skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have often thought about doing something similar to this. Basically, you publish a signed version of your paper on your own website, and then other scientists can sign it with notes. It would be kind of like a "Facebook like" system. (By "sign", I mean a cryptographic signature.)

"82 PhD scientists have reviewed this paper, including 3 people in your close network and 2 more people from your extended network." ...or something like that.

You could do a network-graph search. Start with some professors that you trust, and some keywords that you're interested in and start walking the graph from there.

I don't know what the profit motive would be for someone to build this though. Nor the motive for individual reviewers to carefully review someone's paper and provide detailed useful feedback...
This is the big reason why high-speed rail in CA is a terrible idea and destined to become an expensive white elephant. Driverless cars will start to become available just about the time that the rail line is complete, after the inevitable lawsuits, engineering problems, and construction delays. Why would I buy a train ticket to LA and then deal with getting from the train station to my final destination when my car can drive me directly door to door?
I find that positive attitudes towards FTP often seem to correlate with positive feelings towards Telnet, and both seem to correlate with "Not really that comfortable with Nix"*.

The number of times I have had to correct tech-ish friends when they talk about "telnet-ing" into servers is frightening. All of them were relatively technology literate but either didn't do it for a living or got into doing it for a living "by accident". Think your physics major buddy who has only ever used windows on any computer that he owns.

You put people like that in the position to make a call, and I assure you you'll have an FTP server running somewhere in 5 minutes flat.
You also didn't make any comments about the post, is this what you were talking about with the slippery slope?
There are also a number of other tests in the article, this page just happened to be the first hit when I searched for it. Overall improvements are around 2x.
I agree, by looking at the percentage already funded, I think it has to the potential to follow Snuggie's success. Infact, I found Snuggie to be a ridiculous invention when it first came out and have good doubts about its success. Well, its just a blanket with sleeves, who wouldn't see that through! right? but boy was I wrong. It even made it to the people's top holiday shopping list. So when I have a chance I snagged the misspelled variation of its domain http://www.snugies.com when it expired from a domain squatter and did it referral redirect to the product page on Amazon.
video!!! ;)
Range-based for loop on a int range? Enumerate
I don't care how ridiculous it looks, I think this is an amazing idea. I do not do well in public places and have to find a way to detach every once in awhile or I gradually get more and more irritated. This pillow is a godsend.
The next $75 I get is going straight to this.
That's not the tent.is site.
yeah having both work together would be awesome
A mother quitting her job for five years finding her son randomly is not providing an example about productive public service announcements.
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Nope, because if you pay the $450 extra up front, you have the handset and no phone service. People underestimate the cost of providing good phone coverage - in the past year Vodafone (AU) spent $1 billion upgrading their network, which only really covers the 15 biggest cities in Australia, and their coverage and data speeds are still trash.
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This with an inflatable cheese wedge pillow would be the best thing on flights.

Something like this:

http://www.travelersjoy.com/images/item_images/archive/00000...

Leaning forward on flights like that is my favorite flight sleeping position.
You sound like a perfect actor for their next infomercial.
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People need to understand this and often don't. If you're interested in the research behind the environmental friendliness and economic importance of density, see Edward Glaeser's book The Triumph of the City: http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Health...
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My suggestion as a UI/UX guy: Refine the call-to-action buttons by assigning them a different color. Black is not really an attention seeker. I would suggest something like a bright Green or pale Blue for the buttons (for the Sign up buttons on the top and the bottom). Hopefully this will improve your conversion rate.

Just these, otherwise excellent. Keep it up guys!
The only website I saw that does not run on iPad in year 2012... Video requires flash, links doesn't work...
I actually quite enjoy using Microsoft's Grid proposal. I built a WinRT app with it before realizing it's not a well-supported CSS box model.
I look at it as another step towards s/street/everything in street view. It needs work, sure, but it's good to see they're expanding.
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Yes, I meant bugs arising from poor use of localStorage.
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Relevant article - Myths about static analysis. The second myth - expert developers do not make silly mistakes - http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0116/
I agree with the generalization - the odds are higher that a first-time, somewhat-poor founder will be tempted by a 7-figure exit that doesn't help the VC, than someone with 5M in the bank.

On the other hand, I think start-up founders are, as a group, more risk-tolerant than almost any white collar worker in America, and there are plenty of us who will never give up on a good company as long as it's growing.

As for me, I've never wanted the money to play with, I just wanted into the bigger game. Give me 5M, and I'm just going to put it back into play. I want to make spaceships and robot cars and other wonders I can't afford to try right now.
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YouTube (and Jasmine - a youtube client for the iPad) also go through the same thing.

