skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big deal is that journal publications are a by-product of some kinds of research, and not in themselves proof of good work. Unfortunately, it's the dominant mechanistic (I won't use the word "objective") way of evaluating academic job performance. Being mechanistic, it is easily gamed, and the gaming can corrupt the underlying process (e.g. the generation of "publons" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_publishable_unit).

Most academics see themselves as being tasked with expanding the frontier of human knowledge, not with documenting it and persuading other people that it's important (which is seen by many as a vulgar popularity and marketing contest, not an intellectual one).
that's very cool story, but I did not see anything like that in google terms of use: "we provide search, you click ads"

actually it's more like: "we provide search, all informations about you belong to us!"

so "customer" is not the most appropiate word here, how about "slave"?
That should be the default in the US too. Either that, or carriers should be required to offer people the ability to opt out of SMS.
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The problem with open source
I have been Macbook Pro based since April 2010. It's my first Mac. I got ~full specs at the time (1GB SATA non-SSD drive - no regrets there, I've needed the space; 2.3Ghz Core i7; 8GB 1333Mhz RAM).

I've taken the system through about 10 countries in 2 years. I don't really have a house, and I have to carry everything with me. (That includes a video camera, a heavy pro DSLR, chargers, etc.)

I do use VMWare, plus occasionally game, video edit, etc. and so have similar performance requirements.

Given the above, and that recently my partner bought a new Macbook Air (far cheaper), and we took both of them travelling around a few months of Indonesia, Thailand, etc., I think I am well informed to comment.

My advice would be this: Think very carefully about comfort and workflow, before money.

Comfort-wise, for me, having a large screen and keyboard are non-negotiable. The difference is huge, particularly if you want to use the thing instead of a desktop for any length of time (eg. multi-country mobility, like my situation).

Workflow-wise, it's ultimately all about your specific situation. In my situation, I don't have enough space to store all my raw images, VMs, video, etc. but have come to a good solution with a secondary small form-factor external USB3 drive I access from the Mac (via rsync over SSH and a Linux VM, no less! I don't trust non-ext3 filesystems after bad experiences! Some driver I found claiming ext* support on OSX never worked.). I've never had an SSD-is-primary-drive machine, so don't feel there is any issue with speed.

As for remote ... depends on the connection quality and reliability where you are planning to go.

Sounds to me like you could probably solve your build/test issues by queueing testing via your development process, eg. by syncing your new code only when online and using a remote (eg. EC2-hosted) continuous integration server which could probably resolve a lot of issues you never knew you had, as well as the ones you are looking at. That way you could use cloud windows boxes spun up automatically from platform-linked images, potentially bringing them up and down automatically with your CI server.

If you are worried about money, don't be. We forget how much time we spend in front of these things. It's far better to invest in good tools. Really. I mean, 60Mb/s fiber in Europe, don't worry about a few ms, or a few hundred dollars. Worry about your health.
I do exactly the same thing with email + followupthen. This means no need to remember to load up Anki everyday and practice. It comes straight to your inbox. Wrote about this here: http://thameera.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/spaced-repetition-l...
I agree on the marketing, but disagree strongly with your statement that they mishandled the hardware. I've got nearly a half-dozen WebOS devices kicking around (Pre 1-3, Pixi, Veer) that I would prefer to use over my Galaxy Nexus if they had Android on it. I would say that the hardware was actually the _best_ part of the WebOS ecosystem.
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Google has a service that shows you some of what they know about you. Last time I checked they were WAY off the mark about me, and I use Google products for nearly everything.

Aside from that, I'm not really sure why I should be offended about being given more relevant ads. Being advertised to doesn't annoy me when I actually want the thing being advertised. A very well targeted ad would tell me about a product I want that I didn't know was available. I'm happy when I get an email from Valve letting me know that a Steam sale has begun because I really love their service.

On the other hand, I sometimes get ads for booze (probably because I'm a 29 year old male) despite the fact that I don't drink. I get ads for religious groups (probably because I frequent atheism sites) which I have zero interest in. Those are badly targeted ads that annoy me.

Aside from political dissidents under oppressive regimes, I don't see much reason for people to worry about someone trying to figure out what you like. Every time I meet some tech savvy developer who only uses a Linux distro he built himself to avoid government spying, runs all his phone calls through encryption software, and encrypts his entire hard drive on every device, I immediately wonder if he's a paranoid schizophrenic or has very illegal hobbies.

