skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you program it to recognize faces, it will not, on it's own, learn to recognize cows.

So, if you walked into a VC's office to pitch a startup, you might say with a straight face that you believe the market for cow recognition exceeds the market for human facial recognition? Do you realize that to serve the cow recognition market, we simply clip RFID tags to their ears? http://images.google.com/images?q=cow+ear+rfid+tag

The artificial-machine face-recognition market is fueling the development of special intelligence in that area. There is relatively quick-return money in that area, so that is an area where intelligence is being developed first. Smell-recognition is another area where development of special intelligence can pay off relatively quickly, and therefore is providing impetus for development. So far, there are at least these relatively-fast-payoff markets for which special intelligences are being developed:

1. face recognition
2. smell recognition
3. iris recognition
4. retina recognition
5. fingerprint recognition
6. speech recognition

Are you aware that the human brain contains a special sub-processor for learning and recognizing not cows, but human faces? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081218122150.ht...

The imaging studies revealed significant face-selective activity in brain regions known to make up the distributed cortical face-processing network in humans. Further study showed distinct patches of activity in a region known as the fusiform gyrus - the primary site of face-selective activity in humans - when chimps observed faces.

Do you deny that the modern human brain probably resulted from evolution by natural-selection, rather than from Intelligent Design?
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How about Shopify (http://shopify.com) - seems to be a good match?
I use google notebook intensevely... I started using it, because I wanted to store my great findings on the cloud, so I never, ever loose them... Knowing google notebook is about to close I wonder how safe my data is...
Is there any way I can save easily all of my google notebook notes?
KBG sounds a whole lot better than "Cuil". If KGB one day eventually fails, at least their demise will bring back memories of a humorous name.
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Self-referential fail.

No results for: kgb search engine

Time will tell but how am I going to remember to take another look in six months time? :)
Paying partly in equity seems nice, but it seems even less sustainable

In a company that were not growing, it would indeed be unsustainable to pay in equity (unless the value fo the equity were continuously shrinking. But why would a startup company not be growing (valuation rising)? Unless it is a failure, isn't it normally growing?
There's a trick for efficient appending that's somewhat analogous to laziness. It's quite clever. Sadly, I cannot claim to have come up with it, and I don't know who did.

Instead of working with [a] lists, work with [a] -> [a] prepender functions. So the analogue of [1, 2, 3] is f: \x -> [1 2 3] ++ x. Then the analogue of the append of f and 4 is f . (\x -> [4] ++ x), where the . represents composition. Appending using these analogues, I believe, is O(1) instead of O(n).

To "evaluate" an element of this "closure space", just apply it to the empty list.
This is a gross generalisation. Plenty of startups are making money.
Well, just as "monads are like burritos", IO is like a delicious but sketchy fish taco. Eating is input. We shan't discuss the output process; we all know how it works and what it looks like. Food poisoning or poor health can lead to usage of standard error. In practice, stdout and stderr are usually redirected to the same buffer, which is flushed shortly after a write.
When I was doing AIX administration, I liked that one command to kill processes with open files keeping a mountpoint mounted was:

fuser -fuck /dev/whatever

http://moka.ccr.jussieu.fr/doc_link/C/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds...

Oh, admin humor.
Look at Clicktracks if you are looking for an intermediatte price range.
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This and the two linked articles really changed my perceptions about airline disasters. People tend to think that the safety lecture at the beginning of a flight is pointless, as you can't survive anyway. However, the article states that 80% of airplane accidents occur during takeoff or landing and most of these are survivable. Also, survival is not just a matter of luck, but often depends on your individual response to the situation. Most people tend to freeze up (not panic) in a crisis situation. If you know the emergency procedures and think in advance about what to do, you are more likely to overcome this instinct and act decisively.
It's the capacity to self program if you like - a human can learn anything, just tell him about the subject. A program can not.

So, if an artificial information-sensing/learning program is not as strong at sensing information as the strongest information-sensing/learning machine that has ever existed - the human brain - then it cannot sense and learn information at any level? Wouldn't that be a strawman argument?