I thought this issue was sorted out an year ago when apparently any app that embedded a UIWebView and a location bar was deemed unsafe. I was under the impression that Apple fixed that.
No, I don't. This kind of argument is commonly advanced, but it neglects the opportunity cost of over-saturation causing people not to pay attention or care. This is the lesson of the fable about the boy who cried wolf. Noise ends up swamping the signal.

When I notice the 'missing kids' thing on the weekly coupons that show up in my mailbox, as often as not it's some kid that disappeared 10, 15, 25 years ago. That's sad, of course, but as a practical matter it's making things worse.
Right, that will help us confirm or deny this rumor.
I think it's important to map our (in the Global sense) undersea conditions over time. We hear a great deal about Global Warming - yet it's only the timelapse satellite imagery that concretes it for dismissive minds.

The same can be said for coral reefs, rivers, etc. 'Coral bleaching' is a real problem and reflective of global weather events.

Regarding #2 - In a more idealistic vision of 'Underwater Google Maps', the Voyager Project [1] made an interesting plea to Google to do something similar and provide HD video feeds from UAVs [2].

[1] http://www.underseavoyagerproject.org/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4iDQsXIi3I

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Edit - Additionally, existing 'undersea documentaries' tend towards visual hyperbole (ooh a yellow fish, damn sharks are scary, etc) - rarely exploring the topography of the ecosystem they're covering. Being able to wander aimlessly underwater may prove more valuable to a student's imagination and provide a more lasting feel for far flung places and culture (or the life of a crab) - as apposed to from a TV, the deck of a cruise ship, or a car window.
Being able to control where you go and what you look at has some appeal. This certainly isnt a replacement of a underwater documentary, but it offers an alternative way to experience the reef.

If they had denser panorama coverage it would be better. I agree that this isn't the most usable Street View.
Someone I know runs a startup which just got an acquisition offer which would have given him $5-7m, a few years out of college with the acquirer was paying 1.1x their current valuation. He chose to turn it down since he thought his investors (one of the top few firms around) would find him unfundable for future startups. Instead he's choosing to 'swing for the fences', something which may or may not work given their current momentum.

Several lessons in there, including not raising at too high a valuation that limits your exit options.
There are security issues with this approach. However, I wouldn't mind if a site offers both traditional login and email based login. Then, I, as a user can choose which is the most appropriate.
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I backed the project and I kind of agree that the armholes are kind of unnecessary because that's not the most ergonomic way to use it, at least for me. However that doesn't preclude using it the way I plan on using it, which is arms crossed on the table in front of me outside the ostrich pillow with my head in the pillow resting on top of my crossed arms. That's perfectly ergonomic and a position I've slept in multiple times.

This project is particularly interesting to me because I'm not physically able to sleep reclining or on my back because I snore so loudly and with such vigor that my uvula swells up to the point that I can partially swallow it into my throat. I welcome anything that makes sleeping face down, but still breathe. I also see this useful on those cold winter nights where you want to keep you head warm as well when in bed.

This is one of those project that either makes total sense to you or doesn't. For me, it'll be a godsend. There are tons of times I've wanted something like this, looking like a goofball be damned.

The pillow reduces not only light but sound too, while allowing you to breathe. This is already better than most other sleep aids for sleeping in public such as eye masks.
VCs should expect and build in at least two "money problem" liquidation events. The first, smallest is to give the founders enough to buy a house. The second, if they really believe a billion dollar exit is on the cards is to hand founders millionaire status, and all their early employees a house.

People aren't fools. At twenty years old anyone can live on Ramen and dreams. At thirty ensuring your wife and baby have a roof puts stress on a founder that will easily out weigh almost anything competitors can do.

If VCs want big returns, pony up halfway through, or lose.

Call it mid-air refuelling.
I blogged about that: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/14127327004/googl...
It's a union thing. In NYC, the L service is completely automated, but the union won't let trains run without two crew members. It was apparently hard enough to get the union to allow the G line (the least popular line that only runs half-size trains every 20 minutes) to run one-person operation on the weekends!

(Though if you don't need drivers, why do you care about the union? I guess the problem is that it will take maybe 50 years to convert the other lines to automatic operation. And you still need someone on the train to answer rider questions and handle medical/police issues.)
In that case I'd say changing print would belong to the "trivial" end of the scale. Print function was backported to Python 2.6, so you can easily write code that is compatible with both. And modifying existing code is so trivial that even an automated tool (2to3) can do it reliably.
We used it to read bar codes from connected barcode scanners. It worked fine since 2004 but with all the security issues around, I developed another solution this summer which doesn't rely on Java.

