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> This isn't the right question. The question is, "Who should be profiting from research papers?"

I am not sure that the way you put it s right either.

Because "who should be profiting from research papers?" is too generic of a question, and does not appear to necessarily supersede the question 'should tax-funded publication be readable for free?'

If I may rephrase your question to be:
"Quality control of a research paper, must be, necessarily funded (either by money or a form of barter).
Therefore question a) who should fund it, question b) who should receive funding to do the quality control"

Then, obviously, this is an important question. And I do not believe has been clearly answered either in polices or on this forum.

My answer to ( a ) would be -- the same entity that funds the research (therefore in this case the tax payers)

My answer to ( b ) would be -- a licensed or otherwise professionally certified group, independently selected (that is not selected by the researcher that authors the publication).
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Full disclosure: I'm a founder of a company called Scholastica that provides software that helps journals peer-review and publish open-access content online. One of our journal clients, Discrete Analysis, is linked to in the NYT article.

It is incredibly obvious that journal content shouldn't cost as much as it does.

- Scholars write the content for free

- Scholars do the peer-review for free

- All the legacy publishers do is take the content and paywall PDF files

Can you believe it? Paywalling. PDFs. For billions.

Of course the publishers say they create immense value by typesetting said PDFs, but as technologists, we can clearly see that this is bunk.

There's a comment in this thread that mentions the manual work involved in taking Word files and getting them into PDFs, XML, etc. While that is an issue, which you could consider a technology problem, it definitely doesn't justify the incredible cost of journal content that has been created and peer-reviewed at no cost. Keep in mind that journal prices have risen much faster than the consumer price index since the 80s (1).

The future is very clear, academics do the work as they've always done and share the content with the public at a very low cost via the internet.

PS. If you want a peek into how the publishers see the whole Sci-Hub kerfuffle, check out this post from one of their industry blogs - the comment section is a doozy: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/03/02/sci-hub-and-th...

1. https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/jtj2dzMfklULQipRZt_3xaLoFxU...
The pandora was supposed to not be available once the produced units were sold.
If you really want one, it won't be long before some of the people buying pyras sell their pandoras.
This as an argument is completely crazy and similarly absolutist.

Having access to proper crypto at all, as an option, does not mean everything will inevitably be encrypted and not controlled for. Companies will still have the power to set their own device rules and so on. There's plenty of existing laws in place to allow for any kind of reporting still happen; you do not need to break all crypto forever.
It is a windows 10 computer, it comes with secure boot and UEFI.
If they're merely extracting rent, you should expect two things to be true:

1. Their margins are extremely high, 90% range.
2. Open access journals can charge orders of magnitude less

Neither is broadly correct.

Regarding the claim that ~30% margins are excessive: do you think that if their prices went down by 30%, everybody would be happy?
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> Lying about having serious developmental disorders is a 'sweet hack' now?

Your perspective on this will depend on whether you lean towards legalizing substances and taxing them. I personally think the prohibition of drugs does far more damage than consumption, and I consider this scenario to be similar to the easy access to medical marijuana - all it took was filling out a quiz and getting an easy diagnosis. Reselling marijuana is illegal, but it's an everyday occurrence that fills DEMAND.

> using the meds off prescription and are more likely to do especially risky behaviors like snort it

As long as you support the legality of alcohol, your worry about someone hurting themselves on drugs ignores the everyday harm already done by the most dangerous yet easily acquired behavior-altering substance. As for snorting amphetamines - people have been snorting, smoking, and imbibing things since the early days of humanity. It won't be going away soon and, until it affects you directly, it's none of your business really.
Bush 43 was a striking demonstration that it does matter who you vote for.

Just because you get something worse than you wanted or expected doesn't mean that it doesn't matter.
>I believe some ISP's intercept all queries on port 53.

I'd say most ISPs do it nowadays including some datacentre providers. I only noticed it when my ISP screwed up their DNS proxy making all Cloudflare domains inaccessible no matter which DNS server I point queries to, the packets simply disappear down a black hole.
I'll try to make it simpler. How do you propose a ban on ammunition? Walk me through the legislative and judicial processes.

On the flip side, my first argument 2A, so now the burden is back on you.
One issue I have with PIA is the non-unique PSK.
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Store it as a string and write your own math routines.

I don't know why you guys are having trouble with this. \s
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There's a bit of a slight of hand in this statistic -- yes, they can do runtime on a single machine, but it took the compute power of a small country to train the neural nets that are loaded onto that one machine.
It doesn't have to be hard to run an empire badly.

