skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do we differ from a people search website?

Usually, when you search for someone online you’ll end up at a background check website. These are simply government database systems and there isn’t anything of the person, their life or their family. There is nothing on how they came to be missing, the circumstances of their missing status or how they might have felt. There is nothing about the family, friends or relatives that are looking for them. Video Locators puts the story back into the life of the missing – the where, when and how they became missing. We market the story of the person in a very unique way. We use a combination of demographic search methods, social media, a marketing method called the Gatekeeper, and community involvement programs. Our methods are propriety and they are designed to help you as an individual.

Remember, those that want to help can browse for free and may even receive cash rewards if viewers can provide information that helps locate someone!
He's right. And so the fuck what?

It's not the reasoning I care about. It's never been about the reasoning. No one ever bought any bullshit about "community standards" even when it was being used to oust gays. It was about the act of marginalizing individuals over something that literally affects nobody else.

If a gay person works at my company, his being gay will have no affect on my livelihood. People with an anti-gay agenda have made a choice to stand in the way of progress. That means their actions negatively affect the people around them, malevolent. They're entitled to no consideration, because it's their choice to ostracize themselves for their ignorance. It should be seen the same as firing someone who habitually shits on the bathroom floor.
Eich's 2008 pro-Prop 8 view was not shared by Obama, who expressly spoke out in 2008 against both Prop 8 specifically, and attempts to write same-sex marriage bans into constitutions generally.

Not sure why the “Eich was wronged” crowd raises this lie so often.
Living forever is somewhat an exception.
But even if people live forever there will still be a hard bound.
Imagine a population of 8 people (4 couples).
With one child per couple the first 4 couples will have 4 kids.
These 4 kids will have on child per couple giving 2 kids.
The 2 kids make a single couple which can have one more kid.
The last kid cannot make a couple with anyone without someone having had more than one kid.
So starting with 16 immortal people having immortal kids you cannot get a population above 15. (8+4+2+1=15)

So for a stable population in the long run couples need to be having on average around 2 kids each (assuming they are not immortal, if everyone is immortal then no kids are required for a stable population).

Of course if we take "couple" very literally then perhaps we might allow people to have as many kids as they chose provided they have each with a different partner (to form a new "couple"). This seems like rule bending though.

Without rule bending one kid per couple just couldn't work in the long run.
videolocators.com
How do we differ from a people search website?

Usually, when you search for someone online you’ll end up at a background check website. These are simply government database systems and there isn’t anything of the person, their life or their family. There is nothing on how they came to be missing, the circumstances of their missing status or how they might have felt. There is nothing about the family, friends or relatives that are looking for them. Video Locators puts the story back into the life of the missing – the where, when and how they became missing. We market the story of the person in a very unique way. We use a combination of demographic search methods, social media, a marketing method called the Gatekeeper, and community involvement programs. Our methods are propriety and they are designed to help you as an individual.

Remember, those that want to help can browse for free and may even receive cash rewards if viewers can provide information that helps locate someone!
This reminded me of the old Monty Python sketch "Blackmail"[1] where they charge people to not release information. The longer you wait the more it costs you. Very funny stuff. :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZgwNutwK0Y
It's difficult to reconcile the Flurry stats with the fact that most blogs / publishers are seeing a higher percentage of their traffic come from mobile web (>50% in many cases).

One reason could be that their stats don't include mobile web usage within apps (i.e. FB / Twitter). That discounts a lot of my own browsing behavior.
You'd need to only answer every email 27 days after receipt, which can be easily automated (no the answer, but you could delay it being shown in your inbox, or fowarded to your main or something) but it would be a pain to keep it up and not reveal info that could be harmful to the still-living you.
and when you die... spam everywhere? Is that really how you'd like to be remembered? :)
Is there a way to make this subtract any noise being outputted by the pi's speaker ouput, so that it can still understand me if I'm playing music/watching a movie?
That would be a reasonable conclusion if time wasn't a factor. Imagine if Joe Taxi Driver moved in when he could afford rent, and then the price of housing tripled in two years. Now, Joe's new roommates expect to pay 3x what Joe's old roommates paid. Additionally, Joe has far less housing security - he cannot move, even if he get's a 50% increase on his taxi receipts, he still can no longer afford market-rate rent.

It's unclear if Joe is now 'leveraging the fact that he cannot be evicted' because the cost of eviction is so high, and his 'aggressive rent-seeking behavior' is now merely an effort to make a little extra money on the moral hazard that has been dropped into his lap.
Maybe it can say:

Loan Date: April 14, 2014
Repayment Date: June 2, 2014 (7 weeks)

Amount Requested: USD 50.00
Loan Fees: USD 1.83
One time fee: USD 11.68 (one time life membership fee)

Total Amount: USD 63.51
Got it, hope that helped! I'd be very interested to see what the analysis is for a bike and what the optimal human efficiency is like.

