skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that there should be something like SO (Stack Overflow) for scientific papers, with anonymous user-generated reviews and ratings of the papers, and reputation being acquired by the users, both based on papers and their reviews. I wrote 'anonymous' because it's a more heavy-weight business than posting and assessing questions about coding. To avoid the situations when scientists get angry because of bad reviews, and try to revenge on their reviewers, it should be at least in the first years anonymous. The reviews would be voluntary, and also would be rated, just like answers to question in SO. I am a scientist, and I know that reviews have very low quality because of many reasons, such system could perhaps help improving the reviews, while keeping the reviewing process automatized, and reducing its cost to the minimum. In fact, costs of storing papers are low (Arxiv), reviews are free (nobody pays to the scientists anyway, they do it for the community and reputation), and the only cost that is high is the cost of managing the reviews. But if reviews could be automatized then we have a system that is as cheap as Arxiv is, and peer-reviewed :)

In the long run I see such system emerging and being successful, and eventually replacing everything else. Needless to say it will take a lot of time though to popularize it.

What do you think? Could this be done?
They have most certainly been turning around. I know absolutely nothing about their software team (where they are, headcount, etc), but in the Android space they have accelerated dramatically.
Most businesses will succeed based on a variety of metrics, there are environmental factors that help some of those metrics.

Startups are hard - setting up shop in a startup hub helps you succeed at being a startup. There's support and best practices in the air for you at being a startup, which is super super helpful. SF being the largest and most robust of these hubs provides probably the greatest support on this front.

Nevertheless, it is sometimes forgotten that startups often don't exist in a startup vacuum - they interact on a variety of levels with the world and different locations will help them succeed in these other aspects. If your startup deals with publishers, being in the location where all those publishers are helps you immensely. If you deal with fashion being in a fashion hub helps you. If you're schtick is some fancy machine learning thing, maybe you want to set up shop by MIT. Etc.

So while generically being in a startup hub will help most startups more than other locations. Specifically your startup might see greater benefit elsewhere, or not in SF or whatever. And maybe, just maybe, you don't need these environmental boosts so just go wherever the hell you want to live. It's startups, break the rules when you want to - just know what you're giving up and what you're getting in return.
Why would any sexism story not get buried? This is Hacker News, not Tumblr or SRS.
It's not a legal duopoly, innit. It's just a business with extremely high barriers to entry given all the infrastructure.

The only tools at your disposal is some kind of subsidy or legislate them into eating the costs of laying down infrastructure in less profitable areas.
I think there is a rough analogy with gold, but I would think of gold as an established value instrument and bitcoin as an unestablished one.

For instance, ~$690 million of trading has crossed a single gold trading instrument since this morning:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GLD

I don't have an argument that bitcoin could not handle that sort of volume, but I don't think it is particularly controversial to say that it has not proven itself to be a stable store of value.
The problem (at least here) is that they don't. Boys are usually given harsher sentences for same misbehavior as girls. Also, there is more boys dropping out than girls. Girls tend to grade higher than boys as well.

Unemployment of young folk (<30) is more prevalent in men than women.

I don't want to take anything from the women's struggle, but more and more, they are getting the upper hand. (Heck, my boy is 11 months old, and even now, he gets more 'insults' about behavior then his female cousin about same age)
It's rare that I feel any particular emotion towards project names, but the name and description behind this one is inspired.
Work for Zencoder: Software Engineer in Test
No idea. You have to install the app on your phone, so it can read your phone's accounts. I think a Google account is required on an Android phone. Google accounts have gender in their profile (remember the G+ fiasco?). You also have to link it to Facebook, so it has access to your Facebook data as well. Maybe they don't like new Facebook accounts with zero activity, but certainly there is a usecase for women who want to use this app, but don't want to use Facebook (I would think there is a usecase for women who don't have smartphones as well). Not sure about the iPhone flow.

This thought exercise is really making me scared about how much the owners of the apps on my phone know about me!
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You are a bit, but that's ok, fwiw, I'm speaking from my experience whether it's right or wrong, which I felt had value. I only meant that after using it on several projects, I felt that it had some cool features, but there are quite a few 'gotchas' that come with it. That is, come with thinking it's like any other database, which it's not.
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Posicionamiento con Schema.org *microformatos*
Let's get the timeline on that quote right. In the linked video it's Vic Gundotra talking about starting work at Google, and the first day he met Andy Rubin at Google. According to his wiki "Gundotra joined Google in June 2007". That was well after iPhone was announced in Jan 07 and at most a month before it was released (also in June 07). As far as explaining the purpose of the Android project, it makes sense. It was the purpose of the project at the time, and not the reason Android was purchased: the "one man/company/device" would've been a legitimate concern at the time Rubin made that statement.
Not just controversial. Some of us get our political news elsewhere and would rather see articles promoted on HN if they bear some relation to the theme. Flagging is the only way for the community to control what others post.
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The cancer increase was from fallout. If you use it within Earth orbit, you still have significant fallout.
Actually that's exactly how billmelater works. On several websites it's beside the credit card payment form. Unfortunately I can't think of an example site off the top of my head.
Or be like me and do both.