A shell script that just repeats "Sell all assets and invest in SPY" would outperform Trump at running his empire, and it would have the side bonus of not being a crazy asshole.
This is a weird article that lacks important context.

When are we going to get an article on "what google can see" from this team?

ISP snooping on network traffic really only happened after Google started getting into the ISP business.

Monetizing your traffic (beyond transport) only became a thing after Google Fiber fired a cannon ball across the broadside of carriers. Carriers responded by offering ad networks around anonymized, aggregated data about customer behavior. It drives the value of Google Adwards down. It doesn't make carriers rich.

Maybe someday we'll need to worry about big-I innovation from carriers in this domain, but I don't see it happening soon.

I'm all in on tearing it all down. But focusing only on the companies that offer services that huge populations are willing to actually pay for is extremely dishonest.
There's a trilogy of Epic RTS games built Cavedog Alumni. Three different companies, three different "universes", yet a clear line of spiritual succession exists through them thanks to some unsung powerhouses of the gaming industry over the last 20 years.

Total Annihilation

Supreme Commander

Planetary Annihilation

The amazing thing about these games is how much longevity they have due to quality design. There is an active community of players around TA still to this day. Who have done some pretty amazing things over the years... The game is routinely played with more than 10 times the number of units it was 'designed for' with extra large custom maps and LAN games that can take hours to play out.

Supreme Commander came out and upped the ante, TA had scaled to massive RTS battles where micromanagement became nearly pointless. Supreme Commander goes further, units range massively in size, so much so that you often spend most of the game zoomed out, controlling an army of thousands of coloured dots spread out over maps up to 80km x 80km

Then somehow they found the crazy inspiration to go further. Not content with nuclear weapons deforming terrain with explosions so big your units are mere specs on the map if you zoom out to admire the fireball... Planetary Annihilation is everything you imagine when you read the name. Spherical planets swarming with thousands and thousands of tanks robots planes and ships, satellites in orbit, rockets, teleportation and other crazy machines to transport your army between planets and moons, massive asteroid pushing engines that let you push asteroids and moons out of their orbits and use the planets themselves as weapons of warfare.

TLDR: Yep, Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander, and Planetary Annihilation are three of the best RTS games ever, if not THE best RTS games ever then clearly the best Strategic RTS games ever.

Total Annihilation Intro Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mZZiI4ShQ

Supreme Commander Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItDVrkLkYXw

Planetary Annihilation Launch Trailer - https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=enzglv8sLn8

Planetary Annihilation: Titans Launch Trailer - https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=gpZWAZwoNz0
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Early MacPaint and Quickdraw source code is worth a look. Clean and simple, yet solved a rather complex problem. http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-...

Here is what the author said about it (and code in general):

"It’s an art form, like any other art form… I would spend time rewriting whole sections of code to make them more cleanly organized, more clear. I’m a firm believer that the best way to prevent bugs is to make it so that you can read through the code and understand exactly what it’s doing"
Can you please expand on why?
To read papers, I use a standard PDF viewer (or image viewer, for some old papers which I've scanned in).

To organize papers, I use Zotero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_manage... has a long list of reference management software, some of which have modified PDF readers which allow, for example, user annotations.
Could someone explain how in the context of the article, "process" differs from a "thread", in say Java or Python? Or are they one in the same?
Forgot that HN is a libertarian paradise!

It's funny, some threads you'd think everyone here was at least a socialist. Then in others you'd think everyone is one step short of declaring themselves sovereign citizens.

I think the lizard people who run the site just flip a coin when each story is posted to decide which kind of comments it'll have.
IIRC, Netflix only has first-run rights to House Of Cards. It's not fully owned by Netflix and will appear on Comcast et al. [0]

Although when Netflix's original $100m buy didn't cover production costs, it is what it is?

[0] http://www.wired.com/2014/03/comcast-bites-netflix-snagging-...
This reminds me of one of my favourite peeves when reading code written by maths people:

Every variable is one or two characters long, the code barely indented, and absolutely no spaces anywhere in the code.

Given that a lot of mathematics involves computer programming these days, I find it remarkable that basic programming principles does not seem to be taught at all.

