skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly dated, but interesting look at the JSTOR case against Swartz from someone who appears to understand the laws in play.
Tired of choosing to check your phone or look at your baby?
So basically

1: Study it

2: When you're lost, research and ask someone

?
Good points. But... why did Google kill Google Labs? Why not have a separate entity for basic research, like Bell Labs? There is no shortage of funding.

I do see a major difference between selling ads to advertisers (and organising the world's personal information for profit) and selling phone service(s) to customers, but maybe that's just my perspective - I've been using the telephone and the web much longer than most people working at Google - I've seen how things could be done differently.
I strongly agree. I became happier once I stopped following whatever mainstream news channels. I consume new things via social circles (no G+ pun intended), meaning there's a sifter of curators picking stuff for me. I'm aware of the fact that this can put you in some sort of tunnelvision, but you can prevent that by sticking your head out now and then to sniff something new.
You might need all that for good quality, but you can get an acceptable recording cheaply. (Minimum viable recording quality?)

That wasn't something trivial to do in ages past.
They added that afterwards
Alexis says it was between 10-20M: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/christine-lagorio/alexis-...

The same article says there were two original founders, and two later founders, which kind of tells me they didn't split that $10-20M evenly.

Even if it was all cash with no sort of vesting or earn-out, and Aaron got 10% (sounds about right for a non-true-founder), that would only be $1-2M, and that would be taxed down to six figures. All my financial speculation is based on what I find on the internet, though I have met Aaron a couple of times.
unless you lose your internet connection...
Why does everyone keep on investing in solar panels while this technology will surely be redundant in 5 years?
Sounds like some awful bit of technobabble from a Cory Doctorow novel... oh, no, wait.
All hand rendered icons are going to look much better hopefully this provides a good easy solution to developers with little time.
As a successful massive social network with engaged users Linked in makes me think what "engaged" truly means and how it can be measured. "X connected with Y. Z updated his profile." was all that comes out (I am a member since its first year) and now add to it some news. Linkedin seems to be club you went with all your ex/colleagues and ex/bosses. Since no one is drunk yet, no one dances or speaks.

The only valuable engagement seems to be clicking on a profile of someone. Knowing that he will see you doing this, is what stops me from clicking. Finally, people mostly pay for membership due to this instinct to see "who looked at me?".
How can one manage thousands of IF…THEN…ELSE rules?
I have no problem with organized labor as long as everyone has a free choices. Where things get sticky is when government chooses winners.

I disagree with the argument that teachers should get paid as much as software developers because some view them as having more worth to society. The market should decide what someone is worth.

The market isn't great and sometimes sucks big timetime, but it beats the ivory tower.
Security in a Serious Way - The Hacker News Magazine September 2012 Edition
Even in Nate Silver's analysis, Obama is at his apex coming out of the convention. There are 6 weeks to go, the election turns on 3-4 states, and Romney has tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to spend.

But the Internet told you that Obama's going to win, so as far as you're concerned, the election is over, and it's time to start playing games with it to make stupid points.
There is implicit context in every argument, which I made explicit in my previous comment. Arguing over the scope of the discussion instead of the substance is counterproductive to arriving at a meaningful conclusion. I bet you were loads of fun in your high school debate class.
I dont doubt you, but how often does that happen? I have a a2dp headset, a touchpad and a keyboard (all BT) and havn't experienced any issues.
Here are some of the top of my head, assuming you already read some:

- The New Capitalist Manifesto - Umar Haque

- Net Smart - Howard Rheingold

- Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
This is a really great book! And a real mind opener.

Even if you know about some areas already.
No, I don't expect altruism but I don't believe that Android (the full Google experience) is an open platform either. It's closer to Windows than Debian and licensees of the Google platform have to sign extensive and restrictive contracts.
I don't want a banana republic either. What my beef is with are teachers that make 60K plus, get 3 months off, have more stable job security than the private sector, get to spend time talking about interesting things like world wars in history class or Hemingway in english and then complain that they don't make as much as me, a software developer who spends chunks of my day on mundane tasks such as fixing 'Out of Memory' errors or 'Null Pointer' exceptions'. I do it for the money. They do it for different reasons. Comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges.
Thanks for the feedback Michael.

There is actually a very nice assignment feature built into the platform. Essentially what it allows a student to do is complete an assignment within the platform and then just hit submit. When submitted, the assignment goes into a queue within the same environment for the teacher to open up, grade and return to the student. All of this happens within one environment with no download or management of files.

Basically imagine if Microsoft word had a submit button for assignments, such that when you submit an assignment the teacher simply opens up word and the assignment would be there; ie there is no download or managing of multiple files.
I guess the question would then be how many of us are content to be listening to minimally viable recordings while the artists are largely unrewarded for their efforts. I'd rather demonstrate my support for their efforts in the hopes of getting good recordings.
I built one (from Ikea parts, inspired by a posting on ikeahackers) very recently.

