skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a shame that this is (necessarily!) such an insular challenge. Everybody knows what chess is all about, I fear that the impact of this game will be limited to the US or the Anglosphere. Just as an example, there has been no Jeopardy on German TV since 2000, it’s not really a part of German pop culture and because of all the puns it doesn’t translate well.

(Question for native speakers: When watching the practice round [0] are you generally able to keep up and answer the questions? The speed with which the game was moving made it nearly impossible for me to follow or enjoy the game. I would like to know what the experience is like for native speakers.)

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE
Actually, FDM, Objet, ProJet, SLA, EnvisionTec, SolidScape, an many more use support material that is consumed during the build / post-processing.

Many lattice structures can still be made using injection molding equipment (far cheaper) or starting with a raw material with such a structure: think of aluminum honeycomb.

I agree 3DP is exciting, but we need to get real about what we're trying to achieve - traditional manufacturing engineers are pretty clever too. Not every STL should be run through a nozzle...

FDM is actually one of the worst methods for 3DP manufacturing because it scales linearly - MakerBot et al use this tech because it's the easiest process to build and makes durable parts from common raw materials.
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Is there somewhere in Silicon Valley to watch this together in person?
A random coupon isn't cool. You know what's cool? Early invitations.
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ahhhh!!! its not supposed to be comic sans...it was showing a different font in my machine..damnit!
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It might mean they'll have to support two versions for a longer while though. Which also means making sure all community patches are provided for both branches, or manually integrating them.
The ability for each user to create their own personalized domain blacklist.

E.g., if someone doesn't like techcrunch.com, they can add it to their blacklist, and they will no longer see techcrunch.com stories.

There's maybe a dozen sites (TC isn't one of them) which regularly appear on HN, and which I'd be happy not to see. But I know others don't feel this way about those sites. This seems like a relatively easy way of improving everyone's experience.
Picking nits about the release of sales data: The figure being cited was provided by a comScore, based on independent tracking data. The last line of that article states "A spokesman for Radiohead was not available for comment."
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No. The right people (eventually) find the right idea for the time.
Unrelated note: Some blogger reverse engineered the algo and posted sample code on his blog as an education experience. He got a takedown notice and was forced to remove the post from his blog.

Can't find the source right now, will look it up if anyone needs it.
Depends on which data you're talking about and what the purpose of sharing it is. If it's a catalog of items for sale on an e-commerce site, then sharing that data widely - in order to make those items more discoverable - might be just what a company wants.
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You have a good point, but we're not using the web today in the document oriented way of the early 90's.
Sure, if someone will invent a way to use the semantic data in a way that could generate income or market value for the data owner/publisher, then the SemWeb will take off.
However in the current presented form, I don't see a strong incentive for any profit oriented agent to just put out their data in this way.
This was answered in the Nova special, in passing. The question is fed to Watson as text at the same moment it appears on the display that the contestants can see. Likewise for correct answers. Watson is not performing speech recognition.
GroupTweet.com is looking for a webdesigner, ui/ux expert. There are also potential opportunities for a PHP back end developer. Contact us at jobs at grouptweet dot com. We are located in Chicago if that makes any difference for you.

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In 2003 I wrote my M.Sc. thesis about semantic web technologies such as RDF, RDFS and querying such semantic graphs.

It's seven years later, nothing happened in terms of real-world adoption, it's safe to declare it DOA. In fact it's been safe for several years.
"a';DROP TABLE 'knowledge'; This type of attack is commonly used by hackers."

Game over, Watson.
This is really lame, but parents, do heed: if at all possible, try to name your kids something normal. This is going to get much worse WAY before it gets better.

Obviously you can't predict all cultural phenomenons (for instance, if you named your child "Ken Ryu" before Street Fighter hit the shelves) and you shouldn't do it just to please ignorant folks or know where your child will be living in the future ("Kumar??? What is that, like 5 O's and 2 U's?"), but don't intentionally make life difficult on your children just to make yourself laugh or to fulfill some nerd agenda.
How does the service work? Figure out your area and then email you coupon codes? I'm located in the Bay Area, would love to check the beta out.
Thanks, this is what I assumed (as ASR of these questions is probably just as hard as the interpretation).

