skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second the suggestion to add support for templates for most well-known publishers. For example, in CS even having Springer and IEEE 2-column templates supported would have been enough for me when I was involved in writing papers. I think that when you have publisher template support for the few major publishers in a field, there is much less of a barrier for the researchers in the field to start using authorea. This would IMO not be in conflict with the long term vision of moving papers to web but rather a first step in getting enough users for the publishers to listen.
In what circumstances would you want server-side templates and how come it's easier with Handlebars?
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Thats actually possible right now! Well system sound is. Its disabled in the release version as its a little painful to setup but if you are interested you can email us and we can guide you through it. everyone (at) screenhero (dot) com
Kakao is pretty ubiquitous on Korea too. I like the look of path but unfortunately its nigh impossible to choose your social network - it's just whatever gets adopted by the majority. I wouldn't choose to use kakao but since a lot of my contacts use it I kind of have to!
Even if baseline literacy, the ability to read a street sign or news bulletin, is rising, the practice of reading an actual book is not.

This means literacy is on the rise. The author is one of many people who are concerned because our society is moving away from the novel as a form of expression.

I would argue that videogames are filling that niche -- instead of sitting and reading a book for 40-60 hours, we sit and guide a character and live their story for 40-60 hours.

The question here becomes: Are Mexican children playing enough videogames?
Everyone is sitting on a java 0day now. They have lost a lot of value in the market since there is literally as much supply as demand. I keep reading CVEs waiting for the one I have to be discovered by someone.
Hah, great find, thanks :)
Seeing as how cops can already handcuff a person, position them face down, shoot them in the back after immobilizing them, and get away with it (with bonus pay!)... Yeah, humans have no rights against drones.
I learned Angular instead since it was easier to get my feet wet with it and seemed to make sense to me. Am I missing something by not using Ember?
Sure, but to be completely honest, this is one of those things where I'm very unlikely to take a big chance on a new, untried software. At least, not for my business. For my personal use, sure.

I'd like to see a helluva lot of proof that you're a legit company before trusting you with this kind of information.

I say this not to discourage you, but just to explain how a business owner will think about your premise. Or at least me, don't know if this is representative of your actual audience or not.

In any case let me know when it's up, I'd love to take a look!
Poor Vupen. Their Safari exploit must have broke.
> Being unable to disprove does not confer any special status to a hypothesis

It does separate it from those hypotheses we can disprove.

Certainly some conjectures are not falsifiable with current science, and some may never be. When we must make decisions based on non-falsifiable hypotheses, such as whether love is more valuable than misery, whether our life has purpose, whether we are actors or observers in the world, we must have some basis for belief or be paralyzed by believing nothing.

Given the long history of philosophical and spiritual discussion by humanity, little of which is scientifically testable, there may in fact be more to life than science.

Don't get me wrong - I love science and am a big believer that where science can be used it should be. Where science does not apply though, we must resort to reason, intuition, feeling, and whatever other basis for judgement we can have. Just as with science, no hypotheses or belief should be unassailable, but we must have a basis for belief other than science to place any value on our lives or experience.
For comparison, Germany has no statutory minimum wage

However they do have various social systems in place where basically the government will make up the difference between what you earn and what you need to live for people working very low wage jobs.
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How do you give your user options without overloading them?
I rationalized this as the state-machine kind of state, of the application.
I have a system like that, that takes a master and the domain. The advantages over the Firefox password manager is availability and not having to worry about backups. Since I know the algorithm, I can recreate any password using widely available tools.
> †† "What stupid question?" This one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5335285

That's a nice way to frame your point, but it's not true:

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/03/06/qa-rand-paul-drones... See the linked PDFs "one", "two", and "three" in the 4th paragraph there.

Do you have a government pension or something? Edit: that's just a joke, but you're very pro-establishment. Maybe you're a devil's advocate, maybe you're tempering our views, but you seem to approach the situation as defaulting to trusting the government, whereas I do not.
Of the seven experiments that Sheldrake describes in his book, the phenomena of dogs (and other pets) knowing when their owners are coming home, has been empirically verified in many instances, and anecdotally verified by thousands of pet owners the world over - and at least a couple of friends. It certainly deserves some serious scientific inquiry rather than being dismissed out-of-hand as "ergo jesus" (as per the blog post above) or woo-woo. His other proposed experiment on phantom limbs and the real pain they can cause, on the other hand (no pun intended) has been fully explained and even solved by neuroscientist V. Ramachandran in his book "Phantoms of the Mind".
Yes! I have enjoyed many novels. But people (including me) are learning English from communicating on the web. And children are learning English from playing videogames i.e. as a byproduct of something they actually enjoy (I witness it happening!)

