skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more unified computing environment: I love the simplicity of spreadsheets, the plotting of Matlab, the interactivity of SLIME, the pragmatism of bash scripting, the breadth of knowledge of Wolfram Alpha (and Wikipedia), so on and so forth, but I hate having to choose one environment. Julia is the closest thing I've found to what I have in mind.

To put it another way, I want exactly one tool that's truly the best way to answer all these questions: What's 2^25? If I drive X miles a year and pay $Y for gas (+$Z for premium) in car A, how much will I spend per month? What's the largest prime below 9000? What does some list of numbers "look" like? Is there any trend between US Presidential elections and the following Super Bowl?
Iteration Inside and Out Part 2: Iterators, Generators and Fibers
According to Gruber a few months ago, it is legit a technical issue: http://twitter.com/gruber/status/264135810566209537
Kill? I read that it would be a Class A Misdemeanor.
India's 102nd space mission lifts off successfully
Mek, this is great. Thanks for sharing & open-sourcing it. I love the idea of bringing together paper discussions online - whether post-publication peer review like f1000research.com or more casual discussion like r/science.

One challenge I've found is that it's often difficult for discussion sites to gain sufficient traction to build a critical mass of discussion - http://plasmyd.com, http://papercritic.com, http://scicombinator.com, http://chemfeeds.com.

I wonder if focusing on supporting existing small-group interactions (real-life journal clubs) would help?

I took a slightly different approach when I wrote http://www.papernautapp.com and chose instead to aggregate existing discussions about academic papers (mostly blogs, a few news sites, HN, and r/science, with a goal to cover to more sites and mailing lists). It's also freely licensed, and there are some interesting things I discovered that might be useful to OpenJournal (looking at your TODO list and GH issues):

* CrossRef.org runs a ton of cool lookup/crossref/deref services at http://labs.crossref.org/

* They also have some great libraries at https://github.com/crossref/ - who wouldn't geek out at this: http://labs.crossref.org/pdfextract/

* If you want to do some auto-identification on webpages, the https://github.com/zotero/translators project is great and actively maintained by the Zotero community.

(Some notes on how Papernaut is put together, if you're interested: http://jayunit.net/2013/01/06/papernaut-exploring-online-dis... )

Lastly, if you're fostering discussion and feedback on papers, there's overlapping interest with the http://altmetrics.org and http://altmetric.com folks.
This is why I don't trust things like email to Apple. Email is a universal thing: whether I'm on my computer, an iDevice (I've owned several), an Android device (I've owned a few), or something entirely different (who knows what the future holds?) iCloud is great for backing up iOS specific things (many apps rely on it for syncing between your devices, etc) but for those things which merely consume "universal" things like mail and photos, I rely on universal solutions.
It's interesting, but there is surprisingly little (next to no) details.
Are you using map/reduce or Aggregation framework? Is the data out to be consumed by say Ruby client or are you just displaying results on the web?
Looks like a pure landing page just to test to see if there is interest. If that's your intention, I don't like baiting HNers instead of just asking. If not, I recommend to put some examples, use cases and more information before posting here.
"Vigilante justice" is simply justice applied outside of the legal framework.

I see what you're getting at with civil disobedience though... I suppose the difference is in scope and scale.

Someone passively resisting a bad law can certainly be said to not be a vigilante; they're not actively trying to to bring about their desired brand of justice, they are simply refusing to comply with the current legal version of it.

One would not expect to bring out change only by themselves via civil disobedience, it's power comes from being applied across a group of people. Vigilante justice is different; you simply fix whatever situation is unjust.

If Aaron had simply complied with his own manifesto (e.g. downloading an article at a time, organizing others to download articles, etc.) I think we could safely say he was simply being civilly disobedient.

But he kicked it up a notch. He used technology to speed up his extraction of the entire JSTOR database. He evaded network blocks in the process. When he finally could go no farther on Wifi he hooked his computer directly within the assumed-safe MIT subnet. In short, civil disobedience was taking too long for him and he decided to escalate.

So even if one agrees substantially with his desire for open access I hope it is understandable why people might disagree with his methods, and furthermore to understand why the legal system would disagree. We as a society have deliberately chosen to punish vigilantism because it breeds a world where justice applies only to those strong enough to enforce their worldview.

Although Aaron was not physically violent he certainly had a leg up on 99.9% of the rest of the U.S. population with regard to "cyberskills", does he not? If I stole a million cars and returned them without a scratch to their rightful owner in order to achieve some desirable positive goal I would still get in trouble, because I am not Caesar and therefore don't get to decide which laws do and do not apply to me (however virtuous I might be as a person).

