skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting as the membership fee was their primary/only way of making money by doing everything else at cost or at a loss to gain advantage.

There's always space for more ecommerce companies but this feels an awful lot like the VC subsidized pets.com bubble.
I don't do freelance app development anymore, but I've developed a few dozen new products (web, mobile web, and native mobile). I'm also the co-founder of a non-profit, so I understand the situation you're in well.

I see quite a few non-profits get taken for a ride by development shops, so I'd be happy to help you avoid that. I can also generally give you advice on your mobile strategy.

Shoot me an email at smt88hn@gmail.com.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-07/amazon-bou...

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/jet-com-takes-on-amazon-wit...

http://mashable.com/2015/07/26/jet-amazon/#iUf9d_VZngkr
With healthcare costs being so expensive in the United States.Most people actually choose to not get treatment.Which unfortunately results in even more expensive bills in the future.Look forward to seeing how medicalbnb can help connect those seeking affordable healthcare with those who can provide it.
It certainly was meant to equate aspects of Cuba and North Korea. The text "North Korea has also" is a direct comparison between the two countries, as is "Unlike NK, Cuba ...".

I don't see how the comparison to North Korea is useful. For one, I've been distracted by the phrase 'connected to the Internet for a good long time'. I can find nothing to verify that statement, and I can't help but wonder if it's actually true.

If Cuba has had 'public Internet for a long time', then how much longer has NK had internet access?

Leave out the North Korea reference and the text becomes "Cuba may have had Internet for a good long time -- doesn't mean that more than a select few had any access". That's simpler, persuasive, and more obviously correct. Which makes me think there has to be a reason for mentioning North Korea in the first place, out of all the available possibilities.
I have lived without a car for several years. When I gave up my car, there was a bus stop on my street and a bus stop in front of my office. It was a 7 minute trip by car. It would have taken two hours by bus to go to the down town central transit center and switch buses and come back. Walking to my office only took an hour and did not involve paying a fare. With walking daily, I rarely walked more than 15 minutes before being offered a ride to work.

I now live in Califoirnia where public transit is substantially less crappy. I don't use it frequently, but I do use it.

Maybe a better question would be about why the hell you can't get there from here when so much money is apparently being thrown at the problem.
It's never wise to boast as a startup regardless of your funding and prior success. I get the vibe that they expect success. This is such a terribly bad mindset to approach a new venture with. Starting with that much funding is as much a liability as a guarantee of winning a market.
Meritocracy is a great idea if the playing field is level. It isn't, and for hundreds of years the voices of women and people of color have been systematically oppressed — but I don't need to tell you that.

The deliberate inclusion of more women and POC is a conscious choice to combat this. Their works will be judged on their merits - but first they must have the opportunity to be judged, and that's something to which they do not have equal access compared to white men.
I have a plan that involves using Inline::Perl6 to get at the grammar engine, which will presumably result in me writing perl6-side shim code and then I'll have a better idea how I feel about it.

So (4), but what percentage of each that'll end up being in the long run I've no idea.
Especially since the "lower prices" they boast of have been shown to be mostly fake.

i.e., They just buy the stuff at a higher price elsewhere and resell it at a lower price. There's burning VC cash and then there's burning VC cash!
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F.lux is really great, but is available only for IPhone's, on android I use an app called twilight.
Building 20 was magical; in 1980 I founded a student run computer center using the Logo Lab's then surplus PDP-11/45. I seriously doubt that would have been possible without "unattractive" space being available in Building 20.
I'm not sure if I agree with the other poster's point. But just the same, your logic is: So if I get into a fight with a drunk concealed carry holder, I deserve to get shot? Of course not. Would it have been wise of me to consider that some of the possible outcomes go beyond a few fists thrown at the pub? Absolutely.

The massive leap you're making to bait the other commenter is tacky.
The dependency parse in the demo for "my dog also likes eating sausage" has "eating" as an adjective modifying "sausage". It's as if "eating sausage" were a kind of sausage.

The correct parse has "eating" as an xcomp of "likes", and "sausage" as a dobj of "eating". You can see the correct parse for this structure if you plug "I like eating sausage" into the demo.

EDIT: Weirdly, the demo of the same software at http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/ doesn't make this mistake!
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Basically you use (a) a cryptographic hashing function or (b) encrypted Base64 data. The former makes shorter URLs while the latter gives you more to work with on the server side.

In DotNet, System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Managed::ComputeHash() is a good start for making a hash. Then, of course Convert.ToBase64String() could be used to make the string, but be sure to replace the '+', '/', and '=' with different characters to make the string URL-friendly.

