skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. A thousand times yes.

As a student I'm really pissed of each time I found an article which looks interesting and Springer tells me "pay me 35€ if you want to read this article that researchers have written and some others reviewed but only us get money because you know, we can."

New journals with open access initiative are really a good thing, but we also need to have access to old articles which are currently locked by multinationals which didn't do the work nor paid for it.

We don't need them anymore. They were useful when they were needed to have access in university and labs library to research from across the world. Now internet does that better than they could ever do it, and for a way less expensive price.

I'm willing to pay something like 30€/year to have unlimited access to all papers in a field. There could even be a limit to the number of authorized downloads (who can seriously read more than 100 papers per year anyway? (that's two per week, almost each week.)). But no DRM. And I say this but I really think that this should be in total open access for everyone, I'm just trying to moderate my words (and give them a less sudden death, I'm so kind!).

SpringerLink and co. need to change the way they distribute content. Or we'll have to kill them.

« Your failed business model is not my problem. »
The secret language of entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurese 101
Well the issue came about because lawyers (who are implicitly trusted in the legal system) lied openly about the circumstances. Unfortunately this trust is necessary for the legal system to operate, and it seems as though some lawyers have decided to take advantage of that.

I can only hope that the lawyers involved are disbarred for life, and (in the case of American lawyers operating in Canada), charged with a crime and prevented from entering the country again (without facing prosecution).
>Investing only $19 billion dollars a year is a no-brainer, considering the return is a generation of American kids interested in math and science.

This attitude has brought NASA to the lack of relevance we see today. Astronauts spending hours on video chat with middle-schoolers and the use of precious payload to put ant colonies into orbit are not serious ways to advance a space program. When NASA was about exploring and colonizing the final frontier, kids would join in and dream along. When the space program became about forcing science and technology in an artificial way down the same kids' throats, they tuned out. So few youngsters with an interest in space / SF exist today.
Ruby 1.8 has been in OSX for a long time, I think apple is just go with a VERY conservative methodology of whatever the "stable/doesn't break existing scripts" version is released at the time. Given 1.8 will be deprecated before the next release is out they won't have much choice but to use 1.9 then, or 2.0 maybe if its out.

Compare to the new(er) perl 5 releases, ruby 1.9 does change some core things. Take for example the ping class being removed in 1.9. In perl 5.10->5.14.1 all of the new things like "say" and the new case statement are things you have to explicitly request in a script which sort of implies you know you need it. Existing scripts won't behave much different on 5.14 than they did on 5.8.x

I upgraded my last Leopard box last night so can't find the builtin emacs version but its been around the 22.x series for some time. I don't think they track upstream nearly as insanely as most linux distros do.

In either case I think rvm/perlbrew/pythonbrew and things like virtualenv/forgot the perl equivalent, sort of obviate the need for up to date interpreters in the base install.

I think php was at 5.3 ish when I checked last night, forgot to look at the shell versions but zsh is new enough for my tastes.
" a .torrent file pointing to thousands of scientific papers has just been uploaded to the pirate bay" doesnt really fit into a headline
App Engine 1.5.2 SDK Released
Missed that, sorry :-(
It is my project but I think pandas.DataFrame is already at 90+% feature-equivalency (especially if you're using the current git version...new release forthcoming). You don't have the integration with a million CRAN libraries. pandas.DataFrame actually does a lot more for you in many places than data.frame does-- for example data alignment is deeply intrinsic whereas it's very much a DIY affair in R.
Another possible explanation is that the way Quantcast and others count unique visitors is broken: they don't (/can't) take into account multiple computers and multiple browsers.

If the NY Times paywall has user-level tracking (I'm not sure if it does, but sometimes the NYTimes asks me to log in to read articles, so it may do) then a bunch of people who are now hitting their quota browsing across multiple machines and browsers with a single login were previously being counted as multiple uniques.
> I do have faith in the legal system as a whole.

That sounds neat for you.

But I don't think that, after reading a story like this one, it's even remotely out of line for others to have such faith escape them. It's hardly a productive discussion, but I'm intrigued by the notion that you can see the system utterly compromised yet still trust it to function. In the end, I'm in the uncomfortable position of finding your view to be as much or more preposterous as the bloodthirsty parent we're responding to.

Put another way: I'm not okay starting the dinner course of a meal in a restaurant that just served me an appetizer including a garnish of rodent droppings.
> Consumers have no effective way to verify what they're eating.

Buy whole fish. It's much harder to be lied to when you can look the fish in the eye.
When they didn't show up to SXSW which would have been perfect to demonstrate their app, they already failed.

Google wasn't paying for execution, so $200M might have been worth the talent (and perhaps the idea).
You might be right that these plugins block cookies or the javascript that informs you that you've hit your limit.

