skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a riot! I love the ending about rejecting the app because the rectangle is not recognizable as an iphone. I'm reading this while at work and can hardly keep my laughter in!
Hey, thanks a lot for the kind words! I think we posted at the same time so I ended up validating myself anyway. Ha. But I appreciate it, thank you :)

EDIT: typo
That's probably true, but I really prefer Fireball's BOFH-style take on the reviewer. (If you've never read BOFH, then take a few minutes here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/)
While I believe it's important the 'Ask HN' poster talk to an expert or wise family/friends, I also think the grandparent 'pysch_skeptic' post has a fair perspective.

Definitively treating this as the worst thing it could be -- schizophrenia or some other issue requiring fast medical intervention -- may be unnecessarily alarming and stigmatizing. From the diversity of comments and sources cited in this thread, there are other explanations that require a long-term understanding-and-management approach, that might sometimes lean on medical experts, but don't involve simply "run to the first doctor that will see you; do what that doctor says".

I would say the most important thing no matter what course is taken is to have a local, in-person confidant who can monitor/discuss the situation daily for worsening, and who can know all the other details that can't (and shouldn't!) be shared here -- such as any other drug history (prescribed or otherwise), family history, or work and personal matters that could shed additional light on the situation.
Why do you think they don't? I've been reading books through Kindle For iPhone for a month now. Takes me 30 seconds to buy a book, or download a sample to decide later. Love it.
It's safe to ignore anyone complaining on the topic of price. Those of us that spend thousands of dollars every year to keep our education up for our section of the technical playground aren't going to hesitate at paying $30 for good information. I'm confident you've put at least $30 of value into every book, if not thousands more.

My first ebook on software design sold for $97 starting in 2001 and that's when nobody had even heard of ebooks. I made six-figures several times over with the product.

Amy, I would suggest spending more time on the sales page. I don't think it's driving home just how valuable the book can be. Put yourself in my shoes as a developer and hear all the silly questions I'm asking about the book and the problems I'm having with my code in which your book will help out.

For sure, you shouldn't have your bios hanging out on the side of the page. Drop them in the middle and really allow yourselves to shine.

I'm not even sure if the best angle to spin the guide is as a "is your app slow?" type of book. Some of us want to produce high-quality code and want to see useful techniques for improvements across the board. "Supercharge your Javascript" resonates more strongly with me than "Do you fall asleep waiting while your apps are running?"

Feel free to ping me if you'd like some additional advice. For sure, add a box to the webpage for folks to sign up for updates. Get a cheap account at aweber.com. Regularly mail updates out about the guide. Often, it takes 7-10 impressions of a product to make the sale. And once you have thousands of folks on your list, selling the second guide you write will be much easier!
so you do need some patience ;)
Is this a product you would actually use - the generic comparison service? Assuming we had proper demographic targeting.
"Problems in chemistry, biology, physics, economics, engineering, and astronomy, even questions of philosophy could all be helped by the application of an advanced AI."

One of the indications of maturity in "artificial intelligence" research is the emergence of more bounded and tractable sub-fields devoted to specific A.I. problems. Machine learning, computer vision, robotics, etc. The tangible success of these research areas make me wonder if simulating human brains is the most useful approach. Which reminds of this Tom Mitchell quote:

"My late colleague Herb Simon used to talk about how aircraft are artificial birds. In many ways aircraft exceed birds in their ability to fly, but in many other ways they do not. The path to recreating human intelligence may deliver a similar outcome. Just as birds and aircraft are similar but different, we may create artificial intelligence in the future that mimics human brains, yet also differs greatly in its implementation and capability in a variety of arenas."

http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/24/devices-that-read-peopl...

Is simulating a human brain the shortest path to solving "problems in chemistry, biology, physics, economics, engineering, and astronomy?" Machine learning techniques that are very different from what a human brain does, working in concert with the brains of human researchers, might turn out to be the most productive path.
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Who would pay $10 or $20 per-use fees ... you?
Yes, and properly pastured cattle sequester carbon dioxide as well.This doesn't mean the methane issue goes away, but if we could eat less meat, make CAFOs go away, and raise cattle in a more sustainable manner, I think we'd come out ahead.
I'm confused... Where is this figure actually coming from? (Other than Scoble saying it.)
Indeed, and there is further difference between "trade mark" and "trade dress" even though you can technically call the latter the former.
Well, technically, the group name does specify NOVA and DC area...so what's the problem?
Ask HN: WIPO Complaint for a domain name
I'm the co-founder of a company in Canada that registered the domain name (8 months ago) which is very generic and not eligible for a trade or service mark. Another private non-profit Canadian company filed a complaint for the domain name dispute with the WIPO. Last month, they also applied for a trademark with the exact 3 words (which I believe won't be granted). The domain is redirected to a blank page.