I use it far too short a time (2 weeks now) to say whether it really helps, but it's definitely a change that makes me happy _so far_.

I feel more awake (no 'slumping'). I move a lot, walk in circles and just move away from the machine, when I feel I need to think about something.

Will I keep using it from now on? Only time will tell.. It _is_ definitely less comfortable than reclining in a good chair.. :)
4 hour work week, if it counts as non-fiction (there are quite a bit of bullshit in it, but it makes you think differently about things most people takes for granted).
Not doing read locking alone. Combine it with a planet-scale data storage system...
I disagree - I keep a 24 pack of bottle water by my desk, which helps me stay hydrated. I also have a few cups of tea per day, which I find pleasant and not distracting.

(Unless you mean alcohol, in which case I don't disagree, but it doesn't sound like you do.)
Funny, because I see him repeating, over and over, that the purpose is to set academic research free. It's called the "Open Access Manifesto" for crying out loud, not "Let's bankrupt JSTOR!"

And it's that idea that myself and other "retards" here are able to get behind, despite the fact that he broke the law to try to accomplish it, and will likely suffer consequences.
I think the real take-away is to give yourself an actionable/completable project, that you can devote significant blocks of time to, and then feel good when you complete them.
I was intending to imply that the massive dollar flow to these administrative costs is not proportional to the value provided. The cost for your friend to fly around was not in any way proportional to the price levied on the journal purchasers and users.

I am very interested to hear more about the activities "behind the curtain", because (being a junior academic at a teaching-oriented institution) I haven't had any interaction with a journal publisher that provided actual value beyond providing a website for me to submit my work, and a branded stamp to certify that my work was correct. In every case, I have had to submit a camera-ready final copy that was typeset by me and typo-checked by either me or the unpaid reviewers, and at no point has anyone approached me or anyone else I know asking us to publish our work in journal X as opposed to journal Y. As far as I know, to the degree anything I have ever written has been read at all, it's because I put the PDFs online myself (technically in violation of the copyright agreement, but a behavior that seems to be tacitly accepted in practice). Of course, even after people read the online PDFs (to the degree those papers get read at all), people cite the paper as if they read it in the paper journal or proceedings...
Ask HN: Motivational Curry to keep me up and going
I am a regular HN reader. For the sake of my startup , I have moved to a city where I don't know anyone and live alone to minimize distractions, have an 8 hour day job in an startup environment and work hard on my product at night.

I am not in Boston/SV and do not have much resource to network.
Could you please suggest some good links which would help me in 1. network 2. teach more about startups 3. keep me motivated, focussed and fresh for more work.
Agree. Cutting down on your caffein and alcohol helps so much. You don't notice once it's starting to affect your routines but once you quit it (even for a while) your body will feel so good again
For me, often just looking out of the window (we have a nice view on our office) helps a lot.
Only on a message board are these two dots hard to connect. Because after JSTOR's whole database is made public, people will continue to pay JSTOR because they're nice guys.
Dungeon master’s friends use crowdfunding to help pay for his brain surgery
Bingo, Rolandal
And much thanks goes out to Apple for using arbitrary sizes for their favicons. The web compatibility community must love it...
By claiming Android compatibility, it's claiming to be the same platform when it isn't. The fact that even people like you, presumably a technically savvy IT insider, can't tell and are easily confused over that point is exactly why Google picked this fight.

My first instinct was to post here jokes about how Android is open, but in a closed way. I'm generally speaking an iOS/Apple symapathist. Just check my posting history. But on reflection and investigation fo what's actually going on, I think Google are trying to do the right thing. They have no leverage over Alibaba directly though, so they're putting pressure on Acer. If Acer wanted to fork Android like B&N or Amazon then fine, but getting the benefits of their OHA commitments means meeting their responsibilities. Supporting a marketing parasite like Alibaba is a step too far.
Looks pretty neat - saving it as html file works great, but you can't print the docs (in Chrome print to pdf only shows a scroll bar, in FF it does not properly format).

Great work anyway - I'll have a deeper look.
Context is the new battleground between Android and iOS
Microsoft Patent: How to Silence your Device by whacking it off
Is Apple lost without Steve Jobs?
How Disney built a big data platform on a startup budget
Wow, I wonder how the graph looks for SpaceX employees? Somewhere in between I'm sure. It could give interesting insight into productivity and costs.

