skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, $1000 per article sounds insanely low. PLoS is a non-profit founded for the purpose of publishing open-access journals. They charge between $1350 and $2900, depending on the journal, and only one journal is less than $2200. Another open-access publisher, BMC charges over $1900 for most of its journals. Do you think that PLoS and BMC are very inefficient? Are there _any_ large-scale open-access publishers that charge less than $1000? I don't count low-volume journals where the administration work is done by professors on donated time that would be valued at more than the cost of hiring a professional.

Sources:

http://www.plos.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/about-journal...
http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/apcfaq/howmuch
Show HN: Dog Time – New Tab Video Chrome Extension
I've been waiting for an API addition, that I had been personally assured by Chromium PM would go through, for 4.5 years. It's needed to support full canvas screenshot functionality in ChromeDriver, so it's not exactly a fringe use case. Given the time it takes for some of this stuff to go through, NPAPI was at least an option. That's the point of a plugin API after all ... so not every use case needs to be accounted for by the parent project.

I realize there are security issues and all that. But it's not as simple as hoping Chrome will just add the API you want either, in my experience.
It doesn't work. All you have to do is solve 1% of these questions manually, and voila, you got a bot that can spam, all it has to do is load the captcha 100 times on average.

That's the hard thing about captchas, bots don't have to solve them perfectly to completely break them.
This Is What Your Face Looks Like to Facebook
Election software dev wanted – security exp optional
Dog Time gives an amusing and playful dog video with each new tab load, along with some helpful information.
Idris' opt-in totality is a weird beast since those opts are extralinguistic. I really consider it to be a downside when a language is turing complete these days—I'd rather Idris just use a partiality monad.

So, maybe I'm just using the power of wishful thinking with my characterization above.
As you learned Caml Light, chances are you went to a French university. As far as I understand, outside of France, OCaml/Caml Light are seldom taught at university. WRT FP, many universities will use Java or C++ to teach programming fundamentals (a terrible thing imo). Some teach or used to teach Scheme or Python.
Does OCaml actually need to apply special semantics to ; or do those already come with strictness? Thanks for the response BTW, this is one of those things I've always wondered about.

> And the way I was speaking I mean to say that "mutable state is natural" too. I don't know that it is universally, but it's certainly something that makes 90% of programmers today feel comfortable.

Well, as long as time and change are considered.
It looks like they'd like to hire someone to work on their election software. Their post lists, in the qualifications section, "Knowledge of application security" as a "nice to have".
I'm pretty certain that Visual Studio uses those for "memory breakpoints", and that GDB uses those for "hardware watchpoints", to use their respective nomenclature. And these are very handy at times.
If I want to support a pen in Chrome, and the way to do it is to modify Chrome, I am going to give up. I do not have the skill to do that. If I have to learn an entire different programming language to do something, I just don't have the time to do it right now.
When I explain EFT and EFTPOS to Americans, they're often surprised that we Australians had it for decades.

The USA flew men to the moon, built the bomb and invented the internet. Their principal form of funds transfer is still with pieces of paper. Pieces of actual paper.
YC and PG have a history of sexism and actively discriminating against women (see http://www.thewire.com/technology/2013/12/paul-graham-revive...).

For this reason, yes, it is important to mention that Alex is a woman, so as to make potential female women less scared of approaching YC. In a perfect world it wouldn't be necessary, but because the climate in the industry is one of harassment against every woman, it is necessary to point out successful examples of females in tech and in YC.
Not sure if that would work since most "duplicate" questions are similar but not identical. Therefore an answer responding to the duplicates' specific use-case would be confusing in the context of the original question. Perhaps include the duplicate question in the answer when it's merged. Hidden behind a link e.g "This answer was posted in response to a duplicate question" and a link to view the content of the duplicate question.
I failed to understand his conclusion, at all. What is he trying to say? Something about how English and Chinese perceive colors differently? Or how they favor colors differently?

It seems like a lot of the Wikipedia colors are commercial names or technical names and therefore don't really represent the understanding of color that normal people have when they view or talk about color.
Someone who understands the notion here, please tell me: would this violate conservation of momentum or not?
Everyone else is thinking it... So I'll just say it... It's about goddamn time.
Circumventing the fee is in no way fair to the corporation trying to charge the fee, especially when the corporation expressly wants to force each of those people to pay the fee. I can't rip off a book for my personal education. Same with an academic article.

No matter how much we wish the world was different, that's how the law is currently set up.
Turning off your heating/cooling apparatus is the most natural thing for people in Japan.