We can debate about misdemeanor or felony, whether 3 months of prison or no jail time at all is appropriate but people seem to be shocked and amazed that the legal system would have taken an interest at all in this case, and I just don't understand why people think that.
That is the most amazing thing that I've heard this week. Thanks for sharing!
I used to sleep from 9:30 PM to 7:30 AM when I was in High School and I never had to study a single bit. I just remembered what I was taught in class without any trouble and aced most of my classes.

When I reached college, I got a late night job and started to sleep from 4 to 6 hours a day for about 2 years. My grades dropped badly; I couldn't remember what I was hearing in classes, I wasn't able to stay focus for as long and I ended up failing classes on my last semester.

It's probably the things that I fear the most from the lack of sleep, not being able to use my brain efficiently when I'm awake.

I remember reading about the fact that the first few hours of sleep are mostly there to physically rebuild the body, while the last hours of sleep are helping mostly with the memory. I don't have sources and considering the current article, I doubt it's as definite as what I read a while ago but might be interesting to read about more extensively.
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That kind of fits Rob Pike's explanation for why Go isn't more popular with C++ programmers (although he gave it a negative spin).

In a neutral way, it's like: if you spent all that effort mastering this language to get such fine-grained control, why would you give that up again? And really, I understand: why would you give that up? Especially if you know how to use C++ in a fairly painless way.
I wouldn't use a client side MVC framework for pages that need to be crawled. I find them great for webapps that require a user to login.
https://twitter.com/mariofusco/status/47988950903693312
Bullshit is right. People yammmer on and on about corporate this and bought that, but clearly have never tried to influence legislation.

You can influence legislation yourself easily. Hang out at the state legislature building with a well-researched, snappy proposal, and hang around trying to talk to legislators or their chief of staff. Its best if you have a list of people who support your proposal. You will get heard. You might not win, but odds are that if you don't it'll not be because some big company stuffed some campaign fund with a big check, but because they simply called up a legislator and said: "this will cost us jobs."

People campaigning for environmental laws somehow manage to have a lot of influence, yet they have none of the bargaining advantages of the tech industry. They don't have a ton of money like the tech industry, and half of politicians and voters have an intrinsic distrust of environmentalists because they think it's God's will to pillage the earth's resources. Yet somehow we continue to make progress on environmental issues.

The system isn't ideal, but it's isn't broken. Rather, techies are lazy, entitled, and arrogant. The very thought that their beliefs aren't universal, that legislators don't consider their opinions plated in gold sends them into a tizzy. The very idea that they may have to get down into the muck and engage in the political process with everyone else sounds of being beneath them.
If you've ever visited YouTube with Google cookies present in your browser, they're linked together. Youtube already knows your real name (or whatever name is in your Google account, anyway).
Certainly you have a point there :)
What the article is missing, clearly, is the phrase "in New Hampshire" or "in one US state."
How about fixing the bug that caused MathML to be removed in version 25.
This company is building AR Chip!
http://gigaom.com/2013/02/22/metaios-augmented-reality-chip-...

AR is definitely going to explode in next 5 years. Incredible potential to make lives easier.
Your metaphor is based on people breaking laws or not. I bet the risk takers are mostly wealthier and whiter than law abiders.
Will.I.AM's github
Hey, thanks for the comment. The product has beta customers already, and is ready for more.

I've been working with the Citus Data guys on the MongoDB Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL. I've added a bunch of features to the wrapper and use that to enable the queries. Maybe I should add a "How does this work?" question to the FAQ?
Or vice versa. I sleep a lot better when I time things such that I sleep with an empty bladder.
I agree and would rephrase it as client side frameworks help to enforce a clean and well defined API on the data, thus help to separate the business logic from representation / interaction, which is kind of the original goal of MVC.
Not to speak for Mek, but one hope I have is that these small personal notes automatically make their way onto places like OpenJournal and start to seed conversations. Something like a cross between ScienceBlogs and Twitter, with enough mini metadata to tie to the paper and paragraph.

Do you use a library management tool like Zotero or Mendeley for notetaking, or writing on printouts, or something else?
>> Real-time 3d reconstruction from simple video is currently possible with desktop computing power.

Can you point me to more on this? Stuff for reading? Toolkits? SDKs? etc.
All of this is fair and well stated. But:

"Yes if you "demand" something like gluten containing junk food its terribly expensive and frankly doesn't taste very good, usually."

I'm not talking about junk food, per se. For someone who's on the road constantly, or works crazy hours, and doesn't often have time to cook or prepare meals, packaged and restaurant foods are unfortunate necessities of life.

