skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the ACM DL papers can be found online somewhere else (like via citeseer, or Google Scholar). For moral reasons, don't support the academic pay walls if you can help it.
Weight of Apple Gadgets
The actual distribution is an upside-down parabola, a "frowny shape".

Think, for instance, what would happen if one billionaire bought up the entire world supply of Bitcoins for ideological reasons (meaning: he never reaches a point of diminishing marginal utility as the price of BC increases). First, there would be a price bubble as everyone holding bitcoins gets the highest price they can. Then, everyone who had formerly used bitcoin but now sold to the billionaire would migrate to some other crypto-currency, leaving the billionaire eventually holding utterly worthless cryptographic certificates accepted by nobody at all.
That sure doesn't stop them from doing it though. I've threatened to report them before and although you can threaten them it sucks to have to do it. I'd rather just let them roll and wait for another cab in all but the most dire circumstances.
CryptoLocker developer launches Decryption Service website
Fun fact: the NY state + NY city income taxes pretty much equal the entire California state income tax rate. It's not a huge loss given comparable living options.
Cute game! I remember playing something like this when I was younger, though your effects are way better.
have a few side projects.
here's a fun one:

http://ShouldIDrinkThisFuckingBeer.com

it is making absolutely zero money (yet), but the engagement on the site is INSANE. also, the site itself, and the people who come to it (and email/tweet/blog/instagram/vine/smoke signals/carrier pigeon/etc about it) are passionate and willing to support craft beer.

besides the benefit of interacting with super cool, kick-ass people who love craft beer, i've also been in touch with some breweries who are wanting to partner on a multitude of things, and i've been invited to come brew a batch at a few of them, with the head brewers!

so to summarize:

• making no money on this side project.

• not losing any money on this side project.

• over 75 million hits since launch, over 1 million people and over 50 million suggestions every month.

• fuckloads of fun interacting with the craft beer lovers and the craft beer world.

• the amount of engagement the site has will help support the next phase which will make money :)

• ...

• profit!!
I did not take this as an anti-science article, but as an article critical of how academic science/engineering has become hype driven. Perhaps it was always hype driven, but I find it to be particularly bad now. Before you could do 'regular' work i.e. work which was scholarly and did not have terms like 'first to show' and which did not appear in the tabloids 'Science' and 'Nature' and still advance your career and get funding. Not so much any more.
seszett : it probably depends if you're paying for regular tickets or iDTGV which is a separate organization from SNCF, selling train tickets through the same website. They put ads on their tickets, but they're kind of a low-cost train operator.
HTC Desire (which is very similar to the Nexus One). Just writing this reminded me that I really like HTC Sense and would probably miss that the most.
Note that this is for the "life" of the device so we're likely only talking a few years for most people.
When 3+1 is more than 4
VoyageSNCF has come a long way, and I now prefer it to Capitain Train because it shows the price on a month.
Requiring a wipe is by design. If an attacker steals your phone, whats to prevent them from flashing a new system partition that lets them read off all the existing data? You can backup most (all?) of your data manually, then unlock and restore the data. Otherwise unlocking would be essentially the easiest attack vector to owning a device without the user knowing.
Curiosity -- what are your costs? $200 seems quite high to be solely your hosting.
Zero now. Was a time when I was making $100/mo from ads on my free Android app (took the ads off, now it's just free as in free) and I sold another Android app for $2.5k. Those were my first two software projects ever so it was some awesome feedback, convinced me to get a CS degree.
I make on average £330 a month from a WordPress plugin https://www.getmecooking.com/wordpress-recipe-plugin

The idea was to get content for the main website so that it would make money. I've got over 2000 recipes now but traffic is still under 1000 hits a day so I've still not tried to monetise the main website.

I've now started to develop a job recruitment website as I can see that earning money a lot easier. Other sites in the niche have 10 job postings a day each and charge on average my prices which would mean £1000 a day. I just need to solve the recruiter / applicant traffic problem... http://www.platejobs.com/
> It's almost like guessing MIME type based on the file content (hint: IE).

Hint: Linux? It does something similar pretty much on the OS level.
The poorest people rent, so they have minimal incentive to improve their homes, whilst the relatively-wealthy landlords they rent from have every incentive to increase the rent, because their tenants' income has just gone up by 20% or more (as have their own taxes...) but little incentive to improve the property because the supply of low-end housing hasn't changed.

I agree that some of the basic income given to some members of the working poor will end up being spent on productive improvements that benefit themselves and the people they hire to do it, but a lot of it will simply be gobbled up by inflation of essentials.
who are these people? i am interested in following...
I've had relationships fall apart because of the four mile G problem. To round it up, Court Square to the Park Slope areas is easily an hour when waiting for trains to arrive. Two hours round trip is why I left the Bay Area transit wasteland for cripessake.
This falls pray to a reductio ad absurdum. The android you can do this with is nothing like the android that ships on consumer's phones.

