skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have two related strategies:

1) Charge a small submission fee (still pinning down the number). Journals will have the option of paying that fee directly or passing the fee along to the authors who submit the articles. If the journals choose to charge the author, they will keep a portion of that fee.

2) Give journal editors the option to charge for their content. Individual journals may set the price or charge nothing. If they charge, Scholastica will take a small, very reasonable cut.

Regardless of where we end up, we definitely want to monetize it in a way that doesn't place unnecessary strain on library budgets and allows everyone to access the content at a reasonable price.
Go to film festivals; Sundance, Cannes, Venice, etc talk to young directors/producers making shorts. They know lots about how to run a production.

Hollywood is insanely inefficient. For $2m a shot you could throw away 49 out of every 50 films your young directors make for the price of a $100m Hollywood blockbuster.

Inflexible unions? -> Don't make movies in the US.
Didn't they get roped right into turntable.fm too?

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/turntable.fm/
In the UK these are defiantly not classed as middle class jobs. Heck teachers are only JUST about considered lower middle class in the UK. Working on the shop floor is not a nice job. Humans are just not designed for fitting one component for 8 hours a day with little variation.

It's one the great tricks america has done, almost everyone thinks they're middle class. In the UK i'm not even sure i'm middle class.
You can only milk people for intangibles/gimmicks for so long before they realize how useless a bitmap of a tomato plant really is.

Once they do, they're not coming back. CF:Nintendo and the wii.
I think they came out against it for the same reasons

While the federal government does have a role in protecting intellectual property rights, it should do so in a way that does not weaken internet security, disrupt growth or restrict free speech rights

http://heritageaction.com/2012/01/key-vote-alert-%E2%80%9Cno...

Hollywood and other content providers seeking to protect their copyrighted materials, and Internet firms seeking to protect their interest in a Web that remains largely free of government supervision. We favor an Internet that is largely free of regulation and taxes; we also favor observing the Eighth Commandment.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/288509/scrub-sopa-edi...
> I understand the argument to be that, with no where else to go, they can lower the salaries of highly-skilled employees. But isn't there always somewhere else to go?

Sure, but let's change the context of the list and see if it makes a difference. Consider the following:

"If {some-company} employees can't go to {another-company}, there's always fast food, gas stations, grocery stores, logging and a sea of startups."

As absurd and bizarrely absolute as this sounds, the notion is the same: there's a list of alternatives that is deemed acceptable by parties other than you, the employed.

Still interested in letting others determine the available sources of your livelihood?
C++11 will be introduced by B.Stroustrup at Microsoft Event
Mankind has an evolved evolutionary need to tell and listen to stories. Before writing, it was the primary means of knowledge transfer across generations. Most human conversations, in fact, consist of telling stories to one another.

Hollywood fills the storytelling need. It's so primal that I think there will always be an industry manufacturing stories, and thus there will always be content owners who want to get paid when someone consumes their work.
This is one of the reasons I didn't pursue a PhD after getting a Masters. Getting published is about very incremental work. Really breaking the mold for revolutionary stuff is actually shunned. Not the kind of reward system worth pursing.
What is your best rich web app development tool?
I am interested to know your best tool for rapid yet maintainable rich web app development. I know few tools and would like to poll on them.

1. Ext JS (http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/)

2. qooXdoo (http://qooxdoo.org/)

3. Cappuccino (http://cappuccino.org/)

4. HTML5 and CSS3
Right, a slave labor job at Foxconn staffed by villagers who went to the city and are desperate for any salary whatsoever are middle class jobs. Makes total sense.

The idea that American works lack skills is laughable, and that Apple exec is lying. What he/she really means is "there aren't enough people willing to work for under-market pay in an unreasonable work environment. Why should Apple and others refuse to comply with US environmental and labor standards? Matter of fact WHY DOES THE US HAVE THOSE STANDARDS if we're just going to aid and abet companies like Apple going to third world dictatorships and hiring slaves to build their products and destroying those nations' environments?