You seem to be claiming that if artificial intelligence does not exist at a human level, that it therefore does not exist at any level. Why are you arbitrarily selecting human-level general intelligence as the only intelligence that could possibly exist? Your line of reasoning seems to imply that human olfactory nodes (sub-processors which help humans sense, and learn, smells) do not represent any level of intelligence at all, since they are not at the level of current human general-intelligence.

Is a single-celled protozoan (e.g. ameba) intelligent? An invertebrate? A vertibrate? A lower-mammal? A non-human primate? Do you deny the possibility of biological evolution by natural-selection?
One feature I would love news.yc is a page to list only the Ask HN submissions...
I like reading articles and seeing the reactions to articles but the Ask HN submission usually end up having higher quality content on average IMHO.
FTA: "...except for a small number of limited circumstances"

If I'm not mistaken, one of those circumstances is the sale of a business. I wouldn't be surprised if G does have an enforceable agreement in place.
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My start-up is all about comments. I've spent months thinking about how to go about commenting... and I still haven't cracked it yet, but let me just spill my thoughts on the matter.

Threaded/Linear have their pros and cons.

To have threaded comments, it means you are limiting the user to explicitly reply to one comment. As an aside, it's possible to make one comment be a reply to many, and then creating some really neat conversation graph out of it, but that's just so complicated. I think we can all agree that threading is the ability to reply to one comment, and create a tree structure of comments.

Threaded comments create a tree of conversation; it's highly structured. Nearly as important as your post is where in the thread it goes. You lose the option to post something more general, or something that references several other posts. The importance in threaded conversations is the structure and not chronology.

Linear comments is all about chronology. The conversation evolves over time, and you lose the structure. It's flat. If you want to reply to someone, you're just quoting then. By the way, a linear commenting system without quoting, in my opinion, is the lowest form of commenting. It almost angers me to see it being used, anywhere.

Nearly all forums use non-threaded, and it seems to work out great! It's more of a community builder -- let's all join this conversation as it passes through time.

Threaded conversations have the problem of becoming highly specific very quickly. But, they allow the structure to be clearly visible. Also, threaded conversations don't allow you to dig for what you want as easily. You'll never be able to order a tree-like structure in any meaningful way unless you flatten it.

The conclusion I ultimately reached was always use threaded, because if you're smart about it, threaded implies linear as well. You can always flatten a tree -- the data is there. But it's much harder to take a linear set of comments and imply which is a child of which based on quoted text. In short, you can go from threaded to non-threaded, but not vice versa.

So, I allow my users to view the conversation as a thread, with very smooth features, like instantly sorting children of any post by Date, Username, or Score. And, coming soon, I'm going to allow a non-threaded view. It will just flatten the tree and show posts, in any order they choose, date, score, username, etc. If the post is a "reply" then I just annote: "In reply to [link]summary of replied post[/link]"

One major issue with threading is scalability. What happens when you have 500 comments in one giant tree? Which do you show? How do you prune the tree? Do you show that gem of a comment that has a depth of 8? Do you hide it's siblings or parents? It really becomes a lot of trouble... and the solution seems to be: "ajax it in."

-sam
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Name, say.. 10. That are actually MAKING money, VC rounds and such don't count.
One patent is not likely to be worth much. If you can put together a small cluster of them, it's much more compelling for an investor/buyer. Depends on what kind of patent, though.

'course, this isn't the best time to bet on getting funding, patents or not. Probably better to focus on finding an actual revenue stream.

And have you really done a diligent search for both existing patents, and prior art? Don't rely on your lawyer to do this; he/she has a financial disincentive to do anything that would discourage you from attempting to file a patent (I used the word "attempting" for a reason: your lawyer probably has things set up so that even a mere attempt will result in fees, whether that attempt is successful or not).

Also know that some patent lawyers file patents just to get the money for filing them. Read carefully, this point is distinct from the one in the previous paragraph. The fact that a patent is filed and eventually granted, does not mean it is a valuable patent. Your lawyer's job is generally not to judge the technical or business merit of the patent, unless you have specifically set up your relationship with him/her to provide an incentive for that. So be aware that your patent might prove to be worthless. While even a worthless patent will grease the skids with some investors, at least go into this with your eyes wide open.
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Another post saying that web companies should charge their users instead of just relying on ads.
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well, at least I know now how average Windows user looks and acts like...
A ton of SaaS apps are, I think. Like Lighthouse, the 37signals apps, Freshbooks... SlideRocket probably will in the near(ish) future, if they're not already, etc. Then there's the micro ISVs like Balsamiq.

