skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article mentioned, in the US, much publicly-funded research already is required to be freely available.

Specifically, anything funded by the NIH-- which means pretty much all biomedical research-- has to end up in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central repository. It's actually the author's responsibility to submit it, but most publishers take care of it for you.

While this model is not without its problems, I think it's a pretty amazing start and has proved itself to be well worth the hassle. The NLM has put into place a great deal of infrastructure to make it easy for authors and publishers to submit their content, and the PubMed Central site itself is a great resource for researchers.
Show HN: Find something to do today based on your Facebook friends' events
In a tribe, the tribe is your world (it's all you know and exposed to). Today the world is a billion people. We're surrounded by people we don't care about. We can't be compassionate to everyone. So it all ends up being impersonal
An irc channel on freenode would be ideal.
How about irc://irc.freenode.net/#ai-class
This is not how universities work. Remember, they're not for profit, so reducing costs means nothing unless your budget is slashed.

Universities make money on grants, what is called the "overhead" -- it ranges from 40% to even more of all grant money received. In such an environment, it makes sense to charge as much as possible for the research. That's is exactly what most class A universities do.

And that is why the true stars of any university are the departments that charge more for their research. E.g., if you have professors that can justify building a hugely expensive particle physics' lab, that is a big point for you.
Yes, true, but you still belong to 1 tribe. Nowadays we're lucky to have anyone besides family, or a S.O. who we consider a tribe. It doesn't help we spread the bulk of our days along people we don't care about too.
Windows 8 Explorer will support native mounting of ISO and VHD
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NASA is developing a nuclear-powered Stirling engine for planetary outposts
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedo...

It is estimated that approximately 106 billion have lived on Earth between 8000 BC and 2002. (The population before 8000 BC is thought to have been too small to count on a scale of billions.)

So, it seems that 7% is about right.
I am so excited about this! Watching other people use vim has been the most valuable part of my vim education. I think this is going to be a great venue for it.

Edit: I'm also clueless when it comes to vimscript. It would be nice to see some stuff on that.
I'm looking forward to this as well. You did a great job on the Backbone.js screencast
Interesting article. In 2011 there is no practical hurdle to web-based publishing portals. Given that papers are already peer reviewed on a volunteer basis, the middle man and its administrative staff has a high cost and a low benefit.

The system could keep volunteer-based peer review, and establish a (perhaps private) forum-like interaction for the authors to improve their article.

Google Scholar has solved many of my article search problems and often gives me directly a link to the PDF of (sometimes just a preprint of) the article. However the problem remains for the libraries, which might well be the largest contributors to publishers, and which may find it hard to cut a subscription and suggest its users to use Google scholar.
There are already companies out there selling +1s. Google has done well with its ability to spot people cheating on page rank, hopefully they will be able to spot fake +1s
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As a side note (I submitted it without thinking much), this would probably be more useful (because will have more events) on a Friday or Saturday.
If you object to the P2P aspects of Spotify, wouldn't it be pretty simple to find out the port that it's broadcasting on and block outgoing communication? I wonder if anyone has tried this. Maybe Spotify would notice and quit playing.
You're right, it doesn't make sense, but I find it entirely plausible. Welcome to academia; nobody said it was supposed to make sense (especially when it comes to the financial aspects of the gig). Ask me sometime about how my university calculates overhead costs & indirect percentages, let alone how it allocates and charges for floor space- the words "byzantine" and "Machiavellian" come to mind.

Any scientist will tell you that the most important person in their department- by far- is their finance person. They're the ones that know your university's financial system inside and out, and so will be able to help you keep your money from going straight up the university's nose (as it were). A good finance person will also know how, on a per-agency-basis, to structure a grant's budget so that you get to keep as much money as possible as freely-usable as possible (E.g., there are things that the NSF will let you do with certain kinds of grant money that the NIH won't, and vice versa, and a good finance person knows what they are).
I also wonder how many birds die from things associated with other forms of power (eg. burning coal)?

Naturally this would have to be scaled based on power output (maybe?), and of course it would be harder to find the bodies and determine cause of death, but it's not like these other sources of power are clean compared to wind as far as birds are concerned. I guess it's just easier to guess what killed a bird whose body is next to a turbine...
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http://ml-class.com/ http://db-class.com/
DB Class: http://db-class.org/
Machine Learning Class: http://www.ml-class.org/
I admit i didn't know the icon and text option.