In my experience riding road/hybrid bikes vs. mountain bikes, the lower resistance tires reduce the effort even if the gearing is similar. I'm also guessing the human leg has a narrower efficiency range in terms of RPM and power produced, so bikes usually have 15+ gears.

Now that I think about it, the 'simplest' way to explain the curve is - the vehicle/powertrain variables determine the efficiency curve with ideal gearing e.g. a CVT. If you have a 4 speed transmission, you choose 4 optimal points and imagine a steeper efficiency fall off in between each point (4 flattened parabolas with vertices at the optimal points).
I have lived in 6 different jurisdictions in three countries. None of them allowed short term rentals (<30 days) without appropriate zoning, license, et cetera. This is not about differing laws in differing locales. This is about ignoring widely applicable law . . . granted law that is widely ignored with little consequence. AirBnB would not have a business if they made a good faith effort to comply with the law.
You're a special little snowflake then. Here's your citation: [SOURCE]
I like it. Pricing seems a bit high though. Development wise this is a 1-2 day project.

I can't see myself spending much on something I could roll my own version of in a day or two.
While I think David Flanagan's essay is excellent, that in no way detracts from Slate's coverage. And this deserves to be placed in the context of the broader "culture war" -- no part of this fiasco turned on any technical or browser-specific details.
I do agree that relying on compiler optimizations is a waste of time. They never seem to appear. I simply wished to point out that you can write Halide like code also in OpenCL. And I'd love to see an implementation which would attempt similar style of optimizations what Halide allows.

Halide is extremely domain specific, which is a good thing, it allows them to focus on the problem at hand, namely on how to easily write image processing filters that can be made performant with relative ease. However I would not wish to write a bitonic sort or anything like that in Halide.
Our condo association is updating the bi-laws for forbid short-term subletting. I'm sure other owner-occupied places will eventually, too, especially in many high-priced urban neighborhoods. Who wants to live in an expensive home they purchased to only have neighbors renting it out for short-term rentals?
Yes I was being serious.

Big red warning: "by using in AirBnB in this zip code you are likely behaving as an illegal hotel and subject to eviction."

To reiterate, the consequences for AirBnB if a host is caught is virtually nothing. The consequences for the host are potentially severe.

AirBnB bears an ethical if not legal responsibility to clarify these laws for potential hosts.
This is quite badly named and isn't intended for number-crunching. It's for when you want to use a RPi in a project, but want it smaller or better integrated into your other electronics. Think about a kiosk, or digital signage.
Rise of the Patent Troll
Were people ever arguing that, or were they arguing that people shouldn't be fired because of their sexual preferences? Are racial minorities being fired because of their opinions about race?
I fully appreciate the problem with not interoperable application and the large benefits of a fully URIed web; however, making progress in usability requires a flexibility that this scheme doesn’t match, hence the success not just of mobile apps, but Ajax before them -- success that occasionally went back to its origin and reassigned URI throughout (thank you GMail).

However, one thing is not true in what he says:

> Apps have a rich-get-richer dynamic

Yes, indeed, but so do websites; portalisation, or more simply the shear number of sites people visit spontaneously is not less than the number of apps they use regularly: three to five versus a dozen. There is a problem at the lower end of that spectrum: while the sites big enough overall to make an be maintained it are actually more common than apps that can do the same, users tend to spend an almost exclusive share their time in said ten-to-fifteen apps, and that challenges discoverability, i.e. the renewal of that class. That’s where the issue is, not in how many apps cover 80% of usage, or how many first letters people type before their browser auto-complete the rest.

(On that, I wonder how much the lack of success of Readability has to do with starting with the same letter as Reddit)
Oh, there's a small bit of editable text at the bottom of level 8 (line 100). Sorry if it's not very clear - we may work on the color scheme a little.
Is there an easy way to transfer progress between computers? (other than saving your solution Gists?)
I had HTTPD and MySQL server running on my $5 droplet, and I had no SWAP partition. I recorded the outages using pingdom. It was interesting to see that the droplet went down too frequently and sometimes never came up. Had to manually restart the droplet from the Digital Ocean Interface.
NSA allegedly listening to everything in Austria
This. People seem to assume that the target audience is too unsophisticated to understand anything beyond flat rates. Zidisha itself implies as much through their claim that flat rates are simpler to understand.

In fact, flat rates are more confusing because they are misleading. So, not only is Zidisha joining in on this customary practice, they are promoting it.

Instead, they should educate their clients, re-express competitive rates in terms of APR, etc.