I know that sounds harsh, but it's what goes through my head. If you disagree then please enlighten me. Am I being dangerously nieve? What specific things should I be concerned about that I'm not? I'd appreciate links to news articles showing that you're talking about things that are actually happening and not just hypotheticals. I'm not worried about what-ifs.
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Is there anything like this for Kobold2d?
Well, the main actors are still laughing about this and asking us: "You do not like this and so what?", and they are right, because indeed: "So what?". They damn well know that nobody is going to do anything about it anyway. We all know that the next time, they will be even more arrogant and even more condescending.
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Facts:

0. Since 2012-12-09, the following content was available at http://whytheluckystiff.net/

Public Print Queue

SPOOL/TEST	2012-12-09T14:12Z
SPOOL/IDEAS	2012-12-13T23:26Z
SPOOL/NOTES	2012-12-19T00:28Z

0.0. The style of writing and handwriting corresponds to that of Why.

0.1. Prints are very regular. There are 4.4 days between the first two, and 5 between the last two.

1. Going to those addresses yields, in essence, the following data: http://d.pr/i/qwo8

2. Now the following content is available:

Public Print Queue

SPOOL/DESOLEE	2012-01-06T08:21Z

2.0. The headers that are sent back from the server changed. The difference is shown in this picture: http://i.imgur.com/6mMPQ.png

2.1. It happened within 12 hours of this very thread.

2.2. DESOLEE is the french for "sorry", from a woman.

2.3. It is 2012, not 2013 (may be a typo).

3. Going to this address yields: http://www.scribd.com/doc/119155590/DESOLEE

3.0. A date of April the 18th is stated as the return of the printer queue.
I use lavabit. It's cheaper than $10 a year and has a far superior web interface to googles. It uses squirrel mail.
Plus you have to add the 8-10 hours a week of complaining about all the sacrifices you're making to be a professor. That can really add up.
Down with government! The internet is dead! LONG LIVE THE INTERNET!

Honestly though, Sweden will never be forgiven. I hassle Swedes every time I see them now, and have done for nearly a couple of years. Mostly they are ignorant (particularly the older ones), but some of the young people are on our side (though not necessarily following the issues). Seems their political and legal systems have slipped together in to extremely right wing, corrupt, and US-aligned without anyone in the country noticing.
Java is perhaps the most depressing language I've ever programmed in.

I'd have to agree with him there.
I have been struggling with this project for a long time. I don't have coding skills and I tried to develop this idea by working together with friends with coding skills. This never worked and the teams I built in the past always failed to ship a definitive product.

I realized that I was "trapped" in a continuous need to mediate, compromise and discuss with these friends/team members for many reasons: split of shares of the project, lack of deep passion for the project, lack of knowledge of the current social network environment, etc.
All the time, I spent 90% arguing with my friends/team members instead of working hard on realizing my vision.

After the last failure, I decided to give up but the desire to create something like this kept me from sleeping. I finally decided to work on my own, use tools that I master (such as wordpress with its thousands plug-ins, themes, etc.) and develop my vision.

Sure, I had to compromise on some of the things I would like to build and that wordpress does not allow you to do. But it is so much better to fly solo and be able to give life to your ideas and hopes. Just being able to finally ship Everythinker.com has been an enormous goal for me and I look forward to continuing building new features and adding new content.

Thanks in advance for any comment or feedback you may have!
Who resovles bets ?
+1 on the wall of text. Get some images in there. A nice logo may go a long way towards sprucing it up. I'd also try to customize the look a bit more. Create an identity by making it look less "stock" bootstrap.
So, our United States government protected a man who brazenly admits to the spoliation of evidence.

(The spoliation of evidence is defined as "... the intentional or negligent withholding, hiding, altering, or destroying of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding. ..." - Wikipedia, Spoliation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoliation_of_evidence)

This CIA agent does this supposedly on his "own accord" so as to protect the interrogators - yea, protect them from war crime trials, lawsuits, and the wrath of the public towards government officials for doing such barbaric acts.

Another case of our government selectively enforcing laws at the behest of a President. Is this a scarlet red flag of our decline or what?
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Staying capital-efficient within hardware
"Staying capital-efficient within hardware", how investors may think differently about investing in the hardware market in 2013
Syntax only thought right?
Man pretends to be flirty girl to get his missing iPhone back
What is the Dual table in Oracle and why do I need it?
Why is this being downvoted? This is true. Talk to people about it, you CAN transfer an app from one account to another. This is why the kindle app is now on amazon's account instead of the company that wrote it.

I am an iOS developer and have been since before there was an official API
interesting to see .us domain name, given online betting is illegal in us.
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I don't know anything about this paparazzi crusade or this _why fellow, but I do like me some absurdist poetry. Kharms is pretty good...highly recommend Russel Edson http://www.amazon.com/Tunnel-Selected-Poems-Russell-Edson/dp..., and for prose Donald Barthelme (e.g. Don B's last _fake_ tweet https://twitter.com/donb/status/273048668519690240)

edit: posted link to best intro to R.E.
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Something is up with the text formatting on that website. It feels like an OCRed document.
Mission accomplished: you brought all the wet blankets out. Have you created anything recently of note? Let me know when so I can go into the comments of your thread and pour water all over it.
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I'm sorry but this is a very ignorant assessment. I spent 5 years doing research in academia and none of the professors on our team had as easy of a work life as 99% of the software developers I have worked with do. I am in no way criticizing developers, being a professor is just damn hard and very stressful in comparison.

