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I'm not sure many people who have commented on this article actually read the entire thing through. I think it was a very insightful article on the vertically integrated business of scientific study that was the issue, and the suggestions as they relate to the airline industry as something that I hadn't seen spelled out in such a detailed manner before.
Ask HN: Best payment processor for UAE?
I love Stripe but I can't connect it with a UAE bank account nor set up my account settings because the country is missing. What's the best payment processor that allows my business to:

- collect recurring/subscription payment from USA, UK and other major countries

- connect account to a UAE bank account
Shouldn't be much different than machining a gun barrel.
> Its government is developing a plan to phase out vehicles powered by fossil fuels

Simply not true. It didn't say anything about banning fossil fuels for the power generation. EVs are still an absurdity; we wouldnt be able to power them if we only used wind/hydro. The electric motor doesn't make any sense. A bicycle make an electric scooter look like an energy pounding monster, especially if the person on the bicycle grows/buys their food locally. We all better start planting a lot of green things, if we want to survive. Forget what the criminals on the podium are saying; your neighbor simply doesn't have the right to make you breathe his car/coal(nuclear)PowerPlant/batteryManufacturing/solarPanelManufacturing toxic emissions without your permission.
In Sweden I got an identity card with a chip that I can use with BankID (a system that uses a card reader + PIN for most transactions).
There is a Tax ID number but this is pretty much a public record (you can find out people's incomes very easily, in fact small local newspapers run every year "richest people in X articles")
In addition, every time a company runs a credit check on me, the credit reporting company must snail mail a copy of my credit report to my physical address. So it would be pretty easy for me to detect a fake account creation.
If you haven't already, try calisthenics to strengthen the core and regular stretching. I found these made a big difference in addition to the book.
Who do you want to trust more, the DNS root servers or a wiki (which might be outdated, because "This page was last modified on 1 August 2014, at 10:04"). Is the wiki even ran by ICANN, given it's on a separate domain, or by a separate entity or volunteers?
> Some have posted and argued that these currencies do not have "real" value.

I was always puzzled about this. Real people are buying real stuff with crypto currency. It sounds like a Monty Python skit: "Your money isn't real! You didn't buy that! You didn't sell that! This transaction never happened, stop it!"
I see the problem right here:

"To make quality content ..."

The right tools shouldn't be about creating "content", they should be about letting you solve your own problems, instead of trying to transform them into problems you can buy a solution for. Creative arts are only subset of this - they happen when someone's problem is "I want to make a piece of art".

> Have we really come along way in terms of general computing? Maybe not

That's the point AK seems to be making, though. All the great things you mention are huge accomplishments, yet they're also disappointing compared to what is possible, what we should have now. Rome wasn't built in a day, but you have this whole army of Rome builders who decided that it's better to sell bricks instead of building the city...
Did you see a GP or a physiotherapist?
> Download all the articles you want

Problem 1: 5 hours round trip

Problem 2: they only have about 2/3 of the papers I want.

Problem 3: I save what I need and get home and start reading. Then there's another layer in the citation tree. Oh well, go in tomorrow, another 5 hours, and get that one, maybe.

Or, to on scihub for the research we taxpayers paid for already.
Indeed, we recently asked invoices for a new machine for deep learning with 768GB memory, modern Xeon CPUs and the latest generation nVidia Tesla. The HP offer costed nearly twice as much as Dell's.
And I am sure that they are very happy to not have you or your clients as customers. Anyone who would base a technical decision on a name should never be in a position to influence technical decision-making, and anyone who hires such unqualified people deserves the bad advice they will receive.
In particular, even though we don't expect all literate people to produce professional-quality writing, we do hope they can use their writing skills to solve their own problems. Be it filling forms, writing letters, posting "lost cat" messages on trees, whatever.

That's what I think computing should be. Giving people ability to solve even more complex problems themselves, even more effectively.
This has been my gripe with MongoDB for years now. It's a negative word in various languages[1] and has a racist history in German[2].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mongo and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mongo

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mongo#Etymology
Did you try with an actual array or a Python list? https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html or numpy you might be able to recover the same effect. Your average line of Python is miles away from low level and simple operations. Pretty much any dynamic language with a large runtime is. Especially when they default to lists not arrays. You should see your result as evidence of that. Not assume this discussion is flawed.
Another angle of criticism would be that solving the Byzantine generals problem with the threat model that cryptocurrencies target (i.e. anyone can join and leave the network somewhat anonymously at any time) is simply not necessary in the real world unless you are a die hard anarchist. Therefore, for any application that doesn't have those requirements it is a huge waste of resources.
Thanks for being an inspiration to many of us, and keep up the good work.
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In my country, its the bank that has the responsibility to ensure that they are talking with the right person. If not, then its the bank who will pay, not the customer.

