skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is basically the statment, "I dislike change."

Truth be told, Spaces and multiple monitors (and in general, Applications w.r.t. spaces) has been terribly broken to the point of near-unusability for quite some time now. Apple's taken an easy fix for the time being: divorce spaces into N discrete sets where N is the number of displays.

This actually ends up working out for the way I see most people use multiple monitors with a mac. Since very few people have mac desktops, usually the multi-monitor situation is one large display and a smaller integrated laptop display. Most people do the bulk of their work on the big display and use the secondary display for tasks like communication and reference.

As far as I can tell, Lion's Mission Control is a radical improvement across the board for the actual usability of Spaces in the Apple model. The prior implementation naively copied the Linux multiple-desktop model before (with it's preference for MDI and application-local menu bars) to disastrous ends. This is the first step I've seen Apple take to actually try actually adapt multiple desktops to the Spaces model and the unified menubar model, and I prefer it greatly so far.

The default of LRU Spaces ordering, on the other hand, makes me scowl. I'm going to try it to see if I feel any better after a day or two of use, but I doubt I will end up happier.
And there's also Emotional Design: http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Design-Love-Everyday-Things/...
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LOCKSS[1] (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) has an algorithm that does its best to ensure you have a real copy and that no one can poison the network.

[1] http://www.lockss.org/
Silicon Valley Isn’t Broken
If only this could be somehow tranformed into a p2p based service...
If I weren't too timid to risk doing so, I would do the following (read I hope someone else does this).

Process the pdf's with an OCR program to extract as much text from each document as possible. The extraction should be done page by page, so the extracted text can be referenced to a PDF page#.

Then, provide a searchable/browse-able directory of the extracted content. Each page of text has link to the original PDF page so you can easily open up the PDF to the page the text was extracted from.

I'd also make all text user editable wiki style. Combined with the inline PDF page references it would be super easy for any user to fix up translation errors from the OCR process. Tie in a karma system to the users profile so that edits can be thanked/kudos on a job well done to help with automating moderation of user edits by rating the user's current karma to decide if the edit should be accepted automatically or provided as an alternate version other users can check and rate up if they think it should replace current version.

Maybe mash in an image cropping service so diagrams can be cropped from the PDF and inserted inline with the translated text. Provide simple wiki formatting markup to allow users to format the articles.

Use ad revenue/donations to alleviate/cover hosting costs.

1, 2, 3, go.
You are correct. This portion appears to be in public domain (though not publicly available). Non-profit or not, the fact remains that most of these documents remain behind pay-walls while still being considered to be in public domain.

You have a valid point though. The access to these documents seem to be governed by agreements between various publishers with aim to share the published content among various institutions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR). So there is no point blaming JSTOR for the lack of access.
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I am getting a 404. I wonder if it is related to group of plussers that were reporting it for abuse.
You are correct, sir. On all accounts.
It also seems like you had a working demo at that point. How far along was the prototype? Was it a mostly working v1? Or a few iterations worth of work.

Thanks for the article! Quite informative.
It's not just for games. One of the best Jabber/XMPP servers is written in Lua:

http://prosody.im/
Environmental impact of the farms, and raising practices. You can grow catfish in awful waters and as they are bottom-feeders, basically feed them trash. Allegedly many Chinese catfish farms do just that.
How a debt ceiling crash would affect US IT
Thanks for the shootout. I'm actually the author of LiveReload, and I was just frightened to death upon seeing this news. But gosh, I guess I shouldn't worry too much upon closer inspection.

Besides, competing with Joel sounds like fun.
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If it makes any difference, I appreciated your efforts. I hope veterans of HN don't become discouraged because they were the most influential in causing me to finally create an HN acct (oddly enough, I don't take that action lightly), and try to contribute to a group I've learned so much from.
Given that this pump was seemingly invented 240 years ago, and then re-invented several times within the last 10 years give lie to the idea of "intellectual property"? Who owns the "intellecutal property" of this pump? The estate of H.A. Wirtz, the Windfarm Museum, Peter Morgan of the Blair Research Laboratory, or David Hilton of Australia? Nicely documented case of multiple independent inventions of the same type of pump.
Er, so you agree? Want the "all windows" mode back?
Google Plus is Eating Startups
Well done, Ars Technica - the best tech journalism in the business.
IPhone 5 To Use Bluetooth 4.0 Rather Than NFC?
Good point. But I took the OP's point to be: quite whining about having to pay taxes at all. I certainly object to the use of a lot of our money (unnecessary wars meant to pad the coffers of hyperrich war contracting corps, subsidies to hyperrich oil companies, corn subsidies, wasteful earmarks, ad nauseum). But I'm happy to pay taxes so that we can have roads, general infrastructure, and yes, even PBS. It's just not that bad.
Even if the entire United States ceased eating fish, the problem would continue and get worse. Other countries would step in and eat the fish we would have been eating.

