skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of feeding a troll...

If 1% of the population ticked the "displeased with Mubarak" checkbox on a poll, I'd be inclined to agree with you.

But since 1% of the population is IN THE STREETS RIOTING, effectively setting aside their normal lives and risking even death, you can bet that a hell of a lot more are significantly displeased and are too scared/old/otherwise incapable of taking the risks there people are taking.

Furthermore you're being very disingenuous by quoting the population of Egypt as a whole, and comparing this to the numer of protesters in ONE CITY.
>"they asked was what our exit strategy was."

Your banker was just talking shop. Banks are often involved in finding investments for their wealthy customers whose portfolios they manage. They also are on the lookout for potential clients for such services in the future.

There's nothing wrong with a lifestyle business, a family business, or self employment. But an a startup in the SV sense is built to implement an exit strategy from day one.

Of course it's not an either or - but in general many small businesses don't have an exit strategy until the founder's want to retire. Consider the contrast to YC companies. The founders have to be willing to part with ownership on the day they enter the program.
> But it'd really suck to be the last generation before some significant increase in lifespan (say, up to 200) is reached.

If you read the Mars trilogy, the subject of excessive long life spans is discussed (at least from a sci-fi fictional perspective). The characters do indeed live out lives that exceed 200 years.

One of the questions that then arises is: can the human brain (or as being hypothesized here, a synthetic brain) be able to handle 200 years worth of memories ?

I can remember a couple of things from when I was 3. I am now over 50. As the years pass, some of those older memories become slightly fuzzy. I do wonder about the capacity to deal with 200 years worth.
Frankly, I don't see how it is a problem. It is a continuous process in a developing economy. And its the process that makes capital available for all kinds of human investments.

I can assure you there is job security in a completely stagnant economy. But not very much capital for education, startups or mortgages, or freedom to live your life and take the risks that make it worth living.
Does anybody here want the domain name screwbeingsingle.com? It might make an interesting url for a dating site.

(I bought it for a buddy to blog on back in high school. He put up 3 or 4 posts, let it sit for a while, and then told me he didn't want it anymore.)
Those of you who already love to cook, you've probably already seen this. But for people who have the engineering / problem solving mindset but don't have much cooking experience, you might find it helpful. :)
I might actually consider sending my sister this. Last time I tried to help her set up Synergy, I was on iChat with her for an hour = FAIL.
> Customers want value. If a feature will save them $5 a month, they'll trade with martians if they have to.

You're out of your mind if you think that white men who golf don't have a leg up for all things B2B.
Talk's cheap if you're not faced with such a choice.
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See his reply, but I had already inferred that he was from that he considers religion a lie in http://paulgraham.com/lies.html
This is something that is frustrating to me. Startups will go to MIT and Standford begging for interns and grads but people who are qualified and show enough initiative to do the challenges/job postings don't even get an email back. Just because my school is small and not well known outside of the Midwest doesn't make it inferior.

/rant I suppose I just have to start my own thing if I want to work around smart and cool people.
It would seem that way, but I seriously doubt all of those parallel projects exist in vacuum. They likely will share frameworks, they should certainly share UI elements and designs.

I mean, Apple can't have the iPad, iPod, and iPhone teams not talk to each other, their clearly linked on numerous levels.

Likewise, Microsoft's apparent reliance on "parallel projects" is why we geeks poke fun at them so much. Anyone remember the screen shot of the 20+ styles of Window decorations just in Microsoft products on XP? Or howabout the fact that the Windows team has to basically reverse engineer (or at least re-develop from scratch) all of the UI features of the Office team.
I think that taking zoloft is what helped me to realise, deep down, that I really am a simulation running on a meat substrate.
you're out of your mind if you think they won't cross the street if they can make a million more.
"Brain-based" AI should stay in the dark ages. Optimization-based AI is the present and the future.

Humans can see. Computer vision systems suck. There's a perfectly good one in our brains. Why not try to understand what already works?

Contrary to what most would believe, brain-based computer vision has made a lot of progress in the past 20 years. Some might think there is a fundamental flaw in the "brain-based" approach given past failures, but that ignores that fact that those failures very likely happened due to a poor understanding of the brain at the time.

The work in brain-based computer vision however has been mostly academic. Brain-based computer vision startups are even more recent, and I think it's exciting to see the startup approach to solving what has been mostly an academic problem. In a startup, the engineering mindset, quick iteration, as well as a lack of concern for publishing and other forces at play in academia could produce very different results.

I do agree that the 5 year promise is extreme, but I think we need time to see how this relatively new mode of work (both in terms of the technical approach, and the process of implementation in a startup) will play out before we call it a failure.

