skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not mostly about the price (you can always find a paper from friends etc if you're determined). It's about the availability of vast amounts of text to analysis and mining. Who knows how many new insights we have already lost (mainly in the life sciences) from this absurd system that everyone seems to hate yet nobody is willing to change.

btw, frontiers (http://frontiersin.org/) is another great open access set of journals
Guia de compra de chapinha para cabelo.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789062
I know that this is terrible feedback, but I have to say it. Your site looks like a blog. As a blog, it looks nice, but as a travel site I don't know if blog is the vibe you want.

Also, I don't think there is a very strong call to action button on individual villas. Request a reservation is below the fold at the bottom of the right sidebar.

Overall, right now it seems like your site is designed for window shopping, not reservation setting.
Ask HN: Why aren't there more sites like Huffington Post's Newglide?
Why aren't there more sites like Huffington Post's Newglide? I saw one site that did it with Hackernews and it's amazing. It's easy to read and all the contents is readily available and esthetically pleasing!
Investing $19B a year is also a no-brainer if its other peoples money. If its that important, for profit and non-profits will fill any gap (probably producing the same or better results for less money).
I don't know about you, but if I turn a picture-postcard around its vertical axis, left-to-right, all I see is the blank back of the picture. (Likewise if I rotate it around it's horizontal axis.)

What you're actually saying is if I put the picture on transparent acetate (or whatever) and rotate it, then look at it through its back, I see the same as I would in the mirror. Which is essentially the same as reversing the depth of the object (when you think about it.)

And there's nothing privileged about the Left-to-right rotation. When you face the mirror and hold the picture up (facing the mirror, away from you), you chose to rotate it around its vertical axis to face the mirror (thus swapping left and right). If you chose to rotate it around its vertical axis, top-to-bottom, to face the mirror and away from you then you get the other situation.
I think a more interesting question is how the rear view mirror works. What I mean is how does a perfectly clear image become slightly dimmer when you adjust the angle of the mirror? I've seen that since I was a child but I've never understood why it works.(I never got past calc based physics in college so if the answer is obvious I apologize.)
> I am legally not even allowed to put my own work on my own website.

That's unfortunately still sometimes true, but I'm finding it's increasingly common for there to be self-archival exceptions, where you can put a self-prepared PDF on your personal website. I believe all IEEE and ACM publications now allow this. I've adopted a policy of just putting all my publications online and waiting to see if anyone complains.
Is there a way to do something similar in nginx? Currently I only use the auto index but the listing page is very ugly. I'd like to create an html template if possible and if not, some way to write an indexer in another language (such as ruby) would be nice as well.
As a US citizen I've found it hard to accept the idea that the US justice system is a thing of the past. At the end of the day though an endless string of examples is proving the fact to be undeniable.
Can Older People Do Startups? Tech
RWW wrote: "...I doubt other companies will want to or be able to catch up to Wolfram in the sophistication of the tools they offer..."

If anyone would like to join up and create an alternative I'm game. Lets do this.

My full info is in my profile.
Rotating an object left-to-right most certainly won't show you what it looks like it a mirror. It shows you the back of the object (assuming that the front of the object was previously facing you).

Here's an experiment to demonstrate that left-to-right rotation is not what a mirror does.

1. Take an object and hold it so that the front is facing you (pick a side and call it the front if there's not an obvious "front").

2. Rotate the object left to right so that you are looking at the back.

3. Write your name on the back of the object (the side currently facing you).

4. Rotate the object right-to-left so that the front is once again facing you.

5. Go to a mirror and hold the object so the front is facing you.

6. Look at the object in the mirror.

Does the object in the mirror look the same as when you did the left-to-right rotation? No. You can see the back of the object, but your name is backwards. What you're seeing in the mirror is not a left-right rotation. That's an explanation that your brain applies to the situation, but it's not what actually happens.

A similar experiment is to hold a coffee mug and stand in front of a mirror. Grasp the mug by the handle with your right hand. Look in the mirror. Where is the handle? It's still on your right. The coffee mug in the real world has the handle on your right, and so does the coffee mug in the reflection. There is no left/right reversal.

Edit: You're not an idiot. The mirror's behavior is simple, but it's also very non-intuitive. If it were intuitive, people wouldn't ask the question.
Node.js running in Windows Azure with full source and details
It's psychological. You could instead rotate the object head-over-heels to "simulate" reflection, and the object would then appear upside-down, but have left and right in the same position as on a mirror. However things don't normally move head-over-heels but rather by rotating left/right (thanks to gravity) so psychologically, we assume the object must have rotated left/right to get on the other side of the mirror, thus appearing reversed in that direction.
Of course no other nation has positioned themselves as policeman–they can't logistically or financially do it (though perhaps the US can't financially do it either...). It's certainly not from any internalized Prime Directive. If they could, they would; see CCCP 1950-1991.

