skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting one of the comments from Techcrunch which I think should be upvoted:

"disgraceful that they spent their whole life as a company arguing that they were the next big thing in open publishing only to sell out to the most unethical monolith in closed publishing out there. no doubt el$evier will enjoy slowly ripping apart what's left of mendeley and continuing with its centuries-old business model of making money off the back of researchers' freely provided knowledge.

nice to see your true colours team mendeley!"
It sounds like the value may be in who is on the list and growing. Maybe the order is not as important as the fact that these are all companies worth watching?
You're right. I was thinking of the similar-but-crucially-different situation of using two Apple Thunderbolt Displays chained together. Multiple sources confirm that works, but obviously that doesn't help if you're trying to use a pair of non-Thunderbolt DisplayPort monitors. The combination of slightly lower resolution (1440 vs 1600) and the built-in controller seems to make all the difference.
If you start using metacharacters, it's no longer a universal .csv, but an excel-specific one.
Thank you for Subversion :) Not only was it better than CVS but it was a damn site better than Visual SourceSafe too, which was often the alternative in Microsoft-land.
Your two viewpoints are reconcilable, I think.

From the standpoint of the individual developer, you handle edge cases like this so you don't break your clients' experience.

From the standpoint of the ecosystem, broken tools are bad, and they cause individual developers to have to handle more edge cases.

If one individual developer doesn't handle these edge cases, their clients will just think they are bad. If all of the individual developers decided not to handle these edge cases in a coordinated fashion, sure, they could trigger a change. But I don't think that's how it happens in the real world.

To look back on the days of IE6/IE7, most developers didn't just stop supporting these browsers and hope that their clients would stop using them; they supported the browsers until larger forces caused their clients to shift to newer browsers.

Getting back to my original point, I think it's possible for each of you to have the viewpoints that you have, but also for rachelbythebay to say, "Sure, if I could coordinate with all other devs to stop handling broken edge cases at the same time, I would do that," and for you to say, "Sure, I can see how you would want to keep your job and handle edge cases until they are fixed upstream."
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Luckily, we can all wax poetic about how much better we are than the system we live in an participate in. My ego could also use a boost, so I will join in this pointless "I totally agree" thread.

Seriously though, can we actually discuss solutions instead of another circle jerk thread where we all nod our heads and agree about problems that have been known for a long time now?

American politics are diversionary because that's what it takes to get votes into the polls. There is little power in voting, we live in a democratic republic. The people we vote on do the real thinking, thank god.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere can fix most of the issues you mentioned, by forcing the browser to use HTTPS on domains like paypal.com. You don't even have to have visited the site recently, because the whitelist is supplied by EFF.
How is it a final battle? The plutocracy is not going anywhere. It is the new organizational principle for the Earth and it will last 2000 years just as the previous organizational principle did.
While Mendeley certainly has me hooked on their desktop client, I'm not sure I've ever understood their social aspects...

I'm very, very, very skeptical, but this could wind up being a good thing. Elsevier can't entirely make it a "walled garden" just due to the nature of research. Mendeley may not have been able to make their business model work alone. Finally, some of Elsevier's search tools are actually quite nice. Seeing them integrated into Mendeley could be very useful.

I just hope they don't smother/abandon the desktop side of it. Currently, Mendeley is the best cross-platform research paper manager, i.m.o. I'd really, really hate to see them drop linux support, but I'm worried that it's somewhat likely.
If Samsung makes this model laptop with a high res display, I will happily buy it as my next machine. The wife has the current model and loves it, but the screen is not quite up to scratch. Otherwise, a brilliant little device.
It's a spectrum. It's possible to be 'slightly evil' or 'very evil', or - in the case of Hitler or Pol Pot - 'one of the most evil humans who ever lived'.
That's consistent with my experience.
Not only onerous paperwork; but very poor advice wrt how to build a business. This is federal money not intended for high risk high reward opportunities.
The advice I got was "you should focus more on a niche instead of a mass market. Your chances of success will be much higher"
Would your bank close your account if you tried to withdraw $10,000 from it in a ski mask though?
You've heard of Anita Hill, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill
I'll second the T430 series. I've had good luck with the T430u with the base configuration and ubuntu. Ubuntu installation was simple using a bootable USB drive and the latest Ubuntu desktop.

The screen on the T430u is not full HD, but cheaper than the regular T430 though.

I believe an SSD is available as an upgrade, but I suspect doing the upgrade yourself would be easy. I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB, which was an easy upgrade following the manual. The hard drive looks to be similarly easy to upgrade.

The keyboard is acceptable and I have found that I have adapted to it quickly.

I haven't pushed the battery life, but I would estimate 4-5 hours with web browsing and the screen brightness up.
The only irony I see here is the medium ignorance you exhibit.

