skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commercial publishers from Nature to those on the long tail are as bad or worse.

I think this point needs repeating. Let's remember that Knuth took the Journal of Algorithms from Elsevier to the ACM (where it was reborn as TALG) for this very reason. (Cf http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf)

The ACM, to its credit, has avoided the extortionate fees charged by many of the commercial scientific journals.
This post seems like you can put "Why Pick Us?" on the top of it and call this their (Terralien) sales page...
You can either allow traffic between one or more subnets, or put gossip traffic on a private network.
There's an anecdote claiming that the Mac's old "overstuffed" icon for a non-empty trash was unsettling to users, who felt like they should immediately "empty trash" to alleviate the condition... Which defeats the purpose of having a trash can instead of instant delete.
I'll throw something recent into the mix: Land of Lisp. Build a HTTP server, DSLs for producing HTML and SVG, a quirky game, and then combine all 3 to build a quirky web-based game that renders the game board using SVG. And that's just scratching the surface. Lisp and LoL make programming fun.

See also: _why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, Nobody Knows Shoes.
Great as it is and should really be how Instagram do their own site. The only thing you could possibly add that wouldn't just be noise is a notifications part such as followers or photo comments, if it's not in there already as I don't get many comments or follows to have tested this :(
And yet, there is actually a positive correlation between physical attractiveness and IQ.
And yet other people complain if I put links to previous submissions without saying whether they have discussions or not. I think there is value in the cross-linking even if the other submissions don't have discussion. That makes it necessary to remark on whether there is any or not.

Perhaps I'm trying to make HN something it isn't. Perhaps it would be better to consider it like twitter and simply ignore the past discussion and submissions. If that were the case I, for one, wouldn't hang around any longer, because the "new" stuff feels more and more just like the old stuff re-submitted or re-hashed.

Without back references I feel that people wouldn't be as keen to find genuinely new material. As it is, there seems to be more "news" than "hacker news".
Thanks. The area you search for (in this case, midtown, NYC) helps determine the visible map area, and then the returned results are the top ranked places within that visible map. If you don't want any brooklyn results, you can zoom in or pan on the map to only have the particular area of interest visible in the map. If you ensure you can't see brooklyn in the map, then Peter Luger should no longer show up in your results (but let me know if that's not the case for you).

As for including reviews in their entirety, I completely agree that would be valuable. However, we don't want to copy reviews completely (as that's likely copyright infringement). Instead, we try to make it (relatively) easy to jump quickly from Hotspot Robot to the original content creators if you want more details on reviews (or if you want menus from menupages, reservations from open table etc).
Facebook’s New Comments Box Plugin Filters Website Comment Reels by Relevance
Some more thoughts as I'm clicking through:

- You have a "Get Started" button on the home page that takes me to a 37signals-ish price selector. Fine. But then you have the exact same "Get Started" button below each rank. Now I'm confused. Haven't I already started? I expect a "Select" button or something.

- The process image suggests that after step 3 is step 1. On reflection I think I get it (that I'll like your service enough to convert another book/article), but it's kind of confusing.

- One thing I don't fully understand: do you just convert the files and hand me an ePUB/MOBI/PDF, or do you also submit those files to iTunes/Kindle? To the inexperienced, it kind of looks like you do literally all the work for me.
Chrome way past 33% landmark in victory over Firefox metric
Pretty cool, I have it running[1] on my box now, but I can't seem to figure out what the Run feature is supposed to..I'm guessing run the code in the second pane, but it's not clear with no docs...Also, is this designed to execute only for Javascript? Your site at http://c9.io is down and I don't see anything in Google cache so I can't read up there either.

