skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> NLTK is very well-documented and easy to work with.

Agreed.

> It's also amazingly complete -- tokenizers, stemmers, POS taggers, classifers, etc. etc etc.

Don't agree. The biggest missing piece is a statistical parser which forms the basis for a lot of further linguistic analysis. It is hard to beat Stanford Parser for that. Check out https://github.com/wavii/pfp which has Python bindings.

For most of the ML stuff, you would be better off going to a specialist library like Scikits.learn directly. They are faster and implementations are more accurate. ( I found some of the implementations not quite correct in NLTK. For example, Naive Bays classifier which a lot of first time users use. The difference in results may not be much in practice but it is still incorrect.)

It is definitely a very good place to start but better alternatives exist for many of the pieces.
Google Books also has a release date of 2013.

http://books.google.com/books?id=zvfXZ7TxiowC&dq=shadows...
This sounds like something you could have sold. Did you? What happened?
Well, that dark problem at least seems pretty easy to solve at least.
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Incidentally, it doesn't "produce" any markup. There are form generators for at least Rails available, but generally you do whatever to get the markup to conform to their expected structure.

That being said my experience is heavy on the forms portion of their styling, and there is an extraneous div.input wrapped around each element, but you'd often do something like that on your own anyhow.

Generally: Good Stuff
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Ok, how do you manage your servers?
Well, they publicly released file system plans for Longhorn back in the day too, and it went nowhere.

I regularly take about a tablespoon of salt with any "plans" I hear from Microsoft.
Eh. Wetware is cheap (hell, it makes more of itself even when we don't want it too), and does a fair job of mending itself. Hardware is expensive, though it has the advantage of being easier to power and is lighter.

I think if you recognize the advantages and disadvantages of both you could effectively use either of them. Of course doing that might not be considered "humane" by our current standards.

I think the real hope is waiting for hardware to master the "fixing itself" problem (preferably by conquering replication, which would also largely fix the expense problem). Little need to drag along the wetware at that point though.
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Why is this hosted on http://www.rimmell.com/ and why does it claim to be the BBC?
Yeah, and those who intentionally deactivate their JS know how to turn it back on for a site they trust.
Idea for HN: Wifi-centric apps
Some people like me are cheap-skates and don't want to buy data plans for their smart-phones, using them in Wifi zones only. It would be great if more apps could download the data when connected, and allow browsing, editing etc. offline. I couldn't find an HN app or a StackExchange app that works this way. As soon as I open them while disconnected, they fail to show even the content I was browsing earlier.
I just applied a fix for this. It should be much better now.
Does anyone know if SendGrid plans on improving their incoming parse a la Mailgun and Postmark (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3475308)?

We use SendGrid but have been thinking of switching to Mailgun for awhile for their incoming parse service.
Not what I'd call 'New'---these have been around for a while and depending on you needs do quite well. I prefer XeTeX because as one of the answers said, 'fonts just work'.
I bet this site (Wynn Las Vegas) costs $18m per year in lost opportunities, because it's an unusable mess. http://wynnlasvegas.com/

It's slow, often times out, randomly doesn't work. The four seasons may have over paid for their site, but it's incredibly nice.
I wanted to believe it..because it sounds so cool. But I think it's an April fool's joke from 2009.
Parsing email is a real pain point, kudos to Postmark for trying to solve it. However, I need this functionality in a more abstracted way, not locked to a email address. I'm thinking about taking a swing at it myself and GPL'ing it. (Basically full fledged IMAP->JSON.)

For a real world example, at my startup https://zapier.com/ we have "new email received" or "new email tagged in Gmail" as one of the many, many inputs which you can map to any other write (IE: Tweet something, add a note to Basecamp, add a contact to Highrise, etc...). However, this means I need to log into a IMAP account, not receive an email at a predetermined address. Parsing that raw email is an absolute bear (even with Python's built in IMAP and parse libraries).

