skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Journals are used as a proxy for quality. A publication in "Science" or "Nature" is generally regarded as being better than a publication in, say, the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science".

Bibliographic metrics, like the number of publications and where they are published, are use as a proxy for the quality of someone's research. It can affect grant funding and career advancement.

Researchers can publish their own papers. But researchers also tend to want that work to be disseminated, both to spread knowledge and get recognition for the work. Journals help simplify that process. A field typically has one or two main journals, which most people in the field track. It's more likely that a publication will be noticed if it's published in one of those papers.
If you think its acceptable that a secret government agency can inject itself in any technology device, for whatever purpose it sees fit, without any recourse for the citizens of the country it is supposedly 'supporting', that its acceptable for an agency to have the power to spy on everyone who has ever used a computer, cell phone, or any Internet device, for whatever reason it deems suitable, without oversight from the very people from whom it derives such power, then there really is no decent conversation to be had, here.

"Fringe extremes" is just your way of saying 'you don't think what the collective mind wants you to think, why are you not like everyone else', and in that statement you have said more than enough. You don't think its at all disagreeable to have to 'conform to what society thinks' or else .. "you must be mentally ill"?

Seriously, examine this position. Its a cult-like mentality that doesn't improve conditions - it simply allows those who have the power to continue to extend it and interfere in every day life. Are you okay with having a shadowy organization, with everyones data, beyond the reach of the people you profess to be a major 'part of' in your collective mind-set?

Because I am not. I live in a place where the echoes of tyranny and the heinous information-apparatus it depended on still ring throughout the land. And here you are, safely justifying the creation of a new one, with little consideration for what it truly means that we have no control over the digital domain and its masters, any more.

Popular opinion is just one way to justify being too lazy to form ones own ..
I read about a study where they were trying to see if there were differences between people who viewed internet porn and people who didn't, yet on the university campus they could not find a single person in their surveying who hadn't viewed porn at least once.
At some point the blades would poke up through thinner parts of the atmosphere and it would be pointless, so let's say under six miles?
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Can you explain what you mean by "not strictly unify or abstract every language & runtime"?

In day-to-day use, how would you notice this problem? Can you give an example of what problems or hurdles this can cause?

I've only used Haxe briefly for a few small game demos, and loved it, but I've only used the JS backend.
The Self-Attribution Fallacy

Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.

http://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-falla...
It's on hiatus right now, but I really recommend the @games_we_care twitter feed for this. The 1,041 recommendations in its archive are pretty great, and if/when it comes back, I'm sure the future will be good too.
Hmmm...it seems like the space is ready to be disrupted.

How might that look? I mean purely publishing isnt just ideal as it lacks the so-called quality control and prestige of established publications.

What might be a middle ground for disrupting this crappy monopoly on the world's knowledge?
this article was originally from a gawker site. keep that in mind when reading.
Many years ago hospital systems employed librarians who acquired articles for medical staff. Costs associated with maintaining a library were at least partially offset by fees physicians paid to be "on staff" at a hospital (or group of them). BTW those fees were typically on the order of several hundred dollars/year.

Of course, among small-medium size hospital systems the libraries are long gone. Some of the largest or those affiliated with universities may still have access in some form. It's an ironic development that so much more research is going on, yet less available to practitioners on the front lines.
There's a huge difference between trade dress patents, which are analogous to trademarks in their extreme specificity, and software patents which are deliberately vague.

Unless a software patent can be described in actual, working code they should reject it, and if it is granted, it should cover that specific implementation and not all possible forms such code might take.
Even if abiogenesis is common, the transition from simple to complex cells is incredibly uncommon. As far as we can tell it only happened on earth once in 4 billion years.

f_l may be 0.1 but f_i is almost certainly multiple orders of magnitude smaller.
They don't exist, yet they cost the industry upwards of $9B a year in settlement fees and legal costs.
Oh, well carry on then, my bad ;-)
I don't really buy it. Decades of monopoly profits are a powerful incentive to stagnate. Those profits definitely fund a lot of survival, and potentially some interesting side projects, but I wouldn't call most of it innovation or progress. As for ambitious research projects, some people just do those on their own, and for the rest, there's academia, government grants, and venture capital.
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I see you complied, did it hurt your business?
Backbone+ES6 example
> we don't currently have appropriate metrics for productivity in a market increasingly based on information

I like this xkcd comic for a great representation of this: https://xkcd.com/1629/

How, exactly, do you quantify the productivity of someone who makes some obscure library for a tool that provides monitoring services for some other utility that...