How does Watson know when it can chime in then?
> * Not starting early and having to pull all-nighters as deadlines approached.

It is easy to beat yourself over this point, but procrastination is extremely common. I'm highly guilty of it. In school, work, and life, without hard deadlines approaching, it is too easy to wait until the last minute and be forced to pull all-nighters.
I really doubt that there is a place in the world for lazy, unambitious scientists.

This is why very little scientific work is properly replicated and there are big distortions in the literature caused by scientists selectively publishing results that will seem fashionable in the current climate of opinion -- confirm a theory as it rises, and attack it as it peaks. There's an element of "timing the market" when publishing results.

It would be a big improvement if there were lots of competent scientists with secure jobs working a normal work week and publishing results that weren't distorted by the pressures that their ambitious careerist colleagues are subject to. They could try to replicate results and not worry if the answers they get don't further their careers. Why in the world wouldn't that be a good thing?
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This is the real truth when people talk about how they work very little and make a lot. They redefine "work" to conveniently ignore the huge amount of self-promotion that goes on.

I often wonder how much Tim Ferris, Mr. 4-hour workweek, spends promoting all his shit. I'm going to guess that it's significantly more than 4 hours a week.

Engaging with a community is extremely time consuming, but is also very rewarding. It definitely translated to increased sales on my site, which was a huge surprise to me.
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http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

It's only one small part of the overall Semantic Web, but it's an element that's here and being actively used already.
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If you are setting up a simple business BookingBug is simple, and if you are setting up a complex business or work slightly out of the norm BookingBug has the flexibility to help.
Targeting "fake-looking" names is useless if anyone can register with a realistic fake name with no scrutiny.
False analogy. There is a big, big difference between clothes that keep you from perishing due to exposure, and your shiny new smart phone. The real problem here is that the author is, apparently, incapable of thought without an array of instant-access resources at his disposal.
True. This means that the result will be just improved vertical searches of products which is kind of what price comparator sites already do pretty well these days.
I was involved in that community for a few years. (As part of my job -- the business side it Agile.) Ultimately, I got tired of the politics of ideas, organization and labels.

What is still fun for me is trying out experiments, learning from them. Reading about others trials in how to organize teams, programming practices and deliver as much value as possible. Keeping track of elephants like these was distracting.
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I can definitely follow along with this or any game of Jeopardy!, but my problem is that I just don't know all the answers. To me this is part of the appeal.

This is definitely faster-paced than regular episodes of Jeopardy!, but I don't think it's prohibitively fast for native speakers.

It's too bad that Jeopardy! doesn't fit in with international pop culture better. I think it's a perfect fit for a lot of AI problems.
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I would say, practical implementation of PEP-3333 is more important than Django.

Most Python frameworks are stuck because of WSGI vs Python 3 issue.
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Signaling: ...to an engineer, status symbols signal *bullshit*...
Google ignored all the instructions and instead analyzed the human language on web pages, and inferred relevance based on that.

Google are now at least partially on the Semantic Web bandwagon. They, as well as Yahoo, have been detecting, parsing, and using RDFa and microformats data - when present - for a while now, and using it to provide enhanced search results. See:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
Soywiki: a wiki built on top of Vim and Git.
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> instabuzz

Nope, it has to press down on a physical button just like everyone else. Maybe it can move it's finger a bit faster, but...not much.
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...it might be nice to prune the leaves from time to time to encourage growth in new directions

Could you explain the mechanism by which that would work?

Do you expect that the person contributing articles about Star Wars will, after his article on Boba Fett's brother in law is deleted, decided to write an article about critical feminist post-industrialist theory?
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From time to time learned expectations override basic logic. Whoops.

I'm used to crotchety old people complaining about GPS killing map reading skills.
Oblig. marketing cliche: There's no such thing as bad publicity.
I don't care - those honking horns on Friday will make me happy for months. Just let me assume we're headed into the Kim Stanley Robinson future I so very much want, OK? I haven't felt so hopeful about this lump of wet rock since the Berlin Wall came down.
This puts me in mind of my credit card, whose database believes I am "Patrick McKenzie" and whose web tier enjoys throwing a "That input wasn't written in kana, please try again" on the "sign up for online access" page. When I called the credit card company to complain, they told me that they would need a government issued ID certifying to my name in kana prior to changing their DB record. The government will happily issue me an ID, and indeed legally mandate that I carry it everywhere, but only for my name exactly as it appears on my passport. US passports don't include kana? "Not our problem."