Plenty of startups are making money.

(Quick caveat: I haven't actually read the article yet... so it might be talking about a totally different kind of startup.)
yeah, just seen Microsoft Research video..... ;-) You bastard, how dare you being so sarcastic;-)))) lol
I have to use old software databases at my engineering job. The only way to get the data out of the system is to show it on the screen 1 at a time or to print it out. I would love for this new spreadsheet to pretend to be a printer and have the data piped directly to my spreadsheet instead of my pdf printer.
What's strange is that I have 27 double-verified email addresses on my webapp that are on the myspace.com domain already since 2007. Myspace employees or what?
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It's not just failuers. It's also the rolling upgrades and the perforomance profile.

Lack of a clearly defined protocol is a leaky abstraction.
This is really obvious advice, but people need to hear it. There are loads of developers working on the next great social consumer facing product that will revolutionize the way people interact yada yada yada - the only downside being that they have no idea how they will monetize.
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It would have been better if each example was live and not just a screenshot.
web 2.0 is over. most startups are just running out the clock. pg has it 100% wrong...the future will not be about a lot of little companies...he's just projecting what he wants the future to be to perpetuate the YC model.

look at web advertising. at the current rate, google will be the only game in town, they're already sucking the life out of yahoo, who is a relative number 2. where are the ten thousand ad networks? dead or dying.

or lets look at web bookstores. there used to be a hundred. now there is basically one.

the web removes market friction. the web accelerates market consolidation. indeed since the locality issue is removed, your "local" website can be taken out by one from the other side of the world.

in ten years, 99% of all web revenue will flow to likely less than ten companies.
> it's a clone of several others.

Which indicated that it is not a copy of any single game. More like a remake of a genere of games. Fair enough.
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All of the businesses you mention solve real problems that other business people are willing to pay to have solved.

The way I see it social sites need to climb a very steep peak before they have any chance of making money from ads - how many facebooks (which is still a long way from profitable) can the web ecosystem support? - If you do reach the top of that peak which only has room for 2-3 big players you have a chance of banking millions.

B2B services on the other hand are much safer. Business people understand that products and services cost money - and they are used to paying for the services they use.

My advice to developers looking for a product is to forget about the 1 in a million chance that they will develop the next great social app and cash out rich. By focusing on customers that are willing to pay, your venture has a much greater chance of becoming profitable and sustaining itself.
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I actually can't see how that works, at least out of the languages that I know, none of them fit the dot-syntax. The only ones that do (again, in the ones I know), are the lisp variants, but you need to flip the sexpr around. (I suspect the reason why lisp is "flipped" could be because programs are action centric whereas utterances are subject centric (this is a very risky statement to make, but interesting to think about.))

Anyhow, with this in mind, translating the above is absolutely trivial:

((action kick) (object boy) (object ball)) for prefix, or

((object boy) (object ball) (action kick)) for postfix
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As an Estern European I always thought of the US as a very privilleged nation. As USD is a world currency because all energy payments must be done in it - US used to get unlimited amounts of credit from the abroad. And actually still is. And it really is easy to write some code in 3 months and sell a few percent of the company for a lots of money. Granted there is access to easy credit for VCs. Once this sham called USD ends its life and credit becomes harder and harder to get - well, then we will see how much this country is really worth. Because everybody is so smart when they're getting "financing". Now everybody seems surprised that they actually have to offer something that people are willing to pay for to get anywhere. And the customers now - they'll have no access to credit to spend money on trashy apps too. Yep, Mr. Market will clean-up excesses. From now on you actually have to write something people are willing to pay for using their hard-earned money (not credit cards they're hoping to never repay!)
aren't most latin language descendents S-V-O? The only S-O-V languages I can think of off the top of my head are Japanese and Korean. Anyone know about African or South American languages?
Doug Comer seems to be quite disillusioned with academia - he has posted several similarly wry CS 'essays' on his website: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/
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Others are finding similarities with "Scorched Earth", "Worms" and some C64 games too.