However, with iPhoto, unless you store your photos in iPhoto at which point when you hit the iPhoto library in the filesystem you are chucked into a mess of virtual filesystem. I know the file name but it's in my iPhoto library so I have to use the damn iPhoto VFS to get to it. That's a crock which means I usually a) get a mac ... b) reinstall the damn thing without iPhoto so I can get to my beloved FILES.
Which is the biggest thing to get into?
I read about it in a book by an ex-CIA guy from the Clinton years. Can't remember the guy's name now, but remember thinking at the time (2004 or so) that it had almost certainly gotten worse since then. His allegations were that State and CIA were frequently involved in securing access to oil in the 3rd world for American corporations, because it was deemed a national security priority.

In the way of circumstantial evidence, here's an article about Shell (netherlands) being fined for bribing everyone they interacted with in Nigeria in order to get into the oilfields: http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2010/12/25/wikileaks-shells-as...

ExxonMobil has a huge presence in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Khazakhstan.. you do the math.
No, thinking about it some more, you're correct.

And they'll do it just the same way they're doing the internet: a little nibble at a time. It will be efforts to "Save children" "protect orphans" "help the little guy" "control the evil corporations" and every other overused FUD campaign that's worked so well in the past. They'll just re-purpose it -- and take tiny bites.

If they told us up front how much control they wanted, nobody would ever agree to it. (This is a systemic problem and not related to some hypothetical "they". I anthropomorphise and use hyperbole simply to express how frustrating it all is. The really sad part is that "they" -- who will be different people in different situations -- mean well and only want to help out. I think it would be much easier on everybody if Darth Vader showed up. At least it would be obvious what was going on. Reasoning about systemic problems is not for those with cartoon ideas of good guys and bad guys.)
I just checked, and at least with firefox, I didn't see any. What are you referring to exactly?
"No “free” streaming service is worth the risk of pissing off the Xfinity limit police and losing my Internet service."

this is only a true statement if the value of your current service is infinite or your risk aversion is. to make any kind of realistic logical statement about this you need to calculate how much bandwidth is being used, user limits and isp switching costs.

a nice insight turned into fear mongering - this is how a lot of bad memes start.
I know this is off topic but would you mind sharing how you created a special link that can be passed to earn credit?

Are there plugins/gems for something like this or was this made from scratch?
So, in a discussion about finding alien life, you don't think the Fermi Paradox is relevant, OK.

Your condescending response is amusing, but also demonstrates that you've failed to understand what the Fermi Paradox. I would humbly suggest that you read up on it at the Wikipedia page, as most of your objections are dealt with there.
It does, but it means it's also a misleading statistic within the context of this argument, because the high population density (600 people per square mile) would indicate that you can't ever walk 50 meters in one direction without bumping into someone. In fact, you can easily walk miles without meeting anyone - if you go into the countryside. On the other hand, you won't be able to walk anywhere near 50 metres without bumping into someone in a town centre.
Your ZIP Code, Sex, and Birthday Reveal Your Exact Identity 87% of the Time
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Are you the same creator as vimconf? The sites look alike and so did the emails (subject atleast, did not open). Are you the submitter of this? Why two different usernames if so. And why promote them both??
So edit ~/.subversion/config and never deal with ignores again.

Acting like subversion does this in a less than optimal way is ignoring what the command is actually doing. With subversion method you can check out a subtree. Git can do no such thing.

I prefer git, but being able to check out say, only /project/doc/ or /project/static/images/, is useful in subversion.
Otoy’s cloud tools can render stunningly realistic games and films
This is kind of a strawman. Perhaps the equality talked about is not the boring clone of existence kind, but the kind where people get equal choice to do with themselves as they wish?

There is no denying that currently there are a large number of people in the world with extremely limited choice in what they do, and that choice is in many cases not actually a choice (work hard doing X or work hard doing Y but never get to do anything but hard work with little reward).

Secondly, I would like to point out that your personal belief statement is also based on a fallacy. The just because something always worked in the past and it got us here does not mean 1) it will get us to the future, 2) it was just or moral, 3) here is better for everyone.
Anyone know some Vim luminaries who'd be good "keynote" speakers/demo-ers? I'd vote for Drew Neil - http://vimcasts.org/about
p2p is unrelated to (these) caching strategies. They'd do the same if it was all centralized.

Why not just download a huge bunch of songs using bit torrent and pretend to be using Spotify? No partially cached songs, no proprietary anything, etc.
> I'm not sure how you think that's not a dishonest thing to do.

I've found that such folks fall into one of three categories.

(1) He's doing this for the attention.
(2) He's incompetent.
(3) He's lying to discredit his supposed cause.
I got no mail, and was signed up for ai, ml, db.
It seems only ai is open to registration so far, perhaps to get an idea of demand and discover bugs...
AT&T’s 4G LTE network now live in Atlanta; images show 25Mbps speeds
As much as possible would probably mean a 600 m high turbine with 300 m blades made of pure carbon fibre or something like that. That could cost hundreds of millions and would be a useless monument.

