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Escape/avoid, now you're just arguing semantics. I'm not even really sure what your point is. The only thing I stated is that we know the recipe for avoiding and/or leaving poverty. It's not necessarily easy but it is simple and it has three major factors. All I stated was our social policies should reflect the things we know work. Yes, to a certain extent jobs don't just fall out of the sky. But it's much harder to get and maintain a job and/or move up the ladder when you don't graduate high school and pop out kids in a single parent household. And don't pretend it's that hard to maintain basic employment. We're not talking about making everyone doctors here.
I'm sure they'd love to but if the publishers are US-based, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) makes it a crime to bribe officials of foreign governments. The law is somewhat actively enforced:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-firms-say...
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Yea, we think it makes more sense that way. Almost all features available on landing page aside from symbols & stencils and some team features. Thanks for checking us out btw.
This is probably a very bad idea: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-pract....
> An analysis of Sci-Hub’s server logs, published in Science in 2016, found its biggest users were people in Iran, India and China. Such middle-income countries do not qualify for the subsidies big publishers provide to users in the poorest nations, but their universities nevertheless may not be able to afford subscriptions. Not every downloader was cash-strapped, though. Americans were the fifth-biggest users.

Let's be frank here, the people pirating these papers are capable of understanding them (to some extent or another), and being educated to the point of understanding new-ish papers necessarily implies that a relatively large amount of money is being spent on their education. This isn't entirely/primarily about money.

If the main users of this site are using it to get around sanctions placed against their country, the site becomes far less sympathetic in my eyes.
> Not sure they saw a connection there...

In my experience, they try not to see the connection. If you try to show it, they'll listen for a bit and then rationalize. If you keep at it you'll begin to see irritation and even aggression.

That a fair number of CTOs have a decent technical background doesn't seem to help much, somehow. I've had this confirmed personally when I got together with a coworker from almost 20 ago who had moved into management. He struggled to keep experienced people because they moved for more money, because they were paying below market value. If I suggest something like paying more, he considers it and then some weeks later I find he's still struggling to figure out a way to keep people, having changed nothing of consequence.

It's my pet theory that (almost all) management wants programming/IT to be a commodity and are willing to pretend that it is, to their detriment. They demand that it be a commodity.
They're not selling it very well.

In certain industries, the company pays for you to go and get a thorough physical checkup every two years, on company time.

It's the unions that negotiated this, it's a benefit to the employee.
This. A lot of long term research worldwide is publicly funded and the status quo of the scientific journals (that once had their place in a world with high communication barriers and costs) needs to be seriously shaken up. That plus the huge business around scientific conferences with most speakers having to pay to be able to present their findings.

But I guess the whole model in the scientific community might need rethinking. Most people are only worried publishing because that is the only measure that matters at the moment...
> many of whom cannot afford exorbitant per-per paper fees

Whilst the publishers are certainly not pulling their weight, I don't think the biggest offenders have per-paper fees.
The biggest offender is probably Elsevier, and as far as I know they make their money from selling subscriptions to research institutions and universities.
I don't think that's all of it (simple payola). While that might have been involved, as it says:

The Second (deputy) Mayor of Munich, Josef Schmid, said the re-examination is necessary because of complaints from employees, who Schmid said are “suffering” in the transition.

(...)

Sabine Nallinger, who ran for mayor for the Greens, noted that data exchange was especially problematic and didn’t work properly. Schmid agreed, telling Munich’s largest newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, that “Linux is very expensive” because of the need for custom programming.

And getting rid of all proprietary software isn’t realistically an option. That 2008 EC report noted that Munich uses 300 “specialised administrative software packages” to perform its official duties. Although the goal was to replace those proprietary applications with platform-independent alternatives, the reality is that most would probably end up running in Windows inside a virtual machine, which of course requires paying Microsoft a license fee.
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Thanks for the feedback. It's in beta now, and pricing is still in the works as we strive to provide value yet offer an affordable pricing. As the company behind Vecta, we have been profitable for a long time and has been making CAD software, for a while, and so we won't be going away anytime soon, well, at least that's the plan :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
At least use http://archive.is/
> paying up to 60% in taxes, like where I live

Citation required.

Also are you talking about the marginal rate or effective rate?
We can argue about the potential cost savings of restricting who patients can see and when, but that's my point! Politically, telling folks who are happily "wasting" money on medicine that the government and not their doctors will decide what they can and can't have is a huge loser.