Hell, my own job is hard enough to quantify. I do defect analysis at Intel, looking for defects in chips with a scanning electron microscope. Sure, my output of samples is pretty easy to track, but what's the actual productivity of my work? I am one very, very small cog in a very, very big machine that somehow shits out fantastically small computer chips at the end. How important is my role? Er, I'm not quite sure. All I know is that I'm paid good money for what I do, and I work 12-hour shifts and am frequently asked to work overtime. But not once have I been told, "Hey, thanks to the defects that you and your team found, we got the information needed to increase wafer yield by X! You're doing great work!" Nope. Chips come in, pictures go out, engineers do Stuff with those pictures, and that's about as far as I can tell.

How do you measure the productivity of my work? The engineers who use the data I create to tell other people to make changes in the process? The guys who make the tools that I use to do all of this? The janitor who cleans the wastebaskets of the guys who make said tools? We keep going farther and farther down the rabbit hole, and it doesn't get any clearer.
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I based my comment on memory.

As I recall, reprints cost on the order of $0.50 each in the early 80s. Based on http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ that's about $1.20 in present dollars. That's a lot less than $30.
Can you cross-publish / self-publish as well?
there is a difference between prices controlled in the interest of the the buyer or the seller.

For example, in many countries, professional lobbies (lawyers, doctors) influence their set price to what they deem "fair" which means it's in their interest as providers.

This is different from the government setting a maximum price on soap and milk, which is in the interest of the buyer but not the seller.

Taxis are special again, as they often exist in a state of government-controlled monopoly (i.e. taxi licenses are restricted).
As somebody pointed out, Telegram want's Instagram to change their name :)

Actually, this may be one of the best things that could happen to LitterGram from the marketing point of view, I too had tweeted to FB and Instagram asking them not to be so narrow minded.
Wow, that's a stretch. He even uses google's "don't be evil" as an example, which we know is dead and buried. Monopolies have a way, way stronger incentive to just stand still, optimize and collect profits.
True. Doing favors for money/gifts is standard in much of the world.
http://sci-hub.bz/ and http://sci-hub.cc/
Sorry for off topic, just a heads up for the maintainers of haxe.org. Several links in the footer, inside 'Learn Haxe' section are broken. They point to '/http...'.
I don't feel wrong pirating music or movies (especially considering it's legal in my country). I think trying to apply laws of limited amounts of goods (physical objects) to unlimited amount of goods (digital files) is silly.
In practice, people often just put a "draft" of the paper on their personal website without telling their publisher.

Papers in fancy journals are more prestigious, but the papers that get cited the most are the ones with full text freely available on the Web. So, when they can, scientists choose both.

(The better way to do this is to support a publisher that's both high-quality and open-access and submit to their journal.)
Academics in some fields have been starting independent open-access journals, sometimes with the explicit goal of replacing Elsevier journals in particular.

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/the-elsevier-boycott...
I think you're right, that comparing operating margin is the right way to look at this. But do Amazon and its investors really believe that investing in video streaming, fire phones, etc will improve that margin?
If they could review webfont rendering in Chrome on Windows overall I would be so happy - it really is much worse than FF, IE and Edge.
67.4% of Americans aged 15-64, as of 2013. Working age population is around 200 million.

There's still a decent number of single-earner married households out there -- roughly 25% of all married households. That accounts for some. 13.5% have no earner at all. That's mostly retired couples, but there's also some who are permanently disabled.

Labor force participation rate has hovered in the mid-60% range for a long time -- it increased over most of the latter 20th century, plateaued in the '90s, and dropped a lot during the Great Recession. The main change is that the rate dropped a lot for men -- from 87% in 1948 to 69% in 2014 -- and women increased from 32% to 56%. (Yes, men are still over 10 percentage points more likely to be employed than women in the US.)
it was forwarded to three peer-reviewers who may and may not be reimbursed for their time

Your phrasing implies that there are journals in your field that regularly pay their peer-reviewers. As far as I know, it's really rare that journals pay for peer review, and most of those only pay a token amount[1]. Are you actually unsure of this journal's policy, or is there some other reason you phrased it like that?

[1] http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/20930/are-there-...
I guess that's globessl, for $50/year.
It depends upon your field and your country but many journals require a copyright assignment. They also often require that the work has not been published elsewhere previously.
Errata: The lowest bidder that met the mission/project requirements.