John Holt: “I suspect that many children would learn arithmetic, and learn it better, if it were illegal.”
This sounds like it'd be an awesome app for Google Glass.
At 25% of mobile, I agree it is a worthwhile endeavor to find exploits for safari.

I was about to make fun of you for suggesting safari has significant usage until I considered mobile.
Some of them are also valid for all kind of consulting business also.
Model, View AND ViewModel? What kind of confusing terminology is that? I use KnockoutJS but I still don't understand why it's not just called MVC.
who wants to drink from the FIRE HOSE?
Fair points. I think you've made a good case.
Derek Sivers has a good post on outsourcing development: http://sivers.org/how2hire

Here are the steps Derek suggests:

1. Reduce your big idea to “Version 1.0”

2. Write a simple overview of what it does

3. Write a detailed walk-through of every click

4. Break it up into milestones

5. Make your first milestone a stand-alone project

6. Post it at elance, guru, odesk, vworker

7. Hire one from each

8. Continue with the one you like best
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The best is when they mix them - opinion pieces with emotion for interest, mixed in with data (even if only in sidebars).

Maybe newspapers should do more collaborations where one author writes the emotion, and the other does research and gets the data. Then an editor blends the two into a uniform article. (It would be nice for one person to do it all, but they are different enough that different people would be good at them.)
This is a cool idea, but anyone who needs "how it works" explained is really not the target audience.
> There is more to life than testable scientific understandings. I could love my mother or I could not love my mother. Can you test that? Because you can not test it, does it mean it should not be mentioned and is not important?

No, but it does mean that it's not science.
Are you just repeating words you found elsewhere in the thread? You'll be hard pressed to find a crypto system that doesn't require implementations at both ends. NaCL is the library used to implement DNSCrypt, which is pretty much ssh for your DNS queries.
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I really enjoyed the Game vs. API talk at Waza. Also the Heroku decorations were stylish. I never imagined so much black and purple could look good inside.
That fits the definition of the word perfectly. Also, the author cites a study from Unesco that confirms his emotionally charged anecdotes. Data alone will rarely spur people to action.
Ron Conway is the most active angel investor in the Bay Area by number of deals. To give you a better answer, tell us what metric you are evaluating angel investors on?
There is a difference between being paid to do a job and a job that increases the total wealth in the world.

There are two ways to look at this - the pg style do something people want (such as play Starcraft well) and a more physicist viewpoint of decreasing amount of energy needed to achieve a given outcome. (Yeah that definition needs some work but it is intuitively measurable)

Anyway, if robots do all the stuff that is physicist-style
Like farming or manufacture and humans then sit around doing arts and crafts, that's great for humans - as long as there is some means of distributing the wealth (energy transformed into goods?) - and preferably a fair means of doing so

We could just hand out food, or give everyone a "job" - but correcting the compensation when the job is not actually productive is hard. We are going to go into a world where economics will have to catch up.

A job is essentially an overloaded concept - it does two things, distributes wealth and is an actual means of wealth creation. Split the two and we are in uncharted waters, but splitting the two we are.
One of the problems I see with this is that a Republican is leading the charge on this rather than a Democrat. And because Rand Paul says a lot of stupid things, as do most Republicans, I think many people will dismiss this as partisan politics (which it probably is).

I think we need another president as bad or worse as Bush again (perhaps Romney or Palin) to put enough pressure on citizens to become actively engaged again and take to the streets.
If they could truly change the world he should totally follow up on them and test them beyond reasonable doubt. There's potentially seven Nobel prizes in the bag, fame, fortune. Even empirically ruling out those seven ideas would be a worthwhile endeavor.

But, you know, selling books and doing TED talks. Ok. Fine. Whatever.
Business has been switching away from desktop applications for years, outside of Office I don't see this as an issue.
The only problem is that they are giving out products which surpasses the ticket prices.

People (with less money) genuinely interested in the development talks, establishing connections, getting to know fellow developers and have interesting conversations, would be a second rank citizen to the "tech enthusiast" with a lot of money to spend.
Came to say the exact same thing. (Fake) speech synthesis on VIC-20 with sung lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8
Since the Confederate states were dropped from the Union and later readmitted over time, that's not a crystal clear interpretation. There's a case to be made that the Confederacy seceded only to be reconquered by force.
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Google glass is an interesting idea that conflicts with basic tenants of psychology. Facial recognition and attractiveness are critical to how we interact with others. This drive is so powerful that glasses used to correct vision are replaced by lenses that touch your eye, or aren't worn at all.

