skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it that much different to reading a newspaper/mag/book or watching the shop's TV while waiting for fish and chips?

I'm the first to be pissed when people I'm hanging out with start fiddling with their phone but I'm also the first to fiddle with my phone if I have a spare minute waiting for something and there is nobody to offend.

When going out to dinner or a bar, I like the idea of everyone stacking their phones on the table. Everyone time someone can't resist touching their phone they have to shout a round of drinks.
I don't know enough about the relevant case law to tell you for certain that the layout is copyrightable, but my gut feeling is that it is, since that bar is pretty low and copying the publisher's PDF seems kind of analogous to copying a website's HTML. Fair use may not be applicable here, since even though the layout is a small proportion of the total work, it has value independent of the text: People might spend money (or persuade their university to spend money) to buy the publisher's PDF even if the manuscript were available for free. Given your link I agree that the review process is unlikely to give the publisher any claim to the text itself.

I do know that most author agreements for non-open access journals allow authors to publish the manuscript on their personal website and in repositories (sometimes pre-review, sometimes post-review), but most do not allow authors to publish the publisher's PDF, which suggests that the publishers believe they have some kind of ownership over the latter. (In practice many people post the publisher's PDF articles on their websites and no one complains, although repositories like PubMed Central contain only manuscripts from these journals.)

The AAAS author agreement actually explicitly allows authors to legally publish the peer reviewed manuscript on their websites as soon as it is published, which raises the question of why the authors of these studies didn't just do that.
Errm, I think the commenter may be farther away than you believe...the threshold for downvoting is at least 500 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782174).
David Marcus has previously acknowledged that PayPal needs to improve:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/09/david-marcus-paypal-custom...
I got rid of my TV, but not my computer.
Quite true. A lot of companies get it in their heads that they need "ninjas" or "gurus" or "rock stars", in other words world class talent. But why would a top 1%, or even 10%, developer work for a company that is using boring technologies in a boring business that pays only the industry average? Actual top developers are going to find truly exciting places to work and they're going to be paid well above market rates.

If you need to hire somebody you need to be realistic. A while ago it used to be possible to find well above average developers for almost any role, but today the industry is too mature for that sort of thing to happen.
Great observation. You should take that to another thread where people are lamenting that the "It's like X for Y" pitch has jumped the shark. You've added nothing of value to the conversation with respect to this company's business model or the problem they are tackling.

People please don't upvote this stuff. You're hurting HN.
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I believe the most commonly used implementation is OpenLisp:

http://christian.jullien.free.fr/

There's also EuLisp:

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jeff/lisp/eulisp.html

I'd love to hear from someone who has tried either and can compare to Scheme, CL or Clojure.
> I expect reviews on books, restaurants, etc. to come from random people who don't have any particular reason to like or dislike the product outside of the quality of the product itself.

The problem with that expectation is that voluntary reviews already self-select for people willing to write reviews, which will almost certainly introduce strong biases.
Not "many" Americans. A few. Probably fewer than a hundred on a couple of social media sites.
For a moment, I was wondering what Firefox OS had to do with uninterruptible power supplies...
There are several citations in those posts, and a bazillion in the book I posted below.

Your attitude is all wrong though, and that is what needs fixing, above and beyond your knowledge. You ask straw man questions - you know I'm talking about added sugar. As for oil, why don't you look at the label of any processed food and then do some research on how these oils are produced? You'd discover how much worse americans health has gotten as these processed oils have largely replaced butter and animal fat as sources of lipids.

Also you do not appear familiar with how nutritional studies work and the difficulties of establishing causation. You cannot simply lock someone in a room and force them to only eat certain foods, and it is really really expensive to do longitudinal studies. We really know next to nothing based on controlled experiments on chronic conditions simply because of their limitations - but you combine the correlationary studies with evolutionary theory (especially natural selection) and studies in medical anthropology (as cited in those links) and you have as clear-cut a case as you can get in nutrition.

Groups that don't eat processed crap get cancer and the metabolic syndrome in ridiculously high numbers. Groups that don't eat processed crap don't get these diseases.

Groups that don't eat processed crap, but then suddenly are introduced to sugar and flour find their chronic health conditions going to the shithole. There is not example that I know of the contrary.

That's all the proof I need.
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing to add is great minds are more generous and less concerned with violent retribution to compensate for a lack of control in their own frustrated lives.

Others have a 4 letter word for it....

cool.
I'm sure that there would be less controversy about this if systemd and its associated parts were under a permissive license rather than a copyleft, which leaves it incompatible with several operating system environments, notably OpenSolaris which is released under the CDDL and incompatible with the LGPL that systemd is licensed under.
You make good points, and the Servo team is doing more or less as you described. Our primary target is 64bit and we plan to leave behind lots of legacy stuff.

