skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every published paper (the Version of Record) gets a DOI. Most for-profit publishers paywall access to these. In order to 'do academia' you must cite using the DOI, which points only to the Version of Record.

It's great to see papers published in the open (I assume this is the Personal Version of papers), but in order to participate in the academic process, you have to cite the Version of Record.

As I understand it (I'm new to the industry) publishers are starting to realise that if they don't provide free access to government funded papers then their revenue streams will dry up.
But taxes aren't optional. You can't just choose opt out of them because you don't agree with what the money's being spent on. You might as well say you're complicit just by having being born in a country with a military.
Yeah, it couldn't be perfectly general. You could still keep the decoder simple and just put a little more intelligence on the GPU side to handle quantizing on the time/space/color dimensions appropriately when you try to send a pathological image. Getting the few multiples of compression you'd need to run 4k@48bit 240hz on current interfaces would probably be safe, trying to put HD over a serial cable will probably go less well.
Worth a little downvote :)
Speaking of "two for $X", i've noticed plenty of shops leave it to the consumer to assume that they have to buy two when in fact the price of one is $X/2.

Safeway does this a lot.
One thought on this is that this technology, or something related, would be beneficial to Oculus. Carmack already had a comment on it:

G-Sync won't work on any of the display panels Oculus is considering right now, but it will probably be influencing many future panels.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/391299110344867841
> There's no 'leave a penny/take a penny' tray in Australian retail culture, for example.

There wasn't one when I was a boy in the US, at least not that I remember. I think that they started to be a thing around the time I graduated college, and of course they're now everywhere. Just today I paid for some coffee and got back an integer number of dollars because the clerk made up the cost. Of course, it was in her interest, because I throw change or a dollar into the tip jar when the tab is small enough that the tip is less than a dollar.
ORCID is non-profit. There are some organisations, such as ORCID, who exist for the purpose of facilitating the academic publishing 'industry' rather than making money out of it.

Sometimes a businessperson spots an opportunity and exploits it. Sometimes people who all have a common problem get together and try to solve it.
>As an Apple user, this doesn't really surprise me. Apple has never liked games, although I'm hoping that was a Steve Jobs thing and the company will see the light.

But Apple DOES have a thing for responsiveness and smoothness, and latency and smoothness is exaclty what this tech is improving. I think you could make a strong case without mentioning games. Not that you would have to anymore, since games are so popular on these devices...

But an example: I find the animations in IOS 7 look great on 5S but a bit choppy on regular 5. They clearly aren't maintaining 60 FPS on that device and you can see some hitching. This tech is most beneficial at making variable frame rates between 30 and 60 be more smooth so it could be a big help.
Either you have to be a legitimate academic institution, or you aren't, but are grandfathered in because you acquired the domain before 2001. This case is #2.
> The most popular monitors by pro gamers right now (Twitch/eSport players and enthusiasts) are 120/144hz 1ms monitors, such as the ASUS VG248QE.

I wonder if that latency is noticeable to them or this this the same market as the audiophile market that sells gold-plated cables for 100x markup.
>Is this technology going to require hardware manufacturers to cooperate with nVidia, or will their cooperation simply make things nicer/easier?

Carmack said on his twitter:

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/391301331325321216

"great tech, but can it really survive as an NVIDIA only thing, versus an industry standard everyone could support?"

"I think everyone will wind up with it, or something similar. It is low hanging fruit."
Its interesting how $1000 is a psychological number for a lot of people, $1000 number makes the Google stock join some "prestigious" $1000 club according to CNBC. Some people now think its too expensive because of its $1000 and Facebook is in $50s.

If Google decided to split the stock early on, it wouldn't have seen this day, and all the news that comes with crossing the $1000 mark.

So much for all the financial models that assume investors are rational.
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Great question! Every container gets an IPv6 and an IPv4 address. The IPv4 address is private (behind NAT), the IPv6 address is routable. So outbound traffic from the instance works to both IPv4 and IPv6.

For a simple instance, inbound traffic only works over IPv6. That's not really practical today, so there's support for floating IPv4 addresses. You can assign one IPv4 to an instance running a load balancer (haproxy, nginx), and then that uses IPv6 to talk to the backend instances. That's going to be documented within the week (I hope!)

Sadly, EC2 doesn't support IPv6, so we use protocol 41 (which wraps IPv6 in IPv4 packets), giving each EC2 instance a 2002: address. They can then talk to each other, or to other FathomCloud instances. They can talk to IPv6 servers that have a 2002: address configured.

Finally, most end-users don't have IPv6 either. There's a trick using SSH and tunnels to give you a quick-and-easy VPN, so you can get onto IPv6 from any machine. I'm going to blog about this, as it's the easiest way to get IPv6 and you get a VPN for free.

