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> The process of peer-review, copy-editing, and online publication

I'm confused that you aren't aware of this but, peer review and copy-editing is by-and-large done by other academics, not journal publishers, and, at most, for what amounts to an honorarium.

And online publication is not a job, per se. We automated it a long time ago. Teenages have tumblr blogs now. There is no reason why the practical aspects of online journal curation could not be handled by a very small team of people working in the IT departments of a few universities.

Journal article publication may contribute to academic careers, but that has nothing to do with the publishers' involvement: it has to do with the quality of the journal, which is driven by the academics in writing and reviewing for it.

Simply put, journal publishers are >entirely< overhead.
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From a manager, while in the workplace, sure.

At a bar, drinking beer? I dunno, sounds like they were joking around. If I can't talk about body parts at a bar while drinking beer, I'm not sure where you can.
Um, I know our legal system isn't perfect, but the outcome of a court case is still largely decided by, you know, actual laws and facts. You can't just throw money at some lawyers and assume you get to "defeat" whoever you want.

I totally agree with the position that for-profit journals are bad for the research community, but is there any doubt that legally they have the right to charge universities for the content that they own the rights to?
Hmm, that's interesting - I think maybe that's just like licensing, right? Except in this case, the licensor is the researcher/author and the licensee is the author citing the source?

Combining the two thoughts, "suggested payment to cite" with a "pay what you want" model could interesting too.

I suppose this would be a direct transfer of value from those who want to build knowledge on other people's work, to those who did the work. As long as it was not unduly expensive to do so, maybe - after all, the saying goes "paying my dues". I would think you wouldn't want to inhibit or slow down people from building on knowledge either (which is what things like Sci-Hub seem to be trying to avoid).

I wrote a few published papers some time ago, and I was told that without citations, a paper would be rejected as academic research should always be based on enhancements or references to prior work. So it seems kind of built in to the mechanism that citations are the requirement to build knowledge on top of when creating such works.

It would be interesting to see how a model like this could work. Since the value created by the researcher is essentially part of a web of value, it might be hard to determine who should get credit.

For example, we have 3 existing papers, A, B and C, and one new paper, D. Paper A cites paper B, which cites paper C - and all of them are additive to our knowledge base. Therefore, as the author of paper D, if we were to pay to cite paper A, should that also include some payment to the authors of paper B and C too?

I suppose one addition you could add to this - payment to only LIVING researcher(s)/author(s). If the researcher/author is deceased, then the payment stops. In this regard, it sounds like royalty/licensing fees.
Sure, but I think the comparison would be easy to make among sports with a similar team dynamic, like between football and soccer, rugby, basketball, etc. Players of the latter sports train and practice just as much (if in different ways) as football players, and the game dynamics of all of them require coordination and teamwork to a similar enough degree that any differences aren't earth-shattering.

It's a bit ridiculous to me to suggest that there is nothing like football when it comes to training, teamwork, and camaraderie. That's easily not true.
Also the way people received information was different. The development of the information age. Newsreels. Learning how to appeal to a lot of people with new media.

I try to imagine how Einstein got famous. Even now hardly anybody, relatively speaking, understands that stuff. A good story, I guess: a lowly patent clerk changes our conception of space and time. Also entwined in the war - opposition to Germany, pro Zionism, the bomb - patriotism and propaganda. Our hero.

Feynman has a story that sells. Plays bongo drums, picks locks in a top-secret environment. Excellent at explaining things.

Nowadays, who invented CRISPR? They were Chinese. Is that a good story to tell? Maybe not to a western audience. Fusion, worked on by many many people, might be solved by AI. Will the AI become famous? Maybe the giants now are corporations: Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft.
As an educated, consumer, it's freaking exhausting reading ingredients labels for every single yogurt on the shelf, and then every single ice cream, and then every single cheese, and every tortilla, repeat ad-nauseum. I do it, but most people don't.

If companies are allowed to bury the lede enough, customer choice can become ineffective at influencing the market, because it may not be exercised widely simply due to sheer pain-in-the-ass factor.
In some ways 25 years is an ideal amount of time - means that key patents recently expired. A similar factor lead to the explosion of consumer 3D printers about 5 years ago.
Awesome stuff! Many best wishes.
The twitter morality police who use their San Francisco Bay political lens to decide who should and should have a "platform" is losing users? Strange
When Pittsburgh's mayor is no longer elected in the Democratic primaries, I will be inclined to agree with you. Pittsburgh proper is still blue. There are red parts in Allegheny County, but that went blue last November too.
Improving and advocating for standard methods of data publishing accompanying scientific papers would be great. That and promoting open source (including open-sourcing the papers themselves, as in the source text and algorithms used to generate the accompanying resources etc).
I suggest you actually read the article and take a look at the ST performance/price graph that I was referencing. The 1200 is an outlier.
Oh look, a few hackernews flagged this article to keep women in their place. Stay classy.