In other words, the way to solve the problem is not by not eating fish (though that is perfectly fine at an individual level) but to establish sustainability around the globe.
My biggest problem is resolving disagreements, especially those that have to do with time. Some co-founders work less than others, but negotiating a fluctuating ownership percentage leads to many arguments. As one person's ownership declines, his inclination to work goes down even further in a spiral effect. They lose interest and stop taking initiative on projects. They become an employee: doing the minimum necessary.

The next biggest problem is solving problems that are outside my expertise. I can hack through any code, optimize and scale any database, but I can't figure out how to advertise a product effectively or get users. These problems stem from my lack of ability to network with others effectively.

Of course, I think solving these issues are at the core of the difference between a wanna-be founder and a real founder. I hope I can learn it.
So is it legal to (re-)distribute those files? Or are we going to see more prosecutions AA style involving distributors as well as downloaders?
Absolutely, although I guess that the advantage of this is if you want to play with someone else's analysis you don't have to install the same analysis software.

I guess I'll be sticking with org mode though and trying Tangle (http://worrydream.com/Tangle/) as suggested elsewhere on this page.
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Historical note: A famous U.S. Supreme Court patent-law case is known as The Barbed Wire Patent, 143 U. S. 275 (1892).[1]

Quotable quote: "The difference between the [prior] Kelly fence and the [patented] Glidden fence is not a radical one, but, slight as it may seem to be, it was apparently this which made the barbed wire fence a practical and commercial success. ... Under such circumstances, courts have not been reluctant to sustain a patent to the man who has taken the final step which has turned a failure into a success." 143 U. S. at 282-83.

[1] http://supreme.justia.com/us/143/275/case.html
Since Fridge itself is shut down, I'm not curious exactly how their model worked. Anyone know of (or care to make) a technical description of how it works?
Also, Kleenex. Possibly the "Duck" brand of tape as well since people seem to have trouble saying duct tape.
My internal parser threw multiple exceptions on that headline.
And vegetables and fruits? Well, practically all of the mass produced ones never EVER saw any soil or real sunlight but artificial gel to grow on

Wait, what? You are going off the deep end here. I assure you that the exact opposite is true - practically all mass produced produce touches soil and uses real sunlight. The economics don't support your premise at all. Have you never been to rural areas? I assure you they are not lined with industrial warehouses and artificial lighting systems.

And if you go organic and local farmers only? Apart from few choices, you have even less inspections and regulations to protect your safety because you don't know what they are selling, what it grew on and how clean and safe to eat it is. And some of it just taste absolutely horrible.

At some level you need to take on a certain amount of responsibility. My locally grown produce mostly comes from people I know. They don't need a ton of regulations and inspections to keep me safe - social contracts do. We've been doing it this way for thousands of years. The regulations and inspections mostly became needed when you got so far removed from your food source. Also life isn't 100.00% safe, c'est la vie.
So, as long as there is some other country in the world that is more oppressive than the U.S., we shouldn't be addressing our own issues at home?

That's not a good recipe.
I was pretty angry about the above case you pointed out as well, but I do not believe it is a general descriptor for the majority of incidents. In any case, I understand the point you're making, and appreciate the clarification.

> In the end, the same way we choose who gets into the government in the first place -- popular opinion. This is not to say that popular opinion is always right, and in fact it is quite often wrong, but people are generally swayed by logic, and it just so happens that things which are close to the truth tend to be more convincing that utter lies. The responsibility of the government to popular opinion is the foundation of any democracy.

If we're using popular opinion, then I feel it'll just be government 2.0.

The point I really disagree with is: people are generally swayed by logic. That's not true. People are generally swayed by emotion - and there's a clear distinction. The best example of this is in hypnosis, where hypnotists induce a change in emotional state in order to break down barriers.

In any case, thanks for the discussion - it's made me consider some new views.
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Well, here's something that HTML5 can't do (at least easily).

Dynamic @ Graphics @ Point @ ImageKeypoints @ CurrentImage[]

What does this do? It takes a video stream from your webcam, extracts SURF keypoints ("salient" parts of the image, like corners), and plots them live. Note that all those functions are online at reference.wolfram.com.

THAT'S A CDF! You have access to some heavy duty algorithms covering a vast number of fields. In fact its kind of surprising it fits in a few hundred megs. You're essentially getting the whole of Mathematica, for free.
Have you been more or less productive with your side projects? I'm wondering if getting more sleep produces more code than the college-style all-nighter hackathons over a long term.
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The question you'll have to figure out how to answer is then: how would you pay back $100,000 and in what time frame? Think about the other side. As someone with $100k, why should I chance it with you if the reward doesn't warrant the risk? Angel investors are just that: investors. They would likely put the money into a situation that is less risky.

