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Here's one thing I don't understand about the call for open access.

Academic papers are not read by the general public because they are dense and usually very technical, accessible to researchers in that field but not really to many others.

Given this, the subtext to arguments for open access that journal fees are stifling scientific awareness or potential research by depriving the public seems incorrect.

Because a relatively small specialist community actually consumes scientific literature, I don't see paid journals as some egregious societal inefficiency.

Universities make so much money nowadays that it's certainly a travesty if researchers have to pay for access to these journals themselves, but the point remains that it just doesn't seem like that big of a deal that the public doesn't have free access to scientific journals.
> Yes, actually

Can you explain how you spent millions of dollars on something that had no benefit whatsoever for your company?

Now, you may have done something that had more ephemeral benefits and did not have directly attributable immediate revenue impacts, but I am pretty sure that it benefited your company somehow, and I am pretty sure that you justified the expense in terms of the benefit to your company.

If I am wrong I would be interested to hear the details of this.
Not sure if should be impressed or appalled.

These days i think i'll just use Foobar2k on Windows, and Deadbeef (or a terminal player) on Linux.
Interest rates are only part of the problem. The real culprit is a weak dollar. Hard for foreign buyers to stay invested in the US and make a profit. Also hard for exporters to make a profit outside the US. We are a net importer as a nation so a weak dollar will hit us with more expensive goods. We'll be seeing it soon.Thank Trump and his treasury secretary.

The weak dollar is not Good even if we suddenly start to export.
I recommend Solution Selling or The New Solution Selling. I was an engineer with limited sales experience and it gave me a good base for enterprise sales.

But I'd advise you try your best to shortcut the long and complex sales cycle unless you have lots of upfront cash to burn.
How about spraying a rapidly hardening foam or stringy polymer? Kill the damned thing.
I generally find that 'eggs' and 'milk' might be on my shopping list 4 or 5 times by the time I actually go shopping, and 'onions' will somehow remain on the list until I have accumulated at least five pounds.
Or if you know how to have fun without just throwing money at the problem :P
Does money not exist in Europe?
I use nvALT.

>nvALT 2 is a fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications, including MultiMarkdown functionality.

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
Right, but it's undeniably better than it was, which indicates change is possible if hard.
Terrific job! Seeing is believing:

https://twitter.com/feross/status/961745970080792576
Could we solve blockchain scaling with terabyte-sized blocks?
Psychology's IAT for Measuring Racism Isn't Up to the Job
The judge basically punted the issue to the CA legislature. If enough drivers get together and lobby, I think the legislature may clear up the drivers' ambiguous position.
The New Genetics of Intelligence [pdf]
The vitriol and blanket generalizations are neither helpful nor accurate.

It's an indisputable fact that these gig economy jobs provide more flexibility in the form of being able to choose your hours of work.

Is this flexibility a critical motivation to accepting work? For some people, yes. For others, no.

Is unemployment a critical motivation to accepting this type of work? For some people, yes. For others, no.

You want to paint this as black and white when the reality is only SOME of the workforce is faced with unemployment as the only alternative.

My question to you is: Do you know what fraction of gig workers would actually otherwise be unemployed?

If I had to guess, it's a small minority.
The people who are pushing back against HTTPS really bug me to be honest. They say silly things like “I don’t care if people see most of my web traffic like when I’m browsing memes.”

That presumes that the ONLY goal of HTTPS is to hide the information transferred. However, you have to recognize the fact that you run JITed code from these sites. And we have active examples of third parties (ISPs, WiFi providers) inject code into your web traffic. When browsing the web with HTTP you are downloading remote code, JITing it, and running it on every site you visit if you aren’t 100% noscript with no HTTP exceptions. You have no way of knowing where that code actually came from.

Now consider that things like Meltdown and Spectre have JavaScript PoCs. How is this controversial?
> However Open Access is not panacea. Most of the times it just moves the cost from the subscriber to the author.

I feel lucky to work in a field where journals are OA, but authors do not have to pay to publish. Our major journals are published by learned societies that were founded with endowments large enough to cover publication costs in perpetuity. In fact, that’s how a lot of journals used to be published before big publishers, like Elsevier and Springer, convinced those societies to entrust them with the journals, claiming it would make things easier for everyone.
Where Old, Unreadable Documents Go to Be Understood
You're not necessarily disagreeing with the parent's first sentence. One can believe we won't "hack" our way out of this problem while also refusing to work for companies developing/leveraging the surveillance infrastructure.
The booster was probably already paid for (at $62M per launch I expect one cost at least $100M), specifically not to be recovered.

