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Ask HN: Beating Wikipedia and Google with Science
We're trying to create something more practical to help people find scientific papers and reliable information on several subjects. In essence, there are three problems we've always had with Wikipedia and Google Scholar:

1. Finding scientific papers on what you're looking for is a pain.
2. It's quite hard to figure out what the scientific consensus (if any) on a topic is.
3. Wikipedia's deletionist policy. (See #23 at ycombinator.com/ideas.html)

Here I could explain in great detail how we'd like to achieve this, but you can get a basic idea by visiting the site below. Note that the site doesn't actually do anything, and its sole purpose was for us to structure our thoughts and figure out exactly what we wanted.

http://isharestuff.net/?page=asdf
or
http://isharestuff.net/?page=Classical%20Mechanics

(Now don't get scared because of the domain name, we're definitely going to use a different one. I happened to have this domain name lying around, so it could be used to show HN what we had in mind.)

Having said all that, our question is simple: would you agree that the three problems I mentioned are problems, and would you try out new solutions to these problems?
Old article but amazing stuff. I'm assuming everything of his is written in assembly
With a gaming console you have a commitment in the form of the titles you own and people upgrade them to get access to improved content. A game console has to offset its cost with the increased attractiveness of its improved content.

A TV set-top-box is much cheaper to build than a gaming console (or, at least, should be) and the commitment will probably be with the subscribed content - and people won't upgrade them unless the new version offsets its price with enticing features. TV makers already noticed that and the push to digital is a form of making standards flexible enough to accommodate things like 2160p and 3D, shortening product life to levels analog TV sets and long-lived standards wouldn't be able to achieve.
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It's common for UK citizens to give up citizenship, prior to an exit in their business and move to Monte-Carlo or Gilbraltar for a few years to avoid capital gains tax.

If Facebook blows up on the IPO and the stock value increases 50% or 100% he could easily be saving $500m - $1b in taxes. It's a no-brainer...
The thing that sucks about this story is that at the end, the customer is DEAD. Every great salesman I know cares deeply about the continued satisfaction of the customer. It's why they sell in the first place!
I was hoping he'd clarify whether he changed it to
"... has not been provided to me..." or
"... has !been provided to me..."
To a multibillionaire, the value of retaining American citizenship could easily be hundreds of millions of dollars. Or it might be much lower in that. The degree of which citizens seek tax havens will be proportional to the level of taxation, not a black-and-white yes-or-no thing.
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Your MySQL example isn't exactly relevant. It was in 2007, yet you said "MySQL still tanks at 8 cores". Furthermore it was on FreeBSD, with a flawed libpthread.

In terms of "real" workloads, I'm not going to bother getting into it, as this is quickly devolving in to a true Scotsman argument.

Instead of arguing pointlessly about it, maybe our energy would be better spent publishing some benchmarks.
Awesome! I was just about to switch my repository from twitter's to joshaber's next week, so this is perfect timing. He's been rocking it, which is not easy given the size and complexity of the project.

Many thanks to Josh and GitHub for the continuing contributions to TwUI. It's always a great story to see a changeover like this in open source.
I like hearing about sociopaths that utilize the infrastructure provided by the U.S. but don't want to pay back. Contrast that to the evil poor that utilize the infrastructure, have nothing but are demonized for not paying.
So true. I can't wait until they add fax support so I can get fired by my boss in Japan.
At the moment it only supports Apache Pig.
Could be. I'm curious to hear why my comment was down voted though, regardless of whether there was information on the server or not. It seems a lot of people are always screaming "privacy!" and when I mention I'm willing to give up some privacy to protect the safety of other people and our country others do not agree with me. What is it you think will happen if the FBI gets a hold of your data on a server? This of course is just my opinion and I respect everyone else's opinion but I would like to hear a counter argument.
C hardly requires it's runtime. Objective-C without the runtime is just C, if you write the runtime, GC, and other low-level system components in the C subset of Objective-C you are just writing the kernel in C.
We should give people a number of votes proportional to how much money they have, to give wealthy people more incentive to stay.
Can you post the app?
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3853688
Roles have specific composition rules which forbid name collisions; there's no last-in wins rule. Roles also provide type allomorphism which is much less ambiguous than duck typing.
I think part of this is that young adults have a harder time doing what our parents did at the same age.

When I was trying to rent my first post-college place with my girlfriend, my parents didn't think we would need a co-signer. They had gotten all their apartments, years ago, with a handshake and an understanding they had word. After they realized things had changed, they were happy to help, but it took a while.