I'm typing this on a Macbook pro but this is the last Apple product I buy ever. They are a completely unethical company that uses slave labor.

I can imagine what the US Apple-apology brigade would have been saying about efforts to ban slavery in the United States: "we can't afford to pay more for cotton! if we have to pay people to make our goods instead of using force to make them slaves, why we might not be able to buy as much stuff".

Admit it there is NO excuse for supporting this stuff other than you value your electronic gadgets more than workers and the environment in other countries. You do not care about people or the planet, only your own ability to maximize consumption. That is the value system being advocated for here.
Basically, they can't do that because it would undermine the market. The entire point of the market is to allocate resources effectively; if its rules allow multiple players to collude in an effort to change the results, it stops being effective.
You proved that it's possible to produce a scalable digital product in a short amount of time. That's always encouraging to all of us who are trying to do the same. However, the fact that you presumably haven't created another one since then also proves how hard it is.
U.S. cloud vendors risk losing European market due to data privacy disconnect
PopCap axes game played by 750,000 people
* you never hear about "I had a dumb idea, people laughed at it, and then it went nowhere"*

Silent evidence.
Obvious mistake made in the calculation. From "We also know that they had 3.4 million unique payers in the September quarter, which is up from 3 million at the end of December 2010." lead them to "In other words, they added 400,000 additional payers and they spent $120 million to acquire them.”

This is an obvius mistake, as not all of the 3 Million from Dec 2010 continued to be a customer in Sept 2011. I roughly assume they lost 800.000 customers in that span (i think its more), then the newly aquired customers triple to 1.2 Million. Thus Zynga makes 50$ profit per customer.
Now someone please explain Skolem's paradox to a 12 year old.
Network cards and storage adapters the limiting factors, not CPU, that is the point.
I think their biggest problem is trying to act as an indie-like game developer, but growing like a turkey before thanksgiving day.

I think people expect more from them.
Soundcloud has the artist-centric part down really nicely, but it doesn't have much room for other music-related stuff like gigs, videos etc. I'm still undecided on whether that's a good thing or not, because what they do do, they do extremely well.
2-3% is an entire team lead role; it's what you'd give to an amazing VP/Marketing, or one of your best developers 9 months in.

There may be ideas worth an equity bump, but I think Spolsky is dead-on about the common case: the idea doesn't mean anything. Sure, you can take your idea and work it with another team --- but your prospective team can take their ability to execute and work it on another idea.

Moreover, in many many companies, the key idea that enables the business comes long after the team starts on the first idea; maybe it's a pivot, maybe it's a refinement, but either way, the core intellectual kernel that "makes" the business isn't predictable. When it comes, most teams don't suddenly grant the person who generated it another 3% of the company.

It's destructive to suggest that, in the common case, an idea is worth multiple percentage points. Just zero that line out in your calculator. You can't calculate the uncommon cases, so what's useful is a shared understanding of what "usual" is.

Personally --- again, this is just me --- if you all start at the same time, and you all quit your jobs, and you all get the same kind of income (steady salary, quarterly distro, nothing, &c), you split the thing up evenly. Not even worth discussing. 33/33/33 and vest.
Unclear how this is HN material.
Not really. The price is a function of the value to the buyer, which drives demand and is independent of manufacturing cost. Above a certain price I just won't find an iPhone to be providing value, so demand will drop. Apple has some room to cover costs with price increases, but it's limited.
Exactly!

I'd go farther, if players stick around 12-15 months historically, and they had 3M users, then in 9 months they could lose 60%-75% so 1.8M to 2.25M players! This of course depends on distribution of lifespans, and assumes that the 12-15 month figure remains accurate.

If that's true, they're getting users for as cheap as $50 each, and making $100 on each.
The response to these incidents is depressingly predictable. "Yes he has the right to shut it down, but..." -- no, there is no "but".