For a hash-based solution, there should be no need whatsoever to exceed 256 bits in cryptographic length, particularly since trying random URLs is a time-consuming activity. In fact, 64 bits may be sufficient in the real world. Even if someone could brute-force one hundred million combinations a second, it would still take on average ~389 million years to crack 64 bits. However, if the salt and algorithm are known to the attacker, it could become a dictionary attack, which is worlds easier. A good middle ground would be 128 bits, or 24 Base64 characters.

In the case of Google Docs, they are probably using PKI-encrypted binary data (such as perhaps an internal account ID) encoded in Base64, rather than merely a hash. This could make lookups and redirects more efficient (and less troublesome) to process, while making the URL less human-friendly.

Using SSL is recommended if at all possible -- to prevent playback attacks. Alternatively, playback attacks can be minimised by using a proper nonce and timeout. Furthermore, make sure you use a good random salt if using a hash and computing it from simple information such as the user's login username.
All drives are encrypted. They may take our servers, but they'll never take our customer's data.
Also SUTime. Yes, it works mostly, but wow :(

So what's better than SUTime? I'm using it now and am genuinely curious.
Yep. We have the formula for economic and social development:

1) Strong rule of law
2) Political and economic freedom
3) Regulations that focus on reducing information asymmetry.

There are plenty of examples: America, Canada, parts of Europe, Chile, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand. The rapid development of Eastern Europe (particularly Poland) is a great case-study.

But this simple truth is a threat to a lot of entrenched interests, who will fight and deny it every step of the way.
until an automated theorem prover can be made to certify these transformations as valid, a person has to do this work manually. this is particularly true in this specific instance since an enormous, alien framework has been erected to set up what defines a valid transformation within it.

on point [1], though i suppose mathematical proofs don't quite align with this characterization.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-have-a-world-without...
Is it relevant here? Google, for example, spends a small fortune on research.
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I was working in the fertilizer business when GMO seed was first introduced. I thought then and still do now that it was an incredible scientific achievement.

I knew then we would use fewer chemicals and safer chemicals in food production. It is beyond debate that this is true but the opponents do not seem to be deterred.
Weren't they were giving away a free membership for a limited time? Now, the membership is always free.

I'm not sure if they "discovered" that free is the right price for membership, or if the "giving away" part was always just a marketing gimmick / viral growth motivator. Did anybody ever actually pay for a Jet membership?

edit: I might be mis-remembering what their initial marketing was, but this feels like part of a strategy to never really make any money from charging for membership.
Ask HN: Share some webapp with good UI and how they were made
I am looking at http://webglstudio.org/, and wondering what other apps are at a state of bringing desktop-like UI and complexity to the browser, and the technologies that make them possible. Are they open-sourced?

And, how would one start to learn about building them? Would react, angular be good bases?
Same thing with Alaska salmon. Reds (sockeye) were netting the fishermen 50 cents a pound this summer, but try pricing it in a store, much less in a restaurant.

I'm really surprised that someone hasn't disintermediated the seafood industry in a big way. Too many middlemen, plus an ultra-perishable product that would benefit tremendously from fast transactions.
> there's a reason triple a studios aren't using unity for major releases

They are, however, using Unreal Engine for tons of major releases.
Nice to see someone putting some effort in customising how Bootstrap looks. It's not the flashiest front-end framework but that's half the point of it: it is a solid base that can be made quite pretty if not avant-garde. It depresses me when a fair proportion of websites are too obviously Bootstrap.

Looks like a nice app.
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Tamper detection won't prevent anything. It would just be an indicator that something appears to have happened.

The software load that is wiped every time is a first, and extremely basic, line of defence.

Realistically I'd hope the OS is on a SD card that they can literally take out and throw away after they have the data off (you can pwn the micro-controller on an SD card) - and replace with a freshly baked card.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but it seems to me that Reddit would be much better off as a dontation-based non-profit. It seems ethical that nobody should make money off of user-generated content except the users are compensated for their time (which is unpractical); at least not beyond what’s necessary to keep the system up and running and occasionally add handy features to it. I bet the amount of time it takes to develop and run Reddit fades in face of the collective amount of time there is spent on creating and curating content by millions of people. I’m actually surprised that none of the comments here are touching on this point.
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I can think of similarities between North Korea and pretty much any other country in the world. I'm sure you can as well.
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It is so much more than that: I rarely lived somewhere in the states that had public transportation outside of a cab service - in one city, that cab service was unreliable if you needed to make an appointment. No pre-ordering and service times could be 15-120 minutes. In addition, in-town mass transit often wouldn't be enough in places like Indiana - most cities need transport between cities as well. To actually serve the population that benefits the most initially from public transport, it should run nights and weekends as well. Most smallish (40-50k people) stop service during these times.