[1]: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0a28fjb51
Hiding Nobel prizes in plain sight
SitePoint Market: Think 'Craigslist' for Web Developers
Yes, great suggestion. Added to the list.
Google Apps is not free.
Emergency Hotline Service, Sexting App & More Find Funding via Twilio Fund
Is there currently a way on HN to see upvotes alongside downvotes? If not, it seems like a worthy enhancement to me.
I'm very much against this. Facebook does not need a piece of every aspect of our online life. I much prefer Disqus because 1) they aren't facebook and 2) they are way more useful in terms of commenting because it allows you to keep certain opinions off of facebook.

Facebook already has a big brother vibe to it--a feeling echoed by many others I know--why do they keep going further with this sort of thing?
I can name at least 2 other independent companies doing this that are low-drama and easy to set up.
At my (US) college, the first semester of freshman-level classes were taken pass-fail, so they didn't contribute to GPA. But that's quite a ways away, and still generally the exception. We will also sometimes report "In-Major GPA," which tends to represent later years more. I would argue the in-major GPA is more relevant than either total average or last-year average (as much as GPAs are relevant at all). This would be especially true at my college--people would finish all their major requirements early so their last semester was a nice relaxing victory lap of mostly electives.
I am curious--is that $5m after or before taxes, because it really matters?
I don't think Nature charging holds back progress - so long as I am also free(speech) to make the work available for free(beer).

Nature is paid to do two jobs.

1, Provide a copy of the paper on paper to sit in a library for 100s of years.

2, Certify that a paper has at least been written by somebody vaguely reputable and has been peer reviewed

Originally the first job was the main role, now with the internet the second is far more important. I am happy for my institution to pay for a paper copy of Nature in order that there is a universally recognised 'I am not a crank' stamp to put on my work. Think of it as an SSL-cert for my pages.

Yes I would like there to be a free open online web-of-trust for peer reviewed papers - but for now I have no objection to Nature doing that.

And I would much rather have a commercial publisher do it than have it mixed in with a professional body like IEEE/ACM/IOP who have a whole other set of agendas.
Finally, Full Disk Encryption in OSX Lion
The advantage would be to drive more traffic and discussion to the parent site. This is also opt-outable.
Oh, I'm on Gmail already, trust me. But thats because I like the faster interface, search capabilities, being able to check multiple mail accounts, gtalk etc. Yahoo is a great repository for my non-friends and family email (semi-spam).

I guess I've been very lucky that never happened to my Yahoo account.
My amusement is at the application of the word "privilege" to a negative description.

I currently enjoy not-superstitious privilege, not-being-kidnapped privilege, not-being-forcefed-arsenic privilege, and many others that help me maintain my status and position in ways I may never have thought of. But calling them "privileges" is silly; it leads, as I said, to semantic satiation; and that's part of the whole problem.

Many people here do not enjoy neurotypical privilege, but they don't use that language, they try to describe the actual problems they face and the ways to surmount them as efficiently as possible.
Hipmunk (YC S10) Finds Next Tasty Nut: Hotel Search w/ Airbnb
Might as well point to talk by the creator where he explains it all himself:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=dahl-node

The why/how and so on.
My /etc/hosts file already blocks Facebook's widgets, so I don't see anything in the comments section on TechCrunch. That's a feature and improvement as far as I'm concerned.

TechCrunch kind of hinted at it, but I will never use Facebook to leave a comment on a website (or log-into a site for that matter). I keep my Facebook account separate from everything because I don't trust Zuck whatsoever.

Update: in addition to blocking in /etc/hosts, I run Facebook Disconnect in Chrome which gets rid of all those Like buttons and other annoyances that run on the main Facebook domain and can't be blocked in /etc/hosts without also blocking your access to Facebook directly. It's a fantastic extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...
Ask HN: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Who do you hire first for your start-up?
Doesn't Quicksilver already offer this same functionality? I'm also unsure if I would use this app.
Just used Hipmunk for the 1st time to book a ticket and found it to be totally useful and intuitive.
I didn't really get the reason behind the downvotes...but I'm new around here so I thought I was missing something in the rules. Thanks for your post!
I actually agree with you, but I have also yet to see a relatively inexpensive autopilot system that can successfully navigate all of the many horrible scenarios that could arise. We're probably already (or nearly) there tech-wise, but in the current Cessnas, you still need to be able to land and take off, and if there's even a minor crosswind on landing, this requires a very good bit of training and understanding of the technical limitations of the airplane. Not impossible for people to learn, but certainly a lot more difficult than "gas = go, break = stop, wheel left = turn left, wheel right = turn right".