This is a really superb insight on measurable data we all have.
Harm? No, certainly not. But to make sure it's totally clear, she knew exactly what she was doing and had been trained in non-violent protest and civil disobedience at the Highlander Folk School.
+1 for the first book. Already read the other three.
Forward (http://getfwd.com) employs conventions like this between the template and model layers of an MVC style framework.

get("/accounts") // collection
get("/accounts", [limit => 10, page => 3]) // pagination
get("/accounts/email@address.com") // single record
get("/accounts/email@address.com/orders") // relations
get("/accounts/email@address.com/orders/10234/items/6/price") // deep relations
get("/accounts", [search => "john"]) // search
get("/accounts", [fields => "name, email"]) // partials
get("/accounts", [order => "name desc"]) // sorting
get("/accounts", [login => [...]]) // special conventions
post("/accounts", [alternate_email => $alt, ":validate" => [required => [alternate_email]]) // validation
put(...) // pretty much what you expect
delete(...) // same

The interesting thing about moving REST conventions to the model layer, is that you can suddenly create external facing APIs in various formats really easily. I'm hoping/expecting this will become a more common pattern.
DX's a bit expensive, my compromise is to read in landscape format on my standard size kindle.
I use one at home (so, 2-3 hours a day) and I quite like it. Get comfortable shoes, though; in my limited experience, they are crucial in how enjoyable the experience is.
Very cool, definitely an area where there needs to be lots of work done.

What is browser compatibility like? Is IE8 supported?

Edit: removed reference to HTML5/canvas, didn't see any in the source HTML.
You seem to have misunderstood what Google Labs was. It was not an organization doing basic research. It was (crappy) infrastructure for making neat little experiments available to the public without making them production quality.
Is typing comfortable with a standing desk? Every time I've used a computer at standing height, it's been a little uncomfortable, but they certainly weren't tailored to my height.
On the other hand if I'm in the target market then I know quite a lot. Since I'm just another wage zombie, I actually have an advantage over some people. Fitting the model means knowing the model.
Misleading title - the document is actually a patent application, it is not yet a patent.
The hardware in question costs only pennies, probably less than the shell of the bulb itself.
I would immediately purchase a DRM free PDF edition of this book, if such were available. I find that's the best format for easily moving between study sessions on my iPad and experimentation on my laptop (e.g. copying code snippets into a REPL or editor).

I've been using node.js since early 2010, but I find it helpful to read books written by a platform's expert developers, as they tend to provide insights and demonstrate helpful patterns of which I was previously unaware.

I'm not interested in buying (and won't buy) a printed copy or a DRM'd digital edition.
People don't press charges for lots of reasons. You are picking one and ignoring all the rest because it fits comfortably in your worldview.

it must be nice to put your mind on cruise control.
As I said before, different names results in different ideas. I haven't seen any software stating it's a FOSS software, I've only seen people who don't know the difference between Free Software and Open Software use the term. I don't think you are one of those but many are and that's why I hate the term "FOSS".
Try: Nietzsche. I think he lights fire to this debate pretty well. The issue at hand is about perspectivism, not relativism. And not Nihilism. All of that is boring. Like Continental philosophy.

Also, Like Nietzche, I don't always write to be understood, at least noy just by just anyone. You may need to do some work or have some training. But to those that know, it will make sense.

As a sidebar example: accurate/innacurate.

Think about this at the pixel level. It already is innacurate (its a square). Or with Jpeg compression, its also deleting information and replacing it (less accurate--like areas of information are simplified). And then, at another leve of abstraction consider something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_masking. You should read this, but the tl;dr is I can make an image "sharp" by ~blurring it. So, is that "more accurate" (can see it clear) or less accrurate (its more blurry?). I've just lost data. But I gained contrast. Wait, what?

So, there is a problem in continuing the discussion at this level without alot more work. Its a practical problem as well. One just need different mental frameworks to progress. Its just that simple. At the end, only then, can you come back and have a better understanding of "accurate" etc. But don't take my word for it -- that book is really good--and touches on all of this. And it is Rigorous. He's an Oxford man. Etc.

Of course, there is a reason it is a book and not a Hacker News Thread. =D
Reading a book in a sleeping position helps a lot. I usually fall asleep after 10 pages. You should try it.
This is a lot of the reason that I don't recommend that students use something like Devise right off the bat. Putting things in middlewares is pretty great for separation of concerns, but it's confusing as hell if you need to figure out how something is done, and it's nowhere to be found in your source.
Hm. I am not a LinkedIn user, but I was under the impression that LinkedIn is something like "Facebook for people that are looking for a job" and I have it, in my mind, connected with "boring serious business" issues. (I am a student with a really small income, but not currently looking for a job.)

Did LinkedIn somehow became a social sharing platform while I was not looking? When exactly?

How do you connect "a better kind of CV" (which I always thought is LI purpose) with social sharing?
"The Android ecosystem is generally more open than iOS, but now we see that it has its limits."

No, this is not about Android. Acer joined a "don't fork Android" club, and now Google told them that if they support a fork they have to leave the club.

Android remains completly free and open source.
I believe in myself.
"What right do I have to restrict your access to knowledge?"

