skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand why Winer says that "each is the solution to the other's problem" (referring to Twitter and the NYT). It is a reasonable assumption to come to, but I have to admit: I suspect its wrong. I don't think the primary reason why most "normal" people use Twitter is to share news links. I think Dave Winer uses it that way, but I feel like he has a tendency to assume that his way is the only way. It isn't.

I also understand Winer's objection to the 140-character limit. I really do. I personally think that it breaks Twitter for me and others who primarily access it via the web or the data connection on our smartphones.

However, I don't think Winer understands that for people who don't access Twitter in this way, anything more that 140 characters completely breaks the service. My wife used to have a "dumb" phone and thus access Twitter entirely through SMS. Had the service broken the 140-character limit, she would not have been able to use it.

I don't know how many people use Twitter in this manner. I don't know if anyone but Twitter does. I suspect, though, that Twitter doesn't change this because they know it will negatively impact enough of their userbase that it isn't worth dealing with.
Here's the project's page ... it's an follow-on to Cedric Fournet et. al.'s work on Polyphonic C# http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/co...
Your comment got me thinking. (The best kind of comment.)

My first thought on reading it was: is that equivalence valid? A society is a collective; a collective functions at the behest of its members. My experience of human nature suggests to me that society will contain members who both are and aren't kind to "less valuable" members. So can, or should, a society enforce kindness towards them, even against the members who are disinclined to be so?

Another related question: should we measure a society's value by its total accumulated success, or the success afforded to its "less valuable"?

I don't claim to know the answers.
hah, I've had lamespace.com for years (like, when MySpace was still relevant) but don't use it for anything.
And as an aside, according to http://www.techspot.com/news/40459-twitter-passes-myspace-in... twitter is storing 12TB of data per DAY! Anyone who cannot monetize that volume of data without annoying ads and dickbars doesn't belong in business.
I pronounced it co-mega in my head. But c-omega makes more sense.
second: this is a viral promotion for a Hollywood movie.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/limitless-viral-video-...
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Let's look at some at current AI programs: (1) Robots, e.g. self drive cars. In the DARPA grand challenge, the superior car-driving software was not Lisp. Rather it was a procedural language such as C++ or Java. (2) Machine translation of natural language. Lisp is not used for this purpose by widely used production systems. (3) Game playing, e.g. chess programs. Lisp is not used for this purpose by widely-used, superior chess programs such as Fritz.

Lisp was invented and developed by US AI labs in the 1960's in order to rapidly prototype symbolic logic programs in which the native Lisp data structures fit the level of symbolic abstraction required - e.g. English words could be symbols in a list, logic formulas could be easily represented as lists of operators and operands.

But for production programs, the software engineering advantages of static typed languages and a wide variety of third-party libraries, means that Lisp is not even considered for large modern systems that perform AI tasks.
I 100% agree with you. I always laugh on HN when I hear people's rags to riches stories, and then find out their parents are college educated professionals.

In college I was floored by how jaded people's perspectives are - my dad raised a family of 5 on 40k a year. My mom worked occasionally. Somehow, in spite of some of the things I missed out on (camp, peewee football), I feel I came out ahead.
I wouldn't consider myself a power user so: I personally use twitter to embed a quick status update on my blog, or to put stream of consciousness thoughts every once in a while. Since I don't use mobile to do updates, I don't really see/mind this said "dickbar" though from how everyone is describing it, it sounds lame?

I'd venture to say that there are many others like me who use different twitter apps (echofon for firefox, chromed bird, twitter tools for wordpress) who aren't affected. I can see how this could be pretty terrible for someone who exclusively uses twitter with mobile, though. Oh well.
Putting AT&T-frequency radios on previously-T-Mobile towers is a relatively low-cost possibility that would help with AT&T reception/bandwidth, although that will probably have to wait at least a year or so until the back-end routing systems are merged.
The author is slightly off the mark. All of these "rules" we hear -- for advertising, powerpoint presenations, social conduct, etc. -- are not actually rules. They are guidelines meant for beginners who need a starting point.

Most guidelines are written so that beginners avoid producing bad stuff -- not with the intent to make great stuff.

Once beginners realize WHY these guidelines are suggested, then they also realize how they can move beyond them and still deliver compelling results.
If what he's saying is right (and he very well could be) that's actually kind of bad for everyone. If The New York Times can't figure out how to make money then they will simply go out of business and we lose one of the more respected newspapers in the world.

I'm less concerned about Twitter but I can understand that it brings enough value to people's daily lives that not having it would be a net loss.

