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I've worked at a few companies where there were millions of customers, in every instance they've talked about how customer support is one of the biggest cost sinks in the company, and do everything possible to cut those costs. They will give employees one hour less than is required to give them benefits, then ask you to work overtime, they will reduce training from what was traditionally 1 month down to 5 days, they will move the call centre to whatever is cheapest and ultimately they will offshore the centre as much as possible. Google just went one logical step further and cut the cost (almost) completely.
Docear as an alternative to Mendeley
Hah, this was exactly the reason I was hesitating to use Mendeley, although it's got great tools. Creating your paper database in such a system is a huge investment in time, it's hard and very frustrating to move between such systems.

AFAIK, the open source tools cannot much the maturity of Mendeley, am I wrong? In this age and time, how hard can it be to clone a service like that?
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This is the story of how we rewrote our Backbone-powered web application in AngularJS, using nearly half the lines of code. (It is a love story.)
CSSO [1] is a tool that removes duplicate declarations during minification instead of just warning about them. It also performs more advanced structural optimizations.

[1] http://bem.info/tools/csso/
A single HDD can almost saturate 1GbE with sequential reads from the disk with no caching. What if you have 2 HDDs, or are serving data that's cached?
Sadly, public shaming on social media seems to be the most efficient way of getting issues resolved these days.
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His argument isn't "stay 1000 miles away from SV at all times". It's common for founders of more established startups to frequent SV (and other hotspots depending on industry and event locations), so I don't think it invalidates the argument if, for example, 5% of the company's total worker-days are spent in SV.
Flagging is taken into account with article position. People are flagging the monsanto article.

HN could be a useful place to discuss monsanto, but that thread is an excellent demonstration of why topics like that fail on HN.

There's a bunch of people who've gone into that thread with fixed opinions. They're not going to change their opinions; they're going to cherry pick articles to support their view points. Discussion is limited and polarised.
I don't get why everyone is so paranoid about this. What are people trying to hide?
You're conceding too much. High status men have had advantageous circumstances and treatment for a long time. Men are competitors & not particularly kind towards those below them, especially those of no inherent reproductive value... cannon fodder don't have ovaries.
My favourite too, simple, clean, and shows everything in an order that makes more sense. The latest changes to the site were excellent improvements as well!
yeah, i thought so too! The personalization/recommendation space is super crowded though -- it'll be interesting to see how Optimizely tackles it.
Is this like a competence for Go?
While I am not a researcher and have never used Mendeley et al I do know about Elsevier's reputation.

As mentioned in this blog it would seem the wisest thing would be to switch for the moment and keep an eye on mendeley.

Who knows, maybe they really will change Elsevier, I doubt it but you never know.

After all, given the backlash Elsevier know this is their ONE (long-haul) chance to redeem themselves. Screw this up and they are totally beyond hope (For those who might not think they already are)
Why not? It make sense as a strategy to select a good partner.
Are you new here? Every time there's a story in any way relating to sexism, the community jumps on it like it's somehow a worthwhile conversation, when really everyone just wants to put their two cents in. Like me for example.
When it comes to mailing lists, there's only Google and Yahoo. The support is extinct at both places but Yahoo has on and off development going with their Yahoogroups and I find it better than Googlegroups.
Right, it looks like they're going to build something similar to Monetate http://monetate.com/products/personalization. There are already high quality, established players in this space. I'm curious to see how they'll differentiate themselves.
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Anecdotally there seems to be an inversion as people get older - those who stayed up all night in their youth find themselves needing more, while those who used to get the full 8 hours start waking up after less. (I must admit this makes no sense)
But then you have a reverse problem of not necessarily having enough talent in the area.

There's no doubt that some areas have a great concentration of talent than others. But there are definitely plenty of places besides SV where there is talent aplenty. Look at the Research Triangle Park area of NC... within something like a 25 mile radius you have 3 major research universities (UNC Chapel Hill, NC State and Duke), several smaller colleges, including the all-girl schools and the historically black colleges, Peace, North Carolina Central, Meredeith, Shaw, St. Augustines, etc., as well as two pretty good community colleges - Wake Tech and Durham Tech.

One of the suburbs here (Cary) has - if I recall correctly - the highest (or one of the highest) per capita concentrations of Phd holders of any city in the US. Yes, in North Carolina... fancy that, huh?