My question is have you had a similar experience being a complaint respondent through WIPO. I will seek legal advice, I just want to get some tips from people who went through the process.
Beautiful. Perfect. Almost Machievellian. I laughed, I snorted, I won't tell you what else.
It'd sure be nice if someone from HN decided to live-blog it (hint hint nudge nudge).
It looks like the platform was designed around a Segway. Ultimately, while the execution and development of the hardware is excellent, I think the logistics of everyday life will be the ultimate downfall of the machine. How does it perform in various weather environments? Will it require a trip back to the drop off depot after every single bag? Just how many robots are required to handle the amount of garbage generated every day in just a few blocks of the city? How does it deal with human interference enroute to the pick up/drop off point?

Seems like there are a lot of questions to be answered before I'm convinced it is a reasonable solution.
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Google Wave is Coming for your ERP
Google Wave is more than just "Email if it were created today." The concept of Robots is a fundamental shift for users, similar to the introduction of the desktop metaphor.
Ask HN: any astonishing stories of startups built in the cloud?
I am on the speakers roster for a cloud computing event geared towards entrepreneurs and my task is to lay out the market opportunity behind cloud computing and get the audience fired up about it.

Many presentations about cloud computing present Animoto's ability to scale to explosive user growth as a classic case study. I am looking for equally astonishing stories of startups to include in my presentation.

Perhaps someone can point me to some interesting case studies already online in the comments. Alternatively, if you want your startup to be featured in the talk:

* What's in it for you: Some publicity for your startup and the chance to show off your technology chops.

* What's in it for me: A fresh example of the power of cloud computing to add to my talk, now that there are tons of startups built natively in the cloud.

Some basic guidelines so that examples can be sufficiently illustrative:

* Please have detailed audience traction numbers available, either in the form of unique visitors, page views or user accounts.

* Please have this data for a minimum of 6 months, so there's a long enough (and interesting enough) stretch of data that I can show.

* A cool, attention-grabbing service with strong early-adopter appeal would of course be a bonus.

Next steps: If you'd like me to get in touch with you, please note a good way for me to contact you in a comment below.

Thanks for reading. I am waiting to be astonished!
A certain amount of arrogance can be a useful thing and a lot of really smart people are also arrogant, but I would be very careful about using it as a sign of people who are likely to have good ideas, or who deserve any sort of deference. There are much better things to go by, and much worse things to mock.

How about we leaving mocking people to other folks, then? Quite frankly I could care less if Wolfram gets along with his scientific peers, is a genius, is an idiot, is nice to strangers, or kicks his dog around at night. Let's just assume he is an intelligent person acting as best he can. If one of us gets to know him, and thinks he has some kind of personality problem, then by all means take him out and have a talk.

This is not giving people the benefit of the doubt. Even if Wolfram is all the bad things people are saying here, it doesn't matter. If you can't find it in your heart to give somebody the benefit of the doubt, just treat them decently. Even arrogant jerks can be treated with respect.

Am I missing something here? Because it sounding a lot to me like you're making the case "yeah, but he's a really bad jerk, and it isn't so bad to pick on those"

But that can't be right, can it? Because labels like "really bad jerk" can easily be stretched to fit lots of people.

I'm done here. I had no intention of defending Wolfram, only common sense. Perhaps tomorrow there will be some new really bad person that we can throw stones at. But we'll be sure first that they're really bad.
The generic link and some discussion submitted an hour ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632300
> I think the privacy concerns about this effort are scaremongering.

I think implying usual intelligence in defending networks is scaremongering.

With all my respect to Obama he is still a politician who must defend political decisions. US might have a better political class but here in Eastern Europe we know to not take politicians seriously.

However i would be interested in some concrete solutions / strategy NSA would offer to secure a network.
According to him, it's the number given by "people who are getting the firehose feed."

http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/50e673d8/some-stats-from-tw...
Ask HN:  How would you define Hyper Local Advertising?
This "Hyper Local" has been thrown out A LOT lately... how do you define it?
> "It will be a TAX on every energy consumer in the world ... It won't actually DO anything to fix the environment"

Actually, it will. The use of taxes to influence consumption is well-documented. It's basic economics: price increases, demand decreases (because demand is not completely inelastic). As less products are made, less resources will be used, which helps the environment.
You don't believe that a tax on certain types of energy will incentivize various industries and processes to consume less of that energy?
Writers began "predicting" this sort of thing about the same time they started signing up for online services in the early 80s.
Still to me one of the best games ever created...
I think you’re missing the basic premise of the article. He’s saying there was a future that was “promised” which involved jet packs, flying cars, et al. That future never materialized and that is the topic of the article.

