skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until now, Semantic Web applications have been a solution in search of a problem. There are some cool apps out there, but no killer apps ... at least not yet. I got excited when I saw the OpenCalais demo, but very few other people would get pumped about what basically boils down to a platform that tags, categorizes, and calculates relevancy for text content.

It kind of reminds me of the hype relating to grid computing. Everyone sees the potential, but when most apps address the needs of science and finance wonks, it's hard for the excitement to scale.
90s dot-com survivor CMGI reinvents itself again
Ireland is the preferred tax heaven for many European companies.
Concepts/Frameworks/Components used at Gnip (pulled from job posting)

* Network Attached Memory (TerraCotta)
* Clusters
* Load Balancers (nginx)
* Queuing Frameworks (SQS, ActiveMQ)
* Amazon Web Services (Ec2, S3)
* Polling
* Publish/Subscribe communication models
What would the downside have been with following through initially with a Series A while the acquisition talks continued? The acquiring company would have had to pay at a higher rate, if at all?

I guess the question is: Could they have seriously moved forward, simultaneously, on both tracks? Was an either-or choice at that stage necessary?
Honda is Building a Hybrid Motorcycle
Microsoft's next ad: "Hi, I'm a PC and I won't kill you"
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It causes cancer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene#Health_effects

That said, the article is still pretty sensationalistic.
Their work visas are actually rather difficult to get and strict.
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His best post yet, IMO. Computer scientists/programmers have experience with dealing with complexity, and that experience could well be applied to other fields as well. As a side note, I wonder if with the complex mortgage backed securities which they say "are so complex no one understands them" if what happened was the people making these complex deals inadvertently created a one way function: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_function (Something from cryptography theory where a complex computation can be computed forwards easily but reversing the math is like trying to unscramble an egg.) A computer scientist would have been able to spot that kind of problem.
Princeton Undergrad Brings Scavenger-Hunt Startup to Boston
I would not be too concerned about things like this, there are far more harmful carcinogenic materials around you....such as synthetic drugs, herbicides, pesticides, metal in your old fillings..etc (I could go on)

The harmful components used in the construction of the cases are in such small quantities that its almost a non concern!
I'm sure they have some slightly modified version of the standard SPLA agreement. Windows instances will probably cost slightly more per hour to cover the monthly license cost of whichever version someone's running.
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Not true. In India the growth rate is 10 million new mobile connections per month.
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One major question would be: how much can we trust current science? If I had a nickel for all the times I heard that carcinogen argument...
Second, people will, until some radically new, currently unforeseen technology becomes available (and I’m talking way beyond Blackberry/iPhone here) prefer surfing on the PC over the web when both are available.

That's really the key issue. Most people don't lug around a laptop or PC everywhere they go, so in most situations outside of home/office, the forced choice between phone and PC doesn't exist.

Also, I often use my iPhone at home for browsing, because its Safari is good enough to make it not worth my while to boot up the laptop. I've seen many others do this as well.
Divorce May Leave Children Without Health Insurance Coverage
Unfortunately it is a fact that over 50% of all marriages end in divorce and the process is emotional for all parties involved. Each parent has their own objectives and desired outcome form the abrogation of the marital contract and neither have a desire to injure any of the children. However, in some cases there seems to have been unintended consequences which leave the children either left out of insurance coverage’s or with sub standard coverage provided by a state program.
"x = x + 1"

The reason this does not work in mathematics is because the programming use `=' and mathematical use of `=' are completely different. In programing, `=' implies set which really has no meaning in mathematics as mathematics is only concerned about declaring facts which is what the mathematical `=' does. It declares a fact that the indeterminate "x" is equivalent to some value "y."
It's interesting how the PLT team dealt with this teaching problem in "How to Design Programs". The first part basically shows how to write simple Java-like code with Scheme syntax, using symbols and fixed records, and including tests as part of a complete program. Then in the later sections, lists and the more dynamic handling of data are introduced gradually. Aren't PLT Scheme structures way more complicated than lists? Yes, but since simple errors show up sooner with a struct, it seems to be a better way to teach brand-new programming students how to work with compound data.
Er. Well. At least you're honest?
Well, I can confirm that my grandfather died 3 months after visiting an apple store. Could this be why?!!?!?
Touche (use imagination to insert the accent). The criticism is almost always helpful. Last night a local journalist wrote me to trash a story we ran. After a flurry of e-mails the result was that I have a finder understanding for what that segment of our audience (other bloggers and writers in this market) expects out of their reading material. That's a win.
I'd say, you should have been getting ready for a long time. Talk ahead of time about what you're making so people are familiar with it at launch time.