Currently, their insurers are not heavily restricting them, because they're paying for the privilege.
If you are looking for a small (or smallish) company, Angel List is a great place to look. I found the listings to be high quality and the showing interest system works well.
It probably is for you, I get a "you only get 3 free articles per month" paywall.
That depends on bandwidth, onprem makes sense when all you have is ADSL with less than 1Mbps up.
We should be able to detect structures signals from past civilisation, if any such exists. If not, we would probably make it easier to future civilisations to detect us.
This is known as Betteridge's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
>Microservices are unquestionably the defacto standard for most larger software development projects.

In the HN echo chamber maybe -- but not sure even there.
I don't have any real data on this... my comment was based on my own experience of not being able to afford per-paper fees and certainly not being able to afford subscriptions, whilst observing that the academic institutions seem to have no trouble maintaining access. No idea what the per paper fees would actually work out to for universities (say, the ones actually downloaded/accessed).

As someone who reads a fair number of papers, I definitely feel like the publishers' days are numbered, and not just because of Sci-Hub and LibGen. More and more often now, I can find papers that I want, legally, on the first try. Even more encouraging, I find that when I can't find a paper I often just have to wait a few months and try again to find an open Internet source.

Case in point: a few months ago I wanted this paper -- http://bit.ly/2tE4O4K -- but all the CiteSeerX links were broken and apparently had been for a long while. About two months later it's back. This is just one example, but I find this increasingly works with many papers.

There is also ResearchGate, which is a social network to get papers from an authors, which is legal if they are alive. But their sign-up process is also much harder for independent researchers. You have to "prove you are a researcher," as though attempting to get access to research papers weren't prima facie evidence of that.

In CS the worst paywaller is consistently the ACM.
Ok cheers- that makes sense.
Well, this is Hacker News.
Can this be exploited for malicious code?
Hi! This also duplicates as a way to see videos behind proxies :)

Two questions:

- Are you using open source libraries to download the videos? if yes, what libraries?

- If lots of people start using 4vid, how do you plan to keep up with the costs of serving / running it?
The society as a whole has to accept small violations of laws. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to improve laws. IMHO, it is a temporary tolerance because the correct final stance is not obvious.
Box has the admin controls, customizations, APIs and workflow tools that big enterprises actually want and need.

Dropbox didnt even have Groups to manage users until just 18 months ago and had silly things like invites for group folders which are all holdovers from their consumer roots.
It's immoral to force Alice to pay for Bob's healthcare, or visa versa. It's also a huge moral hazard to force Alice to subsidize Bob's life choices that affect his healthcare needs. It is morally preferable for Bob to die in agony than to force Alice to pay a cent even if that cent would make Bob healthy.

Further, a moral regime that protects Alice's and Bob's rights to freedom of association and contract enables the characteristic free market blizzard of creative destruction that lifts quality and lowers prices for healthcare, just as it does for cell phones to shoes.

A moral bill would move healthcare payments by the state not from 70% to 100%, but from 70% toward 0%. Maybe enough Californian's realize this to have helped kill this terrible bill.

Nah. They just can't find a way to lay their hands on enough of Alice's money, yet.
There's a medical check but you don't have to pee in a cup (they propose you a urine test but it's optional) and you don't have to undress either, mostly chat with a doctor and pass an eye exam.

And it's only in Paris if you're in Paris, otherwise you'll do it wherever you live.

I don't really see what's shocking, it's just to make sure you're medically apt to do the job your employer is asking you to, and that your employer provides the right environment to work in a way that's safe for you.

For tech jobs it boils down mostly to workspace ergonomics, and a sane work schedule.
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Dropbox is like twitter. An over-engineered solution for a very narrowed use case. Don't get me wrong, the product works very well. I actually use it everyday, but from an investor/growth perspective, I fall back into what Jobs said - "it's just a feature".
to be fair, this article is very shallow anyways.
We do have single-payer healthcare for all NHS services. You cannot pay for NHS services, and NHS services will cover almost everything you'll ever need so long as the treatment is actually proven to work - it's a newspaper-worthy situation when the NHS denies treatment, and usually that only comes into play with e.g. very new cancer treatments. Every citizen of the UK can use NHS services as a right, whether they pay taxes or not. If you have an emergency, you will be taken to an NHS A&E department.

BUPA et al primarily provide slightly nicer rooms for inpatients, might be more flexible on times you can see a doctor, might provide more personalised information on general health stuff (e.g. "how do I lose weight/get fit?"), and might allow you to see a doctor slightly sooner for stuff that's not going to kill you.

