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Not all fields suffer from this to the same degree. For example, I am a fledgling computing scientist. I mostly publish in ACM-related conferences and workshops, where ACM is an organisation run by and for academics and professionals in the computing field, not a for-profit publisher. My submission experience is:

1. You produce novel research.

2. You submit novel research to the best conference or workshop you think will publish it.

3. The editor (a volunteer) invites other researchers to volunteer their time to peer review your research.

4. Assuming your research bears up under scrutiny and the peer reviewers are not actually competitors who decide to reject (this supposedly happens, but is rare), your paper passes peer review.

5. Congratulations! The conference or workshop agrees to publish your novel research. For this, you generally must show up to the conference or workshop to present your work in person. This costs money (conference registration), and also travel cost and such. However, if you were going to the conference anyway, there is no added expenditure.

6. Having been paid by you to publish your work, ACM sells your paper at somewhat exorbitant prices to university libraries (unless you paid them lots extra to just make it available for free). However, at no cost to you, you are also explicitly allowed to post a "pre-print", identical to the published paper, on your personal/university website, where it will be promptly found by Google. However, the hosting is your own concern. (You can also upload the preprint to arXiv.)

It's a decent procedure. ACM also publishes journals, which do not require you to present anything in person. I do not know whether any author-borne costs are involved if you go that route.
They are given out for free to anyone signed up to Vitality health care (and stay 'active'). A lot of companies in the city use them as the health care perk.

I wonder how much that has bolstered the amount of people using one.
Ask HN: What are you converting your MAFF files to?
My understanding is that while the MAFF specification is not deprecated, the third-party extension that implemented access to it is deprecated in Firefox Quantum. This is not a popular decision among users [1], who are blaming Mozilla for the extension developer's decision. Not sure the technical reasons that lay behind the developer not porting the extension to Quantum. Also not sure why Mozilla came up with the format, but doesn't natively support saving and opening files of that format within Firefox.

I converted to the more generic "file-and-folder" format, but the fidelity is not nearly as good as MAFF. For others who are in the same boat, I'm interested in your choice. I've considered going to WARC, as that is the standard that librarians have settled upon, but unless I'm finding the wrong resources, it basically relies upon me to set up my own Wayback Machine-like server to host the WARC files to display them. Not averse to that, especially with container tech these days, but want to find out what archival format will really last with support tooling that lasts as well.

I wish W3C would settle on a single archival format that all the browsers would adopt and interchange.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-archive-format/reviews/
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> Similar thing for AMP pages: It just works and it is blazing fast.

It is already blazing fast with only HTML and CSS, as the Web was designed to be.

EDIT: typo
Most applications are enterprise apps, the vast majority of apps in the world today are enterprise apps. That work Mon-Fri, so want to restrict date pickers to Mon-Fri.

And it doesn't have range, does it? So the infinitely more useful range hasn't been specified, but the almost useless step has.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#forms
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I mean, we have bleve[0]. What else do you need, really?

[0] https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve
If I had kids under 12, I'd be all about grocery delivery. In my town you can order groceries online and delivery is about 5 bucks if your purchase is over $50 - not taskrabbit or anything, but the store's own delivery service. I'd go that way in a minute over stuffing kids into shoes and clothes and an SUV for something that should be a 30 minute job.
Can confirm. I've used goquery in a few projects and it's invariably worked out well.
It's the message that shows up when you try searching. It says that "search temporarily unavailable, please use DOI or direct links" and then under that "If you're using Google chrome, you can install Sci-Hub extension to use search", with instructions. I've installed it in the past and it does work, but I was also wary about enabling developer mode and Chrome would nag me on startup each time that it was unsafe so I ended up disabling it. Here's the full text: https://pastebin.com/6RnRJYUa.
Ha it's funny I couldn't remember the original author (I had to google something like "timeline product") only that he had a Hobbes avatar :-D
There are start-ups in the "hearable" marketplace. Things like https://www.nuheara.com/ have products out already and there's various ones like http://www.waverlylabs.com/ coming along focusing on things like instant translation as well as hearing augmentation.

Of course whether they'll all just getting steam-rollered by Apple/Google is another matter...
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Same principle, but using slabs of glass, was used in PAL analog color television until digital memory got cheap enough to implement the delay line.
Yeah, NES games looked pretty bad. I can find only a couple screenshots that don't make my eyes bleed:

http://www.defunctgames.com/pic/review-batmannes-big-1.jpg

https://www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/k/kirby-s-ad...

