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"I think we'd probably see that the internet is a far more sustainable, cheaper medium through which to transfer information."

Absolutely true. Yet not that relevant. Data transfer cost isn't a major factor.

The journals in my fields are all electronic. They no longer have paper distributions. As a result, the library no longer needs to store a physical copy, and people can retrieve a copy from their office instead of spending the hour to so to find it in the library and photocopy it.

Great savings, right?

This also means that the publisher, as copyright holder, can enforce access restrictions. For example, I (as the member of the public) can use the chemistry library of a large university about an hour away to get online access to some of these journals, without paying an extra fee. However, I am not allowed to print or make copies of these articles. Once upon a time, when everything was in paper, there was no way for the publisher to make that restriction. Precisely because information transfer is cheaper, it's now possible for the publisher to have more fine-grained control.

As a result, ILL services have gotten worse. The rise of internet-based document retrieval services with limits on public (non-student/non-staff) access has meant that modern library users may need to travel more now, in order to visit a library with a given journal subscription, than 25 years ago, when an ILL request would have been possible.

See http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/how-copyright-... for "The Digital Paradox: How Copyright Laws Keep E-Books Locked Up." Quoting from it:

> If a student in Freiburg wants to read the hard-copy version of a book from the university library in Basel, he or she can simply order it via an interlibrary loan. But if only an electronic version is available, interlibrary loans are generally not an option. The student has no choice but to climb into a train and head to Switzerland to read the book on a university computer.

This sounds like the European version of the scenario you presented, only it was solved with the 'quite dated' ILL system, and exists with e-books.

In passing you highlighted the underlying reason. The publishing companies would like it if the laws and technology were set up so that making a copy of a journal article at a library is "piracy" (I prefer the term 'copyright infringement'), unless they get paid for making the copy, and they as copyright holders should be in charge of determining what the price is. (The ILL system addressed copyright payments through RAND-like copyright clearance agreements.)

Technology which makes it easier for copyright holders to control their copyright makes it harder for people to use the same materials. Either worthy people without the funds can't get access to a paper or there is 'rampant piracy'.
I also think Clojure is a great fit.

I've had some really good results with sample-based algorithmic composition, so I'm really looking forward to this:

"In the near future, Alda’s scope will be expanded to include sounds synthesized from basic waveforms, samples loaded from sound files, and perhaps other forms of synthesis."
I feel the same thing in huge companies in which the employees are insulated from market forces. Aren't we supposed to be, like, building stuff that users want? Rather than just trying to get promoted and game the system?

IQ and motivation are independent variables... it's a shame when people with high IQs exert tons of effort in small-minded directions, or just toward fighting each other.
This is very common. Brutal and dictatorial regimes often buy PR and lobbying from K street, also put ads in magazines.

If you see "Uzbekistan: A misunderstood gem" (just an example) touting how great it is, and how torture we hear about is all fabricated lies, in full page add in Foreign Affairs, it is obvious what is going on. But they can of course be more subtle and are buy academics, like you showed in the links. Those professors seem to the outside world as "independent" thinkers/researchers. So if they then start publishing papers on "Benefits of business development in Central Asia" mentioning Uzbekistan as a great place to do business, it is a bit less obvious what is happening. Someone might get fooled.

This also happens with climate and other major areas that affect powerful interests.
No it's not taking this too literally. I re-read the architecture a few times then stepped through the source to make sure I wasn't missing something. I was thinking that maybe the servers were only used to deploy the image processing code to the client which could then run the code locally. But that's not the case.

Serverless implies that a server is not required after an installation step and that you only need your local device. Or perhaps too that you only need a collection of like clients to do something P2P.

Just because you as the developer don't have to think about the server doesn't make it serverless.
IIRC some jellyfish do have continuous pumping mechanisms for propulsion, but I wouldn't put 100% faith on my memory right now
"There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants and the other is...

.. getting it!"

~ Oscar Wilde
Ms. Peng's client is most certainly not the State. As a public defense attorney, her clients truly are the accused unable to retain private legal services - the indigent. As Ms. Peng argues, the service provided by public defenders is a constitutional right, not to mention one of the fundamental elements in a system designed to provide for adequate and universal representation. That the State issues her salary is a direct result of the constitutionality of the services public defense offices provide, and is the mandated prerogative of the State in due compliance with the Constitution. Ms. Peng has granted us an insider view of what is becoming an increasingly slippery slope. We cannot eschew the rightful defense of any group, no matter how "marginalized," and presume in the same breath that those criteria will never broaden or change. Nor can we expect legal disenfranchisement, and an inevitable increase in unjust incarceration, to resolve anything.
And this is something fascinating what everybody should know. Anti-semitism was so wide spread in Europe and US...