At least in the case of NYT, they're at least making an attempt to monetize their business in a reasonable way - you pay us money and we give you content.
As Marco points out, though, the #dickbar makes even less sense than running ads for women's lingerie during the World Series. The #dickbar is the equivalent of some guy standing behind home plate and holding up a sign that says #THONGS.

Methinks the first rule of running general advertising is to run advertising. Otherwise you are injecting noise for no reason. At least advertising is defensible noise ("hey, you want your free client, you gotta pay the piper") and it has a fighting chance of not actually being noise (some baseball fans do buy lingerie).
> Why shouldn't Twitter target trends at me?

Maybe they can't. They sure lack some core competence by not being able to block obvious spam accounts (Newly created accounts that: posts trend spam, do mass following and mass @mention, etc).
I use these for the guts of AR, too. $15, shaved a month off my schedule, and since it came in eight colors I got one feature bullet for free.
I get the feeling that trolls alienate most of their IRL friends and thus have lots of time to spend trolling which would otherwise be spent socializing.
I think this is like asking why there isn't a new Gas company that is perfectly happy with smaller margins.

Significant capital doesn't begin to describe the problem. It's easier to start a car company than telco/utilities, and you don't see too many venture backed car companies.

Are you asking just because, or is this something you're going to try?
I don't think this will be an issue if he manages to maintain the same API as Twitter.
Maybe £40k is too low for London, but they're in Leeds which is a different story. It you look on itjobswatch.co.uk for "developer" the average in London was £50k, in Leeds £32,750. (I don't think you can use "iPhone" as a keyword sensibly given that most of the ads for Leeds are probably this one and its clones)
The tech (multicast messages) isn't patented, and there's no legal prohibition on creating clients. The only client concern is that clients use OAuth, and can be disabled by Twitter staff as necessary. A disabled client is probably legally barred from returning to the service too.
I was going to say that the 140 character limit is what separates twitter from every other blog+rss feed combination - but now that I think about it, that's only partially true.

Twitter's appeal is that it is a blog+rss feed combination and is probably the only one of it's kind. The technologies existed as separate entities - you post your thoughts on your own page - you use a separate tool to read an aggregated list of other's thoughts. Twitter combined the two into a dead simple interface.

The 140 character limit - initially an artifact left over from the days when sms was the primary means of using it - is now more of a practicality issue.

You can't show a steady stream of other's thoughts if they all extend to multiple pages.
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Are you a native Indian? If not, then getting employment visa is another headache you'll have to deal with.

Also, you may want to try this site :http://hackerstreet.in/news
You should check out BackType then. They offer analytics like this and much, much more. Check it out http://www.backtype.com
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Good news for our YC project!
Holy shit dude, I know I'm an extrovert but I have at least a conversation a day with a stranger. What country are you in?
That's true. I imagine the regulatory hurdles to add radios to existing towers is orders of magnitude lower than building new towers. Might be a win for AT&T in cities where T-Mobile has good coverage.
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How does the judge/jury distinction come into play? Is there empirical evidence that trials with juries have more accurate outcomes?

I truly know nothing about this but my gut feeling has always been that juries don’t improve trials and I never perceived that as a strange or uncommon view.
was able to get back in ..and make updates..and submit..

I did save it so I had to paste some of the answers..that were missing...

I was really VERY stressed when it looked like the deadline was 6pm and not 8pm..
horsefeathers.
Social media sharing for any iOS app
Was Greece just Nuked?
I wish they wouldn't use non-word characters in the names of their products. I thought ".Net" was bad enough when it came out - then C# and F#. But I don't even know how to type this. On this page: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/co... they refer to it as Cw, Cω, and Comega. The artist formerly known as incomprehensible.
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SInce I just downvoted you, and I hate downvotes without explanation, let me explain: The japanese are no more "ants" than, say, Southeast Asians. You may be correct in saying they have a society that values cooperation and that has developed norms and structures partly in response to common natural disasters. However you then slide into characterizing them as mere insects driven without the dignity of human choice, creativity, or spontaneity. And you come off sounding like a racist (though you are probably a good deal more complex in person).

Plus your post was way too long.
this is a replica of Stephen Reed's answer from the stack exchange page. I hope you are Stephen Reed and not someone cutting and pasting a good answer without attributing it.
yes, i m. thanks will check the link out.
Are the scrapers hand-tuned to each website? If not how did you do it?
This is pretty cool, I always pretty much ignored facebook and used twitter search for twitter

so how do I find out where the comments are for my link?
http://sharedcount.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farandomurl.com%2F20...
This is a great lesson that I learned from an English teacher in high school, and it's a lesson that applies absolutely EVERYWHERE. The statement must be taken in its entirety: If you know the rules, then you are allowed to break them.