Consider this: An employee quits his job. Do you say "Yes, he has the right to quit, but..."? No. There is no "but". He has the right to quit, period.

Involuntary servitude isn't allowed even when someone is getting paid for it, what the hell makes you think it's acceptable when they aren't, and are even investing their own resources?

He's not being a jerk, he's not being harsh. His right in this matter is absolute, and he's already given the community more of an opportunity than was necessary -- legally, ethically, or socially -- to step up. He has no obligation of any kind to keep putting his time and money into it. If you want slavery, build yourself a time machine, don't demand that he do it for you.
And, when you boycott a company, you don't buy a product even if it pass all your functional test/criteria for consuming. But you don't buy it because the product is made by some company you happens to agree within your group/community that you are not going to buy from the company.

What's the different?
How to determine CPU and memory cost of a function in Python?
This is exactly right!

Its excessive regulations and crazy labor laws that stop people from building factories in much of the US. I am mostly leftist on much of my view and I'm sure people here will downvote me, but unions have screwed workers.

People in the US can continue saying these are sucky jobs etc, but every Chinese person I've met who's worked at these factories has claimed they've enjoyed the experience. Although the ones I met said they did it while putting themselves through school etc.
Money in politics is a huge problem. I'm not one to actively campaign, but I do recommend people check out Larry Lessig's Rootstrikers - http://rootstrikers.org/.

There are some local rootstriker groups starting up in SF and what not trying to come up with a sane solution.
Oh my... I missed that... I feel sick now... What is going on with this world?
Do they really make $150 per acquired user, or just acquired user that opens their wallet at all? I'm curious if those numbers on acquisition cover free users at all.
Well having children is just about the most fundamental thing we are driven to do besides keeping ourselves alive. Additionally he probably felt he had a good job with a good company and that things would work out.
Similar: Einstein's report card for his seconday school examinations
http://bobwise.tumblr.com/post/5894827109/albert-einsteins-r...

For those who cannot read German, the subjects are
German speech and literature - 5,
French - 3,
English - None,
Italian - 5,
History - 6,
Geography - 4,
Algebra - 6,
Geometry (Planimetric trigonometry, stereometry and analytic geometry) - 6,
Projective geometry - 6,
Physics - 6,
Chemistry - 5,
Natural history - 5,
Art drawing - 4,
Technical drawing - 4.
Points go from 1 to 6

Einstein was apparently an excellent student, at least in secondary school. Also, he got a lot more geometry and maths than I did in secondary school.
Note that semiconductor sells Atom cards which are about 10% of a Xeon core in power and energy. So 512 core isn't 43 2x6core Mac Pros, it is more like 4.
Continued from above..

3. Relationships. This is a big one, and although it can get very complicated, I’ll try to make it as simple as possible. In order to make a great piece of content, you need to have talented writers. Those writers depend on casting directors and the actual Director to cast the right talent to make their stories come alive. The producers need to ensure that the best casting directors and most talented writers and directors are attached to the project. The casting directors rely on talent management agencies to sign and nurture the best talent out there, and maintain integrity with how they present their clients. The talent themselves spend thousands and thousands of dollars on creating a better product (their craft, so-to-speak) with acting classes, headshots, travel, etc. (I feel an ecosystem pictograph would work best here, but you’ll just have to visualize this instead.) And even greater than just what we call “above-the-line” costs (Producers, Directors, Writers, Talent), you also have to have the infrastructure available for all the other thousands of jobs each film employs including but not limited to the Director of Photography (camera), his/her crew of camera assistants, the grips and gaffers (lighting and rigging folks), script supervisors, location manager, production managers, drivers, production assistants, accountants, animators, editors, special effects, props, visual effects, stunt men/women, wardrobe, vehicles, omg I could go on forever. Sit through the credits next time and you’ll get a new appreciation for what it takes to make even a shit film. And the thing is.. they are ALL REQUIRED ASSETS.