That doesn’t downplay what we have accomplished. In fact the author’s primary point seems to be a lot of these things didn’t materialize because people simply weren’t really interested in them. Where as they are interested in say...an iPhone.
There's going to be dozens (ok maybe not dozens) of blogs live-blogging it already, with way better frequency and quality than I can.
you could watch the demo. it's not chat. you can go for a walk and come back and read everything. the power of it is that it can be integrated with everything so you can also get replies for this comment on wave and also reply to it on wave. someone will implement phone in it too (ie skype). think of it as one place for all your communication ;)
As someone with a close family member who is schizophrenic and has spent a lot of his life refusing treatment, I think it is inadvisable in the extreme to deliberately avoid recognizing the condition, to minimize or trivalize it, and deliberately avoid seeking help for it. The kind of voices the poster describes do not seem to match the kind of stray thoughts that most people have.

As an adult, unless you pose an acute danger to yourself or others (which this fellow gives no indication of being), nobody can force you into treatment or medication that you do not want to take. The least he should do is learn about the condition, find out from a professional whether or not it actually applies to him at all, and his options if it does.

While psychiatry certainly does have its shortcomings, I have not seen a lot of good come from the Scientology anti-psychiatry approach, or trying to deal with problems of this magnitude (potential schizophrenia) on a pure self-help basis.
Sproutcore isn't something made by or supported by Apple, it's a project created by the individual who was later involved with the development of MobileMe.
Don't be so arrogant as to think that Indians don't follow what is going on around the Internet.
"This is the second time I saw this on HN (previous one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632146) "

That link is to this thread.
I would give some free excerpts. Maybe even a free chapter. If the content is really good, this process will happen in the customer's mind:

1. Wow!

2. My mind is blown!

3. This content is top notch, and I can't wait to get my hands on the rest of it.
The install/config interface is in Spanish, which makes it challenging for English speakers.

Does anyone know of similar automatic software that "phones home" when stolen?

I am wondering how this program compares with other approaches.

BTW, I use a Mac OSX/Intel laptop.
BUT, that's via the firehose, which doesn't include direct messages or twitterers who've locked their feeds. The number also doesn't reflect what has to happen with each of those 200.

Sure it's not impressive if all they have to do is append a 140 char message to a flat file or DB table. It's all the other manipulation that's interesting.
Indeed; Jerry Pournelle somewhat famously predicted in _Byte_ that by 2000, anyone in the Western world would be able to ask a question and get the answer, if the answer was known by anyone.

We've pretty much had that since 1998 or so. :)
Hard to say, since English isn't a tonal language. It would depend on how you said it.

Have you seen Microsoft Bing? - Second tone (rising)
I don't care for Microsoft Bing. - Fourth tone (falling)
Microsoft goes BING! - First tone (Kinda like singing)

I can't think of a way to make it do the third tone, which is kind of like the long falling then rising sound you make when somebody say "Yeah.....", as in "Yeah..... but it's still Microsoft."
I agree. Who knows what is ahead. I'm very hopeful Teleportation will be invented in our life time. If not that, thn hopefully at least a Hoverboard :)
Targeted only to Portuguese ... how this would kick off Twitter?
MySql can handle that with both hands tied in the back.

No sweat.
My guidelines:

If your email is short, very clear, acknowledges that the recipient is likely to be busy, and only requires a short answer, usually you will be answered with 30 minutes of it being read, or never.

If it's long, unclear, rambling and makes no effort to demonstrate that you are in effect asking a favor, or if the reply requires thought and detail, then a week, or never.

Ask yourself: what have I done to motivate the person to answer this email?

Also, read this:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html

Don't take all of it literally - pick, choose, and use common sense.
For a very thorough and less hysterical take on some of the same problems of centralized currency, see Douglas Rushkoff's book _Life Inc._
By the way, congrats on publication jgrahamc!
this is an amusing article that points out some of the more classic examples of wolfram's risible self-promotion. it's odd, however, that this critique comes from someone whose own webpage offers 3 headshots of himself, including one at the astronomic resolution of 1650x2135. (http://chrishecker.com/Image:Checker-headshot-closed.png)
There are very few Swedish author who make a living being just an author. The basic premise for copyright is that if you take the time to make something, you get exclusivity for some time. Because creating things will hopefully benefit society. I can see how some time of exclusivity can benefit creation and distribution of certain works and therefor also society, but I have a hard time understanding how exclusivity until 70 years after the authors death benefits anyone.

If anyone is interested in reading what The Pirate Party actually wants, here is a link: http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english
You can do 10 minutes every day. The important thing is to feel progress every day, or else you get depressed. The same advice is given to writers for the same reasons: write something every day, even if it's terrible. It keeps you feeling like you're moving forward, and that helps you break through any mental blocks.
"Who would have thought that the blackberry or iPhone would ever be possible back in the late 70's..."