They've tried to make the paywall as permeable as possible. For instance, if you follow a link from twitter or facebook it wouldn't count. But if you went to the NYTimes directly, it would.

The idea is to tax heavy users and those who have more money than time.

It's far from conclusive, but this trend is a disturbing one.
Great points, thanks very much!

That 2nd photo is certainly amazing. I hear ya on the first and third, though. We're supporters of Creative Commons (stock photos make me shudder), so finding killer images can take a surprising amount of time... and sometimes you miss the mark a bit in the end.

Uncertainty about what Demeure is selling: definitely something to fix. We own only a small fraction of the villas on our site, but we describe them all as "our villas" because we've done the legwork to select them -- and importantly, you transact directly with us as a traveller.

The term "villa" is pretty much interchangeable with "home". It's the most common term in some of our hottest regions, so we decided to test out using it as the primary keyword. Your comments are great, though, as that's the sort of concern we're keeping our eyes peeled for.
I'd post something from the ksplice side, but this is the only announcement of substance I can find.
That'll teach 'em. Maybe next time JSTOR will think twice before protecting their network from an apparent DoS attack.
We need 11.45 billion volunteers to work for 92 years.
Hacked web sites become mainstream
What's wrong is someone else getting into debt on my behalf, promising to pay it back with money they will take from me by threat of force as taxes, for purposes I wasn't consulted on, to further an unsustainable goal of perpetual growth which is hurrying the arrival of global problems.
How true. I must say, if I had to date right now, I think I'd want to hang myself. And sometimes just having to take care of my daughter forces me to just stop doing work and focus on life for a minute.

Ah sleep, the mythical two headed unicorn with golden hoofs for ents.
why wouldn't they?
Show HN: my weekend project, Imagestash - a bookmarklet+ for image collectors
http://imagestash.org/

Kind of like Instapaper for images.

While surfing at home one evening I found the perfect desktop background ... for my work machine. I got to pondering the quickest way to save a random image so I could get to it on all of my devices, got a wee bit carried away with the technical possibilities, and this was the result.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
Feynman says some interesting stuff but none of these explanations have yet satisfied me. Sure, I get it that a mirror technically does not rotate the image, it does the near/far thing instead, flips the nose, flips the north/south, however you want to put it.

But, this the fact remains: I hold an object in front of me (there is no mirror anywhere). IF I want to see/simulate what the object will look like in a mirror, I rotate it LEFT TO RIGHT (on the vertical plane, around the line that is parallel to my body no matter whether I am standing or laying down). I cannot rotate it any other way and get the same effect. WHY is that?

EDIT: Whoops, you guys are all right, I'm an idiot. Here I am sitting at my desk with quite literally nothing but bisymmetric objects around me- for a second there I went a little crazy. Thanks for setting me straight
This would make a brilliant speech at a Tea Party rally. Any more juice?
To be honest I haven't really broached the hierarchical columns issue inside pandas. If someone can look and suggest an implementation strategy that doesn't interfere with the rest of the API I would be all for it.

If you have heterogeneous columns with possibly missing data basically pandas is the only game in town (did you see my diagram?? :) ). It's possible to get a numpy MaskedArray with structured dtype to function like you want but it's relatively tricky to do.
The video says, "Not available in my area"! I don't think they realize I'm in the USA. The U-S-A! Everything is available to me. How could anyone let this happen?!
Clickable: http://imagestash.org/
It's funny - that series of videos is exactly the sort of video that would make someone a YouTube star today.

In the same way a teenage girl gains a following after making videos of how to apply makeup, I could easily see Feynman becoming a similar YouTube phenomenon had he lived now and released videos like this on a regular basis.

Always fun to imagine people from another era who you know would have been MASSIVE on social media (another one: Robert Townsend -> Twitter).
Is there anything more to this article than just that people now remember where information is, instead of the information itself?
Very interesting concept right there.
When is someone going to do this for the ACM's journals?
We're moving away from what was previously an even more brown-and-tan-heavy design. With your encouragement, we'll keep trucking in that direction! Thx too for the feedback re: main and side columns. Will look into that.
We need advancement towards spacefaring. We don't need space programs.

There is need for government basic research, infrastructure and science programs. There is need for healthy commercial ventures, reasonable scale and agile development with quick cycles and multiple concurrent paths.

Spaceflight could well be more routine, reliable and affordarble if there never was an Apollo or Shuttle.
The 5 Stages of Enterprise Cloud Adoption (a.k.a. Grief)
Ditto. Someone please blog about this and post to HN!
15-year old girl designs an awesome iPhone game
Anyone can do data mining if they have huge traction. It's getting huge traction that's the problem. I can do data mining if I sold a micro-chip that tracked ppl's movements 24/7.
As others have said, the costs of distribution are non-trivial, and are almost certainly a loss for JSTOR on these articles. For example the exemplary arxiv.org, which provides a relatively 'simple' hosting service and where the author prepares the full manuscript- they still have annual running costs in the region of $500,000. Even arxiv.org do not seem to have found it easy to secure funding from other universities and institutions which surely find it essential (most costs are borne by Cornell library).

