skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$3,000 may be too much, but I basically like this idea. Isn’t the whole premise of (peer-reviewed) open access that authors would pay fees sufficient to cover the cost of publishing and peer review, so libraries aren’t ripped off by publishers? This is at least how PLoS and other leading open access journals I’ve heard of work.

If $3,000 is a ripoff, authors would refuse to pay and will pressure IEEE to reduce prices or take their business elsewhere, which has happened in a number of fields where open access journals have sprung up. Having libraries pay the publisher is not as effective for cost control.

Maybe peer review or even journals should die? I don’t quite agree, but if it’s true, having authors pay is probably the best way of bringing this about.
I would like to see a hybrid between DropBox/Cloud Drive and AWS.

I would like a /sites/ folder into which I can drop webpages and have them autohosted. It has the following structure:

/Sites/

-->/root/ <-- primary page @ in DNS

-->/site1/ <-- Subdomain1

-->/site2/ <-- Subdomain2

-->/siteN/ <-- Different DNS

Putting sites in /sites/ are actually hosted on AWS so that traffic surges can be accounted for.

etc...
Unless you’ve been living under a cave for the last week

Shouldn't that be "under a rock", or "in a cave"?

I stopped reading because I don't like feeling inferior for not groking pop culture references.
Elektra One Electric Plane's First Flight a Success
I just looked at it and I think it is a very cool idea!
Creating a web startup is a legitimate way of gaining assets but also one of the more risky ways of doing this. The point, which may not have been completely conveyed is that building assets is significantly easier & less risky than starting startups.

Go to school, learn something, work at interesting companies, take on responsibilities, be helpful to people, build up a network, have interesting conversations, be unique.

At some point, you'll have enough assets that a startup will just fall out of all of this diligent work.
I switched from the last beta to Dolphin some months ago because (iirc):

Firefox did not support gestures. It was very slow to start. It did not reflow text (properly or at all?).

At least the reflow seems to be included now so I guess I try again.

edit: Installed it. Tried zooming in on reddit, hn and metafilter. Failed to reflow on all of them. Reflowing after zoom is enabled in the options, at least I think it is (the stupid apple slider shows the yes in blue, I guess that means it is on. Or does it switch on if I press it? I never got the design of those buttons.)

Apparently no way to exit the application.

Takes guesstimated 10 seconds to cold-start. 3s for Dolphin.
CEO of Japanese Energy company isolated himself for a week
I keep seeing that he donated US$1M, but he is "donating" it to a seed fund. Does this mean he will be taking a piece from each of the funded projects, or is he actually donating 100% of the money and expecting no returns?
...but remember this is only because they have no choice. IEEE/ACM would love to remove these clauses, but they've realized if they do, that's going to be the match that lights the fuse for all-out academic rebellion. It's not like that's a gift or some evidence that they are in any way reasonable.

They're totally aware of the precipitous situation they're in, they just don't want to/don't have the competency to fix their monetization strategy.
And a text editor, spreadsheet, and an IDE!
Great ideas are your best assets.
> It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage as a core technology.

Dropbox buys their storage from Amazon, using S3.
It's astonishing to me that a computer science student wrote such a good book. It's funny, witty, the drawings are great, and the author explains quite complicated concepts of functional programming very clearly. I've already read this book a year ago online, yet I'm still gonna buy it just to support the author.
I've found that URL rewrites are one of the primary concerns for those making the switch to Nginx from Apache. This is a great read, especially for SEO-minded folks.
FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery
By the way, I discovered there are desktop version of the mobile build available for developers (Windows, Mac and Linux)

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/4.0/

Windows http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/4.0/w...

Mac http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/4.0/m...

Linux http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/4.0/l...
the old face was shockingly dated and needed replacing

How was the older typeface dated, other than being from 2002?
Your software matters a heck of a lot more than hardware.