4. UNIONS. Often striking fear in the hearts of people everywhere, unions are not to be messed with. They are there to protect their members and ensure their labor is treated fairly and compensated appropriately. That’s not to say all production is union production, because it isn’t. In fact, pretty much all independent film and television (and even studio and network productions) to some degree uses non-union labor. But, unions are there to also ensure you have the highest quality of talent available. You have to demonstrate experience to be a part of a union, and then even when you get the job as a union paid employee, you still need to prove that you’re worthy to continue being hired for the next project. The unions are a way to provide checks and balances for the best of the best in their fields. And it works. Making a film is like starting a business from scratch. You want to hire the best and brightest people in the business to be successful. Sometimes those are union people and sometimes those are your friends. But in any case, there needs to be some measure of trust in the quality of work you will receive.
Ireland never industrialized. Went from subsistence tenant farmers to post-industrial, via famine, revolution, civil war, disillusion with church institutions and attracting foreign direct investment in the middle.
This is probably the most insightful comment in the thread. Beyond the working conditions, which add a significant cost advantage, the integration and proximity of factories is a massive benefit which is very costly to replicate.
Reading this, I have to offer an anecdotal (counter?)point. All of the following is true, but is by no means the norm.

My father was born in rural China. He grew up eating roasted grasshoppers. His parents were both teachers; they were proletariats and there was no way to rise up the social ladder (not that there was much of one within thirty miles).

Around fourteen, he realized he was in serious trouble. There was no way out, he was trapped in that village. He decided to start paying attention in school and worked on mathematics problems in his free time. Mathematics problems were all he needed (solutions to them were nice, but not necessary after a few examples). He also worked on a few other subjects, but those were all closely related to mathematics (physics is one, for example).

He did well on the NCEE, and went to TsingHua. After that, he immigrated to the United States.

He maintains that there is no such thing as being "genetically smart". All there is to it is work. He has a brother and a sister; none of them achieved the level of success he did, simply because they didn't practice math problems when they were young.

So yes, you're right when you say "For most Chinese students, the only way to a brighter future is to ace every subject in school". However, contrary to what you make it seem, it isn't impossible or even extremely difficult though; all it requires is determination and work.

Of course, this is anecdotal evidence. It is by no means a key to success in China today.
Is the peer review process explained in enough depth anywhere for a non-academic to try to build a tool to support it into some kind of publication web app?

edit; It turns out there is something worth taking a look at on the front page right now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494395
http://sproutcore.com/
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How do you intend to deal with crossposts from HN? Is that sort of behavior frowned upon or do you see it as necessary for Kruhft's health?
Why do you feel corporations should have the same rights as human beings?
i'm not a mathematician, but his final point about the continuum hypothesis seemed odd to me. the CH is "outside" ZF, but that just means (afaik) that it contains some extra "information" that is not in ZF. adding it to ZF doesn't force any kind of contradiction, in the way that adding "this system is consistent" would. so CH is (just) an example of an independent axiom - it doesn't illuminate what is so weird about the completeness theorem.

(mathematicians: is that right?)
>Is anyone else disgusted by this?

Not me. For these people it represents a step up from the alternatives. And if you somehow force China to meet western labor standards, you're not going to make them better off. The jobs will move to Burma, or Indonesia, or Vietnam, or Guatemala. Then the Chinese factory workers whose condition so disgusts you will lose their 12 hour a day factory jobs and return to working sixteen hour days on the farm.
And they add only 2% value to an iPad: http://www.economist.com/node/21543174
Those are not the jobs you want.
I am an academic mathematician (albeit one with significantly less clout than Gowers). A few comments on both the article and some of the other comments:

(1) I wish I could upvote this article 100 times. I am in complete agreement with Gowers. I published a couple of articles in Elsevier journals in grad school, because my advisor thought it would be important to get my first job, but I'm pretty confident I can avoid this from now on.

