skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The academic granting system is kind of complex now. But this is not the issue with ACM's position as the 'publisher' with copyright ownership to 'academic researchers' paper.

I think there is need for AAAI, ACM, IEEE, SIAM, American Physics Society to open up their vast digital libraries to general public via internet, at the same time a business model for those organizations to be repository maintainers for the papers in the long run. (I think we need such organization to exists because all authors of academic papers eventually will leave academic due to death, retirement, working for industry that won't publish). So far I think no one has a good solution yet.
He states in the article that giving your boss advanced notice is based on the relationship you have with him/her.

ITA: "(Now don’t get me wrong: if you work for bosses who have a legalistic, transactional mindset, by all means give two weeks notice. I gave 4 months notice once to a boss with that mindset and was duly punished for it. But hopefully if you are at a startup you work with people who have the startup, relationship-centric mindset.)"
Man it's hard to resist the temptation to check if friendster.com is still active after watching that video :)
The video highlighted an annoying feature of Squeak Smalltalk, where you get tiny little views of individual methods in their own window, which seems like a good idea until you actually try to do something complicated using it. It's pretty to watch though.

The cool things there, in my opinion, were the code navigation pieces. Those are the things I actually think work better with tabbed files.

In other news, yikes! I seem to have started an IDE vs. Text Editor flamewar. Sorry about that.
http://tweetvite.com/event/ycsxsw

my bad, still getting up to speed on all the companies. this was a common request and creating an event on tweetvite was significantly easier than upcoming
Google Apps Script: macros for Google Spreadsheets
GFW vs. Project of the West Chamber: bypassing GFW without proxy
I wouldn't use such damning words, but basically I agree.

The thing is, RSS hasn't caught on with users/readers after all this time. I think we can safely say most people won't ever use an RSS reader in the way that was expected, a pull email system. It has however, caught on with publishers. That makes it into a behind the scenes technology that users don't really need to know about, which I think means the disconnect is to be expected. I don't think there is a clear line between the implications previously discussed (ad nauseam) and this, if a user doesn't know what an rss feed is.
Meh. It's the sort of thing lots of extensible programs -- including far simpler editors -- already do, so there's not as much humor value in it.
This sends the file in transit over SSL, but encrypts the data at rest on EC2. That means you must completely trust EC2.

Worse, based on the comments in the blog, it is unclear who has the key that is used to encrypt the files:
hotzyco: "What key AES uses to encrypt files?"
Response: "Sorry hotzyco. We can not give out that information."

If Zumodrive controls that key, they have access to your data.
It is, but with some pretty big caveats. You can't use Django's models on GAE, and a lot of what people think of as "Django" is built on top of Django models (admin, users, and sessions are the top three.)

The app-engine-patch team has essentially forked Django and made it work on top of GAE models. However, there are some disadvantages, including a huge perf hit on cold requests. I tend to avoid AEP.

I'm currently of the opinion that trying to get "all of Django" running on GAE is square-peg/round-hole. You still get a lot of mileage from the bits of Django you _can_ use on GAE, and it's modular enough that it is possible to build new GAE-specific session, etc. objects. I have several OSS repositories on GitHub that could serve as a decent Django + GAE template if you're interested.
Why did I click on this? There are enough outlets on the web for me to waste my time!
Black socks - Buy socks in the definitely correct colour for men.
What if you are not a making these mistakes, how is Heroku (or another service like it) going to bring you to a harsh and ugly reality?

Well, if you are running a startup from scratch - you ARE making these "mistakes" because you certainly aren't focused on the minutia of performance tuning and significant scalability concerns.

Most startups at this point are still trying to get the aircraft off the ground - much less thinking about switching on the auto-pilot for cruise.
Then where are the Python/Ruby/PHP/Perl IDEs with these features?
I'm posting this not because I think you should go and buy socks there, but because I think it is a simple idea executed to perfection, and there is a lot of stuff to learn there for 'starter-uppers'.
I think this model is really interesting. It's not much money but it gives you some impetus to get moving! And it could clear up some expenses, like hosting, that hold people back.
Carry in your pocket Google Android MID with Wifi, 3G and GPS
This is a double post.
Here it is the previous discussion : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1177080

On that discussion somebody asked for proofs that the device "advertised" existed for real. We realized that it was something needed to get credibility, so we updated our web site with new pictures shoot today. Please visit it at :

http://enso-now.com

Your feedback of any kind is greatly appreciated as always. Thanks a lot
"Suppose the initial investor is the government, and the sorts of businesses are only the types that are good for the country: health, education, and energy."

And he settled on those three because...? They're the only businesses that are good for the country? They're just a sample three (all of which are still easily debatable)?