Strangely enough, the small town bank that I do business with has been absurdly solicitous about this, and when a similar string comparison caused a bill payment to fail, the manager added a note to the file saying that dishonoring any bill directed to a foreign client at our branch office would henceforth require his written approval. It's just the gigantic megacorp bank in Tokyo which hasn't figured out that foreigners exist yet.
Another key to remember is that there is time after the button press to think of the answer - it's a common strategy to ring in when you have a certain confidence level that you can think of the answer quickly. Watson uses confidence levels, too, but he already has a particular answer in mind instead of a vague confidence level for the whole clue.
Still no evidence of direct Western funding of the Iraqi military, 'entirely' or otherwise.

Again, selling Iraq weaponry, turning a blind eye to its actions and providing it with intelligence information are all not the same thing as directly funding its military. This is really such a simple issue that I'm surprised it has gone on for this long.
The difference, in this case, between clothes and "your shiny new smart phone" is novelty. Since the subject of the article is the future I don't think the analogy was unreasonable.
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Vaynerchuk is neither an anomaly nor is he wildly successful. He's a guy who talks about himself that way, a lot, but in the end knows very little about many things.
Your first submission has garnered nearly as many karma points than I've accumulated since I joined HN 3 years (and 1 day) ago.
It's location-based, so your mobile device or browser reports your location for you. We're not using email, we're instantly showing you the deals around you. It's very intuitive, and it's going to be awesome. Thanks for showing your interest!
Did someone say programming quotes? Here's my collection, many dating back to the 80's and 90's:

http://www.jeff-barr.com/~jeff/quotes.txt

A few of those are from my kids and from colleagues; most are from Usenet and random mailing lists.
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I don't think the community was being any more honest than it usually is; they're a fairly introspective bunch. Hardly watershed, and most the topics listed have been continually under active discussion for as long as Agile has been around.
Perhaps not a paperless society, but computers & the Internet HAVE dramatically decreased the amount of paper we use these days. Just off the top of my head for consumers: Phone books & directories, maps, banking & billing, written correspondence, fax machines, shared scheduling & calendars, media distribution (books, music, movies).
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Clearly he is capable of thought without "instant-access resources", given that he drafted the article without them.

Internet access is becoming a fundamental human requirement; this need should not be overly exploited by corporations.
pretty neat...are these actual jeopardy questions?
Thanks for posting this. It's always great to read about bootstrapped startups/businesses that are profitable.

They say they earn $500K/month, but I'm curious how they are generating this revenue as I didn't see any advertisements. Most of the normal "ad spaces" are links/ads encouraging users to signup and post articles of their own. Any insight/thoughts on how they are generating income?
Looking for people interested in the mobile photo space, specifically server side development, but iOS experience is awesome as well.
Round-trip latencies for small MPI messages are typically a couple microseconds over InfiniBand, under 10 microseconds for 10G Ethernet without TCP, and a bit more when going through TCP.
I have a customer whose strictly-enforced process is:

1. Estimate (based on one-sentence title of feature)
2. Wait for approval
3. Find out detailed requirements
4. Design and document
5. Implement and deploy

3,4, and 5 should be included in your original estimate.

If you try to do 3 first, you are not following the process. The process is touted as "best practice 2.0".
Facebook identifies my friend's first name as fake and forces her to spell it wrong. The name is Sushi.

Her name is currently set as Sushii to compensate.
Why should Wikipedia be at all involved with hosting content that isn't up to their standards? The EVERYTHING setting is the rest of the web.
The best you can do is iOS is Cool and Android is Open??
Reminds me of these guys, except 15 years later: http://www.well.com/

Obligatory wikipedia background:

"WELL membership is available to almost anyone, but requires a paid subscription and use of one's real name."

"The WELL was frequently mentioned in the media in the 1980s and 1990s, probably disproportionately to the number of users it had relative to other online systems. [...] This early visibility was largely the result of the early policy of providing free — comped — accounts for interesting journalists and other select members of the media. As a result, for many journalists it was their first experience of online systems and, later, the Internet, even though other systems existed."

