skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should get more upvotes as it is pretty important to understanding why they did this.

The earliest De La Soul albums were jam packed with samples that wound up getting them hit with a few lawsuits/out-of court settlements that severely hampered their ability to release this music in various new media/formats. They're definitely an artifact of the more wild-west times of hip-hop sampling.
You seem to be basing all your arguments on national averages. That data shows none of the variances in life expectancy depending on race, class, region, and income.

Other measures of the social ills correlated with being very poor? In cities, if you are also black or hispanic , a high chance of death by violence. A relatedly high rate of incarceration, often for nonviolent crimes. High rates of children in the foster system.

Just because the averages nationwide are slowly ticking up over time, does not mean that there are not significant populations slipping backwards.
> He literally didn't learn haskell and copy and pasted random stuff from stackoverflow and irc

But that's the point right. He did the same for OCaml and got faster code. Obviously you can write fast code in Haskell, but that is not the same as it being easy.
Scalability of statistical procedures: why p-value bashers just don't get it
I don't understand how this seemingly random bunch of statements strung together is the top-voted comment in this thread.
Also, I live close to the Bay Area so they could be coming for you next!
As a single founder with experience I feel compelled to give you an advice: the biggest danger you're facing is worrying about the wrong things. When you get company you can talk abou things you are worried about, and having talked it out loud you get a better grip on it, and even some feedback. When you're all by yourself, you might start worrying about something that's not worth the attention, or even get obsesses with most inconsequential things.

Where I'm going with this is that the choice of login providers is the most inconsequential thing, and yet you allowed it to get in the way of meeting a potentially great company.
Your regexps are wrong, these replacements don't make any sense at all.
There was something mentioned here: http://skift.com/2014/02/13/airbnb-in-nyc-the-real-numbers-b... that has more explanations...
You're in ... Newcastle?
That's how I was feeling about the recent article on the Bitcoin robbery at Silk Road 2. A lot of libertarian-minded tech nerds are all hot about "disrupting" frumpy old fiat currency with its baroque rules and distasteful whiff of authority. Now they're finding out that there's a reason for that frumpy old system and all its baroque rules.
Does the percentage even matter? You need to weight by cost/benefit, under some releveant model.
AI is limited more by language than anything else. NLP which I do a lot of work on at http://plexinlp.com goes a long way, but the computer doesn't have the ability to get metaphors, or sarcasm, or have any sort of "BS" detection.

CoreNLP (which isn't as good as our NLP but is the "standard" only gets the parts of speech right 95% of the time, by words, but about 75% of the time by sentence. Imagine you were a waiter and you only understood 75% of sentences. You'd not last too long.

But somehow we expect computers which not only are limited to 75% of sentences being "tagged" correctly, but then not having any idea about the concepts behind them.

AI as we see it today is not so much "AI" as it is Computer Driven Bucketing. Build a formula that gets as many things in to pre-sorted buckets as possible. For me it isn't AI until the computer can make leaps of its own. Create a new bucket and explain why it was needed, or create a new solution that wasn't proposed by the programmer.

I am working hard to bring all of that to fruition, but honestly we are a long ways off.

Here are some milestones I think we will need to hit before we get to AI.

Software powerful enough to convert Wikipedia (or any knowledgebase) to structured Data automatically.

Query system that takes any user input and converts it to something resembling a Database query (This is what I'm working on)

NPC's for Games/MMO's etc that pass a turring test with in the limits of their Virtual world. (Basically they don't have to pass for real, just as real as the DnD character a human would play)

These are really "simple" milestones that are the step before we see true AI start to work.
Sounds straight out of Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow's Rapture of the Nerds - scary!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapture_of_the_Nerds
This seems to fly in the face of AirBnb's claim: "87% of Airbnb hosts in New York share only the home in which they live."

Anecdotally just surfing around what's currently listed - the vast majority of listings are for whole home/apartments, only a minority are shared.

IMO there are some major shenanigans going on in AirBnb's numbers.

