skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to be said 20~something entrepreneurs that don't know life before there was internet. Yes ... they're romanticized in tech blogs, and the majority of successful entrepreneurs are > 30 ... but when a young smart entrepreneur like Brian who doesn't know what the world looked like before the internet speaks ... I listen.
This is very well made and will come in handy. Thanks.
Remove the proxy they use on your phone.

Don't downvote until you know what you're speaking on.
Like regularly backed up virtual machines?
I too upgraded the ram, just have to find one with the same timing on Amazon and pop it in(4gb stick). And as for the SSD I got myne on Newegg for $85 (128gb Samsung 840) also very simple to put in, remove a screw pull out the old and mount the new.
I also find the C in CSVs to be needlessly limiting. Especially since ASCII already comes defined with characters for record separator (30), unit separator(31), and group separator(29).
"Deflation is terrible" is a myth propagated by mainstream economists. Its probably true for the fiat money, fractional reserve (fictional reserve?) system we live in but Bitcoin by its construct is a very cool experiment to see if an alternative would work. The smartphone industry has been in continuous deflation for years - you can buy a better phone or same phone cheaper if you wait a year. But that dosent stop us from buying now does it. Hasent caused a recessionary death spiral yet.
> Is a country where you can be fined for saying "fuck" on television more or less free than a country where you can be fined for saying a minority should be exterminated, where it can be shown that hateful propaganda has the effect of silencing a whole group of people?

You can legally say "fuck" on American television all you want, just not using the public airwaves. Since the rise of cable it's the market, not the FCC, that sets those rules.

And there is a very, very important qualitative difference between regulating pornography and advertising and regulating political and religious expression.

> As we have seen, this belief has been disproven. The citizens of other countries are able to keep their governments more or less honest through maintaining formal and informal democratic institutions and civic engagement - indeed, the governments of many other countries are more responsive and accountable to their citizens than the US government.

Well, so far. There are some liberal democracies that are more honest than the US (probably Germany) and some that are less (probably Italy), and they haven't been liberal democracies quite as long as the US.

Frankly, much of the problem is that the US is such a damn big country. Most liberal democracies have the population of a large state, and New York and California both have relatively responsive state governments compared to the US federal government. How responsive is the EU? Less responsive than they can be because Germany and Greece want radically different things. The same is true of California and Mississippi.
Actually inflation causes the wealth divide, since the printed money goes to the top first, making them better off, then trickling to the bottom only after prices have gone up and people are poorer.
Remember: the ISPs are only the messengers; the IP holders are the only ones sending messages.

I remember reading on 4chan (possibly fake, but still interesting) where a guy was called up by his ISP who said that someone on his network downloaded some movie (actually probably didn't). The guy asks the ISP employee for his name and "kindly tells him to fuck off" using his words. He also threatened to leave AT&T so the employee was forced to entice him with a better deal.

Long story short, the guy liked the alert system.
For Linux, OS X, and Windows:

http://www.zotero.org/

http://www.colwiz.com/

For OS X and Windows:

http://endnote.com/

http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/

http://pdfstacks.com/

For OS X:

http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/

http://www.sonnysoftware.com/bookends/bookends.html

http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/SenteForMac.html

http://www.ironicsoftware.com/yep/

For Windows:

http://www.biblioscape.com/

http://www.citavi.com/

http://www.qiqqa.com/
Could you please rephrase your point using less sarcasm? I don't really understand what this comment is saying. I don't know how to make this request without sounding sarcastic myself, but I'm being sincere.
Absolutely they do.
Employers don't have to chip in for basic insurance... that's already paid for.
Employers end up taking part of that money and throwing it into extended benefits: in Vancouver I get $200 every 2 years for eyeglasses, $400/y HCSA (covers massage, acupuncture, nutritionist, etc.), $1500/y dental, fantastic Rx coverage, 1x/annual income life insurance, etc etc etc. - all of which costs the company less than what it costs the same company to provide basic insurance to their employees in the USA.

Sure, the employee pays more in income tax, but there's no lifetime maximum on claims, no 'taking a chance' and hoping you don't get sick, no gambling with your health period. For me that extra 6% I pay in income tax is well worth it.
As a Chinese, I saw all people I know does not upgrade their OS unless their computer hardware is broken inreversibly. And even in 2012, there are still some people install priate XP on new computer they bought or assembled.

And computers in netcafe or school are UNABLE TO UPDATE ANY SOFTWARE because all disk modifications are reverted after the computer restarts. People install a hardware called "recovery card" and it reverts all modifications on the hard disk. It sounds unbelievable but it is true. Almost all "computer rooms" (called "机房" here but i cannot come up with a good translation) in universities, even in famous universities, is still installed recovery card. The maintainers of those "computer rooms" just fix their computers while they are broken (very rare), and, install XP and old softwares.