The extra parallelism we're after also enables new things too. For example, Servo runs cross-origin and sandboxed iframes in parallel.
I should've supported my assertion with this:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/09/david-marcus-paypal-custom...

If you still think I'm wrong, please be constructive about it.
Watch Ballmer promote Windows 1.0 in 1985
I think that's reasonable, but note I didn't say expensive real estate. I've seen some pretty nice office space in converted warehouses and repurposed industrial areas. What I'm talking about is putting devs in a cube farm and stuff like that. I also don't think it's absolutely essential that you cater lunch (if you're in a city with lots of dining options and off-site opportunities for employees to eat together), but if you're in the exurbs it probably is at this point. Top devs expect these things, even if they might be willing to work without them for a certain startup.
I don't think his post was saying 'if you do any of these things your company is shit', he's just enumerating lots of common mistakes companies make. I've seen companies make all of them, and usually the bad ones make something like 20-40% of those mistakes all at once.

For a good gig it's pretty easy to overlook one or two problems; if you see half that list you head for the door.
Semi-agree.

On the one hand, Working for a Cause is probably the most fundamental motivating factor behind work-ethic and one of the most powerful motivating factors for people in general.

On the other hand, you often need to take a step back and ask if your project really is a capital-C Cause. The vast majority of economically necessary work, after all, simply is not. Even double-digit percentage improvements in the reliability of cloud computing nodes, for instance, are not a Cause. They are a very economically significant piece of technological development that can make anyone who develops them a bunch of revenue. They are advantageous work that makes the world run a little bit better.

But they're not actually Saving the World or Bringing X to the Masses or anything emotional and epic like that. Worse, attempting to invoke big, epic emotional motivations when your work doesn't really have a Cause to justify those feelings just cheapens the entire trope of Causes, makes it come off as a nasty fiction told to unwitting dupes to make them allow further exploitation than ever before.

Fly your flag if you've got one, but don't feel ashamed to admit you might not have one.
Thanks.

But the last link mixed Ask and Show and other topics, So I ask this question
Big mistake I see a lot re #7: Baking sick days into your PTO pool, so people have to decide whether to 'spend' PTO on staying out sick. This leads all your employees (especially the young ones) to show up sick all the time and 'power through it' so they can keep saving up PTO, and then they get the whole office sick. It's insane to me that this is so common.
Manhattan Mini does provide a free storage taxi, which I presume you got into and moved your stuff. We're trying to make it so you don't have to ever visit the storage unit again. So the van got you there, but you're still spending that beautiful saturday inside the concrete storage prison climbing over boxes to find that one thing you're looking for.

Also, from MMS regarding the van:
Keep in mind that the Storage Taxi provides a one-way trip, not a round-trip. For example, if you need to bring more items into storage, you would book the storage taxi to help you get the stuff there; getting home, though, you'd have to rely on the subway, a cab, your bicycle, or your own two legs to carry you.

This is sucky.
The judge should be impeached by the house because clearly he does not have the character required for the job, nor the respect for the rule of law.
NASA is not a government agency as such, and its work is not required to be released as public domain. Instead, it falls under the Federal Acquisition Regulations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Acquisition_Regulations

Which isn't to say that I disagree with making its findings available publicly. But the facts are worth noting.
Looking at these bugs, $300 is a gross underestimate.

But realistically, you probably aren't doing this for the reward and you likely already have an APC to care enough to do the dev work anyway.
Drive around Chicago's South Side.
The problem is even the hundred odd Americans making such comments on a couple of mainstream social networking sites is disconcerting. These people actually did put up such comments. Who knows how many others exist who did not publicly make such comments just so they were politically corrext?
No mystical energy field controls my destiny.
With the common crawl data out there I'm hoping that we will eventually have a distributed search engine that lets us use our own rules.
Out of curiosity(and I am being amused and enraged at the same time at the world changing "idea" guy and 80 hours/week) what did the comment you replied to said?
I worked with a guy who would go on a big coke binge and was really quite productive for about 72 hours. He would then do almost nothing for the next three weeks but complain about how hard he'd worked.
Well put.

I can answer your last question. Publications that have a JPL main author go through an approval process in which copyright is retained by the Government.

Back in the old days, JPL's lawyers used to intercede directly when, say, IEEE said you needed to release copyright to IEEE in order to get your paper published. (You have to savor those moments when the lawyers work in your favor.)