I think there are many people, who are divorced from the experience of being a young adult, who think "kids today" aren't achieving like their parents did. They're right - we aren't living in the post-war prosperity - but I think young people are also achieving differently. Even if the things our parents did were the same price, how many of us would do them?
IP addresses aren't reliable, especially when considering spammers will know IP address geolocation will be used. It may be safe to assume a vast majority of US IP addresses will actually be proxies.
I am about to graduate college (taking second to last final at 1730 this evening).

I will very soon start working full-time at a job that puts the household of just me into the top 25% of Americans.

My gross paycheck for a year isn't enough to cover all the loans I had to take out in order to pay for college. Because of what schools of what quality have what financial aid programs, there is essentially little way I could have spent less on college and gotten a similar benefit.

Despite that, I am by far one of the luckiest ones - hopefully I'll have it payed down in 5 years comfortably.

It is worth noting that in my parents generation, the ratio of expected debt to typical wages made the idea of paying your way through school a commonly reachable thing. Now, it certainly is not if you are planning on actually getting an education, rather than a piece of paper.
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US citizenship is a nasty trap from which it is extremely difficult to escape. The US is one of a very small number of countries which will happily tax its citizens on income earned overseas, thus causing them to pay double taxes on everything they earn.

This has seriously bad consequences for US competitiveness, in particular:

1. It discourages competent foreign citizens from seeking US citizenship (a greencard is so much better!)

2. It discourages US workers from spending some of their careers overseas, thus reinforcing US cultural insularity and giving competitive disadvantages. Go to any interntional company's office in Singapore, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and note that it's filled with Brits, Australians, New Zealanders with very few Americans; this is why.

3. And of course, things like this.
He's going to regret this down the road. Yes taxing on Worldwide income is absurd but not more absurd than giving up your right to live in the US. There will come a day, probably not too far in the future, where being young and rich on a tiny island isn't fun anymore and he's going to want to do something with his life. He's going to be quite sad when doing it in the United States is no longer an option.
Whatever happen to Social Contract? The worst thing that could ever happen in this country is if we start mistrusting established institutions.

Wait... as a geek, I enjoyed the story. If I was at the same establishment as Richard, I would be laughing my tail off!
Thanks, very useful comment, and I apologize for the confusion that you experienced.

Right now most of the Ragic developers first go through 2 hours of training before they start building. So they kind of know what the basics process are.

We are in the transition process trying to move from a tool that we personally teach developers how to use, to a self help type of product that developers can start by themselves. Functions like drag and drop add fields are added just this month.

I will certainly find a group of users, sit by them one by one to make our learning process a lot smoother. Again, sorry for the confusion. I think I will certainly post again after we tune the process. The HN posting feedback is really helpful.
Last time I looked Roku didn't do local media. Has that changed?
When accusing domain owners of spam, don't forget that anyone can spam thousands of blog comments for $5 using any domain (think negative seo). For example, I really doubt that Steve Pavlina (#3 in the spam domains list) would spam his own domain. Most probably some competitor wants to take his domain out of the google index.
That is a joke right? (I really hope so)
I think that's a really interesting idea. I've been thinking a little bit about how this could be leveraged on the client-side as well.
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I uprated you, but honestly it's incredibly useful to see the satellite details for several things - find a kids park with good greenery (or extensive playground) via satellite map as opposed to Google/yelp directory information is a hell of a lot easier. If you're looking to buy a house, you can easily determine if the location is close to any undesirable looking areas. Some minor landmarks (say, a parking lot) are also visible to satellite that may not be shown or easily inferred without imagery.

A picture (tile) is worth at 1,000 words indeed.
You're completely right, I was assuming that what is good for nature is what should be law. I'm having such a hard time wrapping my head around the short-sightedness shown by these mega-corporations and lawmakers. We're just humans, doomed to die, but whole species are stake here. I don't feel that fishing a species to extinction could be that beneficial to so few people in the short run.
I'm not sure if your greencard comment is ironic, but permanent residents (green card holders) are subject to the same "exit tax" described in the article.
Or like most people who get US visas, they'll just buy their way back into the US.
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It's more of a no-brainer when he isn't even American. He "became" an American citizen in record time - arrived in the US in 1992 and was a citizen by 1998.

I'd say citizenship was given a tad too lightly.
"And of course, things like this."

Things like this? I'm a little confused. Are you referring to the US government taxing capital gains income that an extremely rich US citizen earned in the US? Or are you referring to the laws that allow the government to collect those taxes, even when the individual has tried to avoid paying by fleeing the country?
Saverin was born in Brazil and has been living in Singapore for a while. There are also probably psychological advantages to being out of Zuckerberg's shadow.