My point here is that this is not just a problem in computer science education. It seems as though every field that touches on programming fails spectacularly in this regard.
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Generally, processes do not share memory, but threads may.
Oh this is absolutely true, but there is a non trivial proportion of MMA fighters with a serious wrestling background, even in UFC. A good amount of skills are transferable between those two sports, as different as they are.
In Erlang, a "process" is analogous to a Java or Python thread in that it's not spinning up a separate OS-level process, but it really functions as its own self-contained process within the Erlang VM. Processes communicate with messages (like OS-level processes) but can't directly share state (like threads would). The result is that in a single Erlang VM, you can have a butt-ton of processes, each effectively runs a full copy of whatever it needs to run, and it can fail, crash, or otherwise explode without affecting the other processes in the VM. The model is what gives Erlang its remarkable resilience and scalability.
You are right. It isn't best to start with LLVM, the top tier. I've made the mistake of letting it stop me in the past.

Writing a Brainfuck interpreter is a good idea! (I'm aware of the language.) Perhaps I could also try ArnoldC. :3

Recently, I began working with HHVM, I've been very interested in the subject of compilers and interpreters. I would certainly love to build such a thing for JS one day.
I mean, Mesopotamia was flooding quite frequently. I don't think much further inspiration is necessary.
Well, we know about a lot of abandonware since the times of Gilgamesh and Ulysses. Even what we managed to preserve is usually executed with emulated languages, because original runtimes are lost or evolved beyond recognition. Some are ports of pirated or censored copies, on completely different architectures, completely reskinned and modded beyond recognition.

The result is, to be brutally honest, that reading Beowulf is a chore; most Shakespeare works need a walkthrough; Dante's Inferno is fun but we'll never appreciate it in the same way as XIII-century political junkies did. And so on and so forth for huge chunks of literature.

In short, most old literature is not as accessible or enjoyable as contemporary pulp. You have to accept these limitations as you consume it; which is why Plato does not sell as much as J.K. Rowling or Dan Brown. Similarly with games, we cannot expect today's kids to appreciate what came before them. Some will, some won't. That's just how it is.
> "including checking suspected bank transactions with a warrant"

> Assuming one is not using cryptocurrency like bitcoin to store money and make transactions.

All transactions in Bitcoin are public. It's a public ledger that is barely pseudonymous. So, it's actually even easier for law enforcement than with banks -- you don't need to pick up the phone to investigate a transaction history.
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That's not right. Putnam's argument is explicitly anti-sceptical. See the Stanford Encyclopedia article linked down thread.
This is a very good point.

As someone who has been anti-gun and pro-encryption, I'm now wondering how I reconcile these two stances that are at conflict with each other.
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I probably wrote that a little quickly. To clarify

(1-3) the broader issue is to ensure an even comparison. Typical debates around this issue show very nice historic examples of low-rise apartments and at best mediocre high rise. Originally the density comparisons of jane jacobs who this argument derives from were arguing (very rightly) for the retention of heritage areas like grenwich village against turning into terrible 60s estates. However when comparing new with new and in todays context the result is quite different. In general terms the quality of new build high rise tends to be better than new build low rise and the streets for new build low rise dont look much like your photo (though i wish they could)

(4) im all for reducing parking. But apart from a few places (which should focus on higher densities imo) SF is not approaching grenwich village levels of walkability and will need more cars.

(5) not sure which part you disagree with. Any developer (big enough to be able) will tell you theyd rather build high rise. Comparative hosuing prices to other cities show that there ia huge pent up demand in SF. In hong kong it started from the other direction - huge amounts of public housing were built to ensure employers didnt have to pay workers too much.

(6) 'perimeter-blocks' over a few storeys tend to strongly overshadow low levels and streets while large upper storeys get good sun all the time. Towers (or rather slender, well separated towers - like vancouver) have shadows which move around more and distribute the overahadowing more
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Then they should tell authors: "give us your material conformant to our schema and we'll cut the price in half" That way the author can decide. I bet that most would stil submit Word documents.
Unbreakable encryption isn't new. One-time pads have been around for a long time. Book ciphers can be impenetrable when done properly. And there's always the tried-and-true technique of simply never writing anything down, and doing everything face to face. Even if you argue that this is too difficult and you need something modern and easy to use, uncrackable encryption programs have been available for maybe two decades now.

Yet regulators seem to still be able to get the information they need. They're often nearly toothless, but that's because of politics, not technology.
I'm surprised he'd make such an optimistic statement. I think a better analogy would be:

We figured out how to make icing, but we still don't really know what a cake is.
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> FBI Director James Comey already went before Congress and was rejected. I'd say the possibility of him succeeding in the future is even lower, given the way this case has played out.

All it will take is a large-scale "terrorist attack". That event will be exploited to the hilt the same way 9/11 was.
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Actually, they can't be co-linear as well.
Yeah, in a global sense, it doesn't. But in its easy availability for spending in some particular direction, it does. Or do you not remember the end of the housing bubble?
> Every researcher I know would publish for free if it wouldn't ruin their career to do otherwise.

