silentrob

That is the most watered down version of the use of the word Revolt.

Lets call this what it is, the CEO attempts to change the culture top down and the employees complain but ultimately go along with it.

This is fantastic and does a great job distilling pages of information, ads and videos down too easy to follow steps and ingredients.

We subscribe to a meal service called fresh prep which comes ad the problem from the other side, removing some prep and having to ask the question "What's for dinner". I think this is the killer feature Paprika is missing, browsing meal ideas that can be imported and added to your planner.

There is still lots of room for disruption in this space, thanks for sharing.

perhaps "hypothesize" would fit better.

I suspect the timing deliberately lines up with the launch of the new Canadian food guide yesterday. https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

This was made into a movie "Still mine" http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2073086/

surge.sh

This reminds me of a TV mini series a saw on History a few months back - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Built_America

As a Canadian I found the history piece fascinating, and something I missed in school.

Perfect article for CNN, FOX or CNBC, however it is a total waste of time for us. No new information discussed.

That isn't true. My office slack has a few thousand users and it works just fine. I'm not saying it can scale to infinity, but it does handle a few thousand users without any issues.

Rubular is my go to as well, even though I primarily write JS expressions and there are some gotcha.

Having the numbered capture groups and clean simple interface is amazing. I also test and create tiny urls embedded in my code to show how the expression work. Handy for coming back later and making changes.

I don't doubt there is something better, but it is still hard to change.

I think you are describing TREC[1]. Over on the chatbot arena, there is The Loebner Prize[2], also interesting, but in general the systems are over learned.

[1] http://trec.nist.gov/ [2] www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

It is a huge pet peeve of mine when someone says (or writes) "Anyways" this isn't a word, it is "Anyway".

If you're interested in chatterbot, check out a short piece I wrote the state of the art - https://medium.com/@rob_ellis/creating-a-chat-bot-42861e6a2a... and a new framework superscriptjs.com

You could easily port PARRY to work on SuperScript.

Very interesting read. If anyone is interested in chatbots or conversational AI, I'm working on the space (in the open) superscriptjs.com

Very cool. MonkeyLearn looks promising. It would be nice if their docs were a little more clear around uploading CSV and the data structure.

It would also be cool if it did unsupervised learning.

Thanks. Fixed.

@smurfpandey - thanks for posting, it is great to see people excited about the project. If anyone has any questions, just let me know.

Wow, there is no shortage of great tools. I really like rubular.com - even though it is for Ruby I use it for JavaScript too. Being able to generate a url and save it in my code comments is extremely valuable when I come back to the code.

That is awesome.

@DBLA, It is great to see more services like this. I'm one of the guys behind Harp.js and Harp Platform. We have a lot in common! Basic Auth was a question that came up all the time and wasn't to challenging to add, as well as lock in - which was addressed by Open Source. Hope it goes well.

Javascript is missing a few NLP tools POS - https://github.com/dariusk/pos-js and Node Natural - https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural

I was really hoping it would have a lib style compile api, but it seems fairly locked down. :(

This is a great post. 2014 is the year of static sites (and generators)! Lots of great resources popping up.

staticsitegenerators.net staticapps.org staticshowdown.com

Full disclosure, I work on Harp and I'm judging Static Showdown.

This looks amazing, and I agree, you need to bootstrap theBigDB with more facts. Sources like freebase and perhaps DBPedia would help.

It would also be cool to layer on temporal facts too, like "What is the price of APPL today?" or "Is JT on tour?"

My initial statement was "Is Kevin Spacey in Austin Powers?" - No results.

Bob, we should talk! https://github.com/silentrob/harp-editor

I'm working on a Admin/CMS Editor for Harp http://harpjs.com

MIT, Open source of course.

Setting up SSL even for small sites can be a HUGE PITA. Adding a Custom Cert to CloudFlare will cost you 200 a month[1].

It shouldn't be hard and you should have to pay such a premium for something that should just work by default. I helped create a Front-end PaaS a little while back[2] that believed in that philosophy, we worked hard to lower the barrier of entry for most things, including SSL.

The reality is understanding SSL, Encryption and everything involved is still overwhelming for most people. This article helps but we need more services to stop gouging people for doing or trying to do the right thing.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/plans [2] https://blog.harp.io/posts/harp-platform-now-public

I love the concept but also agree with some of the comments below. Text extraction, and parsing is better done with classification and training. I spent sever months working on the problem with Natural[1].

[1] - https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural

Disclosure - I work on Harp

In order to build a truly compelling service that solved our problems, along with others was to allow collaboration and sharing. Right now Dropbox has no way to share within sandbox style applications.

We have been talking with Dropbox about ways to improve their API and things are only getting better.

Right now we maintain the NodeJS API[1][2] and have sandboxing build in at that layer, so we don't even see any files from Dropbox outside of the folder we have scoped to.

[1] github.com/sintaxi/node-dbox [2] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/sdks/other

Hi there, Harp Op here.

When we started out building Harp we wanted to provided an unparalleled user experience and not compromise on features. Collaboration was a must, after all software is written by people and teams.

Asking for full access was not something we wanted to do, but something that was necessary to get that feature and make Harp Platform a more compelling.

The Harp Platform is not build on Dropbox, it is build with Dropbox support and we can introduce other methods for syncing files and content. Github support is will underway.

This is something you can easily do. By creating a second account and sharing it with your primary account you can essentially create a sand-box.

By sharing with your primary account there is no need to have a second Dropbox client or switch clients.