Also, the number of people in the market is only an important metric when you also include what kind of conversion rate you can get of those, and what dollar amount would the average sale be? Take Ford and Lamborghini. One makes a lot of different models that cover a large portion of market possibility and sells a large number of cars at a small profit, while the other has few models, sells a much smaller number of cars, and has a higher profit per vehicle. If each customer nets you $100k, and you can get 0.1% of the possible market, then of course it could be worth an investor's time. If this is a web app you want to charge $2 one time for, then even if you could sell the whole market it may not be worth it.
I would make a special case for if they read it immediately; they will still perceive you as calling immediately after sending it since you aren't revealing that you used the image to find out that they read it.
Hi Jeremy, Where are the offices of DocumentCloud at? Really nice project and open source software like backbone.js by the way.
I made something that may give you the same reaction: https://github.com/cretz/gwt-node. It was fun to do, but not sure how practical it is.
I am trying to post a link to the PirateBay page in my personal news feed.

I get a message about abusive content.
That is what jstor is about actually: full text search of a number of articles.
you're missing the point. The point is, monocultures in agriculture can cause major issues. see the banana
So stop whining about taxes when you obviously care about waste, fraud and abuse.

Demand transparency from your government, not the destruction of government, which does do good work and provide good services to its citizens. (And yes the consequence of diminishing tax revenue on the wealthy – yes 200k$ a year is wealthy – is the diminishment and destruction of services that everyone else relies upon)

Edit:

Sorry i don't want to mischaracterize what you've said (since you actually barely mention taxes). So let me be clearer.

You are making aspersions about this woman, without knowing anything about her business, except the fact that she does government business. If you have a problem with the way that the government disburses contracts, that is a substantially different matter than the tax issue that the article contends with.

Does the author stand to lose if the government cuts back on services? Yes likely so. But without knowing further details, your presumption that her POV is invalid because she takes federal contracts, and that federal contracts are waste and abuse is entirely speculation on your part.
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I'm actually thinking the entire storage system can use a redesign. It's mighty frustrating, when there's someone slow in front of you, who doesn't have the decency to move into the seats to let you pass. The isle should really not be the entry point for stored luggage - at least in terms of efficiency.
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Yeah, you hard working suckers, who will never see a dime from social security and medicare. Pay your taxes. Oh, btw:

25 Corporations That Pay Less Taxes Than You Do

1.) GE - 0 taxes, actually gained 3.2B refund

2.) Google - 2.4%

4.) Goldman Sachs - 0 taxes. actually gained 800B refund

12.) Amazon - 4.3%

18.) Microsoft - 5%

http://www.businesspundit.com/25-corporations-that-pay-less-...
Thank you. I appreciate that, but it doesn't make much difference. For me, HN is now more of a sink than a source. On balance as many people hate the dup detection as like it, and the comment threads no longer seem to shed the light they once did. I guess I've changed, and my interests no longer really align with HN.

So I'm moving on. I still have the bookmarklet, so I may still remember to submit things, but I doubt I'll do much more than glance at the Front Page occasionally.

Cheers.
Silicon Valley Isn't Broken
1. Significance of your statement? Surely you're not saying that brutal dictatorships are fine so long as they're not ignoring earlier "charter documents"... We don't grade on a curve here.

2. The OP point was that on a 'relative badness' scale the US is better than other governments (see N Korea), so what other governments are doing is very relevant to their point.

3. Uh-huh. It's certainly enlightened of you not to believe patriotically that the US is perfect, but let's be realistic here--anything that US has done other countries have done too. It's fine (in fact it's necessary) to point out how the US is more dirty that commonly assumed, but the proper extension of that realization isn't that every other country/government must be cleaner than we presume them to be. All countries and governments are dirty to some degree or other. The relative rule of law and openness of US society means that our dirtiness eventually becomes public; the same in not true elsewhere.
Have to disagree with you on the API. The implementation seems fine to me - would like to know specific issues you have with it.

I am also curious as to why you single out PHP. Every language has its place and I don't see how this particular choice is cause for such revulsion. While its trendy these days to just bash PHP cos its, well, PHP, I don't think thats your angle here.
Totally agree. Any email marketing that doesn't take advantage of the information we provide to improve our experience is missing out. Segmentation in email isn't hard, it should be standard practice for any company doing email marketing these days.
Nokia Posts Loss but Pulls in IP Royalties
Wikipedia is full of general purpose knowledge and paid for by donations. Even if you never make use of 99.99% of the knowledge it has, there is something for you, and a reason for you to donate.