As far as safety goes...I agree that personal flight has a great track record. But it's difficult to say if this would continue (absent a beautiful autopilot system) if we gave out pilot's licenses to 90% of 17 year olds and filled the sky with millions of small aircraft.
Here is a link to a Workola Folder:
Clickable: http://www.workola.com/user/folder.php?id=6
I would use this for PHP development.

I really like the idea of having an editor that I can play with on all of the things that I don't want to, or can't, setup an editor on (iPad, various laptops, etc). Is it possible to have a non-hosted version that I could put on my own servers as well, that I can then access from anywhere I wanted?

The aesthetic quality is superb by the way. Who does your UX?
Absolutely, the concept is nothing new. The difference would be decentralization and generalization.
Do startup founders in Israel tend to be relatively younger than US-born founders, and if so, why do you think that is?
#24: Win at all costs by being ruthless and ego-maniacal. See: Cartwright, Brown, Juanita, HOF speech, etc.

Sorry, couldn't resist. More of a Magic/Bird guy. :)
You mention that Hakyll is inspired by yst, nanoc, and Jekyll. Can you talk about what you chose to do differently and why? And then maybe a little about the things you think those projects do right.
More likely is things like front running, where you use buy/sell something upfront when you know someone else is about to move the market price

Layering is a completely different practice which involves creating an impression of volume when there isn't one (which is strictly regulated in the equities market, less so in others).

It's not uncommon for firms to try and exploit flaws in each others trading strategies, for example a rooky mistake in pricing algorithms is to use the last traded price as the basis of your price, so a common strategy in infrequently traded items is causing a price spike causing the rooky algorithm to go way off market allowing them to be taken to the cleaners.

I've seen firms manipulate prices in weird monotonic ways in order to see how other firms algorithms work in order to reverse engineer them.

I've done similar things myself in order to figure out the internals of exchanges, in one case I was even able to identify an exchange had incorrectly configured it's kernel tcp settings causing an irregular latency spike in their internal systems.

Trading algorithms to some extent have to be designed to protect against vulnerabilities, not because of code theft, but because people are getting very good at doing remote reverse engineering based upon observed inputs/outputs.
I spotted issues with the signup process yesterday, the guys have done a good job of chatting to me on twitter to try and resolve the issue, so thumbs up.

On a separate note, I agree with the comments about the per day pricing. It is a little confusing and I would rather just see a monthly subscription cost, with a few plan variants based on # of projects and users. Your making me think to hard about paying for something when I have to start calculating how much it will cost me. You should definitely consider simplifying it.

I disagree with the comments around pricing though. I think that estimated cost is well worth not having hassle, and when you consider it to the cost of say your mobile phone bill. Just ask which do you use the most, more importantly which one is making you the money in the first place.

If I'm honest I think the pricing is a on the low side, However I wouldn't limit the free plan to "open-source" projects either. Depending on how you are quantifying open source. If you require a public github repo then I would potentially suggest it's a bad thing. People need chance to use your IDE for a project to see if they are willing to pay. Allowing only say one or two projects makes more sense I think.
Thanks for the feedback.

- Great point. I'll change that.

- That was the idea. That you'll keep using the service.

- Right now I take whatever material is submitted to me and I design the ebook and output it in the different formats. I'm not distributing it (to itunes, Amazon, etc) quite yet. Down the road perhaps.
Good use of the "sandwich method" of delivering unpleasant news.