Anyone heard of a service or library like that?
The way this article is written and the way they use the word "fanboy" highlights their bias much more than anyone else's. They have the makings of an interesting article, but instead of writing an interesting story or adding any insight they decided to make it a versus thing. Yay, just what the web needs. :/
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I disagree. Samsung is being very sympathetic with hackers tinkering with their devices. They never locked the bootloader like HTC and Motorola did, and they are always in touch with relevant members of the android community, like cyanogen and supercurio. If you are not even willing to root a samsung device, that is a dead simple thing to do, you are not really into tinkering for the device. Is unrealistic to expect that anyone will give rooted devices to every single user, a "regular" non-geek user can destroy the device in minutes granting root access to the wrong apps or deleting system resources.
I second that. There are so many possible combinations these days
We need to talk about piracy (but we must stop SOPA first)
Absolutely. Apparently, Wozniak was not one you wanted to get advice from.
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I need this. Given credentials, go get IMAP and dump everything JSON. This would be brilliant. Anyone up for a hackathon?
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Thanks. The getting a job part is turning out to be quite difficult but I'm actively looking.
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nginx, Varnish, and uWSGI are oh so awesome together. My app (I run a Pyramid based application) is lightning fast, and very easy to configure (much easier than mod_wsgi).
It ended up here:
https://github.com/sfioritto/lookout

No license but I'll throw a BSD license on there later if anyone wants to use it.

Update: It's been a while but I think when I left off I was working on a bug in the Bayes module. The concept was new to me at the time and I was still wrapping my head around it. Also I'm sure the email parsers are out of date at this point.

Basically the whole project was an excuse to learn Bayes rule and use Lamson. Plus people wanted to pay me for it. But once I got the code out, I quickly lost interested as explained above.

EDIT:

A few emails from people interested. Look here for a little more info:
http://twosixes.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/welcome-to-my-delus...

After this I learned you need to price it for the entry level PR folks to pay for it. Honestly I learned so much after this I think your best bet would be to pick up the phone and chat with PR people to fill in the gaps where I left off on the blog.

After implementing the billing system I was thinking of pivoting out of the PR agency market and into small businesses (who do their own monitoring). I was also looking at ways of gathering alerts without actually using Google Alerts and blatantly violating their TOS.
Photos and other large content. Most web stacks don't nicely handle large requests like that, and to the best of my knowledge streaming JSON parsers are both young and rare.
I saw another article with a title that said Woz thought Android "bests" the iPhone and he said no such thing.
I overcome problems all the time by talking it out with someone--they don't even have to be a programmer. Just describing the process, what I'm trying to accomplish, the pieces of information involved, and the "why's" of each step can help me find where my logical flaw or bug is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Hey, finally it launched, will definitely come in handy.

I found a bug in the docs:
On http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-inbound-parse.htm...
the link named 'API developer email list' links to 'file://localhost/Users/alexhillman/Sites/wildbit/postmark-design/docs/groups.google.com/group/postmark-api-developers/'
This is neat, but it's not too difficult to handle incoming mail yourself with postfix and a simple ruby/python script to process it. The learning curve is slightly steep due to postfix and some really bad suggestions, but the actual work is straight forward.

I setup a simple ruby program to pipe the postfix email into a resque queue (redis backed ruby jobs system) to be handled by my work pool...a couple easy regexes determine what the email is: bounces get auto-delisted after 2x, unsubscribes delist immediately, replies get shoved into the correct in-site comment thread or conversation, etc. This is a day of work....
From the article:

"King himself donated proceeds from licensing the speech to fund the civil rights movement"

This sure makes it sound like he wasn't ignorant of copyright law and its impact on his speeches.
I've listened to the debate about this for ages, taking everything on faith. From what I've learned, you can't truly separate layout and HTML. The best you can do is make it so minor layout changes will require only changes to the CSS. Big layout changes always seem to require changes to the HTML. People cite ZenGarden as an example of major changes with just CSS, but their markup is full of more id's and classes than would be reasonable for an everyday site. And people spend a long time tweaking to get stuff to work across browsers.

So I completely agree that using this (and most other CSS frameworks) is going backwards a bit in mixing layout with HTML. But I actually always did that. I just wish writers on the subject would help me not be confused by starting out by admitting that they are not following the notion of layout done in CSS.

Some people posted on here that Bootstrap is just for getting quick prototypes done, and then when things are stabilized, you should switch over to semantic, properly separated CSS. But if so, is that the intentions for all grid based CSS frameworks?
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I think for $18m they're probably making significantly more than that back. That really is a damned fine website, and you can tell that every piece of it has been double checked and agonized over with the client.
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"Because writing good books takes time, a lot of time."

You might be surprised at how little of that $80 textbook price goes to the author (maybe 15% if you're very lucky).

Given that an advanced text is unlikely to sell like Stephen King, it's not a reliable road to riches (although you can do reasonably well if you write a widely-adopted book, say one used for large freshman classes -- but even there the publisher is going to be sucking up 85% of the money).