Deadlifts, both regular and Romanian, will do wonders for your lower back.

Archery gets you out and moving.
This is fantastic. Any girl who uses something like this is someone to stay away from anyway and now it just gets easier. Keep up the good work.
This already exists. This already existed in the 90s, and was in fact very normal. Sun, DEC/compaq, HP, IBM, etc all sold systems like this. Why does intel always pretend doing something 20 years late is innovation?
> yes, even their paying customers

This was the thread on Webmasterword, when Google closed Million USD Adwords advertiser accounts without warning, after changing their guidelines unannounced http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords/4020049.htm

Google is completely automated, and individual customers don't exist, only statistically significant numbers.

> Self host. Don't rely on Google.

Or any other company if you don't have a contract that legally protects your data while it is on another company's server.
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I think the main thing about archery that may have helped OP is that it requires you to have decent posture to steady your shot and have proper form, which would lead to less muscle aches, one would think.
They're not an ISP providing a dumb pipe. They're a hosting solution providing the servers that are generating the attacks. The attack is originating from them, not personal equipment relayed over their pipes.
Generally, we consider a service being too expensive to be a good reason for a company not to offer that service. So not offering a service might be evidence that said service is too expensive to offer/operate. You can see this argument being made prominently in the Linode thread on the front page - someone complains that they don't offer a $10/month plan, and others point out it would be extremely expensive to support. Thus the lack of the $10/month plan is used as evidence that it is likely too expensive to offer.

You've gone the completely other way: you're saying the service not being offered is evidence that it is cheap. This is the opposite of the typical argument. So I'm reducing your idea here to its simplest logical form, trying to make it super clear to readers (and hopefully you) how ass-backwards it is.
>I don't understand why the cities would give so much free stuff to Google for them to set up their fiber network instead of just... setting up their own fiber network that's then actually owned by the public.

Isn't Google providing the actual capital to pay workers in trucks to dig holes and string fiber? It looks to me like the "free stuff" falls almost entirely into the category of the expedited cutting of red tape.

You have to remember that there is a level of politics with all of this too. A municipal network may benefit the public, but who is going to pay lobbyists and lawyers to beat back AT&T's efforts to stop it? Whereas in the case of Google Fiber the 'who' is clearly Google.
It seems much stronger than one downvote. Personally I reserve its use for blogspam, particularly toxic discussion, or if it's just beating a dead horse.
I don't know, I find it impressive that Google is doing this without begging for money, then canceling the project after doing no work on it because of hand wavy "expenses", like AT&T and their crowd have traditionally done with putting fiber everywhere.
Its REALLY easy to hate unions, because they seem like money-grubbing fools on TV. However, as a young engineer at a Major DoD contractor back in the day, I shook my head in wonder at what the unions had clearly done for us in beating our path to more money (never been a union member, btw).

Our culture today despises unions to our detriment. Bargaining power isn't inherently evil! BUT, I would argue by anecdotal observation that it turns out that the more that said bargaining power concentrates wealth, the more evil it actually is.
I am so happy that I'm steering well clear of mainstream dating these days. This is the worst of mainstream dating culture, distilled and ready to use. If nothing else, you could make awareness/usage of this app a dealbreaker and use it as a filter for girls you would definitely not want as a partner.
Yeah, lets blame the males, those horrible, horrible people who oppress women by being in prison, homeless or committing suicide (or, in the past, dying on the battlefields on Europe by the millions).

Try to read a little more about how genders really work before you claim that men are the only oppressors: the top of society is mostly men, but so is the bottom.

The survival rate of third-class female passengers on the Titanic were higher than the survival rate of first-class male passengers: does that sound like oppression for you?
This whole thing boils down to: exercise is good for you.