People try to "break the rules" without an understanding of why they were there in the first place, and it comes out as shit. This applies to art, programming, writing, basically anything creative.

The Baroque period had all kinds of customs that applied to music; if you take music theory you will learn all about the rules of four-part harmony, no parallel fifths, etc. But then once you learn these things and have a complete understanding of why the rules are there, you can selectively break them to great effect. You break them with the cognizance of what you're doing, you break them to make a statement, or to explore new territory, or any number of reasons. But you do it with PURPOSE, because you already understood the rules.
No.

http://www.google.com/patents?q=Twitter&btnG=Search+Pate...

Although they did make Loren Brichter patent "pull to refresh":

http://www.google.com/patents?q=Loren+Brichter&btnG=Sear...

Also, please don’t be "I could clone that in a weekend" guy. Everyone hates that guy.

http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/07/01/one-which-i-call-out-ha...

You could make a piece of crap implementing Twitter’s models and create/read/update/delete in a weekend. Or really, in under an hour with Rails scaffolding. Congratulations, you have now proved that you can guess the schema from using an app. You don’t have a product, or even one tenth of a product.

First-past-the-post has nothing to do with Twitter’s success; polish and thought and sweating the details has everything to do with it.
People, up vote this and you will get better results. Everybody now.
If this works: name your price, I'll pay it.
We need to extract site-specific metadata, and I'm no expert at NLP, so it's mostly one scraper per site.
Is it ethical to automate business?
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I think the line of thought is that a jury is not as easily bought, harder to threaten, and better at ironing out the moral ambiguities that can be the failings of a single person.

However, a judge and no jury is certainly more expedient, neither is infallible in terms of their judgement. That is the reason for appeals.
I say no matter what you need to move here. Not coming here is like an Actor trying to get big without putting in anytime in Hollywood. It's orders and orders of magnitude more likely that you'll get funding here. You can always run your Company from back home to save costs or because you have more of a network.

It's not that complicated to move to another place for a while. Just get at least 10K together and go for it.
For some reason the traditional media won't show anything nearly as clear as that - it's needed for understanding the proportions.
Good job, Randall!
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Who is to say that Sprint won't get acquired by AT&T?
Sounds nice, but keep in mind that the git history is modifiable: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/ch05.htm...
A working snippet based on the article, with some notes on implementation gotchas: https://gist.github.com/878907
I really hate this habit of academic papers to never include a date.

<sigh>

So... when was this article published? It lists references from 2004, so between now and then, unless Erik possesses a time machine (I wouldn't put this past him).
I have a silly, fictional view of the future: That every website will be HTTPS by default, and instead of Firefox/Chrome/etc using a "green" bar to tell a secure website, it will not say anything, but will display big red warnings when a website is not secure.
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By this logic, Sprint is now in a pickle.
This is compelling for a variety of reasons, but they're the same reasons i find Scala is compelling. But Scala has a syntax that is terser and less bracket-y (so far as i have seen), and is further a long as a language.

I'm curious how they see themselves relative to the capabilities of languages like Scala.
>Netflix doesn't show me Spanish language movies.

That's too bad, because you're missing out on "The Sea Inside" and "Y tu mamá también".

Interestingly enough, Netflix does pitch foreign movies at me regularly.
It's the most obvious monetary play for Twitter that I can see. They know everything I like and don't like, people who I trust, topics I discuss, etc. If they could show targeted ads in that top bar I'd probably click on them like crazy.
Well, it's not a product.

"Cω is an experimental research language. There are no plans to turn it into a commercial language supported by Microsoft. It is not supported by either the C# or the Visual Studio teams. There are no plans to integrate it into any product."

I guess people working in research enjoy the leeway of being able to name their projects any way they want.
There is a bug while parsing http://reddit.com/.json
It is unable to render it.
Google Buzz: https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json...

Which is also a public API.
They get blasted daily for not building their network.
I loved Cw back in 2004. I even wrote an article on it http://jcooney.net/post/2004/10/06/OMG-Ccf89-is-Awesome!-You... unfortunately after several blog and hosting platform migrations it got lost. "retail" C# has mostly caught up on many of the cool features of Cw.
Remind HN: Don't Forget to Submit Your YC Application
Applications close in less than an hour at 8:00 PST. If you've made any changes to your application, be sure to actually submit it before the deadline.

Clicking the "resubmit" button after the deadline, even if you've submitted before, will mark your application as late, significantly reducing your chances.

