skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard a number of times of people starting "open access" peer-reviewed journals for various fields. The persistence of journals that demand permanent exclusive rights means either those fields are still waiting for some enterprising person to do the heavy work to create the new journal (and manage its reputation), or that the old-fashioned journals are still providing some value that the new guys can't replicate.

Even Nature, one of the most awesome-est journals in the world, demands certain restrictions, like not publishing in another journal. They don't want to do all the work of vetting the article only to find out that it's also in Joe's Fishing And Particle Physics Papers.
I'm not sure I want to live in a society where reading too many academic papers too fast is a multi-felony. "Swartz’s program was so powerful…"
I saw a news story about a similar invention, but it had a buzzer in each shoe, and could help blind people know when to make a turn to get to their destination.
Before, I would never consider moving to Android after having used the iPhone since it came out and invested a reasonable amount of money in iOS Apps. Now, I'm considering a switch as for me, the maps app was one of the most useful things on the phone for finding my way once I had become lost, out on my bike.

Apple really has done a bad job on the maps for my area just north of London in the UK. Towns are mislabelled, villages will have their label shown while zoomed out, while larger towns won't be labeled at all on any zoom level.

Google may do well to hold out on making their maps accessible iOS6 to try and bring current previous generation iPhone users over to their operating system and its devices.
Ever heard of Operation Fastlink, Buccaneer, Site down, etc... The BSA, MPAA and the RIAA's of America have been doing this for years.
It sounds like the patent in question is describing the system and transactions of a basic chat program. If Motorola just applied for this patent in 2001 and granted in 2006, it seems a little behind the times. Isn't this the same system any IRC like system would use?
Harnessing Serendipity for Profit and Fun
So if I purchase some songs from this store (e.g. someone gives me iTunes credit as a gift) I can still play them without iTunes? I don't need iTunes installed anywhere?
Show HN: XPaF, a declarative HTML parsing framework
Tell HN: I will sell your product/service for free
I am a college senior who has a somewhat extensive business development/sales background for my age. I am interested in building my resume even more as I plan on relocating to the Bay Area after graduation. Here is what I'm interested in doing:

- I will sell your product or service on a commission-only basis (no upfront fees or anything).

- I'm interested in B2B, but I'd consider B2C if it was the right circumstance

- I'm looking to help a product that's already has a history of being sold (I don't want to help validate a new product that's never sold).

- Allow me to study your product for a week or so before I get going and be willing to answer any questions I have.

The prospects of your product need to have been closed via phone or e-mail (I can't do in person demonstrations). I can send you my resume if you'd like to see it. Also, please let me know what percent commission you'd be willing to offer. Check for my e-mail under my name.

Thank You.
Surfcave - Chrome plugin that makes every image you browse public
I think Amazon one-upped Apple on the maps front by licensing Navteq's maps (now owned by Nokia) for the Kindle tablets and wrapping a nice API around them for developers.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/18/amazon_google_map_bm...

Navteq's maps are way better than TomTom's. One of my friends had a TomTom GPS a few years ago and it was terrible, like once taking us around in circles for a restaurant and showing it was three miles away, when we could see it across the street a few hundred feet away. He had such bad experiences with it that he would borrow our Garmins and finally switched to Garmin a year ago. I just assumed that TomTom was Europe based so had much better coverage there and pretty horrible maps in the US.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/375415/how-satnav-maps-are-m...

If I were Google, I would release a very polished maps app for iOS for $10 with ads, but they might be just content with some people picking Android phones just because the builtin maps experience and turn by turn voice directions is really good.
Here's a previous discussion on HN. It begins with a summary of what's already going on with open access to academic papers -- a lot has already happened, far more than many people are aware!:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3174407
Not all tech ventures rely on bits alone. There are a fair number of tech products that are physical, too.
German Government warns citizens not to use Internet Explorer
No idea why I got down voted. I am both a designer and a developer and I feel I have some credibility when I say, design and development are completely different.
I mean, in that regard I hope she's right. I hope that Apple brings Google Maps some serious competition and obviously, for my iOS breathren, I hope that their maps experience continues to be enhanced.

But we all know that, right? Maybe this was just a response to "iOS Maps sux. Apple sux." type comments? I'm not sure. It's hard for me to believe how polar peoples' opinions still are on iOS and Android to have to have these silly conversations.
Yet stealing a bar of chocolate from your corner shop is not a federal crime.

