skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly hope that's true as well, but everyone says this at this stage. Literally everyone.

And now Elsevier is in charge of your roadmap and resources. The company known mostly for profiteering, being boycotted, paying for shill reviews on Amazon, taking payouts to publish fake academic journals and being the example case of why open publishing was desperately needed.

You have a tough road ahead of you PR wise. Hopefully you can deliver on these promises. I believe you are being sincere in your comments here. But I would put a lot of money on this going the way the cynics expect it to go.
WikiLeaks Develops Searchable Database For Millions Of ‘Kissinger Cables’
Please send me an email (see my profile) if you're interested in this Ruby on Rails app. Any feedback is welcomed. The source code is on Github: https://github.com/kopibibli/kopibibli.
Well it will surely still work great for managing Elsevier papers.
Thanks for digging it out. Upvoted!
I remember there being a better version of this, but Luis von Ahn's talk on "Human Computation" was great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx082gDwGcM
Pretty sure they interpret a VPN as an anonymizing proxy. Just because you paid for it or it's through your business, it still shows PayPal a different IP address than your true location. Intent isn't the issue, as they both look alike.
You may have commitment, but do you have any actual authority?
Thanks for your insight, but we see the results of "Google's culture" every day, just as wee those of Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft.
Just learned sargable/function index for Postgres. Looks really cool feature.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/indexes-expression...

One question: Does this work for bitwise operators?
Heroku integration did it for me, doubly so when they released Postgres.app for Mac. It's incredibly appealing to have the same database on both ends. MySQL isn't hard to install by any means, but Postgres has become dead simple thanks to the work of Heroku.
Nice photos, but I think the setting is misunderstood.

The kayakers are not paddling "through" or "across" a volcano; they are in the ocean, I believe. Lava from the Pu'u O'o vent, 700m above sea level, flows down to meet the ocean, and they are apparently paddling around it.

Their activities are nonetheless "extreme"; lava is seriously nasty stuff.
How is the startup scene in Northwest Arkansas?
Orta already made an issue for this in the CocoaDocs repo :)
Well, this is what you get when you rely on non-free software.

But hopefully Elsevier can at least put some decent software engineers on it to make it somewhat less excruciating to use, e.g. http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-12-13-Damn-It-Mendeley....
I have a feeling people aren't going to wait a year to start on an open replacement given the cartoonishly awful reputation Elsevier has.
The End of Stanford?
I had the uncanny feeling I'd read this before... And then I realized I had! This article is from April 8th, 2012.
> First you pay extra for the roku with USB

The Roku 3 with the USB either is the same price or cheaper compared to an Apple TV, Google TV, and other variants. Before the Roku 3, Roku's were almost half the price of competing products.

> First you pay extra for the roku with USB so that you can plug in a hard drive and play local content, but the roku doesn't even support .avi files - in fact it basically supports nothing locally.

Plex is free on Roku. I can't say video playback was perfect on competing devices as well.

> The interface is also terrible, but I can forgive that since the box itself is a little under powered.

Yes, but it's also the easiest to use. It's even intuitive for non-techies.

> The only redeeming quality the roku had was the third part channel you can install on it, Plex (http://www.plexapp.com/).

IMO that's the only redeeming quality of Google TV devices.
Is Someone Recording This? It’s Harder to Find Out
The founders of the US didn't create the two term limit. That was created in the middle of the 20th century.
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God damn it. After the recent MySQL/OpenOffice/Java and Google Reader fiascos, my lab had a huge internal debate about whether to continue using Mendeley or choose a FLOSS alternative that wouldn't bite us later. Obviously we miscalculated.

I don't blame the Mendeley team -- too much -- since $100M is a lot of money. Although they shouldn't try to pretend that this isn't a complete sellout.

The fault really lies in the community's willingness to fall over and over for these shiny but not-quite-free alternatives. Two years ago, I would have said that Stallman is a nut; now, I think he's quite right.
Google/Apple Duopoly Leading The Way: Canalys
I know Thatcher only from films and articles but Indira Gandhi was no maiden-de-people and if at all she was anything she was a spoil(and neglected) brat with perverted and suppressed sexual traits(since teenage), dictatorial attitude, a misleading/misguiding cabinet(cocoon of shrewd cronies) and a lunatic son who most probably desired to outdo Hitler(died in a plane crash, some say mum got him done).

[In the comparison her daughter-in-law seems so stoic and regal with a clean past, but supposedly(not guilty till proven) too corrupt to...]

She successfully exhibited the second trait, when she was was done for in a fair election, by imposing emergency rule over India - which essentially means what a coup-d'etat does to a democracy.