17 USC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_17_of_the_United_States_C...

It's not a natural right, but that statement makes it sound like you're against copyright. If that is the case, I don't think many people agree with you.
The popularity of dimmer switches suggests that your tastes are far from universal. Also, Ikea has a range of color-adjustable LED lights, and they seem to fly off the shelves.
How do you pull racism out of an article that makes absolutely no mention of race?
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Damn I had my name down and was ready to go but got hammered with HW
You could always keep healthy snacks are your desk. Right now I'm munching on some plain, unsalted almonds that I keep right next to me, along with some fruit and other healthy things. Let's me keep going without thinking about being hungry.
Les gammes d'iTouch et d'iPod Nano évoluent elles aussi
Chicago here. Devops/Sysadmin/Developer (.Net, Ruby, Python). I've been able to name my price for the last 3 years ($130K/year+), and still get opportunities several times a week from both recruiters and businesses direct.
> My point is that regardless of the cost, if we don't reward artists for making recordings, despite their great value to us, why should they bother with the effort to make them?

Lots of people have always started bands, and relatively few of them have made a living at it, never mind gotten rich. Sure some people pursue music because they want to be rich rock stars, but lots of people make music because they like making music.

In earlier days, it was easy to play live (and not make much money), but expensive to record anything, much less get that recording out to people. Nowadays, it's very affordable to record things as well, and trivial to upload to YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. Of course, the chance that more than a vanishingly small number of people will listen to your recording is still extremely low, but the barrier is notoriety, not the means of production and publishing.

And yeah, part of the rise of electronic music is because it has the lowest barrier to getting started and making your music -- just like the rise of guitar bands came partially because it was inexpensive to put together a small rock group relative to some other kinds of music, and the rise of hip hop came partially because even poor kids had access to two turntables and a microphone.
What are the issues with drinking things at your desk?
You really need one customized for you. It's probably worse to have a misconfigured standing desk than it is to have a correctly configured sitting desk.

I use this one that I built for $22: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...

Love it. Use it every day at work, and days when I have to sit all day (Traveling, in meetings, whatever)... I feel AWFUL at the end of the day.
The "hashing trick" implemented in open-source gensim
Canada’s broadband caps ‘almost a human rights violation’ says Netflix exec
You're missing out! Go to PennApps and do your homework :P
Glad you followed through with it. Here are some neat features to have:

1. How about drag and drop?

2. A simple download of the zip file I think will work better than the Apache directory listing.

3. Wouldn't worry too much about storing the files for a week. Just let it be a one off process.

4. Check the dimensions before you generate. Mention the fact that the image should be square.

Thanks a bunch for this tool!
Ask HN: very qualified but can't find a decent job. What do I do wrong?
(using a throwaway account)

I'm in the middle of a very painful job search in London and here for help. My background is Java, I used it for 10 years in a very latency- and performance-critical environments, so I can say I'm very familiar with the nuts and bolts of language and the JVM. As any HN oldie, I know that just doing your job is not often enough, so in parallel I launched my own iPhone app (which as of today grew to 20 KLOC of C and Objective-C) that was covered by major news outlets and featured by Apple themselves in the Education category. I'm very proud of the work I've done. I can do Python (wrote a Twisted-based backend for collaborative app) and Haskell (when asked, can code on a whiteboard). I did Andrew Ng's course online last year. I REALLY can deliver.

At the moment, I work for a major bank in a position that drives me nuts. Everything about this job is wrong but most important is that I don't feel that I use my skills at all. I started my job hunt this spring, applied to all attractive companies I know of in London and pinged every available contact in my network.

The results were underwhelming. Google UK rejected me after an on-site interview. Twitter UK were hiring for a very relevant position but listed Scala as a requirement — I wrote a small RE matcher in Scala in a few hours and sent the code and my resume directly to their engineering manager whose contact I got from my network. No reply. Facebook UK and Amazon UK didn't want to even do a screening interview with me. 90% of other companies didn't bother replying. As a net result I got one offer from a startup I liked but refused it because I didn't feel we're on the same wavelength with the founder who interviewed me.

I'm pretty desperate at this moment and feel that I'm doing something wrong. If you're running a cool software company, what do you think a senior guy from a major bank must write in his resume to stop you from shredding it on the spot? Thank you for any advice.
Hetzner hands down.
if there's no tech/startup meetup for your city, then start one. That's what we did in St. Louis -

http://meetup.com/startlouis

http://meetup.com/codeuntildawn-stlouis

http://stljs.org

Pick the topic you're most passionate about (or that would bring the types of people you want to meet) and make it happen. Pretty soon, they become friends. Pure motivational curry

Also - listen to the Lifestyle Business Podcast and This Week in Startups, and read the 4HWW at least once a year. My 2 cents
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