The TV show Life on Mars was about a present day cop who somehow finds himself back in the 70s. In one episode he tries to talk a suicidal inventor off a ledge, who is ready to kill himself because his latest idea of a phone you can carry around with you failed to get any interest. The cop tries to convince him that one day everyone will use such devices, with no luck. The other cops keep asking each other "Who would want to carry a phone around with them?"
Serious answer:
The bright orange/red bar saturates my red cone cells,
leaving an "afterglow" green bar burned into my vision.
It fades away after a minute or two.
I agree with some of the authors points but not with others. For example, I don't think you can say "people weren't interested in the Jetpack because it only had enough fuel for half a minute." But the future that was promised had Jetpacks that lasted longer than half a minute so that answer's kind of a cop out.

That said I do agree that a lot of the "future" that these visionaries put out there was impractical. Whenever anyone talks to me about a flying car I ask them if they've ever seen someone driving around in a broken down car that obviously needs maintenance. Then I ask them to imagine what the world would be like if that unmaintained car could fall out of the sky onto their house.

That alone is why I think flying cars will never be an option. Because even if you make a law that requires people to keep their flying cars maintained there will be those that will ignore it (see smog laws).
Ok HN, You Were Right. Unpaid Internships Are Wrong
A while ago I tried to argue (unsuccessfully) that if knowledge was bestowed on ignorant, young interns then an unpaid internship would be justified. Knowledge could be exchanged in lieu of monetary compensation.

This was the thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545335

However, I have since thought about this issue quite a bit and I have come to agree with all of you (or those of you that disagreed).

I can say unequivocally now that unpaid internships are wrong.

What caused the change of heart? Besides the gradual eating away at my soul, I have recently experienced a very frustrating situation.

Last year I found out about a new (unpaid) internship at a company for this summer. I was delighted when they brought me in for an interview because I really really enjoyed this company's product and I really really wanted to have my hand in making it more successful.

The problem is that over the course of a year, I gained new skills. The company found out about those skills and knew that I could address a very specific problem they were having.

After I was "hired", I tried (unsuccessfully) to negotiate some sort of compensation. They stood firm saying the unpaid internship was a way for them to screen for good employees.

A few months ago, I would have agreed with them. Now I see, quite clearly actually, that unpaid internships unfairly take advantage of others.

How does one go about to fix this problem?
What does he mean by "Run"?

If he takes electricity, puts it into some magical device containing water, and unplugs it, and then runs his car on the output, then it all depends on how much went in and how much came out.

I'll bet more went in than came out.

If he means he puts water into some magical device, and then the car runs on that, no chance.

There are cars that run on air. They put compressed air into a cylinder, then drive an engine similar to a steam engine. Then the proponents claim "It runs on Air!" and in a sense they're right.

Precision required. What actually happens?

Short answer: TANSTAAFL.
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NSA already co-publishes security guidelines for major operating systems. The nuts and bolts of what the DOD needs to do to lock down its networks are well understood. But implementing those steps requires a top-down management change. Keeping networks secure involves saying "no" a lot, and adding weeks or months to the timelines of most projects.
Well, it doesn't have to be you; but I know I would appreciate someone live-blogging who is a bit stronger technically than your average blogger.
Hiya, bprater.

Thanks for... actually, anything I try here sounds silly - support, sharing, etc., etc. But, in any case, thanks.

Re: the sales page, you're right. This is the beta sales page. When I ship the final version (next weekish), the sales page will change. I didn't think it made sense to work on the sales page again before the book was done. :)

I'm always looking for more advice so I will definitely ping you.

Nice to see another geek doing this stuff, not just sleazy "I make $102,221.392 repeating on Google Adsense every picosecond!" people. :)
That makes the headline seem a bit linkbaity to me. It also makes me question the validity of the data.
'It's arrogant beyond belief but it also makes me think "fuck yeah".'

Well put. I agree that the version of the story in which Wolfram quietly notices that he doesn't know facts, retreats to his room, and tries to learn something doesn't make me want to tear off my shirt and pound my chest NEARLY as much as the version in which he tells everyone he's better than they are before going to his room and trying to learn something.
I'm so undisciplined sometimes I wish I had my own personal drill-sergeant (akin to that guy from Full Metal Jacket) to kick my ass as soon I start losing my train of thought. . .does anyone else here consider their wandering train of thought a problem?

Usually I spend so much time trying to figure wtf I should do that I either end-up micro-managing some code snippet that doesn't matter or day-dreaming about how awesome my hypothetical startup is, which frankly doesn't do anything at all!

How do you guys manage to do work that really matters on your own time without anyone else there to keep you on task, implement a set constraints for you to work within, or tell you what the problem is? i.e. gimme some tips to self-manage my train of thought.