So, the net is that it does appear to be intentionally misleading, which is made no better by the fact that such misleading may be common practice in some parts of the world.
So, when is Skype RX coming ?
Yeah, I absolutely hate the term as well. It should be called the peer to peer economy. At the end of the day, there is nothing new here. Ronald Coase's original ideas in the The Nature of the Firm still apply, but now technology supports a firm composed of a single individual.
No, I meant that the situations, origins, meanings, and style of opposition are very different. And if you don't think that there are physical manifestations of bigotry against gay people, I don't know what to tell you. Furthermore, gay people have had to actively hide the physical manifestations of their sexuality in order to avoid such bigotry for centuries.

This isn't the "diversity movement." It is a protest in support of equal civil rights for a historically and currently oppressed minority.
I actually made this exact thing Saturday afternoon. Great job!

First prototype was on an Arduino it and eventually ran out of firmware space. So then I upgraded to the RPi and from there it was a breeze.

Suggestions:

(1) Use Wit.ai for NLP. There is some added latency but the capabilities far out reach Sphinx in the long run. It's free. Less code to maintain. Easier to deploy and distribute.

(2) Try to find a small mic so that you can put everything in a sleek package.

(3) Add support for bluetooth speakers (you're on a RPi, it's basically done for you)

(4) 3D print a custom case, throw some 3M tape on it and it's ready to be wall-mounted!
Using CTRL+Q for the phone is dangerous on a mac, as it's easily confused with APPLE+Q which closes the browser window, losing your progress.

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Edit: it saves the game state in localstorage; kudos!
They can use location information. And gyroscope and accelerometer.

The issue is that apps are diverting attention - otherwise mobile browsers might have implemented push notifications for pages by now. Firefox OS does it, and Safari on desktop has notifications. It's close, but no-one is shouting at the manufacturers to push it over the line.
What I am more interested in is whether the usage of the mobile web is on a decline in absolute numbers or only relative to apps.

Anyone got the numbers for that?

Also this might be a stupid question but are Safari and Chrome considered apps in this context? I.e. do they count as app usages or web usage?
A few people have reported a similar bug. I don't think that it's level specific but has something to do with the next level not leading correctly upon completing a level.

We're still not sure why it happens or when (it seems to only affect a few people), but we'll try to figure it out.

There aren't any errors you can see in the JavaScript console, are there?
Nice project--I like the code, it's very clean and well structured. You should check out the subversion trunk of pocketsphinx, it has support for keyword spotting built in so you can do things like instantly recognize the persona keyword to enable the system instead of running the transcription through pocketsphinx and hoping for the best.

Unfortunately the keyword spotting stuff isn't documented yet, but check out the code for my Demolition Man swear detector project which is using it: http://hackaday.io/project/531-Demolition-Man-Verbal-Moralit... The important bit is the ps_set_kws function call, this takes either a text keyword or filename with list of keywords. Then after processing audio call ps_get_hyp and it will return any spotted keywords. Check out the code here in PocketSphinxKWS.h/cpp: https://github.com/tdicola/DemoManMonitor
> the order of configuration options starts to matter

Commutativity (and idempotency) are too important traits of declarative languages and they are at odds with turing-completeness: I have the feeling a lang can't be declarative turing-complete and efficient (finish in a reasonable time) at the same time.

So you pick two: efficient and declarative or efficient and turing-complete. Once you go turing complete anyway you can't guarantee termination and reasoning about programs becomes hard.
I like Apiary a lot so far
A usable and rich API is important, but using standards to achieve interoperability is probably just as important in my eyes. The fact that Skype isn't embracing WebRTC while stating that they want to enable all these use cases is far from ideal.

Lots of innovation is being done in the WebRTC API space: OpenTok (with a specific customer service API), Vline, AddLive, etc.

(full disclosure: i'm a developer evangelist for TokBox, creators of OpenTok)
Translation:

As part of "Mystic" apparently the NSA monitored not only
all communications in Iraq, but also in Austria. The
basis for this was a secret treaty, by which the
government knew about it, writes an Austrian magazine.
[...]

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pre...
And use festival, not espeak!
Not only are they "well aware," they have likely gone much further and internally documented items that they need to actively avoid talking about, reviewed code/ordinances/statutes for each state, county and locality that could expose them to direct or secondary liability, etc.

"Well aware"... understatement.
Like the guys who literally lynched black people for acting white for much of the 20th century did jack shit against equal rights for black people?
Isn't that, "Two wrongs make a right?" In any case, it is still an intolerance.

It's very dangerous ground to label political donation as "intolerance." It's inimical to civic and democratic political processes in a free society. In fact, I would label it as intolerant.

If a person is taking actions that are nonviolent and legal, and they do not advocate the active destruction of our system of self governance, they should be allowed to coexist. This is what tolerance means. We need to let people oppose us and take positions we don't like. That is what it means to live in a free and democratic society. So long as those people don't act like sore losers, they get to take part.

While it was done legally, the actions that got Brendan Eich fired for a donation he made six years ago strike me as the actions of "sore winners." Brendan Eich's behavior, while a PR disaster at the end, consisted of running a company with policies friendly to homosexual relationships.