That being said, here's my quick guide to free self-marketing:

trackback > comment > forum post

So, set up a blog and start linking to blog articles that are related to your area. Write something meaningful about what the person is saying and how it relates to your product. The blogger will probably follow the trackback and read your post, and might decide to write about it.

DO NOT just start blindly linking to stuff and creating trackback spam. Same goes for signing up for forums and creating an ad post. Nothing looks more spammy than a user account with 1 post saying "Check out my cool new website!"
I think this is also sound advice. I get a great deal of feedback from my bloggers and contributors and I take that very seriously. They're using the platform daily to create original content and build their own audiences. The easier I make their lives, the easier they make my life. On the other hand there are a good number of observers with spare thoughts for me. Sometimes helpful, sometimes not. Good distinction. Thanks.
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Your last point is one I've learned the hard way. When I started this project I had a large, enthusiastic group of volunteer writers and contributors trumpeting the effort. That's great. The problem was I was leaning a bit too hard on them for validation of the idea itself. Not great. I've since stepped back a bit and forced myself to keep high level questions and opinions to myself. I talk writing with the writers and that's that.
Law 2.0 News: Mumboe Uses Semantics To Pull Key Data From Contracts
Does Amazon have some sort of site-license for all those Windows virtual boxes?
Tripist: the interactive travel guide
Interactive travel site with tips and reviews. Travel tips interactive
so, assuming the declared fact "x = y", whenever you see "x" you could substitute "y" (and vice versa), and it would make no difference whatsoever?

You don't have to worry about whether it is defined yet, or if it has been changed, or if it is really a copy (not a reference/pointer). I intuitively think in terms of an execution model, so this is hard for me (even though it's actually less complex with less to worry about).

Thinking of it as "declarative" seems helpful, thanks...
This is a great idea. It would really separate the men from the boys.
What you can do with a rice-cooker - How a simple tool has been adapted in many ways
The lean startup comes to Stanford
Brain shifts from glucose to lactate fuel source during exercise.
The part I found most interesting is that Mac Pros emit some odor. I've had one for over a year and I haven't noticed anything.
its true that it was designed by academics and seems very dry on the surface, but it is an amazingly capable and complete stack. people have been reimplementing various parts of it in various ways on many sites today.

regardless, if it doesn't succeed, then something a lot like it eventually will.
Trying to Try & Yoda
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As opposed to what, our gut?

If I got a nickel every time someone died of cancer, I'd be rich. And probably have a massive guilt complex.
Why Android still can't beat the iPhone: One developer's view
A very readable article about what goes into the bars on your cell phone. I liked it especially because it doesn't jump on the "OMG ATT/VERIZON/WHOMEVER IS THE DEVIL" bandwagon that seems so popular on the internet.
I wonder if that is related to the beneficial effects of exercise on mood.
Microsoft to launch "Windows Cloud" operating system
The Flash Player in development for iPhone is not a port of existing standalone one. As they put it,the new player in development is something in between Flash Lite and Flash Player for desktop.

So this is going to be a watered down version of Flash Player. Chances are that Apple will approve a Flash player which is targeted only to render flash content on web pages as it will make the browsing experience on iPhone closer to that on desktop.
I plan on using RDF extensively, so maybe they are coming...
Do You Need To Quit Your Day Job?
Agreed with all of the above comments completely. When I first was linked to it, it flattened me with how much sense it makes. Thinking about the amount of hours saved worldwide if gnip fulfills it's potential is mind boggling.
Search for "Bush":

"George W. Bush is running for President of the United States to keep the country prosperous."

"George W Bush -- not a crackhead!"
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Microsoft Wants To Pay You 25 cents An Hour For Searching With SearchPerks
Please read the article: That's still not an argument to bet on the mobile web; even at a rate of 10m new connections, the vast majority are not smartphones, and will likely not have any major monetary presence on the web in the near future.
You the man Seth...
Yes, but have your tried reasoning to spammers before?
If you want to see the future of mobile you should not look at the USA but Japan, Malaysia, Europe, etc. The iPhone has been a good catch up for the USA but even that is less restricted outside the USA.
No, chances are (as John so eloquently argues) that Apple will do no such thing, as it would seriously water down the whole iPhone UI experience. Read the article!
If you want to do the math yourself here is a spreadsheet that will help. http://randolfe.typepad.com/randolfe/2006/04/bubblizer_a_req...
Well, this sounds like a typical POV of the person who never used mobile internet device (iPhone, for example, performs best in this role).

Of course, screen is small, but there are a lot of UI specialists dealing with this and a bunch of developers ready to port their applications to mobile devices (have you seen Facebook client for iPhone?). I would not replace my IDE running on the PC with its mobile version, but geez, apart from that what else are you doing on your PC? Exploring Flickr? Updating Facebook status? Shopping on Amazon? Reading blogs? We could do all of that mobile, even now.