(2) There are free online-only journals, e.g. http://www.integers-ejcnt.org/, unfortunately they are not very prestigious. I don't know what can be done to remedy this.

(3) One commenter suggested that peer reviewers should be compensated, but I disagree. First of all, you don't really "sign up" to do it; typically editors pick someone they know and just ask them to referee. I do a fair bit of this. It is not an unproductive use of time, as keeping up with research literature and thinking critically about it is already part of our job.

In addition, we are paid in a somewhat unusual way; we get flat salaries (plus grants) and are expected to do "service" in addition to research and teaching. If refereeing paid substantial money, where other informal methods of participating in the mathematical community do not, I think this would lead to an odd system of incentives. For example, for me a referee report might well take anywhere between five minutes and twenty hours. What amount of compensation would be fair? And would there be pressure for more favorable reviews?

(Note that "informal methods of participating in the mathematical community do not pay" is only mostly true.)

Feel free to ask me questions.
Bing puts up a looped webm background every couple weeks.

Sadly in FireFox on my Macbook Air, it is pretty jittery every time it loops and sometimes during playback. They are pretty though like -
http://www.bing.com/az/hprichv/?p=AntelopeCanyon_Mammoth_MHD...
So let's bring it down: "We need high quality content".

We need content good enough to replace Hollywood.

It is the biggest Entertainment brand in the world, not an easy task.
Hmm... on most desktop platforms, the decode happens in the GPU, and the flow is:

storage/network -> CPU -> GPU -> Screen

It sounds like on the Nexus One, there's some copy back into the CPU before it gets to the screen. In the version of the OS is Android doing graphics compositing in it's CPU?

I'd love to see references for this.
I still don't understand how Dwolla is exempt from money transmission laws or why any investor would want to assume criminal liability.

18 U.S.C. 1960(a): "Whoever knowingly conducts, controls, manages, supervises, directs, or owns all or part of an unlicensed money transmitting business, shall be fined in accordance with this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."

http://www.plainsite.org/browse/index.html?id=14426
Meemoo iframework: modular web media patching
http://arxiv.org
Copyright colony. What a fabulous phrase.
They're not, but the supply chains are already in place, which brings up the other elephant in the room. If labor isn't the issue pollution is. As EPA laws tightened China's lax oversight beckoned. It's not easy to find a place in the US that will look the other way and is located close to labor/transportation.
Naval, the creator of Angel list, made a similar point[1]:

And if you see someone who’s doing that and becomes indispensable to the company, I’m a big fan of giving them a lot of stock and treating them like a late co-founder.

[1] http://venturehacks.com/articles/co-founder-interview
"redesign" isn't really an appropriate term for what Digg did- they changed a lot of core functionality at the same time as changing design.

When when the dreaded "V4" came, it wasn't the design that was the problem, it was the change to prioritising major media companies.

It would be possible for Reddit to change their design without changing functionality. But I suspect that no-one would be happy with the result.
Depending on how Firefox plays back H.264, it may not be using HW acceleration through the GPU. Quicktime, and recent versions of Flash have the right OS hooks in place to do this.
So if a price of something is higher than what you want, you have to just live with it and can't form group with your friend to only buy from places that sell product at cheaper price?
There are a few issues at play here.

1) Many of the companies are with working with low profit margins, i.e. the profit margin is <5%. With rising costs in both raw supplies and worker wages + low demand from abroad, many of these companies are being driven out of business due to their decreasing profit margin.

2) Since rising costs are eating into companies' profit margins, many companies are looking at relocating their manufacturing base from China to countries with [even] cheaper manual labor. For example, Foxconn has recently inked a multi-billion w/ Brazilian gov't to produce ipads and apple related products there. Other companies are looking to relocate their manufacturing base to SE asian countries like Vietnam where cheap labor and gov't wiling to bend the rules for FDI are still aplenty.

Like you said. We'll see what happens.