Anyway, if I saw what OP saw at her company, I would quit. And I identify as male. And I think we owe it to women to deny sexist companies access to hiring the 90% of programmers who aren't jerks. Well, 80%.
I would argue - especially for Jeff & Bill - that the majority of employees are both the shareholders & owners of said companies.
What you fail to understand is that what is good for developers is good for users. Instead of spending resources on maintaining many different code bases, developers can focus on providing a more solid set of features for one.

For instance, maybe instead of being an always online application, they can put in effort at caching for offline use instead of duplicating features across different platforms.

I did my senior project in Electron and there was no way we could have implemented as much as we did if we had to build a native solution for every platform.
Great article! Here's a thought.

Why not get a used MacBook Air off Ebay for ~$400? Top notch OS, great support, sturdy design, great battery life...
Because it does something cool and people find it interesting. Doesn't take away from existing systems.
Let's say a team signs up with your service and after a couple of years requirements change and they want to migrate. What are the formats that one could export the data?
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> I think I'd be fine with this as I don't take this extremely juvenile crap as seriously

Do you think her coworkers were only like this in casual conversations and social situations, and treated her as a complete equal professionally? Or do you think their attitudes might have affected how they viewed her work, what she was assigned, her opportunities for advancement, etc.

It doesn't matter if you "take it seriously" or not when people who have power over you are doing this. It's not about being offended, it's about being unequal.
Apple pushed out an update to ALL affected iOS devices last week. Google provided patch for nexus and pixel devices. Vast majority of android devices (think close to 99%) are still vulnerable.

Given how limited pixel availability is and how quickly support is dropped compared to Apple, the logical recommendation is to drop android and switch to iPhones immediately.

Bring the downvotes but at least provide logical discussion.
It's a day to day occurrence, within Web development teams who have different preferences in browser. I've witnessed it in multi companies over the last decade. If you've not noticed it, then it's highly likely you're not testing outside of a single browser. The fact that you think this is a 90s issue shows that you're either extremely junior and arrogant, or totally out of touch with modern Web development. Either that or in denial. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but if nobody says it too you then you're going to continue on in a sorry little bubble of ignorance.
I'm talking about papers like this:

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b06335

It's already passed peer review, but the final version will be tidied up with additional editing and will have e.g. the line-by-line numbering stripped out. I see sci-hub versions of papers from months ago, or older, that never update to the final edition. The content doesn't differ much but the final version may have better-placed figures, corrected typos, and other minor improvements.
I'm sorry to hear that :( Do you prefer free trials, paid-only, or some other model?
If you want the literal 40 dollar laptop I had in mind, look around for an X60/X60s/X61.

They are old, but they are well equipped and I love their keyboard feel, plus TPM and all that jazz.

Their specs are pretty low-end nowadays, but I find that devs have too varied a range of preferences and tasks to judge what they need too readily.

If you're sitting in a huge IDE or photoshop or otherwise have a strong need for heavy lifting and high resolution during your travels, however, these cheapy business-grade laptops from yesteryear are probably a poor choice.

But I sit in emacs and IRC most of the time with music on -- they are perfect for that.
And a fundamental misunderstanding of intelligence.

The USSR was run primarily by highly educated engineers. China has the same issue. Yet somehow the preference of large communist dictatorships for credentialed leaders does not correlate with actual success.

One problem is that 'intelligence' is a very tricky thing to define and isn't at all the same as IQ or academic achievement. The world is full of foolish academics. The first thing the nascent Soviet Union tried was putting a committee of academics in charge of setting every price in the USSR, over 21 million of them. The futility of this task was not apparent to any of the ideologically-soaked intellectuals that ran things until the economy collapsed, although I suspect many ordinary kulaks could spot the problem right away.
Isn't Swift compiled? I'm not sure it's relevant to the specific problems faced here, unless a library written and compiled in earlier versions of Swift won't be usable in a Swift 4 project.
All those are great physics engines. Mine is just very simple and easy to understand, hopefully it inspires other people to get into the world of simulations.
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"Hey, do you have a minute? I have an issue"

Except a lot of people are going to read that and then wonder – for what feels like an eternity – what's the 'issue' and how serious is it?
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Trello = Atlassian, they already have a heavyweight wiki tool. Asana/Slack, why would they go outside their core competence.