Don't people turn their lights off in the us?
> Are they? That hasn't been my experience

Examples are abundant and easy to find. Here is an example of sexism and discrimination coming from Paul Graham. Highly relevant to this discussion about female founders at YC.

http://www.thewire.com/technology/2013/12/paul-graham-revive...

Women are getting harassed and discriminated against in Silicon Valley tech companies all the time. Take this example from Github: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/19/5526574/github-sexism-scan...

This needs to stop. And comments like yours are just one more example of how deeply rooted sexism is on this site.
Well, you could try to dispute the arbitration clause in court. That would almost definitely be unproductive, but you could go to court.

I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, don't take legal advice from unknown Internet people, and all that.
The thing with math (and abstract CS) is that it's generally purely logic. In principal you should be able to write (at least verify) an entire article with no outside references as it is all logical deductions, it's armchair science in that sense (no negative connotations meant).

But if you're going to write an article on say quantum computing or confocal microscopy, to name random things, you are going to need outside references to experimental work, history, best practices, open debates, etc. And that is usually where the errors slip in, how many people actually check the sources properly?

They're also usually pretty terrible when it comes to modern science things, but I suppose that can be attributed to a small group of people actually knowing about those things in the first place.
Now I'm seeing 49kB. Strange. It's not cookies either because it's 49 in an Incognito window as well.
He admitted himself that they are great people, and the fact they are behaving so strangely to him indicates to me that there is some other dynamic going on that we don't have an explanation for.

An obvious possible explanation is the fact that a lot of otherwise-good people have a hard time believing in illnesses they can't see.

Ask anybody with an "invisible" malady and they'll tell you that some depressingly large percentage of the people they care about don't believe they're actually sick.
Well, it's been forked for a while, and has grown apart in many ways... if we consider it to still be the Linux kernel though, then "Linux on xyz Android device" is meaningless from the start.
What are you working on? I run a digital agency, and I'd be more than happy to help if I can.
does arc inlines work for you?
I've got to second that it's probably worthwhile for the author to check out and consider the wikipedia article. I pretty much gave up programming for six years, utterly convinced that I had a physical disorder causing me constant pain in wrists, hands, elbows, shoulders, etc. I tried all kinds of physical approaches during that time, many of which would appear to impact it in one way or another, but none that really helped (instead it was that my worrying more or less impacted my essentially mental disorder that manifested somatically). A key aspect to it is that there is no distinguishing the symptoms from actual physical sensations. I could have started making progress with my own issues years earlier when someone brought up this possibility to me, except that I felt like what I was experiencing was 'too real' to be mental, or something.

Medical practitioners outside of mental health seem relatively unaware of these disorders, but if you speak with a psychiatrist, you may receive some useful info. It's worth a shot.

Here are a couple sources for further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_disorder

This is a good book on going about recovery. You'll have to forgive the title; the reason it's there is the physical site for these disorders tends to follow trends in society, and at the time of writing back and neck pain were the most common occurrences (it's consistent with the theory behind these disorders that such trends would exist), AND a very large proportion of chronic back/neck pain turn out to be psychosomatic.
http://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Recovery-Back-Neck-Pain-ebook/dp...

It's also interesting to see the page for the Seattle Repetitive Injury Support Team, which (after a majority of their members solved their problems) now feels convinced that the most troublesome, persistent repetitive strain injuries are psychosomatic. http://www.satori.org/rist/

You can also see the extents that I went to to avoid physical activation of my symptoms, here: http://tiledtext.com

That's how convinced I was that they were physical, though now I have no doubt about their mental origin—and I can use computers almost completely freely now :D
Forest, not trees.

There are probably a lot of people in your life who (like him) suffer from things you can't easily see.

It's something we'd all do well to remember.
So they buy reCAPTCHA, then they self-deprecate it.
Chrome team is planning to extend the touch events with stylus-specific functionality: https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1x-yE4CmTZ...
In the link, you can see a chart, showing the hardware capabilities of a high-end workstations, sampled at roughly ten-year intervals. In twenty-five years, hardware capability has changed dramatically, while the kind of software used to get work done remains static (mostly).

Why is that? Would you make the chart differently?

The utah2K paper referred to in the link is admittedly (by the author) a polemic, so readers must understand that the writer may be shading things in a way more subjectively negative. Of course, that doesn't make it a trolling attempt, unless you can think of a particular chip the author wanted to knock off of a particular shoulder...