Full Disclosure: I was an intern at Numenta last summer.
Gold is backed by being gold. It also isn't a currency anymore; the properties necessary to be a currency are no longer true of it. Wire me some gold, please. Not some numbers that are actually disguised dollars, some actual gold.

I'm not a goldbug precisely because I don't think gold is worth anywhere near what people think it is. The "durable value" it had in the decoration field is gone. If it were ever actually put to the test it would collapse to a much lower value reflecting its actual industrial and decorative values which are nothing like what they used to be.

The subjectivity of value is why backing is so important if your currency isn't to collapse. Something's got to stop the subjective system from just deciding the value is 0, aka, hyperinflation. Or, more accurately, realizing the value is zero.

It's easy to wave some academic theories around and act intellectually superior, but call me when you've actually got a functional currency that corresponds to what you claim is possible and even remotely resembles the real world market size of even Microsoft Points or Eve Online's currency. BitCoin is not it, and it won't ever be it.
clean design, good hack. but what tangible value does it provide?
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if there was a drug available that would let you live to be hundreds or thousands of years old, barring accident, would you take it?

Of course, and the vast majority of those who say no actually would if given the opportunity.

What would be the effect on society if death were all but eliminated?

Greatly reduced medical costs and increased productivity and quality of life, for starters. The one negative is that we'd probably have to limit childbirth for a few decades while space colonization gets going, but that's a comparatively small price to pay.
Glossed over by us on this site and the Internet at large, not the press. I have no problem with the reporting. It bothers me that 30 comments in I appear to be the only person who even has concerns.
Things aren't that simple, we're not just dealing with people selling a proven, viable product, we're dealing with how venture capital is acquired and funding secured, especially for ideas which are risky or unproven, which "disruptive" technologies inherently are.

There's the concept of social capital, and how social networks and cultural bias affect that for founders.

It's true that a non-privileged founder who builds the ultimate money-saving, world-changing technology will have a harder time being ignored, but we should never be so willing to handwave such obvious homogeny amongst the elite.
No, thats exactly the point. Coffee is the boring lame idea that everybody else does. Take the emphasis off the other person, put in on the fun activities you will be enjoying! Start things of by _actually doing something_ with your Saturday afternoon!
"When I found a machine that could compile it, it took about 8 hours."

Thank you. It never occurred to me that you need a lot more processing power to compile code than you do to run the software you're creating. You just saved me a lot of heartache in a few months once it's time to start compiling. I love HN.

/srsly
The news is actually further down in the article: they've figured out the processes by which telomeres cause these effects.
You're out of your mind if you think that a pair of hippies could build the world's biggest tech company.

It's always an uphill battle no matter who you are. The world isn't fair; disregard it and startup anyways.
Um no. What they did was illegal. When you stoop to that level you aren't any better than the people your are trying to give the lesson to.
Because the internet is slowing 'becoming' computing. And he who holds the keys, unlocks the doors. ;)
>"bing users are more casual and search for generally consumable content."

That would seem to be bad for Google. Bing gets to sell ads alongside casual searches such as "cheap table lamps" and Google has to try to monetize "'Company A' 143rd Ohio Brice's Crossroads."
His website pricing gives a hint as to how much the app has made him:

> The [Pinboard] fee is based on the formula (number of users * $0.001), so the earlier you join, the less you pay.

The current price is $9.22, so following this formula he has ~9220 users, which has paid him roughly 42K. He also charges $25 (minus your sign up fee) for archiving, which would bump that number up a bit.
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Where did you get that link from?

Presumably, some shadowy figure in a trenchcoat met him at 3am on a Tuesday behind a warehouse on the docks, and handed him a cocktail napkin. l0nwlf glanced down at the napkin, saw "facebook.co.in" scrawled in coal black ink. He turned his head upward to ask what this was, but the man had vanished. (That's just what I assumed).
No, we collect the moneys from them, then pass the money on to a third party company that would be hosting them in their activities. Dinner at a restaurant, a picnic hamper ready and waiting, the yacht charter.
What they didn't isn't "okay" not in any way shape or form.
The interesting bit is that these "security" companies actually work with various government agencies and get tons of taxpayer money. Most politicians are clueless about what computer security means and have even less of a clue about cyber terrorism so companies like HBGary continue to proliferate even though they offer absolutely nothing for public well being.
The popular press pieces are, as usual, breathlessly overhyped. Some commentary on this:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/02/another-proposed-...

"it is certainly the case that damaged mitochondria and shortening telomeres are only two of the possible reasons we suffer age-related degeneration. Many of the other causes of aging involve a build up of varying forms of damaging waste product that the body cannot remove - mechanisms which are quite capable of causing disability and death on their own, telomere shortening or no telomere shortening.