Who said comics are not supposed to be word-heavy? Comics are not just comedic panels or superhero stories.

Especially in the European comics tradition, but in other cultures too, including alternative US comics, all kinds of ratios between words/pictures have been used to great effect.
Startup looks to re-invent the resume for design students.
Our platform will be the umbrella over all design portfolio sites like Behance, Deviant art, Dribble, Linkedin, ect. We will be using our technology to automatically pool all design students projects into a central hub where high profile employers will hire out of. We will be using a dating style platform for employers to match with the perfect students.
We certainly don't hope that this is the case. We are very much excited at the opportunity this is providing us to focus on our userbase. We have an action packed roadmap set ahead of us and the resources now available to us will allow us to work faster on implementing the many features we have planned.
I know it's fun to beat up on people who use their software meant for summing accounting tables as simple databases, but really the alternatives in these small cases usually introduce so much friction to the user and require so much work to get up and running as to not be worth it.

Even worse, most of the "right" solutions eliminate the easy look at dozens of rows that a spreadsheet offers (letting the user do fast unconscious visual comparisons in their own data) vs. showing what's essentially one row out of some table at a time.

Sometimes a simple grid that users can quickly navigate around, enter stuff into and see all of is the best solution.

The problem is that we (the tech industry) seem to only offer two choices, do it a) the wrong Excel way b) do it the huge giant IT initiative way...

I bet there's huge money to be made in a simple spreadsheet-like user interface that can be setup with similar constraints as a database (field types, foreign key constraints etc). That's all it seems both sides really want.
Yes, a lot of big companies were once ridiculous ideas.
The founders where tenacious, and would have succeeded regardless of any synthesized hype.
I argue there's more companies hurt because of this than there are that thrive.
The Hadoop ecosystem: the (welcome) elephant in the room (infographic)
As I've mentioned before, we see this as a great opportunity to focus on our users and provide an ever better tool and overall resource. More resources will mean more features faster and more attention to key projects like our open API (which will see more attention!)
I've gone into more detail on what can go wrong with HTTPS here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5515967

True, you have to trust your VPN provider, but at the end of the day you have to trust someone, including the many certificate authorities on which HTTPS relies. But a good VPN provider is way more trustworthy than the types of networks you encounter when traveling. You should still check for SSL when using a VPN but you don't need to be as vigilant about it.

This is beside the point, but VPNs really don't provide anonymity. Many VPN services log and comply with court orders. Some VPN providers claim to not keep logs but you have no way of knowing if that's true. If you need anonymity you use Tor.
Looks awesome man, slick design. Don't worry too much if it doesn't take off here on HN - from breakdowns of traffic analytics after Show HNs and other sources it still seems like word of mouth and cumulative use effect make everything else look like a drop in the water.
I think the only way this system can start to equalize itself is if people start to learn how to live off the land again. Once we have self-sustaining (properly nourished, educated, etc) commmunities who can live without currency (animal kingdom has done it since it existed) the system will finally be able to balance itself.

Once people realize currency is a man-made thing, and is not necessary to live fruitful, productive, enriched lives (the one real hurdle left is energy self-sufficiency), the system will finally be able to balance itself.

The fact that more and more startups are learning to self-govern is more reason to be optimistic that the social constructs that rule our worlds today are going to be a thing of the past. Hopefully sooner than later.
All of Apple's 2012 models (save the Mac Pro), and a few of its 2011 models, can drive 2 Thunderbolt displays:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5219?viewlocale=en_US#dispnum

I've done this myself with both the MacBook Air (Mid 2012) and the Mac Mini (Late 2012).
I half-agree with rachelbythebay's position, but, in my experience, users will definitely say "hey, this site doesn't work with your service", the developer investigates and fixes it. It'd also probably be worth it to just email the devs of the service, it'd probably get fixed a significant proportion of the time.
That's a very good point. (Of course there are still many sites out there that don't have HTTPS at all.)
The small amount of research I just did suggests that the networks pay the local stations the affiliate fees: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-the-tv-business-act...

I had assumed the locals were paying to get content from the networks, but that doesn't seem to be the case (also indicated in another comment.)
Isn't that spending it on bitcoins?
What if he doesn't want to work remotely though?

When you go to school in the US and then get a job, you build a network of both personal and professional relationships, you get settled in a place, etc.
Why should someone who's actively contributing to the economy be forced to throw that away?

I'm in the same boat as OP's colleague. Graduated from a US grad school, now working in SF with an apartment, furniture, friends, a girlfriend, a professional network, etc. The company I helped start has created 4 jobs in the last month or two, with many more to come.

And now I'm in a lottery against some large companies who view the visa as just an opportunity to place cheap labor.