That said, as pointed out elsewhere, most of the papers did not have JPL first authors, and their copyright status will be less clear. Even the project scientist, John Grotzinger, is not officially JPL (he's Caltech):

http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/ScienceTeam/

If copyright was "retained by the Government", it's OK to put the paper content up on a public web site. But I don't think anyone is actively doing so, e.g., for all such NASA work.
Well I dunno. I just noticed it because I've never worked anywhere with catered lunches and have simply never come to expect them. Right now, I go out to a food truck or a local place every day and get my own damn lunch. It doesn't feel deprived or bad at all, and in fact I'd feel a little spoiled if the company started buying Thai food or health salads every day for us.

Mind, the company does have snacks, tea and coffee, so I basically eat breakfast from those on a lot of days, but still.
Thanks for the reply, I'll give you a call tomorrow during business hours.
I let kale and chard go to seed last year. I've had more kale and chard this year than I can harvest. Almost all of it volunteer. Also some other random greens that make a quite nice salad.

On the other hand, I've put in a ton of effort on tomatoes, and gotten very little to show for it. The climate just isn't friendly to them.
Hmm, I consider the people who are passionate enough about their experience to write a review to be the exact people I want to hear from. Of course, I'm aware of the tendency of people to complain more often than complement. If everything goes well with a product, it's like "ah, nice." But when it fails, it causes feelings of being ripped-off and to resolve those feelings means complain-on-the-interwebz.

But, I guess that's the best we've got, right? Otherwise how do we go about getting reviews for anything? I definitely think forcing people to do reviews that they didn't want to write would produce mostly garbage.
Projection mapping on screens held by robot arms.
How the Y works: Applicative Order Y-combinator in Racket
General Motors is literally tearing its competition to bits
When harvesting news titles and displaying those like news.google is legal, I thought displaying a RSS feed from a blog site should be legal too! It's not?
The reason for the demise of technical education in Andhra Pradesh,India
This is true even for many software development roles at places like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. Equally true is the corollary that the interview process for these positions is laughably out of sync with the duties for the positions to be filled.

Very few software engineering roles actually require "deep" technical expertise. What you describe is pointing out yet another way in which the corporate cliche of "we only hire the best" is so pervasive.
If I had a dollar for every "idea guy" who's pitched me on writing his great iPhone app for free (excuse me, for "equity"), I'd have...well, probably about $10.
Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the Internet’
There is such a thing as programming trance, with working 16hrs a day and very high productivity. But then, you need an environment fully devoid of distractions (like working from home if you are single or a locked personal office otherwise), no interactions with your boss or co-workers etc. Unlikely to happen in a company where long working hours are a norm.

Also, programming trance can last at most a week and you can't do it more often than once or twice a year. There are physical limits to what your brain can sustain.
I know this, but GP was asking about how to do it with "different base directories" which I'm assuming is asking for an analogy to Subversion's multiple working copies (i.e. check out this location from the repository to this location on disk).
Shell programs are expected to take streams of data and produce other streams of data. Shell programs are also supposed to, but often don't, have uniform configuration options. Instead, we have ps ax | grep chromium | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill

* ps accepts ax with no -

* awk is its own programming language lol

* xargs gets pretty complicated if anything bigger than this happens

(incidently, I know about awk '/chromium/ {print $1}' and killall. but i have seen that command line in the wild. because some people don't read the awk manual for fun, and i'm not sure if every unix system even has a killall command)

...and yet the shell is still the preferred tool for what it does because everything else requires too much typing (of both varieties)

Apparently urbit also has streams of raw data. It's about time someone came up with a new idea for a shell that keeps what's great about the shell (though personally, i would standardize on streaming a form of json, because it turns out that data is very often found as scalars, lists, and mappings).

So anyway. If urbit actually ends up being better to live in than unix, and having shell programs that are configured in exactly one way would be an improvement, and having data that's easier to parse than plain text while remaining as easy to read as plain text would also be an improvement, well, I've always wanted to live in a submarine. If it gets a nice editor and c++ compiler, that is. I do need the best performance possible out of my computer for my work.
MIT Scientists get photons to interact. op - Light-saber daydream
APC is also a type of colon cancer [1]. So fix a bug, get a free armored personnel carrier sounds a whole lot better than fix a bug, get free ass cancer.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenomatous_polyposis_coli
Exactly. In all aspects of chat communication, Google is behind.
And drones.
>Thank you for dropping the bitter tone.

I didn't.

>I ABSOLUTELY agree with this. In my mind Google did a damn good job of it. But why point this out specifically?

Because it's your blind spot. Because it makes you a liar. More loyal to Google than you are to your engineering experience.

You didn't say anything about what you coded.

Show us some code, asdfprou. Did Google make you a better coder?

