skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's good for a intellectual challenge, but for game shows to work, they need to be questions that players at home, viewers who earn them their advertising dollars, know. They want us to be sitting on the couch shouting out the answers. If we're sitting there clueless, it's a much shorter distance to changing the channel or taking it off the dvr.
I want to keep my white hat on while dealing with this. ;-) But it's an interesting idea. I also thought about reporting the old site as a spam site to Google. Although a 3 word site doesn't fit my definition of spam, it also doesn't fit Google's content guidelines:

Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that
clearly and accurately describe your content.
An iPad lovers review of Motorola Xoom
No other team was given a crack at the Jeopardy spotlight. IBM didn't win against a bunch of other teams for the slot on the human/machine faceoff; it was all orchestrated for them. So give others some time to emerge.

I suspect in a year or two – perhaps sooner, if an organized open competition with real cash prizes is launched – we'll have a better idea of what a lean team could do on the trivia domain. It may not be reduced to a single 2011-equivalent laptop... but it might be a single 2011-equivalent maxed-out-server (rather than a Watson-like server room).
Ability to play stream of audio computed on the fly in JS, is the only thing stopping the demo scene from starting all over again in the browser.
Gamification company GreenGoose raises $100k on stage at Launch Conference
The pace of innovation in America has slowed, though, as the government has consumed a greater share of GDP. For example, cellphone technology was invented in 1947 but was stifled by the FCC for a generation.
> Would Salesforce have hired him if they knew that he could not perform the job for a year?

They essentially did. I doubt very much that Salesforce didn't know about the non compete and they there was a very good chance it would be enforced, since it's not the first time a Microsoft non-compete has been challenged and upheld.
If you dig through the help for account deletion, the magic button is there. Some arbitrary number of days later your account is permanently deleted (as in deleted, not deactivated).

Worked as of Dec '10
I've been using OpenJDK builds found at http://code.google.com/p/openjdk-osx-build/. As far as I can tell, the OpenJDK project itself does not include the port as part of the JDK7 release but more so as a related project between Oracle and Apple.
What can Lisp do that Lua can't?
Six years in, twins risk $160 million to renew fight with Facebook
Detect/Parse Mailing Addresses in Text
Are there any open source/commercial libraries out there that can detect mailing addresses in text, just like how Apple's Mail app underlines addresses on the Mac/iPhone.

I've been doing a little online research and the ideas seem to be either to use Regex or a full on NLP package such as Stanford's NLP, which usually are pretty massive. I doubt iPhone has a 500MB NLP package in there, which makes me to believe there should be an easier way. Too bad UIDataDetectors is not open source.

Thanks,

Drew
Implementing features that are not covered by defacto standards is not standards defeating. In fact, some of the best features in web browsers today started as vendor extensions (i.e. XHR and JavaScript).
Suggesting that the only harms that can occur in the future are ones that have happened in the past doesn't seem very reasonable.

However your argument raises an interesting point. What if Microsoft hadn't just let IE rot, but had actually continued to innovate it into an ever richer environment of their own design? Might they not have ended up with control over the web?

We have plenty of examples that when someone takes the design lead, it can be very hard to keep up with them by just trying to copy what they do - for one thing you're playing catch up by definition, and for another you may have made different design decisions that make following them more work. Furthermore, following at all further entrenches the design leader as the one for developers to target - "We can safely target these Chrome custom features because we know that firefox will be forced to adopt them too in order to stay relevant."

It seems entirely possible that given enough market share - which they don't have now, but might well be on track to acquire simply because they can advertise Chrome all over their site - Google could render the standards process irrelevant, and just develop the web to their own tastes.
Wired's Review of the Motorola Xoom
Writer was heavy handed when it came to criticizing "guys." Our society is in a transition, just like our economy is. There are hundreds of undertrained and unemployed who don't seem to have a use in our economy. Same goes for guys. They've broken stereotypes now and they wonder why guys aren't falling in line.
> Kay S. Hymowitz argues that too many men in their 20s are living in a new kind of extended adolescence.

And other people say it's not just men, it's everyone:

> JEFFREY JENSEN ARNETT, a psychology professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., is leading the movement to view the 20s as a distinct life stage, which he calls “emerging adulthood.” - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.htm...
I cannot believe I am defending WordPress but wow people, it's just a release codename to make it more human and less of "just a number".

How many people know/remember the Windows release codenames or any other product for that matter?

It's not like its "WordPress Reinhardt" or even a product name.

Reinhardt is also a common name.
I think in many cases, like in relationships, it's intangible. The hired candidate just "clicked" with the interviewer(s). Also mentioned earlier, anyone who has a referral from a current (competent) employee is going to be greatly preferred over any candidate that nobody knows. The first two jobs I had after college I got on my own, everything since then has at least partly involved a referral.
Microsoft In ARM's Way
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Yes I worked with some business people who understand SQL (at least somewhat).

