand these things intuitively, so I would only point out your own blindness in certain aspects of social relations.

There have been many criticisms being leveled at your actions, but most of them—some correct, some incorrect—aren't important. Nor do your responses so far reveal any deep reflection of all that has transpired. The important point that people have been trying to articulate is this: Even though you were faced with mixed signals, rather than proceed with caution and try to understand the situation more fully (e.g., by engaging in discussion and building rapport), instead you plowed ahead with your own little project that would alter a common, shared space.

Wisdom and being right are different. It is wise to tread lightly. We will all learn, or re-learn, these things, at some juncture. Meanwhile, best wishes and happy Valentine's.

Sincerely,

A fellow grad student at Princeton

P.S. So, is it awesome working for an advisor who is a fan of Civ?
I don't understand why Quora is given attention at all. I asked a question about the efficacy of various ad providers on facebook and got no replies. The surprising part was the question got about 4 views. I got better replies on reddit. Its just one question but given that its popular amond the tech and valley insiders I expected to get more views at least.
That's clearly not what is being done if you either assess the linked content guidelines or look at Wikipedia itself.

One can either contest that this is simply a soundbite for the press or look at the definition of "knowledge" being used if one cares to square the apparent contradictions.

Why would Wikipedia even attempt to record all information about everything, who wants to know what I had for breakfast or what image is on my son's pyjamas; I contend that everyone that really needs that information already has it.
Actually, it goes deeper than that. Given the positions he held, it is fair to say, that he has to have manipulative skills: put simply, he is a manipulator.

Manipulators use phones, mails, memo-s etc. as remote control devices. And since manipulators are more often than not weak on substance, they rely on input from outside more than "creators", who have more inherent values to live off from.

I think he just got pissed by being blown out of the water because of his net-blackout.
Circles rolling around circles http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cardioid.html
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Edit: Working link, courtesy mhb
http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/02/14/the-secret-to-a...
Working link:

http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/02/14/the-secret-to-a...
I confess I haven't watched it (sounds painful), since the basic premise is wrong.

The US Treasury borrows money by issuing Treasuries, yes. It then pays interest on those, yes. The Federal Reserve creates money, and then injects it by buying Treasuries (or, recently, MBS's and agency debt, I believe, as well).

The vast majority of Treasury notes, agency debt, MBS's, etc. are NOT held by the Federal Reserve. So the amount outstanding does not pose any significant constraint on the Federal Reserve's injection of money.

Even if /all/ outstanding Treasury debt were eliminated, that'd just mean the Fed would have to purchase other bonds.

Also, when the Federal Reserve buys Treasuries, it receives the interest payments. What does it do with that money? Well, it turns it over to the Treasury. (If you look at the Fed's annual reports, this is actually many billions) So the T-notes held by the Fed to inject the money essentially don't have interest paid on them, because the Treasury is paying the interest to itself, indirectly.
I should make a tool that periodically scans the articles for deletion and always votes NO. I could allow anyone else to use this tool as well. Then I think the real voice of the Internet would show that we don't support deletionism!
Chomsky's point is that he doesn't think brute force AI really accomplishes much toward a theory of mind. He may be right or wrong about this, but it's an empirically testable point (over time).

He indicates that his inclination is toward a different research approach which is not brute force oriented (meaning it's more algorithmically/conceptually sophisticated but not fundamentally different).

This is why he trivializes the notion of "intelligence"... b/c he probably has a hard time calling the approach he favors intelligence, much less a far less intelligent brute force approach.

In Chomsky's world, intelligence essentially refers to "innate knowlege systems". If it's brute force than it's totally non-innate.
This is from 2009. Scala has only improved since then, although it's still not a "mainstream" programming language by any stretch. You can talk to a crowded room of programmers who either haven't heard of Scala, or have heard of it only in passing and don't really know what it's about. That's fine.

Programmers who are interested in learning and growing will always be attracted to new languages and technologies. What's interesting about Scala is that it's not solely academic. You can learn and do useful things with it at the same time. Later, when you've learned more, you can go back and improve your old code for added beauty and performance. That's a fun process, I think.
A Simpler and Friendlier Age Verification Page
As mentioned above - bytes.com and bigresource.com
The Micropreneur Academy is also worth looking into on this count, though it's a bit more specialized.
Should is a dirty word. When you use it in that way, you're applying your own emotional perspective to everybody and hiding it under some sort of imperative. You shouldn't do that ;)
Thanks for taking the time to comment!