For example, story of Kristallnacht and expelling of polish jews to Poland...

Nazis expelled majority of Polish jews to Poland in 28 October 1938. However, Poland refused to accept them even though they were Polish citizens. So ~8000 people (families with young children, elders..) ended up stranded in no-mans land without food, shelter, ... (Among those stranded were parents of Herschel Grynszpan, Polish Jews who was living in Paris. He heard and saw suffering of his family and, on Monday, 7 November 1938, he murdered Ernst vom Rath in Paris. Then Nazis organized Kristallnacht...)

And seems story is happening now with refugees from Syria: ISIS is not really interested to have certain people (only "real" Muslims can stay) in their state - so they pretty much expelled bunch of people. But, for Europe, they are not good enough - as Hungarian prime minister says that refugees "are threatening Europe’s Christian culture" [1]

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisi...
Is there some "IDE" for it already or is this going to be my new side project? :)
The innovators: smartphone shortcuts at the click of a Flic
looks a little bit like lilypond
Nope. No, no way. Uh-uh. Forget it.

It didn't happen in the news, so it didn't happen. There is no possibility that anything hidden ever takes place, therefore you are wrong and your story must be fake. /s

(I've actually seen how the "man behind the curtain" operates many times throughout my own experiences, so I know that all sorts of things take place that the general public would never believe unless it showed up on the front page or nightly news.)
Why not use bash internals like /dev/tcp? "nc" is rarely available on a default installions.
Relativity overturned Newtonian mechanics in the same way that Copernican cosmology overturned Ptotomeic cosomology.

It's true that Newtonian mechanics remains useful despite being based on a now falsified premise: time is a constant. Although his laws eventually break down, they do not lose all their power to predict effects from causes under certain common conditions.

Popular myth holds that Ptotomeic cosomology was conceived by dull-minded early men arrogantly imagining that God must have placed us at the center. But no. It was based on centuries of documented observation (now called "data") and brilliant reasoning. The predictive power of this well developed model was excellent, even after it was overturned.

So are these revolutions somehow categorically different? It's easy to think so, but that's based on an illusion of mind. Geometry is somehow much more tangible or "factual" in our minds than time. But is a flaw in the position of objects really more fundamental than a flaw in the understanding of time?
I remember an incident where a police car hit the car in front of it in slow speed. Other police officers arrived on the scene and basically told the officer to stay quiet and tried to pin the incident on the woman driving the car ahead. All of this was recorded by the police dashboard camera.

Now, you'd think I am trying to say that dashboard cameras are great and the problem is solved when police officers have to carry body cameras. Well, no. It is not even half the battle. Even if we get a system where we trust a police officer's words the same as that of an accused, the defendant still needs to have legal support that will work hard to get the footage and more importantly a police force that is willing to work with defendants in giving them the evidence the defense needs to undermine the prosecution's case.

The main problem is the blue code of silence where police officers fear speaking out against other police officers for fear of retaliation. I am afraid this is a systemic problem with no easy solution. Who watches the watchers?

Edit: Here is some more details on the case.

From NBC Miami http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Cops-Set-Up-Woman-After-C...

> The disturbing video shows Alexandra Torrensvilas, 23, handcuffed in the back of the squad car as the officers get their stories straight on what they are going to say happened.

> Officer Joel Francisco, 36, an 11-year veteran, crashed into the back of Torrensvilas' vehicle at a light on February 17 at midnight. The cop radioed to other officers who converged on the scene and hatched a way to bail Francisco out.

> Officer Dewey Pressley, 42, arrives and questions Torrensvilas, who tells him that she has been drinking. The 21-year veteran officer seizes the opportunity and arrests her for DUI. But the plot thickens from there.

> The cops begin to brainstorm believable excuses for the accident.

From http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/two-fired-h...

> Pressley, a Hollywood police officer for 22 years, and Francisco were fired in January. So were three other Police Department employees who were at the crash scene: Sgt. Andrew Diaz, Community Service Officer Karim Thomas and crime scene technician Andrea Tomassi, none of whom have been charged in the case.

From http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-04-09/news/fl-disney-c...

> Neither Pressley nor Francisco mentioned in their written incident reports that Francisco was on his cellphone at the time of the crash. Both mentioned the cat.

> Pressley was acquitted of official misconduct, a felony, but convicted of falsifying records. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and is free pending appeal.

> Francisco's deal matches the jury decision and the sentence in the Pressley case. Had he been convicted of all charges at trial, Francisco would have faced nearly 30 years in prison.

