skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QR code can store the entire vCard, thus enabling you to read it off-line.
I have a friend getting her PhD in neuroscience who constantly told me about absurd things matching your (a) and (b) examples. In her lab, (b) was particularly prevalent--she estimated, based on that experience, that ~90 percent of what is published in neuroscience today would be completely unreproducible because of these statistical factors introduced to "massage" data into a more impressive-looking form. Photoshop was also frequently used to make images appear to show a more profound contrast of control v. experiment. All in all, she became disgusted with the entire department and considered giving up becoming a scientist altogether; and yet, according to my googling, she was at one of the top ten programs in the United States...
There are fitness clubs and/or access to treadmills everywhere. No-where has any ever said "every-time I try to exercise normally I risk getting arrested" ever.
If an article is from a brand-new source that uses a kind of paywall you've never encountered before, then hopefully someone will comment with a workaround. If not, you can ask. Maybe you could even subscribe to publications you like, read regularly, and want to support.

Since almost all paywalled articles are from the WSJ, the Economist, or the NYT, this shouldn't happen to you very often.
> unconstitutional unreasonable search.

Absolutely. We need a serious amount of education on how to interact with the police, to know when the encounter is over ("Am I free to go?"), to know exactly how much you are required to say and not say a word more, etc. From what I've seen, the police prey upon people's ignorance in order to score more convictions, tickets, and seizures.

>officer can just shoot and kill the person and get away with it.

Unfortunately this does happen, but in a few recent cases the officer has been arrested and charged with murder.

> E.g., civil forfeiture, that is, the crime of carrying too much cash, that is, legalized highway robbery.

I'm in the Bitcoin industry, so this rings true to me ;-)
ironworker is not per-request, it's like jobs that you schedule from a queue
The clueless ones are usually newcomers e.g. to the Internet. Everyone of us got caught up in a scam at least once.
Why women entrepreneurs fail
That's one option. You can also google the title or URL of the article (this is the most common workaround); or you can search the comments for the word 'paywall'; or you can purchase a membership or subscription for the paywalled site; or you can skip reading the article.
Oh, I see. We're looking at different time scales. I was thinking the last couple years.
She is in very few of the photos, and she wouldn't consider herself young. The photos are very well taken and generally of product and interiors.
That might be the "most effective" way to keep those comments off HN, but it's not the "best". Remember what HN actually is. This isn't a site that only exists to champion free-content-for-everyone-at-all-times-no-matter-what. Links are submitted to distribute news and foster good discussion.

The goal of this move isn't "stop people from talking about paywalls at all times". The goal here is to increase the average quality of discussion that takes place, when a paywall article is submitted. Different things.
Yup. AirDroid uses them this way to establish a LAN connection between your phone and your browser. Other interesting users: Foursquare links back before the company destroyed the product, Wi-Fi credentials, turning lights on and off with your phone.
Newsroom was a pretty awesome show about the dichotomy between monetizing entertainment and authentic journalism. I don't know whether people would pay for true journalism, for several reasons that are outside scope, but one seems to be perception of quality. Bloggers, tabloids, social media and news organizations all produce content. There seems to be a race to the center of sorts, where most stories are blogspam or resummaries of reuters line notes. I think the perception is that most stories are sort of commodities and the first free link you find is as good as the next is as good as the paid link.

It is REALLY hard to monetize content these days.
Yeah let's get rid of trackers and unnecessary bullshit. After, of course, I load my Google tracker and accompanying LOBSTER font.

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
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Which passport is best to travel on? I had a bit of bother with police corruption in northern China when they assumed we were Russians, but the NZ passport magically made it all go away.
Her popularity and income from it is ramping up aggressively. She has made particular decisions with time (and has near-future plans) to diversify and make sure she's not one-and-done with the topic she covers.
> What do you see as being better alternatives?

Online lectures. Uploaded scripts. (At least in my university good scripts were followed so closely, that a "lecture" was exactly what the name says "somebody reading the script". And bad lectures were an utter waste of time. I remember one math prof who permanently corrected his proofs back and forth - in the end we just took photos of his blackboard "art" (back in 2000), because taking notes was absolutely pointless.)

With modern technology those could be annotated; students could have online discussions about those (think "soundcloud-style interface").

Everyone could benefit from those, not only students. Can I please live in a world where I can do every course from home, at my own pace? I'd happily pay to have my all tests evaluated and finally for time spent by university employees on my exams - for which I'd sign up whenever I am ready and without formally being enrolled as a student.