Any business analyst worth its salt understand and can write at least simple SQL (to pull the data from database).

But even if business folks on your current project do not care about understanding SQL,your next project would have such people. So it would be very helpful if SQL version you have experience with is business-friendly.
Area Dad Just Wants Computer With The Basics
Just by upvoting it, you've saved it. http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=klbarry

It's in your profile, by the way.
Google’s Don Dodge: StackOverflow’s valuation “gave me a heart attack”
I think you might like this book: The Paralation Model, by Gary W. Sabot.

http://www.amazon.com/Paralation-Model-Architecture-Independ...
That article smacked a little bit of bitterness. It seemed to argue guys are enjoying themselves too much instead of debating the benefits of a stable family unit.
I'll Have My Robots Talk to Your Robots
I think this is something that many people (Industries?) mistake about networking.

Your version is better then the alternative, and both are leagues in advance of "Hi, I'm X, I might want Y from you in the future". Leagues because it's an approach that's nonsensical and belongs in the past.
Complete nonsense. Flagged.
Is the World Producing Enough Food?
Watson has become an unbelievable marketing tool for IBM.
I poked around various mailing lists and even an archive of the poe source from a CMU server, but I couldn't find an authoritative expansion.
It appears that it may be two screen shots in landscape mode.
Apparently you are only paying any attention to what "conservatives" say on Fox News, not the policies they implement.
Proof of example.
Having the charting function next to the schedule is problematic for any medical staff which writes their notes while with the patient - and that's a practice many experienced healthcare professionals use because it allows them to spend more time with the patient without spending more time per patient and it allows them to get answers to questions which arise during the writing.
Maybe you should get a bit more informed yourself before derailing the discussion into gambling on candidates and bashing others on topics you clearly don't understand.
I think a big part of it is that most people these days aren't rushing to start a family right after college, and instead focus on their careers.
Great description. What else besides "have built an amazing y" is good ammunition for an effective introduction?
There's a multiplier effect at work, though. If your product sucks, no amount of networking is going to save you, because everybody you shop it to will just say "You're f___ing crazy if you think anyone will ever buy this." While if you build something awesome but nobody knows about it, well, nobody knows about it.

The sweet spot is to have something that's good enough that users will sit up and say "Hey, that's kinda useful", and then get it in front of lots of users.
In some ways, I can't help but feel we've created this with our current economic and political climate (and not especially by some "rise of women").

I can tell you for certain that with my own children, when you tell them that they have an important roll to play, they instantly rise to it and never fail to impress me. When they are told that they are not important, they just go and play xbox.

We tell our twenty-somethings that they really don't have an important roll in our society and they agree... and go play xbox.
Disney Acquires Social Network For Kids Togetherville
Fancy: first bootstrapped language targeting Rubinius VM other than Ruby
Like most aspects of our country, us Americans re-invented our culture after WW II, then changed a lot through the 60s-70s. We tend to be quick to change whatever isn't working for us.

The nuclear family is largely a post-war invention. The modern schooling style is largely a post-60s invention. I think there are aspects of our choices that are mistakes, like any new system. Older cultures, like older software, has been tested by time more. But overall, I'd rather live in our more fluid way.
Review: Motorola Xoom – The Android Tablet Redefined
"(I'll give that guy credit for being principled even though half of his opinions are loony-bin crazy)"

Which opinions? I doubt you comprehend the first thing about any of them. Let's see if you can even restate them correctly.

P.S. You can disagree with someone without mudslinging. I disagree with Paul on a number of things as well, but all his ideas have a large amount of thought and scholarship behind them (a hell of a lot more than anything the establishment parties come up with). Dismissing them out of hand with no backup is definitely below the standard HN tries to reach.
Google’s Don Dodge: Q&A site StackOverflow’s valuation “gave me a heart attack”
My hunch is that 90-99% of all Jeopardy questions can be answered with information in Wikipedia/Wiktionary, properly understood.

So I'd start with Wikipedia: ~30GB uncompressed full article text. Break it into chunks; canonicalize phrasings to be more declarative, and include synonyms/hypernym/hyponym phrasings (via something like WordNet), so that various 'cluesy' ways of saying things still bring up the same candidate answers.

Because it's free and compact and well-structured, throw in Freebase, too.

Jeopardy goes back to certain topics/answers again and again. So I'd scrape the full 200K+ clue "J!Archive", and use it as both source and testing material (though of course not testing the system on rounds in its memory).

And I'd add special interpretation rules for commonly-recurring category types: X-letter words, before-and-after, quasi-multiple-choice, words-in-quotes.