Additionally if you hack a site and copy all their data but don't do anything with it, is that now not a federal crime because you have not benefited materially from it?
Galaxy from the dawn of time hints at many more to be discovered
Samsung’s latest Facebook marketing campaign overrun by Apple fans
Your complaint is with the third party providers. Stripe's charge method does what it says on the tin: it charges the card. If your third party integration software doesn't expose a method to create and validate the customer data (which the Stripe API supports) prior to making the charge, ask them to fully support Stripe's API or provide you with a configurable option for what to do when the CVC/AVS checks fail.
Google maps with Zagat and turn by turn could be a valuable product offer. It would be interesting to see if in the us, Google could get $5-10/per head X% of I-phones sold. The issue, for them, though is opportunity cost: how much revenue is lost from books not sold, or Android devices not adopted, etc.
Review: Apple’s new Find Friends app adds push notifications for locations
Haha yes.

This is the code add it at the end of your prompt:

function thunder() {
echo "%(?,%{$fg_bold[grey]%}⚡%{$reset_color%},%{$fg_bold[yellow]%}⚡%{$reset_color%})"
}
Updating to 10.8.2 has broken virtualbox for me. The error I'm getting is: "VT-x is being used by another hypervisor". I'd be careful updating if you use virtualbox for development.
How well does peer review work?
not necessarily. Cold calling works rather well, in most products. The sales process is definitely long (several months), but it does work...
(my first company was a B2B for companies with 50+ employees and we didn't know anyone in the industry)

That said, knowing someone definitely helps. A LOT.
Rackspace hands OpenStack over to independent foundation
Label and Literal Control - ASP. NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 Course - Lesson 2
Workout at a gym is not really comparable to a bike ride.

You're right; I get a better workout biking home against the wind than I do on the step mill!
So did anyone else think of Right Said Fred's song when they read this?

Not often but it happens that I disagree with the question itself. What is 'sexy' anyway? I don't want to mate with my job, I don't think anyone does, but I enjoy my job immensely. I enjoy it because it challenges me in a dozen different ways and I'm constantly provided opportunities to learn new stuff or explore new systems. My job is fun and rewarding. Nothing in my job involves sex, the sex trade (well I suppose we work on keeping porn results out of regular searches), or my mating instinct.

Fundamentally operations is like plumbing, you find problems you fix them, you clean up the mess. But that is like saying being an aircraft pilot is just driving from point A to point B.

If you have to ask "Is this a sexy job?" then you are asking the wrong question, you should be saying "Is there anything else I'd rather be doing?" And if that answer is yes then I encourage you to go do that other thing and be even happier than you are right now.
> When somebody says a language is 'slow' they mean on typical hardware, under some common operating system, using the implementations available

So when somebody says a language is "slow", it's as when somebody says a language is "weakly typed", he picks arbitrary and unspecified parameters fitting what he wants the result to be, and then declares he was right?

> Everybody knows this.

Yes, just as everybody knows what "weakly typed" is (it's just completely different from one person to the next).

> You're dissembling

That word. I'm not sure it means what you think it does.

> because your favorite language is slow.

Not even sure where that one comes from.
> I've seen simple cases where a function returned a signed integer value modulo x. Which of course means that this function can only return a value within 0..x-1.

Actually, signed modulo can return negative numbers... See, for example, this StackOverflow question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7594508/modulo-operator-w...
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I'm thinking it goes something like this: Let's assume Apple's map quality is more or less resolved within the near future and put it aside. What can they do with total control over a POI+venue database?

-- They can generate statistics on who's searching for what, when, and where from and sell that off or give it away free to venue operators.

-- They can link custom Apps and content to a venue. (Welcome to the Museum! Tap here to download a free tour guide.") They can link .passbook offers directly on-map. ("Tap here for a discount on entry, today only!")

-- They can sell off preferential search results, preferential ratings, or retargeted advertising like Google and Yelp do.

-- They can do the opposite of that and proclaim that their maps and venue listings are of unimpeachable quality without gamed results

-- They can create a meta-venue datatype through Apple Connect that allows authorized entities to quickly whip up appealing micro-sites for their venues "Drop your menu .PDF here"

-- They can do anything they want with in-venue navigation, which is going to be massive now that the interior mapping tools are coming onto the market

With all this done:

-- They can API-ize this and create mini-sites or mini-apps wrapped in Yelp-y context that replace the entire idea of how you interact with a venue. For instance: "Thai Bistro" is now an App that tells you exactly what's going on with your favorite joint without consulting twitter, facebook, a webpage, and a mapping service.

In short, with this map platform they can now own the total experience of -leaving the house-. Google is years ahead of them on this, and it's unlikely Google's willing to share their advances with their frenemy.

Maps are foundational to representing the state of the civilization around you. It's the Webkit for Real World Experiences.
Twitch is a great product and their app on android has come a long way. It is amazing that I can watch someone play my favorite game at 720p on my phone.
Huh? All those statements are in the original indictment.