Add some mistrust in the government to design it correctly.. and it is no wonder people don't want to raise taxes for it. The solution, it seems, is to build it regardless because it is good for the nation.
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General distrust of authority leading to rumors about the "true purpose" of the shots. As a specific example, he meets a mother who hid her male infant from the authorities because of a rumor that the shots were designed by Hindus to sterilize Muslim boys.
Or like spiders: https://xkcd.com/1268/
The ultimate ad killer?
Probably not but I think the problem was that many people signed up as I did and never really found a reason to even make that first purchase.
We've had good luck embedding React components inside of Backbone views. The downside is that you can't really go the opposite way (embed a small pre-existing Backbone view inside of a React component), at least without risking some weird behaviors.
I assume named after the fact that a snowball is a lump of cloud matter, in a flight ready state?
All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
If that is the case, then would it be possible for someone who skipped a dose and development a resistant strain, to continue skipping doses until his virus looses its resistance?
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Are things really cheaper? I never saw any prices that made me want to buy.
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Look at the numbers of women or racial minorities in tech: in fact, exactly what you suggest happens. It's unfortunate that you think it's "silly" but everyone's got to live their life and subjecting oneself to constant discomfort just doesn't appeal to everyone.
Just a bit of devils advocacy here...

"Chances are, most computers you log in to will already have it installed and available to use."

To the best of my knowledge, Make isn't included in OSX. While it can be easily via Xcode, lacking this utility can be frustrating to beginners who simply download Node and want to build a project.
Yes, we do. We have enough for billions, with a b, of years.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/cohen.html
Maybe. They'd have to issue that warrant to our datacentre operators though, not us, because there's nowhere to send the documentation. And then they can compel our datacentre not to talk about it, if they like, but they can't stop us talking about.

Really though, the point of all this isn't to say they can't take our servers - of course they can, via legal and illegal means. The point is more to say that they can't do it _quietly_, which greatly raises the bar, because now you've got a PR shitstorm to deal with.

But really, it's not going to happen, because we have good legal processes in place. There are proper channels from most countries in the world to the appropriate Australian authorities, and from there to us, and once that request comes in we service it and that's that.

If you want reasonably secure and private email, and you're not doing really dodgy shit, we're probably a safer choice that many. But we're not selling a privacy service, just an email service. If privacy is 100% non-negotiable for you, then you'll need to look elsewhere.
I live in Los Angeles and would have seriously undervalue my time for a bus to compete with the costs of driving (or even Uber). And I live near a stop.
You might like Fetching (http://fetching.io/). It has a hosted and offline only version, and does full text snapshot/indexing of everything you browse.
Being a native of New York City I didn't own a car until I was 30 and my wife and I bought our first house north of the city. It gets about 3 miles a day between Metro North and home.

I'm still taking mass transit everyday and probably will be until I retire some decades from now. To me NOT taking public transit is abnormal.
Thanks for sharing this. This article was really helpful to a newb like myself and explained things a lot of articles like this skip over (like the '-' in the cat command).
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Interesting fact that most people might not know - Jet.com is powered by .NET specifically F#!

http://techgroup.jet.com/blog/2015/03-22-on-how-jet-chose/
Foxconn doesn't build Moog hardware, and that's a more exclusive tech company than most.
> Furthermore, since the point of education is to basically help people become more clever, if we make it too easy for smart, knowledgeable people to wash their hands of their student loans, the end result will be an overall societal attitude of "Only a fool actually pays their student loans." At that point, the entire system falls apart in a way that makes our current woes look like small potatoes.

That's going to happen regardless, with over a trillion dollars in student loan debt. Its just taking longer than expected.

Smart people will always learn how to hack the system. Its easy to default on a house in any state. Its easy to default on your student loan debt if you're moving to another country. The only people who get stuck with worthless debt are suckers.
It's best to buy it now.
Wrong article--The food pyramid pushed corn based sweetener and other plant-basey carnohydrates grains and gluten based products at the expense of animal protein and (saturated) fat.
People who manage parse the sentence also aren't trying understand it, except as far as "Buffalo" is a proper noun denoting a city, which can be used to form then phrases "Buffalo buffalo" == buffalo of/from/belonging to/related to Buffalo, and trying various combinations of interpreting "buffalo" as a noun (in various roles as subject, direct object and so on) or verb, and determining elided words such as "which" or "that" complementizers heading off phrases and embedded clauses.

It's almost purely syntactic reasoning. Searching these spaces of possibilities is something which, you would think, a "natural language parser" ought to be doing to earn its name.