As for moral authority, I completely disagree. Every nation positions themselves as a moral authority. The other nations are just so small and/or weak that nobody really cares what they say. You really perceive a world of quiet and humble non-US nations, keeping their moral views to themselves?
You don't need an app. Just go to Settings > General > International > Keyboards and add the Emjoi keyboard.
I think a lot of the commentators are saying (and this my view too) that the concept is brilliant - but the execution was terrible and the valuation way too overblown.

After all the fanfare... nothing seems to have come of them, at least not at the level they seemed to promise.

This seems a pure tactical team move - I mean they can obviously do some decent coding :) and have a good product idea, plus they appear to be ace at marketing. That's the sort of company you want to be acquiring; especially if you can pivot the (not-very-good) product and steal the brand new market.
Fake Apple stores found in Kunming city, China
What's bad about more knowledge?
"Thousands of scientific papers were shared via The Pirate Bay"
9 points on HN but the article redirects in chrome to a blank page.
One lasts significantly longer than the other?
The could also add more structure to the results. I feel that results like this are the future:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
People with cash to burn will do crazy things with it.

There isn't necessarily rational thinking behind it.
Linux recieves video gift from Microsoft for its 20th birthday
But isnt' that nullifying the original motive of the company to give stock to the employee? If secondmarkets prevail, everyone will rush to join the hottest startup, only to quit two days later. Isn't there another arrangement to transfer company ownership in return for a loan/investment?
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2011 Teardown
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2791115
Hackathons go mainstream in Silicon Valley
Hackathons are about to go mainstream with a dozen startups and a slew of developers joining in. Hope you can join and share, save, and hack the world.
Thanks for that thread. Sounds like that's the end of ksplice, except for Oracle Linux customers.
Mark Twain said "Put all your eggs in the one basket and --- WATCH THAT BASKET." Its a strategy with pros and cons.

You can use one time passwords if you are really concerned with keystroke loggers.
Great read. This is an equally good perspective on why to leave one startup for another. I think it's a pretty healthy practice for a developer at a startup to ask themselves these same questions as if they were interviewing for their own job.
The NYT has had user accounts since at least 1999...I've had the same login name as I had about 10 years ago.
I wouldn't necessarily start out by going to the DOJ on this... your restaurant analogy I think applies there. But has any other part of the legal system demonstrated corruption in this case?
Interesting, but requires a browser plug-in? No thanks.
Hey dude, that's because you were reading the blog post about the site update. Try here: http://demeure.com we're very much taking real live reservations and processing real live credit cards.

=)
I agree with most here that it's a good idea, but it's been out for months, so maybe this idea was another dime in a dozen. I guess Google has lots of cash to spare on a domain name and a hype machine.
Color's service would be a killer feature for Google+. Color is an excellent idea assuming that there are users who are willing to post pictures and share location data. Unfortunately for Color, it will be a long hard road to get these users. Google, on the other hand, already has a ton of users, the beginning of a social network, and a really strong presence in the phone market. If Color-like functionality was built into Android, Google would find themselves with a very valuable service right from the get-go. A lot of the hard work is behind them.
Both of your estimates actually seem fairly low.

In biology, a single PhD student typically costs on the order of $50k/year in terms of stipend and tuition support, and will typically be an author on fewer papers than the number of years they are in grad school, so I would guess the personnel costs alone are in the $100k range, with materials and reagents potentially being a similar amount.

The publication costs in PLoS journals are 20-50 times higher than your high end[1].

All that aside, I absolutely agree that the costs to society of not doing open access are much greater than the costs of doing it.

[1]http://www.plos.org/journals/pubfees.php
> Virgin America, which sells early boarding as part of a perks package to customers who buy seats with extra legroom, experimented with giving early boarding to passengers who didn't bring large bags on board. That showed promise for speeding up boarding, but because it was unfamiliar to customers; it slowed down some people and offset gains, a spokeswoman said.

This bothers me to no end. I fly Virgin 1-2x roundtrips a month, and I've seen this program put into place very erratically. If they wanted to see results, they should have offered that on all flights for a certain period of time, instead of only here and there and mentioning it only once after boarding priority. A lot of the time, it was only mentioned when they wanted people on a full flight to gate check their carryons, and then they forgot to mention it again before boarding the first group (after priority/families/special needs) at all.

