skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had the same impression. The most interesting advances I saw when visiting Alife XI last year was in cognitive robotics. Using MRI scan information from thinking persons to unravel the global structure of the brain, and then implementing that in computers.

The global workspace theory definitly seemed interesting.
When do you plan to launch?

Would it be better to hold off until the 3.0 release for push notifications, thereby freeing you from creating the infrastructure for SMS and email?
Shameless plug for mine, although the publications page is pretty terrible: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/

Every time I have a conversation with someone in the department I get excited about some new direction of AI research. (I work in natural language processing myself.) AI certainly isn't dying, but from my own experiences straddling business and academia, I'd say it takes far too long for Cool Stuff(TM) to make it into the real world.
http://www.sf2600.org/

Maybe check out these folks?
I don't think the notebook icon is that obvious. Looks almost like part of a train track or zip.

I read this comment of yours, then visited the site, and still spent a couple of seconds wondering what that icon meant (train? video upload?) before I remembered you mentioning an orange notebook.
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For me, AI's goals are very cool but most of its approaches not so much. In fact, I find most AI talks rather boring.

The only parts I really like have to do with human computation (e.g., ESP Game) and stealing ideas from nature (e.g., genetic programming, ant colony optimization, etc.):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Biology-Peter-J-Bentley/dp/074...
I'd love to, but I can't delete it now. (Maybe after a while you can't or after a reply?)
Are you referring to HN during the earlier downtime?

The server still seemed to be responding, it was just empty. (I didn't check the headers, so I don't know specifically what if anything was happening.) I believe dfeojm works by checking whether you get a response or not, so as far as it could tell HN was still up.
"Virtual Stress-free Testing in the Cloud"
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/02/virtual-stressfree-testin...

Has links to several load testing products using EC2.
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Looks a lot like Snipt, which I have been using:

http://snipt.net
URL-names just hit me as the breakthrough of Twitter, actually. I hadn't understood the power of Twitter at all until the other day I was reading a blog where the author referred to someone as @handle. My name is not unique: but, if we had a service that got enough adoption that gave everyone a globally unique string identifier, you could unambiguously reference real people across any medium. That's really powerful, and I think it's just starting to dawn on us the different ways we could use that. I still don't see an obvious monetization strategy; but people said the same thing about Google in 2000, so I don't want to be one to talk on that.
Google: "Did you mean: Quantos"
This bug has been around for at least 6 months, ever since just after the last major Facebook Profile redesign that moved profiles towards the 'Boxed' design.

For me, the bug lasted for at least an hour, or at least enough time for me to notice the bug, re-create a few friends lists, and browse a couple profiles. The next day when I logged on things were completely back to normal - AND my old friend lists had been restored.

One of the first things I noticed was that my friends lists had been deleted - and subsequently they no longer applied to photos privacy settings. Unfortunately I don't remember how or why I noticed this, maybe it was part of the exploratory feeling you get when something gets deactivated for a week and you want to make sure everything is OK.

The situatation also applied to my friends whose friends lists I was on. For example, if my friends didn't allow anyone to see tagged photos, I couldn't see their photos. But if my friend had just not allowed their 'Work friends' list to see their photos, and I was a Work friend, I could see their photos because my account no longer appeared under their friends lists entitled 'Work friends' - at least that's what I presume to have happened.

I do not recall if this affected the Networks as well. I don't recall if I was able to see normally private photos from strangers in other regional, high school or University networks. If it did, I probably would have a recollection of it because I did do some experimenting to see how far the bug extended.

Did I find any steamy secrets? Yes, in the form of insights into the nature of the human spirit and desire for privacy. And no, in regards to the underwhelming nature of photos. I should probably hang around in more exciting circles.
We'll overshadow that eventually :) That's an unfortunate side-effect of starting out now; Quantios was in part chosen by virtue of domain-name availability, so "Did you mean..." is a predictable side-effect of that while we get off the ground.
Look, dude, web software is often part of a software as a service model. If I let you dig through my JS, you would get the service for free. In short: No.
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I really like your site!

I live in Calgary Alberta, and I am always looking for hiking trails, but it takes time to find them. I will definately use your site in the summer.
Nice, well-thought out communication about why the business stopped (albeit poorly laid out). Also a great example of pg's comment that for startups "If you can just avoid dying, you get rich." [1]

It's always a shame to see a business you know could work ultimately discover that they can't. Without knowing much more than what this blog covers, I can imagine this is a business model that will work at some point.