Also, last time, there was a chat room for applicants to discuss their ideas:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1813949

Does anyone want to set up something like that this time? Or shall we all just go to #startups?
I guess this means that I am going to have to switch to Sprint. I really like T-Mobile. They are a great company and I loved their service and pricing. It is going to be sad to not have T-Mobile in the states anymore.
I thought it was from this usage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_uncountable_ordinal

basically going as far as possible in the sequence C, C++, ...
Hey rmoriz! I plan on bloging about that exact issue right after my next blog... Rss on ;)
Nice article. How are you doing today with users and feedback?
Indeed. qv. Black Sabbath and the "Diablos en Musica" (b5 interval):

http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/10-things-you/October-20... (point 2)
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Apple and iOS developers will probably win with this.
I don't know why you got so many down votes. Maybe HN folks got too sick of armchair architects/hackers. Honestly, what your said somehow resonated my inside hacker. I think lots of hackers share similar opinion --- as hardware/network are getting so much cheaper nowadays, it may be very feasible to build and operate "web-scale" apps like Twitter and Reddit with small but capable man powers. Lots of people here agree that the main problem is less of a technical one, but more of a business one --- how to jump start a community in an area especially with a seemingly winning market leader over there. Perhaps, there are still opportunities in the area. Maybe Twitter will be the next Google or maybe not.

Back to the topic, three months ago someone went ahead and pulled off a high-performance (no sure its scalability) Twitter clone in C. I recalled it's a good discussion on such a topic.

Discussion can be found on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/comments/f16mw/ive_never_been_impresse...

Its website is at
http://blerg.dominionofawesome.com/
>like learning about the basics of electromagnetism by building a particle accelerator

I think you mean "using" and in which case I assume you're saying it would be the only way to do it effectively but that the results might be hard to apply in practice and no one else has managed to do it so far?

If you meant "building" then I'd have to say you meant "you wouldn't learn anything as it's about applying knowledge, an engineering task, and not about learning.

Perhaps I misunderstood, it's late and I have had a drink ...
>Maybe they don't want to get into the targeted advertising market and see themselves more as general advertising?

Then I think they completely missed the boat.

The whole conceit of twitter is _you decide_ who to follow. They don't even start you out with a Myspace-esque Tom. Every user's timeline is unique.

So, if I'm following Roger Ebert, Kevin Smith, and Netflix, don't you think I would be receptive to DVD advertisements? Similarly, if I'm following Pogue, Mossberg, and Gruber, wouldn't I be receptive to iPhone app ads?
.tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic
> You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter, Facebook or any other service that uses a plain HTTP connection that's essentially what you're doing.

I'll be honest, I didn't read any more of the article after this totally false statement in the intro. Facebook and Twitter both use https for login (they are http pages that submit to a https endpoint that redirect to http, that way https is used for authentication but never appears in the url).
I have a feeling it has more to do with the sharing of cookies and tracking code than anything else. Once everything is https://, marketers aren't able to share information across sites, and although the internet is made of cats, those cats need their money.
Imagine the trademark possibilities, though, once you wander away from 7-bit ASCII.
The most efficient answer to this will be given in 3 years from now.
Hi Alex! I am in an ever accelerating pace since i set foot in the U.S! I am glad i made that decision
If browsers would be happy to allow users to a site with a self-signed SSL certificate, which is far more secure than HTTP, then I'd be happy to put in the extra time and effort to ensure 100% of communications occured over HTTPS.

Until then it's extra time, effort and cost to offer something that most users do not understand and do not care about.
why is this even news? most of this appeared in production a LINQ
The link doesn't work when using French language as default (redirects to http://www.gizmodo.fr/). It is possible to access it after manually removing the hashbang, though, but I don't like hashbang URLs. The video is also viewable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDnlSn_CNNM. Nice video, though.
"only" an encoder? It is quite big to have hardware encoding because that is where the bottleneck for real-time encoding is. Hence, if you were to choose between the encoder or decoder path, you would definitely focus on the encoder path first.

But it does look like VP8 has both paths now, which is kind-of nice. If Google plays this well, they give people all the reason for including a VP8 hardware decoder in new devices. I don't really buy the space-is-important argument as Moore's law still holds true for transistor counts.
Probably much the same. (Why change a recipe that works?) I imagine the largest changes would be:

1. More startups funded. Funding likely from a VC like Sequoia, but the bottleneck here is mentorship time. Which leads to...

2. More staff. Likely successful founders from previous YC rounds. (It's already begun with Harj, Alexis, and Gary.) This would mostly be moving part-time mentors to full-time partners. Something like around 20 "YC fellows.".

3. An office in SF, probably around SoMa. I wouldn't be surprised if YC started holding some office hours there, with the additional staff from (2). (Maybe it's already happening informally.)

And a bunch of other things: Startup School 2x a year, Startup job fairs. PG could have time to write a book about YC.