skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if all libraries adopt the mentality "well, someone else will have it", then who will actually have it?

Also, HN folks, the system of InterLibrary Loans is shockingly driven by manually searching other libraries. There's no system that allows you to automatically find books from other libraries based on metrics of cost of postage or physical distance. Some enterprising HN reader should work on a better ILL system that libraries don't know they need.
It says near the top that "duplicates = multiple editions".
It's not really that "compact" though

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size//phones/4875,7993,8744...

Just smaller than a full 5 inch screen.
I read that to mean there was only one study that was randomized & controlled.

Basically when you say "there are studies that show X" you aren't saying anything because "studies" are cheap unless your methodology is rigorous and sound, which isn't the case a lot of the time.
Ask HN: What system do you use for tracking and annotating academic papers?
I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that even though 75% of my time is spent reading and implementing ideas from academic papers, I really don't have a great system for:

- recording notes and ideas from papers

- recording where I got a paper from, ie was it referenced from another paper or found on a particular site?

- even how to read a paper.

Right now I use google docs with sub folders for unread, read and implemented papers. I tend to use Acrobat to highlight sections of a paper that I find important and Evernote for saving more important notes.

If anyone has a good system for how to read papers more efficiently, how to store notes/annotations for a given paper, or how to track a todo reading list I'd be very appreciative!
I like Jet and hope it sticks around. I just don't know how it will make it based on their pricing structure and how much money they can lose on transactions.

For example, a month ago I bought an office chair. The retail price of this chair was $160. Jet.com was offering the same chair for $112. I was shocked. Plus they have a 15% off coupon for your first order. Needless to say, I bought the chair.

Jet ordered the chair from another website at the full retail price of $160 but turned around and was selling it for $112 with free shipping and a 15% off coupon code.

My purchase price was just $95. Meaning Jet lost at least $65 on this transaction.

I just don't know how they will stay afloat without constantly asking for money from investors. And how long will that go on for?
>> Considered “harder” by whom?

theqruq had this in one of his slides. I'll try to find the link.

sorry I do not know the meaning of shilling in this context, English is not my native language.
I think it would be helpful if there were a way for users to tell the smartphone browser to reflow text to fit the viewport size. As it is, we're stuck looking at some very tiny text when people choose wide page sizes. That is one reason we are seeing such large phone sizes.
People's ability to accept and even enjoy being bored.

Related: People's ability to accept they cannot - and should not and do not deserve to - get everything right now.
Yes.

There have actually been some interesting social science experiments to shame people into voting more often by using their turnout record http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/30/inter...
You can use the python one. I tried it and the npm one and the npm one seems like it's in much better shape (colors were all screwed up on the python one). so, I guess YMMV
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It's just a consequence of the ridiculous party affiliation declaration of voter registration in the USA. It may or may not have anything at all to do with how a person actually votes, and is not a record of how people have ever voted (except coincidentally, if they both registered, say, as a Republican and voted for all Republican candidates). Elsewhere, party membership/affiliation is completely separate from voter registration; participation in the candidate selection process, etc., is governed internally by the party and its membership.
There are ways of calculating DPI.

Far more complicated than it should be, but possible.
JESUS, it (might) be very heavily NSFW. Don't use this site at work.
Very similar trajectory; I attended a very middle of the road business school and had a vaguely IT related student job for three years. The classes and degree were largely worthless, outside of being able to tick the box on applications. The student job taught me a little bit, but the majority of my marketable skills are self taught. I did freelance work for about 18 months directly prior to graduation and was able to leverage that experience into an excellent and stable job offer at 23, which I'm still happily employed by two years later.

If you are ambitious and "want it" badly enough, the lack of a degree shouldn't slow you down, and if you aren't ambitious or don't "want it" then no degree will magically make you marketable. Most ambitious will probably choose to pursue the degree anyway, so it's self fulfilling to an extent. The point of the article stands sharply though, the "experience" isn't worth the cost, and the debt we incur is choking other parts of the economy. How many millenials do you know that drive a brand new vehicle or own their own home?
No, but you can't expect everything in the road to be light-emitting. There could very easily be a car in the middle of the road with its lights disabled. There could be a person walking down the road without crazy nanopaint, because he was in a car and wasn't expecting to walk, but the car broke down. There could be a horse or cow in the road.
I would love to see more projects embrace this method of development as a lowest-common-denominator. I'd be great to be able to download a library and build it using the least number of tools. For a Java project, this might just be javac. The project could include build descriptors for ant, maven, etc. as well as IDE config.