PS. Thatcher was not born a Baroness. So, she accepted it later it seems. Well, unlike most other parts of world them Brits still love their royals! Good going :-)
It's like the gun control argument. A microscopic percentage of everyone who has ever purchased an assault weapon has ever committed a violent act. Regardless, the argument is that the potential harm makes banning necessary.
> Unless you like manually tracking parents of a commit

Git tracks the parents of a commit. There are ways to visualize that, even with command-line git. When you do this, it's usually clear which branch is master and which branch was the feature branch, and since the merge commit has a default commit message like "merge <<branch-name>> to master" it's even easier to figure out.

It's also entirely possible to use a Git workflow where you rebase your branches onto master before merging then in with a fast-forward, which means there are no merge commits. This workflow usually involves squashing. Conversely, you can use a workflow where you never fast-forward merge to master, in which case master is the branch that consists of a series of commits called "merge <<branch-name>> to master".
Ok, you are reading too strongly into my words. I was trying to keep a light tone. I apologize if that wasn't what came across. Anyhow, we do control our roadmap and we have plenty of exciting work ahead of us.
I was almost going to feel bad that I'd never heard of either of them until I found a kindred spirit.
That is like saying that beer is a currency because there are beer dealers all over the place.
There was way less cowbell in that picture than I expected.
Someone who can't understand the Git data model is, by programmer standards, a fool. If you actually understand the data model and have reasons for not liking Git, I'm curious what they are. Unfortunately, most criticisms come from people who can't be arsed to grok how Git works and just ragequit.
As a developer, not sure how useful it would be... I have not done the research, but if I could get some Linux distro to run on there perfectly, yea, it'd be an awesome piece of hardware.

But the price has never been about the hardware, it's about the fact that ChromeOS is a fancy web browser. They should ship the computer with some Linux distro and I would pick one up.
If Thunderbolt is cost prohibitive, I suggest moving to USB3. It's cheaper and much more widely deployed, and it's much much faster than FW800 and USB2. In fact, for most external drives, it's just as fast as Thunderbolt as the limiting factor is often the speed of the drive(s) and/or controller and not the IO bus.
All cases I know of where a currency collapses, it does so because the supply was inflated. Has a currency ever just collapsed without some dubious supply policy causing the collapse?
13.4 billion app downloads in Quarter 1 2013
What an insightful comment.
Activision "does not believe" it owns the rights to No One Lives Forever
Google Trends can be used to get some sense of traction. eg.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Newsblur%2C%20coinbas...

The problem is that the results are relative. One way would be to pick a keyword with a relatively high search volume which could be used as baseline. Another issue that I can think of is that companies named after common english words i.e. Pebble will have their results artificially inflated. This process might be hard or tricky to automate.

Growth in followers/likes/tweets/+1 counts could be used as a measure of traction.
This guy is my hero.
God you guys need to start wearing tinfoil hats
Sorry to read that you had issues with Mendeley. A quick look at that link and I can see that many of the issues you highlight are related to citation styles. We have made some good progress there with our citation style editor. We have also made plenty of improvements since that post. If you felt that some of the problems were limiting your research, we have a support team (support@mendeley.com) and also points of contact on twitter (if that's your thing).
As for software engineers, we have a very talented and expert team but we are proud to say that we will be adding to the team soon so that we can improve and iterate more rapidly and solidly.
No More Typed Passwords, Berkeley Researchers Develop “Passthoughts”
Sure. It's a logical absurdity to suppose a legal right to rebel, since the act of rebellion is the act of rejecting that legal authority in the first place.

I would actually say, though, that the Second Amendment is likely intended to put governments at explicit risk of rebellion, especially when it comes to day-to-day enforcement. It's not so much about rising up and marching on DC when they decide to oppress people. It's more about not being able to send in the cops to oppress people in the first place, because if they do, they'll end up being shot. Even within this century, the Black Panthers used the Second Amendment to protect blacks from police brutality: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secr...
The change could have been done more smoothly. Or to put it another way, how could it have been worse?
I don't pretend to have a perfect solution, but going to some of the areas hit by this is really depressing. The towns may never have been flash to start with but visiting mines and talking to people there is not that different to talking to someone who is describing to you a war they were in.
Yup, you're essentially right (I wrote the post). The gist of the article really could have been "Why you should start your startup outside of the valley" ... but choosing Canada has a few specific advantages I never really delved into with this post ...
While I agree to an extent, the current $2 billion market cap is far to small to compare with. When/if BTC reaches around $5,000 each ($50 billion or so market cap) I will agree.
What if Fox Quit Broadcast TV?
Envato launches a new marketplace for digital services
I'm curious, since I was just starting research and was going to need a tool like this, what options are there?
I've already used Mendeley a bit, but that was before I really needed a serious bibliography, so I didn't use most of the features. What else is out there in a similar vein?
What does it mean to existing trademarks in India that is also a trademark elsewhere and vice-versa?
In Vancouver you can easily score awesome developers for 80K/year (160K in the valley)
Through SR&ED you can get up to 40% of this back (so you're down to 50K / engineer (*note that I've not personally used SR&ED but I know others who have successfully).
And finally, benefits packages are in the low thousands / year instead of tens of thousands.
All told, you can build a team of awesome engineers for 1/2~1/3 the price of what it'd cost in the valley.
Any country you could be talking about is either shittier than the U.S. in other ways (Continental Europe), exactly like the U.S. (U.K., Australia), or too small and homogenous to be a credible counter example (Scandinavia, etc).
Haha somewhat ironic that this post is on the front page at the same time as the story about ZeroCater which was started by a guy with no programming experience, using Excel :)
The birthday paradox basically says that you can expect a collision when you've explored the square root of the problem space. For birthdays, you expect a collision in a group of sqrt(365) ~= 19 people.