So no, you absolutely cannot do this with what almost everyone thinks of as 'Android'.

You can do it with a different thing that also has the name 'Android', but isn't the same.

I assume you haven't noticed this, because otherwise you would be deliberately trying to spread a misleading view.
Here's some back of the envelope numbers...

The federal government spends:

-878B in Social Security and disability

-961B in healthcare

-422B in welfare

So that's about 2.26T just in these three categories. For a single year.

We've got about 320 million people in the US.

So this comes out to about 7,000 a person for these three categories.

You want basic income? That's fine, just use it as a replacement for some of these programs. Instead of running a vast bureaucratic network managing these benefits, just hand out a check every quarter.

This is hilariously simplified and a slightly more sophisticated system is what's known as a "negative income tax."

Here is Milton Friedman (yes, Milton, not Tom) advocating for an NIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM

Want to keep going? When it comes to education, it's about 10k per child for k-12 spending if you include state and local spending. A high school of 2,000 kids should have a budget of 20 million... and with a student/teacher ratio of 20, would be equivalent to $200,000 per teacher. Take 50% of that to run facilities/admin and you've still got a six figure salary.
I've been using a subsidized Galaxy Nexus with LTE on Verizon's network for two years, so I'm not sure where you came up with that claim but it's wrong.
In general, corporations do that more or less to hedge their bets. They want the candidate that they support to win, but if the other candidate wins, they will be able to settle with at least some influence on that other candidate through that funding.
Ah, you're right there, if you're talking about a blog app, I agree with you. I had much smaller pieces in mind, such as the packages I mentioned before. Each one of those does one specific thing and does it well. Blogging is pretty much the worst example here because it's highly, highly custom to each person and easy enough to write that you wouldn't bother with a library, which would end up not doing what you want in the long run anyway.

Something like shortuuid, on the other hand, is pretty much a slot-in.
Of course it's hardcoded. In Vista and above you have to include a manifest file telling the OS whether you require elevation or not. In order to support old applications written pre-Vista, and to protect users against developers who don't care to learn how installers are supposed to work, Windows will force UAC if the file name sounds like something a setup program would call itself, particularly when most installers will install or modify things that require Admin privileges -- such as writing to Program Files.

This seems perfectly sane and reasonable to me. What's the alternative? That manifest-less installers should fail because a user forgot to manually elevate a program by shift-right clicking it and selecting "Run as Administrator", all because they upgraded their OS and now their installers won't run any more?
That's incorrect though. The Verizon Galaxy Nexus has an unlocked bootloader and works fine on their LTE network.
Google wants to find Googley job candidates by Googling Googlers' social graphs
It depends on what your goals are. If you want a system that's only running open-source-built code on your device, but are willing to have your device interact with devices running proprietary software, then mobile web applications are fine.

If you only want to interact with devices and services that are using open source software, then you're likely not to miss e.g. Google Maps application in the first place.
Do you not think this will happen to Firefox OS (as a random example).

Regardless of what Mozilla does, the manufacturers are not going to sell non-differentiated phones for very long.
They are going to keep that differentiation closed source, as they do now.

If one of them becomes very popular (say, Samsung), the Firefox OS you can do things with will be nothing like the Firefox OS on consumer's phones.

This is the way of the world, not just the way of Android.
Capitaine Train is a registered travel agency, so they can resell SNCF tickets while getting a commission.
BTW , the researchers behind research started this research by building a DIY 3D printer[1] , which is pretty cool.

>> General reaction container

Another article i read about this , talks about getting some short list of base materials which you can synthesize many materials from. Is that theoretically possible (let's assume they build a variety of synthesis methods and exchangeable catalysts on the reaction vessel ) ?

[1]An interesting more detailed article about this http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/news/2012/april/3d-printer...
Half DH1, half DH3. You can do better!

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
What I'd rather see is more work put into Meego/Sailfish or Firefox OS. Maybe introduce a native app layer for Firefox OS, that would be pretty sweet. I'd add Ubuntu Phone here too, except it runs like shit and is pretty much useless at the moment. Firefox OS is already way more polished...

As for Android, I don't think the chip vendors are too interesting in opening up their drivers, and it's not like Google will ever open up their services (and why would they?). Pretty much everything in Android that doesn't hook up directly to Google is already open anyway...
It's interesting that you have adwords on your homepage. Does it bring in any revenue? To me it detracts from the overall look of the site. I just Googled custom cupcake design and you are 4th, maybe there just aren't that many people after the service?
Interesting, but you should be more clear if you want people to contact you.
One of my "pet peeves" (that has actually caused me a fair amount of aggravation and "expense", personally): Absence of evidence is taken (or, insisted upon) as evidence of absence.