The other half of the problem was that some people decided that "one carryon that goes under the seat in front of you" meant 1 personal item plus 1 carryon (e.g. your usual limitation). So you basically had like 5-6 idiots with the largest carryon bags possible and a ginormous purse or shopping bag getting into the line with the people with only one backpack or carrying a laptop sleeve, and these weren't people with priority boarding or special needs. The Virgin employees never said anything to them, if they even noticed the extra bags.

I wonder why it offset gains, I really do.
brilliant idea that should help a lot of small companies and individuals out there. I know my wife subscribes to a makeup service along the lines of what Member.ly customers seem to be doing.
Content Disputes in Wikipedia Reflect Geopolitical Instability
Hrm - interesting feedback given you were discussing the below the fold reservation call to action. I'll let BBB answer that although we've gone through numerous tests and iterations of the property page layouts and calls to action.
...and 40 years later, like they are finally starting to now, while piggybacking off of 40 years of experience and science gained by NASA and all affiliated parties along the way.
If there was a person standing in front of you instead of a mirror reflection, he would be blinking his right eye when you blinked your left eye. That's where the confusion comes from - you are thinking of the mirror man's blinking eye as "left" from your perspective whereas everyone else (and the original question) refers to it as the right eye from the perspective of the man in the mirror.
I haven't used it seriously in quite a while, but I remember the search being fairly primitive, though faceted.
Off-topic but boo on slate for detecting that I'm browsing on an iPad, after which they redirect me to an 'iPad-optimized' front page, but not to the article I wanted to read..
Getting some weird artifacts in the drop shadow at the top on Lion and Chrome 13.0.782.99 beta attached a screenshot.

http://i.minus.com/ibV6ug.png
It requires flash.
So in this little metaphor, the people play the role of the hostages, the government plays the role of the kidnappers (lawless criminals) and LulzSec play the role of the government (the good guys trying to save you)

Interesting. Confusing, but interesting.

> Think about it, how many people in this world have actually signed up to be dominated by their government?

No one is making any such claims.

Your claim appears to be that the government is this "big bad evil uncle who just wants to rape you" or some such nonsense. Do all governments have issues with corruption, abuse of power and not honouring individual's rights: Yes. Has LulzSec exposed a single government (or private/corporate) abuse? Not that I can find.

Lets take a look at some of their releases:

62,000 random logins
> Wow, that sounds like a very decisive and clear attack on those taking our rights roll eyes
Senate.gov internal data
> A copy of their apache config file, and a full file list (no real data, just the file names), I can only assume the documents they found would be so damming and pervasive that it would be wrong to release them....or it was just a publicly accessible site that had nothing to hide, not sure
Pron.com user database
> Clearly human rights abuses happen every day in the Pron.com offices....when they aren't watching porn
Sony International and friends
> I know they tend to make shitty stuff, especially music, but I have yet to have a single person be able to point to an action by sony that could be called "dominating", "abusive", "unjust", etc
PBS.org
> Does this even need an explanation? PBS isnt some evil company out to fuck the little guy. Take a look at their scheduling, Sesame Street, Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! and Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt. So what exactly has the evil PBS perpetrated to warrant this?

Even the Fox.com hack appears to be their licensing portal for other channels to license their syndicated content. It wasn't even news related, it was the site that let my local fox affilate run crappy reality tv. Absolutely ground breaking.

> We mistakenly think that they protect us when in reality they are just exploiting us.

Really? Because you appear to be mistakenly thinking that LulzSec is her to protect you, rather then exploit you.

They broke into a private computer network, stole your personal information (not the companies, not emploies, but your's) published it without your consent, and encouraged others to use it to commit further crimes agents you. All for personal enjoyment. How exactly has any of their acts helped any real situation? How is LulzSec violating your right to privacy considered an acceptable price to pay for....for what, free porn?
Currently, the thing the journals do do is act as stewards for the peer review process, and it is in their interests to not publish whatever kind of crap might be submitted. If we go to publishing everything on the web, someone needs to perform this function or it will be even more difficult to sort through the flood of stuff that is written.

That said, this should be pretty cheap since they only need the scientific editor to do this, so a "journal" that only publishes on the web may have a viable (but perhaps not lucrative) business model funding itself purely on page charges.
Best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
He's an Objective-C programmer so he is most likely a user of Apple products, which means he likely owns an iPhone, which means he probably doesn't care too much for Flash. Though to be fair, the fact that it requires Flash isn't very attractive to me either.
Why is this disturbing, exactly?

Do you feel journalists should write articles for free?
Works for me on Chrome, FF, IE.
Who would know (outside the UK)? Thanks for that. (Maybe the lack of apostrophe was on purpose!)
Applying Power Laws to User Statistics
Not just the Linux Chrome - Windows too. Firefox - no problem.
Notably, though, the account is not required.
It doesn't flip left to right. It flips front to back. Hold something in front of a mirror; you > thing > mirror > thing > you.