The challenge for startups here, in terms of talent, is to convince local graduates, and/or people who move here to work for IBM, Glaxo, Cisco, EMC, etc., to stay here and work for a startup. But the talent is here, and as the startup culture grows (and it has been growing, markedly so in the past 4-5 years I'd say), that becomes more and more viable.
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Most reviews are for before you see the movie, but some reviews are great for afterwards. I go to Rotten Tomatoes to help me decide what to see. If Pauline Kael has an essay/review for an old movie, I'll read it after I've seen it, or before I see it a second time.

For me Ebert's reviews filled both roles.
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You're assuming it's a productivity measure and not a "sheesh, Bob looks like he could use a hand today" sort of thing.
That makes sense and I understand it. However it seems way too artificial for me, because I was watching the Monsanto thread and it went from place 2 in the 1st page to the 3rd page in the span of a couple of minutes before anyone had a chance to express their opinion so as you see it now it's because only those of us that were in the thread actually continued discussion.
Google never treated me with any loyalty. What do I owe them? Nothing, as far as I can see it, as long as I don't do anything unethical. (Exposing bad practices and using rude language aren't unethical.)

Still, you're right in a way. Google is 55,000 people and I have no problem with 54.9+ thousand of them. In fact, that company often makes great products because, in spite of the executive malignancy, they have some top-notch engineering talent under their roof.

I shouldn't have said, "Choke on a taint, Google". I should have said, "Choke on a taint; parasitic, psychopathic, incompetent and entitled executive caste that implemented closed allocation at a once-great company, developed a mean-spirited, Kafkaesque 'calibration score' system worse than Enron's, and has destroyed billions of dollars of value."

Sorry, but the people who played a direct role in the managerial destruction (e.g. calibration scores) of Google are human garbage. They took what used to be a great company and destroyed it, and for no good reason. They deserve much more than I have thrown at them.
css-ratiocinator [1] is also another tool someone mentioned to me after I launched cssscss.

[1] https://github.com/begriffs/css-ratiocinator and http://www.csstrashman.com/
That may be the reason they brag about it dynamically reformatting the dashboard to work on a TV.
Really ridiculous. Makes we afraid, we host our company email service with Google. What if that just goes away and they dont even care?
I have personally integrated Mendeley into my process as a student, despite the fact that I should have known better. Sometimes everyone gets distracted by shiny things, I guess. Shame on me.
Maybe I shouldn't feed you?

Now, I am a troll because I oppose your narrow views suggesting 'Feminists are always right. Men are wrong'

Because you posted two links in response to my argument that feminists don't commit to drama when it's the other side that's being hurt. But you paste just two blog posts that never got popular (I stand by this) trying to justify the fact that feminists did create an issue out of this.

My question is "Where's the drama?"

I think to understand the popularity I'm talking about, you need to go back and read out about some recent incidents where a company was brought under fire and posts were written by dozens and dozens of blogs and authors about an incident where a woman got offended because she over-heard a private conversation and about another incident where a company was under fire because they had hired PROFESSIONAL models to promote their hard disks. Now that is immense popularity, not just two blog posts that never got as much attention as described above. My point is, don't favor one gender over the other.

Also, I said unpopular blog posts and not just unpopular blogs. I hope you take some English lessons part-time.

I generally keep track of such tech issues. I never got to read those posts you linked above. If it were really popular as you claim, then I would have seen some twitter hash tags and some re-posts of the article by prominent media organizations.
This sort of status board would actually fit Android's Daydream concept quite well. Daydreams are sort of screensaver-ish system that apps can use to draw stuff on the screen whenever a device is docked or charging.

Here are some existing examples:
http://www.androidcentral.com/five-apps-android-daydream
Nonsense. Whatever the calling app does with the data will always be an additional cost over what the DB does with the data. Eliminating the DB's cost doesn't invalidate the measurement. It only shows how much waste is going on in other DB implementations.

There are plenty of results in real-world apps too, not just microbenches. E.g. YCSB, Yahoo Cloud Storage Benchmark with Mapkeeper driver https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mapkeeper...

MemcacheDB https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/memcache...

These tests actually read data and send to a client.