It seems like Lawyer larence Meltzer represented the accused in this case of State v. Alexandra Torrens-Vilas according to http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/33316-fl-lawrence-meltzer-1293... . Do you imagine the state would volunteer this dash cam tape if it had fallen on a overworked public defendant?
Knuth developed the first version of TeX in 1978, on the Sail mainframe, a 36-bit DEC PDP-10 with a unique hardware graphics system called Data Disc: a single-platter disk with 32 fixed read/write heads, where each of the 32 tracks contained exactly the 512 X 480 bits that constituted one frame buffer's worth of pixels. The amazing hack was that the rotational speed of the disk was just right so that during each rotation, the raw bits coming off of each head produced a video signal with just the right frequency for piping out through a coax to a completely dumb black-and-white video screen! (Actually, there was a cross-switch in there, so that there could be 64 of these special screen/keyboard units, of which 32 could be in use at a time; in fact, you could walk up to any of them and "grab" the channel that you had been using from a different office, or, for that matter, peek at anybody else's channel.)

Anyway, the custom OS ("Waits") made good use of the Data Disc graphics system: it had a built-in interactive line editor, so that when you were in the shell, you could edit your command line (control-d deletes a character, etc., etc.) and see the result in realtime. (This was years and years before Unix got similar features in tcsh and bash and the readline library). All programs inherited this functionality automatically, so Wait's full-screen editor ("E") was simply built on top of it. (Again, years and years before emacs and vi, and all on a system with a per-process address space of only 256K words (about 1Mb), split evenly between data and code.)

So, to finally answer your question: while Knuth did spend his early years programming on punched-card batch systems (where you pretty much had to write out code long-hand before keypunching it), by the time he had started working on TeX he had been exclusively using a full-screen editor on a graphical display for many years.
Is my file properly sync’ed on disk? (2013)
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Thanks for pointing that out, I was not aware of that.
Is getting ahead about fate or free will?
Yup, they renamed.
Would you apply the same analysis if I claimed I could buy a t-shirt from a store without using any factories?
If you want a shock, get on a jury. If you are lucky, one other jury member might require more proof than a cop's say-so.
It's not fair to twist people's words like that. If the poster meant churning out papers by "good work" then the whole post would not make sense. A much more reasonable interpretation would be "in order to produce good papers, or things that are less rewarded (e.g. books), one needs to play the academic game in the meantime and churn out mediocre/bad papers".

The main issue as I see it is not that good papers are not rewarded, but rather that bad/mediocre papers are rewarded far more than they deserve. This means that the incentive to work hard on a breakthrough is diminished.
But if we didn't convict the innocent, public prosecutors couldn't exhort the public into voting them back into office on the basis of an absurdly high conviction rate!
Currently I am not aware of any serious effort besides the systemd project to provide a coherent, modern core userland for Linux distros.

There's your problem. You don't even have any defined scope. A "coherent, modern core userland" doesn't actually mean anything concrete - it covers enormous ground that no single package can obey.

Modern service managers are plentiful - nosh, s6 and perp probably being the most promising.

The "old sysvinit thing" has been replaced many times for over 15 years by now. Just because you didn't notice, well, that's your problem.
Gentlemen and Gentlewoman,

I think we need a serious discussion about paywall content.

Personally, I am very annoyed by paywall content and I would prefer to don't see it on HN.

I think that paywall content are a serious treat to the openness of the community.
People don't even understand how critical this problem is. I was previously working at a very good European medical lab. The environment was so weird most postdocs simply spent 95% of their time playing the ladder-climbing game. Some got incredible promotions, like getting all the way from postdoc -> assistant prof. -> asociate prof. in 3 years after ending their PhD with no decent publications at all.

It's not even publishing crap. It's that these places develop into odd little societies that end up resembling Orwell's Animal Farm.

Obviously, this very good lab is collapsing. I have moved to Oxbridge now and things are much better. Sad to see so many cancer research Euros wasted.
Patreon is a better fit -- subscription funds from satisfied users. Unfortunately, most users don't pay their own bills, their administrators do. And administrators don't pay for free software -- classic free rider problem. (That's why the grant applications are so important)

Over a million dollars to fund math software? Maybe, but not the demographic/popularity mix I would expect to see at KS. KS is for initial funding of a product that will be profitable at steady state. SMC is already launched, but needs more steady-state funding.
Your argument is that preclinical testing provides no data? I'm not sure I agree with that.
Remember my dad mentioned these from time to time.

Also I heard that local slaughterhouse staff were not allowed to tell when there was an emergency job as otherwise everyone would gather to see what this cow had eaten. (As mentioned nails and screws were common but i heard about one of them, not ours, eating a bunch of huge galvanized bolts. Investigation found out they were left behind by high voltage powerline technicians I think.)
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Posts like this (and there are many of them) scare me.

I'm in the latter half of a PhD. I love it. I work insane hours entirely out of my own choice, because it is the most rewarding and enjoyable thing I've ever been a part of.