Of course in the Enterprise where about 50% of our end-users are, it's still easier to tell them that they should install Java rather than something they don't know.

Which leads to us having to support both methods.
They all committed suicide with cloth bags over their heads. It's an extremely creepy sight and I won't be linking to the photos for many obvious reasons, but...they look just like they're all wearing this product.
It _is_ GitHub.
you could load up an HD video on YouTube of the Great Barrier Reef

You can't control a video to see what you want to. You have some control with this underwater Street View. It's the same reason why I find Street View much more valuable than watching videos on YouTube of people driving.
It says github.com is one of the sites helping. But the 404 page is still showing the jedi octocat. Is the force not strong enough with me?
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We might differ in our definition of "skyscraper" but most of the densest US cities (NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston) have lots of high-rise residential housing (300+ feet). In my neighborhood here in Chicago nearly all the skyscrapers are residential.

High-rises do not have to be at odds with walkable streets or a sense of community. High-density residential housing can more easily support neighborhood shops and restaurants. People meet each other in their building gyms. Kids can have friends in the same building and visit them without needing to be escorted.
True. A job title that isn't foisted on you isn't as bad, although it's a label you're applying to yourself. A silly job title you make up is harmless.

The danger for people that do one thing for 8+ hours a day is that they specialise too much. Their comfort zone will reduce to match exactly what they're doing and they'll stop learning. A good team lead or PM will keep switching their tasks around and keep stretching them.
What's sad, though, is that are there roads (and parking lots) in those places... The streetviews just sort of rub it in. :(

A backpack-cam, on the other hand would be great, and give a much truer sense of what it's like to be out there in the middle of nowhere.
This one does: http://notfound.org/somepagethatdoesntexist
I hope that in a thousand years we don't commute at all.
"For a New Liberty" by Murray Rothbard and "The Machinery Of Freedom" by David D. Friedman.
Super-tall skyscrapers don't make much sense with existing technology, but there is plenty of residential skyscraper development in the US. My neighborhood here in Chicago has several under construction right now.

I'm not really sure why you'd build anything other than skyscrapers. They're extremely efficient, and high-density development saves a lot of money on road construction.
Unless there are several of them, queuing them before cueing them is probably unnecessary. ;)
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Do you have a link? (thanks!)
"..I just wanted into the bigger game. Give me 5M, and I'm just going to put it back into play."

Yes
It's a pity his ambitions don't embrace even a hint of design thinking or aesthetic virtue. Seriously, they're butt ugly. Just phallic boxes that describe an obsession with size and haste that seems to have trumped even the most basic functional considerations for a building.

I can't help but think his promotional material might read suspiciously like the spam in my inbox: 'Big erections, FAST!'
I think there's another factor in play in a place like China. Many of these new car owners probably grew up with cars being an unattainable luxury - now, suddenly, they can actually just own one. I can't blame such people for jumping on the opportunity, practicality be damned.
Maybe your driveway is replaced by a compartment container. Maybe (certain kinds of) cars will be able to automatically load the compartments. Or maybe you're completely right.
Whoa. Ok yeah that is seriously fast. This is the first I've heard of it -- if anyone cares to comment, I'd be really interested to hear what the limitations of pjax are. As used in this application anyway it's pretty impressive.
That's true, but it's probably a temporary measure (a decade or so?). And even with a backup driver, automated cars have the potential of vastly decreasing traffic jams.
I'm glad theres at least one entrepreneur whose denting the universe versus profits, Musk for president.
Sure you can, here's an example.

http://www.nimmobay.com/media/360-video/360-video-nimmo-bay-...

Attach one of those to a diver at popular destinations. On Google maps, show a little video icon. Click the icon, watch, and look around as they swim the location. It's now easier to navigate, and gives you a better representation of snorkelling or diving in that area.
I'm writing a distributed DBMS based on immutable data. I have a different way of providing fast realtime arbitrary querying of all data and it's much simpler. You just cache intermediate results.

For example, if you want to know the sum of the elements in a tree, but you've already calculated the sum of the elements of another tree that differs on only one path, then you won't need to do much work, you can use the precomputed work for most of the tree and just perform calculations for the parts that are different.
I believe eBay was a similar situation: they took ~$7mil venture money in 1997 but never actually needed it.
Negativity appears to be the default response to bold new things on HN. Ironic really, for a site run by an incubator for bold new things.