So, the banks here are pretty annoying, opening an account is a lengthily process.
People have little desire to get education force-fed into them. But they have plenty of desire to solve their own problems, whatever those problems are.

What I feel AK (and others) are advocating is for computing to support individual problem-solving in an iterative manner. You have this powerful general-purpose machine, you should be able to mold it towards something that solves the problem you currently have.
Yes. There was a newsgroup (or already a subreddit?) where people asked for articles and got answered with copies but these were usually students or researchers stuck by a specific article they could not get. Not someone like me who would have to ask 20 references at a time.
The ICANN wiki is unofficial.
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What do you mean by "floundering"? Not providing a lot of value? If so, I could agree, but otherwise, they're doing really well, and have about managed to co-opt the open access movement to ensure they maintain their ridiculous profit margins.
I think you're right on this, for example .moi, which Amazon is taking registrations for (and has been for six months or so), is still listed on that wiki as proposed.
Yeah, i had to mess around heaps to get it working nicely on my Mac. Hope this helps someone!

https://gist.github.com/17twenty/d619f922ab209f750630824f7c6...
Then I might be wrong, yes.
Yes, but your palm is resting on the touchpad now, moving it around.
For some reason it gives me Unknown Error: ERROR: 0:? : '' : syntax error
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Simlpicity is related to education in a sense that education is about teaching you a sequence of simple steps that lead toward the complex.

Also, I think the perception of computers being magic doesn't come as much from their complexity as from the people who try to force the complex into looking like it's simple. They're hiding complexity so hard the end result doesn't make any logical sense, so it's magic.

AK had a lovely quote in the article:

"Well, a saying I made up at PARC was, “Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.” They’ve got simple things being simple and they have complex things being impossible, so that’s wrong."
IIRC it's about a dollar a piece.
it actually has. Try to ask around some former workers of those projects.
Advances in size and weight is what will enable innovation in new applications of motors.
I love it, fast, lightweight, the 2560x1440 screen at 14" is lovely.

Not cheap but an i7-7700HQ in this form factor is a decent amount of grunt and with the nvme it's faster than my old i5-2500K desktop at home by a fair margin, it doesn't feel noticeably slower in practice than my Ryzen desktop for most things (until I spin up 3-4VM's and then I do start to notice but really 4VM's with 4GB of RAM each on a laptop is just crazy).
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There's even more distinctions: is there an embargo or not, is it gratis or libre, pay-to-publish or not, and is the full journal open? Here's an overview: https://medium.com/flockademic/how-open-can-open-access-be-c...
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See also here (PDP-1 emulation, running the Minskytron, Munching Squares, and more; includes a description of the program and a link to the annotated source code):
http://www.masswerk.at/minskytron/

David Mapes invented the same algorithm, also on the PDP-1, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). While Minsky came across this algorithm by accident, Mapes arrived there by design. See http://www.masswerk.at/minskytron/davidmapes.html
> Where oh where is the x60 of today?

It's an ordeal, but it's possible to have one. This[1] is my primary computer. It's an X61 chassis with a Core i7-5600U, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD. The screen is a 12" 1400x1050 IPS LCD (matte, not glossy). It's my favorite laptop.

Putting it together took months. There's a group of enthusiasts in China called 51nb that make modern internals for old ThinkPad chassis[2]. I ordered a barebones chassis from them in March and received it in June. After that I replaced the LCD's ancient CCFL backlight with an LED conversion kit[3], improving battery life and brightness.

If you want to know more, I wrote a blog post detailing the whole experience[4].

1. https://geoff.greer.fm/photos/x62/DSC_2304.JPG

2. https://www.51nb.com/benzhanshiye/2017-06-08/83668.html

3. https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/thinkpad/led-backlight.sht...