The idea that I've found something that I love, that is challenging, that (I hope) I'm relatively good at, and that has a definite net positive good for us as a species/society, yet I may not be able to pursue this long term because of the immense challenges facing academia as a whole (catalyzed, I would argue, by tragic lack of funding) is really concerning, on both a personal and a societal level.
Yes.

They are also a major source of excess energy once the reaction becomes self sufficient. Capture the high-energy neutrons in a suitable material and it heats up. Use heat exchangers to run turbines, produce electricity.

If you read up on fusion energy, you'll soon encounter the note that fusion reactor waste is short-lived and therefore easier to manage + store than fission reactor waste. The material used to capture neutrons is transmuted to radioactive isotopes, but due to the choice of materials* used the half-life of those isotopes is pretty low.

Yes, it also means that the fusion reactor waste is more energetic and more active radiation source than fission waste. But because it's going to become safe in just a couple of hundred years, it causes much less of a headache in terms of storage.

*: We don't necessarily know what the radioactive isotopes will be. I think the jury and researchers are still out on that one but I dare say it's guaranteed that the neutron absorbent will NOT be uranium or radium.
My guess is though this is entirely possible it is far too expensive to modify all the shelves to have this behaviour when you have a 1.2M sqft. facility.
This is an optimistic counterpoint.

However realistically nearly all persistence services such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Memcache, ElasticSearch, etc either have been insufficiently hardened as a public service or flat out are not intended to be used on a public port and depend on the network for security.

There is not currently an option to connect an RDS database instance to a Lambda function without opening said database instance up to the public. It's a problem.

You are correct that SSH tunneling could be used to provide security but such usage is not yet a standard approach.
Microsoft considers multibillion-dollar overhaul to Redmond campus
You are right. Parent post misstated the details; the reality is even worse, and along the same lines.
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> you will receive an invoice with the product - so you don't pay until you have it. Furthermore, they'll give you 30 day credit, and can even split the payment over several months (3, 6, 12, 24 or 36) for an extra fee.

How is this different and better for me than a credit card? Using a credit card I don't have to pay until the end of the credit cycle, which usually is after I receive the product, and pay over a longer term for the 'extra fee' of interest. The credit card company also reverses charges for items I don't receive, protects me from fraud (over $50), and provides a host of other services such as frequent flier miles, insurance, etc.

Also, what are their interest rates?
> I'd say it's somewhat hard...

I don't think it's hard, it's just time consuming. And we all know that "time is money", specially for small teams or solo devs (as you pointed out).
Well, both happen. There are great $200 books, and 'core dump' $200 books. I've bought both. There are publishers out there that will take any material, rubber stamp it, and publish it for very large amounts of money. Just like there are journals that will accept papers on anything - I can't tell you how many papers I start to read to realize that all they are doing is reporting on some well known result from 20+ years ago. Publish or perish, I guess.

How much does an academic get from one of these (good) books? I find it hard to believe it makes economic sense when you compare amount of labor vs money. I have an (unsigned) book contract sitting in my inbox right now - the money on offer is not a motivating factor, believe me. But, I'm an engineer, so I'm envisioning that instead of writing a book you could consult and make 10x to 100x return compared to writing. Probably not many consulting positions available in 15th century Spanish poetry. But I think I could get a better return on time working at McDonalds.

Anyway, academics are starting to write open access books. Books that no one can afford to buy, books that are not electronic and hence unsearchable, will be land fill in a few decades. We are awash in information, and this knowledge will be lost forever if we continue locking it up like this. No one is ever going to fly to, I dunno, EPFL, to wander dusty stacks for weeks to try to discover the single remaining copy of some unknown book that might benefit their research.

edit: another thread points out the existence of ILL. Fair enough. I still say any book locked on paper is dead, soon (of the type talked about in the article, defining books in the field will be known and accessible). These books get shredded after never being checked out; they aren't going to exist in 200 years to be ILL'ed, or digitized after copyright runs out. Of course exceptions will exist; I'm talking in the large.

edit2: I am not an academic, but I read academic publications every day. Access is much more difficult on this side of the ivory tower. ILL is not easy to get access to. The times I have looked into it you usually see that there are two copies of the book available, and both are checked out and won't be available for 3 months (end of semester). It's better than nothing, but it is a terrible way to distribute information.
Are ACL's so new for Linux? I remember using them on Primes back in the 80's
Kuhn's theory corresponds neither to the facts and nor to the history of science. Galileo and Newton are ample counter-factuals.
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Wanted to specifically point this out:

"The potential updates would be aimed at shifting away from private offices toward the more open-plan work spaces that are favored by today’s technology companies, said the people."
Edit: North America, not whole world, sorry.

My sense of anti-chauvinism prevented me from registering the truth of the matter.
You may need to mod it to dump games.