While it was possible to recover 100 million dollars from the ocean, gov decided to spend another million to destroy it :|
> - distrubute a native (electron?) app that interfaces with my device and trusts my cert, and disallow direct browser access.

This is the most secure choice, using something like websockets to transfer data only.

Unless your product is completely offline and never connected to the internet, I don't think an IoT device that runs a web server is ever a good idea. All it takes is one successful remote attack, and soon your users could be installing ransomware at the device's direction!

Don't serve HTML/JS from a device that you can't physically pull the plug on.
Rather than taking the data out of the database, how about plugging your programming language of choice into the database?

For Postgres, for example, you can write stored procedures using any of these: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/external-pl.html
Yeah, it's annoying having to older versions. However there's good reason they disabled the ability via a config or launch parameter. Many organisations were not making upgrades to internal systems and websites as they could allow their browsers to bypass validation.

Still sucks for consumer grade stuff. I'm surprised your router offers SSL at all though.
No, a properly setup site cannot have it's HTTPS stripped, and even if it could it is the browsers job to warn the user that they site they are on is insecure regardless of why it is that way.
Since we're discussing snakes, wouldn't that be 'serpience'?
Um, you can still import custom SSL certs into Android 8.0's trust store. I do this for connecting to my OpenVPN instance.
In a way, that's already happening with wasm. I can't wait for a major language VM to be compiled to WASM and hosted on a common CDN (so it's likely to be cached). It's not such a pipe dream to imagine running high performance Python 3 or Java without the overhead of asm.js on the interpreter, but with the ease of running old fashioned JS.
LibGen is a great concept, and I have uploaded a lot of my own scans of scholarly material there, but I fear it is sort of collapsing under its own weight now. Its contents will continue to remain available thanks to their smart decision to decentralize it (torrents are available to download and seed the material). However, there is absolutely no curating of LibGen’s holdings. That means that a lot of metadata is wrong or incomplete, and some books are uploaded in a dozen different versions and you don’t know which ones are high-quality and which ones are low-quality scans or outright corrupt files.

LibGen is just the latest in a long series of pirate ebook libraries that have popped up and then been either shut down by copyright holders or abandoned by admins. It’ll eventually give way to another, and hopefully the next generation will maintain its strengths while having higher-quality metadata.
Jesus fucking christ at giving an 11yo milk of magnesia.

I have stomach issues and occasionally use that on a day when I know I can spend the entire next day sat near a toilet, that stuff is absurdly effective as a laxative almost dangerously so.
My taxes go to funding a lot of this research. I am paying for it already, so why do I need to pay for it again?
Thanks for being so interested.

The architecture is super simple, I'd suggest that the first place to look is the source code.

There are really only two ways of accessing the underlying data store - a read-only dataset and a read/write changeset which can be committed.

It's purely a key-value storage at the core - a key being a path and a value being whatever you want.

On top of that you can build more complex things, e.g. https://github.com/ioquatix/relaxo-model which provides relational object storage and basic indexes (e.g. has one, has many, etc)
Could have sworn that browsers have the capability to load custom CSS. But then writing CSS may well be a full time job, so...
That's ok but what the OP was getting at is the strange OS grouping.
If you don't mind getting yourself on a list, go to youtube and search for '2g ETN' (also PETN, APAN, HMTD, MEKP, etc). These are all home gamers, imagine military grade stuff...geesh.
Maybe a larger portion of the public would read academic papers if they had access to them.
1 and 3 are due to poor end user security and won't be solved by HTTPS, and 2 and 4 are lost causes and also not solved by HTTPS.

An ISP is by definition a man in the middle, and unless the user checks certificates for every page and resource they fetch then the ISP can inject their own certs and monitor traffic if they really want to.

And most of the time national actors like the NSA will have better ways of getting the information if they need it
I got my current pair on sale a couple of years ago and they are not dead yet (although fairly light use), but this year they didn't have any in stock of more than six styles I checked within hours of the sale announcement. I emailed them and they said they had been out for months. So sleazy advertising and expensive and most of the styles look horrible IMO (and, as the article complains, any style you like will no longer be made once you need another pair), but good shoes.

I'll keep an eye out for the cloth shoes. Not many options for thin sole shoes. Concrete can be horrible on shoes with softer soles, however, and the Vivobarefoot soles are the best thin soles I've seen for use on concrete.
How to plan a business in February
Because 1) I paid for it, and denying it to me is as stealing an unused item from my house and 2) laypeople DO use scientific papers. I read the paper about 40Hz light being applied to mice with Alzheimer’s and used it to built a light-flickering headset to try on my mother. Open access is just basic morals for taxpayer funded research.
London, UK. As conwy mentioned, it's not luxurious but it is doable. It helps I'm not really all that social, I don't like crowds, nor wasting money. Don't get me wrong I've done my fair share of both and I still go out once a month, but I have a limit on what I will spend because trust me it is far to easy to go into central London and end up spending a ridiculous amount of money.