Mr. Eich was the one behaving magnanimously in this situation.
Not so much non-competes, but restrictions on working on side projects while employed at a company, even if on my own time and with my own resources and on something not directly related to the companies area of business. Tbf, I'm still quite young and have only worked for one company, and so wasn't in much of a position to negotiate when I interviewed.
You're being downvoted because your argument depends solely on the presumption that any regulation which you personally neither benefit from, are protected by, or otherwise confers advantage to you or removes advantage from your counterparty exists solely because of corruption. This is, to the rest of us, a childish and unproductive perspective.
hahah i love this game :D
I feel that this kind of "feature" is somewhat necessary for things such as Tesla cars, because there is something more important than protecting some industrial secrets: there are also lives involved. That doesn't happens with your MacBook or your Samsung tablet because nobody will die if you access the terminal.
That's pretty brilliant. Imagine showing an HR department their worthless emails cost the company a million dollars in man hours.
This is the text we currently display in that page:

You can propose any interest rate between 5% and 30%. The first 5% goes to Zidisha to cover money transfer fees, and anything above that goes to lenders. Lenders who find the proposed interest rate reasonable can choose to fund the loan at or below your proposed interest rate.

In addition, new applicants who succeed in raising a loan pay a one-time registration fee, which is deducted at the time the first loan is disbursed.
View current registration fees

"View current registration fees" displays a modal box with the registration fees applied in local currency in each borrower's country. (These are currently about $12 in Kenya and Burkina Faso, and zero in the other countries in which Zidisha operates.)

Our loan application form does provide a cost calculator to borrowers, though it does not use the term APR. The loan application form works as follows:

1. The applicant specifies the amount he/she would like to borrow, and the combined interest and fee rate he/she would like to offer.

2. The applicant specifies the local currency amount he/she prefer to pay each week or month. (Our website advises selecting the largest installment amount one can comfortably pay in order to minimize interest cost.)

3. The applicant chooses the day of the week or month he/she would like to make payments.

4. Based on this, our site generates a display of the local currency principal and fee/interest amounts that will be due, along with a projected repayment schedule.

5. The applicant can go back and modify the proposed loan parameters until he/she is satisfied with the cost and repayment schedule displayed, and can then publish the loan application on our website.

6. Lenders can fund the loan at rates between zero and the applicant's offered rates. In practice, many lenders opt to fund loans at low or zero interest, such that most applicants receive the loans at lower interest than what they had proposed.
Google acqui-hired my 5 person company. They hired everyone but me.
> Lack a stable Internet connection? Native wins

HTML5 offline storage should let a mobile-oriented site store a fair bit of data offline, to avoid having to go out and fetch everything anew all the time. It's just that few web developers design that way b/c we've all been spoiled by desktop users' broadband connections.

> Home screen apps vs Bookmarks in browser? Native wins

My Galaxy S3 lets me set bookmarks for sites on the home screen (and anywhere else in the launcher I would wish to).

> Ease of discovery? Native wins

Slogging through ten million clones in an app store counts as easy discovery? OK.

> Ideal user experience? Native wins

I'm not sure about that. We heard the same noise during the 2000s about how users were going to prefer "rich client" apps to in-browser apps, because the rich client apps would be able to respect their platform's native look and feel. And then it turned out that "I can access it from anywhere without installing anything" was something they cared about a lot more.
Can anyone give me a hint for level 12?
Wait until rent control becomes as politically popular as the minimum wage. Or when academics start scouring for positive effects of RC as hard as they do for the MW (and get the inevitable validating study).

Then, he will almost certainly come out in favor.
It's using Pocketsphinx: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
Key-based cache expiry: A developer's primer
Would someone mind explaining the concept of contracts in Ethereum? Specifically how it’s related to paper contracts, for example my rental contract, in which all parties (me, the landlord and the jurisdiction) agree upon several rules like "appartment for money" and "violation leads to punishment by the jurisdiction". Who/what are the parties, what are the rules and what mechanisms prevent violations?
I was just thinking the same thing - I use XBMC on an Android TV stick now, with a wireless "airmouse" that's absolutely horrible to use, and I'd love a better option... For stuff that can easily be done with the XBMC web client, or a simple media remote it's not such a big deal, but it's not exactly a perfect solution.
This took me a bit as well but there is a small bit that is editable, but I agree that it isn't clearly defined, especially when it's only a few characters and not an entire line.

Hint: Phone functions
Clicking the sound symbol does mute it, fyi.
I'm really glad there's such a good historical parallel - miscegenation and segregation (even 'separate but equal') are a great way of putting this whole thing in context. I've seen a lot of hedging once that theme is introduced over the last few weeks.
Good to see Krugman actually got something right

Implying that he (nobel laureate) is usually incorrect in his assessments?