Hence my mention of historical reasons that are holding game aesthetics back. I think making good art requires criticizing your childhood tastes, not following them.
What the academic publishing industry calls "theft" the world calls "research": Why Sci-Hub is so popular

https://redd.it/4p2rwk

A piece I'd written a year or so back on why Sci-Hub is such a compelling option for academic and independent researchers. It's been picked up by a number of OA sites in the past few months.

As for Internet research gems, I'd also like to note a self-created resource that could use love, the Online Etymology Dictionary, produced by Douglas Harper. Unlike Sci-Hub, this is original work largely created to support Harper's own etymological explorations. I've found it tremendously useful, and very much in the spirit of the original web (of which it is very much a part).

https://redd.it/75k35m
So does the piracy affect you? Are you in favor of sites like sci-hub?
I stand corrected. Let my modify my original statement by saying that 'adding' seems to imply that no new cars will be allowed in Singapore. Which, of course, isn't true.

My concern was that without reading the article, few people may know that in Singapore, most cars are usually removed (retired) from road use after 10 years.

In other words, I think 'stop increasing' sums up the situation better than 'stop adding'.
"I'm going to have to strip off the extraneous bits until I'm staring the problem in the face. Why should I spend my time doing that, when you—the person asking for help—could be?"

Oh, the dozens and dozens of times I solved my own problem while making it reproducible, before actually filing the report!
Correct. The point is the worker may be relatively idle when it accepts() plenty of connections and the load only happens after that. When the requests on the connections start to flow.

You can imagine a situation when a single worker gets most of the traffic and runs out of cpu (while other workers idle).
That worked great for your sister. What about those researchers living let's say in Brazil, where Universities cannot afford huge subscription prices? The only alternative is SciHub...
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The number of "but AirPods are great" comments on this entire thread is hilarious. Not relevant. The article is about Google's phone, not the iPhone.

Google have arguably made their BT stack worse in Oreo. Since it got the upgrade at the start of the summer, my Pixel XL v1 no longer plays nicely with my car, and is pretty poor with my BT headphones. Even if I bought the fabled AirPods, they wouldn't use the W1 magic to talk to my phone, so I sincerely doubt they'd fix any problems I have.

Luckily, I have the fallback of the 3.5mm jack, and so largely the impact of these BT issues are small for me. But the article mentions that the Pixel 2s are also suffering BT issues, and Google won't even comment on them. If I buy one and find the same issues with it, then I have to rely on the dongle to get music from my phone to my car, and I can't charge it at the same time any more.
Bot doesn't always find what the website does, though.
You don't need to press enter you can just use ^D.
> The nonprofit, known as PragerU, alleges that by limiting access to some of its videos without clear criteria YouTube is infringing on PragerU’s First Amendment rights.

I'm no 1FA scholar but how is this even slightly approaching 1FA? YouTube isn't a Government entity. How is this not going to be tossed immediately by the judge / court?
I've actually updated the page to make the references clearer and more specific.

> I certainly wasn't offended by not having a link to the specific comment.

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” ― Harry Truman

Long may you accomplish many things, and I hope the credit sticks at least occasionally.
I think it is evidence that there a lot more new HN users than old HN users now. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just an observation.
Non-AMP version:

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The only thing that worries me about SciHub is the fact that according to her Wikipedia article, the founder shows the exact symptoms of a freedom fighter turned Putin's mouthpiece, similar to Assange etc. I have a problem with academic freedom being preached from hotel rooms paid for by the most repressive, warmongering and manipulative regime in Europe.
(although, I suppose, if I were a cynical person, I might consider that filing a clearly bogus lawsuit that'll get tossed in order to fuel a whole new line of "the leftists hate us" flame fanning and fundraising was the whole point.)
Yes, and it's great that people can use Sci-Hub for that. That said, for papers that are legally available, OAButton and Unpaywall exactly aim to solve the problem of having to know where to look for them and find them.

They're still only limited to openly available articles ("green" open access), but might be a solution for those not willing to use a solution of dubious legality, or for whom perhaps their institution blocks it or something.

But yeah, I'm not trying to trivialise what a great resource Sci-Hub can be for those who need it.
Your question "Why PDFs in the first place?" was answered in bfirsh's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534583).

But anyway, in the context of the discussion about this webpage/project, it's not relevant to ask why these PDFs exist. They do, and the scientific community is nowhere near a transition away from them. So bfirsh is trying to find a solution to consume those existing PDFs.

So think as not getting downvoted for expressing your opinion, but more for not contributing to the discussion about this particular project.
"You can only cite papers you've read, after all."

