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But older OSes often don't run correctly on newer hardware.
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I'm not sure that's a given ..., I've known quite a few people who didn't like their gigs and would 'work from home' a lot ... they eventually got canned for poor performance

would like to know why you think that though.
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Thank you guys for answering and you are totally right! A site like Coding Made in the US or Coding Made in Australia or Coding Made in Germany etc... would sound just great. I also agree that this is an uphill battle.
> Well, there is a non-zero cost to hosting and delivering documents, as well as creating the infrastructure to allow it

Sounds like a perfect job for bittorrent distribution....
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The Lua community has been historically more focused on embedded and scripting scenarios, and less on building a comprehensive platform for libraries and applications (compare the quality and availability of LuaRocks to PyPI, Ruby Gems, CPAN, etc.). That combined with the almost non-existent standard library means that not only does Lua not give you a solid base of code to build off of, it's hard to find a community-driven one as well. This leads to developers having to play mix-and-match to get a good base running. Also, the "table can be used to emulate any structure" piece means that every library and developer does OO and modules just a little bit differently, harming reuse across code bases.

There are a couple of syntax decisions (default globals, no ++ or --, indexes start at 1) that might cause negative reactions, but I'd put the lack of libraries and frameworks above that.

Lua is still awesome for simplicity, easy C binding, and performance, but deciding to build a new project in Lua requires a significant investment in just getting the base libraries put together.
I think the title is kind of wrong.
The torrent author says:
"I've had these files for a long time, but I've been afraid that if I published them I would be subject to unjust legal harassment by those who profit from controlling access to these works."

So he clearly says its not in public domain but from a moral point of view they should be available to all the masses. The description of the torrent is very interesting. Definitely worth taking a look even if not willing to download the actual torrent.
The white box shadow on the bottom of the button doesn't seem to match Lion's buttons. I think it's a little cleaner if it's removed or darkened a bit.
Surely you're not serious? The innovation that CDs and DVDs made possible is mind boggling. Digital music, video, gaming, none of these were possible with the existant storage densities and prices. They're clearly not the final solution to data storage but they bridged an important gap in bootstrapping widespread computer usage.
Maybe I have misread but I believe he is saying that the scanning costs are negligible compared to what they are charging/making. He mentions that when the journals were in paper that the publishers charged just enough to keep their printing up and running but now they are getting greedy and making enough money to have political clout.

Bottom line is that people shouldn't make so much money off the back of unpaid academics/scholars. Personally I feel like if they charged something like 99 cents for a DRM free version of each paper (with free abstracts still of course) this might be more reasonable.

Just my take though :)
>What liberties do you feel are at stake? Do you feel oppressed - that suddenly your rights may be taken away?

Yes. Here, do you need examples?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/a-pound-of-f...

>Yet, they think they understand complex social initiatives because it's more 'down to earth'.

To what precisely do you refer? Most people defer to someone who makes coherent arguments for their positions, rather than using gunpowder. The former group usually consists of experts.

If I don't have the greatest grip on airport security, that doesn't mean I can't defer to Bruce Schneier because I find his argument more coherent than John Pistole.

>Sure, but how do we identify who is right, out of the thousands of people who are wrong? I'm not arguing that the government is perfect. I'm simply saying it might be the most practical system.

In the end, the same way we choose who gets into the government in the first place -- popular opinion. This is not to say that popular opinion is always right, and in fact it is quite often wrong, but people are generally swayed by logic, and it just so happens that things which are close to the truth tend to be more convincing that utter lies. The responsibility of the government to popular opinion is the foundation of any democracy.

(Of course, I, as an individual, make judgments using logic, not popular opinion -- this much is clear -- but I am not a particularly special individual)
This blog's made quite a few appearance on HN: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=uxmovement....
> the crew from UIUC that won Apple's "Design the Computer of the Year 2000" back in 1987. Their design? A tablet.

Star Trek TNG also featured imagined tablets, and they started out roughly around the same time. The design just makes sense, it's natural.
I know that somebody is going to starve to death in Africa today. I am not going to fly to Africa, track them down and stop it. That does not make me morally equal to a back-alley mugger. There are different degrees of volition and complicity.
> (parenscript:ps (defun square (x) (* x n))) ;; [sic]

Why is this example incorrect? n might be a dynamic or global variable; there's no way to know during compilation.
Sadly, people usually buy not from the most ethical manufacturer, but from the cheapest.
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The fact that we're even able to have these thoughtful discussions means that at least we're evolving as a species.