So it's a bit messy in the details, but with IPv4 floating IPs I think it all works. Using a single floating IPv4 to a loadbalancer is "the right thing to do" anyway in a cloud webserver setup. And I think it's totally worth it to say goodbye to NAT forever!
Ask HN: Can you help me choose a JS framework?
I would like to make a multiplication practice app for my daughter. She is very particular about how she practices her math, eg. she does not like apps with timers, she would like a progress chart (i.e. save progress on device/browser). We basically haven't found a good app for iphone/android. I also thought it would be fun to have her be the "project manager" and I can build the app - to give her some appreciation of the process. After all of this we may build something nice! In that case, I'd like to submit it to the app stores out there.

My current skill set is python/django server side web programming and data analysis. But, I've dabbled in jQuery and so I know a little javascript.

I would like to stick to html/js/css and then using something like PhoneGap (or alternatives?) to package the web site (or single page app?) for app store distribution. I am just trying to read about all the differences between, eg. ember, knockout, AppFramework/Intel, dojo, jQueryMobile, node. But I can't figure out which one would be best for this specific scale of project and with other of my own requirements (web app, distributable to iphone/android, easy to learn, has good programming practices).

Anyone care to suggest a roadmap to help me out?
As an alternative hypotheses, whole number prices are so rare that they might actually less familiar and it's this that causes the lower conversion rate.
yes they spammed my email inbox today as well
Alas, I suppose not.
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>I wonder if that latency is noticeable to them

If you get a chance, demo a 120hz monitor setup and spin around quickly in an FPS. It's quite noticeable. It almost feels extra surreal a la the Hobbit at 48fps until you get used to it.
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A common container platform that is cross cloud portable for one
Which is pretty much the same thing as writing "By the way this study is junk. Why did we write this entire bullshit article anyway? Because link bait. And we could care less about actually informing our readers"
Show HN: Visualizing the BART strike with d3.js
Well, it did happen with GTK+.

Go look at GLib (which underpins GTK+), it has its own string type, its own boolean type, even its own object-oriented programming scheme emulating Java-style OOP.

Of course they have more of an excuse given that they wanted to stick with C instead of using C++ due to (at the time) poor language design and compiler support. But then again, that was Qt's excuse too! ;)
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To hell with Linux, the US Military use CORBA?
>I find it weird when they use percentages for groups that are smaller than 100. 9% of a group of 32 people makes it feel like 2 people and a torso handed over their phone without the rain apology.

I suppose it's slightly odd, but the point is to make it so you can compare results across similar studies and also understand how it would generalize to the general population.

>It doesn't seem to mention randomization either.

The study does (see the citation at the end). The blinding and randomization were done in the field study by not telling the person asking the questions what the hypothesis was, and by instructing him to alternate which script he followed.
not trying to hijack this thread but how many folks find their work through recruitment agencies as opposed to old Collegue networks, direct sales, inbound marketing etc?

In short, how many freelancers are a business vs a well remunerated job?

edit: apologies for steering you off course - have added a seperate poll - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6574752, of course at the perfect time of day for London !
Yeah, except if they were attacked 49.7 days after the last reboot.
It's not really about the latency (5ms vs 1ms is negligible), but its about the pixel response to reduce/eliminate ghosting and other artifacts of LCD's persistent pixels. The speed that the pixels can update is proportional to the amount of ghosting. Interestingly enough, it won't eliminate it no matter how fast the pixels update. The real problem with ghosting turned out to be precisely the pixel-persistence. Even more interesting is that someone discovered a hack for the modern 3D monitors like the ASUS mentioned that completely eliminates ghosting: the strobing backlight functionality necessary for 3D completely eliminates ghosting when applied to 2D. I currently have this setup and its exactly like using a CRT. A flat, light, 1920x1080 CRT. It's beautiful.
Back when I worked at Target, it was also this way. As I understood it, the system simply did not allow for a multiple item discount. The "3 for $4" ads did always say, in fine print, something like: unit price $1.33.

What got me was that a 12-pack of certain replacement razors was more expensive than three four-packs. I distinctly remember that one, having done a double take and checking my math with a friend.
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If you have to ask, then you can't afford me.
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This is truly incredible stuff. Hats off to IBM for pushing the field of machine learning forward.

This statement really struck me:
"“In the Jeopardy days [in 2011], Watson was running off 90 servers and could store 15 terabytes of memory,” said Gold. That’s not your typical household integration. “Now it’s far more affordable and runs 240 times faster, so we can do far more with less.” Moreover, the size of IBM’s server is now smaller than a pizza box and can fit in any data center."