Mobile phone with internet access could potentially become a source of not less important revenue stream for anybody offering anything on the internet. Simple example: mobile operator (owning the identity and bank account info of the phone owner) could act as identity provider for online micropayments and charge them to the subscriber's mobile account. I could go to my friend's, see an interesting CD, scan its barcode with phone's camera, be redirected to Amazon immediately and pay without entering credit card details, using my mobile phone account -- all in couple of clicks, on one device.

I would not bet on mobile growth, I would bet on mobile shift. 4 times 2 minutes spent with surfing the web on iPhone on the go could be oh so much more rewarding (in terms of revenue attracted) for any internet service I am using, than 8 full hours in front of PC.
Hammerhead: moving performance testing upstream
Looks like they are doing what the whole "semantic web" was supposed to do but failed to do. It's not just a business; it might as well become the standard.
JStORM: A New JavaScript Object-Relational Mapper
yeah. this is not for HN. it's not even like the theme is that versatile. A basic google search will return hundreds of acceptable wordpress themes.
Ron Paul and Why the Bailout Should Make You Afraid, Very Afraid: Liberty Maven
no. Strange, I guess there is an inner sanctum of sanctimonious downmodders.
Trent Reznor nails deal for Iphone games
Anyone can build a community
"so, assuming the declared fact "x = y", whenever you see "x" you could substitute "y" (and vice versa), and it would make no difference whatsoever?"

In mathematics, yes. That is the entire point of the '=' statement.
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Any other HN readers going to Postgres West next weekend?
It's not a bad idea, but it strikes me as an over-engineered solution for a site that doesn't yet have Slashdot's problems... There are significantly fewer articles on the HN front page than there are comments in the typical Slashdot thread, and a lower troll ratio, too.
IPhone NDA officially dropped
What the financial crisis means for high-end prostitutes
Your FAQ is messed up, some links that go nowhere and some old info?
There is a difference between running swfs on phone interface and rendering flash elements on webpages.

Allowing swfs to run directly on phone interface definitely interfere with iPhone UI experience,but rendering webpages along with flash elements in it only makes the browser experience closer to what is expected from the browser app. Its a good thing for Apple.
Kevin Mitnick detained, released after Colombia trip
This is a brilliant concept! I wish I had thought of this.
I had that thought as well. I do know that some of the people in the medical field whom I have talked to say that exercise tends to shift the brain in to more predominant Alpha wave patterns which correlates to creative thought. That explains why stepping away from the computer and taking a walk can be very helpful for solving problems.
Science changes opinion quite often (this is an observed fact).

If someone dies because of cancer, you're never sure about the real reason. If used wrong, quite everything may provoke cancer... we all are continuously exposed to so many dangerous things.

There isn't even a simple answer to what cancer really is -- it's more the description of a symptom, and not the real cause...
I think we're really talking about two different things. You're talking about depreciation as it applies for tax purposes. I'm talking about what's the actual price of a used car. Depreciation tries to make a baseline guess at what rate the value of car will fall, but does not set the actual price of the car in the market.
I agree with a lot of that, Matt put into words a lot stuff in my head that I couldn't.

But I don't think the point about payment is true. People in Europe already buy all kinds of crap with their phones.

Everything just shows up on your phone bill, no credit cards to fuss around with.
Of course its a problem, it means I have fewer minions to assign to various x264 development tasks. ;)
You are incorrect. My article, although a bit unclear, was not wrong.

Taken right from the FDIC website at http://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/insuringdeposits/

"The basic insurance amount is $100,000 per depositor per insured bank. Certain retirement accounts, such as Individual Retirement Accounts, are insured up to $250,000 per depositor per insured bank."

They further describe:

"You may qualify for more than $100,000 in coverage at one insured bank if you own deposit accounts in different ownership categories."

They then describe what the different ownership categories are:

"The most common ownership categories are: Single Accounts, Certain Retirement Accounts, Joint Accounts, Revocable Trust Accounts" (obviously this is not a complete list)

And lastly, single accounts were described as:

"These are deposit accounts owned by one person and titled in that person’s name only. All of your single accounts at the same insured bank are added together and the total is insured up to $100,000. For example, if you have a checking account and a CD at the same insured bank, and both accounts are in your name only, the two accounts are added together and the total is insured up to $100,000.

Note: Retirement accounts and qualifying trust accounts are not included in this ownership category."

So what this all says is:

You may have a total of $100,000 in your combined Single Accounts (checking, savings, etc)
You may have a total of $250,000 in a qualifying IRA.
You may have a total of $100,000 in a trust. (Although trusts get more complicated, this is not entirely true).
You may have a total of $100,000 in a joint account, your partner another $100,000.