Nobody actually knows what it means "to buffalo" something; it is not necessary to know. People solve the parse in spite of knowing that there is nothing to understand in the sentence.
Rule of thumb for doing a programming language: Write the debugger first. Or at least, very, very early. This will inform you of poor choices you've made, and you're going to need a debugger anyway.
>Or, better still, don't unsubscribe, and instead challenge the intolerance and prejudice.

Good lord, no. 99% of the "intolerance and prejudice" is from out-and-out trolls. They're posting because they want to see a bunch of angry denunciations. Don't give them what they want.
This would be especially helpful for independent and "mid-market" type bands, provided the venues available in certain cities aren't already tied into a different ticketing ecosystem via contract.

Locally, I can choose from three (3) rather prominent avenues to buy from, but there's no overlap that I can tell between venues. As in, you can't get tickets to a LiveNation exclusive venue (large scale) and some smaller ones might have arrangements with other entities. I guess what I'm saying is I think you're right, but there are probably minefields of contracts in place.
How would anyone know if you could get the same thing as some other thing when you can only do one?
Yep -- my advisor figured he could do my thesis problem in a week. It did take me only 1.5 years to find a counterexample and kill my own thesis, but these are estimates after all.
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I hear this often enough at Uni.

What bugs me about this is that the people who would have benefit from these policies, such as my ancestors, are long dead and gone. The people who oppressed them are also dead.

While I can buy your argument for poor people in general, I can't understand applying a non-meritocratic basis on the basis of gender or race. A rich minority boy or white girl has access to a great deal of resources more than a poor backwoods white boy.

And the sort of symbolic victory style stuff that goes on in both academic circles and in magazines just doesn't help us at all.

I would have given anything for there to be resources about how to dress well in western clothing, find and eat healthy religiously-acceptable food, and understand the intricacies of western culture. But instead I got a self-congratulatory lecture on embracing our native culture. What good is that at all?
It's inconvenient.

My car takes me from right where I am, to exactly where I want to go, exactly when I want it to, in a minimum of time.

Public transportation takes me from sort of where I am, to the general area I want to go, slowly, on their schedule and not mine.
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Everything I was about to purchase from Jet was more expensive than Amazon, even without prime. I unsubscribed from their emails and gave up with them.
This will change with driverless taxicabs.
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The article says that people are willing to raise taxes for it. They're just not willing to use it.

> Recently, transit scholars Michael Manville and Benjamin Cummins analyzed 21 local transportation funding ballots from 2001 to 2003, and found that, on average, these tax increases were approved by 63 percent of the vote. Yet a decade later, the share of commuters who drove alone in these places had fallen just 2 points, from 87 to 85 percent, while the share of transit commuters had stayed the same, at 5 percent.
I suggest Gensim for Word2Vec.

Spacy is really fast, the author is extremely knowledgeable, and it works well on the datasets it was trained on. Problem with SpaCy for me was that it was pre-trained on those texts and it was not possible to train it on new things. Also their parser wasn't very customizable.

This pre-trained model is borderline useless if you want to obtain good results on your data, which is probably very different from the data they trained on.

For NER in the Python world, the best option is pycrfsuite. It works really quickly and lets you easily define your own features. CRFSuite itself is a work of art. I only wish Okazaki incorporated 2nd order transitions because that makes a huge difference on some datasets.

CoreNLP is a lot worse than pyCRFsuite in terms of ease of integration and performance in my experience. Particularly, if you want to define your own features.
To me that implies more that people who are bad at their job get promoted. Ive met plenty of vps, politicians, etc.. and the majority will not hesitate to challenge your very livelihood if they feel it gets them a leg up on the world. Hell, most will make passive aggressive comments with a smile.
I live and love AWS but I never understood why they don't tier bandwidth charges per costumer.
BTW, this is basically Costco's model. They do make some money on goods sold, but most of the profit for the company comes from membership fees.
In most cities, driving -- although it comes with its own frustrations -- is a completely viable way to commute. Sitting in traffic and maintaining a car are negatives, but being able to travel whenever you need to and going directly to your destination are huge pluses. So public transport must be competitive with driving. It must win in convenience or value or both. In some places like Manhattan, driving is so painful that public transport usually wins out. But, in many cities driving is more convenient and sometimes even cheaper. Of course, comparing cost is not easy since roads and buses and rail are usually all funded by an amount of general tax revenue.
That's because you live in an area that's dense enough to make public transport viable.
I've been wondering if academia is really fundamentally broken, or whether it's just horribly distorted due to some combination of underfunding and overpopulation, resulting in way too much competition for scarce resources.