It feels like half the time I download a Java/Maven project, there is some issue with the build that I have to spend time debugging. I'm not familiar with Maven, and Maven is pretty complicated, so this is a pain.
Can a common shareholder or anyone get a description of the preferred share holder rights? Is it in the articles of incorporation?
I emailed their customer support last week because one of the 4 similar items (deodorant!) that I had purchased was expired and rotten. Even sent them pictures. No response, not even a 'we received your email' message. So maybe customer support isn't a priority either. =(
I agree. I'd prefer a smaller, but Z3 Compact was the best Android phone at the time that had tolerable size and was locally available.

Anything bigger is what I would call a "winter" phone.
I don't think people were really happier back then, before the things you say are the problem. In fact I'd bet anything people were significantly less happy. You blame capitalism, but I doubt that people under communism were happier.

Frankly the world is getting better every year. Not quickly, but gradually. I welcome a world where our biggest problems come from Coca-Cola and vacations and video games.
I've always found that to be a cultural oddity. Growing up in Australia your parents almost never paid for your first car. I'd estimate 1% or less. And it was a source of pride. Your first car might have been a barely roadworthy beater/clunker but it was yours.

Here in the US, there's still some expectation that there's a good chance that, if your parents can afford it, they'll buy your first car. Certainly not an absolute, but definitely a much more commonplace expectation.

Some of this is due to other factors too, admittedly. Parents in the US seem to spend more time as chauffeurs than in Australia, often due to the mostly inferior public transit systems.
There's another option that's even cheaper. My training to enter software development was less than $1,000 (various books and online courses + plus lots of hours behind the keyboard). While that might not provide a deep CS background, its enough to become a competent developer to build real things and obtain a job. And if someone feels like they still need that CS degree, do so after entering the field and pay tuition out of pocket along the way.
Ask HN: Where are they now(YC Fails)?
Everyone knows of the success stories for YC. I was wondering if being in YC helped the careers of people that's companies failed after YC. Did they start something else? Work for another YC company? etc. Am I the only one that's curious? If you fail at a YC Company are you still better off?
While I don't think Steve Jobs necessarily deserves the near-deification he's received posthumously, I do think that Apple benefited from having someone who was able and willing to push through particular design decisions no matter how difficult they were to achieve or whether they stepped on senior people's toes. I get the impression that, within Microsoft, the best interests of new and innovative products always came a distant third behind the vagaries of internal politics, and the desire of the Windows and Office teams to protect their turf.

I also think the success of their desktop monopoly in the 1990s and early 2000s caused Microsoft make the classic mistake of forgetting what business they were really in. They stopped thinking they were in the technology business, and started thinking they were in the PC business. Other devices and products like smartphones and tablets were OK, but only so long as they respected the PC's place as the centre of the computing universe. The idea that a new type of device and OS might eventually supplant the PC and Windows as the dominant consumer computing platform was heresy.
From Amazon: "84 percent of users were satisfied with the way Philips goLITE BLU helped them to fight winter blues."

From Article: "84 percent decrease in suicides at stations with the blue lights."
Microsoft actions were ambivalent in 2015.

On the one side the open sourced quite a few code bases, though very strategic ones but non of the high profile old cash cows. Azure is doing well.

On the other site, XBoxOne and WinPhone10 had a lack luster sales far behind their competitors (half of PS4 sales; less than 3% of mobile market). Win10's inbuilt privacy issues aren't funny - a showstopper and it will hurts their reputation. Fix that in 2016! http://www.ibtimes.com/ps4-vs-xbox-one-sony-has-sold-302-mil... and http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
slide 36. but the whole presentation is excellent:

https://grugq.github.io/presentations/COMSEC%20beyond%20encr...
I see what you are saying and there are definitely certain fields where it makes sense to take on more debt than the $10k-$20k I suggested. I think another factor to take into account is financial maturity. Some people are better situated to handle larger debt than others. I am fairly frugal at this point in my life, but I am not sure I could handle the pressure and the need to budget with an extra $744 payment towards loans every month like mentioned in the article.
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Came here to emphasize the difference between taking public manually retrievable data and public programmatically accessible data, but it appears the API has no rate limiting in place.
(Note: I work for Microsoft, although not on the OS. I mostly use Debian and Ubuntu at home for things other than gaming, and know a bit about security--but I'm a bit rusty since I wasn't following it from 2010-2014 and haven't really thought about how to attack things since 2008-2009. These are my opinions/thoughts and don't represent the company I work for at all.)

Windows has been harder to attack than OS X since Vista. I don't think that's changed--Apple is generally slow to correctly implement security features that require kernel changes compared to either the Linux devs or Microsoft.