The situation is even worse with scholarly journals. For many of those, the scholars write and edit all the material for free -- then the publisher charges the scholarly community a thousand bucks a year or more for the material they've developed, often at public expense.
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Google has introduced Search, Plus Your World to provide more personalised search results to internet users. From a SEO point of view, is this a good or a bad thing?
I agree and I salute you for giving way for jest in face of serious argument. To follow up along your reasoning, I think the weakness of man sets it's own limitations without us having to make conscious decisions on how far we should strive in each phase of human development. Rather push the boundaries until they push back.
Impressive. The general approach seems similar to guestfish, is there anything you'd like to do better? Which version of the kernel do you use? I recall Fabrice Bellard didn't use the latest due to a bootloader hack.
In many areas of computer science, conference proceedings are where most people publish. (See the CRA's best practices memo: http://www.cra.org/resources/bp-view/evaluating_computer_sci...)

Publishing in ACM and IEEE conferences are essentially author-pay. Technically, you don't pay to publish in the conference, but you must pay to register for the conference. And most conferences have a rule that if you don't register, you can't publish.

There are many objections to the ACM and IEEE practices about maintaining paywalls, but I think that as professional societies, their policies can change. The for-profit journals, on the other hand, probably cannot survive if they allowed such open access. And nor should they: their business model is no longer valid.
Totally fair - thanks!
" the blackout should not affect visitors from countries where SOPA makes little difference."

I'll make the claim that most english speaking countries in the world will be affected by this. This bill is supposedly targeting foreign website. It could mean a European site getting blocked by PayPal because of an American law.
data via ansible is transmitted instantaneously. That's sorta the whole point of the ansible.
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Great idea, once you gain traction, feature some of the people who want to teach others. Glad to see so many startups taking action!
Ironically, MLK was not the actual author of the "Dream" speech, which was written by King's regular speechwriters, Stanley Levison and Clarence B. Jones.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream#Speech_title_and...).

It's an interesting comment on our society that it prefers to attribute this type of artistic work to the performer, rather than the actual writer. Perhaps future generations will see MLK simply as the man who read Stanley Levison's great speeches, or Obama as the actor who brought Jon Favreau alive. We give props to Yo-Yo Ma for a great performance of Bach, too, but we don't talk about "Ma's fugue." And there's a very well-developed system for distinguishing between composition and performance copyrights...
What makes you think this site isn't done well?
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It looks like you have the same problems with incorrect input. I tried typing Hello without the '#' and the error was much more confusing than "Oops. Try again"
A large part of my family is going to have no idea what is going on or why large parts of the web are dark. I imagine that will be true for many here.

It would be a good idea to have a form letter we can send to family and friends today that explains what is coming with links to places (like this one) where they can learn more.
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SOPA has been put on hold, not completely removed from discussion. And even if (hopefully when) SOPA is completely removed, it is likely that something similiar might be introduced in the future.

Now that the topic has been brought up. a very strong showing of oppositions to the concepts contained in SOPA as well as SOPA itself is a very useful thing.
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It's a shame that http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ appears to be broken.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.worldipv6launch.o...
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I agree with pretty much everything you just said, except that I'm not sure about the ability to sell and license copyrights being "modern legal inventions." I haven't done any research into this, so I'm just going off my gut feeling here... but IP isn't much use without the ability to grant licenses. A license is just saying "I agree not to sue you for doing X." My guess is that licensing has been around for a seriously long time.

The right to sell... perhaps not quite as well-established or self-evident as the right to license. But still, my guess would be that it's been around since long before MLK was born. But like I said, I haven't actually researched these questions.
Looks interested, without having the chance to give the docs a one over, does it do IMAP as well? Looks more focused on SMTP/sendmail.
Simply put, it's because plenty of people don't know much about him, and so "Apple founder prefers <rival> to <Apple product>" makes not just good link bait, but good content for those people as well.
Except for the time dilation; the transmission rate appears (in Ender's frame of reference) to be on the order of bits per second, even if transmitted in gigabits per second...
You're correct; Clay's type system doesn't help much with memory safety. It's flexible enough to express RAII-based ownership semantics like C++, so you can manage dynamic memory with reference counted, uniquely-owned, or other policy-enforcing pointer objects, but also like C++, the language doesn't prevent you from taking nonowning references to arbitrary data behind the type system's back and using those references after the owning object has freed the data.
But not when the receiver is traveling at relativistic speeds. The transmission would appear instant to those in flight but the transmission from the planet bound ansible would be drawn out so that the computer on the receiving end wouldn't get the file at a bit-rate faster than it is able to process.
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Europe"
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I should really take the consulting thing out. I'm spending 95% of my time on GrantTree, half a day here or there on Woobius, and no time whatsoever consulting.