Look, it's a simple cost trade - currently the most economical turbines are in the 1 to 3 megawatt range and roughly 100 m rotor diameter.

Tower cost is probably exponentially related to height for example. so the things balance out at that point.
Nice. Even had some things that were surprising to me, as a big Firefly nerd (although, really, who isn't? ;) )
I think this is what you meant to quote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27_law
Send AM signals to your Radio from your Monitor
Tempest for Eliza is a Program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio.
I am indeed the same person behind both CastingCode.tv and VimConf. However, I did not submit this VimConf article to HN. That was done by somebody else and I had no idea it was being submitted, so it took me by surprise.
Your statement is true, but unfortunately, you're not thinking it
through completely, so you don't see the worrying implications. Most
modern web browsers these days do "DNS Prefetch" which is a fancy way to
say domain names found within web pages are resolved to IP address
before they are actually needed. This means the new GIS (Global
Internet Speedup) garbage will send the first three octets of your IP
address to every evil spamming/tracking site that has a link on the page
you're viewing regardless if you followed the link due to the browser
doing a DNS prefetch.

If you run your own DNS server, then the browser DNS prefetch is
already allowing you to be tracked, and by full IP address rather than
just the first three octets. On the other hand, most people do not run
their own DNS server, so GIS is a reduction of privacy.
I'm saying that for myself, for my needs, subversion's way is less optimal. No acting required. I don't need to only check out certain trees in my.. [checks] 20MB repo. What I do need is a way to ignore a rotating handful of files.
"ORMs aren't the problem here, databases not designed for use by programmers is the problem"

I can paraphrase it as:

ORMs aren't the problem here, relational databases are problem.

I don't think that letter R is to blame. Letter O is culprit.

Why? Because OOP is not suited to work with data.

And what's wrong with SQL? It's a good enough abstraction from actual data.

I wonder: who needs another (letter O) layer over already abstracted layer?

"2) supports explicitly specifying a plan, not providing hints or clues, but using operations that look map, filter, reduce, hash-join, etc."

You have it already:
SELECT
type,
SUM( -- reduce
object_id * 2 -- map
)

FROM
sys.objects
WHERE -- filter
type = 'U'
GROUP BY
type

Hash-joins - yes, only hints, and not in all DBs
Germans actually learned how to use SVN, so it works fine for them.
Spotify is a peer to peer music streaming service, haven't they been pretty clear about that previously? I actually can't find any information about it on the website at the moment but I'm positive it's been there before. I have been a member since the early beta (i.e when only certain parts of Europe had access) so they might have changed it since then. I've never noticed any slowdowns though and since we don't have bandwidth caps over here it hasn't really become a issue for anyone.

I'm a premium subscribed now but I used the free service up until they limited the amount of plays per song and how long per month you could use it, and for me it's worth the $18~ I have to pay to get access to the music I want to listen to anywhere. Even if there is some bandwidth usage if I keep it running. It's never so much that I notice it in any way and it "gives" when other applications demand more bandwidth.

How often do you actually have Spotify running without listening to music anyway?
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joey built the landing page with http://kickofflabs.com - it handles all of that stuff automatically. highly recommended if you want to put together a landing page and get sign ups / interest in your idea
Underground River Discovered Beneath Amazon
There is one Q-A community for this class at aiqus.com
I just meant the ribbon is far away from the files one is managing (relatively).

Your example of the 'popup toolbar' is exactly the sort of thing I might expect to make the context menu more discoverable; but if it's been tried and didn't work, then the point could be moot. Perhaps utilizing some space next to the filename for the most common actions would suffice. I just think having the available actions closer to where you're working, on-screen, would provide a better experience with less scanning and less movement.

In any case, I'll continue to hide any such menu bar wherever possible :)
I find it hard to grasp how these kind of services turn a profit (apparently they do because there are so many of them!). The bandwidth and storage costs must be huge and I can't really see the benefit in paying for an account. As far as I understand even paying users have download limits and compared to something like a seedbox your account is only valid for one file hosting service while you have no guarantee that the files you'll want tomorrow might be on a different file hosting provider.
Is convergence.io available for Chrome?
Using a giant repository (like some people do with perforce or even svn) is not a smart move with Git. In fact, I think that it's even mentioned (or at least used to be) in the Git documentation. I've read more than one disgruntled blog post about someone who dumped their entire 60 gigabyte Perforce repo (full of binaries) to Git.

These days you can use git submodules which work quite nicely.
I really appreciate when people take the time to put together archives of excellent reading like this. I know the quality of swombat from HN, so I know this reading list will be awesome.

