skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have some, but I think it's mostly non-tech-y, i.e. Support.
Could you allow the requester to provide a link to the pay wall where they get stuck? People who have access to the paper through a university subscription could then easily click on that link and then immediately be taken to the paper. I imagine most people looking for a paper will already have come across this paywall and so will know where to find it. It would significantly reduce the overhead of the person fulfilling the request, but may be against the spirit of the site.

In many cases that I have come across, the DOI can be turned into a link that takes you to the article. Perhaps that would be enough.
Opera is a huge hit in asia. And this is where Apple and Google struggle the most to get market share. That would make a lot of sense for either of them to try to acquire Opera.
Tremendous presentation. Well worth your time.
The 28 Best Error Pages On The Internet
This: http://qiao.github.com/euphony/#49
Maybe because it's particularly insulting to the intelligence, especially when your customers are computer savvy people who know just how arbitrary region-based pricing of digital goods is?
15th century actually:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_determinism

Climatic Determinism: "Australia, for example, has a higher level of economic development than Indonesia. The paradox also applies within countries — the northern U.S. states are more developed than the southern U.S. states. Singapore is a notable counter-example: it is located at 1.22° N and is one of the world's most prosperous countries. This prosperity is based on its position as a port. Other exceptions to the paradox tend to have large natural resources. (Although Singapore's strict and no-nonsense government system matches the "strict and authoritarian" system that Montesquieu cited as being necessary for a country in warmer areas to succeed by counteracting the environmental complacency of the tropics with human-induced strictures. Saudi Arabia is a good example.)"

Montesquieu: 18 January 1689 – February 1755

Not being racist or imperialist. In fact, I'm one of those affected, and I don't think it is strongly genetic, but rather mostly behavioral. I see it in my family and culture. Not really laziness, but slowness compared to those from colder climates. There are exceptions, but heat slows people down.
Thanks senic. We are not controversial - so not expecting a viral growth.
We think that people interested in serious relationships will benefit from it. Even if we are able to reach to a few thousand and are genuinely able to help them, we will be happy. :)
Thoughts about licensing and app prices
Yasuo Honda
Yep, this is exactly what I do. Though I will start collaborating on a private project beginning June and I am not sure how Bitbucket fares in that regard? Any experience with that?
It'd be thrilling to watch if evolution invents cryptographically signed DNA to prevent malicious viruses, plasmids and what not from using cell's reproduction machinery.
Sick it up and join the real world. I've been working since I was 14 years old due to the economic realities of my family.

Don't want a real office job? Go volunteer or join something like the peace corps. You'll get to travel, feel good about yourself, and help the world.
LSD is actually a fairly popular party drug. At certain types of electronic music events it tends to be more popular than MDMA, even. With psychedelics, the environment has a profound effect on the experience. As such, people using it as a party drug may be seeking (and receiving) a different experience than a user taking it and going on a stroll through the woods.
Thanks, you have interesting points.

To others who are interested in psychoactive drugs I would like to suggest following book (you are probably already familiar with it):

A Primer of Drug Action by Robert Julien ( http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Drug-Action-Robert-Julien/dp/14... )

It contains concise and objective information about various psychoactive substances, their effects and mechanisms of action.
What makes you think it should be hard to sort thousands of rows by color?
Does anyone know the productivity level of a blind programmer compared with an average programmers? I'm pretty curious about this for a while now. If my sight suddenly gone, can I actually retain my current productivity level with rigorous training and suitable development tools?
Fully agree with you. I use a private git repo on my own cloud server (west europe based).

Github make full sense for open source projects, with easy forking and pull requests. However, I dont see any advantage to take a private repo, even worst at the price they propose, and hosted in a complex legal context.
Saturated fat is not so bad
Part of this is that the AUD has appreciated in value so much over the last few years

Yep, many other countries have had economic downturns lately, a lot of australian economy is based off mining, which is going OK. Ergo, currency appreciates.

Part of the problem is retail rental rates are so high

DANGER WILL ROBINSON! That's partially a sign that the property market is in a bubble or inflated. Many other countries have been wrecked when the property bubble pops. It might happen in Australia.
There are quite a few, but all that I've found suck. Cruise this the list[1] and see. They all require a browser extension for highlighting.

My audience is anyone who reads in the same way I do. I often want to snip a paragraph from an article or paper and have a quick way to browse through my recent snippets to refresh my memory on what I've read.