I've invalidated a few ideas via this approach, but right now I do have an idea that's "sticking ", so I'm following that one for now.
One might think of it as "D-Day"?
You must be under a lot of stress right now.

Just practically, 12 months isn't much time for any of your businesses to get traction, and being outside the United States usually means bootstrapping without much visibility. So even if you started another business NOW and it really became something, you'd still have to wait several years before being able to draw anything near the sort of salary that would count as a "decent living" and stop you from feeling depressed about it.

I'd think about getting a job. There's no reason you can't continue to do your own thing part-time. It might help you put together a better business if you can spend more time and money exploring things you enjoy, instead of focusing on what you can do in the short term to just scrape by.
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Pluggable modules would be fine. But surely rewriting marshaling code is a relatively small part of swapping out your application code... And what if you can't or don't want to work with the particular flavor of XML it generates? JSON is better in that regard, I suppose, since there are fewer options to begin with, but you still have to deal with things like date/time formats.
He probably took VC money at some point. When you are bootstrapping on your own, you throw yourself 110% at the problemvand only after you've succeeded do you think about the next thing.
Soooo excited!!!!!
Oh man! I really was enjoying this particular sign on. It felt more magical than two-factor.
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To be clear: are you anti-copyright completely?

It's about tragedy of the commons. When each person is looking out for their own interests, they might not think that e.g. filmmakers are worth the millions of dollars it takes to make a movie. Then out society wouldn't have any big-budget movies, and we'd all be worse off. But of they get copyright and can charge theaters for showing the movies, then they can make the movies. And our society in general is better off.
http://context.io/ provides an API for looking at the contents of a email account through IMAP, if that's what you're looking for.
No.

A super-bright flashlight is a critical self-defense (from all kinds of danger, man made or natural) tool. I'd put a cellphone as #1, bright light as #2, and some kind of very small knife/multitool (for cutting things, like seatbelts, not people) as #3.

It's crazy when people go straight to pepper spray, big knives, firearms, etc. for self defense, but don't carry simple things which are used far more often. There are costs (increased legal compliance, weight, training needs, risk if the item is taken from you, moral issues with hurting/killing other people) with each, vs. the benefit, but I can't think of any situations where the analysis for a tactical light isn't strongly in the "do" category.
Very interesting concept.

However, I believe it is sort of misleading, because most users would except a social button to not change the current window, but rather just the state of the button itself. Also, there doesnt seem to be a way to reverse an endorsement, similarly to unlike a previous like.
Personally:

- If you don't already, start working out (nothing major, even if its doing push ups, squats, going for a short run, anything - just be active)

- Eat well. Trust me on this one, adding good diet + sports will make a huge difference.

Professionally:

- Keep on looking, im sure you will find a great opportunity soon (but remember one thing, you need to value yourself before other can value you).

- If you have free time, volunteer it to other companies (reach out to startups or companies you admire, give them feedback, give them value). It wont cost you anything and it may help you find that inner motivation to pursue your own projects (or expand your network of contact).

- Get a motivation buddy - if you want you can email me (myHNname at gmail. com). Perhaps I can provide you with some motivation for job hunting or working out. I've never done this but perhaps it's worth a try? As an FYI I'm based in New York.
Most likely it's Card who's delaying this, not the publisher. Some authors are still worried about ebook piracy, despite the fact that this only encourages it - there will be a scanned copy online very soon, I'll bet, just like there was with the latest Wheel of Time book.
Yes. The details were explained here: http://howilearnedeverything.com/2011/10/30/clearing-the-air...
Seems somewhat similar to Rust. How do they compare?
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>Don't agree. The biggest missing piece is a statistical
>parser which forms the basis for a lot of further linguistic
>analysis.

Conceded and agreed. This is the one major gap. But I still maintain it's a remarkably complete toolkit. Plus you get to work in Python, which is a big advantage for me.

What's wrong with the Naive Bayes classifier? Did you submit a patch?

Likewise, I totally agree with you that there are faster/more accurate/more efficient implementations of many of the tools in the NLTK. If performance is a must, then you're better of prototyping in NLTK then using a specialized library. But in terms of completeness and ease of use, NLTK is very strong.

EDIT: I'm not sure why abhaga is being downvoted. There was nothing disrespectful in his response to me. Disagreement is an important part of intelligent discussion. Upvoting to counter the downvote(s).
The older reports are broken, for me at least. They show the same stats as this year's report.
Thanks - great idea about the teachers.