People would rather have plastic TOUCH their eye with somewhat rigid gas permeable lenses than mar their facial appearance with glasses. My eye flinches when I move my finger towards it and I still jammed contacts in there for years. The association of our facial appearance with our social identity is so powerful that we readily choose it over vision or comfort and pay more to do so.

Google glasses sound awesome, but the psychology against shit like this is powerful. I'm glad they're spending the money on it, but without some serious money invested in overcoming these psychological hurdles they won't go far.
No you are not special.
Nice list where the author is trying to make a comprehensive list, but then I also have some criticism of the article. It lacks some models, and it makes an implied relationship between for-profit and non-profit. In the English language, this is commonly refereed as making money vs raising money. A charity or non-profit (say Wikipedia) is commonly not talking about making money.

Some projects is funded by an indirect sponsorship model. Best example here is google and their model of giving 20 percent of an employees time to do what ever project that the employee wants. While Khan academy model is direct funding, projects that are an result of the google employee free time model is indirectly funded project.

Then we have non-profit and what they will consider to spend money and man hours on. Sometimes, that not even remotely related to their primary purpose, but is just something that interest the people in the organization.
Ask HN: What should I know before working remote for a company based in the US?
I live in Germany and looking for a new job. However it seems that most jobs I'm interested in are at companies in the US. Luckily a lot of those companies offer to work remote.

However when you live in Germany and work for a German company, your employer pays your taxes and social security contributions (providing you with national health care, social security and pension) from your gross wage and transfers your net wage once a month to your bank account. But what happens when the employer is based in the US? How taxes are payed then and how much are they? Can I still get national health care and social security in Germany? What else should I know?
What an awesome response. I speak from experience.
And then claim that "due process" doesn't mean a court and actually means a bunch of securocrats sitting in a room with a list of names going kill? or not kill?
Java's private is class based, not object based, so it's not really private. That is sort of broken.

Closure actually has truly local mutability, in its "transients" feature
> FWIW, that warning is...incorrect.

Or you have some fundamental flaw in your deployment now. Just because it compiles dosen't mean it's not vulnerable to say, a timing attack.
The last part was a joke, calm down dear.

Edit: As for psychologists, you're seriously telling me you never heard of Licklider? That's... astounding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider
I like it! I really relate to the childhood dream of making games. I've been dipping my toes HTML5 gamedev myself, but thus far have done everything with DOM nodes. Have you thought of putting it up on some app stores? Or at least the chrome store? That one is pretty easy and free. No clue how much traffic to expect from it, though.
Good point but I think it's now coming to a point where confusion might come into play. It's a balance between inconveniencing someone with auto focus and confusing someone else.
Mobile Safari was not in the list offered as targets if i read that right..
What an atrocious article. Anecdotal overload, complete non-understanding of statistics, and great dollops of confirmation bias and the fundamental attribution error.

It actually sickens me that this is what the NYTimes has become.

> Mexico is floundering socially, politically and economically because so many of its citizens do not read

Are you fucking kidding me? Does this guy understand that a narco fueled civil war is currently being waged throughout Mexico with nearly 60K deaths in the last 5 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War).

I'd respond to the rest of his article - but it's just so, so bad that I really can't be bothered.
In the past I've been working on enterprise application suites for the desktop. The kind of monstrous applications that run on electronics manufacturing floors.
Such a typical application has a shell, modules, inter-module communication, dynamic module loading, plugins, and much much more.

One can think of it as Eclipse with its ecosystem.

To build such a system on the Enterprise with its typical NIH (not invented here) paranoid attitude was VERY hard.

I had to reinvent a lot of wheels.

On the Web, I've used backbone for a long time now, since almost the time it was out. I saw the same problems building complex applications with it (that backbone-marionette amends to a great deal). For a larger project, I evaluated Angular. Had very strong negative feelings about it.

Then I tried Ember. It took me a long time to "get" it. The only thing that kept me motivated is knowing that Yehuda, Tom and Trek and other capable people are contributing on it. I kept fighting through the outdated tutorials, the outdated videos, and even the peepcode video was embarrassingly confusing to me at some point.

But then it hit me. Ember and its infrastructure, the way its MVC is rigged, was very similar to what I was building from scratch on the desktop many years ago. It truly IS the one framework that "gets" desktop, or client-side, applications.