You pretty much have to be using a non-blocking event-based server to achieve this level of concurrency in an efficient way. Forking/threading processes will never perform anywhere near as well.

Some non-blocking event-based frameworks: Node.js/Twisted/Tornado/AnyEvent/Libevent

You probably want to create a program that all clients connect to and acts as a coordinator for the whole system. Any actual heavy lifting can be done on other servers (CPU/IO intensive tasks, etc). Each web client can establish one connection to your "coordinator" server process and additionally make whatever HTTP requests are necessary to save/fetch data, etc.

This was historically known as "The C10K problem" as in concurrent 10,000 connections. Modern hardware and epoll/kqueue make 10K pretty easy in many cases.

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
LYAH is fantastic. Lots of really beautiful material, and it's choke-on-your-coffee funny.
I can certainly see the value of building up a following and leveraging that towards your startup. (plenty guilty of that myself)

It seems like all the extra time you would spend by going above and beyond to get a following/skills could be spent (with the same risk) doing a really cool startup on the side.
Maybe have everyone sign up to water and care for the plants, then petition your boss and explain how you are solving the problem. Things like this show leadership so have side benefits as well.

giving a study which shows how the boss is wrong is probably not going to be that effective. A solution on the other hand is great. Also, try not to make it us vs. them
There is a solution, which several companies already implement (Rdio and Spotify, at least). You can sync tracks to your device. I haven't used MOG or Rhapsody so I'm not sure if they do it as well (anyone?) but it seems like the obvious solution. It's the best of both worlds, as you can still stream if you want.
This is doubly true of you're using complex rigs (e.g. steadicams, cranes, helicopters, etc.) Also, film-outs (the moment a reel runs out) are 100% predictable. Crashes are not. That means you're not only having to factor in the time to swap cameras, you're also potentially having to deal with resetting and reshooting the take the camera crashed on.

Also, cameras bodies are actually relatively cheap (even film). The really expensive parts are the lenses, which can easily run from 2-10 times the price of the camera itself. And that's before you consider the extra labor required to check each lens out of the rental house, or the cost of insuring them while they're on the job. So unless you also want to double your supply of glass (which triggers a slew of additional charges), constantly swapping bodies means a lens change every time as well. If you're working in an even slightly dusty or moist environment, this is even more undesirable.
I agree, that's something that https://www.jungledisk.com/ already does and frankly I just prefer dealing with one entity because the experience is better.
I can't believe what I'm reading here. That font is awful. The x-height is too short in terms of ratio, the counters are squashed, the stroke width is far too fat. It looks totally clunky on my screen. And that page design?! Show some love Nokia!
Use Amazon Cloud Player With iOS Devices
You missed my point, which is frustrating, because I lawyered up my (simple) point with a whole lot of extra words exactly to avoid this unproductive branch of the discussion.
IDC Predicts Windows Phone Will Beat RIM & Apple by 2015
Anyleaf (YC S10) launches iPhone app; putting an end to the supermarket circular
I'm learning haskell from him right now; totally enjoyable introduction to a new language, and functional programming.

It won't be my only haskell book, but I'm glad it was my first!
How do you go about finding such projects in hard science? Is there a gigs board or is it through networking mainly?
How is this easier than putting a file in your public_html directory for use with Apache, which is included with OS X or Linux?
This is not a company donation but a personal one.
Apple Delays NFC
I went through a decent portion of it online a while back myself, and I ended up grabbing it during O'Reilly's funding drive for Japan both for that effort and to support the author.

Of the Haskell tutorials/books I've read it made me feel like I was getting more out of it (main other one I read was RWH, which isn't bad but felt... dry? and was a tough push).
Dell Vostro V3300 laptop review
Dell Vostro V3300 can be termed as a laptop that determines the fashion of all the tech-savvies.The latest creation of Dell is the Vostro V3300. It is a machine of wonderful performance with a very metallic image that makes it look trendy and professional.
good, now that joke's been made.