While taxes might have played a role, it's not obvious that this was the principal factor.
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I wonder if we've got to the point where it might actually be worth putting a camera into the server case that streams to another site? You really only have to keep under an hour of video.
I'm curious how many of you there are? As you should try getting funding if there's only a couple of you and you're attempting to bootstrap, get a good UX guy and really try to hit the ball out the park.

There's definitely a market for something like this and personally I think Salesforce is a overcharging by a lot and the field is ripe.

Ignore the thing about the guy moaning about $19.95 p/m.
It's not fake vintage, it's neo-nostalgia. It's not pretending to be old, it's inviting the user to feel old-timey.
There are 4 of us, and some of us are doing projects using Ragic so that we have the money to survive. We are currently self-funded.
I'm actually glad they are continuing on and fighting the stigma of the "best social network that never was".

I have used Diaspora's site for a while and prefer it to Facebook and Google+. The problem is trying to maintain three separate social networks. Since most of the people I like to keep up with are on FB and G+, my use of Diaspora has slowed down over the past year or so.
I don't think he's going to miss anything US :-)
Apple's note is a great rallying call for startups
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Yes but you specifically suggested Stallmsn was mistaken for saying something he didn't say. If you want to be pedantic, be correct.
thanks! it's closed and not yet public right now because the docs aren't finished yet - but this is how they look. I plan to have every section be live customizable and reflect implementation with a live code example to the left as is the case with the typography section. once the docs are done I'm planning on open sourcing it. If you want to use it and/or test it out, hit me on twitter @jescalan
Another nice thing is that Zend Studio is pretty tightly integrated with Zend Framework. It's particularly nice when you're dealing with large ZF projects.
Not at all, He can still go to the US as a visitor when eer he wants (he just needs a visa), and even long term by applying to be a resident alien.
If they can get wide adoption, they could easily monetize tools and services, even if the standard is open, and anyone can run his own server.

examples include: email. web. voip. etc.
When I hear about the "New Global Economy," especially as it relates to discussions on schooling, I wonder: are we saying that the economy from now on is going to be more cutthroat, more demanding? When people say that I wonder why some seem to take as a given that life is going to be even harder than ever and we need education to help young people survive. The very assumption that one will need to be ever more skilled to get the same level of job is scary.
The article also references new changes in US laws that require even foreign institutions holding funds from US citizens to meet very strict reporting requirements on those funds. In response, some institutions are simply refusing to take funds from US citizens rather than accept what they see as the onerous burden of complying with these reporting requirements.
While useful stuff like CS stayed relatively flat, the majors that skyrocketed were things like Liberal Arts.

Liberal arts degrees are also relatively flat, depending on how you want to count them: the major rise was in business, which accounts for about a quarter of U.S. undergrad degrees. Communications has also risen enormously.

(See Academically Adrift and Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas for more details. Note that the former also finds that liberal arts majors actually make large, measurable improvements in learning over their first two years of college, while business majors, as a group, don't.)
Actually the Vintage effect isn't fake, the photographer only used vintage film cameras.
We looked into this feature recently for our apps. Android has a Night Mode feature, however it is only accessible in Dock Mode & Car Mode.

From the article's comments, it appears that Cyanogen Mod can work-around this limitation.
"sociopaths that utilize the infrastructure provided by the U.S."

given the number of high qualified jobs Facebook has created, the taxes that both FB and employees are paying, and Facebook's continued support towards the startup ecosystem, calling ES a sociopath is simply wrong.
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30 years old. He'll have to do his National Service in the Singaporean army.

Edit: Correction. His children would be eligible.

Also, Singapore doesn't allow dual-citizenship, so he'll have to give up his Brazilian citizenship (if he had it).
I don't think it's true for the vast majority of people. Most Americans, including most wealthy Americans, are happy to be Americans, even if they aren't happy about everything in the US. Rejecting your home country for monetary reasons is a fairly drastic action, and only a very small number of people take it. I mean, you don't see Bill Gates moving to Monaco or anything. Not even very-rich people with libertarian politics, like Larry Ellison or the Koch brothers, are itchin' to leave the country.

In fact the number is even smaller than the raw number of renunciations. A spot-check at the list of renunciations suggests that most are actually people who in practice ceased to be Americans long ago, or in some cases never were. Some were born overseas to American parents and have never lived in the US; one actor on the list is of Italian origin and moved back to Italy 40 years ago; etc. Apart from a tiny handful of cases, it seems more like formalizing situations that already exist (people who aren't really Americans just making it formal). A number are also people applying for citizenships in countries that don't recognize dual citizenship, who are required to renounce their American citizenship to do so.
For the vast majority of the world's population, not being in the United States hasn't been a barrier to doing something with their lives.
The discrepancy in this benchmark is almost entirely copying the results of read(2) into a userspace buffer. OS caching is important, but it's not the whole story here.