I think such a system might get half or more of the questions in a typical round correct, and in a matter of seconds, even on a single machine.
I think we're all better off with the right co-founder, and worse off with a wrong one. Better off != need, though.
Microsoft: More answers about our first Windows Phone update
Hard to say but you should definitely check out realistic rent prices. You should be making at least 40 times rent per year (and use more than craigslist to get price ranges — streeteasy.com has pretty real prices). I know that was a tough one being self employed for my first time here in NYC as they usually require proof that you make that amount in some form before signing a lease, or a guarantor. While I personally make more than some of the numbers I hear people throw out from time to time, it's not always an immediate increase in quality of life or affordability here, so it's worth considering that. You might fall in love with the city (as I did) which makes the sacrifice well worth it but not all people stick around.

Anyway, if you ask me, risks are worth taking from time to time. NYC was one I took and never looked back. Things change with families so you should decide what risk fits in with that lifestyle.
are these guys kidding ???for an idea??? did they ever get it off the ground at all???? can you copyright an idea???? they didnt use the same name ???same coding??? they should kiss his butt for being so generous with them ...and get on with their lives ...they are starting to get older and uglier too !!!
How Does Healthcare Reform Affect Businesses?
Well I've never even heard of defsystem, let alone rooted around in it's implementation.

Nice strawman, but the subtle difference here is in one case the code was not looked at and talked about and in the other it was.
I asked about this article elsewhere in cyberspace, and several of my married women friends upvoted a comment, "The good men are where they have always been, far away from self-absorbed women like her."
How One Hacker Took Over the Cyber Crime Underground
Original Mother Jones article: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in...
Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Interactive Mode, Cross-Browser Testing, and More
Argon, the Augmented Reality Web Browser, Available Now on iPhone
But here's the other, other part: keep the site open for writing as well, but make the non-elites' contributions only visible when you are logged in as a non-elite. Then the elites can continue their excellent discussions unhindered, and any passing stranger can browse the elite discussions: yet everyone can have their say in the agora.
> potentially having to rely on a result that may or may not have statistical significance

I can't stress this enough. I've had a bunch of friends buy the 23andme kit while it was on sale recently because they were interested in my results from a while ago, and their buildup to getting their own results was "what if it tells me I'm never going to have x?!" and things like that. Kind of frustrating to explain how it works.

23andme put me at average to low risk of a few things they test for that I have in real life. One of the more frustrating things to read was that 23andme declared from preliminary asthma research that I was at lower than average to average odds, when in my past I've had severe asthma I've even been hospitalized for.

On the flip side of things, 23andme determined my risk of melanoma from genetics is 0.1% (as compared to 1.7% average). But I live in Los Angeles and I get sunburnt/suntanned multiple times a year, not to mention the sheer number of hours I spend outdoors in general. I regularly track skin changes and visit a dermatologist once in a while because new spots and changes on my skin stress the hell out of me. I know my risk likely skyrockets past the 1.7% easily if you take my environment into account.

Insurance companies already play this risk/percentage game anyway with lots of other information, and I don't think I see a big of a risk as people being denied insurance from testing like this. If anything, it means everyone can be more proactive and save money and lives in the end. (Of course, I am being pretty naively optimistic here...) I mean, I imagine that's what they're trying to do on some level when they send me pamphlets about STD testing and prenatal care in the mail every other week just because they know I'm a 20something female on birth control.
Departing PARC CEO looks back wistfully on blue skies of the past
Just How Is Apple's App Store Subscription Policy Good for Users?
As a guy who very recently split-up with his cofounder, I can say that having a cofounder is awesome and much better than going it alone, but if they aren't also a partner and willing to pick up your slack when real life crap is going on next to the startup crap ... it isn't going to work out.

Also a word of advice: When crap starts going on, on either end, the proper solution isn't to stop talking to each other for a few weeks.
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I don't understand your comment. Hardware isn't the issue. Physicians were early adopters of a variety of devices, starting with PDAs, thence to pads quite a bit more sophisticated than your odd and ancient example, all to try to solve the same problem your platform purports to assist with.

I have before me a ~1 kg laptop with an actual keyboard on which I can type notes almost as fast as I can speak, hold in one hand as I see a patient, with speech recognition already installed, local secure printing, sensitive data that lives in my office and not on your remote server farms, a hard drive that I own, can copy and share as needed, and can keep as secure as I like, and applications which do not require constant secured access to server(s) whose reliability and security I have no control over.

I love the iPad for a bunch of stuff. I own two. I'm an early adopter of all kinds of this type technology. I love toys.

But I'm not getting the "revolution" part of this beyond, forgive me, somewhat breathless and vague marketing hype. Tablets have been around a while and not caught on with physicians for a whole variety of reasons that you folks seem oddly unaware of.