It reorients things 'on the vertical plane' parallel to your body because your eyes are perpendicular to your vertical orientation and your brain is used to processing things that way. Put a mirror on the floor or the ceiling and mess about with some geometric solids for a while, you'll start to think differently about it. Alternatively, get some dark safety goggles, a laser, and a bunch of small mirrors on adjustable fixtures.
We sell water don't we?
I'm assuming you're talking about what happens when you flip the manual "dimming" switch on the mirror.

I'm pretty sure you're looking into a mirror that actually has two reflections. One of them is already dim, and it's dominated by the brighter one so you don't normally see it. (Sometimes in the right light you can see both reflections at once.) The two reflections are offset, so that when the bright reflection is showing you the view out the rear window, the dim reflection is showing you a few degrees lower, probably the back seat. When you flip the dimming button, the mirror turns upward a few degrees, so that the dim reflection is now showing you the view out the rear window. You can't see the bright reflection any more because it's now showing you the roof inside the car, which is pretty dark in relation to the rear window. Now the "dim" reflection is actually bright enough to dominate.

I assume that this is accomplished with some sort of double mirror, where the "bright" mirror is closer to you, and some light leaks through it to hit the "dim" mirror behind. These could be made into a single unit with no actual space between them. It just needs two layers of reflective material that are at slightly different angles.
Could also just be mustache.
Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges
>As for moral authority, I completely disagree. Every nation positions themselves as a moral authority. The other nations are just so small and/or weak that nobody really cares what they say.

True... other countries would do the same thing if they could (but they can't and the US can hence the need to try to keep the US in check).
Critical Vulnerabilities in Facebook and Picasa discovered by Microsoft
"Facebook is the new MySpace"
To go along with fun mirror-things to think about, how about this one:

Stand in front of a mirror. Note the lowest point on your body that you can see in the reflection, whether it's your waist or thighs, or whatever. Now, no matter how close you get to the mirror or how far you step back, that will always be the lowest point on your body in the reflection. (e.g., you'll never be able to see your toes, if you couldn't initially.)
The new MacBook Air outperforms all 2010 MacBook Pros
UK or US?
I'm selling my 13" Macbook air (it is literally in perfect condition) on ebay UK.
There is no bad PR!
The idea was good, it was just the execution that was bad. The app itself was really buggy and the proximity-limit for near photoes was way too limited. Even in tech centers like SF it was empty.
http://cinch.fm/scobleizer/194769
Even if the corruption were localized to a single chunk of the government, the old trope about a fish rotting from the head seems like it would find reasonable application here. The justice system is an intricate, interconnected component within a much larger interconnected system. But let's see:

"As the case moved through the courts, Adekeye attempted to return to America to participate. He was denied entry. He tried unsuccessfully for months to get back into the US but was continually refused."

There's Customs and Immigration compromised.

"'The US Secret Service issued a criminal complaint after nearly two years of investigation alleging that Mr. Adekeye violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 97 distinct instances, and as a result a federal judge signed an arrest warrant for Mr. Adekeye...'"

There's Treasury.

"The authorities sprang into action, calling the Canadian government and urging it to use extraordinary powers to arrest Adekeye. Within hours, federal prosecutors were before British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask seeking a warrant, painting their dire picture of a nefarious suspect and conjuring a burning sense of urgency. But Canada had been duped."

Don't you need the State Department for something like that?

This strikes me as a clear-cut case of "I have a shitload of money, be a good government and do as I say."
"So in this little metaphor, the people play the role of the hostages, the government plays the role of the kidnappers (lawless criminals) and LulzSec play the role of the government (the good guys trying to save you)

Interesting. Confusing, but interesting."

Yes, you do seem rather confused.

"you appear to be mistakenly thinking that LulzSec is her to protect you"

I am under no such illusion. However, I do recognize that the enemy of my far far far more powerful enemy is.. well.. as good a friend as any.
The statue of liberty/wtc is somewhat of a silly point of comparison for national debt but grounding numbers into something familiar or in this case physical objects is quite telling for most people. Even if your point of comparison is "the federal budget/GDP/world GDP/debt of other large nations" it goes back to the same issue where you are comparing large numbers to other large numbers which is meaningless to most people(outside of HN). I wouldn't use this type of visualization to brief congress but it is telling.
You know what is really funny about this? It applies (mostly) to any country I can think of.
iOS MonoTouch and Mono for Android re-released under Xamarin
I dunno. It feels like a lot of the comments are either angry/chip on shoulder/etc or are presenting opinions as fact for puffery. Hardly any better.

There's not even a glimmer of doubt in anyone's mind that the reporting might be incorrect, etc.