skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback. As mentioned elsewhere, we're very keen to open up with something like a Magento plugin or something targeting a similar product just to showcase the querying front-end and mapping tech with a known schema.

Business model-wise, we'll be offering per-seat licensing for internal apps, and likely traffic-based pricing for more public apps. We are a SaaS app - the intelligent bits happen in the cloud. The default option is to integrate one of our agents to gather data, or publish data to us via an SDK (or REST API). Because it's a deal breaker for many people, we're working hard to enable scenarios where data never leaves your network, but we know your schemas and ontology, and so the NLP bit happens on our side, but the querying happens privately. Obviously this can have an affect on our ability to do entity recognition, so it's an interesting problem.
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I think it's going to take work from an integrator in all cases... How is it going to translate "developers free on Friday that know Javascript" into the three-way table join that you are asking for unless you first define "know" and "free" in terms of your database tables?
Sure, but not everyone realizes this. People can be rather conservative here in Europe.
"aka “Not GitHub.” Baby steps, baby steps!"

Whatever was actually released, how about people realise that Github isn't the be all and end all of open source code distribution.
We are read-only, this is absolutely correct, hopefully the site's not misleading in that respect. We would absolutely _love_ long term to allow commands as well as queries, and become something akin to the Siri third-party API everyone wants (although we're not tackling speech anytime soon).

That said, what you call trivia questions, we call decision support, reporting, and other grown up things. :P
There seems to be a good bit of "if you are in the unemployment camp, you aren't contributing to society and are effectively worthless" that I get from some comments in this thread.

I know for a fact if a basic income surfaced I would jump immediately into solving a long-run "big problem" like learning robotics, brain-computer interfaces, etc. Without the burden of having to seek someone to pay me for my time to eat, I'd go tackle what I cared about more than what people with money to feed me cared about. I think that would have pervasive implications on everyone, and with a necessary cultural shift away from consumption towards conceptualization and self actualization, we might be able to get a majority of people taking up creative endeavors to improve the world in ways our current economic engine doesn't come close to promoting.
Wow, when you copy and paste from venturebeat.com a link to the content is automatically appended to the copied content.
Reddit Notifier, on the Mac App Store... or less scrupulous places, apparently, if you can't spare 3 bucks!

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I got real sad that a presentation in 2013 is being written against Python2 syntax still. I do admit I still have to go out of my way sometimes to find a complete p3 stack, but I've never failed to find the tools I needed in versions supporting 3 somewhere.
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See also: http://www.easyask.com/

It may be harder to see this from their website now, but they provide natural language interfaces to SQL databases.

PS: I am also working on something like this, though not fully defined as yet.
Packages are upgraded more often, I think.

It's supported by a company called Canonical, but I'm not sure it adds value.

The community is larger and you may find online resources more easily.
Apologies if I implied we just magically work things out, there is indeed an setup process where you help the app learn your ontology and how it maps to your physical infrastructure. This is, however, an iterative process, and you're likely to be able to get off the ground in hours, not days. Some people's data will be beyond us, I freely admit - in those cases you can do the work and supply us with something more or less resembling RDF.
Sometimes I see :) and think it is the mast of a sailboat. Discuss!
Yea my question was just a tangent, thanks for the info and all the best for your project! Is delver based on gate then or is it a completely separate project? Love to see this kind of application of academic research.
EasyAsk do some cool things, and offer a much wider business intelligence suite as well. I like to think we're targeting smaller enterprises than they are. Essentially, we want to be a self-serve app, and we can't learn and grow the way we want to if we have to send consultants to work with you on your integration (something which EasyAsk will happily charge you six figures to do).
I never even heard about this survey. The results seem... wrong. "Crunchbang" is more popular on servers than OpenSUSE, and Red Hat doesn't exist...
Front-end Engineer at Graduateland (Copenhagen, DK)

Graduateland is Europe's largest career network for international top universities. Connected via state-of-the-art career portals the universities become part of an global network, bridging their students and alumni with both international and local employers.

Graduateland currently operates 15 university career portals across Europe, including Copenhagen Business School, Lund University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

We are looking for a in house JavaScript whiz, with experience in building large and scalable web applications and who love challenges (soon we will start building our front-end architecture from the ground up).

You also love Web Standards, separation of content and presentation, you are familiar with progressive enhancement techniques and, of course, have HTML(5) and CSS(3) skills.

You are located in Copenhagen (or close by), and will work from the Graduateland headquarter.