4. https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/07/16/thinkpad-x62/
Two simple patterns (and there is nothing wrong with either one):

- People who say crypto is a bubble missed to invest

- People who hype crypto are invested

However, the key is still to have a balanced portfolio and not just with crypto.
I had a bizarre issue like this in the BoS editor, where it seemed to convert my backslash character inputs (used to spread the definition of that xor_step macro across many lines) to something non-ASCII, which caused a shader compiler error. This error was printed only in the browser's developer tool console.
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I've been using Z840. Great developer machine for deep learning and heavy CPU + GPU related stuff. One of few workstations that had enough power to put in two (old) TitanX in its days. Newer one looks even better.
I'm not a medical doctor and not necessarily current on the latest research. However, there is quite a lot of evidence that general anesthesia is fairly likely to cause actual brain damage in infants and young children [1,2] with significant consequences in later life and there are (less significant, but still non-trivial) issues with various methods of local anesthesia. As far as I know, there's a lot of unsolved issues in the field of infant anesthesiology and the general trend is to err on the side of caution.

[1] http://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20120820/anesthesia...

[2] https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm364078.h...
He is probably just upset that Dogecoin has been going down for a while now. The fact that Dogecoin is going down could be seen as proof that cryptocurrencies are becoming more serious.
Scientific publishing specificially (the topic here) will go on as before. Unlike the other industries you mention, the creators are not paid from the money collected by the publisher. They are paid by their own employers. They get paid the exact same salary whether they put a free PDF of their work on arXiv or get it published behind a paywall.

Scientists have no interest whatsoever in paywalls, except that they want to be published, and historically the companies with the paywalls were the only way to get published.
It seems like internally they have a lot of 'product paralysis', unlike say Facebook which is happy to experiment with totally random things sometimes. That said over the last couple years things have been improving on the 'shipping new product/product changes' front for Twitter. Also to be fair when Twitter's user-facing UI seemed stagnant they were building the ad system, etc.
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It's interesting to think that the value of cryptocurrency as both the value derived from the platform's utility and the value ascribed to the coins based on consumer demand.

Because these are both embedded into the coin valuation it feels more like stock to me than currency. Specifically it might be like owning stock in eTrade, which has utility value as a platform for trading stock, and an arbitrary value based on consumer demand.
With .test thrown around a lot, would there be any complementary support from browser vendors for that TLD to be specifically a development tld? localhost is recognised to be one by chrome for example, that's the only domain where html5 geo api works without https, and "your passwords are transferred via plain text" is not displayed. In order to help shift to .test google might alter it's heuristics to recognise .test as a common tld used for development.
Maybe too re-known by the HN audience, to be "news", but in the classic "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos there is a part, titled "A STOCK-MARKET SCAM" where the point is extremely well-made (the simplified scam described is a way to make a relatively small number of people believe that 6 consecutive weekly stock market predictions were accurate):

"If this is done knowingly and with intent to defraud, this
is an illegal con game. Yet it's considered acceptable if it's done unknowingly by earnest but ignorant publishers of stock newsletters, or by practitioners of quack medicine, or by television evangelists. There's always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe."

and, later:

"There is a strong general tendency to filter out the bad and the failed and to focus on the good and the successful. Casinos encourage this tendency by making sure that every quarter that's won in a slot machine causes lights to blink and makes its own little tinkle in the metal tray. Seeing all the lights and hearing all the tinkles, it's not hard to get the impression that everyone's winning. Losses or failures are silent. The same applies to well-publicized
stock-market killings vs. relatively invisible stock-market ruinations, and to the faith healer who takes credit for any accidental improvement but will deny responsibility if, for example, he ministers to a blind man who then becomes lame."
Countries like Australia do not have a central government registry of all people, unlike most countries, including those in Europe. Each State does have a register of all births and deaths. There is no national ID. It surprises many that one is free to carry NO identification.

One can decide to not work (get a tax number), not drive (get a drivers license), not travel (get a passport), not get free healthcare (get a medicare card), not vote (evade census'). Unlike most countries, one doesn't need to register or let anyone know where you live, and there is no national service (conscription).

It also has very little identity fraud.
The title here and many comments are based on a misunderstanding: the article is not about _open access_ beating closed access, the article is about _piracy_ beating proper open access.

The question is: we've spent so many years trying to make sure published research free to access, trying different models [1] to make it happen, with only very limited success. How come Sci-Hub is taking off so well, and what can we do to free articles from paywalls legally?