Your point about listing benefits rather than features is excellent - I will definitely be amending the copy.

The app's theme is one of being sufficiently simple that it's sector agnostic and I was thinking of people who would appreciate this as its market - but I think you're actually more correct: its better to have a specific group feel the app is for them.
What do you do about media like movies or videos? That was always my biggest hangup with this laptop.
You can also find similar items using neural networks. There was an awesome talk about that at pycon 2009 : http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/71/

Neural network data mining can also sometimes survive missing data or extrapolate from unknown instances.
Mind vs. Machine - Can a computer be more human than a machine?
> Way to go, Chomsky. Insightful as a twelve year old.

What an immature response. You're the one acting like a twelve year-old here. Unless you've read a good portion of his writings on language and cognition published through the last half century, you might not want to dismiss his life's work based on an off-the-cuff response to a random email prodding him for sound bites.

There are solid reasons to believe that purely empiricist approaches to learning have fundamental limitations that seem incompatible with what we know about human cognition. Those reasons (e.g. the poverty of the stimulus argument) may be less convincing now than they were in the 60s but they are still not easily dismissable. Keep in mind that Chomsky's goal is not to build useful software but to uncover the roots and mechanisms of human language and cognition.
Google Launches Chrome Extension to Block Websites from Search Results
Ah, ok. Great to hear that. The way I read it was that you quit and only then would start on a project. 80/20 rule still applies though :)
Silicon Valley: an apology
> In the UK's example, nationalization fostered trade (the roads were all toll roads previously). In the case of the US railroads, nationalization can arguably be seen as a disaster so there are mixed results of this.

It's a mixed bag all around, this one. The railroads in the US were killed, for the most part, by the Interstate Highway system, an equally nationalized endeavor. But really, they were doomed by geographic reality. Population density in the US is such that in most parts of the country a car is an absolute requirement for every working adult. And gas is cheap enough (relative to the rest of the world) that it's cost effective to rely on trucks and airplanes to move merchandise.

If you privatized Amtrak tomorrow, you'd still see full rail service up and down the Boston-NYC-DC corridor. But running a train through "flyover" country is a waste of money from the get-go.
Anyone who applied to Greplin for a job based on the programming challenge looking for a job? Let me know b/c my company is hiring for two engineering positions in SF.
Does anyone here know, given current frequency allocations, what the theoretical maximum connection speed is? That is, allowing for improvements in hardware, how fast is really fast on a cell phone?
A good list :)

A couple more:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wisegeek.com

http://www.google.com/search?q=bizrate.com

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My reasons for suggesting that these are blocked:

"What are Some Animals Commonly Mistaken for Dinosaurs?" (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-some-animals-commonly-mista...)

"How Do I Care for a Rose Breasted Cockatoo?" (http://www.wisegeek.com/how-do-i-care-for-a-rose-breasted-co...)

"Why Does Alaska Have Really Long Days During Some Times of the Year and Really Short Days During Other Times?" (http://www.wisegeek.com/why-does-alaska-have-really-long-day...)

- should be fairly self explanatory. Plus it only took be ~45 seconds to find these examples of journalistic <sarcasm>brilliance</sarcasm> (there's MANY more such examples). Plus they are - IMO - breaking AdSense guidelines since the Google link unit ads are EXACTLY the same (in color/style and :hover behaviour) as the in-content navigation links, which is a direct breach of AdSense policy. You'd think the AdSense team would be aware of such a big violation..

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And as for BizRate, it's a 99% autogenerated site with little (if any) unique content. Plus most pages have at least one keyword stuffing area (such as http://www.bizrate.com/mens-shoes/dress-shoes/ - see the 'related searches' bit on the left, for a quick example).
Silly Robber, Casino Chips have RFIDs
Ask HN: Using numbers vs. longhand in domain?
Should I use a domain like 5folders.com or fivefolders.com?