But even if a company did want to copy something, it really comes down to passion and execution, I've seen this play out a number of times.

Trello, actually, makes a point here. Atlassian paid $425M for it, when they could have just copied it. There's a lot more to it.
I know an Uzbek who learned English exclusively for the first couple years through Seinfeld reruns. I always thought that was neat.
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For a physical example of one that does, I found I quite enjoy Magic The Gathering draft games (everyone's given 20 mana of their choice then forced to assemble a deck on the spot from a bunch of sealed, random booster packs that get opened and passed around in an orderly fashion).

In most cases you can still make a viable deck, but everyone will have to deal with largely mediocre cards they wouldn't have picked given the chance. Granted the system isn't perfect, but it seems to effectively level the playing field and encourage creative deck-building. Not sure if Hearthstone has an equivalent mode.
you manually set it up? its one of the pre-configured images!
Right you're sorta missing the point though. Vanguard outside of the s&p 500 has another 3.5 trillion or something. They could absorb bill gates net worth.
Why docker over anything else that uses the CPU?
See my comment below. Copy-editing isn't performed by other academics (or at least it shouldn't be given their other responsibilities, in my view).

And although peer review relies on specialists volunteering their time, finding and vetting those specialists still requires work.

I'm not trying to say that the current publishing model is defensible, but I am pointing out that running a high quality peer reviewed journal still requires at least one or two dedicated workers. Whether you think they should be paid for their time or expected to volunteer is a different issue, but we shouldn't pretend that the whole apparatus is an illusion created by greedy publishers.
I used to like dystopian fiction but now that reality is becoming dystopic I don't feel like reading that genre anymore. I watch/read news (and HN) and I'm done.
Even if Bezos wanted to feed every person on the planet, how exactly would he be able to do that?? People are controlled by governments, and governments are highly corrupt. They'd probably keep all the baguettes for themselves.
I of course have no sources to back this up (how would one even get such data?) but I suspect billionaires have better things to do than go e-slumming with those of us with fewer than 30 cars.
That still doesn't mean you can just add the percentages. You cannot determine the percent of boys+girls soccer head injuries without knowing the sample sizes.

Or, if you can figure out the relative difference between the number of boys and girls who play soccer, you can do a weighted average of the percentages.

Either way, adding the percentages is completely incorrect.

EDIT: http://www.usyouthsoccer.org/media_kit/keystatistics/ suggests that the split is roughly equal -- in 2008 it was 52% boys and 48% girls.

With that said, the correct weighted value is more like 21.5x.48 + 15.4x.52 = 18.3%, which is significantly less than the 40.5% you quoted for football.
I don't know what that link is, but after 10 seconds of loading over LTE I gave up in favor of my data bundle. I hope it doesn't go towards whatever that is.

Personally I'm a big fan of blog posts: they're written for a broader audience in understandable language. I don't have any trouble reading English, but papers are almost universally written in a way that is more complicated than necessary. And in blog posts, if someone made a "novel new algorithm", at least you can be sure there's code, raw test data, screenshots, or whatever else is needed to DIY. And someone on the web is talking about it, perhaps even with comments below the post itself.
Damn. If humanity can figure this out we might actually be able survive long term.
Universities, and I would guess charities as well, tend to liquidate their shares immediately to avoid conflicts of interest. Liquidating that many shares that fast would cause havoc in the markets.
This is not a new argument or discussion. The Conservancy, and GNU (especially Eben Moglen, who tends to get deferred to on interpretations of the GPL, for a variety of good reasons) believe the distribution of the drivers inside a binary memory image like initrd constitute a violation of the license(s). The only way to determine definitely if they are correct (I happen to think they are, but that's irrelevant) is if a copyright holder with standing decides to issue a desist and the thing carries on into court. My (also irrelevant) opinion is that if that were to occur Canonical would probably revert to Debian's solution of shipping ZFS as source-only rather than litigate it. As it currently stands, none of this seems likely to happen, so further conversation about it isn't really relevant or particularly useful.
a) because he was impressed by the ChromeOS security model?
b) because he got cloud sync/restore seamlessly out of the box?
c) because thats twice as expensive for a used item?

I get that people have nebulous concerns about Google's privacy policy, but he mentions specifically at the beginning of the article that he was interested in the ChromeOS security model. There are very few systems that have a model that matches that for the threats they consider most problematic.
Well, that quote was an example following a more general idea about waiting after it snows. But yes, that amount would be a big enough snow storm to make biking a tad sweaty endeavour immediately after.
I would treat Monero & Zcash as the beta software it is. I wouldn't rely on it for anything for years.
>It is not realistic. Look at NASA - do they mindlessly go 'you must have X DNA' or do they do testing, like the women astronauts?