In practice, people cite unread papers pretty often. In some cases, the paper they cite doesn't even exist. http://blog.codalism.com/index.php/citing-papers-that-youve-... gives an example of a non-existent paper which had been cited 215 times.

http://judgestarling.tumblr.com/post/100771670031/seven-cita... gives some more examples of citations for papers which don't exist.

The top rated answer at https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/45295/is-it-une... argues:

> When you cite a source, you are not actually claiming that you have read it. What you are actually doing is staking your professional reputation on that source containing the information that you claim that it contains.

I don't recall a paper ever being retracted because it cited a background paper which doesn't exist.
3 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes. Simple.

The Android clock app silently corrects 73 minutes to 1 hour 13 minutes.

So for 1:13:45 (hh:mm:ss) you can input "7345" on the keypad and It. Just. Works.
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Even though I'm not a researcher (yet; still doing my undergrad), this infuriates me to no end. I'd be glad to help any movement that attempts to break this by volunteering code and time.
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Not a great start for me:
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I guess it works as an art project, but as a website, it's a complete failure.
I think you've misread the parent comment here. Grogenaut is saying, if insurance won't cover even expensive official hearing aids, then there's no reason not to go for a cheap alternative unofficial one if it's just as good or better.

However, Grogenaut has also misread Mgerdts's comment to some extent, as when Mgerdts mentioned a "problem" they meant that Derefr's question wasn't that relevant to reality, not that there's a problem selecting hearing aids.
I really, really can't understand how people can like that ungodly piece of crap.
It has been the worst phone that I ever had.
I always thought that the story was pretty much about getting drunk. It's basically "what if people could not recognize my face while I'm plastered?"
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The AirPods are Apple's best product since the iPhone IMO.
I probably own more Apple devices than most people here (even considering this is HN we're talking about) because I do a lot of iOS programming and I have to use them as test devices. I also own the latest devices.

But this problem is not some stupid complaint coming from uninformed people. This calculator thing was a perfect symbolism for all this bullshit that's been going on since iOS 11 release because the bug is so easy to replicate, but there's much more going on than just this calculator bug.

Before I go on, note that I have the latest iOS installed, and I do iOS development. I'm not a clueless newbie.

Anyway here are some examples:

1. my iPhone apps crash 50% of the times when I bring them back from sleep.

2. Even the ones that DO load, takes around 8 seconds on average to start up. This includes Email and iMessage. Yes, I have to wait 8 seconds for my mail app and messages app to "boot up" before being able to check a message I just received. This is ridiculous. I have talked to several of my friends who have been experiencing the same thing.

3. I had to turn off animations. Otherwise I couldn't my screen will freeze when i try to type into imessage, etc. Remember, all of the above are happening WITHOUT the animation turned on.

4. I started getting emails from "No Sender" with empty content, couple of times a day. I'm just assuming this has something to do with some fucked internal clock (I have double checked and my iCal and preferences are correctly set) but who knows.

5. Yesterday I was trying to take a picture and opened the camera. And YES, I mean the native camera app that ships with iOS. I saw the camera UI launch, but there was no "camera". It was just a black screen. I've become accustomed to this type of lag in app loading so i waited for my camera to "boot up". It never did. The camera app was open and there were all the UI components, but it wasn't capturing anything. I have never seen anything like this before.

Please stop saying "haha it's funny how these idiots think some calculator problem means Apple's future is doomed" because last time something like this happened was when I switched from Windows to Mac.
I think the donations are mostly for running the infrastructure - I don't think she's doing much in terms of hiring lawyers. Rather, she's just ignoring the outcomes of US court cases (being based in Kazakhstan or Russia).
In my opinion open source software typically has worse design but better implementation.

For instance, in the latest iOS there is a stupid bug where the calculator blocks the buttons if you press them too fast. So if you enter 1+2+3 the display will show 23.

In open source this would be trivial to fix. In closed source you have to wait for Apple to do its implementation, testing, distribution.

In open source you would have a customizable calculator with a million generally useless buttons though because it’s so easy to add them.
> CostCo has a proud reputation for using their annual membership fees to provide door-buster prices.

No, they limit margins and costs (e.g., by limiting SKUs) to keep prices down; paid memberships build psychological attachment, but the $55/yr membership isn't paying for much in terms of lower prices.
5000 units, and you think that's a lot? Last year in Warsaw (which is smaller than SF) there were almost 20,000 new apartments built. You now see how much impact all those zoning laws have.
So people move to reduce their commute, effectively their use of roads, but that shorter commute will not reduce their use but increase it? Tough proposition.

