skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After which there comes a natural acquisition.
Just because the Slate piece IS bunk, it doesn't follow that the airbnb response IS NOT bunk. They're both wrong in how they're presenting the "rightness" of data.
If you're doing Node.js, Caolan's async library is pretty much part of the standard toolkit.

I know Caolan's been thinking about this and reworking it for a while, so I'll be interested to see whether it manages to see significant takeup.
For those interested in an Angular version there is http://victorbjelkholm.github.io/ngProgress/

...but it looks like it's only for a top of the page progress bar.
I do not agree.

Coercive and "Pace-Setting" styles of leadership are not sustainable. They are tools to be used in specific situations but as a way of life contribute to a work environment with much less effective outcomes and high turnover. (reference: http://hbr.org/2000/03/leadership-that-gets-results/ar/1)

I can't help but wonder if this type of attitude is what leads to cultures that are hostile to women and people of color.
Their execution history looks really problematic. Launching on Windows 8, then OSX, then Android, then iOS, then desktop Windows is probably the exact opposite of a successful roll out. If they were constrained to only releasing one platform at a time, they did it entirely the wrong way.
Ask HN: Saw a really cool portfolio yesterday on HN...
Can HN help me find it? It was a Show HN web design portfolio...like, "This is how you showcase your portfolio in web design." Particularly, you were able to navigate with your up+down+left+right keys. I wanted to bookmark and look at it again. Thanks.
Excellent game - congrats!

Just wondering what the revenue is for your donation button vs having adverts.

Also, have you considered creating ios/android apps?
I don't think we can draw any conclusions about NSA security practices by looking at what Snowden did or did not take. His goal was to expose the NSA's domestic spying programs by turning evidence over to newspapers, so why would he want to walk off with tons of raw tracking data? Taking anything other than what he needed to make his case would just have strengthened the arguments of the people who say he's a traitor who wanted to harm the U.S.
For me personally, I've completely quit using Pandora because every station I try to make ends up playing Top 40 pop music. At least Last.FM sticks to the genre I've put in, Pandora seems to try to steer me to listen to songs they want me to listen to. Really annoying when I start listening to Americana and classic country and end up with Drake several hours later.
Secrets Of An Investor Who Built Two Unicorns
Really can't wait for "all the things" to stop being used as an acceptable replacement for "everything."
Maxmind's is free to City/Country level, $90/month for a site license. http://www.maxmind.com/en/geolocation_landing
Streaming my hackathon entry
The Strong AI group is having a hackathon. So, I thought I will stream my entry(like me building it).
Check it out at : www.twitch.tv/chegra

For update on when I will be streaming over the 54 hours of the hackathon join my skype group:

skype:?chat&blob=ruaPevOj3HmFzmoA2NRz-LgSIIYvw3w30C8-ZBC1WsZVM6OnD3Gi0jiFM0OCh0Tf3XBNCw0yZL1FKGQutiN0HA

Place the link in a skype window and click on it. If you can't join the skype group feel free to add me on

skype at: chester.hercules.grant
someone else said it nicer, but herd mentality describes many who think they are special. The user of sites similar to this become painfully predictable. There are those on the extreme to one side or another, but the rest are herd animals basically typing long winded "ME TOOS"
Original author here:

1) No trolling, just sarcasm. Not a comment on my personal beliefs, more along the lines of "wouldn't wash with a bunch of American TV writers during the cold war." I hope it's pretty clear that someone who wrote this isn't so into a "ruling class"!

2) Okay that one might have been a bit of a troll. There is some good heteroeconomics out there. Including, this, I hope. ;) But yeah. The goal here was to paint a way to the future without getting bogged down in that world.
I imagine caching netblocks rather than running individual IP lookups would cut down on the load quite a bit.
"Wheat kernels have contained gliadins for as long as there has been wheat. For example, two purportedly ancient wheat varieties, 'Kamut' and 'Graziella Ra', have higher gliadin concentrations than modern wheats do, and other old-time wheats are also high in gliadins. According to Graybosch, “It probably is not speculation to say we could actually be consuming less gliadin than great-grandpa did.” And per-capita wheat flour consumption back in 1900, long before the rise in incidence of celiac disease, was 67 percent higher than today's average consumption.)"

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/great-glute...
Link: http://www.twitch.tv/chegra
Highland.js, high-level streams library
It seems Forbes has fixed it already. I saw it a few minutes ago but it seems to be functioning normally.
>Just wondering what the revenue is for your donation button vs having adverts.

I doubt he'd make much money with either option. People rarely donate to software projects and you need lots of traffic to make money off of advertising.
Looks like now also Ubuntu will be adapting it.
There must be something really wrong with systemd.
I can't help feeling that this is just the same story as always.