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/how-open-can-open-access-be-c...
I always wondered what this sound was about.

https://youtu.be/TM0bOpwxxO8

Sounds like there is a steam engine inside (but the 451s are electrical)
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The book Minskys & Trinskys referenced in the article can be previewed here http://www.blurb.com/bookshare/app/index.html?bookId=2172660

The third co-author “R.W. Gosper” is Bill Gosper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper, who discovered the glider gun and the hashlife algorithm (linked from the Wikipedia page).
The author is asking how we'd be able to make Open Access happen through legal means - and yes, that's complicated [1], otherwise it'd been solved already.

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-vicious-cycle-of-scholarl...
I agree with what you are saying to an extent (it is just paper), however at a minimum the value of government backed money could possibly be expressed by the mobilisation of resources a government would rally to give it value.

Lets say everyone declares USD is worthless, the government could 1) sell things of value demanding explicitly USD in return. 2) Impede movement or other activities, use of public goods using force and demand a toll explicitly in USD. I.e. this much $ is worth 100km of highway travel. Like calculating the value of a person's life to the government in free health coverage countries based on where they draw the line on spending to keep them alive, I think the value is the inverse of the cost the government would go to to prop it up.

You could argue without money how would they be able to enforce, however enforcement of a government order has not always required money, and that's one hypothetical too deep for me.
> And in large part i fear we get this because the people in charge are hell bent on recreating printed media in electronic form.

I agree. I see the conflict between designers and users to be one of the primary reasons for the current state of the web.

The conflict is about who gets to control how the content looks. The web was intended for users to have that control. The browser is your "user agent", you get to decide what and how gets fetched and displayed. The designers, on the other hand, want to treat webpages as color magazines - they want to have full control over what's shown on your screen, as for them the form is just as important as the actual content. They would happily serve you the web page as a PDF, if they could get away with it.

Personally, I'm firmly in the "user gets to control" camp, but the market prefers the "designers get to control" camp. So here we are, with web browsers continuously removing the ability to control anything, and the HTML/CSS accruing more and more layout control tools.
I know plenty of socially competent programmers who are also good programmers.

However, some people really do associate lacking social skills with technical skills. That sometimes informs company culture - be it by peefering to hire more stereotyped people or by creating culture where unnecessary confrontational style wins the day. In such culture people who have good social skill adjust the way they communicate (full disclosure: I personally did through I am not claiming super superior communication).
And last I checked there isn't a single Ryzen based workstation on the market, something I wouldn't expect to change anytime soon.
Just because someone is from the UK doesn't make them a monarchist, nor does it make them a 'republican' (repubicanist?!) if they are from a country with a president as is its head of state.
The chiclet keys are not consistent. I have a first-gen x1 carbon, and enjoy typing as much as on my mechanical keyboards. Last year I briefly had a T460S. The typing was shallower, and noticeably less fun. I never had an old style keyboard, and only then began to understand the upset in the forums about the chiclet keyboards. Lenovo should have put more effort into ensuring quality across the range when making such a big brand change as a keyboard change.
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Running and walking are the ultimate efficent exercises homo sapiens. In a perfect world all humans, within the standard deviation, are taught first and foremost how to care for there personal physical health from the time they can walk till they die. Walking and running would be the most efficient exercise for all humans. IMHO

The issues that come from running are related to where you start from lacking knowledge and lacking physical health. Knowledge guides interpretation of pain(what different types of pain mean, when to stop when to push through). Understanding pain is a communication skill that very few people will teach you, but in my opinion is more valuable then literacy. Knowledge also enables positive feedback loops concerning form and efficiency of movement.

Physical health is the structal integrity of the core and stabilizer muscles. Each of these items are on a sliding scale, and somewhere in that scale is a tipping point where if you pass under it you are hurting yourself instead of healing yourself. I hypothesize that 80% of our population falls on the injury side, but that this could be solved with education and PT.

I'm glad you didn't give up, or had the nerve to push past anyone saying "that's just the way you are, you can't fix that" because I feel that statement couldn't be further from the truth.
As it happens, this guess is incorrect. I've never been involved in cryptocurrency other than as a curious spectator. I have no strong feelings about it one way or the other.

Do you agree with the general principle that when the heuristics you are using, generate erroneous conclusions, it's a good idea to re-evaluate those heuristics?
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