For details and applications visit http://graduateland.com/careers/8

Graduateland is a young organization with less than 30 employees. Despite our size we count team members from 8 different countries, and English is spoken as much as Danish.

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Actually, this is a brilliant idea. However, I am not sure if I will use this service for my organization. Why? It's got something to do with (everything to do with!) my data and my trust.

Most likely, you're just converting my questions into queries and parsing it over my data. Because your hompage is not clear if you are letting out just an API or you are giving out results of our data by yourselves. But if you gave out just an API, then it would mean we still have to process the converted queries and create our own interfaces to display the results. So I'm going to assume you take care of the data processing as well.

But, wait? You need access to my data to perform those queries. Let's say I have a million users. This means, you could potentially log every single query AND the result of the query into YOUR databases.

This means,

If I ask you "Which percent of my users pay the highest and are from the United States?"

And you perform a query on my one million users to find that out, you have data in your hands that my competitors or third party advertisers will come around you like sharks for. Whereas, all I can do at that point is just hope that you won't sell my data to them, which puts me and my data in a pretty vulnerable state.

Not to say that this is a bad idea. It's a brilliant idea, but I'm not sure how you are going to earn the trust factor.
Also good luck with your app, with Siri and Facebook Graph Search, it's really time this technology hit the mass market. I look forward to sharing more of our apps!
* Docs are pretty bad
* I invariably need to log onto the instance itself to
find deployment bugs during development (that said,
it's great that I can do that)
* Using their AMIs is the easiest but you may find
that they don't support the combination of software
you need
* If you're deploying a python app, you'll want to
install celery, rails resque, php gearman etc.
Beanstalk doesn't really have an answer for the
'deploy an asynchronous job server'
I think the author should have expressly forbidden Android and or Chromium from this. I bet a lot of the "other" responses are either of the two.

I could have answered "yes" to the non-server question because I have an Android device.
A Subsonic-compatible wrapper for the API would instantly add compatibility with a large number of clients. Same for DLNA (spit).

I'm a big Subsonic fan for a couple of reasons:

1. Remote control - I can make the server play the track remotely

2. Configurable offline cache on my phone - I set a large cache size (say 20gb) and use the player normally. Next time I'm offline I've still got access to the last 20gb of music I played.

I'm looking for a Subsonic alternative though as I'd like to use an Android TV stick as my server/media center and getting Java running on that will be a pain and probably involve running a full Linux side-by-side. And I'm not even sure if it's going to be possible to run Subsonic server alongside Android effectively.

A closing thought. Why are these things needed when we have DLNA/UPnP? Mainly because DLNA apps are uniformally slow and lack essential features. It's stunning how much time and money large companies have spent on DLNA and produced something so horrible.
The way the Bitcoin community handled this mornings fork in the bitcoin blockchain is nothing short of incredible. This event significantly increases my confidence in the Bitcoin ecosystem to thrive even when faced with critical issues.

If only the global finance institutions had a fraction of bitcoins capacity to resolve crises with the same unconditional transparency and full cooperation with all agents in the ecosystem.
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Surprisingly, about 75% of people who I've never met (online or IRL) accepted the invite.

On LinkedIn, I accept all invites. It's my business contact data and if someone wants to get my business contact data in his LinkedIn address book, I am glad to provide them.

On other platforms, I am more restrictive. On Facebook for example, I only accept friend request from persons I know in some way or another.
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Ubuntu is less strict on the non-free thing. Either way it doesn't really matter since you can use PPAs from ubuntu on debian and vice versa. Obviously the same goes for .deb

I think ubuntu LTS gets packages from wheezy and normal ubuntu from sid.
The title of this post was just misleading a bit. I didn't mean to use trivia as a pejorative, just this is how I call the whole "use data X to answer question Y" domain of NLP, which are fairly distinct from dialogue processing systems. You seem to be basically in competition with Wolfram Alpha, except you focus on custom structured data sources, but they seem to do something here also [1].

[1] http://products.wolframalpha.com/enterprise/
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I'm an Archlinux user, and BC aren't happening that often (seriously).