What if I can't get one variation because it is already registered, should I move on or is either one ok?
yeah when you live with mom and dad, your expenses will pretty much be zero.

rent? paid for

food? basics covered, so can be 0.

internet? chances are already installed

if you are living at home, I think your expenses can boil down just to your cell phone bill, and money you are paying for hosting.
These things ALWAYS throw me for a loop when visiting the inlaws. It's so counter-intuitive.
I added more information to the landing page. The issue isn't necessarily with the # of signups but more to do with traffic. Currently I'm converting 10% of my visitors to signups. But I'm not getting a lot of traffic.
How to find the right startups to target for your job search
Sorry, I'm not going respect silly one-line remark because he's a celebrity in the field. This is exactly what he seems to be counting on, his 'authority': he can say whatever stubbornly contrarian thing he wants and be considered seriously because he's so established. If he didn't have time for an actual response, he should have not responded in the first place. He did, and he will be criticized for it.
>If you have a phenomenon with its own name, it's better for a subject to have it's own article, rather than be a note in another article, because then it's easier to find.

In a world without word indexing that "easier to find" matters a lot.

Your statement directly contradicts Wikipedia guidelines as linked in my previous entry.

>Why should the onus be on hard-working Wikipedia editors to show their articles are worthwhile? Instead, it should be on the vandals who want to destroy work.

Save your spin and lets stick to the issue. The simple answer is "to maintain Wikipedia as an encyclopedic tome with a usable quality".

If you wish to create a quality work of notable articles then it's necessary, IMO, to require an argument for inclusion rather than demand an argument to exclude something.

AFAIK no one is here to destroy worthwhile information, I certainly haven't contributed to Wikipedia to that end, but for some types of information Wikipedia is not the right place to put it. You'll see I linked to a wiki for programming languages, the info fits there well, it can be linked to from a Wikipedia page on more general programming information; why is it essential to duplicate such information?
What role did Hacker News play in bringing about this feature?
Matt, before we get to the point where potentially controversial editorial decisions will have to be made, I would imagine there are things that could be done automatically and uncontroversially.

For example, sometimes we see copies rank higher than originals. Why does that happen? Google know where they first saw a particular piece of content, don’t they? Why don’t they use that as a heavy ranking factor?

Or am I too far off?
"There are a few grease monkey scripts that the same thing."

Not quite. This sends the info to Google whereas the GM scripts just CSS display:none the links. In theory this is different since the optimist in me hopes that Google will do something positive with the "downvotes".
A few more:

http://www.google.com/search?q=hubpages

http://www.google.com/search?q=ezine+articles

http://www.google.com/search?q=all+experts
Traffic circles (roundabouts) are not the same thing as jughandles.
Posterous (YCS08) looking for a Dev Ops lead
Except that Android and WebOS already had solutions to the problem and no doubt the WP7 software stack already supported it all. Ultimately, Apple's solutions to these so-called "hard problems" weren't revolutionary.

The net result was Microsoft produced a device comparable to the previous generation. I suspect they would have taken those 3-6 months to add the features (in whatever form they could come up with) if they knew that Apple was going to do it.
I did. I've also coded 90% of my app and I'm trying to find out whether I'm even going about marketing it the right way. I actually have another Internet business but since its aimed at a decidedly non-tech audience I'm new to the business of launching a web app aimed at a more tech savvy market.

I see from your comment threads you'd rather people didn't post till their apps were finished. I think asking for feedback from HN about how you're marketing your app is as valid as asking for feedback about the app itself.
>I think founders often have extraordinary skill

I think that was Aaron's point. Daniel is an extraordinary person. An ordinary person would probably have just given up given a similar set of circumstances.
Workopolis.com is the big Canadian job site
Okay so I checked out your app. I was impressed and now I'm blown away.

The UI is gorgeous. The posts view is killer. I love how Facebook photos are displayed. It took me a few seconds to figure out how everything works, after that I realized this is what I've been looking for.

I think the only thing you can add to it is more API integration. It's perfect for me. You have gained a fan.

It really interests me how decided to display syncing notifications. How did you override the status bar?
The choice of nationality seemed pretty arbitrary to me. In what way did the article "make fun out of [the] French"?
Just before you replied I added an extra paragraph with some background that explains where he's coming from. If the standard critique of empiricism I mention there is not familiar to you, you might want to study more before passing judgement.
Iran Becomes Next Country For Facebook-Led Revolution
He is not an admin and he did not delete the article.
But the URL gives away the punchline.
But who wants an app from every company? I'd rather just have the fastest taxi, regardless of who is driving it.
Bold move and congrats! One word of advice: Don't underestimate how difficult it is to get customers. Hacking skills are great but if you want to be successful you will want to spend at the very least 50% of your time worrying about getting customers for whatever it is that you build. Either that or partner with someone who is really great at this.