skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no revivals yet. That's expected - it isn't evidence.

If you can't examine the facts, can you examine the theory?

What is the theory? There's two I know of: biological revival, and informational "upload". The first sounds dubious to me - there's an awful lot of damage to repair, and the nanotech to do it is not even on the drawing board, let alone the knowledge to guide repair. The second sounds much more achievable based on some sort of slice, dice, scan and digitize process, followed by computer emulation. (See recent work by Anders Sandberg.)

What would be required for upload? Continuity of information. (Continuity of the potential for biological life is NOT required.) Do we have evidence for continuity of information? We know that vitrification tech has gotten pretty good recently. (Wikipedia: a rabbit kidney was vitrified, thawed, and worked.) That suggests enough information could be preserved for upload.

Conclusion: there is convincing reason to believe cryonics should work.
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I seem to remember that, but maybe it was just a fabled long lost golden age of myth... when headlines were fixed, children respected their elders, and digg content stayed on digg.
If they present themselves in public as bonafide females then I wouldn't.

And if they present themselves in public sometimes as bonafide females and sometimes as bonafide males? What then?

This would be for people who are female gendered in real life.

Again, how do you even even define that, precisely? Gender is not so binary as we make it.

There are already plenty of places where you can be a female just online.

And your site would, inevitably, be another one of those. So what?

But there is potential benefit in a female-only site. This would only happen if we could keep most men out.

Marketing! You're Doing It Wrong!!

Instead of worrying about keeping people out, you should be worrying about who you're bringing in, and how to target that market. If you get a few extra page-views, um, is that really a problem?
Google has been so successful exactly because they use "scientific" methods. They have a mountain of data and they put it to good use. This data includes information about hardware, operating systems, networking, what people are searching for, what people are watching on youtube, etc, etc, etc.
Make your product stand out so that it spreads via word-of-mouth. I know it's an overused catch phrase, but if you're good enough that people want to tell others about what you've done unbidden, then you've got it made.

Just keep focusing your efforts on your product. Make it shine. Make every single part of it wonderful. People will talk about it. That's what happened with Facebook: I remember getting an account when high schoolers were first allowed, and feeling the need to tell all my friends. It had such a wonderful interface. Most of my friends did the same.
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would techies have any interest in your startup? what's nice about this segment is that they are relatively easy to reach and are very interested in seeing what's out there. in most product lifecycle, you're going to have innovators and early adopters before you have a large audience. the trick is to figure out who your initial audience is going to be, engage them, and provide methods for them to spread the word.

if you are willing to post more about your startup, i might be able to give you some more targeted ideas.
Send a basic press release to the local newspapers and TV stations in your city (and surrounding cities). These people actually need material. We got a write-up/picture in the local paper once and I was shocked at how many people recognized us over the next several months.
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The original:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_semantic_web_pro...

I find it a little easier to stomach its grammatical errors outside the NYTimes wrapper.
If this is of interest to you then you may also be interested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=384364
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Actually, all the technical problems have already been solved. The silver pearl is already there for the taking. It's other factors that are the problem.
I feel it is almost part of my responcibility at this site to help review other start ups. So I try to check out all the feedback on X posts.

I just don't have a need for this one at the time but could see how it would be useful. So I just tried to look around and notice whatever I could.

* The find groups in this location should empty and be ready for you to type a zip after you click in it
* If it finds no results (which it didn't for my location 80304) perhaps don't show an empty map but show a "sorry but here are our most active locations" Sometimes it is cool to look at locations I used to live or my family/friends live.
* are there any example communities to look at? I tried zooming all the way out and couldn't find anything? Do you have to log in to see existing groups?

That is about all I could see for now since I couldn't get in further... nice clean design easy to follow and start searching for communities... Good luck
Is this maybe targeted more at novice programmers? A web IDE doesn't make that much sense if you already have local source control, there's an "Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming" (http://appjet.com/learn-to-program/lessons/intro) linked right on the front page, and the whole experience seems to encourage experimentation with instant feedback. If I'm right, all the comments about Google App Engine miss the point.
Are either of these even semantic products? I didn't realize parsing the body of an email itinerary and sharing it with your friends was all that was required to be in this category. This list should be renamed "websites I like in 2008!"
1. I don't think any current language is worth loving, but for what I write JS sucks less than any other. It seems like the lang is a kind of programmer Rorschach test: there isn't really "the JavaScript way", it's what you (and others) make it. The interesting thing about reading other people's JS code is that I can usually tell right away which other languages they know (and those they don't).