Some big moves (likes switching to systemd) required some work, but still ran smoothly. For my own computers (including the laptop I work with) it's almost perfect.
Yup, this is a big issue, and obviously our lives would be easier if everyone was happy for us to just gobble up their data. As I've mentioned elsewhere, we want to enable a scenario where we know your schema and ontology, and can therefore generate the query. That allows us to query on your network, but as you say, there's still a huge trust issue.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the minimum desirable interaction here - is an API that just translates natural language to, say, SQL useful enough for you to pay for?
Agree. Probably the only valuable statistic here would be of user preferences. Again, it reflects the biases that reddit users might have. But it is likely that they are more techsavy than the average population and likely to be an opinion leader among their peers.
Total speculation but Java is mentioned and it's very common in Javaland to sell enterprises highly priced components to use on their own codebases. It's not the sexiest way technology like this could be used but it could certainly form the base of a lucrative business. (Indeed, they could do that to make the business worthwhile while still doing something more sexy and modern as a third party service.)
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The problem with App.Net seems to be an overheating CPU.

No Google cache available, as far as I can see.
they report everything upstream and push for it to get fixed there

That's what most ditros do. Fedora and openSUSE anyway. While we wait for upstream to fix the issue and release a new version, we prefer to have a working package, though.
Nor Android (discontinued) or iOS (never existed).
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Call me paranoid, but this looks like a good tactic to spread the maximum amount of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt into the already-collapsing Flash community while still keeping support for the platform.

Reminds me of the OpenGL vs DirectX wars. (not implying the situation is
similar in any way, only the FUD tactic :) )

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-an...
> is an API that just translates natural language to, say, SQL useful enough for you to pay for?

Definitely!

If you get the natural language to SQL right, then it is multitudes easier for me as a developer to parse a JSON and display the results to an interface than having to learn the natural language processing part by myself and then try to interact and implement with it!

EDIT: I wanted your email. Nevermind, I found it.
"You are seeing this page because website has reached CPU usage limit of the server, and it was temporarily disabled."

One of the most annoying messages to be presented with on following a link. I wonder if there is a cache anywhere of this? I'm dying to know what the problem with App.Net is..
I would actually say that Travis CI is a Rails app, Rails is just not taking care of HTTP, but we use large parts of the Rails stack in many of our applications (Travis CI is a fully distributed app).

Our API app used to be a Rails application, but we ended up writing our own object serializers etc, so that the controllers were actually more or less just calling out to one method.

When we reworked our API, authentication, etc, we switched over to Sinatra.
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That's the average for USA. I didn't get that straight away either and wondered why Google fiber had a lowest speed of 1.25Mbps* and what CLEARWIRE was.
I just mailed Shawn, and this was his response:
Q: "and I wonder - did you try this out in the 'field' (ie class room), already?"
A:"Yeah, I have, I have been playing this for 2 years with students. The response has been amazing, both for guys and girls, they are really into it."
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imho I don't see anything wrong with a group of people trying to create something that people might enjoy. Even if it fails, aren't you glad someone at least took the initiative to try an idea?
You are right. Of course a "wider transit pipe to Netflix than to Google" also means "more available bandwidth towards Netflix than towards Google".

There is probably more users using google than netflix at the moment, and thus is more probably that that bandwidth gets saturated.
> Good tips/resources on writing?

Sure, no problem:

1. Read a whole lot. You can't write effectively unless, by reading, you find out what works. Time spent reading quality prose is never wasted.

2. Experiment with essay writing -- write an essay on a topic that interests you, then see if you can convey the same meaning in half the words.

3. Contrary to common belief, short, clearly written prose is better than long prose in which every subtlety is retained. As Strunk & White put it, "Make every word count."

> ... how do I "sell" my arguments without overselling them?

By understanding your readers. The single biggest mistake young writers make is not trying to picture their readers and their interests.

> So, any good tips/resources on how to write concise?

> I am struggling writing.

Also, pay attention to grammatical issues. There are glaring errors in the above two sentences.
Proof by contradiction goes like this: You assume ~x, and from this you derive a contradiction _|_. Then you conclude x. So from ~x -> _|_ we derive x. In other words: (~x -> _|_) -> x. That's the same as ((x -> _|_) -> _|_) -> x. But in any case, as you said, this is equivalent to (~x -> x) -> x because ~x -> x is equivalent to ~x -> _|_.
Mappings aren't entirely monolithic things in our architecture. From the integrator's point of view there's an guided process of connecting to a data source, enriching the physical schema with some ontological data, mapping verb frames to those ontological concepts etc. We're making this as simple as possible - you need to speak English (English only at the moment, apologies), know your schema, and know the concepts it represents.