Since this is not a complete list, I can't blankly say that you can have up to $550,000 at one bank.

By the way, thanks for all the comments here on my article and at the article itself. Was a real treat to see the activity yesterday!
YES! The NDA has been a PITA, I'm glad its finally gone.

RIP iPhone NDA, You will not be missed.
If you think about it, lack of the down vote simply means that the oneness is on you as a contributor of quality content to increase the signal-to-noise ratio by submitting more good articles that will displace the junk. If the crops are plentiful enough the weeds can't grow.
Ummm, maybe I'm reading between the lines too much but I see "for released iPhone software." Does that mean people still can't talk about rejection letters?

Edit, from MacRumors.com

However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.
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That is unfortunate, I would dearly love to work there.
I meant to post this under seiji's reply.
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The rejection letters were claimed to be under "the NDA". So I think that "the NDA" is gone, so they are open too.

I suspect that very shortly (within the week, maybe?) we'll see a very detailed policy announcement about what criterion Apple uses to approve apps for the App store.

I also wouldn't be terribly surprised to see a way for private developers to distribute apps without that janky beta-release dance.
I don't know about rejection letters, but if I understand correctly when they talk about released iPhone software they mean the iPhone OS/firmware. Some developers get prerelease builds and it makes sense to keep prerelease software under an NDA (standard for all other Apple software).
I'll be waiting for word on this from the developers directly affected by the NDA to get a better feel for what this means.

This specifically states that unreleased software is still covered. I guess we'll be waiting for the new terms to be released.
Good.

However, they shouldn't get undeserved praise for correcting something that was a bad decision in the first place and was undermining their own platform.
I wonder how long will their current mainpage title stay intact... that's got to turn off some people, while I assume attract some others.
I wish there was a down vote button. At best this is bad writing. This also feels to me like the ramblings of an egomaniac.

Ten people up voted this. I wonder how many would have down voted.
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Glad to see this is being changed. If Apple's rejection policy remains unclear, at least the lifted NDA restriction will allow the community to learn from the experiences of others.
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Apple Drops iPhone Developer NDA On Released Software
This should have been done when the App Store was launched. I guess it's better late than never though. I look forward to the online discussion and books that are certain to quickly emerge!
The title is a little misleading (since Apple didn't completely drop its NDA) and it should be changed to:

IPhone NDA officially dropped for released IPhone software
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The answer is probably "no" as there is no such thing.
Android will effectively force Apple to maintain a competitive and robust development environment and hopefully pressure them to open up the platform a bit and provide some more clarity to iphone developers in the future.
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I didn't understand this article until I saw that picture of the keyboard.
Relax. The Smell is just there for the first few months, and its purpose is merely to stimulate certain nerve centers. In time, The Smell's absence leads you subconsciously to buy another new Apple product. Your mind rationalizes these thoughts with respect to the various desirable features and aesthetics of Apple products, but your emotional centers of the brain are merely seeking another experience of The Smell.

That was the theory a few guys at work came up with anyhow. I think it has at least as much credence as this article.
His assumption is that the only mobile growth that matters is smartphone growth, but that's not true.

You can build lots of valuable stuff using just SMS.
I didn't say Glass-Steagall being repealed was responsible for everything that was wrong. But having it in place would have kept our institutions smaller with fewer entanglements, therefore fewer firms would be in the "too big to fail" category. True, it would have prevented a few of the mergers that are happening now but they may not have been necessary. Once you eliminate the problem of one institution bringing down the entire financial system, the existing bankruptcy courts are a better mechanism for unwinding bad assets.

> "Many foreign countries never had any law like Glass-Steagall in place and they don't seem to be suffering the same problems. As logic tells us, the current crisis seems to be orthogonal to the presence or absence of Glass-Steagall."

I don't buy into that logic. Just because every financial system in the world hasn't failed due to too much deregulation, doesn't mean deregulation is bad or not the cause of our current crisis. There are a multitude of things contributing to the current problem, but excessive regulation and checks and balances aren't one of them.

We don't necessarily need to reinstate Glass-Steagall, but we need a modern-day equivalent. We need to ensure financial institutions can fail without jeopardizing the entire economic system. I'm personally in favor of something along the lines of the DoJ anti-trust mechanism, with an independent body that analyzes financial mergers and assets from the perspective of whether they are dangerous to the economy and citizens. On the other hand, I don't feel that our current DoJ is working very well so maybe that's not the best idea. I'm open to suggestions.
Well I want to see what you have to do to get the prerelease builds. 2.1 messed a few of my things up and I did not get access to it until the day it was released. I paid my $99, why do some people who paid the same $99 get more access than I?
Yeah, what's science ever done for us?