Take the GIMP. It still isn't really compatible enough to be a drop-in replacement for Photoshop. It still has limitations on basic stuff like colour handling and typography. It still has a name that sounds like a sophomore's dirty joke. If all you need is a basic image retouching application for photos on your web site, it's fine. For full professional use, it's not even close.

The same arguments applies to almost all of the "big name" FOSS competitors to dominant proprietary applications from the likes of Microsoft and Adobe: data portability isn't quite good enough, features are missing or underpowered, and usability is often inferior. They're fine as free substitutes and good enough for basics (which for many people is sufficient) but the "high" prices of the professional applications are justified in a heartbeat if you have real work to do as a power user.

What I don't understand is why FOSS continues to be dominated by cheap knock-offs in these fields. One man wrote TeX, albeit one exceptionally talented and driven man, and to this day a whole industry uses it in preference to anything else because it does what it does differently and much better than the mainstream products. There's still plenty its users would like to improve, but then that's true of Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite too, and they have barely changed in years despite the vast resources available to their development teams.

In short, if the FOSS world wants to compete in the market for mainstream creative applications, it needs to start innovating and change the rules so the presumption isn't that the FOSS has to (try to) match incumbent proprietary products on their own terms. The question shouldn't be whether you can cycle between .docx and .odt without messing up your formatting or whether you can translate an AI file to an Inkscape-friendly SVG and back without losing details. The question should be why you'd want to in the first place.
Most of the times things we don't understand appear as random.
Lucky for you, and the SF Bay Area, those aren't crazy ants =)
What's so great about Unity? I think the latest version of Gnome is much better.
In most rental markets, it's more difficult to find affordable housing for 3BR and 2BR units for families. If more people rent out 2BR and 3BR appartments to rent out the extra room, that's going to put more pressure on families looking for affordable housing.
This was the best collaborative writing app I've ever used. My heart hurts.
Here's the promised walk-through: https://vimeo.com/86719782
Might have been this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7234182
Looks great.

What browsers does this officially support? I don't see it explicitly referenced anywhere (other than some IE references in the source).
Where are the xboxs and servers? But, your right it is important it probably means microsoft can start bundling again.
So I can check the stats, dawg.
Doesn't that have the unfortunate side effect of making the person who is already more annoyed at the state of things even more annoyed at always having to fix them?
> The solution to this problem is to allow property developers and landowners to freely increase the housing supply.

I dont think such a thing will ever be possible. Some big companies in the housing market might even be against it.
Why respond at all?
unity also predates gnome-shell, I might add.
I remember an article last year talking about how this kind of progress bar is a distraction to the user and ultimately it's a UI anti-pattern.

https://medium.com/because-we-love-software/126cfe0fa698

I don't know if I agree with all of his points but he does make me think twice before I copy a trendy design.
Perkins suggests rich should get more votes
Godot(possible Unity Engine competitor) released as Open Source
> I'd like it if system package managers could actually keep up with the needs of developers, but they seem to have failed.

I would argue that they fail at this because it's a goal that's in direct conflict with their primary goal: to serve end users. The needs of developers are dramatically different. Having multiple versions of a package is a must for developers, but would just cause weird unpredictable issues for end users. (Unless you are very clever and do something like Nix, of course.)

I wrote more about this topic here: http://technomancy.us/151
freegeoip also has https support for free.

I use it for my bitcoin client:
https://github.com/bit-c/bitc
Kind of narrow minded to think the only people willing to pay to see a band are 16-20 year olds. Lots of bands continue make money touring well beyond their initial upsurge era.
Which is no doubt very true. But this still may be an argument for keeping Airbnb in the bigger picture if you value diversity in your neighborhoods. Any by diversity I mean the ability for many low to mid wage workers to live near their jobs.
Valentine's Day Tribute – What to Love About Postgres
How does pruning occur? It says it is limited to 150 people.

Presumably over time you'd want new people/refresh the ranks.

How do people get evaluated and eventually (in cases that need it) forcibly dropped?
Coding is not Encoding
I get that arrays are meant to stand in for more asynchronous sources of data but those things seem so different to me that I don't understand why you'd want a library that treats them the same. If you need to map an array that's taken care of. I know I'm being dense, I just don't get it.
> Unless you were living under a rock, you already knew the NSA was getting out of control

Yes, definitely. If your threat model hasn't included global passive adversaries, at least since Mark Klein, then you're woefully naive and out of touch.

But what Snowden did is get people to care by revealing tangible details in a way that simply saying "everything is tapped" does not. Things certainly won't change overnight, and it may even take a few more like him to keep us on track to a secure Internet. But the fact that he got all of us talking, and we're still talking, is pretty remarkable.