Besides, compnies here install their own browsers, which is only a "shell" of IE, without user agreement? They put an "install XXX browser" checkbox on the install wizard of other software and make them checked by default. People here think that their browser is "upgraded" but the kernel is still IE6. (Interestingly some of the shell browsers started using webkit recently.)
Because I'm not in New York! :)

Also, I originally wrote it out as s/Canada/(Portland|Austin|Raleigh)/ and then felt like NYC was conspicuously left out. And further realized those other cities could post for themselves.
Going back to my comment, I think for a lot o peole it's not that they can't understand the Git data model, it's that they:

1) don't magically know that they're supposed to understand the data model in order to use it

2) Come for help when they screwed up because they don't understand it and are basically told "You screwed up because you're an idiot"; since they are already in a bad mood, they then ragequit.
I think he meant that the wealth divide is worse in relative terms. Everyone is richer than a century ago, but the top x% are richer than before, than the poor are richer than before.
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There are a host of issues with that, unfortunately. I think multi-gpu support is still pretty crummy, and the cost of a good gpu plus a monitor fancy enough to do something so progressive? That's going to be crazy expensive.
You're overstating the importance of industry at the time. American prosperity was based on agriculture at the time, for the vast majority of people. The US invented the cotton gin around the revolution, which was a game changer in a predominantly agricultural society and gave the country a lighweight exportable textile. Around then, it was also participating in the development of the steam engine and the steam boat. Even when the original invention originated in England or Scottland, the US was improving on the designs (e.g. iron plows cast in one piece).

My point isn't that the US sprung fully formed like some technological Athena. My point is that the US had a culture of innovating even when it copied the basic technology. This was by necessity, because perfect copying was not possible at the time. In comparisom, the Chinese and Indians have been so utterly dependent on wholesale copying that there is little innovation out of those societies. What need is there for a Chinese OS when you can just copy Windows, or Indian drug formulas when you can just use American formulas.
I find your example ironic, given how many Israelis are in Israel because they made a choice to leave their jobs, dwellings, friends, etc., in one society to join another. Few did so after one lost election, but most Israelis I've talked to have been very glad that they had alternatives. Many would have been happier if they had had a good alternative closer to home, but those back home who preferred large-scale governments deliberately eliminated the possibility of local alternatives.

More right-wing nonsense! Because a government large enough to provide health-care is automatically LARGE ENOUGH TO COMMIT MAJOR GENOCIDE AND DRIVE YOUR WHOLE ETHNICITY OUT OF THE COUNTRY!

We had better implement a system of permanent migration in the American style to make sure nobody suffers genocide by letting everyone flee to everywhere as soon as someone passes an income tax!

Or, you know, we could, unlike you, decide to base our politics on something other than childish, paranoid anarchist hysteria and actually implement an effective democracy that lets us run our lives without having to hoard guns and gold bullion in the family caravan.
Postgres is primarily designed around data integrity. Therefore it does the "right" thing for certain data types. For example, it stores dates and times in ISO 8601 format and converts to UTC. The arbitrary-precision decimal type has a ridiculously high number of maximum digits and decimal places. It is so high that only a very small number of applications would exceed the precision. This is the main reason we are switching from MySQL to Postgres.
Some people can do "anything" to get attention.
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I'm afraid that even at the best of times those three specific things are very poor foundations on which to build web applications.

Consider "1. seated close 2. relatively large screen 3. precise mouse" in the context of (what should be your very first imaginary user): a search bot. Not one of them make sense and they don't make much more sense if you expand your users beyond your very, very limited set.

Consider also:
vision impaired users, users without the mechanical ability to use a mouse, or any number of use cases with accessibility issues.

Personally I think the best use case in order to begin thinking about design for the web begins with: universal access to information. Every design, UX and technical decision should flow from that basic principle.
36% is awesome! And it's proves that Go still got lot of space for growing.
To those complaining about raising money as a Canadian startup. Overly simplified steps:
1. Stop whining.
2. Build something awesome.
3. Spend time on angelist angel.co
4. Spend time on hipmunk.com booking your trip
5. Be thankful you're starting your company in 2013 and not before 2009 when tax laws made it painful for foreign investment, there wasn't a frothy environment in the valley, when fundraising was actually hard, when starting up was way more expensive.
6. Watch the money roll in.
We are going to continue with our current roadmap. We're going to provide more features, more content via integration with Scopus and ScienceDirect and we even have a rewritten iOS app coming out soon. More resources will allow us to provide the necessary attention on the various key features in mendeley. Like the open API that will continue to be open and provide access to our catalog (which is also being improved!). I don't think you've miscalculated. However, I'm obviously biased.
Slower than Java at what?