Cheapest != worst, see SpaceX.
It only applies when whole company was doing that. ULA is made from Boeing and LM, and Boeing does most of its job in the real market, selling passenger jets, and competes quite successfully.
> now you buy condoms online

Mail order condoms was common long before the web was popularized.
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I'm wondering if they'd make more money with very cheap subscriptions (a.k.a. "long tail") and no legal department.
pong was mind blowing 40 years ago
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Massive improvements in standard of living are certainly conceivable. I can't speak for how the maths work out, but if you e.g. consider potential improvements that have no physical law preventing them:

- Eliminating the requirement to work for a living
- Eradicating disease (including mental health
and first-world diseases as obesity, RSI and diabetes)
- Reducing health problems related to aging, increasing
the number of healthy years of the population,
increasing life span
- Eliminating aging altogether, enabling replacement of
organs and body parts with improved artificial versions
- Achieving sustainable energy production and transport
- Eliminating the need to perform unwanted boring tasks
- Fully-immersive virtual reality
- Automating production of goods and services to such a
degree that everyone in the world has access to the
same standard of living that the richest have today

The sky is the limit, so to speak. One obviously has to think outside the box of what the world looks like today, but the limits of economic growth are in physical terms far, far beyond where we are today. This is even without considering the very distant possibility of compelling space habitats that could support greater populations than Earth.
This sounds like an increasingly commented on issue: there are now hundreds and hundreds of specialty journals, but quality is patchy. In fact, I think we may be seeing inherent problems coming to the fore now that journals are more focussed on profits: often there is publication bias towards certain topics; in other cases the bias is towards positive results and breakthroughs, with a lack of enthusiasm for publishing retractions or establishing reproducibility.

One thing that always sticks in my craw is that the raw data is very rarely published for analysis. Many may disagree, but I think that by not publishing the raw data for experiments the temptation to commit academic fraud is very high.

I often wonder about some of the more recent scandals whether it might have been picked up a lot faster had the data been more readily available.

I also have noticed that many journals don't say who the reviewers are after publication. For instance, I was looking at body pyschotherapy the other day and came across something called biodynamic analysis, which appears to be a widely held and well respected view within the subdiscipline. I was amazed to discover that something called "grounding" was a serious concept that underpins this analysis, so I looked at the Wikipedia references and discovered that there was at least one journal citation to The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. The article seems to be attempting to make a link between bloody viscosity and electrical grounding of humans to the earth! [1]

Now there is another article that shows there is virtually no impact on the body from the same journal, so I started to wonder how this passed peer review. The answer is - I have no way of knowing as they don't make it clear what their review policies and procedures are, and they appear to charge authors to publish work.

In other words - it's pseudoscience dressed up in credibility. And it is making a serious impact in the world of psychology!

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3576907/
It is in the interest of the general public to mirror these services as many time as we should. Paywalls for scientific articles are holding back the whole species. Fusion reactor when? Maybe when the patents for technological advance will not be held by oil companies around the world, whose short term interests cap the our technological progress to make the world a more livable place.

I have a couple PhD student friends, who give me first hand account of biology articles being inaccessible in 2nd world countries due to paywalls and financial limitations of research facilities. It is holding back research in just about every field, I suppose.
This episode has one of my most memorable Riker lines:

If he had gotten off the planet instead of me, don't you think he would have made the same choices that I made?

I always felt this line showed how disconnected Riker was about the situation. As if there actually were two of him on the planet before the transporter accident, and it was left to random chance which one of those two it was that left and which one stayed.
Hi. You should put up a system that prevents early deaths.
A 20 seconds invincibility time frame would be a good way to allow low level players to get started safely.
It would also prevent high level players from getting free points easily.

Looking forward to seeing the new features you're working on.
> It looks like this is possible because there is not an explicit 'access-control-allow-origin' header set on facebook

CORS has nothing to do with it, actually. This is where the strength of the attack lies.
It's not compiler's job to shape community or enforce ethical values (unless it's GCC, haha). If people don't want to share binaries, they are free to share sources.
If it's dynamic, one can do that in CLOS+MOP with extensions like predicate dispatch or similar.

If it's static like possible in some ways in C++, then Common Lisp won't support it, because it generally lacks a full featured compile-time static type system.

> could come up with generic functions that dispatch on types

But how would you know that a vector only contains ints between 100 and 200 or characters from A to Z?
Either a) we can express that in the type system for compile time, we carry complex type annotations for runtime objects, or we do a check at runtime.
I'm somewhat on your side, but still, without evidence proving it could work, this argument sounds a lot like Pascal's Wager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager).

There are many propositions out there that claim infinite reward, but we can't be compelled by reason to do all of them can we? The major difference here is that there are some preliminary results that seem to point in a reasonable direction, but we're still pretty far short of something compelling.
That’s true for client-side JavaScript (like I said in the presentation).