How is that fair, sane, reasonable or sensible in any way?
Not computer science, but a brilliant math lecture:

Jean Serre's "Writing Mathematics" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf88b5_jean-pierre-serre-wr...
That is why all increments of American money are called dollars.
I know no safe driver with a monthly insurance premium in the "several hundred per month" range. Even fairly expensive cars rarely go much above $2k/year for full coverage.
And as an aside I'd strongly advise against using triggers in almost all cases. They tend to result in systems where things happen by "magic" rather than in well understood ways. If you're tempted to write a trigger, use a stored procedure instead and invoke it explicitly.
Wasn't this announced like two months ago?
Vancouver has exceptional talent, a shared time zone with the valley, and ski hills minutes away. Grow labs and launch academy are also seeding and launching legit companies.
All this adds up to a pretty strong scene.
I'm not aware of investors stoned Boris and Bdc ... But again, SV investors aren't shy to invest globally. In fact, many including Dave McClure, and our former investors (tandem entrepreneurs) focus on these markets.
I don't think the lack of traction is anything more than the app being largely irrelevant to the HN community. It's not going to help anyone develop software or build a business. While the website is professional (and presumably the app as well) the HN community isn't going to learn much of anything - other than the app is for sale - or be entertained by visiting the site.

Compare your previous posts to this one. Here you tell a story. One relevant to many HN members. What makes it compelling is that it is about you and the challenges of your business - not about features of an app that solves a problem most people don't have.

Your question here comes across as genuine not marketing noise. That's why its got traction. Interest in your project will come as a byproduct of your contribution to the community, not by treating HN as just another social media outlet.

Good luck.
Yeah, I'm in the same spot as you.

I don't think we need mindless bitching anywhere. I think the site would benefit if more people showed up wearing their business hat and left their developer hat somewhere else.

I could be mistaken, but I thought that was the point of this forum in the first place.
I don't want to comment on a comment, so I'd prefer to point you to Mendeley's official blog post on this topic here: http://blog.mendeley.com/start-up-life/team-mendeley-is-join...

If there are more questions, we have put together a couple questions and answers here: http://blog.mendeley.com/press-release/qa-team-mendeley-join...

Finally, if there are still lingering questions, we're more than happy to answer them here or directly with us on twitter @rvidal / @mendeley_com / @mendeleysupport
And there's always email: support@mendeley.com :)
Absolutely agreed, I just thought it was a bit of an expensive suggestion for someone thinking about getting back into the hobby.
do the tools he was using currently exist? especially the first two
We're in it for the long run. So no worries. I also need it to finish my degree, so there's that too! :) (Btw, notice that you now have double storage!)
Reddit unexited. They're an independent company now.
No, it isn't. We're still committed as ever to producing a great research tool and resource for our users. We will keep pushing for that and will certainly accelerate the pace with more resources.
The way that it's determined if these laws are congruent with the U.S. Constitution is for the infringed groups to take the case before SCOTUS.

It's just the sad way it is, the Legislature is under no particular obligation to determine the Constitutionality of the laws it passes.

Sucks, but that's the way it is.
Obviously Bitcoins. :)
I don't understand the "developer" vs "entrepreneur" distinction. It sounds condescending and patronizing. The OP isn't complaining because he's a developer, he's complaining because he had a bad experience with the service.

No matter which hat you wear, feedback is valuable. It updates my probability that I'll get screwed by PayPal a tiny bit higher.
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Why does everyone seem to think you need to raise money from Canadian investors?
We raise from US investors in our first startup. We were Canadian nobodies with nothing but a beta as a pitch deck.
Yes, it's easier to raise if vc's can drive down the road to visit .... But it's a lame excuse to use.
I miss when Rory Blyth (original author, I don't know who is cutting and pasting it to their private website at wyorock.com) used to run a blog called http://www.neopoleon.com/

There was some great stuff on there. He stopped blogging in 2008 but it's archived.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080517080006/http://www.neopole...
Is there much to be done, except for the OPT extension?
As someone who has been a longtime longtime Zotero user is there any good reason for me to check out Mendeley? I played with it once awhile back, but not enough to get a good feel for it. Zotero worked well, and continues to work well for me. Are there different use cases for one vs. the other that I might be missing?
I don't see how traction relates to traffic. Traction rates to financials. Traffic relates to momentum, which is more of a measure of visitors, and not of growth. Not a bad data set per we, either. I'd love to see this type of approach done with each company's growth, but I am sure most will shy away, including the YC founders.
You're right that we shouldn't condemn [company, person] because somebody made a blog post after [company, person] did something that upset them. But, you've taken on a big job sticking up for PayPal. It doesn't take a Google-fu master to find copious examples of PP behaving inexcusably.
For all the comments about crackmes and patching around messageboxes, I would like to mention that reverse engineering is arguably more valuable for its ability to surface file format information and/or protocol specifics.