How long/intensive was your workout to get the "wonders"? I bought myself some free weights, but seemingly lack the motivation to get any results with those...
True, that's a better analogy, especially if they drove local bakeries out of business by giving away muffins and other baked goods for free.
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Is there something that can do all of this and remove the unused css after clicking through the site with a browser?
There was a study done on this recently. Google is your friend.
No, not in any way. It's meant to be the WP8 equivalent to an app by the same name I wrote for iOS last year.
Note that the LevelDB, Kyoto Cabinet, and SQLite3 configs are identical to what the Google LevelDB authors used in their original benchmark. http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html

The only thing different about the Symas LMDB tests is that LMDB and BDB were added.
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i just wished i'd hit the buy button when they were $20. I didn't believe in them then, I don't believe in them now, but I sure as hell believe I would have cashed in some nice short term earnings from the bubble :)
Why would I choose to use this over a web based dashboard? A web service could be used from any device, code can be updated more rapidly, and I won't be locked into Apple's sandbox.
> except for pagefaults to pull data in, which are obviously unavoidable

Umm, obviously that's what I mean. And with async IO instead of memory mapping, you could avoid that. Hence why I said memory mapping has disadvantages. Clearly the "nonsense" was invented at your end.
.io sort of makes sense as I/O, and is from a less unstable territory to boot.
One thing that I think would be REAAAALY cool with the homepage is if the plane moving would actually change the UI displayed on the app. It would be an easy, non-obtrusive way to demo the app without waiting for someone to click on a play button. Looks great though!
Seam integration on Java EE
I can't believe this many people care about how the icon looks.
For some reason, I only read the first few sentences.
I see it on ecommerce sites all the time. It's on NewEgg for example last I checked. It's very common.
The fallacy of ad testing
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If you're a single straight guy who has any kind of web following and you fear Lulu will be detrimental to your dating you can probably apply the following counter-strategy: ask your followers to register fake Lulu accounts and give you bizarre, negative reviews. Once the number and the severity and absurdity of the reviews cross a certain threshold it will be clear that those are not all to be taken seriously. This will drown out any real negative reviews of you with noise and, should many people start doing it, bring the overall credibility of the site down.

Disclaimer: I'm not advocating that you do so.
Nice!

For those who want a wide ranging overview of web scraping in Python:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52wxGESwQSA
Bill Me Later is owned by PayPal so it's not exactly poised to be a disruptor.
I know nothing about hardware, but i'm curious. Isn't a whole lot of the speed we're getting out of systems these days a ramification of putting everything on the same piece of silicon? If each component is physically separated, isn't that going to impact latency?
>Query: why are 80% of men homeless. That stat on it's own is not indicative of disadvantage towards men. There needs to be some analysis of the why to determine that.

It indicates that men are at a disadvantage. It doesn't matter what causes the disadvantage, it's still a fact. Of course, when men are at a disadvantage the reason is never expected to be gender roles or discrimination.

>Quey: how does the suicide give women an "uppper hand" this is a personal choice

If you think social issue like suicide can be categorized as "personal choice", you don't know much about depression and suicide. There are factors that increase risk to suicide, like poverty and depression, which are quite prevalent in males.

>About dating: I don't think you can declare women have the "upper hand". At best they have an "even hand". Sure there are pretty girls that get an absurde level of "power of choice", but there are plenty of men in the same category.

That description doesn't quite fit the facts, though. It's more like the upper 2/3 of women are in the same position as upper 1/3 of men for various reasons. You can just look at the number of messages on online dating sites, or look at the genetic evidence: 2/3 of all women in history have had children, but only 1/3 men have had genetic offspring.

>Putting it another way: in my experience the problems women experience in dating are the same as the problems men experience: shitty candidates, lots of fear of rejection, insecurity and incompatability issues.

The social etiquette and gender roles and various other reasons mean that men are expected to make the initiation, and women can simply choose the best candidate. That means that men have to face a lot more rejection than women.

This is a good article on the issue: http://alvanista.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/another-okcupid-st...
Brilliant, I was just searching for a tool for this.
There are a few websites already trying to do this, but as with all networks, it only works if you get enough users.
I agree with you insofar as companies ultimately have to get rid of people who've ceased to contribute (or never were).

The problem is that "low performer" witch hunts rarely do anything about the actual problem employees. If you don't know that, you either have worked for less than 2 months in total, or you're completely fucking clueless. The true problem employees, who have a lifetime worth of experience at hiding their toxicity, stay. It's people who get unlucky (who don't have a whole career of underperformance to inform their strategies) that are swept out.

I'd rather companies just have an honest layoff, the way Wall Street does it. Layoffs have the Welch Effect, but that's not as bad as a system that actively selects for toxicity.

See, here's the impact distribution, where 1.0 is the average employee contribution:

'A' players : 1.5 to inf
'B+' players: 0.7 to 1.49
'B' players : 0.3 to 0.69
'C' players : -0.2 to 0.29
'D' players : -2.5 to -0.2
'F' players : -inf to -2.5

Okay, so the As and B+'s are usually fine (unless they are pre-emptively attacked by competing co-workers). B's are vulnerable and beholden to their bosses when a witch-hunt starts, but there's no good reason to fire them. C's need to shape up; those are the ones you need to improve or get rid of. D's and F's should probably be fired yesterday. It's too costly to keep them around.