How is this possible?
There's no once-and-for-all answer, but this is what I would go with:

* 99p may fool less numerate customers into believing they are paying less than they are. A fair proportion of the general population are not numerate enough to add £1.99 and £1.99. If these are in your target market and you find that ethically OK, you may be profiting from that. [Edited to add: sum deliberately chosen from experience; coincidentally matches article data]

* "Random" prices such as 86p can give a psychological sense that you have cut off as much as you can (even if you really haven't), attracting savvy shoppers, as long as you have a reasonably trustworthy brand on this point.

* Pricing even a penny or two less than the competition will attract price sensitive customers, particularly online. A lot of the general population are indeed price sensitive and are able to compare prices thanks to the internet. This depends on whether your level of service is perceived as reasonably comparable/fungible.

* Round prices e.g. £100,000 can give a sense of luxury or quality - you are not discounting because you are providing a high value product. Discounting often undermines any perception of quality - it's plausible that you would make fewer sales at £99,999

* a few pence difference is a bigger hit on (much bigger percentage of) your retail profit margin than it is on the customer's pocket. Research shows inconclusive results, and if it's not costing you sales, you should probably not take off the pennies.

It's interesting to compare this to the neighbour thread about developer rates - I doubt there are many developers charging £49.99 per hour [Edited to add: it's not even possible to select that as an option!]
I don't think I like the LCD refresh rate to go anywhere below 60hz. 30 seems like really quite bad, duplicated frame or not.
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If you know jQuery well, you will be right at home with knockout. If you want to learn a slightly "better" way with a much steeper learning curve, build it with angularjs. Angular was built essentially to prevent the callback hell you get in large jquery peojexts
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Even with the stack from your bio!: Working on server software that uses Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Windows
c) is wrong; I mistook you for someone else in the discussion. I noted so in an edit.

I just saw the edit, thanks for clarifying.
Then why not show the best shopping websites, rather than ads for shopping websites?
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More concerning is the possibility of interference with medical devices, especially implants. It's not just a "may cause harmful interference" problem either: Many cardiac implants have an emergency shutoff feature which is actually intentionally triggered by placing a permanent magnet over the skin where the implant is located.

Don't get me wrong - wireless charging is great, and provides a great deal of convenience, but it may be wise to reconsider the placement of large magnetic fields in publicly accessible places.

We wouldn't want some person walking down the street to suddenly become injured just by walking past one of these chargers.
Interestingly even Apple does this on a not-so-cheap device.

http://store.apple.com/us/iphone
if there are cyclic effects on long time scales, you're implying they're highly exponential

I'm implying no such thing. Consider an analogy: I look at the temperature trend from February through May and conclude that I have enough data to show a significant warming trend. I therefore predict that by November, the planet will be dangerously overheated.

Obviously I have ignored a cyclic effect on a longer timescale. Is it "highly exponential" as you describe?

long periods of no warming, and then sudden periods of rapid warming

This is not what the data shows; at least, not if you look at all the data, not just a few selected temperature reconstructions that are questionable (at best) anyway. The data in full, looking at a number of different fields, shows a cycle with a period of about 800 to 1000 years; the last iteration of the cycle consisted of the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, and we are nearing the next maximum of the cycle now.

This is not to say that human activities (of which CO2 emissions are only one component: why is it that nobody talks about land use?) have had no effect on the climate. (Arguably, humans terraforming the planet has been a significant factor in keeping another Ice Age from starting.) But if you're using the wrong baseline, it's tough to separate the human effects from the other effects.
Poll: (UK) Freelancers - how do you find your next contract?
(Inspired by another poll just released on HN) - I was at a Brennan Dunn / Nathan Berry workshop recently and asked who found their work through recruiters and who had other means like personal contacts. I was surprised by how many people in USA did not use recruiters - so I wanted to get a larger sample - who here (in London / Uk) finds contracts mostly through recruitment agencies ?

Thank you !
Mostly Through Recruitment Agents
Mostly Through repeat clients
Mostly through personal network such as old colleagues
Mostly through traditional sales, advertising, cold calling
Mostly through Inbound marketing like SEO
Mostly I am now selling a product not my time
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This could also be nice for watching simple videos. It's subtle, but on smooth pans, you can see the stuttering of a 24p video on a 60Hz display. If the video player could tell the display to refresh at 47.952Hz (or any other integer multiple) instead, it would clean that right up.

Combine that with morphing frame interpolation, and you could be watching movies at just about exactly the rate your hardware can manage to push them out.
A stab in the dark would be chips made from Graphene or IBM's Silicene, if I am to understand what you quoted.
Apparently, a trivial DoS vulnerability for any Node serving HTTP:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nodejs/NEbweYB0ei0/gWv...