In several countries, this is one of the expressly granted rights with respect to reverse engineering since it promotes interoperability and (more often than not) allows one to use a file format (or network service) long after the original software has expired [in the mortality sense].

I also highly recommend checking out the new http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/ since it is currently in its beta period and needs all the content it can get.
Seconded. I saw it at YOW a few years back. If you get a chance to see it live, it is well worth it.
The spreadsheet didn't include 9gag?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/9gag.com

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/21/yc-demo-day-s12/
Are spam filters really that bad? I've had my email address in plain sight for well over a decade - no munging or similar tricks, even using a mailto url - and my domain is a catchall. Spamassassin plus RBL works just fine for me.

My personal gmail is around 8 years old IIRC and similarly I really don't see any spam or false positives there either.

What are the people who are so concerned about this problem doing that results in them getting spam that isn't caught by filtering systems?
Your whole premise is that his ideas "weren't successful", whereas I see it more as a case of "Greenspun's tenth rule".

That is: tt's not that the VMs lost and the web won.

It's the web started from something that wasn't adequate for what we wanted, and after all these years it has been adding all kinds of kludgy, warty and half-baked implementations of VM features.

In essence, instead of designing a proper web-as-VM from the start (and slowly evolve it as capabilities of networks and CPUs increase) we started with Lee's document based thing, that we soon found out is barely enough, and we have to have video, sound, app capabilities, process isolation, maybe a common bytecode, networking, real-time, etc.

I.e we started from dumb documents we links, when what we wanted was a VM. And now we have twisted the dump document model to sorta kinda look like a VM.

How many times have you heard that "the browser is the new OS" and such?

So, it's a Greenspun's tenth rule, only instead of Lisp we build an ad-hoc, bug-ridden, clumsy version of Alan Kay's, Doug Engelbart, etc, ideas.
Hell, even new PHP comes with a packaged local dev server.
It's a little old, but here's some notes from Reddit and their traffic vs. numbers from Compete, Quantcast, and Alexa:
http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...

From my personal experience, the numbers from Alexa are complete gibberish.
9gag's global traffic rank dropped from #328 to #329 in the sample period. The list does not include companies whose traffic went down, even if they are in the top 250,000 of all sites globally. I included an explanation of this in the post.
Mir and Android GPU's
Traction relates to financials - citation needed
If you have lots of pdf's on your hard drive that you want to automatically extract metadata from (or organize), it's quite nice. It's easy to go from nested folders of pdf's --> Mendeley --> bibtex file, with a reasonably minimal amount of quality control.

I may be misremembering, but I don't think zotero is geared towards that?
As pointed out in the comments on the article, this would have been a handy article to have 3 years ago when it was possible to profitably mine Bitcoins. It has got to the point where the costs of generating a Bitcoin far outweigh the costs of just buying a Bitcoin. Sure you can enter a mining pool and split the profits based on your efforts, but still works out to cost more in energy than what you get in return.
What I don't understand about this quote is this:

>disgraceful that they spent their whole life as a company arguing that they were the next big thing in open publishing

Mendeley is not a publishing company.
We have a pattern we call shrink ray. It's a graph of how much the old system is still in place.

Immediately brought to mind the first large shop I worked in out of school (about 1992) where they had a big chart on one wall titled "Punch Card Elimination" with a downward trending line. I was actually shocked that a large, multinational manufacturer was using punch cards for anything, particularly when my project involved building cutting-edge (at the time) client/server systems that included wireless handheld devices on the client side. My introduction to the counterintuitive world of enterprise IT: you will often see opposite ends of the technology spectrum in use, simply because the value proposition of eliminating the old was never high enough before.
yeah, cultural difference. 'Potted plant' is called a 'pot plant' round my parts. A pot plant is also, I guess, called a 'pot plant' though very few people would use that term. It's all in the context.
>And yet no desktop toolkit has ever approached the ubiquity and deployability of the web.

Actually there are more Windows installations than are internet users.

(If you count mobile phones the numbers might skew a little, but the vast majority of those on third world countries are not used for the web anyway).
Yeah, they're sort of weird edge case but I can see a case for wanting to benchmark against them, let me think about it a bit.
This could be very interesting, but like most P2P and File sharing protocols you can make them and secure as you like, but the weakest link in any encryption is people. All it takes is for someone from the RIAA, MPAA, etc to infiltrate said private network and easily be able to catch people out sharing copyrighted material easily.

It's good to see people thinking of ways around a very serious impending problem if something like CISPA passes shortly.