skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's certainly true that the academic publishing system is leeching a surprising amount of money from both subscribers and authors. What the post doesn't say is why anybody still puts up with it.

The problem is that academic promotion is based largely on publication record, and publication in prestigious (and expensive) journals counts for more. So anyone who had a good paper and published it in an as-yet no-name journal would be throwing away a valuable career chit. And that, in turn, makes it hard for new journals to get established --- particularly if they're established with the idea of stopping the money-suck, which leaves them with very little cash for promotion, or to attract the kind of "big names" that would lend credibility.
The job portal itself showed jobs which were scraped from careerbuilder, monster etc

Sorry, but how could you not know this was a scam from day 1? What sort of a business scrapes other people's content to sell their own products? You made your bed, now lie in it.
Leaked Nvidia slide hints at quad-core Tegra 3, 3D-capable Tegra 2 | PhoneDog
The MacBook Air - Will it Code
Finished reading it last weekend. This is the most practical book on startups that I have read last (and this) year. Absolutely recommended.
> 600 million years of evolution did not prepare humans for traveling at 60 mph (much less controlling two tons of steel and insuring the safety of their children, while doing so), nor did it prepare humans for sitting in front of a bright light pecking at keyboards for hours and hours on end.

That last bit could be used to support Murch's argument, if the articles I've seen on HN about ergonomic chairs and sitting versus standing are any indication.
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I very rarely sleep past 5:30 but I feel the opposite way, particularly during the winter. There is something about getting up a couple of hours before sunrise that is very conducive to getting through a morning routine with the entire world running as a background process. I find myself standing in the kitchen with a half finished cup of coffee, listening to the BBC and been totally unable to recall anything that I had done for the previous 30 minutes.
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Actually, I doubt that correct spelling and punctuation is much of an indicator in the algorithm. Adults posing as children will try to talk like children, so they'll be dumbing down their conversation too. In fact, I suspect they may overcompensate.

I imagine it's looking more for incorrect usage of slang, usage of slang that's no longer current, et cetera.
Hmm, doesn't seem to be working on chrome 8. For half a second there is empty space where, I guess, the form would show up but it disappears.
I tested it on Firefox 3.6 and it works.
Except there are studies coming out about the harm to developing eyes and such.

I'm sure the same was said about television, or travelling more than 30 miles per hour.
They said this was just a thing which the free users could use, this was not a core feature by a long shot. They said the value was in them, getting the job-seekers and the employers together, through their internal network.
Im really happy about what new clojure versions bring! Rich sayd this primitiv stuff in 1.3 is the second step to what the want to end up with.

Look at: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-clojure-protocols
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Yes, but if you are looking for work from English speaking areas, at least check your posts in Word or Google Docs before posting them, otherwise WTF.

EDIT: I am ESL.
If the future of publishing is an ipad friendly Wordpress theme the industry is in more trouble than I could conceive. This kind of absurd hyperbole makes it hard to take small but interesting ideas seriously.
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I've greatly enjoyed some 3-D movies. My impression is that the current systems do better when the dynamic range in value isn't very strong. "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs" tried to do all sorts of transmitted light effects that are tempting but don't quite work. Other films, like Avatar, Tangled, Tron, and the 3-d conversions of Toy Story 1+2 and work a lot better.

Last weekend I was playing with some 3-D glasses, black paper and colored pencils, trying to draw stereoscopic images by hand. The first thing I realized is that you've really got to get conventional perspective right... It has to tell a consistent story or your brain is going to really rebel.
Ack, I see that now. Interesting, though - I think the comment being downvoted to -1 (at the time) predisposed me to negatively misinterpret it.
So how does this make money? Is it also an ad network, or am I just paying for a platform that allows me to sell ipad ads effectively?
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"is my brain doing something different?"

It's not out of the question. When I was very young my eyesight was good enough to develop depth perception, but since then my eyes have gone a bit nearsighted. It's not so bad I wear glasses, but it's bad enough that I don't have reliable parallax-based depth perception. I recently went to see the Tron movie in 3D as an experiment, but I wasn't sure I'd even get depth perception in it.