The API is weak, though. Everyone knows you lead with something interesting, and go to the name only after an actual conversation. UNLESS you're using friend-based authentication, where a third party initiates the handshake.
Just trying to make sense of the data points here... Your username and the description of your one hour gig leads me to believe that your projects need more than just programming skills. Do you work in San Fernando valley?
There are posts here every month, although your mileage may vary regarding what you want out of them.
Thank you!

No "HTTP redirect", I meant navigational/logical/mentally.
For any burgeoning community, the hard part is to get people to come back. Apps like vbulletin are great when you already have people, but seeding them is hard. If you can create a mailing list which automatically posts to the messageboard and all messageboard posts go to the mailing list you will have a good start as it will be much easier for a small number of people to engage. As the volume picks up, people will digest or go to the site directly to read.
They probably spent a lot of resources to develop this font and didn't even bother to move the "Our new typeface" headline a pixel or two to the left so that it looks like it's actually left-aligned with all the other text.
For those who missed the sarcasm...

https://www.dropbox.com/help/7
Mobile Firefox lets you switch between tabs by pulling out a sidebar on the left side of the screen, so you can access them quickly, and you can see the current page and the tab list at the same time: http://support.mozilla.com/kb/how-do-i-use-tabs-mobile
not looking for a job, but might do the assessments anyway :)
What kind of conversion rates are you getting? What do they get for registering?

Could you post a link?
There are probably more plants in most prisons than your office. Something to think about.
Nokia is a global company that does many tens of billions of dollars a year in revenue. Believe it or not, they did not commission a new typeface to impress Reddit and HN. This is not part of their plan to take on iOS and Android. So, I don't understand the point you're making with your comment. Are you suggesting that everything at Nokia come to a complete standstill until they can placate smartphone pundits?

It's just frustrating that, just because we don't "like" Nokia, we can't talk about the actual story; everything has to be a referendum on WP7.
Are you trying to be difficult or have a laugh at my expense or does anyone actually have any real complaints about how tabs are handled in the stock Android browser or say by one of the very popular Dolphin variants?

I don't understand why these tabs are better than the tabs in the normal browser. Let me guess, everyone thinks you have to scroll up to get to see the tabs? Too bad.
It (the original) has a very Santa Clara circa 1998 Rotis corporate thing going for it.
Like xscope?
Can JavaScipt getTime() be used for measuring performance of JavaScript code?
I didn't want to be one to pester in his AMA but I still have no clue about what he's up to with canv.as. Aside from providing a meeting place to internet vigilantes and meme spammers, his track record isn't that stellar in either technology or monetizations. I'm also unable to overlook the recent developments in the image-sharing space with Path and Color valued into the tens of millions with anywhere from $11M to $41M cash on hand, making his $625K investment seem more like a pittance than a serious attempt at making a run at the current front-runner.

The pussy-footing surrounding his handling of this canv.as thing is unbecoming.
And then add half again.
Mobile habits and future trends
Does this not all depend what kind of job it is? Front-end, backend, modules, etc...
I have looked at sites like odesk or elance and those just suck for US freelancers as they do not pay shit. No one can outbid some russian company charging $3 per hour.

Where do you go to find projects?
Here's an easier url (goes to the same .apk): http://j.mp/firedroid
The thing is, that twitter successfully bridges between news source, RSS, stream of thought, push notification, friend feed, gossip channel, marketing tool and rant box.

It has the critical mass in its user base.

I can only see that @jack will focus on how to make it easier to tap the data flow you're interested in.

If you use the cable tv analogy - you need a goot way to flip between all the different channels.

I can imagine Twitter trying to work harder at being integrated into the core of the OS.

This is where they say they want to be the plumbing; be the plumbing of both human-to-human messaging, machine-to-human, and machine-to-machine messaging.