For the sake of our survival, may we eventually get to a point where people are judged more for how they treat others, rather than what they are able to purchase.
The same one that is in the pirate bay page.
At least in the US, it seems the courts have decided that faithful reproductions of 2D art that is in the public domain themselves are not copyrightable. I suspect this could apply here.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_...
Scans of public-domain work remain in the public domain under U.S. law, at least as currently interpreted. There's no Supreme Court decision on the subject, but the leading case widely followed is Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel (1999) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_...)

Access to network resources is another matter--- Bing might be violating Google's access policies if they slurped Google Books, especially if they evaded rate limits or ignored robots.txt. But they wouldn't be in violation of any copyrights. This makes it a bit of a cat-out-of-the-bag situation. If I download a copy of an 1878 journal from JSTOR, and email it to a friend, I'm violating JSTOR's terms of service. But if my friend turns around and posts the PDF online, he is not breaking any laws.

A similar situation holds with U.S. government classified documents. Whoever leaked the Pentagon Papers broke the law, and could be prosecuted for the leak. But once they were out, as public-domain government documents, it was not illegal for third parties to republish them.
I'm sure most of the people here missed the fact that this is a wake-up call. its meant to make people THINK long and hard about the real issues at hand.

I don't know about you, but I'm seeing a lot of critical thinking going on. It's this reason I support these groups.
The works are in the public domain. Unless you think that simply scanning and producing a bit-for-bit accurate copy of a work in the public domain produces a new work that deserves copyright protection?
The ECMAScript standard is very heavy, and doesn't have all the DOM/BOM stuff, but I've found it an indispensible resource.
Can't recommend this enough.

However, I forget it's on at night. When editing images and colors for webpages, I always go insane the next day when I forgot to turn f.lux off and all the colors are completely off.

edit: also, direct link - http://stereopsis.com/flux/
Conscripts are not at all like 'proper' soldiers.
Conscripts are just there to sit out their time.

The soldier is sleeping, the service is going on. Of course. And yet, that's how most of the armies of the world are. That how the US army was, to a large extent, during the Vietnam war. (But also during WWII.)

I spent two years of service performing mostly bullshit tasks (or doing nothing). When I was in training I received some kind of basic education of driving, uh, amphibious transporter medium - modified (ПТС-М, плавающий транспортёр средний - модифицированный). Was kind of fun.

All right, it's completely off-topic now.
The whole article is based on this statement: "You have no fundamental right to enjoy the innovations produced by others without compensating them."

This is one of those statements that sounds good on the surface but falls apart when you dig deeper.

There are probably literally millions of people who have contributed intellectual innovations that have gone into your shiny iPhone, yet the money you give to Apple only compensates tens of thousands of them.
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It's interesting to note that the person who created this torrent, Greg Maxwell, is not trying to remain anonymous, he put his name and email into the torrent description.
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Congrats to Chad and to Etsy. He's created what appears to be one hell of a great engineering culture that has helped to nurture a great community culture.

He gave a keynote at RailsConf this year about engineering for happiness, which is worth the watch if you haven't seen it: http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2011/05/20/railsconf/
If government work added up to 50% of my business I'd want you to shut and pay your taxes too... :)
Regardless of how outraged you might feel, I would suggest not voicing such opinions on the Web. If somebody decided to go through with such a plan, guess who now ranks highly on Google for relevant keywords. You don't want to SEO yourself into a murder investigation.
Let me disabuse you of that notion: Stephen is more aware of what is going on the wider world than anyone else I know or have ever met. Like him or hate him, he's a true polymath. Our meetings will often wander off to the topic of famous Silicon Valley implosions, or Feynman stories, or the tales from the Institute of Advanced Studies, or the future of augmented reality.

So, with some knowledge of the man, I can say honestly that the charge that he's oblivious of the evolution of HTML is completely laughable. A random illustration: Wolfram Research was one of the first companies to go online in the early 90s (as it happens, Tim Berners-Lee is a long-time Mathematica user). An amusing story: it was also one of the only companies to survive the original Morris worm unscathed, owing to deliberate use of obscure Japanese computers for WRI's gateway.