My best guess about the difference between that future, successful site and Fabchannel is that the next site will come from much closer to the major labels - leveraging solid relationships into an acceptable product, instead of creating a solid product but not being successful at generating the required volume of relationships needed to make it viable.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
From the way I understood it, he was suggesting that testing for shades of blue and border thickness is nitpicking. An equivalent nitpick more familiar to us would be testing whether using tabs or spaces for code indenting improves coding efficiency.
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47 Ronin
"It was to remind me how lucky we are that the beggar was placed in my path. You see, some people live all their lives without knowing which path is right. They're buffeted by this wind or that and never really know where they're going. That's largely the fate of commoners-those who have no choice over their destiny.

For those of us born as samurai, life is something else. We know the path of duty and we follow it without question. But even that may not be easy because there may be insurmountable obstacles. Such as what that blind beggar faces. He might have a secret dream of revenge against an oppressor too. He might have justice on his side as we do now, but there is nothing he can do about it. I say we're lucky-we know what has to be done and it's within out capability to make it happen!

Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it. Those who realize this are the fortunate ones. Those who know and can try. What more can a man ask for than that?"

pp. 199-200, The 47 Ronin Story
what a whacko. I should allow you to access my servers and services for free? I should allow you to control how you use my resources in a way that guarantees I loose money? Stallman is a digital socialist. The idea of services (or anything other than direct labor) that people charge for offends him. That offends me.
I actually use tokyo cabinet from clojure as well. It's interesting that the author explains his code bits.
I checked out Calgary on the map, and it looks like we have tons of reports mapped to the west, from summitpost.com.

I'm glad you found them, because they aren't immediately visible if you zoom in on Calgary. I need to set it up to where you'll get some indication of reports if you search for or zoom in on Calgary.

I probably need to add city nodes to the map, and do a different sort of search for those - a wider radius that looks inside parks.
"communist"
Approach your startup like learning how to swim - Loic Le Meur
This model seems to work well for cars, high-end stereos, real estate, insurance ...
This site was submitted for review here not too long ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467692
It looks like it's just up or down on the y-axis. RRDTool is often used to generate more complex graphs, so something this simple isn't always the most intuitive.
Are these really comparable? The time it takes someone knowledgeable to do something difficult vs the time spent on more mundane issues where amount of knowledge doesn't really come into play?

But I see what you are saying. The Microsoft provided Windows software maintenance environment is really far behind every Linux distribution. If you have a network of non-mobile machines that mount root via NFS, the work of the admin to install hard-to-install (because it's not available as a package) software doesn't necessarily even require creating package -- you install it on the root. I did this with some one-off stuff we needed that ended up in /usr/local. Voila, everyone has it. And while we all know this kind of software management (packageless) leads to a "messy" system, it's actually easier to pay off that technical debt because you can spend time later to provide a whole new, cleanly managed environment for your NFS root users WITHOUT causing them any downtime at all to do the upgrade. In a properly managed environment, the apparently problematic 3rd party software is just that: apparently problematic. You do the hard stuff ONCE, and that scales out to X number of machines (mobile or not). With Windows, you keep doing the hardstuff over and over and over because each machine diverges and there are so many things you need to touch during the install, and even things like installation are not nearly as automate-able as they are in Linux.

What would be really interesting (and I care about this not very much since I don't do even small Windows network deployments anymore, nor do I have plans to do so in the future) is some kind of installwatch style system for Windows, that re-packages installed software, installed with setup.exe, into, let's say, RPMs, including {pre,post}-install scripts that modify the registry (this is possible, I've used tools that do registry diffs). You'd have to have a clean master Windows machine to do this properly (easily solvable with virtualization), but it could be the difference between night and day when managing Windows installations compared with Microsoft's massive updates and each vendor's own installation method.
Do you use the Java API straight up, or did you write a wrapper as well? If you have a wrapper and the source is open, I'd love to take a look.
Great coverage of Colorado - verynice!
You're assuming that a purchase is done the instant a company/person is found. What a blog does is build trust, familiarity and credibility in a particular field. So there's two scenarios : one is a reader becomes familiar with you and purchases a new offering (creating a channel and selling into it), the other is a reader finds your product, skips through some of your blog posts and decides to purchase based on the fact you appear to know what you are talking about. (creating credibility)

Of course this only works if your blog posts are related to your product offering.
not acknowledging actual competitors is a marketing strategy.
The installed OS on the Symbolics machine was only a few hundred megs, from long-vague memory. Much of that was a huge set of documentation.