But that's just JavaScript; I prefer the AppJet framework to the other server-side solutions (namely Jaxer) and the web libs I've tried out for the langs you mention.

2. Once App Engine supports Java, one should be able to run "JavaScript on Jets" on Google's servers. Plus there's always AWS.

3. I've been using AppJet daily for almost two months, and I've only experienced a few seconds of downtime. Etherpad seemed to stay up. I trust them so far; two of the founders did work at Google.
How does this jibe with conservation of energy? Does the current get slowed down?
If that's cached data, that's good right?
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Has anyone here done this the last time around? What's in it for them? Is there a catch?
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Do you know of any such scripts that automate that?

It might be useful marketing for a lot of start ups though I'm not sure on the ethics. Would it be ok for Utility Mill to "follow" anyone who mentions Python, or is that too broad? Would it get annoying?
I didn't dispute that State sponsorship may contribute to a private monopoly. I pointed out that corruption may add to the barriers to entry which would help a private monopoly persist, i.e. state sponsorship is not a necessary requirement for a private monopoly.

Your example also seems to demonstrate that state sponsorship isn't sufficient to grant a private monopoly.
In freenet you generally can not see what is stored on your node (i.e. PC) because it is encrypted. To make this work, a freenet 'URL' more or less contains the key to decrypt the content it references.
The main point is there needs to be a big fat "Create a community" button on the front page, even if that leads you to a "First, create an account" screen.
People invite their friends.
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You can defer that payment for up to a a year (when you're hopefully profitable). Or, you can have your LLC taxed as a C-Corp and then you don't have to pay the $800 franchise tax like other LLCs.
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I'm a law student interested in start ups. I have a technical background and have mostly focused on intellectual property law while in law school.

I'm looking for advice for a career path to one day end up as general counsel for a growing internet start up. Should I work at a law firm first? If so, any suggestions on good firms to apply to?
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So reducing (any!) barriers to entry should have positive feedback effects on corruption?

Africa needs more cell phones.
People usually sign up for "extra features". For instance, I signed up to get reminders during the year for when certain things were due. A corp has a lot of filing requirements, and for a fee they remind me.
Upselling you to other services.
A few very quick points:

- The front page doesn't feel "alive". It looks like a static page. You can show the newest communities, or how many people are using it, or anything you can think of to make the site look active and loved by many people. (it's also easy to overdo it and make a horribly busy front page... it's a fine balance).

- Related to the first point, consider using geolocation to show something relevant to users right away. It might not be accurate enough, or it might not be helpful until you have a lot of communities already, but I think it would be a great help if you can get it right.

- Could be because I'm not part of the target audience, but it seems a bit abstract. "Use VillageToolbox to help organize, strengthen and build your community. Creating an account and starting a new community is free, and opens a world of possibilities for you and your neighbours. Use the wiki as your homepage" is fairly abstract and doesn't actually tell me that much. "and for keeping track of community events. Tools are available for sharing skills, tools and finding sitters for your house, pets or kids." is better.

- Same as above, the sample community presents me with a lot of text, but nothing really gripping.
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Arbitrary priors don't imply rigor <ducks>.

:-)
I was actually making a Family Guy reference, but thanks for playing.

It wasn't my intention to start a reddit-style PS3/Xbox/Wii flame war. Sorry if that's how it came across.
A vague hand wave in the direction of QM?

I'm not sure how to clarify. The idea that reality is deterministic is so completely unsupported by evidence, I don't even know where to start. Between uncertainty principles forbidding you from knowing the precise state of the universe even in principle and the randomness of the universe's behavior even in situations you have full knowledge of (which may yet be traced back to mathematical undecidability, per a recent, interesting paper on arxiv), determinism is dead. If they can track it back to mathematical undecidability, no conceivable heroic effort can bring it back, either. (I suspect there's some fruitful work to be done there.)
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Josh, what are your thoughts on this?
I find this very hard to understand.

Credit cards are virtually non-existent where I am (despite a strong marketing push). For cash-less payments or ATM withdrawals everybody just uses debit cards.

If people go to minus with their accounts (it's possible also with debit cards), they feel really bad.

How can society become so dependent on credit cards that you can get seriously scared what would happen if they stopped working?
Slick use of MTurk, take a picture and buy that thing. Now only if it was instantaneous (in both recognizing things AND delivering them) - that would be The Future!
Frequentist as described in the grandparent post do all the analysis they can without having to assume priors.
What if they are cash flow positive. Perhaps not exactly profitable but close to it?