You still believe that _your_ cute little experience is worth "[encouraging] others to consider having that experience for themselves as well."

SHEEPLE don't have anything to worry about. No one's learned your lesson. You assumed that it was given in your first paragraph.

That's why I put this in terms of this blog post's unimportance. No one is paying attention!

>All I'm trying to do with this post is encourage others to consider this opportunity for themselves as well.

But you don't even display knowledge of what that opportunity is. Is it an opportunity to make blog posts like yours? To have a good in-route with Google after your senior year?

You're actually the precise example of what Google wants: young engineers excited about working at Google.

And you have no opinion on what Google is.
I'm all for finding solutions to problems like garbage disposal and litter, but it's pretty callous to lump homeless people in with that. They aren't just a problem to "clean up". Instead put your powers and diligence to find a solution that makes you feel better about your neighborhood and helps them get the shelter and support they need.
Yeah I'm actually 50/50 on this, but I posted this in the middle of the day, bad time to post to HN, because I don't see it as a post that needs to be on the front page. But at the same time, I really, REALLY hope startups know this - it delayed us 2 months, and that's two months of my life I wasted not knowing if anyone will give a shit about my app.
The platform for artists - findspire
This seems fair to me, but I'm not the one who's being told, "Look, find a breakthrough in a year or you're going to get scooped by an amateur."

It would be ironic and painful if open data policies resulted in scientists leaving the public sector, and I'd really like to see more open data.
Not all degrees can be attained by reading a book and passing a test. Chemistry, physics, medical school and others all require labs and pretty expensive equipment.
Well yes. But show me a country of 300 million or so where you cant round up a sizable mob of knuckle-dragging morons. It reflects poorly on them, but the fact that it was a story at all is due to the context in which it was presented (I found out about it on the Daily Show and posts to my facebook) because most Americans found it embarassing and absurd.
Virtual Hackathon - $5k in Prizes
Some time, some time. It would really be appreciated.

If you want to try working on it yourself, come join the community! You'll get lots of help with it when you need it.
BYU in Provo is still less than $10k tuition over 4 years and is arguably a much more prestigious and well rounded school.

Also important is the abundance of merit based scholarships at both schools. I know many people who were on either half tuition or full tuition scholarships their whole 4 years.
Evaluating eLisp in Emacs
Grip (Github Readme Instant Preview) 2.0 released
Yes, if by "appeal to authority" you mean "go read the best research available on the subject and make up your own mind". Oh wait, that's the opposite of appeal to authority...
I have the same number of feet but one more knee than this guy. From what I understand about above-the-knee prosthetics, walking up stairs with a "normal" gait is an impressive feat. Clearly, the technology is near-miraculous.

With all this said, I'd much rather see advances in bionic attachment techniques. If I could have a metal rod extending from the distal end of my tibia through skin, being without a foot would be much less annoying, and my physical abilities would improve significantly. I could just clamp on a prosthetic in the form of a carbon fiber spring -- the same sort I have now. Presuming the rod required little maintenance, I would require far fewer trips to the prosthetist for construction of new sockets as the shape of my residual limb (the politically correct term for "stump") changes over time. No risk of skin issues preventing me from using my prosthetic leg. No risk of catching my prosthetic foot on something while walking and pulling it off my body. Current socket-based attachment techniques create what effectively is an extra joint with very limited range of motion. Oddly, this is useful for subtle manipulation of a gas pedal (I'm missing my right foot), but it is mechanically inefficient, reduces my perception of stability, and keeps me from feeling like the prosthetic foot is "mine". Because of this extra joint, heavy shoes feel really heavy. Lots of effort has gone into making prosthetic feet light -- a much less valuable attribute if direct body attachment was possible. Reducing the value of making prosthetics lightweight would allow for all sorts of innovation.

My understanding of the current state of affairs is that, while it's quite easy to stick a metal rod into the distal end of a bone, it's quite difficult to allow it to protrude through skin without risking infection. My general take when reading yet another article about some amazing $100K prosthetic device is similar to my thoughts when hearing fuel cell folks talking up the technology in the early 2000's -- They all showed up at tech events talking about how fuel cells were going to change the world, how their own novel technology was going to make them more efficient, lighter, whatever. My question to them was always, "When am I going to be able to replace my laptop battery with a fuel cell so I can take a cross-country flight without worrying about my battery running low?" They always gave some vague answer and then went on talking about the improvements they were making to a technology which was not at all available to me. It's 2013, and I haven't yet owned a fuel cell. However, I'm writing this on a Mac with much better battery life than was available a decade ago even though the fundamental technology used in its battery is unchanged.
The change will be that it will be forbidden to use on senators, but it will preserve applying it to the rest of the population.