Most of my socialising in the past 6 months has been staying in or going to a friends house. A couple times a week, we will cook each other dinner, maybe have a beer and generally just relax. It's basically a "habit" now and 1 that I really quite enjoy, all of our cooking levels have improved and we experiment a lot both with simple dishes and different styles. There's only been 1 occasion when we've all said no and thrown it out, admittedly my fault. I seriously misjudged some chillies, lol.

Also, as cowy said the bay area is 1 of the more expensive places to live. You make a choice to live there, I know it might not be that simple, but it is a choice none the less.

If travellings your thing, on a 12k/y budget you could do most of Europe, Asia and probably more. I did the calculations once when considering travelling for a couple years, of course your not going to be staying at 5* hotels in a gated community, fine dining, but that imho isn't travelling.
I generally haven't had a problem with window function performance - I was mostly using MSSQL.

That said, the single biggest performance drain I've seen is people not using the database, and instead pulling data out to process in code. I don't think I've ever seen a case where it was faster to process data outside of the database - though there has also been plenty of times when the pertinent SQL to had to be written "smarter." Think in sets, not iteratively! There's a terrifying amount of loops in a lot of legacy SQL statements.
Used to be a thing on Linux DEs, but then one of the major interface libs kept screwing around with their themeing APIs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin

"Boffin is a British slang term for a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific research and development. A "boffin" was generally viewed by the regular services as odd, quirky or peculiar, though quite bright and essential to helping in the war effort. The World War II conception of boffins as war-winning researchers lends the term a more positive connotation than related terms such as nerd, egghead, geek or spod."

To explain the modern use (which is very rare, outside of the tabloid news industry), a boffin is somewhat similar to geek, but it's used to describe knowledgeable people in academic / research fields, and occasionally in computing too. It's often said in a jokey way (I've never heard anyone describe themselves as a boffin), but it's not really an insult, there's a certain level of recognition that they know things that the person calling them a boffin does not.
I don't see any reason why QE couldn't continue forever? The reason the Fed doesn't buy unlimited amounts of whatever it likes and grow its balance sheet forever is that this isn't consistent with its mission to fight inflation. But as a matter of game mechanics, it could do this. The Fed never has to pay anything back because people are very happy when you pay them for stuff using U.S. dollars.

It could also create as much M0 as it wants by buying it from the U.S. Mint. This is pointless, though, because there's no real difference, and guarding mountains of cash would be more expensive.

We talk about M0 versus M1, but it's not like the U.S. has two different currencies. They are both equally money.
There are plenty of researchers who use sci-hub, and I personally know several doctors who were beyond ecstatic when I told them about sci-hub.

So it's not just pedestrians who have problems accessing the most recent research information.
I didn't have internet in my dorm, so I was downloading mp3s at university and retrieving them at home by floppy disk. That is, 128kbps mp3s, which is about 1MB per minute (iirc), on 1.44MB floppy disks. split(1) to the rescue. I did the same for (short) videos too. Crazy days.
> So? An app isn't meant to hang in a museum and look pretty for the developer.

Oh how many devs i have encountered over the years with that exact attitude, in particular post iPhone...
Of course it isn't real, but it's not far from possible at this point which is why it's such an effective campaign piece.
> he produced a resume that falsely represents that he attended a Loyola Marymount University Master of Fine Arts program from August 2012 to May 2015, and even lists a specific grade point average; however, Mr. Lawson was only enrolled in the program for one year and did not graduate

None of that is contradictory as described. He attended. He had a grade point average.

Perhaps there’s more to it than you’re describing.
the journal industry (NPG, elsevier, etc...) are the very definition of rent seeking. They add basically no value on top of the work.

Also the very idea that it's ok to gatekeeper off knowledge that was paid with public funds because you think the general public won't be interested in it is ridiculous and wrong.

LOTS of people regularly read scientific papers - many people in technical fields, people who studied an area of research but are not active researchers, and so on.
Those that are at the top of their game and technical normally go to work for the CIA, NSA, DIA, Pentagon, INSCOM, USSOCOM, top government contractors (Leidos, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, CSRA, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, etc.) or go to a top regular commercial company like Apple, Google, Facebook or Microsoft that are heavy into research into future technology and implementing prototypes or real world products.