And as long as he didn't physically hurt anyone, I can't see how anything could possibly be wrong with his methods. Remember, we're talking about unauthorized computer access versus institutionalized programs that are illegal under USG's charter, and of a type that would at least be publicly approved and transparent in any free society.
Agreed - especially given the popularity of sites like the Tampa Bay Times' politifact.com, I hope we'll continue to see newspapers take advantage of their fact-checkers and editorial teams outside (and inside) of their own publications. It might be a great way for those organizations to stay relevant - sort of like "Snopes for the real world".
You're right; we should have linked to it. I'm changing that now.
Yeah,for me it's muslim dating ads. At least they are not trying to guess your religion ;)
Reminds me of Matthew 11:25 [1]

[1]: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+11%3A25&...
Although no doubt there are Ubuntu servers in the cloud like that, this summary seems unrealistic:

> we're a cloud company

Then what's up with Unity and the push towards a common interface? Cloud servers are not phones/tablets.

And BTW, I think Canonical (and Microsoft) pushes towards common interfaces have been huge steps backward, no matter how well intentioned, so given that, I wish Cananical were just "a cloud company".
Wayland is used in the Sailfish OS shipped on Jolla phones. It also seem to have traction on Raspberry Pi, mostly because X really sucks on their low-powered hardware.
Something's going to have to give. If we don't plan for a peaceful transition, it will happen without planning, in a not-so-peaceful way.

We need to start thinking about basic income sooner rather than later: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/02/09/should-governmen...
I hope you are right, but how can you tell? They seem to match all the characteristics. They don't march in lines, they go all over the place and they love electronics. I'm at work all day and almost don't eat at home at all so there is no food around the house. These things just love my electronics.
But my gut feeling tells me that supply and demand have nothing to do with price! It's all greedy landlords and tech elitists trying to evict me out of my home I can't afford.
Yes, that is it! THANKS! I just couldn't find it in my history, wishing I bookmarked it.
>The directive is an instruction to completely destroy the archives of Department T, which monitors political parties, public organizations and journalists, as well as Department K, which is meant to fight corruption but in reality provides protection for corruption, smuggling and the criminal activity of state officials.

How Orwellian...
Thanks! I checked with Balanced to see if I can sign up as a European company, but they didn't offer any ways to do that. I'll just keep looking for alternatives.
Why would anyone pay for this? Maxmind is the industry standard and way cheaper.
Because the holdouts in the init wars debate are whiners who are trying to obstruct useful progress being made on the Linux platform, e.g., Ian Jackson.
Also depends on how they classify 'NYC host'. Last month I rented a place on 1st Ave. that was actually owned by a real estate company in San Diego.

The place was fine, but the experience trying to coordinate with them was... not great. They were clearly just jumping on the bandwagon to make a quick buck.
The thing that's so aggravating about this article is what is so aggravating about AI: the arrogant comparison of software systems to true intelligence. The examples cited by the article are emphatically not "intelligence" as we understand it: Siri isn't, Watson isn't, Google's self-driving cars aren't. They represent algorithms (clever, in many cases) executed by a stored-program computer -- or many. They take advantage of what computers are really good at: the ability to perfectly execute endless streams of simple instructions with astonishing speed; the ability to access vast quantities of data with zero error; and the ability to reliably transmit that data to one another. These innovations also reflect the fundamental brittleness of the machines that implement them: the machines can only do exactly what they're told -- and if they're told to do the wrong thing, they will gladly do it. The intelligence, then, is purely in the humans that are programming and engineering the thing -- not the thing itself. I understand that this distinction is entirely lost on those who have no understanding of what's behind the curtain -- but we do a broader disservice when we pretend that our adept sleight of hand is, in fact, magic.

And my apologies for just speaking the truths that many here already know; over my decades in computer science, I have tried to hold my tongue whenever the AI cultists scream at passers-by that the singularity is near -- but every now and again I must scream back for my own sanity.
Thanks - good question.

In terms of "forcibly dropped" - the group is run free of charge, so contribution is key. No contribution = "forcibly dropped". Contribution means taking part in a mastermind group, discussions or asking / giving help.

On evaluation, I'd like to move to a democratic way of evaluating it where the group or a group within the group decide. I believe that's what http://yec.co/ do.
Thanks, shirke. My current setup is using a AWS EC2 Micro-instance (that I set up on free tier) as a scheduler to start and stop my other instances. Ylastic looks cool but I make it a point to never pay for SaaS, Others who are interested can google the term 'Boto AWS scheduled start stop.'
Real-time tech support with Olark integration into your client-side app
if you see this means that i am not anymore
And this believes I'm in Liverpool; FreeGeoIP thinks I'm in London, but I'm in Sussex.
I don't think it's fair to define X as "doing X badly" and then complain about people who encourage X.
AI is marching forward relentlessly. It may or may not be as close as most people think, but were are still getting there within a generation or two at most. Meanwhile almost nothing is being done to solve the friendliness problem. Since it seems to be much more complicated than building normal AI it may never be solved. There might not be a solution - our morality and values are just a bunch of messy evolutionary heuristics, and abstract concepts are hard to define concretely (eg "a human is a bunch of atoms in this specific configuration, but not this specific configuration. It's ok to kill one but not the other.")