You acknowledge that OS innovation "may be more technical and less accessible than it once was". Why is that? In what manner? I don't think that you and Pike are using "OS research & innovation" to refer to all of the same things at the same time.

Here (from utah2K):

"New operating systems today tend to be just ways of reimplementing Unix. If they have a novel architecture -- and some do -- the first thing to build is the Unix emulation layer.

How can operating systems research be relevant when the resulting operating systems are all indistinguishable?

There was a claim in the late 1970s and early 1980s that Unix had killed operating systems research because no one would try anything else. At the time, I didn't believe it. Today, I grudgingly accept that the claim may be true (Microsoft notwithstanding)."

...I can't see why that isn't as true today as when it was written fourteen years ago. You can say that our Unix systems have improved, but that's a matter of degree, and not of type. We've also made great progress in breeding lean pigs that grow to marketable size in record time...but no matter how fine they are, they are still pigs, and aren't lobsters.
Of course, we might want to dig deeper on that question. OK, so teaching an uninterested group of people does affect the teacher - why are those people uninterested in the first place? If they are uninterested, do they have the option to not attend?
ARM SoC support in Linux mainline is usually pretty good but support for individual mobile devices that normally run Android's version of Linux is almost non-existent. Basically we are never going to get the usual Linux distros running on Android devices without using Android's version of Linux. There isn't anyone with the available, time, skills and motivation to get new or old Android devices supported by Linux mainline. I expect the same goes for other vendor-controlled Linux based mobile distros (Tizen, Sailfish, FirefoxOS etc). Probably the closest to mainline is the very old Nokia N900 but that doesn't even support all of the hardware on the device:

http://elinux.org/N900
What's the best way to deal with something like this as a friend of someone with something remarkably similar?

I have a close friend who's always going to see specialists with some ailment or another. One of the things he has is low magnesium and zinc just like this author. He's also suffered from bouts of unexplained amnesia (is that where the author got the name for his blog from? If so maybe they actually have the same thing!?). His sleep schedule is completely screwed to the extent that i hardly see him and he never gets sunlight. He has serotonin and dopamine issues. I actually checked the blog in detail to make sure it's not the same person. It isn't. Just a weird coincidence.

He's never been diagnosed with anything specific either.

Like the friends of this guy in this story I honestly do suspect he is lazy. I see him playing 100+ hours a week on his steam profile and he plays more than just steam games. He's currently well into his 30's and he's missing out on life.

I actually don't know what to do. I honestly feel that tough love would help him more than anything. In this article this guy says his friends keep him up saying “You need to force yourself to have a better sleep schedule.”. I'm tempted to do the same for my friend to try and get him into a sensible sleep schedule. I guess that's wrong but i can completely understand it.

Leaving it at status quo is unacceptable in my opinion. Even with a disability he's still not making the most of life - the ridiculous sleep schedule where he never see's the sun has to stop. Giving him time to sort his shit out doesn't work. He's been like that for 15 years now.
Evaluated this when it was still a Facebook project. Decided not to use it as too hacky what with the arc stuff, what looked like weird technical-debt-laden feature creep, and a PITA install. Glad to hear they've fixed the install and they're cleaning it up. Might take another look.

Incidentally, arc offers some cool command line features: https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arca...
Minecraft is like one of those desktop zen gardens to me. When I have some downtime (waiting for a patch to install) I can open it up and build my world. Yeah its not saving the world, but not everything can be.
See also
fn.js (Functional JavaScript Library)| https://bitbucket.org/ktg/fn
What journalists covering Ferguson need to know about grand juries
Can you share your definition of pseudoscience? You are clearly using quite a different one from the rest of the commenters here. Under the usual definitions, philosophy is neither science nor pseudoscience, and psychology is firmly in the realm of science.
Sony pictures hacked
No indictment in Ferguson case
Even as late as 1990 is was considered quite rude to pay more attention to someone on the phone over someone in person. I don't see the no texting/e-mailing rules as any more than an extension of that.

Also "sneering condescension" for enforcing rules in his classroom?
Let me double recommend Hardcore History, Dan Carlin is a genius.
Django Dash and WSGI Wrestle Cancelled
If you look through the SML definition [0] you'll see there is a semantics for declarations separated by ; specifically. It's nothing much more than sequential operation. If you had CBN then sequential effects wouldn't be, but you can define that order explicitly in CBV.

[0] http://sml-family.org/sml97-defn.pdf
Even a modern mainframe such as a Cray requires a management computer to get it started. In this case of a Cray today it's a generic PC.
What about Adam Carolla? He is the current record holder.
"There is no mention of the CLT, MLE, method of moments estimation, biasedness of estimators, convergence in probability, how sampling distributions arise, or any of the theory of distributions that underpin all of the inferential procedures detailed in the book."