I've encountered this particularly in the medical community. As sort of a TL;DR: Many medical practitioners seem at best to be... "technicians" who are not much capable of more that following the "current script" that is handed down to them from blessed authority figures (including particularly if not only the pharmaceutical companies).

P.S. I'll add insurance companies to the mix of authority figures, particularly in the U.S. They categorize and dictate what they will and won't pay for. Better doctors sometimes spend a lot of time finding ways around these restrictions in order to provide the treatment they think is actually appropriate and optimal.

I would understand using statistical evaluation to help determine the best treatment approach. But when the profit motive enters, combined with a more or less fungible population of insured, the number crunching seems often to put cost ahead of outcome.
Thanks for your feedback, let me reply to it:

As JshWright said, the appeal of render_to is that it's a decorator, it does clean up views by a lot.

The signals decorator is now obsolete, I also find ajax_response very handy (when I'm not using CBVs), autostrip is a bit edge-casey, I agree.

get_object_or_None is pretty much 1.6's .first(), but there was no alternative until 1.6. AutOneToOne/JSON fields are there because of convenience, get_config I have no idea about (I didn't write these), StaticServer, also no idea.

The thing is that this library has been out for years, and most of these things didn't exist in core when it came out, so it was really handy in its time. I've been using it for quite a few years, and that's also why I took up maintenance of it.

In the long run, I'd like to see the things that make sense in it integrated into core, especially the @render decorator.
I have never developed for android, but the vast majority of programs that say they don't work on my device work flawlessly. I suspect some of it may be due to the fact that I run custom roms.
I receive monthly Table of Contents [ToC] alert emails from specific journals in which I'm interested, mainly chemistry and physics. This typically involves simply creating an account at the publishers website and choosing which of their journals you'd like to receive ToC alerts for, e.g. the American Chemical Society (acs.org), and then sign up for e.g. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation alerts.

Also, for computational chemistry, at least, there's the Computational Chemistry Highlights blog [ http://www.compchemhighlights.org/ ], which selects (what they think are) interesting papers published within the past two years or so.

Finally, I follow scientiests' blogs and social media, who will typically share excellent papers that they find. Email lists like the Computational Chemistry List [ ccl.net ] will usually discuss papers as they relate to the conversations at hand.

Unfortunately, many of the excellent chemistry journals are behind pay walls.

This is how I harvest info for chemistry. I think it's highly probably that this same method could be used for all scholarly disciplines.

Best of luck.
The only reason that I connected my Android phone to a GMail account is to access Google Play and download clean apps. Lots of third-party websites offer various apks but many are infected with malware.

So, assuming Google won't block this, I won't be needing a GMail account to use Android (without Google apps) from now on? Nice!
I love this! To me, nearly every good programming practice either boils down to or is dependent upon eventually picking a nice spec and separating out the implementation. It's not to say that that should be the first step: the first step is often a prototype and learning phase where you discover what a good spec would even look like, but instead that a medium-term goal of any good project should be to spit out one or many formalizations of what to expect this library to be/do.
I don't understand why they gave up on DOS compatibility for 64-bit Windows.. the effort could not have been all that much for them (either with an emulator or x86 tricks). The benefit is huge: they can continue the lock-in of ancient DOS programs. For example, I can report that OrCAD for DOS works better in 32-bit Windows XP better than it ever did in MS-DOS.

Likewise, I don't understand why vm86 mode can not run directly from 64-bit mode in x86. This seems very like an architectural mistake to me.
That's not much of an issue if you are going between Brooklyn and Queens. With a few small exceptions you won't see a yellow cab in those boros anyway and black cars or the new green taxis are a lot more flexible.
Hope this frees up Android from the clutches of Goggle
The city is massively behind on road maintenance due to decades of deferred maintenance. Raising some parking rates doesn't come anywhere near paying for repaving even the worst road segments in the city.
Yes, of course, but that’s a tautology. What would the first goal achieve over running the Twitter app on my phone?
This is inspirational! are you working on it alone or do you have a "team"?
There are various indoor plants that are said to help with indoor pollution.
Breaking news: HN hates MBAs.
The only way to underniably confirm its a bubble is if it "pops".

Is snapchat worth 4 billion? Only when some buys it or it goes public. Till then its speculation and we can be here till the "cows come home" debating if we are in a bubble.

I think the best people to ask are PG, Fred at AVC etc. The ones who do this for living who are making these decisions everyday and know the markets. I don't know enough to say for sure and wasn't here for the last bubble.
There are always people who say "Science is still the best way of determining true statements" in response to these articles.