I would venture to say that the MIT AI/Symbolics Lisp machine development crew (Rick Greenblatt, Dave Moon, Howard Cannon, Mike McMahon, Daniel Weinreb, sometimes RMS, and a not-too-large cast of others) probably developed the most powerful operating system (written entirely in Lisp), compressed over the shortest time period in history for any comparable project. I don't think the tools they developed, and were using for their own further development, have been equalled since. (Which is kind of sad, in a way.)
That's not necessarily what's happening. Another plausible explanation is that when you deactivate your account, you're removed from various lists in the profile data of all your friends. When you activate it again, you aren't put back on the list until a regularly scheduled task runs (or until data propogates through the servers?). So if one of the lists is "deny from seeing these photos", you get to see them until that happens.
Sorry about the powerd. That's why you shouldn't make a site at 12 am and not proofread. We should be sending out betas in two weeks in some form.
Or have people input their phone's email address to receive messages on their phone. Won't broadcast your todos via twitter, but still will help you avoid having to pay for SMS.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460914
Sure, but that perspective seems to be "F'em, regular mallrat people like advertising. I don't personally know anyone that tacky, but I'm sure they exist and are ripe for the picking. All that's needed is a total disregard for everyone's opinion." Ugh. It betrays a contempt for, well, the world, and it is quite ugly.
I find that sort of causality hard to draw, though. My choices are either to make it a hard correlation with a minor accomplishment (I tried programming in lisp, and came up with these few programs I found interesting: http://akkartik.name/lisp.html) or to make it a more fuzzy correlation with something bigger ("Everything I have done and everything I will do, would have been less good if you hadn't written what you did." http://akkartik.name/about. Or "When I write I try to imagine how you would react to each sentence." http://akkartik.name/?f=Me)

Neither seems satisfactory, especially since other people influenced these accomplishments as well. Let me attempt a middle ground -- using examples.

Eliezer, I still maintain an interest in blackboard systems to this day. For example, here's a program I wrote a couple of weeks ago: http://github.com/akkartik/brooks-ruby-warrior/tree/master. Thanks to reading Hofstadter and you and Brooks, I knew when I approached this problem that finding the heuristics to solve a particular AI problem is relatively easy. What is hard is finding an open-ended architecture to integrate lots of heuristics together. I ended up with a faint likeness of an idea others have explored in far harder domains.

PG, as I hinted above, inspired me to come to silicon valley 2 years ago. I do what I love. That was not something I could say a few years ago. Agh, this is more squirm-inducing. Here's a program that came out of conversations when I spoke to PG at a YC dinner in Boston last July: http://akkartik.name/newsflash. PG induced me to leave the problem of generating recommendations behind, at least for some domains.

I don't have more significant contributions. Hopefully that will change.
I don't see anywhere where he demands free-of-charge access. Stallman supports "free software" where the "free" means that the user's liberty to manipulate the program is preserved.

In Stallman's dream world, you would be free to charge for your service, or put ads up, or whatever you like. But your service would use standardized file formats, and the user would be able to modify the application (both server-side and client-side) to suit his needs.
Richard Stallman is an extremist. Seriously.
Hm. The site admin uses the name 'root', which is generally frowned upon by the unix community...

(I kid! I kid! I'm taking it out of context! Don't flame me, bro!)

Cool site, picked up two gems after only about 20 seconds on the main page.
If you're looking for a really good cheat sheet, check out rsnake's list: http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html
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I had a wrapper as well, unfortunately the source is closed in this case. But it wasn't a generic wrapper like yours. Basically it had a put operation that could take a huge sequence of data and persist all of them. The get operation would also "get" a list of 100 objects at a time. I used tokyo cabinet as a persistent cache basically. I used java's concurrent queues to store keys for thread safe atomic "gets".
RMS is complaining about Obfuscript. Speaking of obfuscation, I hope someone would deobfuscate LGPL for me.
Allow me to explain my other post. I wasn't being sarcastic. I was merely pointing out that this women-are-only-there-to-drive-men-to-better-themselves is a bit silly. There are a lot of women that are constantly improving themselves too. And not just by putting on make-up and practicing their "sexy look".

I have no doubt there are women here and the fact that I can't pin-point them is a good thing. It means that as a group we stopped caring about such meaningless (in the intellectual endeavour we're all pursuing) things like gender. It's simply not important and it shouldn't be.

But my original post was probably too short to convey correctly what I was trying to convey, and for that I apologise.
HN jumped the shark on Erlang day.
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Advertising is not always about convincing you to buy, or convincing you to change. A lot of brand building is simply to make you recognise the brand and keep it in your mind. This has obviously worked in the case of Target and Pepsi. There will always be a place for this type of advertising.
Heh. I just don't close browser windows, most of the time. I use alt-tab as a form of 'daily history', meaning when I press alt-tab, I can view all of what I've been looking at / doing for the day. So if I was reading about Numpy earlier in the day, then went to read something else, I'd open a new Chrome window. That way I can tab back and finish reading at some later point.