> I think pyscially attending lectures gives more incentive to learn

Or it allows for less time to learn. In my university the different institutes are distributed across the whole city and I spent 12 hours every week just on commutes between those. Thus, people who need to work for paying for their studies (not tuition, but rent, food, transportation) are already excluded by being forced to physically attend. Same for people who already have a job. I am not talking about those few who can study while working because their employer supports this, I'm talking about the carpenter with an interest in theoretical physics, astronomy or arts.
I've thought about trying to solve this problem with software, but it feels like a line we probably shouldn't cross. Hence the current answer: it's fine for users to help each other read articles. That seems unimpeachable, whereas having HN officially undermine paywalls seems like a Schrödinger can of worms if not a classical one.
If the link as posted in the story does not work for people, it does not work. That's your fault.

"Workarounds" which are already incorporated into the link by the time I see them are fine. Workarounds that require me to download seven apps and swing a chicken over my head while ROT13'ing the URL are... not.

It is the site's job (HN's job) to provide usable links to its readers. That is literally your only job, the only thing you are here for. If it fails, it fails, and it should be criticized for that.
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Here's his CV:
http://www.fontem.com/archivos/usuarios/cv_521.pdf
> We whined for years that X11/Xorg was really a non-optional piece of crap...

Does the fact that sshd's X11 forwarding doesn't require to run an X11 -errm- client(?) to run X11 software on a remote machine make X11/Xorg more optional? (Obviously, you do need to run X11 on the machine that displays the GUI, and you do need X11 libs installed on the remote machine.)
Well Sweden is the answer to the question: "what tumblr would look like if it was a country?"
Realize, this is a country where the largest newspapers (Dagens Nyheter, Expressen) feel no concerns about utilizing extreme left-wing people to perform hacks on websites in order to get data on their ideological enemies who they then expose using their newspapers and websites with near 100% national reach.
"From the critically-thinking student's point of view, conferences and journals look like two different ways of getting students to part with money with no recourse if the product happens to suck, as academic material so often does."

I can't speak to journals, but as someone who's been on both sides of IEEE conferences, that it absolutely true. I've seen conferences where almost none of the researchers showed up to talk about their work---the students had to get published to graduate, so they submitted, got accepted, paid their registration fees (literally, the most important step), and, badaboom, they were officially published.

My personal favorite was ICDCS '98[1], where early student conference registration included a copy of the proceedings, until you got to the conference, where you were informed that, of course students couldn't get free copies of the proceedings. What were you thinking?

[1] The conference had a serious hiccup, committee-wise, and had to change venues at the last moment, so....
That sounds like it would be a worse experience for readers who are paying subscribers of the article's source.
Or add a [bypass paywall] link, like there used to be a [scribd] link? ;).
Good article which touches on real issues that a lot of developers won't really appreciate themselves until it happens to them (unless they have a strong background in distributed systems theory, and maybe even not then). A little strange that it doesn't use the word "consistency" even once though. :)

By dropping a cache into an existing system, you're weakening consistency in the name of performance. At best, your strongly-consistent system has started taking on eventually-consistent properties (but maybe not even eventual depending on how you invalidate/expire what's in your cache). Eventual consistency can help you scale, but reasoning about it is really hard.

In some sense caching as described by OP is a tool to implement CAP theorem tradeoffs, and Eric Brewer described the reality of trading off the C (consistency) for A/P (availability/partition-tolerance) better than I ever could:

Another aspect of CAP confusion is the hidden cost of
forfeiting consistency, which is the need to know the
system’s invariants. The subtle beauty of a consistent
system is that the invariants tend to hold even when the
designer does not know what they are. Consequently, a
wide range of reasonable invariants will work just fine.
Conversely, when designers choose A, which requires
restoring invariants after a partition, they must be
explicit about all the invariants, which is both
challenging and prone to error. At the core, this is the
same concurrent updates problem that makes multithreading
harder than sequential programming.
There are quite a few options that have been proposed, the real problem is we are not applying science to solving it. We need to do the studies to find out what maximises quality scientific output and then scale out. The reason this is not done is the people at the top think the current system is working well, for them.
I don't know anything anout her, so this comment is more general:

Sites like this were amazing for advertisers. They have a very loyal tech savvy group(affluent) of a very specific demographic they can feed ads to. She, and those like her, did well to create and capitalize on content like this. It just isn't possible anymore much like many jobs from the past 10 years.
Sadly, 67 things is actually low for most Alexa Top 1000 trafficked websites.
It's tempting. But https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179116.
Is the difference between old (credit card) and new (Apple Pay, Klarna) payment services is merely UI? That is, credit cards require either a card reader or for the user to type in lots of digits, and the new services are one click.
You could almost think of it as an entry ticket ;)
I'd agree that the price of the ticket varies greatly by age, education, etc., though.
This will get worse. Ad revenue per click for news sites is down so much that most non-paywalled news sites are now utter crap.