While there is great value in the JSTOR articles (all published before 1923)- in reality very few active researchers will be reading them. Some of the research will be just plain wrong, some corrected or superseded, and if there is any useful stuff left, then it will be readily found in much more modern and useful presentations.

I think the more important battle is to ensure all current research is deposited in open archives (preferably something like arxiv.org). The historical stuff will surely follow...
Even better: "I'm single and I'm willing to pursue meaningless one-night stands and shallow two-week flings until my startup is established and running." This has the benefit of keeping you physically satisfied while being 100% emotionally connected to your startup.
Can't tell you how many times I wrestled with those very details. Probably not the best decision to go with both those effects. Argh, seduced by the shiny bling once again!
We could talk about how the DPRK uses its military against its people (college kids and religious sects), or uses it's vast prison complex as a labour pool. I've been told that some prisoners are being forced to labour to build new prisons and that companies in the DPRK can requisition workers from the prison pool to work for the companies and if they protest they will have their sentences extended.

Apparently Dear Leader has also requested that the courts start handing out even harsher sentences even though the DPRK leads the world in it's incarceration rate, rather than look to more progressive models such as in Europe that drastically reduce recivitism by treating convicts as people. I've even heard that even though you only have one candidate to vote for in the elections that you can still be stripped of this right if convicted of a crime, leading to a situation where vast swaths of the population cannot even participate in the ostensibly democratic process of the country.

Lets not even talk about the repressive system the DPRK uses to keep basic medicine out of the hands of those who need it. If you manage to afford medicine, you're not quite of of hock yet, even if you have a prescription you can still be jailed for drug offenses and aren't allowed to present the fact that you had a prescription at trial.

I've heard in their school system even in elementary school before the children have a chance to develop free thought that they must make group devotions to dear leader.

http://abytesgen01.securesites.net/ryan_murdock/2009/11/insi...

Apparently if you give up your citizenship you're never allowed to return to the country under penalty of law.

CCR said it best though: 5 year plans and new deals wrapped in golden chains.
"Socially skilled" is similar to "good at picking up girls," so I guess I would agree because that's close to a tautology.

I'm just saying that when a girl figures out you work 12 hours a day and live off of $25K a year, much of which comes from credit cards, it is a bit more of a "con" than a "pro" in their mind.
This was a conscious decision at Shopify. The prices can only be either free or $80+ . It works great.
The FBI doesn't normally, and it is not their purpose to engage in the exact same behavior. 95% of the time, they act within bounds I suspect you agree with. I wouldn't consider the 95% hypocrites, only the 5%, and so I can't call the whole agency hypocritical, only parts.
You may be right, but it would be nice if you'd actually read the article rather than just the headline.

The OP wasn't talking about a startup founded by a one-person team - he was making the claim (defensible or not) that single people - that is, people not in relationships - shouldn't do startups.

Whether that's a good claim or bad one - and I happen to think it's debatable at best - your commentary would be much better received if it actually addressed the point of the article rather than the headline.
The massive security hole in Google two factor authentication
What Hunch could be: A product/UX makeover
How much did you pay the friend to design the theme?
Disclaimer: I use CloudFlare.

This left me wondering if Windows DNS servers have some kind of signature we could use to find how many of them are out there. Maybe starting a campaign to kill it like it was done with IE6 ;-)

Anyway, I suspect the folks at CloudFlare will correct this rather easily. This doesn't look like a problem that reaches very deep.
It is insane for the people to fund research they can't freely view the results of.
Unfortunately sports franchises don't have the technology in place to effectively segment their market. Consumer research firms survey a small portion of their fan base and then generalize those findings to all fans, but that data isn't actionable.
Rotating the object will not get you the same view as in the mirror. You would need to flip it inside out.
More likely: Google offered a few bucks for Color and millions if they met milestones 1, 2, 3...; Color knew they couldn't so they turned it down.
Pretty impressive sales, especially considering the product page's buy button is below the fold! Seems like a very questionable design from a conversion standpoint.
No question about it.