If I remember correctly, OSX didn't have a good ASLR implementation until 10.9 or 10.10, and has generally lagged behind on OS-level security updates and exploit mitigation (NX pages, ASLR, etc.). It was routinely the first thing hit in the early Pwn2Own competitions (partly because exploits on it were a breeze, partly because the laptop was usually a little nicer and you only got the laptop back then, too--but also because moving from crash to reliable exploit was easier).

I haven't followed security updates in Linux in the past few years as closely, so I can't comment on it as knowledgeably. From what I remember, it was about on par with Windows for difficulty to attack in Vista/7, but there's been a lot of security features that Windows has added since then. From what I remember, a fully hardened Linux box was just as bad to attack as a hardened Windows box, but Windows has generally required less configuration to get that right. (I think SELinux still isn't enabled by default in some distros?)
Saying you avoid something like the plague isn't a little criticism. Further, shilling in favor of Microsoft for an operating system that has had a consumer monopoly on the desktop for 20 years? Yeah right.
"The guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he returns by the door." - Gandalf, to Saruman.
Could you tell me more about the meetup for knowledge exchange, what exactly do you imagine? Sounds interesting.
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I read an article that Amazon has no profits most years [0]. Maybe that's the financial model they are going after. I share your view on this though, because until they reach that point, they are running a big risk. It will be interesting to see how long they can keep it going.

[0] http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...
Jet.com employees are happy. How do we know they're happy? Well their CEO comes and asks them directly if they're happy. "The company's chief executive says, “I’m constantly asking people at Jet if they’re happy."” And guess what they tell this CEO, they tell him "I'm happy". They value happiness so much they gave out a happiness survey. Guess what? Turns out almost everyone is happy, just look at these images of smiling faces. Jet.com is happiness.

NYT... what the hell. I guess it's remarkable you held out longer than the rest.
This will be an unlikely HN entry, but as there was not pre-requirement, I thoroughly enjoyed a French book named "Peste et Cholera" by Patrick Deville, about Alexandre Yersin [1]. Yersin is mostly known for identified the bacillus responsible for the plague [2]. Not that it relates to our field, but the guy's dedication and hard-work was inspiring (similarly, Pasteur's life is quite interesting to read about).

Also out of our usual targets here, though somewhat more related, I enjoyed "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" [3] by Haruki Murakami. I found the universes interesting and enjoyed the setting of a world were programmers learn to compute and encrypt things in their brains (even if it's a small part of the story).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Yersin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard-Boiled_Wonderland_and_the...
The built-in panel has gotten better in recent versions of OS X but still has some quirks. It doesn't copy the character into the clipboard (it copies the full description along with it, and even that requires a right-click), but you can double click things to paste a character into the app that previously had focus, most of the time that works pretty well.

Before I found out about the built-in panel I wrote a menu bar app[0] that does copy directly to the clipboard, and I still use it since that's what I need more often than the "paste into previous app" behavior of the built-in panel.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codepoints/id499161264
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It's easy to run Windows 10 without any calling home at all. Just don't use a Microsoft account. Just chose custom configurations during setup.

Doesn't a default Android phone also do a lot of calling home? And Apple phones? Why is it so special when it's Windows?
> revealing what candidates or parties voters chose

Isn't this supposed to be anonymous? Is it just the affiliation declared when registering for voting, or the actual vote itself?
When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together
I propose to make drivers more accountable for their actions.

If they kill a cyclist, they suffer repercussions. Currently, in the US at least, they do not.
I still think this doesn't shift any blame away from cyclists who don't use lights. A bicycle is moving, unlike those examples, and you need to be aware of it even when it isn't in your way yet or in the beam of your headlights.
> I was considering number of vulnerabilities among the different OS. that has actually little relation to the other problem

That's like Apple deputizing OS X's vulnerabilities as "features" and calling it quits.

My test for defining vulnerability derives from whether a reasonable, knowledgeable party would put sensitive information on the system. Windows 10 fails this test. I find it difficult to see how anyone would describe its as "hardened," hence the request for a source.
This sounds like architecture astronautics. Lots of things that sound good in theory, but there's no analysis of how useful they would actually be in practice, what actual tradeoffs there are with current designs, etc. Lots of wishlist features.
Holy smokes, this epitomizes why I don't hang out with cyclists anymore: too much whining, about everything. No good deed goes unpunished in the eyes of the cycling community, including this one. A company comes out with an arguably good idea, and the response? "Victim blaming!" Yeesh, grow up already.