In fact I did, and I also can't say that it bothered me any more than a normal movie. I think that's because I didn't have the conflict the other people are talking about because my brain stopped rigidly expecting depth perception a while ago. But you can't build the 3D market on people like me.
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The focus issue is related to the focus of the camera that shot the film in the first place.
Nvidia Tegra 3 to Be One Full Generation Ahead of Competition
Did you build that system yourself or is this a off-the-shelf solution?
You're sincerely mistaken if you think that's the end game for us or that the smart people involved would bet on something that small.
As the article states yes, yes it will. It comes down to how many devices to you want to manage. Is the Air a replacement for a desktop..maybe. Some don't need much while others, like myself, want to carry a datacenter worth of VMs with them everywhere. My co-founder has an Air and when we travel I am admittedly jealous of its small size and zippy SSD. When the rubber hits the road I have far more tools and power with my laptop. More important I don't have to worry about syncing info with another laptop or desktop.
I usually get up around 7:30, so getting up at 6:00 is somewhat special. Maybe the effect wears down once you get used to rising early.
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You can see how James Cameron paid careful attention to depth of field in Avatar. If the foreground or background are blurry in a 3D film it seems to cause confusion as you can't focus on these things even though, given it's 3D, you might think you should be able to.

It's theoretically possible to produce some kind of hologram-like 3D that would side-step this problem.
Social News Eats a Blog Post
Ask HN: Redesign after HN critique (instant "coming soon" pages app)
Hi everyone,

Last Thursday I asked HN for a review of my web app for creating instant "coming soon" pages. The response was great -- you guys really, really didn't like it (and deservedly so). :)

* Here's the original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2123228

* This is how it looked before: http://soonhere.com/original.html

* Here's how it looks now: http://soonhere.com

It's obviously still a work in progress (there are still some issues, especially with IE, the interface needs polishing, there's no help etc.) but the main functionality is there.

Some stats:

* The original thread got 5 upvotes and 5 comments (not counting mine);

* The site got 150 visitors on Thursday and 30 on Friday (40% from the US, 20% from the UK -- half of that from London -- and 4% from Canada);

* Of those, 5 visitors created an account (1 or 2 with email addresses that looked real).

I'd like to thank nudge, komlenic, SHOwnsYou (I used your first instinct idea after all), pacifika and dlsay for their comments in the original thread.

Now -- before I spend more time on this instead of other projects I have lined up, I'd like to find out if the concept actually is viable. Since a considerable part of its target market hangs out on HN, I'd expect at least a few signups (the first attempt failed miserably here). If anyone signs up and activates any of the paid plans by the end of January, I'll upgrade them to a higher plan for free [1]. Plus, I pledge to describe in detail how it went if the thing actually goes off. :)

[1] (the upgrade from the 'pro' plan is a yet-to-be-named uberplan with image backgrounds, css override and other stuff -- if there's any interest in the site, it will be introduced in February; the pro plan itself is going to get updated as well)

So, what do you think about it after the makeover?
To be fair, did they know which users had Facebook but didn't sign up with it, or did they assume that only the people with Facebook signed up with it? That wording could mean that traditional sign ups stayed at the same number, while Facebook connects increased by 300%.
While I agree with the simple goal and spirit of this, it is irresponsible to not provide authorization when it would be trivial to implement. I wonder if the author would be so nonchalant about it if someone posted damaging comments using his name (and photo) over a few hundred blogs?
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I think it is wireframesketcher, I haven't tried it but I believe it can scan GUI objects and convert to wireframe. Not sure if it does web sites
It is not. The eyes need to focus on the cinema screen, this has nothing to do with the camera. The problem is that the eyes need to keep the focus at the same distance, while the converging changes distance.
Also posted on site:

I agree that the amount of information a well-tagged website can collect on users is frightening, but I don't think that stripping search keyword data from the referrer is the solution. I think Gabriel is going after the wrong thing.

Here's why:
A good Search Engine will never send a user to a page that isn't textually relevant to the search they entered. In 99.9% of cases, the text they entered is ON the page they hit. So if a user searches for: [SOMETHING CREEPY] they will be hitting a page that already has [SOMETHING CREEPY] published.

To put it another way: "Your Keyword data is never going to give a website something it didn't already have. It's just going to reveal what pieces of its content are of interest to you."
Clickables:

http://soonhere.com

Original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2123228

Previous look: http://soonhere.com/original.html
Tell me who you are and I'll tell you what applications you need
If this works, you rock.
The content is clearly understandable despite those few typos. Don't worry about it too much.
Indeed, because it's pattern based - it does not automatically assume that the adult is "smarter", but that any person whose communications are too far off the normal curve will, presumably, get flagged. Kids, be like everyone else, or we'll send the SWAT after you! (j/k - I do think this is a good thing)
Be warned: it doesn't appear to be the same server. I'm logged into news.ycombinator, but I'm not currently logged in to hackerne.ws. I can only assume it's a different server mirroring it, and unless I know it's run by the same people I'm not willing to type my password into the latter.
I listened to the audio-book of Start Small, Stay Small and am a big fan of Rob's podcasts "Startups for the Rest of Us". They have great insight into launching niche SAAS products, but not so much for startups looking for VC funding.
My thoughts exactly. But, then again, I'd have to think that the people law enforcement is seeking aren't all that bright to begin with. Even if they used the software, they'd likely ignore its warnings in favour of satisfying their sick cravings.
Because those comments made me realise that what I originally wrote was (1) not quite right and (2) not perfectly clear. The extra paragraph I added, so far as I can tell, makes just as much sense if you haven't read those comments; I just wanted to acknowledge that it was other people's comments that led me to add it.