Do they still need a one year reserve?

What if they are profitable, what's a safe cushion then?
run "show full processlist" to see what's going on. use explain on the slow queries. create indexes or restructure as necessary.

post your config, the queries, the schema, if you want help.
The Big Failing of Communism is past.

The Big Failing of "Capitalism That Thought It Was Rich Enough To Afford Some Communism" is happening.

Unfunded pension guarantees? Governments ordering banks to make loans they can't afford? The failure of government corporations like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac due to being disconnected from the market? Massive nationalization of debt in response to the crisis?

Very little of this crisis is "capitalism" in any sense of the term. Government meddling is present in every aspect. Nay, _massive_ government meddling.
As long as the lithium ion battery is the best we got, there will be no mass replacement of combustion engines with electric. There simply isn't the energy density. Also, lithium supplies aren't sufficient.
When I was a kid, I was (naturally) a big fan of kid rights. I always thought that kids should be able to vote, enter into contracts, be considered legally a "person", drive if they could reach the pedals and see out the windshield, and decide whether or not they went to school.

My reasoning for this was not that kids were so smart or mature that they could do this responsibly. It was that the vast majority of adults were dumb and immature and can't do this responsibly, and yet we give them all these rights and privileges anyway.

Since becoming a legal adult in 1999, I have seen little to make me believe I was wrong in this assessment.

It's interesting - if you consider children=dependent and adults=independent, modern society has made children of us all. Everyone (except wackos like the Unabomber) is dependent on someone else now - the economy is just too intertwingled to function without other people. Folks leave the nest of their parents to become dependent upon their employers, and then leave that behind to grovel at the trough of investors, and if that doesn't go well, they become slaves of the credit card companies. That seems to be the price we've paid for all our cool new toys.

I, for one, welcome our new Neverland overlords.
The panelists named several market segments poised for growth: Search engines powered by crowdsourcing...

Really? Hasn't that been the "next big thing" for a few years now?
This is not exactly bad advice, but it's not a good solution either.

Techies live in a bubble. Let's be frank - most people don't have a clue what IE is, let alone Firefox. Using early adopters as a gateway to a larger market only makes sense if those early adopters are a subset of such a market.

What if you're selling to say: law offices? Doctors? Accountants? HR Directors? None of these markets fit the geek->masses model. You'll fail miserably if you don't target these niches where they already live.
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Not really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder
mysqltuner is another decent 30000 foot view tool:

http://mysqltuner.com/mysqltuner.pl

I might try stackoverflow, describe your queries, schema, indexes, and the whole stack: O/S, db server hardware, ORM, what web app is getting it (PHP, ASP, django, whatever)
It's genetic. I occasionally used to have the same feelings till I did some cosmology & found out just how big the universe is.
I looked at the sample community and went: wow a village toolbox with no tools. I think you should spend more time thinking of tools for the community not just a message board and sending emails to people, something like ning does.

This bring me to the question, if you want to build a community site how are going to be different from ning, collectiveX? Is it worth the effort of trying to compete with these guys?
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If they are cash flow positive, then by definition they have more than a year of cash in the bank. Their burn rate is negative, so they'll never exhaust their cash supply.

(They should have contingency plans for a sudden drop in revenue though - if you're barely cash flow positive and your customers drop out from under you, you won't be cash flow positive for long. That's one reason I left my last employer - they were profitable, but a major shakeout in the financial industry could easily leave them without customers. Seem to be doing okay so far, but I felt the risk was as great as leaving to start my own startup.)
The etymology of Adult means "fully grown." I believe the gp of this comment is using the word to mean fully grown in emotional and behavioral maturity in addition to physical maturity. So, perhaps what the gp is saying that physically mature individuals who do these things are not emotionally or behaviorally mature, and so cannot be considered "fully grown." Their arrested development means they are functionally 'children.'

Extended (perpetual?) adolescence is an interesting (recent?) social phenomena.
You're suffering from a bit of a ghost town. I think more people would rather join and help build a community than be the first person to actually start a community.

Is there an existing community that's working the way you want it to? It might make more sense to start regionally and build from there a la Craigslist or Facebook.
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Summary: I want to make memetrackers for major U.S. cities to give a fluff-less view of the local news. These would include local neighborhood sites and blogs in addition to mainstream news sources.