"That said, telomeres, mitochondria, and p53 are all large and healthy areas of research when it comes to the biology of aging. I imagine that anyone would be pleased to produce good evidence that might mechanically tie them all together, such that one or more are secondary effects rather than primary causes. From an economic perspective, we should all be hoping that some of our present candidates for the primary causes of aging turn out to be secondary effects - because then we don't have to devote any time towards developing repair biotechnologies to fix them.

"On a closer reading of the new research, I have to say that it looks to me very much like an independent confirmation of discoveries from 2007 and 2008 relating to mitochondrial damage, telomere length, and the enzyme telomerase. In a nutshell, it may be that telomere shortening is entirely driven by mitochondrial dysfunction"

Etc. Links to more in the post.
And donate if you can. I believe they have the best expected benefit per dollar of any cause.
yeah, the last thing you want to do is buy into the notion that the world is aligned against you. Its a self fulfilling prophecy and we do people a disservice propagating the idea.
I am (unfortunately) not a biologist, but the abstract of their paper in Nature [1] seems to suggest that their research is notable not because they discovered telomerase is related to ageing, but because they figured out why lack of telomerase causes cells to stop regenerating and organs to fail:

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.

[1]: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
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Suppose the user was on search engine A and then goes to site B. I believe Hitwise has no way of knowing whether the user clicked on a link in the search results to go to site B vs. just going to site B on their own.

As far as how the data was gathered, Hitwise gets clickstream data from ISPs: http://www.hitwise.com/us/about-us/how-we-do-it
By sending them an email perhaps?
would you do it again?
I have a stupid question: Does this vulnerability exist if rails runs https?
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EasyCalApp.com is an online scheduling app for solo hair stylists and massage therapists.<p>Pretty much all online scheduling software is targeted at people who have complex scheduling needs - 10 massage therapists at a clinic, for example.<p>There is no software built specifically for solo practitioners - people who only book appointment for themselves - whose needs are a lot simpler.<p>So we built EasyCal so solo massage therapists and hair stylists can simplify their lives with frustration-free online booking.<p>Even though you're probably not the target demo, I'd love any and all feedback and insight.<p>Now the fun begins in earnest - marketing :)<p>Thanks in advance.<p>www.easycalapp.com
The article focussed on how the creators of "Facebook," "Google," "MySpace," "BEBO," "Twitter." don't look like the students. You may be right about the golfing set & B2B, but you're adding your own spin.

I just came back from a 'Wall Street' conference down in Orlando : The delegates there came in all shapes, sizes, genders, nationalities and hues. Far more so than the people getting off the plane to go to Disneyland, IMHO.
I hate to be That Guy but they have repeatedly said that's not the entire formula. The most recent figure I saw them share puts them at around 15k users.
No, it seems like a very good reason to take useful/promising but improperly commercialized research and turn it into a product. A startup rarely has enough runway to do the scientific research needed to solve a problem like this.
It is interesting. Technically it should be the same amount of energy transferred but without localised damage (eg, concentration of force through a knuckle into an area of bone or tissue). The head will still be jarred, so your point is pretty solid.

Regardless, though, in this specific example - if one of these guys throws a stray fist to the mouth or jaw (not so much for body shots because they're not exactly doing much of a job of it), its likely to break something, and if they are boxing in a training only setting or socially they're not going to be taking enough blows for concussion / brain damage to be a real issue.
...Could you explain? I don't understand what you're saying.
Even the dumb, biased people with money have to compete with smart investors that leave no stone, black or white, unturned in their search for opportunity.

Hegemony is simply not there. There is competition in venture capital and against venture capital.

It only takes a minority of investors to make an investment. And most of them are quite used to dissenting and thinking for themselves.
Clickable: http://twitter.com/about/security

It asks you to contact 'security@twitter.com' with as much detail as you have available. It also has an honor roll of people with earlier valid reports.
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I have created a startup to help people build their resumes to find jobs easier.

Here is the link to the site: http://hirednext.com
Your responsibility to your shareholders is not to maintain the highest profits/employee - it's to deliver the highest total profit per share.

Management is legally obligated to act in the long-term best interests of the company; that is NOT the same as "deliver the highest total profit per share." For more, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule
http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/25/what-obligation-maximise...
Numenta does fall under brain based. I'm not sure what Vicarious are working on, but recently Numenta transitioned to radically more biological algorithms. It would be interesting to compare the two if Vicarious comes out with more detailed information about their algorithms.
Professional Boxers and Professional rugby players. There's a big difference between trying out social / club style sports and going into amateur / pro boxing competitions.
This isn't always the case. It is highly dependent on the language, the compiler used, the size of the code-base and many other factors.