I do not believe that Americans as a whole are satisfied with what they have. I believe that you are, since you have significant income and can get coverage for anything you like. I talk to people on a daily basis who have to worry about what treatments they are able to afford for their diagnosed disorders. For many of them, surgery is required for which they have to save up for a number of years and then visit another country, while paying extortionate (in relation to their income) prices for life-saving medication all the while.
Yes, you could. But as someone who quit after medical school (now program for a living) -- make sure you actually like it. Because its a pretty demanding and time consuming job. Additionally, my wife is a Dentist. Dental school is both easier, shorter (no residency, some 3 don't even require a full undergrad) and depending on the job, makes comparable salaries. I know few dentists that work > 4 days a week. Personally, I'd hate the work. And I know plenty of M.D.'s who love medicine and would not be happy being a Dentist. But if you think you'd like it, I don't think there's a better job out there.
Sales offices and R&D offices are often separated. When I worked for Microsoft china, there was a nice office down the street from where I lived that I couldn't work at because it was for sales and biz people. The CEO of Microsoft china would also send everyone, including R&D, awkward emails about "making their numbers". It was like another world I only had a glimpse into.
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I work from home for example and nobody watches over my shoulder how much I type, just that work gets done and releases ship out and such. I can go to my kids school to see a performance and then make up the work if need be later. If it is a nice day I might start work earlier then to have time to go to the pool in the evening with them.

So there are companies that will let you do that just have to find them.
> I don't think single-payer works the way you seem to think it does in nations where it's been implemented.

I don't think single-payer works the way you seem to think it does.

> I have an expensive employer-provided plan.

I'm happy for you. What happens when you lose your job?

I live in Belgium. I'm covered by the basic social security health insurance, just like any other Belgian.

> I can, without any referral, make an appointment with a specialist (surely making $300K+) at a top teaching hospital and expect to wait weeks at the most.

So can I. I've never had to wait more than a couple of weeks at most. If it's urgent, they fit you in on the same day or a couple of days later at the latest. That seems to be corroborated by [1]. One exception is mental health care, where the waiting lists are long.

> There is no way to offer that level of service to anyone and not explode costs, let alone contain them.

That is wrong. According to [2], health spending accounted for 10.9% of GDP in Belgium in 2012, which is much lower than the 16.9% the US spends.

[1] http://focusonbelgium.be/en/international/belgium-has-shorte...

[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2VeNWmB...
If I'm going to read a daily, it's probably the Washington Post, NY Times or the WSJ. I haven't noticed a particular drop in quality of any of those three. Why do you think the Post has gotten worse?
A byproduct of where we were born, and how we got known. We users and jobs from all over, but yes, it's got a London bias, we're actively working on that over this year, and making the progress we wanted to. Any thoughts are appreciated.
from whose perspective? for HN, it helps drive engagement.
15k for 110m2 is not unreasonable if you are 20 min bike from city center. I feel ya though with regards to accommodation, but that is honestly mostly a problem in Copenhagen/Aarhus, and not so much in smaller cities, like say Vejle. For the larger cities to go cheap, you have to know a guy that knows a guy, or be related to someone with an apartment :(

Those aforementioned cities are University cities, and also the central hub for a lot of companies, making it a quite big problem. If you think you have it hard with a full paying job, imagine what the students go through, that pay ~5k DKK for just a room.

The weather I’ll grant you, if honestly hate summers because of the light and heat, since air conditioning is not really a common thing in DK.

And heh, if you don’t drink in Denmark, you are automatically gonna miss out on a lot of things, it’s such an ingrained part of the culture. That said, it has definitely become more acceptable to say no in recent years, but it works best if you are consistent, because else people will know they can nudge you into it and get you on board. If you are consistent, it will get respected (eventually at least).
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I also pay dropbox, but I never checked the size. I think when I started it was like 50 GB for the same amount of money. You pay for the service and softwaredevelopment. The storage is just what they can give you cheaply.
This article can be summed up by the bottom page quote “Prices right now aren’t being driven by network usage, they’re being driven by speculation that tokens are going to appreciate. It’s a gold-rush mentality.”

Also everytime I see yet another Ethereum story I think of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
you are also excellent.
How about Azure Stack?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/
I understand what you are saying, and that is a somewhat plausible story. Another one is that search is more difficult.

But the reality is I think for any company with serious security policy will have to pass on a service that only "sort of" secures their files.

There are a lot of people also who will not ever consider going with dropbox because they have on their board (Rice) someone who has a sordid track record when it comes to warrantless wiretapping, torture, and so forth.