Side note: I hate, HATE, this weasel word, "sharing": "Rosen’s work also examined whether some people would stop renting their apartments to permanent residents and start sharing them only on Airbnb."

IT'S CALLED RENTING. AirBnb hosts are "sharing" their apartments to visitors as much as my local restaurant is "sharing" their food with me.
Sure, red dwarf planets are temperate NOW. But how long have they been that way? What was the star before it became a dwarf? How many billions of years does it take for life to percolate?

We're a yellow sun - it took a long time for life to develop here - and our sun has been shining along fairly evenly the whole time. That has to be part of the equation, right?
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"Laws" and "law enforcement" are just products, similar to any other service

That seems like a rather extraordinary claim with no supporting evidence other than maybe a brief period of time in Iceland.

If nothing else, those things are different from other products and services in that the demand is particularly inelastic and is tied up with human emotions in a way that doesn't really fit the naive "rational actor" model.
Show HN: A wrapper for Angular's $q.defer
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This was a form of two-factor authentication. There was a certificate and a password and Snowden apparently obtained both.

There are obviously other types of 2FA that would have prevented this, but it's interesting to note that this qualify as two-factor for many companies.
Why Apple 'computers' outselling Microsoft may not be fair, but is important
Most community software would give people the option of G+, FB and LI identities, on top of regular email identity. I can't imagine the cost/hosting of something like buddypress or elgg would be all that burdensome, which would give you multiple social logins as well as keeping things in-house vs under google's control.

You're trying to go after a rather single-minded crowd (solo founders) and you may end up losing a fair amount of value from people that won't bend to your identity requirement.
Here's the last paragraph:

"The doomsday scenario of choosing between (a) and (b) becomes less likely if we make it clear how bad it would be. We need to provide appropriate backpressure to encourage upstream decisions that support the continued freedom of our users."

In other words, Jackson is willing to drop GNOME from Debian to pressure GNOME developers into not making dependencies on systemd.
I've been pulled over and harassed by the police for doing absolutely nothing except driving with an out of state license plate. I got no citation and the officer had no reason to pull me over.

I was also pulled over and harassed including being made to take a roadside sobriety test (I was completely 100% sober) for doing absolutely nothing except driving around at 3:30am. I got no citation and the officer had no reason to pull me over.

Both times my first question was "why did you pull me over?" which they made up some crazy story. One was my passenger apparently wasn't wearing her seatbelt (she was - the whole time) and one was I apparently "drifted left slightly while making a lefthand turn." WHAT!?

I've also have good interactions with the police but they aren't really notable. I'm most upset about the roadside sobriety test. The officer then proceeded to litter (illegal) part of the breathalyzer, after I blew a 0.00.
I accidentally burned some cycles in the world of political marketing and it is incredibly rigid.

The general approach is spend your money to get KNOWN party voters back to the polls.

EG - make sure known republicans:

(a) know you are the republican candidate

(b) get to the polls

And if you read the article Pandora is effectively leveraging a very boring, unoriginal approach to political marketing wrapped in great PR:

"Pandora's inferences start with a user's ZIP Code, supplied at registration. So if 80% of citizens in a certain county voted for President Obama in 2012, Pandora assumes that 80% of people in the ZIP Codes in that county "lean Democrat." If the county voted twice for Obama, the algorithm pegs users in those ZIP Codes as likely to be "strong Democrats."

Then there's some sprinkled in "algorithmic" work around user music preference.

Which really I bet that buyers won't care that much about as they're too afraid of missing any known voters to want to take a risk on micro-targeting.
I also like how freegeoip is open source so you can run your own instance: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip
Great Job! undoubtedly useful.
* Mastermind groups are run on Skype or Google Hangouts

* It's a global group

* We have group owners (volunteers) who start groups and organise them to suit their goals and timezones

* It's mostly a tech / web audience

* It's more support and accountability than mentoring

* Mastermind groups are run bi-weekly (depends on the group owner). We're looking to introduce weekly mastermind groups on specific subjects i.e. PR, SEO, pricing, partnerships, etc.