Given the choice between a discussion where some bits have been clarified in the light of later comments, and a discussion where some bits are needlessly confusing or wrong, I choose the former.

(I might take a different view if there had been lots of replies, which might have been invalidated as as result of the edit. But there weren't; just those two.)
I agree, but with more emphasis on the affects of one's local climate. I also think a schedule timed with the local sunrise has very much helped me be productive in my current location (florida). Unfortunately in my hometown of seattle, I find my mood too affected by the seasons. In the winter the sun rises at about 900am, and is set by about 5pm. Combined with constant overcast, it never really feels like the sun rises, and it makes it very hard for me to feel productive/happy.
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Everything you said sounds to me like parts of higher semesters (6+).

We never did analyse an algorithm. We were never encouraged to find better ones.
"Designing a fault-tolerant distributed computing system" – I wish there were a course like that.

Maybe I just don't see the relations to real world because they teach basics first. But what do I need an engine for if I don't know that I can combine it with 2 axis and 4 tires to make it drive.

Short story:

I have on course in which we actually program.
We are programming in a bad documented functional programming language. This language only works on Linux.
When I asked my tutor why this is as it is and that I'd like to try to get it working on Macs he didn't encourage me to do this at all. He already worked a bit on this but had no time at the moment to proceed his work.
He could have just send me what he has done and maybe some known problems and maybe I'd have been able to get it working. But he didn't. (Why?)
This is certainly the reason I went to see it. However, not only was I underwhelmed by the regurgitation of the Pocahontas story, I was extremely underwhelmed by the 3D. The only effect that made me think the film was "realistic" was the flies that kept flying around when they were in the forrest.

Avatar did exactly the opposite of what intended to do and that is, it turned me off of 3D movies not on to them. Sure, it made the money it did, but at least for me, it didn't do anything to advance the technology nor promote it.
Objection orientation is a property of the program, not the language. Implementing inheritance in C is not a contradiction, it is using OO in C. With great enough effort, one can use OO anywhere. Even Haskell could be beaten into submission. It may not be slick and you may be fighting the environment tooth and nail, but it can be done in any Turing Complete environment.

This is true for any particular definition OO. You can implement prototype-based OO in Java. You won't have help from the language or the libraries, but there's nothing actually stopping you.

"Functional" is also a property of a program, and not a language. "Immutable data" is a property of the program, and not the language. After all, it's all machine language in the end.
About the new INFO command, Diskstore and Cluster ETA.
How about a relative ethical standard instead? Raise the price to a ridiculous level, then if they pay, save the lives of 30 infants. Sounds like a worthy moral tradeoff to me.

http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/villager...
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It's more complicated than that. See the part of the article about ad networks.

On the other hand, I think the gout example was google ads, not an ad network on wikipedia, so hiding referrer info wouldn't have helped.
Blind people have to click on Stevie Wonder.
Yeah thanks. I apologise for taking up some of your pixels.
Off the shelf. My alarm clock has two alarms. The lights are on standard power plug timers I got at the hardware store.

I'd like to custom build a system that uses LEDs. It'd be nice to have it fade transition from red, to yellow to yellow/blue to white. And it'd be nice to hide it all behind crown molding.
Clojure is a language that has been teaching me a lot about different avenues of programming I hadn't previously encountered. I know many of them aren't new, but they are new to me and yet still approachable.

I really like the type-hinting approach; more detail and performance if you want or need, but otherwise don't bother. I guess it still doesn't have the type-safety of a static language, but now it has the performance.
The StackExchange team did an exemplary job of pivoting the SE model[1] and I think they've seen the success they have today because of that action. Had they not pivoted, I think SE would have been associated with a lot of low traffic, and bad Q/A websites.

Initially with SE you had to pay to setup your own SE site. As mentioned in the post, they found that the sites were doing poorly without the critical mass of people to answer questions. Creating Area 51 helped them objectively measure topic interest, and allowed users to determine whether the site had legs or not, and thusly validate whether the site was worth creating. Had they not done this, I don't think we'd be reading about such success today.

[1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/migration-of-se-1-0-si...
agreed. I guess I left out my suggestion for what the problem really is:

If you are concerned about Ad Networks having so much data on you, clear your cookies and block cookies from them. Then they will never be able to string together more than one piece of data.
Hey! I'm the developer behind Philanthroper.com, and would love to see some discussion here and answer any questions you have.