Lot's of good criticisms in this thread, which I'll have to look at. This one, however, is not. :) how many intro stats book, of the traditional kind, mention MLE, method of moments, biased vs unbiased estimators, etc...? None that I've seen. So, you're right, it becomes more "cookbooky" as a result, however, I would argue that all Bayes analysis follows the same recipe, whereas frequentist analysis typically follows many recipes - not obviously connected. It is that part that I criticize, not the fact that there is a recipe for doing things.
It is fairly easy to get Debian on an Android device, the problem is you will end up drinking over 9000 litres of beer due to the mainline Linux kernel not supporting your device.

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/12/03/debian-mobile/
https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
Thanks for the feedback. thrilled to see you liked it.
The RSS feed addition feature is definitely in the pipeline.
I will keep in touch and let you know when it is up. Meanwhile, do send me more feedback as you use the product
It's actually quite nice to have to explicitly declare when binding scopes are recursive. It's an easy bug to make on accident otherwise.

Additionally, a recursive binding (behind the scenes) is semantically much more complex as it's the effect of having a fixed-point operator called on a higher-order function. It's nice to have to make a specific syntactic call out to have this happen.
Correction (I forgot the break):

def start(env, lines):
while lines:
line, *lines = lines
if len(line) > 4 and line.startswith("+++"):
header(env, line)
modified(env, 0, lines)
break
If anyone here hasn't listened to The Bugle podcast (I've been a Bugler since the second episode) you are missing out on the world.
I don't think the trend will reverse at all. Think of point-of-entry into programming 20 years ago vs. today. Back then, to do anything with a computer one had some exposure to programming: you either created your own scripts, typed them in from somewhere, or at the very least had to learn to navigate the technical corners of the system to get it to do anything interesting.

Fast forward to modern times, people can be absolutely masters at using a computer without having the faintest exposure to programming concepts. The point-of-entry in modern times is likely going to be through gaming. Making/modifying start up scripts. Installing mods, configuring mods, making mods. Or just being so immersed in gaming that you imagine that building them is just as fun as making them (it isn't but of course they don't know that). The point-of-entry is still male-oriented.
I agree for the most part. In terms of getting more women in tech the most important change isn't necessarily to encourage starting early but rather to encourage tech as a pragmatic career choice. To be honest that's why most men are in tech and in CS programs. And the more women are in CS and engineering programs, merely because it seems like a good way to make a living, the more accepted that will be and the easier it will be for other women to see that as a legitimate lifestyle choice and a career that won't just be a constant upstream fight against the current. That's the sort of thing that leads to a positive feedback loop of women going into tech until it's no longer seen as unusual.

On the other hand, there is something to be said for fostering early passion in tech. A lot of times folks end up in tech because they rekindled or amplified some earlier passion or interest. Your story of coding at 13 is somewhat rare but it's even rarer to find someone who ended up in tech who had no prior interest in the field whatsoever. A young boy at 13 may not have an interest in programming or see software development as a likely career choice, but they will likely see it as a desirable choice. And they will see various techie activities as things their friends do, things they should be expected to do, things that are fun and doable, etc. That sort of thing makes it easier to get into tech early and makes it easier to get into tech later because it doesn't seem like such a crazy jump. Additionally, often times it's the folks who got into tech due to an early passion who end up being some of the most successful.

Anyway, I've left and come back to this a couple times so I'm probably rambling. My point is that each half of the equation (early vs late engagement) relies on the other to some degree, and though it's the late engagement which is more impactful, encouraging early interest is still important.
From this The Intercept piece[0]:

"In Nordic mythology, the name Regin is associated with a violent dwarf who is corrupted by greed. It is unclear how the Regin malware first got its name, but the name appeared for the first time on the VirusTotal website on March 9th 2011."

Double meaning or coincidence? e.g. did the authors of this piece just google "Regin" and find out about this dwarf?

[0] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/24/secret-regin-m...
Holy cow. It's brave of you to share your personal experience with this. It's great that you are feeling better, and awesome that you are willing to use your mistakes to help someone else.
The economics of drugs are different. The probability of two different labs inventing the exact same drug are pretty small. But when they do invent a drug they have a limited monopoly to make their money back. Which is a good thing, since it encourages more investment in drug development then there otherwise would be.
Thanks for your link, very interesting!