There are loads of sites aggregating local stuff that can show you what's happening near you (Everyblock, Outside.in etc), but no one's showing you what's "interesting" from the sea of mundane local info that's published each day.
I was thinking more the other direction. Corruption acts as a additional barrier to entry (will I get that contract? I can try and pay more money/bribe the right people, but even if I do that maybe there's a family connection I don't know about). This reduces competitive pressure, making monopoly more likely.

I'm not sure that increasing competitive pressure would decrease corruption. I can see how it might help, but it might also hurt.

e.g. a previously minimally corrupt business owner finding it harder to compete succumbs to temptation to join in the game due to increasing competition. So I think that part of it could go either way.
Not all people are created equal.

There are distinct changes in the brain that happen, as well as changes in hormones that also may support age-based restrictions on activities.
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I've been using UltraEdit for a long time. It's feature rich and easily configurable to your editing style. Windows only and costs $50. It has auto-indent, syntax highlighting, FTP editing, and all that good stuff.

For Java I also use eclipse. Free, has everything, including the kitchen sink, aint simple, significant learning curve. It's slow and a real memory hog, but it is really integrated into the java world.
I think you'd be better off starting a law firm that sells services to startups. Most startups don't need a full-time lawyer. The few times I've worked at a startup with a full-time lawyer, he's been layed off as soon as things got tight.
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I had an awesome thing happen to me yesterday and wanted to share it with the community.

Over the course of the last month or so I have been applying for jobs and have generally met with negative experiences as a prospective employee (not returning calls or emails, multiple form rejection letters for the same position, etc).

One of the places I applied had a programming exercise on their site and specified in their job posting to submit the exercise along with your application. The exercise looked fun and took about an hour so I did it and submitted my application.

A few days later I received an email in reply. They had already filled the position months ago and had forgotten to take down the job posting from the board I saw it on. They appreciated the time I took in applying and since it was their error they sent me a $50 Amazon Gift card as a thank you.

I was so impressed with this I thought it deserved some public recognition. The company is Table XI <www.tablexi.com>.
Indeed. I think they mean something more general, i.e. crowds of people filtering information. FriendFeed is like a crowdsourced content discovery engine, preempting the search for content.
"There is the empirical fact (unless you disagree with it)" - what an incredibly interesting thing to say!
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I'd define a year of cash in the bank as the ability to keep living, even if your inbound cash flow dries up. Obviously you can adjust the required amount by how certain the income is. Income from a non-terminateable contract with a solid business is "better" than 10.000 private users paying $5 by credit card every month.

A private person who spend his entire salary every month (but no more) is cash flow positive, but only if he keeps his job.
I thought that was basically how yahoo started.
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I don't see any visual examples (or a tour) of why I would want to create a community website.
Don't forget a 25% default rate per year can still be cash flow positive when they are charging a 29% interest rate and adding on other fees.
Or you could turn your legal expertise into a product and build a start-up around that... how about that? Is that even possible?
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"If 2500+ registrations, we'll upgrade 40% or 1000+ users."
"If you do not borrow any more on this card and make only the minimum payment every month, it will take you ____ months to repay your debt completely."

Make sure to specify that it appears on the first page. In large letters.

I'm sure there is a ton of useful information buried in the pages of very small type that come with each statement. Good luck figuring out which parts are important and comprehending the legalese.
http://www.quinnemanuel.com/media/35863/amlaw_mighty_quinn_2... if you want to work at a law firm that's often compared to a startup. On the other hand, they do all the highly exciting stuff that a startup's general counsel only gets to do if he's seriously botched things.

And tjic is right. It would be saner to work with several startups, rather than being the general counsel for one. I'm curious about why you'd want that specific outcome.
If true, doesn't this mean that you might possibly pass on memories to your children?
Don't take this the wrong way, but hit up slideshare.net for "Starting a Business". There's a great tip in a lot of those presentations: Make a (non-family member) accountant your new best friend. Most CPAs have a "checklist" of what needs to be done (tax wise and regulation wise) to incorporate.
Wait if you don't pay back the loan it's "free money" so I don't think people who get into lot's of debt and then default are necessarily idiots. People pay back loans so they can get more loans or get rid of the lean on the car / home. Borrowing 200k and making a 50/50 bet could be a great investment if you could live without credit for a few years.

The credit crysis comes down to bad statistics. When lenders assume a default rate and ignore how dependent this is on the economy they make bad decisions. Home loans in Detroit are a great example of this.