It tends to be the B and C players (who could turn into A's, with better projects) who get smacked in a low-performer witch hunt. D's usually survive, and F's become managers in tough-culture systems because they tend to be the ones with severely toxic personalities who love the power.
The Springer-Papers and Elsevier-Mendeley acquisitions are indeed interesting because they've happened at about the same time. It seems that the big publishers want to get a better grip on paper search and/or paper reading habits.
New camera system creates high-resolution 3-D images from up to a km away
Or another man. Men could use this to slander their competition.
So should free Internet sites be illegal? The NYT used to be free, now it's paid. Is that evil? Is HN evil for not charging?

Anti-dumping laws make sense when you're talking about hard goods with a concrete marginal cost of goods sold (like coffee.) Theydon't make much sense for web sites and software.
Wave Debuts Free Receipt Scanning on Mobile and Web
> The situation is very special in capital intensive industries like this.

Sure, if Google didn't have the money lined up for Austin when they announced Austin, AT&T's signalling could jeopardize it, but, because its such a capital intensive industry (and because its not Google Fiber's first time around the block, either), that's unlikely.

What would jeopardize Google Fiber's longer term effort is if AT&T actually delivered something in Austin that made Google Fiber there unprofitable (and even then, it really only threatens Google Fiber if Google doesn't perceivea greater benefit to its other services from getting widespread affordable 1Gbps service to consumers than the loss from continuing to expand Google Fiber.)

> This is why capital intensive industries typically are dominated by a small number, often just one, of big firms.

Yes, because its hard for anyone to get the capital to make the outlay to compete, regardless of "signalling" by existing market players. Usually, anyone who has the capital has a less-risky way to invest it than trying to break into a capital-intensive industry with established players.

However, if a big player in another major industry with enormous resources to which the actions of the established players in the capital-intensive industry are a risk (as is the case with Google vis-a-vis the telecoms) is involved, there is a different story, as that player's interest in the industry extends beyond the gains that can be made in that industry. (Actually, that doesn't change the long-term trend of concentration, it just makes it more likely that the trend will be bucked in the short-term by the introduction of a new player.)
> it brought about the longest sustained period of economic growth in human history, without which we would not even have Bitcoin to celebrate right now

The industrial revolution happened while on the gold standard (with just a few short periods where it didn't apply, as I understand). Steam power, railroads, electrification, refrigeration, anaesthesia, early automobiles and so on.

I'm very fond of the computers that we have now (yay 20th century !), but it's a bit hard to brush aside the 19th century just like that. There's insane economic growth that happened in that period.
This thing has been amazing for my back post workout.

http://www.amazon.com/RumbleRoller-RR316-Full-Size-31x6-Blue...
Completely agree that any time you use an iTunes / App Store link you should be affiliating it. Not just for the 4-5% rev share but also for the ability to do some basic tracking.

The one additional piece I wanted to add is that LinkShare only manages the iTunes affiliate programs for US, CA and MX while TradeDoubler manages 29 programs in Europe and 10 more in Latin America. However, there is also DGM that manages the AU/NZ program and LinkShare Japan (similar name but different that LinkShare) that manages JP. (That turns out to 45 country-specific affiliate programs worldwide.)

It's important to note that using just LinkShare doesn't earn you commissions internationally. App Gratis was really smart about how they did their affiliation so that they used the right affiliate program/tracking parameters with the right country. Eg. Someone from Germany got a TD link, while someone from MX got a LinkShare link, etc.

Here is a breakdown of countries/affiliate programs/affiliate networks for the iTunes/App Store Affiliate Program (from our site)- http://www.georiot.com/using-georiot/itunes/affiliate-progra...
Google don't seem to be advertiser friendly in the same way they used to be.

Adwords is increasingly becoming a black box where advertisers aren't really encouraged to understand what is going on. In all lot of cases they seem to want to deny advertisers information. I'm not sure what the thinking behind this all is but I suspect one of the biggest reasons is leveraging data without exposing it to advertisers or allowing them to do creepy seeming stuff.

That doesn't mean Google won't buy them or won't want to provide these kinds of services. They do provide a crappy product in this category which has very few use-cases these days.

Anyway $28m considering the SAAS/SME model should be viable at a range of scales. I wonder if they are planning any big changes that require this kind of cash. Maybe something freemium or a new product that will take a lot of time before it can be profitable. Just speculating.
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Quite easily. Take a look at Monetate's website. No transparent pricing.

Making it clear what the costs is and making the set up ridiculously easy.

Exactly the same strategy as they did with A/B testing.