The demands of the sink or swim nature of academia, the need to be constantly seeking grants, teaching classes, participating in running the department and being an active member of their research area (organizing conferences, editing journals, etc.) are enormous. A good academic is expected to do all these things and do them well.

I grad school I was mostly a night person and so would frequently be at school around midnight. So would several professors on our team, except they would also be there at 8:30 in the morning every day, and work at home on the weekends. In the 7 years I have been a developer I have never seen a workplace that puts as much demands on it's employees. Not even close.
A slightly tangential observation: I've had the good fortune to meet and work with people in all walks of life. Oddly, I've found the amount of stress they feel at work is hugely related to the type of personality they have.

I'm not discounting external factors: surely those bomb disposal guys have it tough. But some folks just seem naturally sunny and light-spirited, while others seem to be on the verge of a monstrous breakdown. I've seen people who were stressed who were moved from a stressful situation to a much less stressful situation stay just as stressed as before. Perhaps, like weight, there is a "set point" for the amount of discomfort you feel in your job, and over time you can train yourself to become more and more stressed, regardless of the externalities?

Beats me. Interesting subject, though. Definitely falls in the nature versus nurture arena.
> which language is taking advantage of PHP's decline

Until you notice that Y-axis is logarithmic...
Im sure they have failbacks in place.
Guido van Rosseum left Google a while ago because he was annoyed they weren't using Python enough! Python is a nice language but I don't think it's the language of the decade. The langage of the decade is something that has been used from 2000 to 2012 a lot in entreprise and by individuals.
Give that price to PHP for all it's worth. PHP was the language for the web for a very long time.... It was used to create facebook. It was a lot more influential than Python. Ask 50 persons in the street if they know what PHP is, then ask them if they know what Python is. I guarantee you that more people know of PHP.

Predicting what will be the next language of the decade is more interesting. My bet is on Javascript for now.
You might want to change a couple of words on the FAQ. Anything that mentions POTUS and death threats is taken seriously.

There's nothing to say where you're based, or if you're obeying their laws. Where are you based? Are you obeying their laws? What have you done to protect yourself from vigorous US law enforcement attempts?

EDIT: For the silent downvoters - which part is controversial?

People who say 'bomb' in an airport are dragged off. People who mention, even jokingly, death threats to POTUS attract extra investigation.

This website is doing several things which are not legal in the US. Betting on sports games; financial transactions for off-shore gambling; etc.

This website has a domain registered in the US for US residents only.
The Swedes won't be forgiven because they let America bully them? Yup, that's logical.
Building Ribbit in PHP
Your comment doesn't strike me as being in tension with patio11's. Rather, it seems to underscore his point.
Ask HN: Is it money laundering?
Working on an idea to allow travelers to shop and enjoy credit card benefits like locals. http://sweetsapp.com/Card.html

Is this money laundering if
- there's mutual consensus?
- money only processed for payments and never for cash withdrawal?
- we don't handle cash?
It's an amazing attempt at creating a product. The fact that you had no prior skill at coding makes it even more plausible.

Here are three questions I ask myself before shipping a product:

a) What problem does it solve?
b) Does it "actually" solve that problem?
c) Does the end product superimpose with the vision I had before beginning development.

Ask yourself these three questions.

The interface looks amateur and the functionality isn't obvious. Also, the user has to spend time figuring out how to go about it. Apart from that, I think it's a great personal achievement for you (with regard to your comment about the hardships you faced while rolling this out!)

Also, I think this is an apt moment to quote Steve Jobs. Here you go: http://cl.ly/image/0P0V2Z080C2H

"Real Artists Ship!" :)

— A
HN needs down votes for crap like this.
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Sorry I should have clarified the point up front:

The initial configuration is tiresome and complicated. While knowing the details is important, using them as a barrier to entry i.e. by removing the arch installer is just a hideous waste of time.

Occasionally, I've had a broken system, packages or dependency failure which has left me in the royal shit with a recovery disk and a text editor.

pacman has no transactional semantics around it so you can't stage a package or roll it back easily and no-destructively as you can in deb and RPM based distributions.

It relies on the default configuration of all pieces of software i.e. minimal changes to upstream. This is good and all, but most of the upstreams have retarded and dangerous by default configurations. You have to vet every damn package upgrade.

As for rolling upgrades, introducing major new package versions mid-cycle is a major risk, particularly when it comes to large critical packages such as DB engines and web servers. Minor version changes can literally shred you. MySQL are very good at that for example (I no longer use their product due to the awful bugs in early 5.0.x release).