They normally end up with their own team if they were a top technical PM and receive funding for programs they get to create at their new job.
Microsoft had to have a panel assigned with full access to microsoft source code and systems for a few years, and also was required to share their APIs with third parties. There are elements of the justice system with the expertise to handle it. You'd think the companies would actually want people who know what an API is if they're going through litigation, because a lawyer without context can still win a lot of arguments about harm the company is doing, technical implementation details be damned.
Germans Raise Their Children Better Than Americans
The amount of cryptoearnings you will lose to tax in Australia
Just this week I asked Siri to remind me to water the plants when I got home from work–that night as I walked up my block my phone lit up with the message “What are the planets?”. Existential ponderings aside, I’m almost tempted to start ordering grocery delivery by voice just to see what kind of hilarious misunderstandings arise.
I think i pissed off some kids in the neighborhood when i started doing CDRs for the cost of the disc (or bring your own and i'll fill it up), when they had been selling them at a 100% (or more) markup...
So the whole RFC Comcast submitted containing details of how they MITM HTTP traffic...

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108

Nobody is affected by this?
Is there evidence that this is indeed the case? I've seen much FUD but no actual data that shows that a properly updated site (301 redirects, HSTS, robots.txt) is penalized.
I wrote this on my phone a couple hours ago, and I wanted to add a couple qualifiers that might be misleading to people.

Laziness being hard to deal with isn't the only reason Standard Chartered uses their own compiler that's strict by default. However, they have noted that they do think strict haskell is a lot easier to deal with.
> "I meant he was the epitome boffin."

Just FYI, it's common to use "of" or "of a" after "epitome", for example "he was the epitome of a boffin".
In my experience with administrators who "don't care" about whether the traffic is over SSL, it's mostly because they don't know how to implement it and simply don't want to admit it.

You wouldn't think this would be the issue but I have implemented this on servers and afterwards I don't hear anything bad about it and in fact have been praised for implementing something so simple.

Not naming names here but you know who you are.
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Google unveils its latest bit of security theatre
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Anecdotally, I've found that many people who are health-conscious come from a place in their lives where they were very unhealthy. So it became a thing for them to try out everything in order to get better. This should improve memory among other things. Still anecdotal though.
xmms (formerly x11amp) used to fill that niche, but it's not available in Debian anymore apparently. xmms2 apparently went with something different, but it does look like promoe is a xmms2 frontend that takes on this legacy.
An old classic; this takes on a while new meaning after the decline of capitalism in favor/popularity or corporatism (which many people mistakenly label as capitalism). Much like The Hacker Ethic was written to revisit The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Weber, I wonder if this piece needs a similar reboot given today’s technology ecology and consumerism.
I imagine instead of liquids or silly string, we'll witness the first robot wars.

A military base might have robotic sentry guns [1] to begin with, as they are already armed with these today to defend against incoming mortars. Later on, I imagine with offensive drone capabilities being developed, it will lead to repurposing the drones in a defensive posture. Perhaps the best answer is to scale with the threat.

The defensive drone fleet circle the base. Upon a detection of an incoming fleet, rather than one sentry gun taking on 100 or 1000 drones, a defensive swarm targets the incoming swarm. More of a one-to-one fight or perhaps 1:4 if your drones are more capable fighters.

This is all a bit of a bummer. We talk about how we'll get robots to obey the three laws of robotics, but it'd be nice if we could just get humans to follow the first law. "A robot (human) may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4PXou0aGiE
Also mostly plywood: the Spruce Goose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
They recently stopped roasting fresh coffee every day. Cost cutting coffee is so wrong...
I think that ship really has sailed, as there is no longer the expertise and it would be a considerable downgrade in supply to switch back to smaller farms (though I support lessening the burden).

The idea of call centers and "remote" workplaces come to mind frequently - in theory anywhere with an internet connection should be able to find people cheap to do any digital work that needs doing. We need to find a way to not concentrate all the wealth in cities.
Joe Jackson sang of "going down to London[1] (to be the King)". According to his wikipedia biography[2], from age one he grew up in Portsmouth, which is South of London.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNoOLCsqNTE
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jackson_(musician)
Note that Chrome already describes HTTP sites as "not secure", this change just makes it more prominent.

If you click the little circled "i" on any HTTP site, it shows this messsage:

> Your connection to this site is not secure

> You should not enter any sensitive information on this site (for example, passwords or credit cards), because it could be stolen by attackers.
Even simpler concepts like "passing a budget" or "vet your staff before hiring" elude the U.S. government these days so I really can't expect them to even comprehend the concept of open access journals.
Geo-engineering is serious stuff and has been banned by the UN if I'm not mistaken.
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Amazon adds a new Prime benefit: Free Whole Foods delivery in two hours
It came as a surprise to me but I found out literally today that VLC is skinnable: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html

If you don't want/can't run Winamp, VLC might almost be what you want.