At program startup time? Java is a joke in this area.

At memory consumption? Java has a high fixed memory cost. It also uses more memory than Go does. There are fundamental reasons for this. Java needs to keep around runtime type information because the code can change at runtime due to new classes being loaded. Go does not. Java also chose to implement a scheme where any object can serve as a mutex or condition variable. The result is a few words of extra memory per object when compared with Go... usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 or 16 bytes per object, depending on architecture. Using memory efficiently is HUGE in modern architectures and Go is better at that.

Go also gives you more control over how your program uses memory. This is because Go has both pointers and value types. The result is that things that would have had to be "boxed" (i.e. separate memory allocations) in Java can be unboxed in Go. If you know C, think of it as the difference between doing a malloc for each structure element, and just having a bunch of structs stored by value inside another struct.

Go is faster at interfacing with native code. Have you checked the speed of JNI lately? Speaking as someone who's written a lot of JNI... it's not pretty.

Java still has the edge in one area: HotSpot has a precise garbage collector, something Go doesn't currently have. But I have a feeling that gap is going to be closed.

Note: I am oversimplifying the unboxing discussion a bit. In theory, it might be possible to unbox certain structures in Java, such as non-nullable final fields. However, Go preserves a lot more of the intentions of the programmer in this regard-- and without knowing how the programmer intended to use the memory, most optimizers will struggle.
As long as your artwork is an original piece, I would contact a lawyer that is well versed in this type of situation.
Can you give us a preferred format for information? CSV? Or if you can outline the database structure, I don't mind contributing if you can tell me the preferred data format (to make it easier for you to import).
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I don't think that's true, that the economy was less stable a century ago than it is now. People used to give out 50 or even 100 year bonds, and recessions usually were not as bad and didn't last as long.

But even if I'm wrong, the currency not being based on gold is only one of a billion other things that has changed in the economy since then. It's a completely different world.

And while bitcoin is not a national currency it has the potential to become a universal currency online. People could work for bitcoins and use them to buy what they need online from other people that accept bitcoins. The currency could circulate through many hands without ever once being converted to another currency.

And since it's online any conversion could be done quickly and automatically so the effective difference between holding two different currencies wouldn't really matter. The only thing you would have to take into account is how likely they were to increase or decrease in value in the time that you aren't spending them, and bitcoin has a clear advantage in that regard.
All art requires courage. ~Anne Tucker
Your second link doesn't indicate any internet-derived excoriation, but instead shows an artist being taken through the legal system by AP, along with the artist obstructing the judicial process. I don't think it supports the point you're making.
How does this compare with Firebase, besides offering a way to host everything locally?
You will often need to dynamically generate all URLs depending on the current state of the page. A common example is an econmerce site where normal pages are HTTP, but things like the shopping cart and checkout are HTTPS. Your template will need to know to load resources as HTTPS when on a secure page. It's not the end of the world, but certainly annoying.
On HN there is usually a pretty high bar for making comments regarding performance, stability, etc...

I'm actually interested in what you have to share regarding performance characteristics of Go versus Java - but a bit more detail than, "Go has a some way to go still and it can be improved in all areas: GC, algorithms, heuristics, code generation," would be useful, particularly in comparison to Java, which you have called out.

Also - I think 36% is a pretty amazing improvement - particularly if Google can persist these performance increases.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513545
Perhaps consider buying a commercial display then. Not only do thye lack tuners, but if there is an ethernet port, it is most likely there for you to use to remote control the display. The only downside is that they typically cost a bit more.
I'm sorry you have such sour feelings about Elsevier. I can't really comment much about that. However, I can speak for what I know from Mendeley and I can tell you that we have projects planned that span farther than the one year abyss you mention. We're excited and looking forward to maintaining our company culture, work ethic, and the ultimate goal of building a useful tool and resource that helps our users.
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MOAR Javascript, please.

There is something to be said for ubiquity that programmers of other languages just don't get. Ruby might seem like a good idea to put into a browser but it will run slow as shit compared to the javascript engines that are in modern browsers. A lot of development has gone into optimizing javascript engines. Ruby, not so much.