For a 256-bit hash, you expec a collision in a group of 2^128 hashes. That is still huge. Absent a weakness in the hash being found, it's unlikely anyone will ever generate two colliding hashes.
Thieves in Germany Steal 5 Tons of Nutella
Sorry, but you obviously have never run a multinational internet company, nor do you seem to know anything about corporate VPNs. Nearly every large corporation in the world uses VPNs for employee computers. The "majority" of VPN users are not people trying to "hide" illicit activity, the majority are highly security conscious or they're road-warriors on questionable hotel connections among a variety of other non-criminal use cases.

When we started icouch.me while in Shanghai, China, PayPal flagged my account and constantly locked it even though I jumped through their hoops "proving" our legitimacy and that no transactions (at that time) were actually China-originated. Just the simple fact that I logged on from China caused us to get locked out of our payments for up to weeks at a time (even though they still had no problem collecting the fees from our still-incoming transactions.) Then once I got that nonsense sorted, I started traveling more frequently for the company. So when I arrived in New York City, once again I was locked out of my account for 5 business days for "security" reasons, even though we've never had a single chargeback or any sort of security complaint or issue. Then I worked out of Texas for several weeks and once again, my account was locked. Despite the fact that we had the same US corporate bank account since 2010 (when the company was first founded.) By using a VPN, I was able to ensure my US "presence" to manage our business without PayPal's ridiculously retarded IP-detection security lockouts. I've since told paypal to go suck an egg and we use Stripe for everything.

When a company like PayPal can hold my operational funds hostage for weeks at a time with no way to clear it up expeditiously, then they just became thieves. They're making interest off of MY money while I can't access it. If they were "really" worried about security, then they'd block all transactions as well. But no, they have no problem taking money.

Interestingly, the credit bureau websites are locked to US only IPs as well. So if you have a subscription to some credit-monitoring service, they'll gladly take your money even if you can't access their services with a non-US IP address.

Those folks can all go to hell. It isn't my problem that some russian and nigeria scam artists have a tendency to cause problems. The IP address isn't the issue -- it's the security of their overall application. They're using geo-location as a shorthand for actually doing their job in securing their site.

Interestingly, I can access my US Chase bank account, my Simple account, Fidelity Investment account, Stripe from around the world without any sort of of VPN, yet somehow PayPal can't seem to figure out how to get security or customer service right.
I realized the other day that it's a grammatically correct way of saying "corporations are made of people." Consider the famous quote: "Soylent green is people!" It doesn't mean that Soylent Green is a person, it means Soylent Green is made of people.
Really, because clearly I've lived under a rock to miss such influential, household name companies such as these.
Three Problems for Interactive Storytellers, Resolved
Ask HN - Browers Open in New Tab retain back history
I would love it if when you do "open in new tab or window" in a browser, it takes the 'back' history with it also.

Is this a valid idea amongst us HN readers? If so, who can I tell to get it into the main browsers?

I am not browser fussy, and could easily be using ie/chrome/ff without any thought, so I want this in all browsers.
Sure, but a mall invites the general public in and acts as "third spaces" for the public (and profits from doing that). Even in the Socialist Republic of California courts aren't going to decide that activists' free speech rights extend to what they do on private farms.
I'm on windows 8 primarily, but I also run osx and mint. I'm going to check this out on osx first, if all is good, I can help ensure windows compatibility.
Education game invokes Civilization and others to teach math
* ObjectSpace.methods does not work, so no global introspection.

* eval works
>eval("2+3")
5

* able to extend objects

* browser specific classes Window(possibly a singleton), EventTarget, Console , BarInfo

* if you open multiple windows, it acts like a seperate irb instance, though console history is available
In a previous life, I did a lot of MS BI & SharePoint work. On the BI side MS was just starting a push into the BI world and was gaining quite a bit of traction. I've worked on huge MS BI implementations and you are correct there. A lot of large firms use it for their whole BI stack.