Most of the small to medium sized project I have worked on compile in what seems like an instant.

However, I work on a medium-to-large code-base at work and it takes around 8 minutes to compile on our build server and around 12-15 minutes on my dev machine. Even these speeds seem tremendously slow to me. I can't imagine being a developer on a huge C++ project and having to wait tremendously long build times. When your compile times aren't near instant it really changes how you program. That feed back loop of code-compile-run-repeat becomes more like code-double check code-code some more-compile-surf the web-run-repeat.
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If the parent means the No Free Lunch Theorem, then the point is mistaken. That theorem says that you can't improve the performance of a classifier for some objective function, without making it worse on another -- in other words, all algorithms have an identical mean performance when averaged over all possible objective functions.

The reason this doesn't mean that human-level AI is impossible is that we too are designed (well, evolved by natural selection) to perform well for a particular objective function: one in which say, the standard laws of physics/optics apply. Optical illusions illustrate that our performance on this objective function is not perfect.

Moreover, you can see a human being's performance on a different objective function by, for example, trying to recognize objects in pictures which have been scrambled according to some predefined method (e.g. shuffle the pixels but use the same random seed each time). Each scene will still convey the same amount of information about the objects in it, but it'll be pretty tricky to recognize the objects.
Well, for me, it provides a way of experiencing things like having to respond to user feedback, traffic spikes, thinking about user experience and trying to influence my conversion rates. It's an opportunity to use things like analytics funnels, and such. Most of these things can't be done without one thing - users using your site. These types of sites are fun ways to potentially get to deal with that. As developers, it's easy to think of things functionally. To us, it's obvious why something would be useful based on its function. But, to the average non-technical user, it takes some extra thought into how can you explain something to them in a way that allows them to understand your service and why it'd be useful to them.

I kind of rambled there, but it's a fun technical thing. For users, it's purely just for fun. I think this might be something people wouldn't mind knowing if they had the opportunity, so that kind of helps drive the want to use it.
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The most likely scenario: Pay for Instapaper, and then view ads when(if) you choose to use third party value-added services. Win-win-win.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/In...

"Several readers of my blog have asked for details on the storage aspects of Watson. Basically, it is a modified version of IBM Scale-Out NAS [SONAS] that IBM offers commercially, but running Linux on POWER instead of Linux-x86. System p expansion drawers of SAS 15K RPM 450GB drives, 12 drives each, are dual-connected to two storage nodes, for a total of 21.6TB of raw disk capacity. The storage nodes use IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) to provide clustered NFS access to the rest of the system. Each Power 750 has minimal internal storage mostly to hold the Linux operating system and programs.

When Watson is booted up, the 15TB of total RAM are loaded up, and thereafter the DeepQA processing is all done from memory. According to IBM Research, "The actual size of the data (analyzed and indexed text, knowledge bases, etc.) used for candidate answer generation and evidence evaluation is under 1TB." For performance reasons, various subsets of the data are replicated in RAM on different functional groups of cluster nodes. The entire system is self-contained, Watson is NOT going to the internet searching for answers. "
That is really aweseome!

I really like that fact that clients can book appointments on their own.
I'm surprised there aren't any listings for Marcus du Sautoy.

"The Num8er My5teries", "The Music of the Primes" - are delightful.

Also, "Fermat's Enigma" by Simon Singh is riveting.

My other recent favorite: "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel" by Rebecca Goldstein. A highly readable biography of Gödel
I don't do any dragging. I just store everything in Dropbox to begin with. Sometimes I forget what Dropbox is, it's that good. Dragging is a pain point.

I do see the use case for non-dropbox users. Unfortunately, I don't think that others not having Dropbox is a strong competitive advantage.
Seems like there really are plenty of wonderful creative ideas to improve these sites, but the problems alluded too seem to have simple solutions.

People who have not paid can't respond? Make it free to respond. Pay to initiate.

People spam with low quality requests. Make it so you only get a small number of non-responded requests.

People ignore requests and are not paying attention? Show number of responded/non responded requests in the last month.
I would suggest improving the visibility of your networks.co.id website a bit more. It's should also be in English if you are focusing on an American employer. Also maybe a landing page so we know what it's about and what makes it special without needing to login first. (Maybe also make the load time faster. Took 30 seconds.)

Unfortunately SF/CA is quiet popular and startups are hard. I would assume they're looking for very dedicated people who are masters of their domain. Be prepared to show them that you have both qualities.