But this isn't science. It's pure politics. And politics is probably the worst way of determining true statements.
It's pretty unlikely that you'll get a collision if you grab enough digits, but hex is only 16 digits. One easily has 62ish characters available (ShortUUID removes lookalikes so people can still read and type the codes), so why not squeeze as much randomness in them as you can? That's pretty much why I wrote it.
Huh. This started ringing some bells, and sure enough, there was a previous HN thread on similar topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4624090

TLDR my response: don't be so judgmental.
mom the bitch fucken nigger.

ya just gotta keep beating the niggers, what else can ya do?

a_flag_on_that_play Oy glam I'm_busy threads jealousy Ivy_league
that's_all_folks glorious this_might_end_badly adjusted_for_inflation
God_is_not_mocked What love you're_so_screwed the application
Watch_this I_had_a_crazy_dream spending wrath in_practice
happy meh spirit let_me_count_the_ways you_know_a_better_God
Percival whiner delicious a_flag_on_that_play how's_the_weather
failure_is_not_an_option dude_such_a_scoffer economy baffling
Vegas listen_buddy doh fake wastoid fool can_you_hear_me_now
charged awful meh everythings_a_okay happy endeavor sloth
prosperity a_screw_loose
VIRUS WARNING!

Clicking the Download & Install Now button gives me a popup that says to go to evozi.com/l.php?go=apkinstaller which tries to download APKDownloaderv200_downloader_by_APKDownloaderv200.exe

McAffe detects this as Artemis!5D95FF710F55

I guess to be fair the popup does warn you that the installer may contain extra software.
Exactly (on both points).

I can't really cite anything for my remarks, as they are based on vaguely remembered news articles over many years, but my impression is that the medical profession - in the US at least - has resolutely opposed any reform that would give the public access to information on the performance of individual doctors, hospitals, clinics or other elements of the healthcare system. The most prominent examples have had to do with histories of complaints and lawsuits.

The argument for this anti-transparency stance - and for disallowing patients to have their choice of surgeons - has been that they all have to learn by practice, and if patients were allowed to choose they would largely reject the junior staff, and the latter would never get any practice.

There is also a culture of solidarity amongst doctors, where an incompetent may get reassigned eventually, but won't be "outed" to the public.
As opposed to science/engineering?
They're not offering $0 iPads, they're offering $0 down payment on 24 months financing. Qualified customer means you don't have bad credit when they pull your report.

> T-Mobile will offer iPad Air starting at an introductory price of $0 down with 24 equal monthly payments of $26.25* for the 16 GB model; iPad mini with Retina display starting at an introductory price of $0 down with 24 equal monthly payments of $22.08* for the 16 GB model; and iPad mini starting at an introductory price of $0 down with 24 equal monthly payments of $17.91* for the 16 GB model (plus taxes & fees). T-Mobile will also offer a program enabling customers to make their new iPad even more affordable by applying the trade-in value of an eligible tablet, even if that old tablet is Wi-Fi only.
I complained about changing the clocks an hour twice a year.

A friend agreed. But he suggested that it would be less disruptful to the human circadian rhythm to change the clocks by 10 minutes every month.

I'm pretty sure he was joking...
Forgive the slow response to some of the comments. Font Combiner's utility is intended to be as much in the facility to combine glyphs from more than one font and to adjust spacing characteristics and hinting to taste, along with scaling fonts to size for greater consistency.

Hinting and vertical metrics are quite the rabbit hole across platforms. This is a good article http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/24/a-closer-look-at-...

Font kerning is very new to web browsers. So far as I'm aware neither of the fonts demonstrated at the top of the post contain kerning information. The heavy fonts lower down do.

Font Combiner itself is still very new. Tracking or character spacing (as opposed to kerning) may benefit from some additional tweaks for OSX. This is outside of the scope of the current UI.
Facebook has 15x lines of code as Large Hadron Collider
Extending a core language prototype is never necessary. And you never know which library will break when you do this (unless you review carefully the entire code of all modules you use). So it is a bad practice, despite sometimes being ok.

I admit that extending the String prototype is less dangerous than e.g. the Object or Array prototype.
It's a problem that simply naming a file 'install' or 'setup' would cause extra, unwanted behavior.

I guess it's similar to naming files PRN or NUL. You learn not to do that. It doesn't make it okay.
I am sure Google would ban this pronto. This reduces their ability to exclude other forks of Android from using the app store.
The ACL Anthology is a free online archive of the last couple of decades' worth of Association for Computational Linguistics-sponsored journals and conference proceedings, which is where many people working in computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine translation, etc. hang out and publish.

HOWTO get started:

1. Pick a recent conference;

2. Click on the titles of any articles that look interesting;

3. When you get to the end of each article, dig through its bibliography. Many/most of the paper's references will also be available in the ACL Anthology; if not, Google Scholar will probably be a good resource for chasing them down. GOTO step 2.

Enjoy!

http://aclweb.org/anthology/