Javascript is also the easiest language to learn, requires no boilerplate, and will run inside any web browser since the mid 90s, and the code you write with it can run instantly in any web browser, no installation required, just a URL to click on. There are so many reasons to learn javascript and develop with it, it is really unique and should remain that way. I'd really rather not go back to the days when there were two front-end languages, or worse, coffeescript.
> I don't think zotero is geared towards that

Zotero can import pdfs and figure out metadata, just like Mendeley, except without using OCR.
I can't believe that in 2013 people still think they can get away with things like this.
There's a large comparison table of the many reference management tools out there on wikipedia. It's not very very up-to-date but will provide for some good links and overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_managem...
This would make a great interview task... awesome if the candidate can design a cron-orientated decay but 'home run' if they can design a non-cron system.
I use both. Most documentation for different operations is on CLI, but JetBrains IDE's for example have very powerful Git tools like in-editor git-blame, auto-adding files, resolving merge conflicts, and opening lines of code on GitHub.
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Zotero can extract metadata from PDFs, but at present it can't import folder structure. We're always happy to take patches: https://github.com/zotero/zotero
> Anyone who is worth >$50 million doesn't fly commercially

I know people worth much, much more than that who most certainly do fly commercially (as well as take the subway).
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Which lends to the theory that it did indeed fall through the cracks. The bigger you are, the more you miss.

My theory is that it was from a 3rd party contractor and it just slipped through.
According to the link, the block only applies to certain types of resources, notably excluding images (presumably because malicious images cannot really take over the page).
Generating software service clients from a taxonomy of intents and permissions
Well. OK; they really do not look alike. ;-) I have no idea, how far the stories match up, but coming from a literature background, I can only say, that a lot of stories are a lot alike, when they tell anything in the same genre.

I mean, look at a lot of forensic women in thrillers. But that is just meant as a bit background-info on literature. There is even a "scientific" way of saying, some (very) old author copied from someone else:

Intertextuality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality

But as a side-note: Don't the ears of the white lion remind anyone of Mickey Mouse? Just saying... ;-)
FWIW this kind of thing is far, far easier on Android. It has it's own styling system that's somewhat similar to CSS and you can define and reuse properties and layout elements in a much saner way than the hodgepodge of tricks you have to resort to in iOS. Actually this is one of the reasons I consider Android to be overall easier than iOS to develop for.
The monopolies quip is Peter Thiel's philiosophy taken from his class that what's his name from Amicus transcribed and put online. In short, the peak of capitalism is a monopoly; all companies that aren't monopolies pretend to be, all companies that are monopolies pretend not to be.

Telecom pretends quite a bit.
Dude, chill. Downvote for language.
After Search, how and why broadband internet/TV is Google’s next big thing
Integration of Mendeley with Elsevier's Scopus and ScienceDirect is very much on the roadmap. The desktop app is going to continue to see more attention. Some great features coming to our next release. We've totally rewritten the iOS app and will be working on an official Android client soon too. Support for win/linux/mac is to continue too. :)
Germany doesn't have a minimum wage either.
I love this idea (it's resonating with me because I've been investigating whether library management software packages provide APIs).

I'm concerned though that if you need people to email you so that you can add info to the database, you're going to be in for an awful lot of work if this thing takes off, maybe beyond your ability to provide.

The other thing I was wondering is if kopibibli will provide any kind of API itself, so other applications can query your database? There's a world of potential for third parties there if so.

(reposted as reply to my earlier post)
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Between this and the Vice story on Afghan child suicide bombers, the notion of peace in the middle east seems like the cruelest and blackest of jokes. Arabs and Muslims will blow the fuck out of each other's sons and daughters without a second thought.
Racist BS! The article starts by a paragraph impying Iranian students are spies,etc. However, the number of Iranian students coming to US has been minimized thanks to ongoing Israeli lobby to very few per year. Then it moves to Chinese students and on and on...this crap has no place oh HN
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It is very unfortunate to see such comments on hacker news.
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The CMF is a big pot of money but to be in the running for funding you almost certainly have to hire a "consultant". There are many hoops, and they can be costly.
That's awesome! I had this idea for a while and I'm glad someone implemented it. Initially I thought about it being used for teens wanting to share secret messages among closed nit friends.
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> Hint: If you're an English speaking American with more than 5 years of work experience or a bachelors degree you have enough points

As an English speaking South-African finishing a PhD at an American university, it's good to know there are other options if the U.S. decides not to give me an H1-B (the quota was exceeded in the first week, so apparently we all get put through a lottery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513761)
I have no evidence for the claim, but I suspect it has something to do with a campaign that I think was started by the dominating classified ads site finn.no to get rid of IE6 (http://labs.finn.no/finn-anbefaler-ie6-brukere-a-oppgradere-...).

They made a snippet that displays a red box on the page with a warning if you are using IE6 and this got picked up by a lot of other sites. As you can see from the post above, this was in February of 2009.