A ticker that runs along the bottom of every screen, color coded tweets telling you meta-context of the stream. Any one of which clickable for more context...
How We Implemented Live Help in BuildMaster
Whenever I see "$ donated to University of Waterloo" I always think of 2002 when Microsoft donated $2mil to Waterloo under the condition that they switch their existing curriculum from teaching C++ to C#.

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2002/08/1699.ars

(Disclaimer: I ended up going to University of Toronto, an arguably rival school for Computer Science.)

Update: Excuse the indirect relevance. Thought it was an interesting factoid for school culture context.
Adobe acrobat reader 10 version
Adobe Reader is also known as pdf reader with the standard for online document sharing. It is also know pdf viewer which can open and interact all pdf files. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as the author intended by anyone with Adobe Reader.
Reality API
What's funny is when someone asks a question and you think "Oh, I'll bet I could answer this with a little googling." And the top result turns out to be the question you're trying to answer.
no, that's just stupid. You're confusing files and apps with services.
Will send you an e-mail but wanted to post this here as others might find it useful as well. I charge $75 per hour for UI/UX design work, meaning wireframe mockups, full-fledged Photoshop mockups and XHTML/CSS/JS conversion. It may be low considered to some standards (San Fran) but I'd rather increase my rate slowly while building a bigger clientele base than risk charging too much and not having enough work.

For those curious about the workflow, I use:

* Google Docs to create a spreadsheet with all project research/notes that is shared with client

* MockFlow to handle wireframe mockups, as it also allows me to easily share them with the client AND is cheap (I think $70 per year?)

* Photoshop and Illustrator to create the main mockups for each of the major pages/sections of the site

I also tend to shy away from logo design, as for me it is not worth the time and effort for the pay - instead I suggest to my clients that they use a service like 99Designs or Brandstack.
Working as a software engineer I sometimes do work for less than 2k but I consider this more of a favor. Typical work is 5-20k but any major projects (anything that takes more than 4 weeks of free time) are 55-75k.
I'm curious whether you think home schooling favors the wealthy more than the public school system does? Recall that public school funding is a local affair; the wealthier the local population, the better funded the school.

I'm also not sure what you mean by `scaling issues'? Many districts here in New York State avereage 45-50 students per teacher. We have a large family by the national or local averages, and our five kids have one homeschooling parent all to themselves...

This doesn't mean that homeschooling is affordable for everyone -- especially given that every parent (and non-parent, for that matter) is paying (directly if they own, indirectly if they rent) for the public school system, whether they use it or not.
I think it'd be fairly easy to put together a v1 quality script hosted on an AWS instance to do that, provided the subdomains have been pre-provisioned or you're ok with them all spinning up on a single instance.
Agreed, there's a sweet spot somewhere though, and it might not be the same for googlebot as a regular viewer).
What I do for estimations, is to break tasks into small pieces, then estimate each piece, and add the total. As someone said, it is highly advisable to still double the total.

One of my customers, which I greatly admire, is very old guard and don't buy nothing of agile, extreme, scrum, etc. He only accept strict a to b estimates. Working with him, while hard, has made me much better at making estimates.
"a following" is just one type of asset. Ben Newhouse, who I didn't mention in my post leveraged his asset of building Yelp Monocle (as an intern!) into Bubbli (http://bubbli.co/intro/). It's undoubtably true that Bubbli could not have been built though, without leveraging Ben's asset. A different startup could have been built that might look vaguely similar from the outside but it wouldn't have been Bubbli.
<Picard>

Make it so.

</Picard>

--I agree, but I think that this is a viable actual service model as well - as opposed to a duct-tape scripting hack.
I'm curious about this as well. I've posted my skills on craigslist and sent stuff out to my friends, but I always receive requests from people who can only pay very little. Either that, or I'm not doing a very good job of advertising myself - which is a definite possibility.
Which means it's not even remotely comparable for professional work. Keep in mind that it's not just the amount, but the type of compression that's decisive.