If taxpayers pay $50k-$100k to scientists to write a paper, the least the government can do is spend another $5-50 to make it available for free perpetually.
The time axis on this is the most interesting part, but as you point out the reality is for most things people don't care. On the other hand, I can't wait until Google releases their timeline-based photos on top of Google streetview. It will be a browsable history of earth, geolocated.
>With loans I was able to speed up my progress. I took loans two times and ready to take it the next time.

sounds like you didn't blow your loans on girls and booze. The people's worries about the government debt, i think, in major part are really worries about where all these moneys have been going. Exponential growth of the amount of "bucks" while flatline [at best] of the total resulting "bang" does rise the question.
After an app sets a certain key in NSUserDefaults.
On the absence of EVAL in ClojureScript
As someone who's published in journals that are on JSTOR, I hope that this will increase the access of all this knowledge to the greater public. There is something very wrong about the way Elsevier, ACM, IEEE and other publishers abuse their size and established power to hold these works hostage. Of course it costs money to organize and maintain databases, but the way they wrestle you out of the copyright of your own works to ask $25 per paper sickens me. I am legally not even allowed to put my own work on my own website.
Very good points. There was one I felt was missing, or could have been integrated with #3 or #7 a bit:

Know what your part of the startup's vision is.

What is the startups expectations of you in the long term? Do they need some development help to get their product out to get their next round of funding before they run out of runway? Or do they want to give you some time to lead a new product within the bounds of their vision? Or start to spread out from their original vision?

If one goes into a startup with a different set of expectations than what the startup has, there will be a lot of friction, and it will waste time of both parties involved.
* This only applies to the nontechnical founders.
Working on a startup was one of the contributing factors to the decline and failure of my relationship.

When we were supposed to be spending "quality time" together on weekend afternoons, I kept thinking about how much work I could be getting done. I had to bail on vacation or event plans to spend more time on my project. I kept saying "just another couple weeks, then we launch." But the project dragged on and by then, it was too late.

At the time, I wasn't single, but I wasn't married or cohabiting with kids either. Not sure if that's considered "dating" or not. Anyway, I'm sure many people are capable of balancing their work and their romantic life, but in my case it as untenable. Depending on what kind of relationship you have, what your personalities are like, and what kind of work you're doing, it can really hurt you.
I think the part of the equation that we're weighting differently is the value to Google of having better features for Google+, available sooner.

I'd join you in surprise if we weren't talking about Google Plus.
Nice piece, though a more informative submission title might be something like:

Memberly helps you run a subscription business (we built it sell tea)
There is also a form of rape that is not forced? News to me ;) (the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club).
"Government and State 101" in one sentence.
Whether there's good money in solving this sort of problem is another question -- but sorting through shared photos at events is a surprisingly hard problem, as I learned recently.

I attended Anime Expo 2011 in costume. Over the course of the two days I was there, I probably had at least 100 people stop me for photos -- not unexpected with thousands of people walking around carrying cameras. I attended a photo shoot and the whole deal: surely it'd be easy to find at least one of these pictures later, right?

After the event, some friends were curious and wanted to see a photo of me. So I just search through the albums uploaded to Flickr and...

... well, it took days after the event for anyone I knew to find a single photo that even had me in the frame. The volume of uploaded photos was so high that you'd probably have to search for hours to find anything in particular. Nothing was tagged. Want to show your friend a really cool cosplay you saw? Unless you took a picture of it yourself, with your own camera, the odds of being able to find it are practically zero, even if hundreds of people took pictures of it.

Now I understand the need of so many people to bring cameras with them: it's not necessarily that they need to have their own personal pictures of the things they liked. It's that if they don't take them, they'll never be able to find anyone else's pictures either. We're overwhelmed by such a sheer volume of photos and left unable to find what we want.
Thread here - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1067172, including the e-mail all Ksplice customers have received.
Well... for what it's worth, I wouldn't say that you can't date while doing a startup. But in my own case, I have actually all but sworn off dating while doing what I'm doing. Honestly, right now building this business and chasing certain dreams that I have, is more important to me than romantic / sexual relationships. I've been one one "proper" date this year, as best as I can recall. <shrug />
Or (one hopes) agree to give up their social security benefits. I wish my generation could negotiate as a block and say something equivalent to, "We'll surrender any possibility of SS benefits---and still pay payroll tax---in exchange for an assurance that the new paper leeway won't be used as an excuse to spend more."
You do live in a different universe if you think there are hidden patterns of rational thinking behind everything that looks dumb on the surface. There are often hidden patterns of selfishness and incentives, sure, and that's probably true in this case (if the acquisition went through and didn't pay out, who would get fired for it?).

And then sometimes stupid is just stupid. This is Earth.
I've been using the pandas library for a long time for financial applications. The data alignment and missing data handling features in pandas are far above and beyond anything else I've used in similar applications.
I think from a data structure point of view it's already better than R (and FAR better than Matlab). R/Matlab should fear the day that the pandas statistical packages gains roughly equivalent features.
...is the BBB really using rage faces?
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Lista de chapinhas para cabelo.
Err, oops. Closures, not clojures.