Now, I'm fully aware that there are people who'd consider all such food, by sheer virtue of being shelf-stable and packaged, to be junk food. And I try my absolute hardest to avoid packaged foods in general. But I'm not looking for gluten-free chips or donuts. I'm looking for gluten-free ready-to-eat meals, or gluten-free microwave meals, or gluten-free options on restaurant menus, or gluten-free breakfast bars, or gluten-free breads, etc. All of these things have become much more available in the last half-decade than they've been in my entire life preceding it.
"paradoxically happen that people are buying more and more of some commodity only to have its price drop to zero"

It is not that the price necessary drops to zero; it is that the commodity stops being used as currency. That is precisely what happened to gold and other precious metals -- people do not use gold coins to conduct their business anymore, not because nobody wants gold, but because there are no gold coins in circulation. Gold is not currency outside of a few niches because people just hoard it. Gold was replaced by other currencies as soon as people discovered reliable ways to prevent counterfeiting.

"If you rephrase your statements using words "buying" and "selling","

...then you wind up with the same problem. Here is a simple example for you: suppose an enormously wealthy person decided to buy all the gold in the world, and keep it locked in his cellar. What would gold be worth once everyone realized that there was none left to buy? People would eventually forget that they ever wanted gold once there was none left to buy.

Let's put it this way: Livermorium is one of the rarest materials in the universe. How much would you be willing to trade for a gram of it?

Now, with Bitcoin, things actually become simpler. Gold has industrial uses, and Lv might also. Bitcoin has no use at all, except as currency. Repeat the thought experiment: if one person bought all the BTC in the world and refused to sell any of it, what would Bitcoin be useful for? What if 100 people bought it all and refused to sell it?

"If at some point everyone expects price to rise and nobody sells, no trade occurs"

...and if a currency that is not traded has no utility. Eventually people catch on to the lack of utility. The next time you go to a gas station or vending machine, see if you can find a way to spend a gold coin.

"Do coins suddenly lose all their value since nobody is trading? No, because people are still willing to buy."

People are only willing to buy currency if the currency has utility. Nobody buys gold as currency anymore because it is not currency (again, try to use it at a vending machine; for that matter, try to find a merchant who even has a scale available to weigh gold), they buy it as an investment, and only when they have a supply of some other currency available to them.

"Please point out logical problems in my statement"

Right here:

"When a single seller expects that the price will not grow further"

1. That means the seller is not hoarding.

2. The seller has to be able to find people who have not given up on using the currency. If the volume of trade falls low enough, that will become difficult; people would have switched to a currency that is easier to trade.
A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if such person knowingly creates or assists in creating an image of the exterior of any residential dwelling in this state where such image is created by or with the assistance of a satellite, drone, or any device that is not supported by the ground. This prohibition shall not apply where the image does not reveal forms identifiable as human beings or man-made objects. In this paragraph, “dwelling” means any building, structure, or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more individuals.

This would seem to criminalize GoPros on RC airplanes, strapping a camera to a balloon and recording its journey to the edge of space, and a bevy of other harmless applications. At best, this bill is ill thought-out.
It really depends on your usecase. I've been hosting simple Django-based websites for clients (think 500-1000 uniques a day) for some years, and couldn't be happier really. There has not been a single issue, and the prices for that kind of volume is laughably low ($2-4 a week). I would NOT do django + appengine for anything complex however, since in my experience getting everything to work together without banging your head too much requires a fairly standard Django-app.

Last time I touched any of these sites other than to add security patches and the likes was 6 months ago, so it could be better/worse these days, YMMV.
If you reject their attempts to assert control over the path and processing of photons, eventually they will attempt to incarcerate you. They will do this with increasing degrees of force if you continue to resist. Eventually this resistance is classified as enough of a 'threat' to justify a police officer accidentally discharging half a clip into your back while you're on the ground. In self defense, of course. At least if you live in Oakland...
The basic idea is that you have html templates and that you use javascript to "fill in the blanks".

Here's a short primer:
http://www.gethifi.com/blog/javascript-templates-and-how-we-...

There are various libraries you can use to make this easier for yourself. Underscore and handlebars are too good options.
It's also worth noting that "Google Talk" is a dependency for Chrome Sync; If they disabled talk years back, then Chrome Sync will also have been disabled.
The split between a personal Google Apps account and a plain old GMail account was the worst for me. Anyone who lived through the era where Google Apps accounts weren't full-fledged Google accounts is in the same boat. The way I solved the problem is by not using my personal Google Apps account anymore. I forward the email to a GMail account and use that for all Google services. Google Now was the main reason I made the switch. It only supports one account, and it was easier to move my email and calendar that it would've been to move Voice and everything else.
It's a natural progression in tech predictions. I remember the same thing in the late 90s with VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language, with a plugin available for Netscape). I never quite got how walking through a "virtual 3D store" was a good experience, but PC Magazine and others at the time seemed to think it was somehow the future of the web.