And who would make sure that it only suggests things that are "good for the country"? And how would you even detect that? Every special interest group would be at each other's throats over this. Which sounds identical to what we're already lobbying the government for / against. How is this supposed to do better?

I like the reverse-model idea. That has solid merit, and can be implemented at any time by anyone (and I'd be extremely interested in watching it develop). But scrap the government part, it's doomed to become a cesspool of porkbarrel legislation.
It would certainly be nice for work supported by public funds, but that isn't the way it is now. I'm assuming the OP needs the information in the journals now or in the near future, so he has to operate under current conditions.
Good point, and with a few qualifications I agree with you. But the actual intent of the prize, as expressed by Alfred Nobel himself, mentions the reduction of standing armies as a qualification for receiving the award.
Reminds me of Squeak, first, because of the white->blue gradients. Second, this is like the Canon Cat/Archy (Raskin interfaces), where you have tons of room, and you just demarcate segments you want to look at.

What was striking for me was the "capture my workspace and send in email" feature. Couple this with the Omniscient Debugger (http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/), and you've got me sold. Oh, but I'm a Ruby programmer.
This doesn't really count as rating, but here's some feedback...

- Love the logo - it's sweet and there's real attention to detail in the typography.

- On the pricing page, the mouseover tooltips are offset and transparent, which makes for some strange placement! I'm running FF3.5.8 on WinXP.

- Everything thing you'd expect from a 'web2.0' style site is there and good: the clear calls to action, the simple navigation at header and footer.

- Some of the text would benefit from a copy-writer or proofreader to tidy up a few loose threads (for example in the FAQs, What do I get? "When you send an letter on mailfinch..." should be a letter. I'm nitpicking at detail, but when you've got things so right, the little details show up even more.
I'm definitely not saying it's bad. On the contrary, it's very friendly, and gently persuasive ("We encourage our clients to purchase a Freelance plan to start off with... you can easily upgrade at any time"... lovely!)

- I like the new name more - it's more 'positive' than SnailPad. Snail is slow, finch is swift.

- What's the take up on your PAYG plan? If the margins are worthwhile, I'd push that as equally as your monthly plans for people who don't want to commit.

- I'd love to give it a try, but I currently have no need to send a letter.

- Best wishes with your venture!
Newegg has a very loyal customer base that generally appreciates the extremely low lead times, fast ship times and speedy RMA's.
From the reviews I see, they also seem to usually be pretty understanding when they receive a problematic product.

I don't think Newegg will suffer that much.

As for your criticism, one of their upsides is speed. You can't do a lot of QC on sealed products and keep up speed.
Building Smarter Artificial Intelligence By ... Shrinking The Body?
Introducing the iKey – Apple's answer to the humble door key
No, Eclipse.
It's hard, and people are lazy. Getting this information out of Java is Really Really Easy, so it's been done.

Personally, I have all the pieces together for doing this with Perl, but I have not put it together into anything coherent because it's largely useless. An occasionally-updated tags table is really all I need, so I can't get motivated to make "Eclipse for Perl".

Maybe someone else that sees the value in these tools will do it. Let me know what information you're interested in, and I will show you how to implement it.
thanks - I am always hesitant to release projects where I know it is only a quarter of the way there. But what good does it do just having it sit on my hard drive? hah. There are some key bindings working ctrl+space creates a new editing pane, ctrl+arrow keys should let you move between panes - however I wrote this so long ago that I did not know ctrl+space brings up a menu on mac. hah. The other key bindings do not seem to work on my mac either. If I get some time this weekend I think I will polish this up, get saving/loading/exporting working etc.
this sort of thing would be awesome for boosting developer productivity if they have 3 24" monitors ... nowadays it's quite affordable to buy 3 24" monitors (at ~$300 a piece), and when they're all linked-up horizontally, an IDE like this one could truly kick butt
The most striking thing is how few people here have addressed this point. Everyone seems to be living in a fantasy land where "learning APIs" is as hairy as it gets. I've messed with portions of the Linux Kernel, Chromium, Mozilla, and Coda Filesystem codebases. In each occasion, tools like code-search (provided by lxr.linux.no, mxr.mozilla.org, Google COde, and even `find . | xargs grep`) have been invaluable in getting anything done.

Chromium, Mozilla, and the Linux Kernel were unpleasant, but manageable with the existing tools, because of the incredibly strict guidelines imposed upon contributors as far as code style and other things. On the flip side, the Coda Filesystem, which has grown as the result of many relatively disjoint Ph.D. research projects) requires a whole lot of help and handholding from the guys who have put a decade into it already. I can only imagine private code bases being a LOT worse.

An IDE that makes semantic relationships more obvious to the new guys would do a lot to ramp new people up faster and would really be a huge benefit from a community standpoint as well as just being generally helpful to existing developers.