"Swartz contrived to ... break into a restricted computer wiring closet at MIT;"

"Swartz connected the Acer computer to MIT's computer network"

"JSTOR blocked the computer's access to its network by refusing communications from the computer's assigned IP address. ... Swartz obtained for his computer a new IP address on the MIT network ... and began again to download an extraordinary volume of articles from JSTOR."

(Sorry for typos, I have a PDF of the indictment that is images)
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on fitness/exercise?
I just came back from a walk outside and something caught my attention: how many overweight people there are.

Several overweight people I know care about their health, and would love to be in better shape, but aren't.

Most of them reason that losing weight is hard, and keeping it off is even harder.

I think part of the reason why it's hard is because it feels like work.

Why isn't working out fun?

A hard problem to solve, shared by millions of people...

Perhaps there's a startup idea in there somewhere?
Is it really so hard to understand that it hasn't been called the language shootout for over 5 years - and you are promoting "the same sort of (misinformed) tribalism-by-language" by talking about it in those terms?

My guess is that your mistaken view of what the benchmarks game promotes reflects a lack of familiarity with what the website says about itself on the homepage and the Help page and the Conclusions page and ...
Whenever I think it is finally time to ditch my Blackberry and get an android/iphone I see something like this and it makes me change my mind. I would really enjoy a lot of the features that the iphone/android have but for the most part I really only use my phone for calls, emails and light web surfing.

Please tell me that Android has a similar feature?
Ramen-Monitoring Requests from 250 Million Mobile Devices
Why don't more startups target the enterprise?
Un-Web 2.0
Picking the right typeface is hard, never mind pairing fonts or crafting typographic details.

You should try out http://beta.typecastapp.com — a tool for experimenting with type. It lets you visually compare web fonts from Typekit, Fonts.com, Google Web Fonta then export your work as HTML & CSS (disclaimer: sorry for the shameless plug. I'm one of the Typecast team).
I wouldn't feel confident writing something that might not necessarily do exactly what it said on the tin for everyone reading it.

In that case you'd never write it. The discussion isn't over some magic book of spells here.

It's about an honest product offer that with a modest amount of work the reader will move from point A to point B. Now you as writer could promise to refund the reader's money if it didn't work out, whether because the work was too much or the results didn't materialize.

That way everyone wins.
OS X 10.8.2: Adds an option to discard the changes in the original document when choosing Save As

Glad to see Apple finally address this issue!

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339609

Edit: the problem with color profile on SSD drive with FileVault enabled[1] seems fixed also.

[1]: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1401741
A word I made up.
Vast majority of the companies above make products for developers/designers, and that is not a coincidence. Developers/designers live on the web, seek and find solutions themselves.
Rest of the enterprise market is quite different and much harder to reach, hence drastically higher customer acquisition costs.
6 year old image host goes free again (nsfw)
Darpa Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision
> What's really wretched in this release is what they've done to the App Store.

The appstore has always been web-based. You could really feel it on a slow connection (e.g. Edge), because the UI itself (not just the content) would take ages to display and sometimes fail to render altogether.
I can't see it becoming a main machine for me as-is. CrOS's laser focus on "the cloud" makes it extremely well suited for remote-centric work; if you can't commit 100% to doing everything from browser windows and remote terminals, you'll be happier with a more standard PC. For me, it's perfect as a backup but I'm too much of a control freak to be wholly reliant on a remote server.
Yeah it is old, you can check the article date.
My days are better when I remember to check xkcd.
Keep up the good work, Nathan. I presented Storm as a tech-talk at Formspring and no question, you made my job easy by building a platform that makes it easy to get a topology running without a ton of boilerplate.
Carmack himself adressed your second point pretty well in another post:

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programm...
You need iTunes to buy (i.e. you can only access the Store using the iTunes app, not a web browser), but what you get is a completely standard AAC-encoded file without any DRM. I think pretty much any audio player available today can play that (as well as any mobile OS). Just drag the files in your library to your desktop or browse your iTunes folder to find them. After that you can uninstall iTunes and never need to see it again.

iTunes does embed your Apple ID (you need to sign up and get one to redeem your gift card, though you do not need to enter any credit card info or the like) and purchase date as well as time as metadata in the file, but that information is easily removed. There are no watermarks.
Hard to tell. Though ultimately I feel like their code quality HAS gone down lately. But the fact that the maps are not as polished seems more like possibly an issue where they didn't have enough time.

It's not clear who terminated the deal with Google Maps. Apple's must get better, more of a question as to whether Apple will put the capital behind it to make it happen fast.
You now have an account/address with 1010 bitcoins in it. The system you have just proposed tags your address as hot.
What happens next?

Then, as with every criminal investigation, you follow up that lead. Not all Bitcoin addresses will be resolveable to a person in an area where you have LEO authority, but I'm fairly confident that eventually it'll happen and you start tracking back up the chain.