Academic journals are full of incredibly specific knowledge. While some of it is accessible to people with a moderate amount of intelligence/diligence, any journal whose name isn't "Science" is designed for and by an incredibly small group of individuals with an incredibly specific knowledge base. Where is the donor base for that?

Answer: Universities are the only plausible donors. And they seem to think maintaining their place of privilege in being able to access the articles is worth some extra bucks.
I'd suggest removing the all-caps in those emails. It seems like it's just the author's style, but it can be a bit jarring when read without that context.
And we should close tax loopholes and demand that corps pay their taxes.

Something being held up by the Republican controlled Congress. Private jet tax breaks and all.
Also, people traveling together won't be assigned to different boarding groups if their reservations are "linked" in the airline's system.
I had similar experiences, the administration on charity organizations are often less efficient than government institutions. I was at the Red Cross in Germany and at 14 o'clock nobody was at work anymore. They were out because the weather was so nice told me the apprentice browsing on Facebook, there was nobody else there and she couldn't help me with my problem.

This makes me angry, there is no competition in this area so nobody controls if their administration is efficient. All this money is gone for the people who really need it.
> Remember, it's impossible for law to work backwards.

Really? I think it's just politically less convenient than making laws that apply to future research. There's nothing that would keep the government from removing copyright all together if they wanted to.
One odd thing about this list:

There are 6 instances where species are listed as okay to eat if they are from the US while not okay to eat if they are from elsewhere. There are 0 instances where the opposite is true.

# yes Barramundi (US/Europe/Australia)
# yes Barramundi (Closed Production)
# no Barramundi (Other)

# yes Catfish (US Farmed)
# no Catfish (Other)

# yes Crayfish (US)
# no Crayfish (Other)

# yes Herring (Norway, Iceland, North Sea, US)
# no Herring (Other)

# yes King Crab (US)
# no King Crab (Other)

# yes Northern Prawn/Pink Shrimp (US and Canadian)
# no Northern Prawn/Pink Shrimp (Other)

There seems to be some bias towards US fisheries in this list.
What other points? If you don't pay your taxes, even if you do not derive any benefit from it, the government can shut down your business. The author's point is that she has no problem with that.
That makes sense, I just thought the website was only about sustainability of the populations based on some of the wording. I'm afraid to even look into the chinese catfish raising - wasn't there a recent scandal where asian catfish was being mass sold as US farm raised?
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To follow up on anigbrowl's last point, Clint Eastwood is not just an actor. He's also a director, producer, and probably/certainly involved to varying degrees in editing and authorship.

As such, he may be deemed (I don't know) to be professionally involved in technical/business areas that directly overlap those that you occupy. A dispute over trademark or commercial use of personal image might find you in a weak position. (Again, I don't know, but I'd be tempted to run it by an attorney specializing in this area.)

My impression is that Clint Eastwood is fairly aggressive in protecting his image and endorsements. (I seem to vaguely recall an incident involving a bar or restaurant in... Half Moon Bay?, or somewhere in that area, a few years ago. I may be mis-recollecting, though.) I wouldn't count on him just letting such issues go.
Every airline I've flown on has allowed groups to go on together, even if they're in different boarding groups. Some may make you wait until the latest boarding group in your party, but even that's a bit rare, in my experience.
It is a solution to needing to download every file here just to access one quickly. Scribd has charged document creators IIRC, not readers.

Scribd makes money off ads, so the incentives are actually really well aligned
This is absolutely brilliant. Incredibly well executed. I have never seen a post at once hybridize promotion and great content so well.
"I live in a beautiful place, by the beach, in a safe neighborhood. Someone has to pay for the lifeguards, police, fire department, sanitation, libraries."

I tend to agree with the concept we should all be paying more taxes here in the US (I was born in Europe where we traditionally have higher taxes in order for more even distribution of wealth and services aka 'socialism')

However her argument that her beautiful place by the beach needs someone to pay for the lifeguards isn't exactly putting the best foot forward on why we all need to contribute more.
Fascinating innovation!
Google+ buys YC startup Fridge
Well, a manual level if indirection would solve it — publish a web page with a little more than a link to the Pirate Bay page; and post a link to that page, on Facebook. If you use Simplenote’s published page feature or Dropbox’s public folder, this can take but a minute.
The author does business in North Dakota but lives in California. Could this be because of the significantly higher tax burden she would carry if she did business in California?
There's a pretty slick Redis implementation at http://antirez.com/post/scripting-branch-released.html - I've been meaning to check it out for some real world usage. Mostly I've seen it in Warcrack.