Sincerely good luck with this, but you're not solving any problems for me or any physicians I've talked to about it.
So do you think that it's just a personal relationship, or do you think there are actual characteristics you could look for in a co-founder?
Works fine in FF4. There's no reason not to be using FF4 at this time. Just a few more bug fixes and it's done.
While I liked both Inception and Primer, I didn't feel that either was particularly confusing. I don't feel that Inception was designed to be a mindfuck; Primer was, but it fits nicely in the middle somewhere of that genre.

My view is probably distorted by the fact that I consume more anime than Western media - the Japanese seem to have a perverse love for making things that just don't make any sense whatsoever.
Totally appreciate your take on the subject. Yeah, two weeks would constitute a major breakdown of communication. Do you think it's possible to have contingency plans in place for actual situations like that?
Yeah, most people will get to you via a Google search. Then when you're big enough you can legally claim the prized .com URL from the squatters.

...just check first that it's not a legitimate company using the .com address.
No probs. Most places I've worked at use 'provision' or 'bare metal' for an os install plus mop up work, starting cold as a way to differentiate from warm booting, appreciate different places may have different systems though. Thanks for being classy about it :-)
I work with electronic medical records on the research side, integrating clinical patient data with medical research and clinical trials. However, I work with a large teaching hospital rather than small practices.

A home run offering for our environment would include a migration path for data from years (and many thousands of patient's data) currently in a patched-together system with 40 years of duct tape holding it all together. Top it off with a massive dose of free text data fields (so no easy field extraction) and you're looking at a huge custom effort to pull it off.

But . . . I think there is room here for something that does something nice with machine learning and NLP. Some folks looking into this have found that even free text in path reports contains a significant amount of exploitable structure from a data mining perspective.

And once you solve the migration, you'll have to go around the heavily entrenched IT groups holding the duct tape. But, it would be a big win for patients and most physicians are looking for a better solution . . .
Living in Nashville, a healthcare center, and having personally seen >100 million dollars blown by healthcare startups, have made me very cynical. HCA is about to "go public" again making the Frist family another 15 million dollars while healthcare informatics continually gets underinvestment and underdevelopment. An iPad app isn't what healthcare IT needs. A drastic smashing of the legacy of MUMPS and overgrown piss poor legacy solutions will require a large health crisis, with opportunities blown due to bad processes and bad systems.
Does Firesheep still work with Facebook? How many times do you have one teenager at another teenager's house, with access to the computer? It just takes a minute and the damage is done.

Why on Earth would they have a misfeature like this?
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239323 from a few days ago.
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The best contingency plan is to have at least 3 co-founders. This can be an asymmetrical relationship at times. But I think you'll find a lot of successful companies usually quickly added a 3rd person to the mix early on. It's a matter of semantics whether you want to call them co-founders or not. The point is that they're in there early on before the major successes of the company which they help contribute to.
Is it petty of me that the unmatched single quotes drive me insane?
Disqus has premium add-ons: http://disqus.com/addons
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where is your work? do you have a partner and where would they work?
A/B testing, so easy!
Your point is a very important one that I was surprised to find was not expressed by other commenters. It convinced me of something that was bouncing around my head while reading the article and the comments before yours:

If, as everyone seems to agree, movies are becoming more 'safe', more 'lowest common denominator' on average, reviews should be becoming _less_ polarized in response, not more.

That the opposite is happening suggests that reviews are progressively carrying less and less 'truth' than they once did, and this is likely the case even when they may be in general agreement on a given film.
How does "infinitely scalable" compare to "web scale"?
A surprise asset to my refactoring process has been git with its ultra-lightweight branches. When I start thinking that maybe this refactoring was a bad idea, I check my changes so far into a new branch, go back to trunk and start again.

Then an hour or a week later, when I realize my idea wasn't so bad, it's easy to switch back to the branch and continue from where I left off.
My point is that Square only makes sense for a merchant who:

1. Already has an iPhone or Android; and
2. Takes the order him or herself.

Reason #2 alone already excludes the huge majority of businesses. Inside that minority, reason #1 excludes small-size vendors who cannot afford a smart-phone.

Sure, Square has its place as a niche, but it's hardly revolutionary.
How do programmers in the west see programmers in the east?
You mean symbol literals? Ruby uses :foo but that would mix up with the keyword message syntax. So I took Lisp's syntax: 'foo =) Also, since you'll want to have syntax for message names as well, they need to be able to have colons in them, e.g. 'foo:bar:. Basically anything non-whitespace starting with a "'" is taken as a symbol literal.
A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed
Clearly it's the "sudo make me a sandwich" button that would turn you into a sandwich.
Perhaps not --- but avoid exposure to Lisp.

(Unmatched single quotes are the easiest way to embed literal S-expression data inside Lisp S-expressions representing code.)