As some other commenters pointed out, if you pre-load the file contents, the discrepancy goes away. Also, if you actually limit vert.x to 1 CPU, it gets erratic and loses any performance benefits.
Is it Braille? Isn't it just designating the center key in a number pad (the '5'), from which it is evident to the user what the key around are? There is a slight bump on my '5' key, but one bump is certainly not Braille for '5'. Braille is like Morse code, it refers to a specific 'code', not just "any bumps meant to be felt for".
I think the US will never create a law stating to cane people who are caught here illegally; regardless who occupies the White House.
You should give Intervals a try if you haven't already:

http://www.myintervals.com/
Do you truly imagine this means he has to live on a tiny island? With billions of dollars?

The man could easily maintain homes in wonderful places around the world and do whatever he wants with his life in any of them.

He's not going to regret this for even a minute.
Being rich in Singapore is not exactly limiting.
Do you know of any references on the behavior of molecular water in space? Specifically whether or not there is a mass value which would be a modestly stable liquid?

So nominally in a vacuum water sublimates into vapor, but at very low temperatures it stays ice. So you've got these icy bodies in the Kuiper belt which become comets when their orbits take them past the Sun. Typically, a comet is 'solid' but solar insolation causes it to evaporate/sublimate giving it the characteristic tail (correct me if I'm wrong here on this).

So what I'm wondering is, could you have a 'water' planet which was basically a blob of water surrounded by presumably a CO2/NO2 atmosphere? Could it be liquid all the way through or would its 'core' always be solid?
lol, guess thats not happening any time soon.
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A green card has similar problems, similar exit taxes and so on. Get a green card, move back to your home country, you still have that tax burden as long as you have that green card.

The USA is only one of two (other being Eritrea) countries that taxes non-resident citizens. On top of that Eritrea's expat tax is only a flat ~%2 and is a remote african dictatorship. The USA is the only country which exposes it's non-resident citizens to a full tax load and system.
This. Can you picture someone telling someone about this site in a conversation? How would you even pronounce it? They need to fix this before moving on to anything else.
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Hi All,

Jason spent a lot of time recently to make our Global Newsfeed pretty solid. We wrestle with the right balance between Google News (which we feel is not really updated for the social internet) and most popular news from social networks (which we feel lacks the right topical focus that one would expect from a global news frontpage).

We'd love to get feedback from the HN community. Read the post and follow the links to check out the global newsfeed and fill out the quick survey with your thoughts.
In what ways is a college loan a subsidy? ("by subsidizing investment in college education" ...) Who's doing the subsidizing?

Am I missing something?
I believe he would still keep is green card, I'm not sure though.

Also, if you worth more than 250K you can get in the US, and get a permanent resident visa (green card).

The only 'benefits' [1] of being an US citizen is, the social security money when you retire, and the right to vote.

With that being said, I'm about to start the process to become a citizen. I think everyone should do it if they can, since, you don't know what's gonna happen when we have an immigration hating president.

[1] Not sure if social security would have any funds when I, and Eduardo, retire. And, I don't think voting counts in this country.
Oh weird. Less than 24 hours after I first saw it from Twitter, the account was no longer active. Nice to see it's back!
This has been a growing trend for a number of years. Changes in the US tax code, US laws, and the way the US government interacts with foreign banks has made increasingly difficult for US citizens, particularly those with assets, to live outside the US even if they are perfectly happy to pay taxes. Not only are foreign banks no longer willing to deal with Americans living abroad but in some cases complying with the aggressive US laws are in conflict with the laws where the people actually live. Naturally this is very frustrating to people who live overseas or who are married to citizens of other countries.

The way the US deals with taxes for Americans living overseas is gross overreach any way you look at it and the increasing difficulty of being compliant with US laws applied to people living outside the country is driving this. No other industrialized country treats citizens living outside its borders in this way and this reflects negatively on the US.
Singapore in not an island.
What kind of people use G+?

Only times I visit is when linked, and it's often some OSS-guru who has written something there but I dont ever use it, nor does anyone I know, not even remotely.
That link is to the description of one of the permanent exhibitions at the Harry Ransom Center, Univ. of TX. Austin
Why not contact them and offer your expertise?