You also posit that people hold parking at a premium and that new house will not try to capture that premium. Mhhhh
Antenna-gate (the iPhone antenna not working well enough if you held the phone) happened while Jobs was in charge.
>your website try to fool the user claiming it has a secure HTTPS when in fact your server isn’t secure having no https encryption at all.

False.

If you go to the security tab in Chrome it says:

* Valid certificate (Let's Encrypt)

* Secure connection (TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA with P-256, AES_128_GCM)

* Mixed content (The site includes HTTP resources. Reload the page to record requests for HTTP resources.)
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Snappy? If you compare it to other crappier android phones maybe.
My iphone 4 was just a bit slower, but it was 3 years and half older.
Yes, but it's huge. At one time you could torrent it piece by piece but now the link appears broken...

http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/

Anyone have the current link?

Good luck extracting much of anything useful out of older PDFs though.
> Didn't a serious of fairly rigorous tests way back conclude that nobody could tell the difference between a ~160kbps VBR MP3 and an uncompressed source (as long as a good MP3 encoder was used)?

No, the conclusion was that most people couldn't tell the difference above 192kbps, but to a trained ear many people could still tell the difference in 192 to 256, or 256 to 320.

It was 320 and above where there was basically nobody who could tell the difference unless they were using recording studio grade gear, which most people don't have.
> create a neutral evaluation of the goods these rivaling organisations produce

Well... They mostly facilitate the evaluation of the goods. The evaluation itself is still done by scientists and scholars that are not employed by the publishers.
What exactly is it about children under the age of 12 that requires a car?
I am a programmer. And if I shipped a crap like this, I would agree that I deserve to be yelled at.

But the problem is probably not at developer level, it's higher ups who don't care about quality control, which permeate downwards.
I like how they used the excuse that they did it to reduce bezels. Does this look like it has small bezels to anyone?

https://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/google/google-pixel-2-1.jp...

Getting a little tired of Google's obvious lies (still bitter about their lie about OIS in the past, and now the dual-camera, too).
I don't know about other people, but I get a lot of interference on 2.4GHz between WiFi and Bluetooth at home. It doesn't matter whether its Bose Soundlink IIs or on-ear headphones.

We have a UniFi access point that is brilliant. However, I don't use 5GHz because the signal can't penetrate though more than 2 brick walls, which is an issue in some of the bedrooms.
> Not being able to compile and run your code, with few or no minor changes, is an edge case. I frequently run unchanged or minimally changed code from before ANSI C.

Not my experience. A lot of pre-ANSI code would segfault if you didn't build with -fwriteable-strings, for example, and there was certainly talk of removing that option from GCC entirely.

> if you'd like to run it in the interim, C is nice, and sticking to a restricted subset means you'll have fewer things to change if you want to adapt it to a new system.

I wouldn't call C nice, but if you are using it I would stick with the style today's popular compilers and programs use - popularity is the best guarantee of future compatibility. Using "ANSI C" might be understood to mean e.g. using trigraphs to replace special characters, which would probably be a net negative for long-term maintainability (I think some compilers are already removing support?).
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> The problem Bluetooth is solving is wires. It’s really something you don’t recognize how annoying it is until you don’t have to deal with it anymore.

I bought an iP6S instead of a 7 just for the jack because I wasn't a fan at all. Then in the span of four months, three jacks died on me in a row. I had a spare cable for my over-ear Momentum but the two intras are dead, and having to look for a replacement suddenly brought back to my mind the whole OMTP vs CTIA mess, if they have remote volume control at all. I'm seriously considering wireless for the next ones without even having used any.
is there a difference in the law for male and female entrepreneurs? Or is it for females because it is pink and has flowers? I am not sure why gender has been made a point in the title.
does anybody else find the first comment on the original article to be lame enough? he apparently thought it was a click-bait or something and uses lame-ass arguments to prove his bullshit assumption
> (To be precise: no one has ever created fully-simulated video capable of fooling human observers anywhere close to 50% of the time. The video has to be reasonably long (>30sec) and complex. But in a double-blind test, almost any nature video will handily beat any synthetic video.)

Out of curiosity is this from something? it sounds like you're citing something and for realtime I'd agree. I think people are fooled everyday by raytraced images (movie cg etc).

> no one knows how to make any fully-simulated video look indistinguishable from reality.

I'd say we know how to do it, we don't know how to do it fast.
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