If you're posting a story which began with a press release, it's better to find the original press release (probably on PR Newswire) and link to that. At least you can read the hype before it was munged by some minimum-wage Demand Media employee.
I have NZ/AU/DE. In general NZ passports are better than Australian, particularly for many Muslim countries, but also for many other places like India, where NZ'ers get visa on arrival. Inexplicably to my knowledge, the reverse was true a few years ago for Tunisia, where Australians had an easier time than Kiwis.

Re: police corruption in northern China, I suspect that you may have misinterpreted the situation. Documentation checks for foreigners nearing or leaving border regions are standard in China, I live there and have been through tens of them.
who do you work for?
> Bad laws are quickly removed from the books.

Laws of any kind, good or bad, are rarely removed from the books.
Perhaps add [paywalled] to the post title, link it to the FAQ entry and expand latter with a list of common workarounds?
USA should be on that list
I would very much like to see a small tag indicating paywalled content. It is easy to tell that NYT, WSJ etc are paywalled, and some even allow free viewing, however scientific papers and academia seem to have a higher proportion of such sites. Since this community is pretty STEM centic, a lot of papers, journals, and smaller subscription sites are posted here. If users could simply "tag as paywalled" it would be a timesaver and a rather nice feature. Thanks.
Being in Sweden the past couple of days has been like living inside a parody. Ever since the image of that drowned boy whose father wanted to get to a richer part of Europe from a relative safe haven in Turkey, the newspapers here have been going insane, trying to top each other in terms of goodness.

News are not reported any longer, only feelings.
Thanks for posting.

The DublinCore schema is quite widely used--many of the institutional repositories that we harvest from use it.

I know of Omeka--I've seen it used quite a bit. We should look into some sort of add-on connection with it and the OSF.

perma.cc is new to me, but our partnerships lead has been evaluating preservation services that we could enlist in archiving OSF content. I'll make sure to pass it along in case he hasn't seen it. We are going to great lengths to ensure our users that we care about long-term sustainability and that we see no value in lock-in.

Collecting Genomics looks very neat; I'll have to reach out.

And thanks for the note about the about link! I'll get a fix submitted tonight unless someone beats me to it.
> maybe not bloated fields like AI/HCI/graphics

Having reviewed papers in the 'bloated' graphics field at SIGGRAPH, yes, you can usually guess who wrote a particular paper.

> This may not be obvious to the normal grad student, but after a decade in a community of 1K-10K people

The communities are smaller than that. Within sub-fields in graphics, you usually have perhaps five or six research groups to guess from.
Can you link me to HN's flagging rules and other moderation policies?

Are you seriously suggesting that someone from YCombinator will remove an account's flagging privileges because the account flagged links which did not point to any meaningful content?

What should we be flagging? Links to content that we disagree with?
yes - I am aware that you support Python, etc. .. but nodejs is your first class language. For example, even your docs only mention nodejs (and java recently) [1]

what is even more interesting is that you felt it worked nicely for expressing event handlers. Can you talk a bit more about that - very interesting to see why not something like python or ruby. I know that nodejs is a callback-oriented framework... was it the fact that you can test locally on nodejs consistently versus what would be the expected output on Lambda ?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/faqs/
"A workaround exists, it's the user's fault for not knowing it" is terrible interaction design.

Having links on the site fail arbitrarily devalues the entire page. Users aren't stopping and thinking "hey, is clicking this link going to waste my time?" - which results in the entire system being perceived as less reliable and trustworthy.

I agree that such discussions are off-topic, but is there a better way to handle these articles than "RTFM, noob"?
In practice, this is memoized per site. Few HN readers don't know to open incognito windows for NYT pieces.
Handy.

I'm rather fond of http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

It gives names, (probably fake) addresses, credit card numbers, as well as a bunch else. It allows CSV export if you want up to 50,000 identities generated. It gives you options regarding the country too.
> If you want to re-implement logind you will invariably read the logind source code anyway...

1) Does this mean that you consider software's source code to be adequate documentation of an API and its behavioral contracts?

2) There's this saying that goes something like "You never know that you have a good API until you've created three independent implementations of it.". It's very difficult to create an independent implementation of an API if the primary documentation of important parts of that API's behavior is the source code that implements that API.
> Because it's a statically typed language it's all in the IDE.