They did further testing in the movie too! Note the treadmill tests that the protagonist was cheating on too.

But in terms of a general, big-org failure to properly use heuristics? Probably the most realistic part of the movie!

>A movie is nothing but what it depicts.

And some things have to be understood metaphorically because it would be too cumbersome to have to present the full picture and bring the viewer up to speed. That's just how the medium works.

For the story, it suffices that there exist people who do more tedious jobs because smarter people get the better ones. To show a more realistic scenario (janitor checking rooms on a tv screen and pushing buttons rather than mopping), for every dimension that changes, would take away precious minutes from the runtime for little narrative benefit.
Does Sci-Hub actually have all the papers or are they just retrieving them on-demand?

Publishers are tracking mass downloads (see the Aaron Swartz case) so given some of the very obscure papers I've retrieved from Sci-Hub I assume it's unlikely they downloaded them beforehand. My go-to assumption for how it works is that a bunch of people have donated access to their university network access and Sci-Hub is just a load-balancing / cache layer.
A root cause there would be the opportunity cost the scientist/society calculates to publish themselves vs have a publisher do it.

The equation today isn't the same - with open source / community effort, I suspect the cost/effort of publication today doesn't even come close.

I was just randomly looking at what it would cost (rough estimate) for 25TB of S3 storage - 2,000,000 put requests a month, 2,000,000 get requests, 25TB bandwidth OUT and 25TB bandwidth IN - and it's less than $3,500 per month.
So the cost of hosting the published item seems actually quite reasonable... reducing the cost of the rest of the "publication" plumbing are problems that technology also helps address.
Nice interesting post, we've got a similar one that's a bit less on the Postgres side though Postgres is our backend for it on how we use this model to manage and run our database as a service - https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/08/12/state-machines-to-...
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With renewable prices falling so much, even if fusion is attained relatively soon, how long will it be before its economically feasible? It will it be able to compete on price?
> but by that standard nearly everyone within a thousand miles of me is in abnormally large and expensive housing.

Speaking from another side of the ocean, it's really true.

According to the statistics about energy used per capita, it's some oil producing lands and the US. And that even doesn't count all the stuff that ends on the US landfills.
Edit: sorry, instrumental variables do not describe what the original poster was talking about, but could be useful for understanding the connections between correlation and causation in other ways.

The concept of an instrumental variable

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variable

covers some of it. Judea Pearl's book Causality summarizes lots of recent (past few decades) work in the area, with a focus on his theoretical framework. There are lots of algorithms for discovering the structural of causality for sets of variables larger than three. Having interventional data always makes these things easier, but it's not the only way to get at causality.
It's a terrible example of how these stories are suppressed when Hacker News allows them to be flagged off.

This story is relevant to tech, compelling and topical. It was receiving upvotes that put it on the front page. But it got flagged to oblivion in under an hour.

Edit: Update, either enough people vouched on an invisible article (via twitter?) to unflag, or the mods intervened. We'll see.
You mean like this http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
Sure, main difference from previous products are:
- Form factor: prior devices couldn't get this small, most devices were heavy, obtrusive (mostly hand held), noisy and not precise (haptic actuators weren't miniaturized and optimized as today are). Making it wearable allows the user to rely on it only when they need it and in way that doesn't stick out or represent a hard task for them to do.
- Connectivity: probable the most powerful factor, none of the previous was a connected device isolating the device for future improvements and fixing the way it works for most of the users. Visually Impaired come in different variants so people have very different navigation challenges depending on the condition behind their impairment (e.g. some have light perception, some have minimum peripheral vision or only central vision, etc), so customization is key. Connectivity permits the device to be prescribed as the user needs besides from allowing us to gather data and enhance the technology constantly so it becomes each time more useful.
In general previous products had a "once fit all" approach in an inconvenient design. There still a few of these devices out there but with low user adoption.
i don't know how much attention you pay to politics but it's pretty clear that just about anyone can say "fuck you" to the president
More like a pristine record. I guess the admin assumes the terrorists work their way up to that point from other "gateway crimes".
> I don't think universities, which are journals' bread and butter, are going to stop their subscriptions anytime soon.

Around 60 German universities have cancelled their contracts with Elsevier: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49906/...

Obviously, the stated reason for cancellation would be that costs or too high, not that everyone downloads papers from sci-hub.