On the SharePoint side of things, while I believe MS did oversell its capabilities, the problem was (could still be) that most places thought it was plug and play. It seriously wasn't. I don't know if things have gotten better but documentation those days was severely lacking. Add to that enterprises that were in the mindset that SharePoint was just another ASP .Net application and their in house devs could just pick it up without some sort of guidance.

There were a bunch of places where I was brought in to clean up the mess that happened because of those two things. I'm not sure if the landscape has changed or not but SharePoint is a beast unto itself and I've personally seen it implemented well at 30k+ seat organizations and the largest I've done was 50k seat org across 3 continents. It's not cheap to set up or customize but when it is done correctly, it does work.
> Maybe I'm too naive, but I would think virtually any foreign company can become very competitive by stealing.

It worked for China, India, and Korea.
Botched IT projects can destroy major corporations
Isn't allowing your users to hotlink images arbitrarily instead of rehosting usually a mistake anyway?
An Ode to Player 2
There are man-in-the-middle attacks that can cause problems with https. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/09/man-in-the-mid...
WikiLeaks Releases 1.7 Million U.S. Diplomatic Records in the 'Kissinger Cables'
Puzzle - Transform One String to Another
And you know that how??
Cartoonish is right.

Not only are they horribly exploitative towards the academics and librarians who by and large both write and purchase what Elsevier publishes, they also ... sponsor arms fairs! whee!
and... a great reason to switch to Zotero if you haven't already. Elsevier has rightly earned the mire of academics around the world, and I'm sure they'll continue that path with their acquisition of Mendeley.
I finally came to terms with this about a year ago. On HN, you're going to see the soap opera version of silicon valley. Necessarily, most elements are going to be blown way out of proportion just to justify a narrative. Without the narrative, what hope do the rest of these poor slobs have of catching the huge attention their VCs want to make them feel fuzzy and warm about their fuggly valuations?
And the United States.

EDIT: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/piracy-and-fraud-pr...
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I don't think the MPAA gets punitive damages except for willful infringement. It's going to be hard to prove that this case with Disney -- it may be that nobody in Disney's employ even knows that this image is someone else's, if the work was done on contract. And it's going to be hard to make the case of economic harm, since the artist was not selling her work in the market otherwise.
HTML5: Alive And Well With CIOs
Does this reverse modulo?
You should consider a technical co-founder . . . or at least a mentor . . . they can point you in the right direction for questions like these . . .

Here are some quick answers without knowing too much about what you have in mind . . .

Should I set up a server in my basement or use a service?
No servers in your basement . . . most ideas can probably be validated with inexpensive shared hosting and you can move up to a VPS and beyond from there as needed.

Will my personal internet provider have sufficient bandwith? (media is involved.) You won't want to serve these off your home based server . . . consider Amazon S3 for your media files.

Will I need a lawyer to write the user licence agreement? How much will it cost?
Consult an attorney but typically you can find a free template that is adequate to use when validating your idea.

Which business type should I use? (I need to balance the liability issue with simplicity.) Again consult an attorney but you could start out by forming an LLC or even initially testing your idea without forming a company.

How will should I set up the payment methods? Consider Stripe.com for payments.

What potential legal issues could happen? Consult an attorney . . . all kinds of things could happen.

how could they be avoided? Again, consult an attorney and a mentor.

These are the hard questions that I feel I need to work on. Most podcast / articles / essays etc don't go into these technical details.

There are some technical gems in podcasts but you are going to need an advisor or technical co-founder.

The main thing you'll get from the interview/articles are things like testing your idea, is your niche/product/service viable, building an email list, launch strategy, pricing, selling a product/bundle, marketing, conversion optimization, etc . . . the technical aspects should be one of the easier areas of the startup . . . making the idea happen . . . this would be the responsibility of your technical co-founder and/or developer.

Good luck . . .
Satoshis are the lowest denominator of bitcoin, being .00000001BTC
Chrome 27 Beta: A Speedier Web and New HTML5 Forms
Email from my father at 7.17 this morning: >>I just looked at the Grauniad, Independent, TImes, Telegraph - all have front pages dominated by her. I then went to the Scotsman to see what the view was… there was no mention at all….<<
I see she is there now.
Is Zotero [1] a competitor in that space? If so, any idea how they compare?

[1]: http://www.zotero.org/
Apple screws developers, again
Freedom vs. Structure and Productivity By Jiri Novotny
God you guys need to start wearing tinfoil hats

It's not really a secret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDM3MqHln8U#t=3318s (note that Facebook was specifically mentioned @ 56:07)
Navy Deploys Laser Drone Fighter
What are some good javascript jokes? (Quora)
Programming and the tools, available to non-developers, make processes infinitely adaptable. I don't understand why this is interesting.
Curiosity rover traces loss of Martian air
Firefox for Android Beta Comes with Open Source Fonts and HTML5 improvements
What is there to explain? As a software developer, experience matters.

If you're building disposable demos, you probably have more problems than building software.