Why can't the national/international associations in each field set up simple publishing operations (or pay a U. press to do it), with the same people doing peer review, and use their power to designate the presitage of each journal: 'this will be our tier 1 journal, this one a tier 2, etc.'

Whatever it costs, it would cost far less than the existing setup. I'd think the U. libraries would be happy to share some of their enormous savings to fund the operation.
Guns are not, fundamentally, a tool for ensuring one's privacy.
> It's great that one's ISP doesn't know what porn site one is visiting,

Well.... that seems to be the way Utah is heading, with the support of anti-porn crusaders (many of whom are radical feminists - that's originally where I found this link)

http://fightthenewdrug.org/state-of-utah-makes-history-decla...

"One of the proposed directions is to see the government work with internet providers to allow pornography only on an opt-in basis."
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I listen to podcasts besause have no time for reading , not other way around.
The problem I have with it is that they could be contributing their brain power and time to other open source projects instead of recreating the wheel for very little benefit. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, as I consider the more restrictive Copyleft licensing as new /loss/ for society.
One thing that I've never understood is why websockets instead of server sent events?
>Your perspective on this will depend on whether you lean towards legalizing substances and taxing them.

Fairly libertarian, but thanks for your patronizing attitude.

Lying to get an unfair advantage over other students isn't positive sum behavior. It's zero sum behavior that leads to things like red queen races (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race) and everybody having to compete for unlimited time related benefits. A competition which then eats up the supply of this resource for the people it exists for: Actually disabled people with ADHD.

Your perspective here is akin to saying that in a busy parking lot there's demand for the disabled parking spaces, so people who go out and lie about their ability so they can park in the handicap spot are performing a 'sweet hack' to get around a 'fucked up' system.
That's Valentine's day, hence the September skew ...
This is like saying "I don't want to file a tax because my handwriting is bad".

Well, if you're embarrassed by your terrible handwriting, maybe it's a time to put some effort to improve it.
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Then they should no longer care about piracy.
>Why has this law not fallen afoul of the second amendment?

In many people's eyes, it has.
The cake is a lie. Obviously :)
Why are you under the impression scholars write the papers for free? That is what researchers are employed at universities to do ... Yes, it is not like publishing a book but these papers are not really like books anyway.
Yes - it's exactly like that.
The Erlang VM itself has to be rock solid just like you expect Apache and Nginx to be rock solid.

Fortunately this more or less seems to be the case.
Odd that the article treats all gun deaths as morally equivalent. For example, it raises the fact that stand your ground laws increase the number of gun deaths. Of course, that's rather the point of them.

The moment I see an author treating mass killings and suicides as equivalent to justifiable self defence, I start to wonder about bias and motivation behind the article.
Which is why we don't give the Judicial branch an armed military force, and that we can impeach them.
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Vaguely related is the Salton Sea in southern California. It's been a large lake in the geological past, but it most recently filled in due to some bad irrigation planning in 1905. It filled up in about 2 years.
See https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/dns-censor...

Some DNS servers will show you a page about copyright infringement instead of TPB. Years ago, some German DNS servers were null-routing Nazi stuff. The FBI sometimes takes down sites through DNS spoofing aka cache poisoning. But normally, they go after root nameservers. In 2014, the Turkish government banned Twitter and YouTube through DNS cache poisoning: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/03/googles-pub...
For me at least, Murchie's book was a revelation. I was ignorant of the possibilities he discusses of "movement without muscles, sight without eyes, hearing without ears, smelling without a nose, thirst quenching without drinking, eating without a mouth, digestion without a stomach or excretion, reproduction without sex, thinking without a brain and life without rest, sleep or death."

I don't now feel we are in the position to be drawing philosophical lines around what is the mind, the self, etc, when so much is still unknown.
I've been personally involved in a 5-car 8 man police search of my vehicle where the initial officer illegally searched my car and found some cocaine residue on a mirror under the passenger seat.

You would have thought I just robbed a bank at gunpoint or something.
They're not getting paid by the publisher.
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ISPs block port 53? Where, might I ask?

Good reason to use a VPN, I guess.
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Yes it is. To answer a few of the comments here, it's currently going through an overhaul. They are making integrating a lot better for certain tools and switching out others such as replacing their own virtual dom tool with React. They are also working on supporting other DBs besides Mongo (I believe they currently have Postgres support).

Basically, with skimping on details, they're really increasing in the future of the framework right now. You can check on their blog for more info and skim their accomplishments, upcoming releases, and current goals in the pipeline.