Personally I'm liking Tent a lot. It appears to be the exact social networking application I've occasionally daydreamed about for the last few years, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Hopefully that's a sign that this is an idea whose time has come.
I've thoroughly enjoyed the Gathering of the Juggalos announcement videos for the last few years, and that's been my only real exposure to ICP (along with the Miracles video.) The whole subculture is strange and deals with dark themes, but they seem completely harmless from the top down. I'm glad to see them organizing a reasoned response to what I can only assume is executive overreach.
Any app that has a warning message will fail to warn you if it's output is rerouted to a log file. This sounds more like an issue with the package maintainers not understanding the limitation and thus not putting in a warning message post install.
There's a nice walk you can take through the bamboo forrest in Kyoto:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E5%B5%90%E5%B1%B1%E3%80%80%E...
Jason Hunter of JDOM fame, explains MarkLogic NoSQL with beer
How to demonstrate nosql with beer ... quite funnny, I especially like the performance demonstration!
I took a Stats course in university. Basically, this one: http://www.stat.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/stat/courses/outlines...

Can you recommend a way for myself and others in the same position to brush on their stats?
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Uhm... Anyone else have a hard time reading this on iPhone?
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Hopefully they didn't drive over the coral :P
Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, some of Google services.
You mean like http://geeklist.com?
The images/schematics also show conduits for electricity and pipes for water and waste.
Generally a good post, though it's funny that Diego used a Fred Wilson quote right before his point about bi-modal returns, when Fred's one of the (few) VCs that's spoken out against such:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/10/the-fallacy-of-bimodal-retur...
I especially like the performance and real time query demonstration!
I wouldn't even consider it when "all" it understands is English. The world is a big place!
It's breath-taking how amazing the Great Barrier Reef is underwater. I've always wanted to go see it.
I don't believe that the objections come down to the principle of prefabrication itself, but the execution. In Europe and the Anglo-sphere, we've learned the hard way that when we try to regiment human lives to rigid efficient clean modernist boxes... it doesn't work and there are social consequences. Our buildings, our homes and our workspaces must conform to us, and not the other way around.
The json schemas seemed pretty structured, but the docs in general really are missing a table of contents and basic explanations of API commands and design decisions.
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Basically it's like sleeping with an Half-Life headcrab in your head.
It's overly negative and hyperbolic comments like this on HN that make me think "They thought THAT was bad, I can't imagine posting my own work on here". This a high quality 360 degree view of a path along a coral reef - no it's not particularly practical but are you genuinely scratching your head trying to come up with ONE thing it does well? Do you really find the navigation to be "brutal"? I feel like you're being unnecessarily negative about something that is pretty well executed and at least in part meant to be fun.

I personally have never seen anything like this and thoroughly enjoyed it for a few minutes. As someone else pointed out I was blow away by how well it worked from the google maps app on my phone. And I'm not convinced something like Planet Earth on blu-ray or "HD video on youtube" gives you the same experience unless you could pause it at any point and look around in any direction.
Snuggies are designed to be used in the comforts of your own home though. This however will come under the scrutiny of the public.
Wow if I had 100k in the bank as that article assumes I would invest every penny of that in to my new venture and aim for becoming profitable as soon as possible before even considering a VC investment.

I would rather approach them in a position of being a sustainable, profitable business than to ask them to invest in my idea before I had committed all my own available assets.
I'm saying that if your "exaggerated scenario" reunited a child with their parents it would be a success. I'm not arguing that something like that should be done, nor am I arguing that cost effectiveness cannot be considered.

I am saying that given that the prior condition of successfully reuniting a child with their parent then saying it was not successful because it cost too much is putting a price on the child's life. That is morally repugnant in this circumstance.
I think airports and university libraries are their big markets. Public space would be off limits in my opinion.
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For point 2. Do you compile to C or is it running as an interpreter? I too have written something similar, but I compile to C++ and yes the speed is amazing, and memory consumption minimal, because, you only keep 1 record in memory (if using more cores then this will not be true).

If you are interested in a solution for entering data, let me know. My solution is open source.
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This is essentially the same idea as something I wrote a while back (compatible in iOS Safari, Android browsers etc) Demo - http://www.jordanm.co.uk/lab/contentchoreography
Article - http://www.jordanm.co.uk/post/21863299677/building-with-cont...

To clarify iOS6 safari and all major mobile browsers use the legacy flexbox syntax. If you want to use the technique of small desktop contexts then use new flexbox, otherwise use the legacy syntax alongside new flexbox to ensure you cover all bases.
This is normal for Oracle and has been for at least 20 years. They are too busy milking people for new contracts rather than looking after their existing customers.
See also:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=298766...