What if you don't want to use VS directly? Also, if it's "all in the IDE" why have it online at all? And if it is on line, why not just include the return type?
I think it's safest for readers to help each other rather than for HN to push specific workarounds. If someone wanted to make an unofficial list, I don't see why they couldn't link to it.
Sure, they're non-optional in the sense that you will almost certainly have to pay some money for them. However, I can readily admit that I spend more on housing and transportation than I need to. Food is less clear; I know I can eat cheaper food, but I don't want to compromise health. Eating out is rarely for the sake of simply getting food, so I don't really count that in the grocery budget. It is entertainment plain and simple which is, by definition, largely optional.
No, we were pulled into the police station in Harbin after being set up by a taxi driver, they had a Russian translator there for us. When we pulled out the NZ passports the police officer started yelling at the taxi driver and we were herded out of the station. So it seems fairly clear that it was some sort of setup to try and get Russian tourists (who are potentially used to corruption). Or maybe they just don't like Russian's and pull them in to check them out.

We also had issues crossing the border from Blagoveshensk to Hei Hei, but that was because the officer at the border (and this was all from body language, there were no translators or anything like that) was not convinced that the NZ passports were not fakes, probably they don't see much variety on that particular border crossing.
Those "facts" are provided by the narrator himself. Unless you have some kind of psychic bond with the narrator, or can argue a priori why the phenomenon of "unreliable narrator" simply does not apply here, then these facts don't really address w1ntermute's line of argument.
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Some funky problems with displaying certain characters after it's been too long since a restart, but otherwise I really like it. I've probably only used the "S-Pen" a dozen times or so, and the little pen-specific apps can be frustrating to use, but that's a really small part of my use.
"There is tons of funding."

I'd have to agree with this. With the possible exception of the cold war, in certain fields, there is more now than any time historically. Before WWII, "professional scientific research" was a pretty rare thing; certain large companies did it (out of which comes the "applied" and "pure" distinction in many older fields, I believe) and certain educational institutions (but most were essentially teaching gigs with a spare closet for lab space).

Now, there's lots of money, but lots of faces feeding at the trough, too. And lots of reasons why breeding more scientists who subsequently starve isn't going to stop.
You're quoting things I didn't say. The snark-amplification mechanism of putting the most uncharitable spin you can possibly think of on someone's remarks is one of the worsts you can do in comments here. I spend a lot of time asking users not to do it to other users.

Of course the paywalls suck. Is there any user who has to deal with more of these annoyances than we ourselves do? There can't be many.

The question is the lesser of two evils. Anyone who doesn't get what a disaster it would be for HN to lose the NYT, WSJ, Economist, and New Yorker doesn't get HN in the first place.
Since I can't be the only one looking for things to break, I'll ask: What if I complain about a paywall and provide a mirror at the same time?
So all I need to do is try every possible option? And even then it may fail (scientific journals, newspaper archives, etc)?

The links are just huge wastes of time. A prominent tag attached to the article would be ok, but in the absence of any other feature to avoid these time sinks, it makes sense to flag the articles to save others from additional wastage.
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They weren't in a safe haven. Lets not kid ourselves that Turkey is safe for kurds.

I agree it's pointless emotion, when 400 000 people have already died by foreign islamic invaders and Assad.

If they genuinely cared, these Swedes they would have tried to stop ISIS and/or Assad. But that doesn't generate votes only "anti-war" protests.

Funny, no anti-war protests against Russia helping Assad. That's Swedes for you.
"..."single-blind" means that the authors don't know who the reviewers are..."

Technically, it means that the authors would have to do some minor text analysis to find out who the reviewers are; the only difficulty is that the comments can be a bit thin, but you've got plenty of known samples to measure against.
I find it odd that he had so much trouble to go to Angola. I have about 5 friends who went there, individually and in different periods of time, in the last decade without much problem. Granted, we are all Brazilians (which I suppose would make things easier [at least linguistically speaking] when going through the whole bureaucracy).
I have always been suspicious of advertising, for a number of reasons. Can anyone come up with an example of something funded by advertising revenue that has not in some way been corrupted by it?

I have often suggested that the financial benefit of advertising seemed unconvincing. Advertising spending certainly has been shown to increase revenue, but how often does it come to pass that the revenue gain from advertising translates to a sufficient increase in gross-profit to cover the advertising expenditure?

Google is a company that is built on data and advertising. Surely they have the required information and the skills to analyse to give an answer.
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