As a current life-long hardcore motorcycle rider, and former hardcore cyclist, let me clue the rest of you riders into a little fact: you/we are hard to see, and the faster you come to terms with that, the longer you'll live or remain uninjured. There is no injustice in a company presenting a product and saying, "try this, it will make you more visible."

Signed,
Former Cat 2 racer, 40 mile/day commuter, and USAC race official
The data is not a well-kept secret, but there are restrictions on its use, and for some locations criminal laws about misuse. See http://nationbuilder.com/voterdata for state by state rules.

Note in particular, "Placing on the internet so anyone can find out where anyone else lives" is not exactly an approved use in locations like California and Hawaii. Which is why there are going to be consequences once the database owner is tracked down.
Do we all agree that it might be a good idea to change the color of lights in bridges, some parts of campus, and suicide spots?
I don't expect who I voted for to be public record. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe this information is intended to be public record. There are risks of not only employers, but government workers and officials discriminating against someone based on their vote. The ballot should be as secret as possible.

edit: I pieced together information from other comments and noticed that who one voted for is not available, even through this breach. That's great. My comment here was addressing the breach as it was presented in this comment thread.
This times ten. The stomach isn't some fuel tank that if you put too much in it stores the extra fuel. I lost weight at 4K calories a day and I've gained it at 1.5K/day. All while maintaining the same amount of exercise. Really from just cutting out sugar, grains and starch, I moved my cholesterol from slighty bad to really good and cut triglycerides from 150 to 65. Plus lost 43 pounds. In 4 months. While cramming my face at nearly every meal.
Only if you use some of the old-school widgets (e.g. Horizontal Panel). I think standard practice these days is to use HTML as far as possible in views.
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Without adoption it's hard to stay relevant which was what my post was about...
Also I don't know how common the sentiment is but I would happily take an extra 1-2 millimeters in depth and the extra weight for more battery life in said hypothetical smaller phones.
>The standard is nearly impossible to meet.

Not really, the standard is "undue hardship". The problem is the myth...Of ~900,000 bankruptcy filings in 2014 only ~700 listed student loans as a debt to be discharged, of that number do you know how many were successfully discharged? The truth is of ~900,000 bankruptcies vastly more were eligible to have student loans discharged but didn't because they didn't even try.

As a lawyer I have personally worked with a client to have a >$100,000 parent loan discharged directly with the US Dept of Education, and in no way would this client come close to being eligible for a normal bankruptcy.
How do you know what Jet paid for the chair?
I own a Nokia 515 and haven't been happier with any other phone. Maybe there should be more competition in the high-end basic phones area. I'm willing to pay a higher price (higher profit margin for the manufacturer) for a higher build quality.
Android removed support for reflow after 5.0 I think.

I would be happy if they would bring it back, until that opera mini still works, except for embedded browser views.
Someone in Zurich once stepped in front of me in the queue, and I gave them my best British passive-aggressive glare. They didn't even notice, the cad.

So it's not as easy as you might think.
Right. But non bicyclists don't know that. Which is why the media always reports on whether a cyclist killed by a car was wearing a helmet or not, when it doesn't matter. It's just victim blaming on the part of the media.

Drivers don't suffer any consequences for killing people.

Cyclists should do what they can to increase their likelihood of not dying, but drivers should be legally obligated (meaning jailtime) if they kill someone.
Would you please qualify Peter Thiel's approach here? and why it would have been a better model? Palantir is pure software company. Theranos is a suite of biomedical tests. This has a major lab/hardware component.

Theranos exists in a regulated industry where at a minimum as a lab developed test you have to abide by CLIA regulations. In addition you have to have validation, verification, design history and a whole bunch of documentation to prove that what you developed does what it should do and actually works.

The thing about Theranos is that the rules are well established.. You just have to follow them. If you don't know the rules you have to be a quick study or you have to hire experienced folks who know the rules and how to guide you through the process.
Probably not going to happen. Windows includes code sourced from too many other companies.....
Earlier this year I spent $25 for a FOIA request for my state's entire voter database. This isn't exactly private information.
This is very different. These are all investors buying commons in a series D or later timeframe which isnt terribly uncommon.

Some companies at this stage will have previous investors or other shareholders cash out at some discounted rate prior to issuing any new equity.

Highly doubt this would happen for any but a few unicorn style companies. The first few rounds of financing are where youll see the worst dillution.
Browsers are supposed to be doing this anyway. I can't comprehend why they even allow some two-bit site designer to override the user experience and force a useless layout to render. There should be a "Don't fuck up the layout" option for Firefox mobile next to "Request Desktop Site".
He's talking about making the actual machine code standardized/compatible across OS's.