I don't really care about "social" or seeing community highlights. I just want something to help me digest material faster.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation
To an extent, engineered bacteria do this already. Though E coli are quite tolerant, I've known instances when they reject foreign DNA that you're trying to get into them (eg to express a protein).
Ask HN: How do Bank Simple make money?
The tests on disk performance are kind of redundant as ext3 is being compared to ext4. This will skew the results in favour of DigitalOcean somewhat.
Can I recommend Brennan Dunn's monthly classes on
Freelancing and consulting - mostly because there is a brilliant and active mailing list , with at least one Belgium on the list who has taken the path you are considering. Drop me your email and I will put you in touch

More generally, take the rest of your twenties to explore and push. You have (I assume) no child care responsibilities and its a good guess you wont till thirty-ish (if it changes - great !) - so can I recommend the following plan:

0. Unemployment is rife across Europe, especially at your age - so if in two years you have not had a "proper" job, it will look no different than 50% of the rest of the continent. But if you have run a startup, consulted, travelled... well...

1. With a degree in electrical engineering you have a massive advantage over most startup entrpreneurs - hardware.

2. Go look at the hardware hackday running with ycombinator (cannot find the link - on iPhone - anyone?). It might give you some ideas.

3. Market yourself as a prototype maker - join some maker groups, get some experience with arduino's etc. Maybe the local fashion college has people wanting to experiment with wearable fashion (plus point here - fashion students throw much better parties than EE departments)

4. Start talking about this - in English on a blog. Include youtube videos of the wearable stuff.

5. Want to travel - then stick to the hardware theme. DO the young backpacker thing, but ask on HN for contacts in Shenzhen and Mumbai. Go meet some folks and make contacts / friends. Be the Belgium hardware consultant with contacts in the hottest hardware and development hubs globally.
Blog on your travels, and if you can, do some arduino prototyping and consulting - getting paid to develop a startups new wearable toy whilst actually in Shenzhen. Better than paying yourself. And stop off in Goa and dive in Thailand - just because you need to relax.

In the end you are young - enjoy yourself. But be smart - enjoy yourself and at the same time build valueable skills. You already have a massive edge - increase that edge.

Remember you are a rare commoditity and investment money is dirt cheap globally - so if you need to raise cash later on you are the prize for them to compete for.
Given the way MS is embracing OpenSource ( git, TypeScript ) that day may not be too far.
I travelled around Australia for a few weeks and have been to many European countries (EU & non EU). Australia is expensive (in general). It's in the same price league as Switzerland. Which is bad.
BoE will tolerate inflation to aid growth - FT.com
Great artists steal: Improving as a Web Developer by stealing from Open Source
...and by so doing, make the world just that little bit worse off by making it harder for people to find and identify genuine information. Would that fewer entrepreneurs were totally okay with that.
I'm a 30 year old with no experience, I want to build a startup
I spent 276 days trying to figure out what to do with my life, I still don't have an answer.

I have no experience in programming, nor do I have delusions about becoming an elite programmer. I just would like to learn enough to have a better filter to notice/process ideas as mentioned here: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

I have decided to commit to learn programming at a base level, enough to possibly make prototypes/potential to find co-founder.

I left a previous job that paid well for many years because 1.I wasn't talented and 2.I did not see my life as being fulfilled down that path.

A couple points for your consideration

1. I have over 1mm liquid, and I have no debt, don't own a house or car. This may be tacky to mention, but since I am anonymous, I just wanted to put it out there out of desperation in hopes someone can give me some solution (wishful thinking).

2. No one depends on me, I have as many hours as there are in a day to work on this.

I started doing some html work on code academy, it seemed a bit slow and thorough for what I'm trying to do. I looked at Zed Shaw's courses, and they seem like a good idea, but I'm not sure if it's overkill (or underkill?) for what my goals are.

If any of this makes sense, you would SIGNIFICANTLY help me by giving me guidance to help achieve my goal. I don't want to waste time learning things that I really won't need to know (near term).

I have searched much, but not knowing what I need to know, it is hard to discern what is and isn't necessary. (In terms of the base goal).

Maybe I am not cut out to be a founder. But I do know that reading pg's essays make my mind run wild, and I find instant inspiration and excitement in his writings. I have spent 276 days trying to figure out something else, and nothing is jumping out at me. So it's about time to make some sort of a commitment. For better or for worse.
The filling a request process appears to be more complex than it is due to superfluous form fields. The information about authors, title and DOI has already been entered by the requester. For the service to be a viable alternative, it should be (and appear to be) extremely simple to fill a request.

Tracking down a paper is time consuming enough, even if you are sitting on the network with access to most journals. Don't make it look like people have to type in additional information manually.
Lots of assumptions there. The largest cost of operating GitHub is certainly not storage, but the whole server infrastructure and employees. That's what you're paying for.

Otherwise, just put your repos in any online storage service, it's much cheaper, but then you don't get Github :)

edit: downvotes? care to explain?
Yeah i'm in Australia and subscribe to adobe creative cloud. My credit card is being charged by Ireland adobe.
Question: Where are the HN moderators? They are quick to hellban users but allow Opera to get the top 3 positions on HN's front page?