* We also include a weekly summary / round up of discussions that have taken place in the group that week and on Mondays people post their goals for the week, which other people comment on / offer help / ask questions
Forgive me for being "That Guy" but I really think Javascript is ill-suited for this paradigm!

Streams, honestly, are hard to keep straight when the program gets big without a stronger type system. IMHO.

Some really sharp people have been working on stream computing software in Haskell for a while - Gabriel's Pipes package is a good example of generalized stream computing with strong equational reasoning as its foundation.

Maybe if you really want to try and do this in Node you can gain some inspiration from his journey: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pipes
> And don't even get me started on the fact that while looking for a place to live, landlords have justified their insane asking rate by telling me that the previous tenant rented out a spare room on Airbnb.

Ah, that's lovely. Coupled with the "no subletting" clause standard in NYC leases, this means that landlords can jack up rent while also giving themselves an easy excuse to terminate your lease at any point in the future when they decide it's convenient (for them) to do so.

(If you think this is too sleazy and underhanded to be believable, you've never tried renting an apartment in NYC. There are certainly some great exceptions - my current management co. is great - but I've heard some great horror stories, and experienced one of my own.)
Hacker News stories need an auto-bot-post explaining supply and demand and "seller's market" AMD "buyer's market".
No, movies haven't gotten (much) longer
Hey. Dude. This game is awesome.
I had my driveway gate control box invaded by regular ants (Argentine I think), along with some mysterious cocoons that made it malfunction. It was easy to get the ants to leave, but repairing the controller was a lot harder.

Gross pictures here: http://www.righto.com/2010/08/getting-literal-bugs-out-of-dr...
> OCR-A does not look like THE FUTURE; it looks like the future in 1968. To me, it looks like bitterness and cynicism. Apparently, it looks that way to others, too, since it or something similar is used in the same way for every other similar movie.

It's certainly context-specific. For me, OCR-A letters look like THE FUTURE, but the numbers frequently trigger the "oh, how quaint" response you seem to be describing.
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Yes, that would be it. Thank you.
That's correct. You should probably wait a block or two for safety, or more for really sensitive things, but regardless the main point here stands: because of this you cannot safely immediately spend the output of a transaction. That hasn't been a warning in essentially anything I've seen.
In her book The Second Self, Sherry Turkle wrote that the MIT AI Lab hackers were "loners who are never alone".
Google+ was just number i). And number i) was just what made me stop to think about the rest. Number ii) and iii) are the reasons I didn't apply and are consequences of me having time to think, not directly of number i).

TL;DR: Google+ was not the reason I didn't apply.
They will continue to provide it. Part of what he wrote:
> We’ll certainly complete work to make the new logind work without systemd as pid 1.
It will when and if a lawmaker ever understands what a user agent string is.
As much as I'm looking forward to all the shiny tech I can't help but feel anxious about the implications for humanity as a whole.

e.g. Right now the poorest of the poor can still resort to back breaking repetitive work to survive. If the tech keeps going then soon these people will not be able to compete...at all.

Its a recipe for inequality magnified 100x & I don't see the social fabric surviving that.
This believes that I am in Colchester, FreeGeoIP can say that I am just in the UK, Google in incognito mode thinks that I am in Sheffield. Correct answer: Manchester :)
Cocktailicious is also ios-only. and it's doing good.

http://www.cocktailiciousapp.com
Great Entrepreneurs Know How To Manage Setbacks
I've been pimping BitTorrent Sync pretty hard lately, so B547XI66CJZ6P2TFZBAWZ5QX5RB3ECBM2.
Loads of examples at http://highlandjs.org/.
"56% of Airbnb hosts in San Francisco said they use their Airbnb income to help pay their mortgage or rent."