Edit: some VRML links for the nostalgic:
[1] http://books.google.com/books/about/PC_Magazine_Programming_...
An Apology to Laura Fitton we're sorry we blew it
Spam should never be deleted, it should be triaged and left to the user to deal with but it's definitely possible someone has screwed up. What I'm saying is it's probably a fuck up, what I'm not doing is defending it.
The other crazy thing is that his face now looks very different than it did when I was a kid. Old pictures don't look like the same person, doesn't fit my memory, &c. Perhaps he died and was replaced with a deep-cover Soviet spy?
One of my buddies (michael) is doing something similar with annotations and social reading @ pen.fm. I'll see how we may be able to incorporate some of these ideas.

I do have around 450k papers from JSTOR (released legally via archive.org). I have these papers indexed and can expose them via openjournal.

Also, as I mentioned in my previous post, a few guys from Berkeley (Tony Chen et al) are work on peer library which will be a more complete non profit academic search engine.

Good points about the 'barrier'. I'm hoping people will contribute their own papers (even if they are no published).

My ultimate vision would be for people to write their papers within a git repo and then upload/submit their .tex source (along with unit tests). I'm in the process of building some of these features.

Also, experimenting with some ocr and pdf analysis to scrape as much useful contextual information as I can from the papers contributed (for the great benefit of our users)

Thanks for taking the time to respond, streptomycin!
What field were you adding? Are you aware of django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractUser?
Do you have a link to that? I would be interested to read it.

I also couldn't agree more, but normally, people retort with the Hammer and Screwdriver argument.
About Palak di subzi, yes, its a favourite dish in Punjab, but not as much as the now iconic, Chole Bhature & local favourite, Sarso da Saag(Spinach Dish)+Makke di Roti(Bread).

Well, its not like a state of apathy in Punjab. A lot of the original Punjab is the small villages, not much connected to the public view. Alcoholism & Drugs is a problem faced by many countries, compared to that Punjab is no different.

A social change is coming in India, you know how they say language is culture. At this moment, Different Local languages are driving the way of adoption of western habits in an Indian way. In Delhi, a mix of English-Hindi-Urdu has become the norm, though many see English as a status standard, educated people know that it is not a big deal, and they are leading the way of the transition of Bharat(India in Hindi) to India, the later being not just English.
Wow, they closed and locked that? That type of question is pretty much exactly what Programmers.SE was intended for.

But unless I'm not understanding Slant's mission correctly, this type of question wouldn't work there: it's for things like "What programming language should I learn next?" or, a little closer to your closed question, "Should I use curly or straight brackets to denote scope when designing a programming language?"
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More people should be doing this. You don't even have to move out of tech yourself, find a position in a company where tech is only ancillary, not the core focus. You'd be surprised just how many real problems are out there waiting to be solved.
Sweet, thanks very much!
That's probably just done via host file (or otherwise at the DNS level) for filtering undesirable sites. It's rather sensationalist to call that "forging network traffic". I don't even know if you can reasonably call it "censorship". What Apple does with the internet in their own stores is both inconsequential and also totally their own business.

In contrast, deleting email based on content is neither inconsequential nor their own business.
It is an adversarial system. But where Ortiz gets it wrong is that the purpose of the whole system is to deliver justice, not to crush an opponent.
I wonder if such weapons have already been directed against our advanced fighters, ships, and submarines.

I remember reading about the COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) program in the late 90's and the use of Windows NT 4 on AEGIS vessels. Supposedly, there was a protocol for rebooting everything, every two weeks. Hopefully, nothing critical would be down the moment there was an attack. (To be fair, the NT4 kernel is rock solid, so long as you leave it unmolested, which Microsoft didn't.)
Don't you understand? We need you to accept that this is a new technology and a ground-breaking algorithm and a new innovative (and valuable, non-obvious) technology. CloudFlare was established in 2007 with the goal to develop a faster, safter, better internet. CloudFlare, the web performance and security company, set records this month hitting more than 100 million daily active users and more than 50 billion monthly page views!
Pours out a beer for PowerPlant.
SDL[1] maybe a bit overkill for what you need but we had good success with them for projects that required international translation.

[1] http://www.sdl.com
I wasn't claiming that wasn't biased. It was stated that nobody was talking about it, but I don't think that's the case. I've heard it since the health care debates started in the U.S.

As for that study, I'm a little concerned that they only looked at a handful of states, and this little line at the bottom:

"The authors acknowledge financial support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (formerly the Medical Research Council of Canada) for this research."

My guess: both your source and mine are biased and flawed, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Perhaps you should have googled it before telling us that it was invented by the Catholic church.

Nice try moving the goalposts from health insurance (you know, the topic at hand), but still wrong...try more googling.
I'm a fan of plaus, academia, and mendley, etc. I wish there was more of an outlet/community for people to contribute their own research (in a way that made the research repeatable and improvable)
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