And of course the slapd test results, as documented in the multiple papers/presentations. http://symas.com/mdb/
If you do a bit of searching you'll find Google is always yanking apps. Since anyone can upload anything to the Play store Google has to go around and pull the obvious scam stuff down on a regular basis. Something like AppGratis with lots of users and high ratings would not have been touched by Google.
They really don't, though. A number of people jump on, then the thread gets flagged to death. Only when it's about women, though:

http://tumbling.alastair.is/post/42050321362/why-are-posts-a...
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I pause, let out a sigh, and respond with:

Ten years from now, San Francisco will be just as good as it is today. But in ten years, Detroit will be a roaring city once again, defining a new technology hub at the intersection of muscle and brains. Where do you want to be in ten years? Status quo? Or one of the heroes that rebuilt a city?
Ask them if they use it?
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The font size is the same size for me. I do like the increased padding on the design.
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What is Google public stock backed by? It buys no influence and yields no dividend, and Larry and Sergei have said it will stay that way, yet investors are happy to pay $800 for a symbolic piece (costing 25 times the share of earnings it represents, useless as that is without dividends).
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Agreed about Silicon Valley colocation being unnecessary. I'd go further and argue that imposed colocation anywhere is unnecessary. For over a decade I've worked exclusively on distributed teams which came together only during those times when it was naturally productive to do so. For the majority of the time, team members worked in distributed locations independently.

Consider Joy's Law [1]:

"No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else"

Generalizing, I believe:

"No matter where you are, most of the smartest people are somewhere else."

Face-to-face productivity gains are easily overwhelmed by losses due to having restricted the search for team members unnecessarily. Distributed organizations will win in the future.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_Law_(management)
I am quite disappointed by this - the next target which hasn't been really picked up yet is Academia.edu though it's purpose is slightly different than Mendeley.

http://academia.edu/
I don't see anything wrong with this. The PC (including servers) world went down a path of high physical integration- the bus, the CPU, the memory, and the peripherals are all one unit that couldn't really be carved up.

Now people are realizing they can build a server from a bunch of parts connected by fast fabric, and you can pull/place items in the fabric and use them immediately, or take them apart. The MULTICS machine was actually carved into two pieces live, every night, to run two instances, then re-merged in the morning(!)

Hardware virtualization - and component aggregation - were always great ideas, and now the technology exists to deploy it at the middle-tier commodity server level.
It could be that Elsevier is pivoting into an open access model through its other efforts and buying up Mendeley. I won't hold my breath, though. The model, while evolving, could just morph into something else that sucks.

It's a real bummer. There's so much good stuff locked up in these publishing houses.
I prefer bigger fonts. I also prefer off-white backgrounds and dark fonts, but still keeping high contrast. High contrast is good, but this is a bit much.

I really like the way it fits in my narrow browser window! Many redesigns don't.

And I like the bigger upvote button.
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I've been following Rust for a bit, though not for anything serious as it seems very nichey. I do hope it picks up some momentum, though.

I have to say, I've tried several times to move to Go and I've never fully embraced Go's syntax. For some reason I'm able to wrap my head around Rust much easier. I don't know the reason, but I can.

I wonder what the future holds for Rust. In a world with Go, C, C++11, Scala and Obj C (among others), there is no shortage of languages it seems to directly compete with and b/c of that, you have to wonder where it will be in a year or 18 months.
Voting is an incredibly hard problem. For instance, your description "anonymous but prevents double voting" is ripe for fraud: I go around paying people to vote for me (or intimidating them into doing so). The secret ballot, cast in public, is resistant to that attack.

More generally, one requirement of a voting system is that people trust it. Any elaborate system, no matter what it's theoretical advantages, can have a hard time meeting this hurdle because there are many people in the population who are NOT experts on cryptography and won't be comfortable with any elaborate system.
You can also get free Microsoft Office apps in SkyDive, which are actually better than Google Docs (and don't screw up your documents). These apps don't need an Office 365 sub.

Despite the name, Office 365 isn't really about Office -- you already have it -- it's selling web-based SharePoint and other services.
Come on, you're getting pedantic. Hacker News and its participants should be better than that.

> Are you saying you don't need luck if you locate to Silicon Valley???

He's saying you're less dependent on luck for success if you're in SV. The mean of the "success" probability distribution is shifted towards the right.

> IF the opposing argument was actually that you must be in Silicon Valley to be successful, then even one opposing datapoint invalidates that argument.

Nobody reasonable is saying you MUST be in the Valley. They're saying it makes it considerably easier than being anywhere else on the planet.

> If you're doing something fashion related, for example, you might be better served to be in NYC, London or even LA.