Opera is a browser and a company not to be trusted IMO. Never do mission-critical work with this sketchy software. I've given Opera plenty of chances and its always flaked out on me in the weirdest ways.

This browser also had the habit of mysteriously becoming my default browser without me actually doing it. That's when I could no longer even allow it to be installed on my system.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I had to share this in case anyone wants a different perspective.
How technology has changed romance
Wanna come to India. I am looking for a co-founder. The living expenses will be cheaper here for you and lots of learning for sure. I am 31 and have some experience building web apps.

Contact me: shail2@live.com if interested.
Ask HN: Why should I care about Opera switching to WebKit?
I understand that this saves web developers time in testing and deploying stuff, and also that there's one less "standard" to follow. Is there any aspect to this transition that I might've missed? I'd like to know what this change means, apart from the obvious few things.

Thanks!
Opera was a minor force in the ecosystem. The day to start worrying is if/when Mozilla switches to WebKit. (I prefer WebKit browsers personally, but I think monoculture is a bad thing long-term.)
But then aren't you potentially giving away your competitive advantage?

Let's say I invent a new search engine, Poople. I don't have much money to patent it. But I can't keep the details secret either lest somebody else patent it. But by publishing the details defensively, my competitor with deep pockets, Paapo, goes and reimplements my algorithm and wipes me out of the marketplace.

Which part of the story did I get wrong?
I actually just checked that because I didn't believe it. Absolutely insane!
Stupid, Non-Working Anti-Spam Mail Links getting out of hand
"Hey, can you work today?" - "Nah, I'm going out, how about next Monday?"
This isn't relevant; it only governs the actions of the US Congress. Australia has similar language to prevent the Commonwealth Parliament from discriminating between the states.
When I learned about GitHub Enterprise I was very happy thinking that we can finally switch to Git (currently we use SVN) only to be saddened by their pricing. We have around 5000 employees, GitHub price for 500 seats is 125,000$, this is incredibly expensive. Judging by their pricing they don't want big companies to be their clients as simple as that. Atlassian for example had a lot of grief with us simply because their products didn't scale that well past 5000 users.
Or use BitBucket. Just as easy as GitHub, but with unlimited private repos for free.
>What do you mean, "possibly"?

I'm guessing OP meant possibly for the "sometimes for their own bad" part of the comment.
From a designer's perspective -

I used to be a hardcore Opera user (as a regular consumer) till Opera 10, mainly because of the beautiful inbuilt download manager and the smoothness of their usability.

However, for professional work and testing - The only three browsers I use for testing these days are Chrome, Firefox and IE 9+.

I never used to consider Opera because, for MY website, the traffic from opera would be really negligible to make it worth the effort getting something right on their browser, though Opera would 99% of the times be almost as perfect as chrome, unlike IE.

Now, this move only makes designers' lives easier, needless to say. I'm just waiting for the day when Microsoft would put down their pride of using a stinky, inconsistent rendering engine and move to Webkit, just like Opera and that day would be the start of a new era - Where designers can focus on getting their designs right, than focusing on how to get them right on various browsers.

Cheers Opera,
Great move!
Too noticeable, the publicity would be terrible. And too easily subverted by people importing across state lines.
OMG rm -rf ~ in a valentine bash script and its partly my fault
I think the GitHub pricing model is excellent - and super cheap. I have multiple accounts and I happily pay for all of them - the value of not having to use a bad interface like bitbucket is far larger than the price for GitHub.

With a cost of 200$ for 125 repos, it is less than 2$ per client - if thats a problem, I think you should rethink your business plan. Keep in mind, nothing prevents you from removing clients you didn't work on for e.g. 6 months and put them on a NAS (although I would not do that myself)
Idea: Add ALL your friends to your crush list and then you can find out whenever someone has a crush on you and you can laugh at them.

This doesn't solve the problem of making the first move, since you can't know that the person adding you to the
crush list is actually doing so because they have a crush on you. They may just do it to see if you have a crush on them.

It's a good problem to solve, but I think that after a short
burst of initial activity everyone will realise how exploitable this is and so be unable to use it seriously.
Surprising performance results creating various Ruby primitives
Good examples of typography in web design
I did start to wonder, when a coworker said he had made some sort of investment in a long term retail let that they were then short-term subletting, if this was entirely normal.
Exactly. They can just create a new account for each new client for peanuts. No client is going to bark for an extra $20 for the github account.
I think you forgot to subtract VAT (which you'd not pay if you're using this as a pro). The price on Adobe Belgium is EUR 3386.79, which without VAT comes to EUR 2799, or about $3770.

Still a huge difference with the US.
Is there a reason you wouldn't use public github repos for your npm modules?
> If you are of a significant size you will want to have a release or build engineer anyway who will normall be the person who takes ownership of these things. If not then it will be your office unix guy.