The odd thing about non-disclosure in an open source project is: I can diff the code bases before and after the fix.

https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6214

https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/085dd30e93da67362f044a...

And, they have a test script:

https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/085dd30e93da67362f044ad1...
at first I definitely thought this was related to the old gnu bug tracker.
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This is probably some of the most generally applicable advice I've seen on how to write blog posts in the course of time I've been writing and reading. I can resonate a lot with what your friend Nate said over the course of my "writing career" if you can call it that. So, well done.

For me, I'm a written communicator at heart, so looking at a comment box or a journal and willing a series of letters to form words that represent what I would like to articulate isn't an activity that's generally hard for me. But there's something about the mental block of preparing something for publication on a blog that changes the game in my head. Perhaps it's the effect my college English professor had on me, but blogging feels like I'm preparing to submit a paper to him for grading, which is good. They taught me how to evaluate my own work critically and how to assimilate and process feedback. When I'm in that mode, I do that.

But something they didn't do was ever give me a 100 on a paper. The point of this was simple: no draft is perfect, not even the final draft. And the important thing that I walked away with is that imperfection is ok.

If I could expound on what Nate said in the blog post, I'd emphasize the lesson I summarized above on imperfection. All too often, I catch myself measuring myself against other writers. Then when I'm reading drafts of something I'm preparing, it's too easy for me to get into the snare of saying "this isn't as good as so-and-so's post, so I shouldn't publish it." And I have to beat myself over the head and remind myself that imperfection is ok.

Imperfect writings have started and ended wars, communicated heartfelt feelings from one lover to another, and sometimes brought about common understanding where there was none. And in all likelihood, whoever "so-and-so" is at any given time, if they're a writer worth their body weight they probably thought their blog post was imperfect in some way too.

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents on what could have been added. Great blog post! :)
One odd effect, the payout for mining a block varies based on the transaction fees paid that round. Even if transaction fees continue to bounce between 25 and 50 BTC, mining rewards (denominated in USD) will begin to fluctuate wildly.
Yeah, I hear tumblr is never going to sell.
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Are my eyes just that bad or is this solving a problem I didn't ever notice exists?
This is a bit of history which they never mentioned in Econ class. Politically inconvenient for some actors and very interesting.
Judging by how I just read that post, the way to write a good blog post is to embolden the first sentence of each paragraph. That way, it is easy to skim and get the general idea in 5 seconds.
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What is the real size of the market of gamers who upgrade with every new generation of hardware? I've gotta say, I know many gamers (though no professional ones), and none of them upgrade that often. It's more like once every 2-3 years at the most.

It just seems like a bit of a sensational claim..
"Smaller than a pizza box and can fit in any data center" sounds like marketing for "We put it in a standard rackmount form factor"
I've never understood what is so difficult about making software that can generate frames at a fixed rate, and I don't understand this product- I don't understand how having a variable refresh rate would do anything other than harm smoothness, and encourage more bad software.

Maybe someone can clarify this for me, but what is so wrong with writing software that can just meet the frame deadline? Maybe the hardware innovation should be hardware and drivers that helps you do vertical sync more reliably?
I'm assuming they mean 1 server is a pizza box (ie. it's a 1U rack server), so you'd still need ~90U of space.

Either that or IBM has made some breakthroughs in the last 2 years.
I'm additionally interested in who never vote together. Do some Congressmen just never agree? Are there aggregate patterns here that change over time [e.g. partisanship]? I believe there's a ton of interesting data in this area, and this is a good starting point.
> see the parse tree and generated bytecode

Make that a feature!
I would bet on optimization of the software, lower costs of memory, and database sanitization.
In my experience, I have never had any problem working with Indian coders (having worked with many), but I have had problems working with coders who are on a 12 hour time difference and are far removed from the business's objectives.

i.e. it's not the people, it's the system.
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I know Morley Davidson, one of the mathematicians who worked this out. Well, I took seminars with him while working on my PhD at least.

His office is full of puzzle cubes. Now that I've got my own office, so is mine. They're kind of addicting.
Happened to me, more than once.
For me that's the most irritating feature of hpmor's protagonist. I understand that's probably intentional - so it's working. I wouldn't really trust more a person that claims exclusive agency - I'd probably trust him much less as if he doesn't respect me enough to assign me agency - how can I be sure he respects me enough to not violate my trust? You don't feel to bad if you make a promise to an NPC character in a video-game and break it, right?
Cool idea, it would be nice if you could provide a little bit more information about why the results are the way they are, or the percentage that they match, maybe recent bills that they agreed on. As someone from Canada I have no idea who these people are or why the relationship would be expected/unusual.