While I can't talk about unannounced technologies, I can say that HTML5 plays a pretty crucial role in our future technologies. In fact, CDF will eventually have a server-side incarnation that relies on HTML5 for client-side interactivity.
True, but JSTOR is supposed to be a non-profit initiative in the service of scholarship, not a revenue-maximizing corporation. It's largely funded by taxpayer money. I agree they need funding to continue their work, and some of that comes from building up an internal revenue stream so they aren't completely dependent on the winds of year-to-year grants. But I've been disappointed overall by their lack of any commitment to make more things publicly available, given their charitable mission.

When JSTOR was first getting off the ground 15 years ago, many of us had higher hopes for the organization's direction, that it'd eventually be a mixture of subscription-only access for recent non-open-access journals, and free-to-anyone digitization of old, public-domain materials, like a large-scale version of Project Perseus. But nobody at JSTOR really pushed the 2nd part; they digitized old documents, but kept them all subscription-only, and never even developed plans (despite occasional agitation) for individuals to buy subscription access for any sort of reasonable price. They seem to have developed a bit of an unhealthy attachment to "owning" the JSTOR archive as their valuable crown jewel, despite officially just being custodians of it on behalf of the academic community.
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Buy it or not, but in the WWDC UI session they stated that they switched to monochrome sidebar icons so that the interface would emphasize the content, be it the Mail message, photos, or album art.
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This has been a lifesaver for me, since I like to come home from work and poke at side projects until 11pm or midnight a couple nights a week.

Since I started using F.lux, I actually feel tired at that hour of the evening and fall asleep when I go to bed.
Looks like the Mashable Google+ account is gone...
What does your manufacturing company do?
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So what about all the other points made in the article?
Facebook won't let me post a link to this torrent. Anyone know a way around?

URL shorteners don't help.
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The key issue with bittorrent is that if no one is seeding, the files are "gone". Further, ISPs like to block/filter it.

Of course, a case could be made that university libraries should mirror all public domain digital documents of sufficient interest. Which shunts the cost onto the taxpayers.

Regardless, the cost still is non-zero, and someone has to bear it.
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I've been using this for nearly a year now and it takes me under 30 seconds to get used to the color change when it occurs.
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Since mercury levels are obviously something people are very concerned about, I will look into adding them to the information. Does anyone have good sources for mercury levels of different kinds of fish?
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This also happens to be untrue, to put it generously.

As far as I understand the story, Stephen told Matthew: here, this CA seems rich enough for universality, can you prove this for the book? Matthew duly proved it -- a tour-de-force proof, to be sure. Then Matthew broke his NDA by publishing the result early. Stephen litigated to avoid it becoming public prematurely (it was, as you say, the center-piece of the book).

I'm not privy to all the ins and outs and what-have-yous, but that seems fair. If you tried to publish something behind your advisor's back in an academic setting, you'd have a lot to answer for.

Matthew eventually did publish the Rule 110 proof under his own name in Wolfram's own journal.

I speak for myself, not WRI, here.
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This article is really helpful. For one it gives a great primer for those looking to join a startup, but even more so, a good indicator of how a solid startup should operate. Definitely made certain aspects of looking for a startup to join much clearer (things you may dismiss like whether or not people have left the company, how much cash they have in the bank, etc).
This is only the back issues of one journal, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. It's very significant historically, but far from all of JSTOR's public-domain holdings.
What is the value in aping a particular OS's look for your UI when chances are most of your users won't even be using that OS?

You know what other sites attempt to copy an OS's native controls? The ones displaying fake virus scans.
I just had the install hang at the end, hitting the close button on the window after waiting entirely too long causes its "installhelper" process to jump to 100% CPU (probably spinning on a closed pipe).

I have to agree -- the packaging on this is complete shit.
The portion of the collection included in this archive, ones published prior to 1923 and therefore obviously in the public domain, total some 18,592 papers and 33 gigabytes of data.

I think this statement means that the documents are indeed in the public domain.