Not much happened with them, either.
Personally, I use my real name almost everywhere, but if I was running a website, I would not go so far to require it.
Typically real jeopardy will show the text on the screen. I can get about 30 (sometimes up to 35ish) "questions" for a normal show but it is all about reading it to get those extra few brain cycles.
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Mobile or cell phone credit card processing
I'd definitely download a policeman's helmet.
I'm sure that's true for a lot of people, but I think there were probably a lot of people who thought of it as "try before you buy". This mentality certainly applies to some percentage of those who would have pirated it, but I think there are plenty of people who saw this as a free sample.
I do like that he puts forth the "don't agree to stupid" and "don't agree to hurry unduly" positions.

I disagree with him on "Normally, the way it works, is that your estimate is first scanned for odd looking or relatively large items. Hence be prepared to defend anything with “non-standard” name. Also split larger tasks so that all tasks have same order of magnitude, i.e. if most tasks take 2 days and one single task is 10 days be prepared to get drilled."

I believe generally you should actually communicate the hard parts of the project to people. You should actually communicate what about it is hard if you have any ability to do so, and you should state alternative risk management strategies you've turned down for what reasons if they ask about them.
How would you turn a free classifieds website into a business?
All,
I inherited an antiquated classifieds website from a friend last year and have been in the process of rewriting the UI in a more flexible and cheaper to host technology.
I have a designer lined up to help created and updated look in March because I’ll admit that the design is very 1.0 and the usability is less than awesome.
I am on the front page of google for the term “yard sale” and am in the #1 or #2 spot for the terms “online yard sale and “online garage sale” I get a couple hundred users per day and have a 38% bounce rate. The user base tends to produce pretty high click rates so it more than covers the hosting fees.
I want to take this website to the next level of being a business and I have some ideas but I wanted to solicit ideas and advice from the Hacker community at large. I am not looking for advice regarding technical changes or look and feel because that is all in the works.
You can see the original 1.0 version here www.frimp.net
Quora already has an anonymous mode for that. Just click "Make Anon" when you need it.
A wise man once said "Do not feed the troll."

Edit: before down-arrowing me, you may want to examine the situation. It's pretty apparent this guy has an agenda.
I'm looking forward to my open source kitchen utensils!
If their approach lets fake but English sounding names go through, then they shouldn't discriminate against other names, period.

If Quora wants people to use their real names, they should require them to link their facebook account -- and these days, even that is a poor guarantee of real names. Let's face it, people are striking back at the "real names" thing by altering their names on facebook, because you never know what they're going to make public by default next.
This piece is short on big-picture thinking. None of its complaints hold up under scrutiny.

Mobile internet access while traveling abroad is expensive and unreliable because it's new. Yes, there are commercial forces that try to maintain high prices as long as possible, but short-term profits never hold up forever. Fifty years ago, every phone bill in the US was payable to AT&T, and long distance calls could cost dollars (not cents) per minute. Thirty years ago, we gained multiple long distance carriers and prices fell quickly. Twenty years ago, we cut the cord, but cell phones charged by the minute and came with draconian contracts. Today it's common to lease a service with an near-infinite supply of minutes, that lets you call anywhere in the country for a flat rate. It's incredibly cheap compared to long distance of twenty years ago. All this, despite the evil resistance of profiteering corporations.

Sure, Microsoft laughed at Apple and Sun when they approached to develop a common standard platform. Times change, and high profits are constantly under attack. Microsoft completely missed the internet boat -- not a single protocol in use on the internet today comes out of Microsoft. Google and many other corporations offer free products that compete favorably with Microsoft's expensive products of yore. It must have sucked to compete with Microsoft in the 90's, but here we are, and where is Microsoft? Sinking billions into R&D in the race against Google.

Over and over, new technologies lead to incredible profits for a few, controlling corporations, but inevitably these situations aren't permanent. Our internet faces censorship threats from governments and exclusivity threats from corporations, but these controls, like others before, won't last.

So what is Mr. Norman going on about? Short-term profiteering? That's what covers my paycheck, and makes all this possible. Privatization of the internet? Maybe temporarily, but if that doesn't truly benefit the public then it simply can't endure against technological advancement.
You could try to sneak into IBM Almaden.