92 windows is of course extreme. My laptop had been on for a couple days at that point.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the two ideals (being able to charge for your work VS. being able to modify others' work) contradictory?

I have zero experience with Firefox extension development, but everything I _have_ seen about it points at it being very difficult to mirror in a closed source environment.
Just to even it out:

I tried SkyFire on someone's WinMo phone. It works so well I'm considering ditching the iPhone for it on a Nokia.

http://www.skyfire.com/product
so like an email?
Did he link to Apple's Keynote software as a "load testing managed service provider"?
Very well said. I built pat.io for that very reason - other things had been unusable for me. Hopefully we do see the advent of a truly flexible, adaptable system sooner than later.
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rms is arguably not totally in the mainstream -- but the world is a better place because rms is in it just based on emacs, gcc and the GNU (-: no editor war-answers, please. I don't have the time :-).

(Also, note that the guy's opinions and world view have been getting more and more popular.)
When I had probs with HN today, the first thing I did was a twitter search which confirmed it wasn't just me.
The idea of services (or anything other than direct labor) that people charge for offends him.

Actually, no. He is for totally abrogating copyright on works which have "practical use" and for maintaining certain forms of exclusive economic control on entertainment and advocacy.

Essentially, he thinks he should be able to redistribute my software for free, for any purpose whatsoever, but that I should not be able to commercially exploit his speeches or modify them, because that "misrepresents" him.

See:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Free_Software_and_Beyond:_Huma...

But let's turn to the next category, works that state the views of certain parties. Now here my answer is different, I don't think modified versions of these works contribute to society, all they do is misrepresent the authors. So I propose a compromised copyright system which says that everybody is free non-commercially to redistribute exact copies. But modifications require permission and commercial use require permission. So this compromised copyright system would provide revenues more or less as the current system does.
Main problem with AI is that nobody really knows what it means. When something starts to be remotely useful, it is not called AI anymore :)
I have always read LGPL as "Look for another piece of software which does this and save yourself some headaches."
Yes, RMS is an extremist, but his central point is valid. It's very difficult to develop and deploy open source web apps.

However, I'm not sure that it wouldn't be easily done if there was a demand for it. Most web frameworks come with easy ways to run the environment locally, so you should be able to release a RoR app open source without many problems. It just doesn't seem to be in high demand.
RMS is awesome. The fact that he's out there fighting the good fight every day so I don't have to is incredible. We all owe him a lot, and we should demonstrate that by contributing back to open source as much as we can.

That said, I think he's totally out of his league on the software as a service model. At the very least he needs to spend a lot more time mulling it over. As far as I see it, freeness of javascript more or less meaningless in a web application. The fact is that the barriers to making web applications free are much higher, and there are a lot more legitimate arguments as to why it shouldn't be free. Of course Stallman would argue for freedom under all circumstances, and he's right that web applications do present a risk to freedom of software in the long run, but I don't think it's as easy to argue from his idealogical standpoint when it comes to web apps. Too much baby flying out with the bathwater.
Hey guys. I only have five years web development experience, but I am totally amped to work with you guys. Email sent!

I am just a technical guy, so I am obviously going to need a lot of help from you three business guys to understand what is going on. (Thanks in advance for the help.)

I cannot wait to get to work on your Facebook/Twitter/eBay/Google clone.

The world will never know what hit it.
mathopd is not scalable, because uses select for connection multiplexing. With many connections, CPU load is many times higher, than for nginx or lighttpd (where epoll/kqueue used).
I suggest to use nginx instead mathopd.
It seems that GNU have kind of disowned the LGPL (maybe that is too strong a word) but they do everything they can to make you consider GPL over it.
The libraries aren't good for PLT scheme, at least for web development. For example, want to parse an RSS feed? Compare http://www.rubyrss.com/ to using HTML Prag (http://www.neilvandyke.org/htmlprag/).

Want to do billing? openid? you are out of luck. But having said that I'm experimenting with a site in PLT Scheme (and I know a couple that use Kawa as well).
As far as I know, an upmod on a dead link or comment does not actually get recorded. Refresh the page and the count will still be at its earlier value.
By the way, can you tell me what does ampley do again? I might have missed it.
Computer vision seems to be in high demand, too. The army wants its robots to know what they're shooting at.