The causer of my confusion was that I didn't completely let go of the "Web-think" for building application. I was stuck at either server-side MVC (MVP), or bare-bones frameworks such as Backbone.

It's been just too long out of the real complex desktop game for me, to realize what that I'm looking at is a proper MVC framework.

So for me, Ember ended up as being great - it still takes me back to the way I was building desktop applications, and I'm sure it will become even better and better.
To understand it, you need to cold-boot your thoughts into that classic desktop MVC place; and if you were never in it, I think Ember is an excellent way to get into it as opposed to other frameworks.
Did you just confuse revenue with earnings?
My biggest worry is that apparently 1Password can be cracked in only 5 seconds:

http://www.informationweek.com/security/encryption/security-...

"Belenko said that he himself had been using 1Password Pro, which may be the most-installed password manager for Apple iOS. But he ceased using it after testing the application's cryptography. "When we recovered my master password in five seconds? That was a moment," he said."
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Yes. In this modern world, it is better to give unemployment checks to pay people to study or clean the streets than to do something no one would give a tenner for.
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I have been into MVC frameworks for 4-5 months now...mostly used BackBoneJS before switching to EmberJS..conceptually I did felt EmberJS very tough in the beginning..i was worried whether i made the right choice in using EmberJS for my product..but now with the latest 1.0rc2, its so easy in development..routing has been improved very much..Binding is the awesome feature i liked and helps me thgh..an added advantage over BackBone...i cant say about angular..but am quiet happy with EmberJS...
Exactly, as it's pretty much standard with other CDN's, and has been for a very long time. Without any application level intelligence, you would end up with duplicate copies of content, as every node in every city ends up caching every bit of content. You're then limited to the amount of cache each node has, resulting in mush less available cache overall, more content expiring sooner, and even more requests back to the origin server. Although, if you use a tiered approach with some intermediate nodes between the end cachers and the origin server, you could mitigate this somewhat but it would still be quite suboptimal. The more standard method is to use a 2 layer approach, with the front end first layer intelligently hashing the full URL across the pool of the back end second layer. The trickier part then is if a single object requires more than one back end node, you need to be hash the same content to more than one node. This could be done by just having multiple pools of server on the back end, if the scale requires it.
Not to mention any sort of single-key navigation. What is important though is that TAB should work and focus the important fields in the correct order.
Safari's desktop share is somewhere between 5.5% and 15.5% depending on whose stats you trust:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sta...

Is it crazy to consider that significant?
Chrome automatically recognizes searches on sites, so that you can just type "ama[TAB]" in de URL bar, and it will give you a site-specific search straight in the URL bar (provided that "ama" auto-completes to "amazon.com" for you, naturally). This works for basically every site you've ever visited that has search functionality. It's pretty decent.
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I didn't know about Braintree being in Australia, I will check them out!
The incarceration rates (disregarding racial issues for now) aren't only to blame on the government, but iirc mainly on the privatization of the prison business; there was a huge spike in incarceration rates and length of prison terms when that came about in the 90's (I believe), good graph about that out there somewhere.
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The brain has very high plasticity. It is able to rewire itself for tasks that are done frequently so that it is able to perform those tasks better. The ability to read, understand, consider, and analyze long-form text is a skill that will be slowly lost in such a scenario. And I'd argue that the ability to read and understand documentation about complex ideas goes hand-in-hand with various important things, including complex scientific research, the details of an M&A deal, economic agreements between nations, or application source code. Maybe the average person doesn't need to do these things, but if more and more drop reading, the gross numbers of people able to grow into those roles would probably also decline.

I think the general consensus in the scientific community is that reading enables more long-term brainpower than does television or video games. Staving off Alzheimer's is one area that is frequently cited as a benefit for example.

edit: wording
Can't wait for all the blogs crying about how they weren't able to get tickets, how it is a stupid event, how world is horrible, etc etc..
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Intuition and feeling are not good substitutes for reason and evidence when trying to explore anything that doesn't or shouldn't have subjective qualities.

If something is supposed to be there, you can test for it. Take the Higgs particle. A model of particle physics was proposed. That model predicted the Higgs particle. Many years later we were able to build a machine that proved its existence within reasonable doubt.

God conveniently eludes the scientific method by a technicality, which is exemption by design. Love, faith, even artistic merit are things that can be hypothesized on using scientific models. But we generally agree that these are subjective qualities.
Are you somehow under the impression that Hollywood buys fewer screenplays than it would if producers could pay less? That there are some movies not getting made because of this?
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