Spatial codecs (also known as intraframe schemes) deal with each frame independently. That is to say, they don't apply calculations across a set of frames, even when much of the information is repeated.

Temporal codecs (also known as interframe, of which H.264 is the most popular example) achieve vastly lower file sizes by applying samples from one image across a set (aka a 'group of pictures, or GOP). This is fantastically useful for broadcast and streaming, since you get high visual quality in an efficient package. But if you try to DO anything with that video (reformatting, enlarging, compositing, etc.) the downside will become very clear very quickly.

Typically, professional shows are going to demand a lot of flexibility in post, meaning they're likely to insist on spatial codecs whenever possible.
I see, so is there any revenue?
I submitted early Feb and I feel the same way. I actually resubmitted once or twice to change how far we had gotten (lines of code) and new competitors that cropped up (note: more than you'd think in such a short period of time).

Oddly, what is keeping me awake isn't the application so much. I've kind of resigned myself that it would be a nice-to-have but not a requirement. What keeps me awake now is things like reducing my monthly expenses more and more so I can work less and less for the man and more and more for myself.
I'm not interested in getting an email of what's on sale any more than I am in getting the paper circulars. I shop when I need food and when I have time, and I make price/product decisions on the spot in the store. Thumbing through circulars and clipping coupons is not how I want to spend my time. At all.

However if services like this do lead to the end of the junk-mail weekly circulars, I will be happy about that at least.
How much oil is left?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#Estimated_reserves...

How about natural gas?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_reserves

If all gasoline engines are replaced by natural gas engines, we would have fuel for a hundred years more.
HN effect. Can't get to it. Didn't RTFA, but intend to do so.

What did this for me was Panic Disorder-- not the mild anxiety attacks people get after 6 cups of coffee, but real panic attacks that throw bizarre and terrifying symptoms that cause a singular sense of impending doom. Attacks don't last long but they can mimic (in no particular order) stroke, MS onset, heart attack, bad trip/drug flashback, vertigo, and cancer symptoms. (Note: if you have any anxiety disorder, don't watch House.) It's like your body and brain start trolling the shit out of your mind. Developing it was horrible and cost me my job and my girlfriend-- but I had a really great job and girlfriend a year or so later. On the whole, my life is better than when it started.

I don't mean to trivialize PD. Some people crumble when they develop it and become shut-ins. All mental illnesses are terrifying and awful. I was lucky enough to have the resources (access to some good doctors, great yoga teachers, and effective treatments-- a mix of self-directed meditation, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and medication) to make the problem 1-5% as severe as what it was when I started. And now I'm actually glad to have had the experience because (a) it led me to make some very positive lifestyle changes, such as my conversion to Buddhism, and (b) it has made me less anxious/fearful overall. The fear that people get when dealing with difficult people? That's nothing. No, seriously. It's nothing. If I can go from sheer terror to calmness in four minutes and be fine, I can deal with difficult social situations, as they say on Reddit, "like a boss". Panic disorder makes it pretty much impossible for someone to terrify me to even 1/1000 of the worst extent I've experienced.

That said, I wouldn't advise PD if it were elective. Panic attacks are harmless but hellish, and having intense negative experiences is generally considered harmful. Also, the first year is the worst and will generally be spent on drugs that can take the edge off one's creativity. Still, I came out of it a better person. I got extraordinarily lucky in terms of the people and resources I had around me, as well as the relative maturity I had due to the late age (24) of its onset.
My ebook reader app just passed 6000 users.
The highest hurdle is bitrate.
Oh there are no doubt such examples; I don't consider them as an argument against aesthetic objectivism though, just as examples that our epistemology, to put it mildly, needs work :) It's an argument I've had many times and that has been fought over for 1000's of years and in countless papers and journal articles - to the point where I've given up hope of convincing anyone who knows what the argument is about, because those who do usually have thought about it so much that it's unlikely I will bring up an argument they haven't heard already, and vice versa :)