Humanity's odds aren't good.
Unless there was an edit, they do actually make sense, if you think of this post as being rewritten in a year to discuss a move away from Mir (current Ubuntu graphics thing) to Wayland (current non-Ubuntu graphics thing that most everybody else is probably moving to).
I just finished integrating geo IP lookups into an app I'm working on, using a library that queries a number of the free IP lookup services out there. Something that I've learned from this is just how hard it is to stay on top of IP geolocations. Most of the free services use incomplete or outdated databases, and if you want decent accuracy you probably need to opt for a paid package from a company who has the resources to track IP address location changes, and keep their database up to date.

So, I'm wondering, does ipinfo.io maintain their own database, or do they sub-license someone else's database? If they're maintaining their own, how good are they at keeping it valid and updated and what is the coverage like?
Best AI today
DDoS mitigation monitoring, visualized
Very true. And one of the challenges with static analyzers in particular is that most programmers think "oh this isn't really so hard, I could hack something like this up myself over the weekend". That said, the value certainly is there, and some companies realize it; back in the 1990s, I was architect for C/C++ static analysis tool PREfix, and our minimum sale price was $25K for a team of 10 people.
>The "internal, ambiguous type" matters when you try to actually invoke (show . read) on some String

There is no internal ambiguous type. It is not a concrete type, it is a type variable. But it is inferred just fine. It is (Read a => a).

>which would lead many people to say that (show . read) is not "inferred just fine."

Even if you were to erroneously say that, it isn't type classes that is the problem.
It's only 13% of hosts, but 2/3 of listings. So hosts who are renting out homes they don't live in are renting them out much more frequently, but the hosts who are renting out their primary residence do it much less frequently.
So basically the fleet is EVE, the LARP. With all that entails: breathless accounts of massive, important battles, which are completely incoherent to people outside the culture of the fleet.

I love it.
This article is suggesting that non-religious people, being more intelligent, are probably more correct in their beliefs about religion than religious people.

But, assuming that orthodox Christianity is correct[1], we know that the opposite is actually true: Christians are more correct in their beliefs about religion than non-religious people.

So the article suggests causation where there's only correlation.

[1]: which I'm not going to debate with you about
>"Greed by definition leads to maximal reward."

Greed attempts to attain maximal reward, but this does not mean the reward is achieved. Greed is neither necessary or sufficient to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
What exactly are you saying his "motivations" were?

It actually makes far less sense that Snowden would publicly praise the countries for which he is secretly spying. It makes more sense that he was making those comments as a matter of expediency (he was seeking asylum, after all).

And, say what you will, but the man is not without intelligence. The irony and impact of making those statements about Russia as a U.S. citizen in that situation was not lost on him.

But all of this a sideshow and a red herring. So, let's just say Snowden was a spy. Let's also say he was a member of al Qaeda.

Now, about those revelations regarding our government's activities...
In his own title, he called himself gracious, which struck me as what people do when the graciousness comes very hard to them and they have to make a strong conscious effort.

So possibly he felt pissy about, but rose above that.

I think he'd get extra graciousness points if he hadn't called himself gracious, though.
User Agent is the new evil bit.
If you didn't read the NYT's magazine article from last year, "There’s a Reason They Call Them ‘Crazy Ants’", you should check it out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html?p...

One of the most memorable things I've read all last year

> They arrived at Mike the Hog-a-Nator’s house a few months after he first saw them at the cardiologist’s office. One day his air conditioning stopped working. A musty smell seeped from the vents in his living-room floor. So he powered up his Shop-Vac to clear them. By the time he was done, he’d sucked out five gallons of ants.

Soon he and his wife were waking up to find vast, frantic networks of ants zipping around the kitchen floor in all directions. When the picture on their 50-inch box television started flickering, Mike took off the back panel and found the guts throbbing with ants. He got rid of the television.

Outside, dead ants began pooling around the base of the house in heaps so high that they looked like discarded coffee grounds. (It’s common in Texas these days for a person who is shown one of these heaps of dead ants to take several seconds to realize that the solid surface he or she is scanning for ants actually is the ants.) Mike laid out poison, generating more heaps of dead ants. But new ants merely used those dead ants as a bridge over the poison and kept streaming inside.
So it's not enough that they get to buy the two candidates that the rest of us have to vote on. It's not enough that they basically get to choose who is going to be our Senators and Representatives. Basically, he wants the power to run completely roughshod over the rest of us, not just mostly-roughshod. Why even bother with the illusion of the elections in the first place, then?