Again, we're speaking about all tech startups in general. Nobody is saying there aren't occasional exceptions.

> Beyond that, the higher cost of living, increased competition for technical talent, etc., could be reasons a given startup would be better off not being in the valley.

The higher cost of living is not a reason to definitely not be in the Valley (though it can be a factor). You can learn to live frugally if being an entrepreneur is that important to you. And the Valley is the best place for technical talent (among other things important to startups).
The DPRK does some IT Offshoring stuff, particularly for Europeans. There was an article about it last summer in the Communications of the ACM.
>Men have been getting the good end of sexual discrimination for centuries. Owning property. Voting.

You are referring to rich men, that elusive 1%. Average men have traditionally gotten the worst/riskiest jobs such as soldier and physical labourer. While the top 1% do get these advantages, the bottom 99% are maybe worse off than women.

Also, the "men had it good for centuries, it's women's turn now" doesn't hold. I am not those men. I was not present then and I resent having to pay for it. Should a child have to pay for the sins of 10 generations ago?

What counts for us is here and now. What passed, passed. It was not our doing.
It probably depends on the observing person. I found it helpful at a conceptual level, and I think it could be a good introductory teaching aid.

I always run into trouble when visuals encode too much information in colors... I'm red-green color deficient (commonly called color blind), so discriminating colors that have reds and greens as components is challenging.
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Ya I read that too. Unsafe just sounds like a word used by marketing fools to sell sell sell. And C++ can be directly read by the hardware? I'm not even sure what that means. Additionally, C++ has tons of abstractions. It's tons of templates and OOP don't scream down to the metal and i also guess you can't use threads in C++ and that's why it sucks so bad for multi cores. You learn something new everyday.
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The suggestion in the article (instant-financing for online purchases, like with auto-sales) will simply not work, for one reason: the majority of purchases are not capital investments (as for example a car or a home), and therefore quickly depreciate in value beyond the level at which a finance agency can recoup costs in a repossession.

Until you fix the problem of defaulting, finance will be an expensive proposition for unknown borrowers, too expensive for most non-asset purchases.
How many seconds does your website have to capture user attention?
I've worked at a startup in Santa Barbara CA, and one in the Bay Area. The reason I push to the Bay is for energy purposes. The inspiration of the startup community really boosted everyones energy up and pumped us up to work harder! It easier to work out with others that are working out rather than doing it alone in your living room.
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I'm not saying that this is a desirable situation for users. But I also think it's clear that Google has made a calculated decision -- they want to offer their products for free to as many people as possible, and then avoid supporting them.

I would think that the lesson here isn't that Google should be supporting its products, but rather that people should think twice before using unsupported, free products.

I believe that it was Henry Luce, the founder of Time magazine, who said that if you aren't paying for a product, then you're the product. And indeed, that's what we see with Google: They give away their products in order to sell your eyeballs to advertisers.

This doesn't make them an evil company (although perhaps other things do). They have a legitimate business model that seems to work for many people.

Complaining that Google isn't willing to offer support, free or paid, is an indication that your interests and Google's aren't aligned. They're not about to change, so perhaps you shouldn't run your service on their system.
Ditto. I have a todo.md in almost all of my git repositories. Once I finish a feature, I delete the line from the todo file and throw it in the same commit.
Being stronger is a good thing.

Weightlifting (with free weights) 3x a week did wonders for my posture.

Archery sounds a bit more fun
Still nonsense. "AFAIK memory mapping doesn't work asynchronously" - clearly you don't know much. Reader threads in LMDB never block (except for pagefaults to pull data in, which are obviously unavoidable).
I find the Ron Paul/Austrian school camp's complaints that central banking causes bubbles hilarious because their most notable achievements so far have been the creation of two asset bubbles.

Since 2008 they have been claiming that monetary policy will usher in hyper inflation and they created a gold/silver asset price bubble. Now the same ideology is being used to create a bitcoin bubble.

Even more hilarious is their assertion that a crypto-currency like bitcoin is scarce and limited in supply.

Clone the bitcoin github repo, find and replace bitcoin with HollowayCoin, edit a couple lines of code to create a new genesis block and boom I just made my own crypto currency with all the benefits of bitcoin.

New crypto coins will become important because the block chain won't scale, and new block chains will need to be created. These alt coins are already being traded for btc on a couple exchanges.

These crypto-currencies serve a purpose, but there is no need for them to trade at $230 per coin.
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