The pattern is this:

1. Upper slice of bread - happy light carbohydrate empty calorie news.

2. Bad News - the meat of the message

3. Lower slice of bread - happy light carbohydrate empty calorie news.

In this specific example:

1. You'll learn and have lots of hours to work.

2. We pay bottom of the scale and are proud of it.

3. Fun, friends, cv, grow, reward, grow, stock options.
I've become really disillusioned with clinical psychology because of things like this. There are certainly people with specific personality types. In this instance, we have brilliant people who don't like to follow other people's arbitrary rules, and are attracted to new information. There are also certain people who will stay up for a week at a time, binging on cocaine and meth and driving to Mexico without sleeping and then becoming nearly suicidal for a few weeks after that.

The first person has a lisp-like personality. The second person has bipolar disorder. The two sort of resemble one another, but in the lisp programmer's case, they aren't doing anything really harmful to themselves or anyone else. They aren't hurting anyone, they aren't hurting themselves seriously; they're just acting a little quirkily. They might be bipolar-like, but they don't have a disease like the person who goes on cocaine binges and then tries to kill himself does.

The same principle applies with ADHD. Some people literally cannot sit still for a minute, and will disrupt every class they're in because they simply cannot pay attention to the work. This behavior is a problem for themselves and others. However, most people have some trouble concentrating on things they find boring. It's practically tautological.

The problem is, when we start using medical disorders to describe personalities, we conflate the two. Suddenly, everyone has a disease. This isn't a problem in itself, but we tend to try to fix these diseases with medication. If we try to give every lisp programmer some lithium to cure his bipolar behavior, he's going to become substantially less brilliant (lithium taken early on tends to knock off a few IQ points). If we give him adderall to treat his supposed ADHD, he might end up getting addicted to amphetamine.

I think we really need to accept the fact that some brilliant people are going to have problems no matter what, and they are fundamentally part of their personality. I don't think teaching a lisp programmer Python is going to make him write code more consistently and still write code that's just as beautiful. I don't think we can slice the "tortured" part of "tortured genius" off without cutting off some of the "genius" with it.
James Franco is very impressive as well. From his Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco#Personal_life :

Franco has been described as having "an unusually high metabolism for productivity...a superhuman ability to focus". Dissatisfied with his career's direction, Franco reenrolled at UCLA in the fall of 2006 as an English major with a creative writing concentration. Having received permission to take as many as 62 course credits per quarter compared to the normal limit of 19 while continuing to act, he received his undergraduate degree in June 2008 with a GPA over 3.5.

He moved to New York to simultaneously attend graduate school at Columbia University's MFA writing program, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for filmmaking,and Brooklyn College for fiction writing, while occasionally commuting to North Carolina's Warren Wilson College for poetry.[1] He received his MFA from Columbia in 2010. Franco is a Ph.D. student in English at Yale University and will also attend the Rhode Island School of Design.
I don't think anyone has mentioned this here, but buy Generic domain names for resell or development, can give you quite good returns... look at http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm for information on recent sales/prices.

Hit me up if you have any questions about domains.
I noticed many conferences have VC's panels giving feedback on pitches. And if you observe those VC's, what kind of advice do they really give? If you stand back and really think about it, their advice and feedback serves their own purpose: reduce the company's value, and maximize their own pricing and opportunity. Our event takes a different approach. NO VC's on our panel. Get feedback from guys who work in the capital markets every day, and who know HOW to get capital from investors at maximum valuation, maximum speed and maximum self respect.
Ugh. I know I'm probably in the minority, but, to me Avatar is a perfect counter-example. Because so much money was involved in its production, to make it a safe bet for a good return on investment, it had to necessarily appeal to the lowest common denominator. Hence the emphasis the flashy technology of production and presentation and basic complete neglect of everything that makes a film _art_.