The hardcore game thing has gone too far. Time to go play the 80s and 90s game and revive some oldies. The iPhone seems to be a better platform (financially) than web/flash.
I don't like the idea of being given a basket of people and then cherry picking who I'm going to follow and who I'm not. Because I only follow people I either know personally, or are local to my area who I'll probably meet anyway at hackathons.
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yeah i think http://goodbarry.com and yahoo stores are a good match too - a custom site may or may not be overkill
Your probably better off going here and checking out the plugins yourself, http://plugins.jquery.com/

This article didn't really add any value.
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See, I think of something more historical with KGB that has nothing to do with the Internet. In the future, when someone mentions KGB, I'm still not going to think of this search engine.
If you are not humble, you are not a successful programmer. Humility commands respect. Respect legitimizes hubris,impatience, and laziness.
I don't usually say this about YC companies, but I'm not impressed - gaining traction to be flash game epicenters Kongregate, CrazyMonkeyGames, and most of all, Newgrounds, is not something I really envision. Do I really need ANOTHER flash game website? Do you REALLY offer something consumers need?

Why would I want to install a widget on my blog for games, honestly? All I want to do is play them, not embed them.
Weatherunderground.com (wunderground.com) was successful. In the 70's, the name, for most people, was nothing to joke about. http://www.google.com/search?q=weather+underground+nail+bomb Today, it makes a good punny name for a weather-report site. Maybe, as time passes, people will also lighten-up about the KJB.
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I would advise reading lshort instead. A bit longer and slightly outdated (read the documentation from AMS for math modes) but very comprehensive and easy to understand.
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Most of the startups that are making money are the ones you've never heard of. This is a pointless exercise...however, here are some that I believe are making money that you may have heard of (happy to be corrected as I don't know for sure that they're all making money):

1. GitHub
2. eBuddy
3. Dogster
4. StyleDiary
5. ThisNext
6. Kaboodle
7. Stateless Systems
8. RedBubble
9. Wufoo
10. NationMaster
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Either that, or he just has a sense of humor about it.
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I'm in the same boat, my provisional runs out in April, and am wondering what to do. I lodged the provisional myself and save a few $K.

Here's my current thinking, over the course of the patent it will cost around $250K or more over 20 years. If I had $250K now would I spend it on my patent? Right now, I'd much rather have the $250K so from the good investment point of view - the answer is no.

What about the possibility of someone else patenting it? Well since the provisional has been lodged I don't think that's possible once the product is in the public domain, so from that angle I'm safe.

Can someone reverse engineer the patented bit? If they can what investment would they have to make to build a competing product, i.e. are there any other bits that aren't in the patent but are hard / risky. If a competitor has to make a large investment to catch up to you, then they may be better off just buying your company.

Will this be the only invention you ever make? If you're young and you've got something patentable already then most likely it wont be your last. It's not my first and I know it's not my last, once an inventor - always an inventor.

Someone mentioned it's good to have a patent on the resume, from my experience it can scare the hell out of some employers, so that's a bit of a 2 edged sword.

Perhaps the bit that get's stuck the most in my craw is that I'd be paying thousands of dollars to some patent guys who sit in a nice office and wear expensive suits and silk ties while I'm busting a gut making a startup, it's petty I know but it really gives me pause. I figure if they have all that money then there is a lot of cream on top of the patent industry.

The other thing to consider is how much time it takes to write a patent application. I know for myself it was a few weeks to actually write the provisional (and this was time well spent as I defined what I'd actually invented and found out a few other things along the way). It also takes time to work with the patent guys, don't underestimate this. You have to have meetings, review there work, make changes and so on.

I figure if my products successful, then by the time it reaches the point where I had to worry about patent infringements and so on I will have made more than enough money for me and I'll be doing this to grow to the next step.It usually takes about 5 years for a patent to be approved, 5 years is a long time in software.

The conclusion I've come to is it's a big boys game, and if you want to play then you have to pony up the cash, either get the cash or get investors who have the cash otherwise do what you can to protect yourself and move on. Of course it depends totally on what you're patenting - if it's a major breakthrough then it may be worth getting investors. If it's incremental then execution probably matters way more than whether or not you have a patent.

hth.