If these people didn't use AirBNB they couldn't afford their rent. They'd move out or find a cheaper place. Now they have AirBNB they can afford to pay more rent which raises the market.
Just keep track of the people who matter most to you with Cloze
Magic Pixel Games is looking for programmers in Los Angeles.

We're a mid-size (18-person) mobile game developer, and we're looking for a network programmer (proficient in C++, C# and Javascript/node.js)

We're also looking for Unity programmers.

Visa requirements will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Find out more here:
http://www.magicpixelgames.com/careers/
This is a great example of the the danger of consuming "raw" corporate propaganda. Without professional journalists to fact-check, look for other perspectives, and filter corporate self-interest, many readers will come out misinformed. Information supply becomes further tainted by attempts to manipulate the average Joe.

I really hope the NYTimes and Washington Post don't go out of business; I rely on them to adjudicate most of my news.
I can't help but feeling like you need guys would need an American sales team to sell your stuff in America. Or is corporate America pretty okay dealing with "commies"/Russians these days? (I mean no disrespect)
Why would it leave? The Earth is full of resources it can use and humanity would be a potential threat if left alone (we could build more AI at least.)
So something along the lines of tracking incoming requests, then doing a DNS lookup on the incoming IP? Isn't that something that something like Google Analytics could do for you? And in that case, would this be more for people who are avoiding GA?
Not before they trick 641 hipsters into falling in love with them.
Dungeon Keeper Mobile uses the worst IAP model of all: pay to reduce the arbitrary timers. As you build out your dungeon, various tasks require time to complete. In no time at all, the game starts asking you to wait a day or more to finish basic, essential tasks. Don't want to wait? Pay up.

As a result, the free player can only spend about five to ten minutes playing every day or two. At that burn rate, it's just not interesting enough to hold the player's attention. It's basically unplayable. That's why everyone is so shocked by Dungeon Keeper Mobile. It's at a new, uncharted level of IAP done wrong.
I was slightly impressed after reading the blog post and then completely turned off by seeing that image. I almost thought they might have forgotten to take it off, but it seems pretty intentional. It's just so completely irrelevant to their message. It might be funny to men, but I can't imagine many women who would find that charming, so you're alienating the demographic that schedules services for their homes.
Syrian Electronic Army hijacked a forbes page
Anecdata: I stayed in NY last January with a guy who had 10 different places from Greenpoint to Williamsburg.
That logic didn't work so well for Craigslist's "erotic services" category, which was shut down after pressure from Richard Blumenthal, the attorney general of Connecticut.

(Not that that stopped people from advertising sex work on Craigslist - they're just (slightly) less direct about it).
The general opinion among others I know here in SE Texas was "Yes! Fire ants are going down! Wait a second..."

Dealing with fire ants was pretty much a way of life, and sure it's great that the fire ants are down (and now fleas are up!), but we don't really have any good OTC treatments for raspberry ants, and the sight of a handful of them is enough to stir a little fear in a homeowner's heart.

At least down here, no one wants the raspberry ants either. You knew that if you poisoned every fire ant mound in your yard each time one popped up, you were generally ok (and would have a bit less labor if your neighbors did the same), raspberry ants? Sheesh - all you can do is call the exterminator and hope they can make a dent.
>if you use them to gain access to things you're not meant to access

Isn't this the only thing that matters? The actual technique you use to gain unauthorized access to a machine shouldn't matter legally.
The photo at the top of the page gives me some majorly sweaty palms.
> This is a great film, but I'm not sure why knowing more about the plot or the background to the design would ruin it for you? Do you also worry about spoilers for works of literature or films from the past?