I didn't say the solution was entirely technical--I've said more than once that nerds who default to "computers can solve every problem" are wrong. It does still involve old-fashioned detective work. And you're not going to solve every case. But Bitcoin gives you a lot of clues.
There was a case where a company successfully got an injunction against a scraper that got pricing data, arguing that the scraper violated the federal unauthorized access statute. http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/EF_Cultural_Travel_v._Explorica

This is an area of law that is evolving rapidly so there may be other cases that supersede that one.
Anything that claims there are only X ways of doing something will always have somebody come along and +1 it with a new approach.

I'd also say that anybody setting out to make a 100m company is somebody who has already made a sucessful company already. But software is the new music thesedays as how whats the most a single application has sold for compared to what the best single song has made and I'm thinking Instagram even compared to tbe beatles on a app compared to one of there great songs will still win.

I will also correct the title for programmers and say:
"There are only 10 ways to build a $100m business, FF if you include exceptions"
Nokia Lumia 920: Specifications And Features Quick Look.
Unless I'm terribly mistaken, ALL apple stores (iTunes music, iOS App, Mac App, iBooks) on all platforms (Mac, WIndows, iOS) have always been web views. Every single one of them. Ever since 2002 when iTunes was launched.

And my experience in the past few months (iPad 2, iOS 6 beta) was that the store is not slow at all, so don't worry!
Nice to see this. I started trying to implement storm towards the beginning of this year since it seems like something I've wanted/reimplemented partially so many times and just found it to be so time consuming trying to get good resources or find a community for misc support that I gave up and reimplemented simple parts of it as I needed to.

I'm off the buy the books and bookmark this page for future reference. Great work Nathan.
That one is not that bad, I just take it to mean a humble start can become a fantastic product.

Now this one on the other hand, I can't figure out the state of mind leading to writing it and releasing that to the world:

> What’s missing from this conversation is that map usage is critical. […] Google’s maps are going to start degrading. Apple’s will get better. They’ll meet in the middle within 18 months.
Was referring to "Install...to avoid IP based restrictions"
If a restaurant had a 'terms of service' that said no reselling of food that they make, should you be open to federal prosecution if you stopped by to pick up food for yourself and some co-workers? Especially if someone gave you a few dollars for the trouble of running the errand? And even more, if the restaurant has their own delivery service?

Am I missing an important distinction here? Should private companies be able to make binding rules that open people up to criminal prosecution for something that doesn't violate any laws per se? A person breaking a specific law AND breaking a ToS makes sense. A person breaking a law BY breaking a ToS doesn't make sense.
Show HN: Screenleap launches simple API for adding screen sharing to your site
Yeah, these interaction features make the OS much more usable for sure, but their obscurity isn't doing Apple any favors.
Sometimes a single downvote is just someone mis-tapping while scrolling on a touchscreen. At any rate, your post is not gray right now.
I updated my 3GS to use iOS5 when it came out, and my phone has been horrendously slow. Even just scrolling from the home screen to the search bar(all the way to the left) would result in a 10-second delay, and sometimes the whole phone seems to stall when I click a text field to bring up the keyboard.

Did anyone else have a similar experience? Is it better on iOS6?
My personal opinion is that video game playthoughs are probably going to be incredibly disruptive to TV & Radio. In terms of cheap but good quality entertainment very little else can compete.
Monitoring cache with Claspin
A super-clean interface for a blog-Article.
Agreed. I think this problem spills over into Google's webapps as well.
App lets you monitor lung health using only a smartphone
Makerbot announces new 3D printer: Replicator 2
I don't get this. How do you handle POST/PUT/DELETE requests with files? It doesn't say much about it in the README.
I love these glimpses of the future. I'm far to visual and need more applications then what's available on iPad now, but I'd love to work like this too.
NASA has a Chief Scientist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Chief_Scientist

You say "Nobody does 'science' in general", but you are wrong. Many people work at organizations that have a broad range of scientific pursuits in a broad range of fields of study. The Chief Scientist's job is "ensuring that [the organization's] research programs are widely regarded as scientifically and technologically well founded and are appropriate for their intended applications".
E-sports really are an interesting space.

International tournaments with $1+ million grand prizes are nothing to shug at. Couple that with the fact that anyone can play anyone else in the world practically instantaneously and that more and more people are playing video games recreationally every day.

They might not be the Premier League or the NFL, but South Korean Starcraft is certainly not far off.
What's the flap, Jack? Breakfast and Java(script) Smackdown
Thoughtstream is cool. But it needs atleast a 30-day evaluation for me to get a sense of how easy it would me to use.

But perhaps even take the idea further. How about the ability to create up to 30 thought streams for free. Anyone who has created that much will see its value and will want to pay?
It's showing up in the Mac App Store now for me.