That said, this is a good first step, and not necessarily perfect. It kind of looks like a toy now, so managing screen real-estate better would be the next big step, I think.
I've wondered for a long time why debuggers don't all have a "back" feature. Small controls on what's saved / how much memory can be used seem to me to be easy to add to any debugger. Just save memory states and rewind, the whole thing can be implemented with a stack. If someone knows a good reason, I'd be interested.

You've ended up adding more things for me to read / look into. I love programming... there's no way I can keep up with it all, so there's always something interesting.
I renew my membership each year mostly to support the Turing Award.

The journals (both online and print) are nice bonuses, but the satisfaction of supporting our field's Nobel Prize is well worth the nominal $99/year membership fee.
Defiantly, this was the comment I was going to make, when I interned recently I got thrown onto bit part stuff and learning for quiet a period of time before the project I was meant to do was organized.

Not only does this get less out of the intern it also lowers motivation and makes you feel like your project isn't important at all.
For all my tech related queries the answers have been better than Google's. My only problem has been in breaking that mental association of "find an answer" with "type a 'g' ".
I've written lots of good code on my 9" eeepc, and didn't really hate the experience that much. Conversely, I have 2 19" monitors at work, and don't really find it productive at all. (We are asking for 2x 30", which should help.)

The difference is that I use Linux/xmonad on my eeepc, and Windows XP at work. A good window manager will make your computing experience 1000x more enjoyable than a new monitor will.

(As I mentioned above, I have a 24" monitor at home and use xmonad with that. Needless to say, that is the best environment of the three.)
No, they'll create a humanoid form Cylon that's a tremendously hot blonde. She will seduce you and steal the encryption keys. "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
Well put. I agree that in practice, these sort of smart sites have much different implications than RSS readers. But as we all know, if you put it out there, people can do as they will with it. If content producers don't like this, their only good recourse is to drop their RSS feeds (or embed ads in their content, which is still vulnerable to the RSS equivalent of an ad-blocker.)
Actually, they don't. They just have cache-friendly primitives, and a compact interpreter that mostly sits within the i-cache of modern processors.

It makes a world of a difference -- staying in the i-cache and doing mostly sequential access is easily 10 times faster than random, non-i-cache-friendly access.
no, i think that maps to 'git format-patch' and 'git am' for creating and applying patches as email. there is actually an 'hg bundle' command that does largely the same thing as 'git bundle'
Sorry for fudging may response with a term for angular velocity, instead of linear velocity. I was writing from the assumption that the primary point of a smaller centrifuge would be to safely get higher centrifugal forces at the ends of the rotor, which would require that the ends of the shorter rotor move at greater linear velocity.
When creating a new account has no cost at all to the banned user then this is a useful response. Perhaps you have never tried to deter a determined troll or griefer on a forum, but it is a non-trivial exercise. It was not the coders admitting that they don't know how to solve the problem, it was the coders coming up with a solution that was effective for some large portion of the problem and that did not require too much additional code.

They did not screw the real user, they just made them invisible. Eventually, when their posts did not get the replies they were looking for, they might just give up and go away -- this was the intent of the system.
Why?

It looks very similar to jetpacks from 50 years ago.

The physics of rockets is not going to change.
It is an Eclipse plugin, yes, but it could still be written in Squeak?
Clever? Insane? Horribly un-portable and prone to breakage depending on compiler, libc, and OS versions? All of the above!

Yeah, you already said it was C++.
You cannot be PCI DSS compliant on Heroku unless you only use paypal express or google checkout for your payment backend. Be mindful of that before you commit to something like spree. I recommend Shopify instead :D
Not to belittle you or anything, but this feels pretty scammy.

There are no specs on the site other than the memory capacity and a list of 'goodies', no information about which networks it works on and so on.

Maybe you should start by sending out some review units to the usual suspects before attempting to sign up customers ?

Elsewhere you admit to not even having a prototype (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1177199), so really what you are asking for is money in the hope that one day you'll be able to deliver.

Also it seems that overnight the memory capacity has changed fourfold.
In fact, Heroku is build entirely on top of EC2
How are the privacy settings?
The smart tiling and interaction of "bubbles", beyond just IDE-centric actions, most intrigued me. I'm reminded, of all things, of playing with the Acme editor. The overarching task bar with nameable, savable, and shareable sessions was nice, too.

Such things strike me as generalizable beyond just IDEs.
You win at the "Most Subtle Haskell Reference" in this conversation.
I'd say from that picture that area is about 4 people to crowded than would be comfortable at all.

It's weird that in the context of outsourcing people are outraged at setups like that but in the context of interns it's fine.
I have the pleasure to brief on our Data Visualization software "Trend Compass".