Yes?
Implementing Fastclick.js would make it work on the phone: https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick

"FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing of a click event on mobile browsers. The aim is to make your application feel less laggy and more responsive while avoiding any interference with your current logic."
I think whoever wrote this article needs to be taught what the benefits of a framework are.
One group that should be willing to pay for it are those writing high-reliability and safety-critical code, e.g. DoD. It appears they have less of a preference for Ada nowadays, instead using a "safer" subset of C++ and static analysis tools.
Show HN: GraphHost.com Zero-configuration, cloud hosted neo4j graph database.
The one that was used on me was set to do a 2" cut or something. It looked way worse than what you'd get with regular clippers set closer to the head.
My Open Love Letter to Lumosity
24 Years Ago Today the Greatest Music Video of All Time Debuted
But that's then not a ChromeOS machine.
Canonical are making a bet on the graphical subsystem re Mir/QT/QML/Oneclick to crack touch/mobile. Similar to Apple going all-in on Objective C/Cocoa(Touch).

But for the low level non-graphical parts of Ubuntu it makes a lot of sense to stick to standard Linux/Debian. At the terminal/sysadmin/command line level a standard setup is desirable.
tl;dr:

"If the world doesn't operate at what I deem to be just the right level of openness, we're all doomed."
Agree. Some of the advantages of choosing Gandi are a free SSL certificate and free email (IMAP/POP - 1 GB).
IMHO you are simply hang out with the wrong people.

There's plenty of bullshit in SF - it's an unavoidable effect of something real going on. Fortunately, the plastic people are also pretty easy to avoid.
No calling Soylent future food repeatedly is. But based on their follow up comment they were kidding.
This might be true with all other things being equal. However that is very far from the case.
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No consumer lost money in a US bank in 2008.

This is a different statement than:

The FDIC ... protected depositors for $100,000 per person per bank

There were several consumers that lost money in a US bank in 2008 because they had over the insured amount in their account.

http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/cnspr00/pg8stry....
What do you mean out of the public folder?
Good idea, I'll definitely post a follow-up with some real code done using async/callbacks and highland/streams. The comparisons usually start to look more favourable with longer examples, due to the Highland API being so composable.
Red Shirts by John Scalzi touches on some of these ideas.
I thought this was odd, because I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. The headline of this article is a nice outline of the obnoxious presumptuousness pervasive in the marketing industry that got me to leave it.
>This seems to fly in the face of AirBnb's claim: "87% of Airbnb hosts in New York share only the home in which they live."

The claim many are making is that people buy (or even rent) a second property only so they can list it on the site. Which takes away available properties for long term renters or driving prices up. AirBnb's claim of 87% just means that only 13% the NYC hosts are listing secondary properties (ones purchased solely to list on the site). The 87% could be listing their entire home (in which they live) during times they will be away. AirBnb's claim is not really at odds with the numbers stated in the parent comment.
The E. E. Cummings poem in this article is actually what most caught my eye. At first I thought it was so awkward and stilted that I assumed it was the output of their generator. I quickly realized that it wasn't, and decided to read it closer, but I couldn't quite puzzle out what Cummings was talking about. I read the first stanza over and over again trying to figure it out: "Wait, who does he mean here? Are the second and third lines a question or a statement? Why is the last line such an apparent non-sequitur?"

And then, just for a second, I stopped paying attention to the grammar and started paying attention to the words, and I realized that very stanza was mocking me for what I was doing. It was a masterfully laid trap for the analytical mind.

The whole poem fell into place after that.
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I completely agree with you about the term "sharing" economy. That term is certainly a PR victory for many of these companies.

This is commerce, and I would agree that a new, disruptive, form of commerce has been enabled by the web. There will be tremendous benefits, and there will be new problems and externalities. The old regulatory regime will need to adapt, but (in my opinion), this does not mean that zoning laws are now obsolete. Some laws are obsolete, others may be more relevant than ever.

Maybe "micro-commerce" would a better term? In any case, "sharing" is an extremely inaccurate and misleading term here.
zvanness, would you be interested in also implementing this;

http://whatsmyresolver.stdlib.net/
curl -L http://whatsmyresolver.stdlib.net/resolver/

? It should be relatively easy to add (happy to explain how it works), and I'm personally longing to turn off my service!
Sorry, I got really excited and forgot about the 25-hour thing. I took it down. :(

Seriously, though, BitTorrent Sync is amazing.