If the movie industry went bankrupt, people would still create cultural artifacts, and (though I have no evidence for this) I would imagine they would create more meaningful ones. I don't think any of our neolithic ancestors made any money on the paintings at Lasceaux.
Simplicity Ain't Easy
Apple's Media Event to See Introduction of iPad 2, Cloud-Based MobileMe?
In the 1950's, the FTC forbid cigarette makers from mentioning health harms.
Cloud Computing 101: How to Go Cloud
This is exactly right. It all depends on identifying the right audience. Longer copy is great for people who are prospects for the product; for people who aren't it just looks like a messy sales page.
Greylock Sends Entrepreneurs a Message with New $1 Billion Fund
Have you tried TripAdvisor Flights? I work for TripAdvisor, and we have an "AirWatch" feature that will send you an email whenever the price for a certain route drops. http://www.tripadvisor.com/help/what_are_airwatch_alerts
'Sign in with Github' is broken. I get an error message:

User '<myusername>' already used for another account.

Really? There is no way for me to link my Github account then?
OK, but then you sort of have to be careful what you put in the first line, and then it's really no different.

Anyway, I would think that most of the time suck in email comes from replying to others' messages (which already have subjects), not creating messages from scratch when you're not even in the mail program. (If you do that a lot, maybe you should stop increasing everyone else's email burden...)
this is really where all the location-based services are trending into - location-based deals, checking-in, real-time 'flash deals. It will be interesting how Grroupon, Living Social, etc. become more location specific / time sensitive to further customize the user experience. Another thought I wonder is what Where (http://where.com) might do about all of this given their location-based issued patent?
Lack of pseudonyms is going to be a real stumbling block for this.

When I'm conversing with a real person (ie, on Facebook, Twitter or IM) then I'm ok using my real name because there are privacy controls.

When I'm discussing things on HN or TechCrunch, I don't want my opinions being misconstrued out of context... given this society's litigious nature, I think FB comments are not going to take over Disqus/IntenseDebate's market, though they might carve out a nice niche.
Interpersonal relationships are not just "friend" or "not friend", it's far more complicated than that: I worked with a. I went to college with p. I'm best friends with x. I know z.

IIRC the clear distinctions between unrelated friend groups is one of Diaspora's big selling points.
Apple Wins Patents for iChat, Nitriding Stainless Steel & iPhone 4
I run Facebook Disconnect too, and it also caused the comments to fail to load on the TechCrunch article, in case you were wondering.
Kind of ironic to be so gifted in so many areas, and yet be famous for something you're not even good at.
When building out Appleseed, I decided on a principle early on that's important for a sense of social... well, not privacy, that's not the right word. Segmentation, more like it.

But first, humans rely on segmentation. I want to know that if I'm hanging out in a bar with a bunch of friends, I can talk a certain way that I would never talk around my parents or my extended family. If a member of that social group walks into the bar, it's awkward, but on some level, they opened that pandora's box, by encroaching on my social space.

Facebook doesn't seem to understand that, preferring instead to just dump everything into one box labelled "Social!" and forgetting that you interact with your friends different from your family, your coworkers, etc.

So for Appleseed, the principle I'm focusing on is that, when you report to your friends, you report on contexts, not actions.

So, when you upload a photo, or post a journal entry, or a status update, you're creating context, and the appropriate friends are notified of that context.

However, when you comment on that context, you are taking an action. The recipients of that context are notified, but your friends are not (unless they're already mutual friends of the context owner).

In other words, Alice posts a journal entry to her College Buddies friends circle. Bob comments on that journal entry. Alice's College Buddies friends circle is notified of Bob's comment, but Bob's friends are not notified unless they are also one of Alice's College Buddies.

This isn't perfect, someone so inclined can still search for your comments and find them, provided the privacy settings are open enough. But let's as least make stalking require an extra action, instead of doing it for the user.
Bill Gates. Seems like a much easier guy to get along with, and eventhough Steve Jobs's vision and ideas are great, it doesn't really make sense to hire someone for the vision: you should have that yourself.