We're really hoping to produce a demo integration soon, and I've mentioned Magento elsewhere, or something like Wordpress etc. I'll publicise that when it's available
Here's the Google cache link http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:B2ljkJQ...
That did not take long! :(

The text is worth reading, I hope the site will be back online as soon as possible …

Something like a default mirror of all links on the HN homepage would be useful in such situations.
Due to HN effect, the Server seems to be down. I am getting CPU limit reached error.
I was a bit surprised to see Xubuntu just trailing Fedora.
Maybe in some future world where we invent AI (could be right around the corner for all I know)

But, right now. No, programmers are job creators. Guess how many programmers in the world create browsers? Probably less than 10k. Guess how many jobs browsers have created? Millions. Guess you many programmers+engineers made networking stacks? Guess how many jobs networking has created? How many programmers made the top illustration or photo editing packages? Now compare that to the number of jobs of artists created using those packages.

That tide might turn someday but right now programmers are job creators not job destroyers.
I agree with this, if only to create the correct mindset from the beginning. Never settle or be prepared to show weakness.
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If Red Hat does not exist then what is this www.redhat.com ?

Anyway he is using RHEL (Red Hat enterprise Linux) in the survey results not Red Hat.
Yes, I'm sure you are talking about the trustworthiness of the company in general (and thus they ability to flee with your money).

But it doesn't help me to think of all the shitty and careless web interface of most of the online banking sites I've used.
With all the regressions, I never feel bored by ubuntu. ;)
We are indeed a JVM shop. Doing something resembling consultancy is a fallback position for us. We don't want to reject big contracts, obviously, but in many ways the more technically challenging problem we'd like to solve is making an NLP product that's portable between different apps. We think we're getting there for certain sizes and classes of app, but we'll see where the market takes us when we have a saleable product.
I don't think this is a huge deal, but I'm going to have to go with the GP. This would be an extremely poor example of fair use, and would really only dilute the positive meanings of "fair use".

Fair use is meant to preserve access to copyrighted works by the public that granted copyright in the first place--to maintain certain rights for the public and to ensure that any works built upon copyrighted works (whether that's through inspired creativity or just commentary on the original) aren't themselves held hostage by the original copyright holder.

Nothing in this example is transformative of the original work. The poster just released something that somebody else holds the copyright to. The educational aspect is an extremely weak argument; something merely existing in front of your eyes is not educational. The classic take on educational fair use for this would be taking minimal samples from the source and providing commentary upon them (why they did something the way they did, how they solved a problem that plagues a lot of developers, etc).

It's also certainly not a minimal sampling of the material. The code has been minified, but there appears to be a substantial portion of their UI code intact here, and I wouldn't be surprised if it is largely functional without much more work. It would be dishonest to compare 3MB of scripts to a final game including assets, and even with substantial commentary and insight added to the code, you would not be able to justify redistributing this amount of the source. Again, it isn't quoting from a larger source, it's providing the entire source for large portions of the game engine.

IP law aside, I feel the same way about this as I imagine I would have felt if the Doom 3 source had leaked early: no, you won't be able to play the game for free with it, and it is cool to see, but it's shitty that the people that actually wrote it had no say in its release.
But unless it's a very, very small niche; why does it matter what the upper bound is. If you hit that, you've got a good problem on your hands.

Totally agree. I have a niche product that can be expanded further once it's gained critical mass. But, given the recent investor pitches I've done, there is some backlash from investors on that concept. They want to know is it possible to turn this into a billion dollar corporation at some point, and the reality is that in my niche market, it's not.
I think your three examples at the bottom, Data -> SQL -> Delver query, should all be on the same example. In the first table it's like a timesheet thing, in your SQL you're making a list of people and their number of purchases and in the third Delver query you're asking a number of questions.

I realize you might be aiming this application at people who actually can't read the SQL, but you're also saying "You're drowning in tedious reports." implying they actually use SQL and this is to replace it.

So make the examples consistent and give people some insight into how this works and what actual SQL query a question generates.
I'll add that as an option on the survey actually, ta. The primary thing we need to know right now are realistic integration scenarios.
Your comparisons are not parallel. The article isn't saying LinkedIn contains a virus. The constructs "Linked grows with viral features" and "LinkedIn is a Virus" are much closer than you suggest.
This Google Cache link does not show the originally linked article on App.net.
The ultimate parameter for me is speed. As much as I love Mozilla's open source policy, I just can't use it because it is slower. RAM is not a problem to anyone, so I prefer more RAM used than slower performance.
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