In my opinion dropbox is OK for sharing docs between 2 people as long as the doc is not something you consider private. If you want privacy though (business files/docs/artifacts), best to pick something else.
Not failing to mention how handy that 'Menu-523' came in handy when the dpad wore down(usually the first keys to fail on a feature-phone). It kept me from having to buy a new phone for months.
We're certainly best known in the UK, but it varies but yes, we're British, and our word of mouth growth has certainly had that bias.
That's copy/paste from the agreement.
"Step 1: Tell literally everybody in the world about an initial coin offering."
Ask HN: Map of best startup cities in world?
Is there a map of cities with great startup ecosystems in each respective country across the world?
"Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, described knowl-edge in the following way: “he who receives an idea from me,receives instruc-tion himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me”. In doing so, Jefferson anticipated the modern concept of a public good. Today we recognize that knowledge is not only a public good but also a global or international public good.We have also come to recognize that knowledge is central to successful development. The international community,through institutions like the World Bank, has a collective responsibility for the creation and dissemination of one global public good—knowledge for development."

Joseph Stiglitz, "Knowledge as a Public Good"

http://s1.downloadmienphi.net/file/downloadfile6/151/1384343...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz
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In the UK and Europe Chip and NFC are prevalent.
Nowadays I think IPO means "We honestly don't know how get any more money. Let's just let the public pay us a little more, then move on to other businesses."

The strange thing is, that there are still people paying for IPO shares. But as long as they do, why not use it to squeeze the last penny out of the business before starting the next.
It's interesting. Is this a product that solves a particular problem you've found in the past? Or a product trying to find a market.

I don't wish to sound negative, it's a genuine query because I really can't think of a single instance in the past when this would have solved a problem for me, but I wonder if there's niches I've not been exposed to.
At least the shareholders and party leaders will be happy!
> If the main users of this site are using it to get around sanctions placed against their country, the site becomes far less sympathetic in my eyes.

I struggle with this. An opposing perspective is that there's a bunch of students who are trying to do their research and push science forward, but a country (or group of) half-way around the world has decided that they'd rather the student not have access to the world's body of research. I can see merits in both angles...
Ask HN: Should you consider the possibility of a tech giant copying your idea?
Really quick question since it looks quite similar (but might just be coincidence), did you happen to use this for the right click context menu?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/20471268/938236

Just asking because it's my answer and I'd be really happy to see someone using it!
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This was one of those things that truly blew my mind: That the hospital could hand confidential patient data over to Google without their consent. My assumption was that it was just an example of the U.K.'s weaker privacy laws, but I'm glad to see that isn't the case.
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I don't know why people downvote such a reasonable question.

Reasons are:

1. You just install the client and it works.

2. The files are backed up, while your ftp solution might not be.

3. Your space can grow depending on disk prices without you doing anything for it.

4. A lot of possible merge conflicts between different computers are automatically merged by their smart tooling.
That doesn't make it an appropriate HN headline
It's just human nature. People come up with geocentric ideas for everything. It's certainly not limited to software designers or even particular modes of software design. Ever talk to Semantic Web people? Or, ontologists? People tend to naturally assume that there is one set of "Enterprise Entities". Heck, it even took physicists a long time to come up with general relativity. And, they only did it after their absolute models broke down.

So, yes, each granular component should have its own perspective of "the Enterprise". But, contexts can be very different. For a simple example, a "car" may have completely different interface depending on if its user is a "car designer", "car assembler", "car salesperson", "car driver", etc. So, someone trying to define a universal interface for a car will make themselves and their teams crazy. Worse, the idea of "a car" will change through time, so even perfect interfaces will have to change.

This isn't limited to object oriented design, by the way. Functional programming paradigms have the same issues.
I agree. I have a hard time understanding pricey paywalls for academic publishing. The research is not funded by the company that paywalls, the researcher is not paid to do research or paid royalties by the company, and most importantly, the people who are actually paying for the work - the academic institution or other funders, want the work to be available easily in public domain (so that it may be cited, built upon, etc). I think its grossly unfair, in this age of convenient electronic distribution, that a middleman profits so much for something that should be fundamentally available to a lot of people. Sure there is a cost of maintaining servers and keeping things running, but is the cost really as high as what they charge?
Better is a relative term, some argue that iCloud is VASTLY superior since you can set it up with your own private key that apple does not have access to.

Dropbox can always view your files without you knowing.

I do agree that as far as usability and cross platform support, dropbox is better. For security though I would say it's middle of the pack at best.
You can definitely find a lot here:

https://www.ted.com/topics/technology