Thank you.
Dealing with Storms During Travel
The trend away from physicality began long before the internet. In fact, the ability to spend mental energy and effort on non-physical things is quite possibly one of the defining features of humanity itself.

Stories, religion, relationships, philosophy, basic societal concepts such as "ownership" or "justice"... all of these are abstractions from physicality. The invention of writing allowed us to make these abstractions even more elaborate, as did the rise of the intellectual class and the invention of printing.

Electronic media is merely the next step on this same journey - it allows us to manipulate and record even more abstract ideas, and communicate them more effectively.

In my humble opinion, although physicality and its accompanying physical experiences are certainly pleasant and integral to the experience of being alive, the ability to form, manipulate and care about non-physical abstractions is one of humanity's most noble defining features, and nothing to be afraid or ashamed of.
Tim Pope.
I’ve looked at a lot of Vim beginner tutorials—this one is outstanding.
How to hack like a News of the World reporter
Leads vs. Referrals
Examples of good web design portfolios
From the comments of a blog post providing tips about better portfolios for web designers.
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Nice one, Joey. We'll have to discuss this at Ruby DCamp!
http://www.layervault.com

This is awesome! Excited and signed up for beta :)
Like any UI element there are plenty of reasons to knock on the ribbon, but the lack of analysis, editing, or afterthought is not one of them. The premise of the parent post that this is accidental and the result of ignoring a few design guidelines is just wrong.

Have you read Jensen Harris' exhaustive blog posts on building the Ribbon for office?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story...

Calling the ribbon poorly analyzed is jumping to an unsupported conclusion. Some of your specific suggestions were tested during the building of Office and found wanting.
Clicky http://www.aiqus.com/
I think your last point is right. It's not just about knowing your tools, it's about knowing how your tools fit into the system that you've built.
Khan-like videos for Machine Learning and Probability Theory.
Hat tip to JeanPierre for mentioning this in another thread.

I've really enjoyed these videos by mathematicalmonk. He strives to build intuition and provides good examples. He even touches on some measure theory in his probability theory primer.
I'm not a designer either but it does look interesting. Is it Mac only?
Originally cited by JeanPierre here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934548
"On the Kindle every book is Twilight."

Struck me in church, standing there reading the Bible from an iPad, that the value of sacred texts may fade or alter, being indistinguishable from any other momentary array of pixels upon a slim universal reader. Being naturally physcial-focused, my toddler children may come to not grasp the "specialness" of some books - where I want them to learn value beyond bits and pixels.
Method_missing considered harmful.
The DNS prefetching was exactly what I was thinking of. With GIS, if my site shows up in Google (or elsewhere), I can now track exactly how many people see my site, and from where, without them ever clicking on a link.
Sheesh, what do people have against ebooks? And where do they all get the same fetish for fondling paper?

You can't grep dead trees. Books just aren't as effective. You also can't store tens of thousands of paper books on a tiny USB stick.
They turn a huge profit by hosting pirated stuff and making downloading painful without a premium account.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20087753-261/the-mystery-m...

To download from bayfiles:

1) go to link http://bayfiles.com/file/Rf5/GXSeLh/zeromq-2.1.7.zip

2) click the discrete grey download button

3) wait 15 seconds on the next page

4) enter captcha on the next page

5) click start download, at a capped speed

OR with a premium account:

1) go to link

2) click download, at high speed
For now, yes, this is Mac only.

We made the executive decision to make the minimum viable product for designers and we think going exclusively with the Mac is a safe choice for now.

That being said, we will eventually be adding PC support.
I have found setting custom DNS breaks many coffeeshop and airport wifi hotspots, and so I don't recommend it for the general user. I can't imagine there are that many people using Google's DNS or OpenDNS.
Don't tell anyone but little known secret: a lot of us devs don't understand git nearly as well as we feel like we should. Your title gave me a sympathetic chuckle.
Steve Jobs’s Worst Design Decisions?
Anything similar for OSX?
Absolutely! Looks like I'm going to need all the help I can get! :D
Sometimes it's better to be inflexible.

What's better, a development team full of developers who are flexible enough to use a crappy technology, or inflexible enough to move the product to a superior technology? It depends on moving costs and the difference between technologies, but in some cases I think that inflexibility is better.
Movies are also subtitled in the same language for the hearing impaired.
Benefit over using Dropbox (which many people have to use for other files anyways)?
“Seamless computing” Demo With Microsoft Platforms (Video)
Sorry.

I can't edit my answer, just look at this:

SELECT
type,
SUM( -- reduce
object_id * 2 -- map
)

FROM
sys.objects
WHERE -- filter
type = 'U'
GROUP BY
type