I see people above are moaning about Ubuntu in comparison. In fact that is just as bad, but for a different reason: it's just hideously mismanaged.

They ignore the collective knowledge and mini frameworks that are included in other distributions (for example the /etc/apache2 structure in Debian derivatives). These are incredibly powerful at managing configuration through upgrades etc so hours with diff aren't required.

To be honest, I have a virtual machine floating around which was once a physical machine. It was deployed on a Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 (nice dual Pentium Pro 200 with 128Mb of RAM, 4 Matrox heads and 18Gb of SCSI disks) with Debian 2.0.

This installation is now at Debian 6.0. This has been accomplished EASILY with ONLY dist-upgrades since day one and has survived about 5 bits of hardware.

That's how it should be. Rolling releases are dangerous. Planned staged releases.

And no I don't particularly care that my Ruby VM is X years out of date.
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Kate text editor in KDE Software Compilation 4.10
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Shanzhai - innovative hardware mashup shops in China
$50 sure. I don't think you could make a phone that could do what you need for that much though.
Minor nitpick: Godel does not say theorems can't be enumerated, obviously they can be, just use brute force. Rather it says theorems provable from sufficiently strong axioms can't be decided. So if you want to know whether your axioms prove 1=0, you can start enumerating all the theorems they prove, and if they do prove 1=0, eventually you'll see it, but if not, there's no way to "go far enough" to rule out the possibility that 1=0 will appear later on in the enumeration.
I don't think he was saying that Macs don't have good functional design, rather that excellent visual design is the top priority. While Macs do work great, there are some instances where it's apparent that they valued aesthetics over functionality, such as nice-looking but short-lived power cord cables.
Try Debian stable. I've had a single installation last for 13 years so far.

New and shiny is considerably less important than working and tested the first time something breaks.
Do We Really Need Another Smartphone OS?
Well, you probably shouldn't base your livelihood on consumer access to WebOS, but if that is the case then you should have changed business plans a while ago.
Assume 100k/year? I wouldn't
I've been paying for my Gmail access for a couple of years now, in the form of a Google Apps account, works great. Part of me want to self-host, but the gmail.com client and their spam filters and priority inbox (good for removing marketing mails etc) keeps me 100% happy.
BIOS - Xbox 360 Emulator
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Iran’s “intelligent software” to censor social networks, not block completely
Allowing people to buy pre-loaded cards with credit cards is a very, very high-risk business to be in, regardless of whether your local authorities approve or disapprove of the idea.
It also is great to have your shell back up as soon as you have a connection. It switches almost seamlessly as you switch connections too.

If it were not for the odd reboot, it is a "set and forget" kind of thing.
I cannot comment how good your service is since I have no experience in your field. Just two little things I noticed:

1) Bootstrap is not really beautiful, your submenu sometimes overlaps the content (visited the site on an iPad) and some screenshots would help.

2) I would only add one testimonial per customer / salon. For me it looks like you tried to make the section look "big" no matter how.

I wish you luck and success with your service :)
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"Snip is a hair salon software product.." - hair salon software product is very awkward, and doesn't really make a lot of sense. You also then basically repeat it more clearly straight away.

I would shorten to:

Snip is a software product that helps you spend less time on the tedious parts of being a stylist or salon owner. Click below to learn how Snip can make your life easier.

I considered even dropping 'is a software product that' as well, undecided on that.

THIS IS PROBLEM ONE IN MY OPINION: On your 'sign up for a free 30 day trial' page, I am asked to choose between 'basic', 'plus' and 'super'. But I have no idea what any of these are, surely it doesn't matter? I don't know your product well enough, but don't make people make this choice for their free trial, just get them into the system :)

I don't know if you would be better off starting people's trials at the bottom or top level. You could, after people have signed up for a free 30 day trial, then give them a simple one sentence explanation of what these choices are, to help them choose. But, job 1 is to get them signed up with minimal thought!
"loads of us finish our Ph.D.’s (which is what you have to have to be a ‘regular’ professor) with between $75,000 and $160,000 in debt"

The link/citation for this statement never mentions 75,000 or 160,000. In fact it says:

"According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), individuals earning research doctorates in academic year 2009-10 did so owing over $20,400 on average in education-related debt, of which about $14,100 on average was graduate debt and about $6,400 on average was undergraduate debt"

Granted this NSF data is limited to research doctorates but it certainly does not support the statement that "loads of us" have 75k to 160k of debt. Moreover the NSF data says that 52% of the research doctorate population graduated with no debt.
That's odd -- I had a dream about _why last night.
This is a good reminder of the only safe way to use Wikipedia: as a pointer
to references, rather than as an actual source of information. And you must check those references yourself, rather than assuming that they say what the article authors claim they say.