TC is a new concept in viewing statistics and trends in an animated way by displaying 5 axis (X, Y, Time, Bubble size & Bubble color) instead of just the traditional X and Y axis. It could be used in analysis, research, presentation etc. In the banking sector, we have Deutsche Bank New York as our client.

Link on Chile's Earthquake (27/02/2010):

http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/EarthQuakeinChile/

This a link on weather data :

http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/aims/

This is a bank link to compare Deposits, Withdrawals and numbers of Customers for different branches over time ( all in 1 Chart) :

http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/

Misc Examples :

http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/airline/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/stockmarket1/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/tax/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/football/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/swinefludaily/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/flu/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/advertising/

This is a project we did with Princeton University on US unemployment :
http://www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf

A 3 minutes video presentation of above by Professor Alan Krueger Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and currently Chief Economist at the US Treasury using Trend Compass :
http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/princeton.aspx?home=1

Latest financial links on the Central Bank of Egypt:

http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/Aggregate-balan...
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/balance-sheet
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/banks-deposits-...
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/egyptian-banks/
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/currency-by-den...

I hope you could evaluate it and give me your comments. So many ideas are there.

You can download a trial version. It has a feature to export EXE,PPS,HTML and AVI files. The most impressive is the AVI since you can record Audio/Video for the charts you create.

http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/FreeVersion/TrendCompassv1....
The author feels that this technique of deliberate lying will actually make it easier for you to learn the ideas. --- Donald E Knuth, The TeXbook
It's a stream of unfunny content. Thanks, google!
Worthless article - all partisan spin with no actual facts (or even arguments) backing it up.
Yes, it's equally hard to operate.
LOL. If Apple came out with some study claiming Safari was best or Mozilla came out with some study claiming Firefox was best or Google came out with some study claiming Chrome was best, you guys would be eating it up.

I'm pretty sure you people made up your minds the moment you saw the title and just decided to read to search for any validation of your presumptions.
I wrote that! :)
NU here too (hi Shamiq)
Last year, I was approached by two Dutch trainees (20 and 22 yo) who wanted to do their trainee placement abroad. I agreed without having done more than trade a handful of emails with them.

They came to Australia and worked for me for five months. They brought their own laptops so I only had to provide a couple of desks, second monitor for each and a chair. I paid them in accordance with a typical traineeship for them back home (about AUD150/week, which would be around USD135/week). Their rent (at the place of a friend of mine) was AUD100/week and they supplemented their living costs with savings and help from their parents.

They were pretty raw as web designers and HTML/CSS guys but got a lot of opportunities to learn new skills and fill gaps with simpler work. Generally, they had paid for themselves each week by the end of each Monday. They loved the experience (we do drink beer and play a lot of table tennis here at the office!) and it worked really well for me also.

I am a general web studio first and foremost but was able to use them on various side projects as well - cutting PSDs to HTML, doing logo and page concepts, general maintenance, etc.

Their supervisor is looking to send more over later this year - they have intakes (outtakes?) in February and September. Will definitely be doing it again.

Worth echoing caryme's comment about designing intern projects in advance. With a sudden boost in manpower to a small business (I'm a sole director with two employees normally) you can quickly burn through work and have time to kill. In those times, it's good to have a few side projects you've been meaning to start. As a sole founder, try not to leave yourself as the chokepoint if you can avoid it.

Happy to answer any questions about it if people are interested.
Assuming you have a job in IT, how does one get to the point where he's only making ends meet, even with a family in the mix?

Assuming a low-end IT salary, you're still bringing in 5k+/month. Minus $2000 for tax, zero for your 10 year old cheap car, $1000 for rent, and another $500 for food, that leaves $1500 for conspicuous consumption or savings.

If you've chosen to use up that excess by upgrading apartments, leasing a car, buying a flatscreen on the Visa card, etc., that's what is eating up your ability to save money.

There's no reason to be living month to month on $60k+ a year. Unless that's what you've chosen to do.
Counterfeit usually means it does what it says, but it lies about who made it.

Knockoff means it does what it says, and looks like the official one, but doesn't lie about who made it.

Fake doesn't work, or works poorly, but is made to look real.
I've had this idea for a while and maybe this can be a part of implementing it:

A website where programmers can contribute 'widgets' which can be mashed together to create applications. Widgets would be written in python, and would have access to a bunch of underlying services and to other widgets.

You'd use an interface like what you have here as the 'ide' to create the bits and pieces of code that go in to making a component, and then a similar interface to combine components in to working websites.

The end result would be hosted on the same service, either using your own URL or using a subdomain of the service.

It sounds like a large amount of work though, to get that up and running, especially the security angle is a complicated one.
Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra at Digg
Harelips and Haute Couture: NYTimes Brings You the World
Enders Game-esque virtual dissident drama plays out in real-life Korea