We have a sysadmin who looks after the servers. However, bad things can happen. If he was able to spend all his time working on these problems, they wouldn't occur, but he has other responsibilities too. Should we hire someone else? No! It's cheaper and more reliable to outsource these responsibilities to a team working 100% of the time on it.

> I'm also not a fan of quantifying productivity lost in ££. When someone has a bowl movement do you chart that against company productivity?

I don't understand your point. There's a big difference between going to get coffee, go to the toilet, etc - which is normal, expected and accounted for - and having large parts of the company unable to work because particular services are down.
Perhaps a higher-level comic description language that generates the html markup? A bit like the way that LaTeX generates TeX. It could have predefined 'styles' for character appearance, body posture, gestures, etc. Also the ability to embed lower-level html markup in the higher level description.

Perhaps I need to get back to doing some actual work...
This is a bug with the copyright system. The software is copyrighted and only Adobe can sell it. So they can sell what they want.

One copyright reform I'd make, would be removing copyright protection from works like this where are sold as massively different rates between markets. You'd need to look at average wage in the country and compare (rather than a simple metric of 'can you fly to $OTHERCOUNTRY and buy it for less overall?'). If this was the law, then in this case, the software would not be copyrighted in Australia and people could bootleg it legally. Adobe would only get copyright protection if they offered it for sale at a fair price.

Another advantage of this approach is that TVs/Films/out of print books are only copyrighted and 'locked up', when they are actually for sale. A film hasn't been released in UK but is in USA? No copyright protected in UK! Force them to release at same time. (NB: an online shop that ships anywhere counts as "for sale in that country")

But instead, there is global copyright without any restrictions.
Hi there. I tried your Hosting Helper at that link, and couldn't get it to give any different results no matter what I entered in the various fields, or how big of a budget I selected. It always recommended shared hosting, with the same list of five recommendations. Is it supposed to do that?
What is the $20 promotional coupon code you used? Care to share?
The case for fewer entrepreneurs
Thanks Fil. What kind of consulting do you do? Do/did you work for one of the big three? I hadn't heard of the iMinds program yet, it looks interesting.
HTML5 canPlayType() returns 'probably', 'maybe' or ''
From my experiences involving meditation and psychedelics I find it to be an energetic transformation. Basically, the drugs alters the subject's energetic vibration which pushes awareness into different realms.

The chakra model is a common map of these vibrations:

http://www.grdn.cc/energy-slash-quality-slash-organ-slash-ac...

Personally I'm finding some of these levels are achievable without the use of drugs. I used to work with micro-doses of LSD, 1 day dose 10ug / 2 days off, but quickly found I can achieve the states through meditation.

Here's a section from Ram Dass book "Be Here Now". He travels to India seeking answers to what LSD could be all about. He eventually encounters a very advanced yogi:

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He looked at me and extended his hand. So I put into his hand what's called a "White Lightning". This is an LSD pill and this one was from a special batch that had been made specially for me for traveling. And each pill was 305 micrograms, and very pure. Very good acid. Usually you start a man over 60, maybe with 50 to 75 micrograms, very gently, so you won't upset him. 300 of pure acid is a very solid dose.

He looks at the pill and extends his hand further. So I put a second pill - that's 610 micrograms - then a third pill - that's 915 micrograms - into his palm.

That is sizeable for a first dose for anyone!

"Ah-cha."

And he swallow them! I see them go down. There's no doubt. And that little scientist in me says, "This is going to be very interesting!"

All day long I'm there, and every now and then he twinkles at me and nothing - nothing happens! That was his answer to my question. Now you have the data I have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)

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You're a consultant and variable overhead of $20 to $100 a month is unmanageable??
Nevermind me, just posting my own opinion'); DROP TABLE Comments;--
Off the top of my head, this move also means that most, or at least some, of the Opera developers who worked on its rendering engines, will now be contributing to WebKit and V8.

This might mean even faster development cycles for WebKit, the integration of new features that were not on top of Google's and Apple's lists, and some new complications introduced to the inner politics of the WebKit and V8 projects.
Here you go:

http://beanstalkapp.com/

https://codeplane.com/

http://www.codebasehq.com/

http://projectlocker.com/

https://unfuddle.com/

https://www.assembla.com/

http://gitorious.org/

http://gitlab.org/

good luck :)
How Long Does it Take to Build an App? (Infographic)
Thanks for that. I only had a cursory look at starting a company with an ABN when in Australia. It was a few years ago, but I was initially shocked at the difference. In the UK it's £20 to register a private limited company, £15 for the annual return, and that's it for companies house. Inland revenue and employment is extra, but it's cheap to set up trading companies in the UK. And the more of those you have the more likely you are to have competitive pressures in retail.

I'm no expert on Australia's seemingly top heavy retail structure. Maybe it's just an incorrect impression I have that the top end of town gets accommodated, but that the rest have lots of hoops to jump through.