It’s a whole different story if you’re using server-side JavaScript (e.g. Node.js), though.
How much are they bidding?

I'm in for $999M
Being fired implies a lack of choice, a forced move, usually a specific end-date that you're going to be gone by. There's a power imbalance in the interaction which is so devastating to people.

I tread very carefully around the comparison and fully admit the different scale, but this kind of power-imbalance is exactly the reason why kidnapping and rape are considered so serious. The psychological damage the forced actions have on a person are painful. Being fired sucks because there was no choice involved, your life is changing right now and there's nothing you can do about it because you have no power.

The article is talking about a method by which that equation of power imbalance is shifted to something more equal in nature. It's about getting the other person to agree to the statement "I should not be working here, in this role".

When both sides agree, it stops being a power-imbalanced forced action and becomes working together to find a better place to be in the future. That's the core difference here.

I've seen it done right, and I've seen it done wrong, and I am in awe of the managers I've had who can do it right.
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How/why/what? Is it through subsidies, or preferred govt contracts, or what? Why are they just being given money?
To be fair, I haven't set a foot in my university for 3 years (planning to return soon!) but since I still send them the occasional email asking to be registered for a course I'm considered active there and get access to a lot of publications as long as I'm logged in to their systems.
No, that's complete bullshit.

Had Aaron pleaded guilty, he'd be out by now as both of the plea agreements he was offered would have meant 6 months or less .

And trial? Why would he have gone to trial? There was no question of his guilt.
With the cost overrun of the F35 Project, though, one could probably finance a whole Stargate program, spaceships included.
> Problem with monopolies is that they lag behind on innovation.

With an arguable rare exception being AT&T from the early 20th century up until about ~1980 perhaps, nurturing within it the renowed Bell Labs and its predecessor(s).
> As for ambitious research projects, (...) there's academia, government grants (...)

I.e. both of which provided by a de-facto ultimate monopoly which can afford "luxuries" like basic research because they don't have to worry it won't pay off next quarter.

> (...) and venture capital.

I want to see VC-sponsored ambitious research projects. VC-money-induced thinking is very short term.
Is it? Lack of clarity is usually a hallmark of regulations themselves, multiplying as more regulations hit the books.
The attack on Facebook (or any other website for that matter) works regardless of any Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers. The Fetch API has a mode "no-cors", which does not require CORS. Also: the cache being used is a programmable cache, which is distinct from the regular cache in the sense that any website can place any resource in it, regardless of the headers sent along with the response.

(I'm one of the researchers mentioned in the presentation.)
Angara is making steady progress.
They need to take a page out of this guys book.

http://www.slutsofinstagram.com

Link is SFW, about a magical duck named Slutsof and his tales in the land of Stagram.
One oil field a key culprit in global ethane gas increase
For whatever reason lots of people here seem to disagree.

Could any of the 4 downvoters clarify in what conceivable scenario would Aaron still be in prison if he was alive?

Had he pled guilty, he would undoubtedly be out by now. And going to trial obviously wasn't a realistic option considering the plea deals he was offered (BTW If someone here disagrees about that, I'd really like to know why.).

Read:

http://volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

http://volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-against-aa...
> Also why is this called Quantum MCMC rather than just normal Markov Chain Monte Carlo?

I had the same question, so I looked it up. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Monte_Carlo :

"Quantum Monte Carlo encompasses a large family of computational methods whose common aim is the study of complex quantum systems. One of the major goals of these approaches is to provide a reliable solution (or an accurate approximation) of the quantum many-body problem."
Fast, compact implementation of Brute-Force algorithm in C++
I'm looking forward to Devuan going stable in 2020.

But seriously, Devuan had some success with its core mission (drawing away the trolls and conspiracy theorists from Debian). They are now well integrated and discover most fascinating things (like that the vfat filesystem can be mounted in a way that non-root can write there! Wow! How did you discover this without reading the documentation?)

https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20160426.180427.4d4815...
That true, but it also has to do with the way productivity is calculated. If Joe borrows $10,000 from John, and loans $10,000 to Jill, and Jill uses that $10,000 to pay back the money she owes John, that counted as $30,000 worth of productivity as far as GDP is concerned. "Economic activity" does not equal productivity. If the government hires one person to dig a hole, and another person to fill it in, that's "economic activity" but it sure as hell isn't the productivity that GDP says it is.
C++ : Static. Compile-time method selection. But not dynamic.

CLOS: Dynamic dispatch is possible, given extensions like predicate dispatch.

ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/2001/AITR-2001-006.pdf