We've gotten some good press so far [1], and we're completely thrilled to finally be live.

Today's featured NPO is particularly great; Computer Aid International refurbishes the computers you would have thrown out -- or, at least recycled -- and distributes them throughout Africa and Latin America (over 175,000 since they started in 1998).

Seems like just the sort of thing HN would be interested in!

[1] http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/philanthroper-hopes-...
Startup Quote: Joe Kraus, partner, Google Ventures
Don’t forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality.

- Joe Kraus (@jkraus)

http://startupquote.com/post/2909106430
I live and work in England, and my spelling has never been an issue to find work. Ok my vocabulary is still limited, but I learn everyday. I might do some very strong grammatical mistakes and typos, but usually people just correct them I try to avoid doing them twice. All my post are now checked in Grammarly, to avoid those situations, but I know the process is not 100% accurate, but it's still better than nothing. I've just copy pasted the text in Google Docs and you're right there are few typos. I've going to correct them now.
That makes no sense either. The jobs are right there on the web for anyone to see already. You don't need to pay someone a fee to pass on your CV, again, obviously a scam from the get go.
Of course there's got to be more to it - but he could be forgiven, given the content of the article you posted.

So, tell us more.
Yeah, I can tell you that this year in ND driving anywhere early am might not be the best idea. The weather has been particularly bad and the snow plows are not really done before 7am.
That's true... Until you make it clear that they are stealing your time.

I had some issues with that for a while, until I started making it clear that people were inconveniencing me. At that point, they started apologizing but still doing it. Later, I made it clear that overtime for the company was stealing personal time for me. I work overtime in emergencies only. (Okay, sometimes I do it because I want to get something done. That's my choice.) Since then, they have almost never asked me to do something after my scheduled time.

It also helps that my early arrival helps the company... They know that there's someone there to watch the system in case of any problems early in the morning.
I have a problem with 3d in that my eyes never converge, period. I have keratoconus and have had surgery in my left eye, the end result of which is that my eyes have different vision levels, the left being much better than the right. My right eye drifts off a bit (lazy eye) and I focus with my left (better) eye.

The entire premise of 3d basically excludes me.
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Great way to do product research btw.
You're only bumping the problem from a per-browser (cookie) aggregation to per a machine or household (IP address) aggregation.
I think this is bogus.

"OO" thinking is critical to API design. Think of, say, common LISP or PHP, both languages which have had OO functionality bolted on. The 'standard libraries' in both CLISP and PHP are quite comprehensive, but are just piles of functions that appear disorganized in comparison to the 'standard library' of a more OO language such as C# or Ruby.

Sure, you can write C code that implements "OO" in the same way that C++ does under the hood... All real languages are turing complete, so you can say that 'syntactic sugar' is the ultimate difference between COBOL and Haskell... Whatever you call it, OO is a powerful organizing principle.
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As I was reading this I kept trying to think of why I knew the name Vaultus, it was so familiar. And then it hit me. They made the first iphone app for one of our clients, they use some sort of proprietary java system that compiles to iphone blackberry and android and it's TERRIBLE, which is why we came in to build the second version natively. So reading how thrown together their company is explains a lot about how thrown together their software is.
I'm not sure I agree with the 'made your bed, now lie in it' part, but apart from that I have to agree with gaius. This seems such a transparent scam to me that the mind boggles as to how anyone could think otherwise.
I'm a 5:30 riser and have been for most of my life. I'm energetic in the morning, but I often find that I can't even remember if I locked the door on the way out because I was on auto-pilot. (I've actually only ever forgotten to lock it once.) I couldn't tell you anything I did in the morning unless it was out of the ordinary, like playing a video game before work.

But once the auto-pilot stuff is done, I'm wide awake and fully productive.
Great work on your recent deal. In terms of your degree, I'd definitely consider sticking it out and finishing. I was in a similar situation, where I wanted to hack code and work on projects that interested me but felt like school was slowing me down. I decided to switch to p/t enrollment and ended up with a (Bentley) degree 6 years later. For me, getting the degree was less about learning and more about completing a personal goal. You also gain some killer networking opportunities in the process.
I chose the 2D version. My girlfriend and I will pick the 2D version of any movie over the 3D, and won't go to see movies that are only showing in 3D at all. Even if they were the same price, the illusion does not work well for us and makes the experience less enjoyable.
First of all, the solution isn't mine - not taking credit for it.

Second, the solution is specific for the Atheros firmware. Not sure about how good it works for the Broadcom firmware. I'm checking it anyway (I have the latter).