I also think equark makes a valid point about the scans. Further, I don't understand why these guys are going after JSTOR, a non-profit organization. I'd be more understanding of their methods if they went after somebody like Elsevier.
Will the closing of Google Labs kill innovation? 
I thought they were supposed to have "20 percent" of time dedicated to innovation. I love Google, but closing down the womb that birthed Maps, and Docs, and crap I use every single day sends a bad sign, at least it does to me.
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I stated the problem and my reason for talking to you. Then chose a time in your timezone (I guessed in this case) and I declared who is calling whom and by what means. I always prefer to call you at your number in case I am running late.

If you accept, I'll send you a meeting invite. I used to not send meeting invites but I found that in 15% of the cases people don't mark meetings in their own calendars.

My signature includes my contact information as well, which is useful later in the deal cycle. Don't make your phone number a mystery.
I thought they were supposed to have "20 percent" of time dedicated to innovation. I love Google, but closing down the womb that birthed Maps, and Docs, and crap I use every single day sends a bad sign, at least it does to me.
Yeah, it's not ideal for colour-sensitive graphic work like that. I'm a coder, so when I picked this up a few months ago it was wonderful.

The only issue I have is that it locks up the entire computer while it fades gamma down at sunset, and again at sunrise. Maybe that's intentional, to let you know that sunset's arrived?
I was unaware of that level of censorship at Facebook. Where are you trying to post it.
You missed the word "unjust" in your reading. He very clearly claims elsewhere in his manifesto that the documents are public domain. The statement you elided would then be in conflict with that, but only if you remove the word "unjust".
I don't disapprove of free and open publication, but without publishers, who is going to organize conferences with gala luncheons?
You appear to be advancing a sweat of the brow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow) theory of copyright— a view which is rejected by US law (the law in other places may be different). See Bridgeman v. Corel for an excellent example.

Of course, I don't begrudge people who scan the ability to get paid for their work. But there are a great many ways to get paid which do not involve forever robbing from the public domain (because, of course, if they are able they will simply keep updating their scanned copies while locking the public away from the originals).
Unless someone lives in the woods and is off the grid, they benefit from taxation in some fashion. Perhaps not as much if you don't have government contracts, but still indirectly.
Recognizing that taxes are necessary and useful in some situations does not mean that current policy is not subject to criticism. Granted, much criticism is whining - but not all, not by a long shot.
but the internet is one huge database, and that is where their info is released.
it's mostly a joke, but I think the author is ... making a bad argument.

C doesn't require you to buy another server to handle more than 10k concurrent connections. So that contradicts the title, right?

But, you can of course handle more than 10k concurrent on the jvm using the NIO stuff.
But as an end-user, I don't want a series of files. Source code is a major pain in the ass if you're not actively working on it. the whole win of PDF for most people, including me most of the time, is that I don't want to edit the document, but everything is neatly contained within a single file that is ready for printing or viewing with no additional libraries, dependencies, or anything else but a PDF viewer.

I have a few thousand pdf files on my hard disk and already find it hard to manage the collection. If every single on of them had a source tree it would make me cry.
He calls 10 minutes after they have read the email as per SpyPig. That we he does indeed have perfect timing.
I've been using flux on multiple machines for a year or more and I love it. The interface is simple and intuitive. I recommend it to everyone, at least to try out for a while.

There's a button you can press to turn flux off for an hour for when you're doing color-sensitive work at night, too.
Oh, you're good.
Maybe that's what you really need. CDF goes way beyond latex -- the idea is not to try to replicate ordinary paper-papers in a digital format. But to have programs that explain things through interactivity.
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I don't think so. I think it's more likely that he's fully aware of said evolution but appreciates that most people are not developers and want a nice self-contained live document format that they can email as a single-file attachment if need be.
I love F.lux, I just wish there were a (jailbroken) version for the iPad.
Why are various farmed fish listed as "not okay to eat"? Certainly farmed fish can't be under pressure like wild fish. Is it because of the environmental practices of the farms? I see us farmed raised catfish is listed ok, but apparently asian farmed catfish isn't?
Providing it as a torrent lower the costs at least. Plus, if they were concerned about infrastructure costs they'd have no problem finding mirrors willing to donate bandwidth.
33 GB of Scientific Papers - and a Manifesto - Uploaded to Pirate Bay
From the FAQ:
"Q. This changes too fast, it always shocks me.
A. The f.lux transition can be CPU intensive, so f.lux tries to be polite about it. To make it slow, you can use the special 1-hour slow transition option under settings instead."

That's a nice option to turn on.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369788 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1547830
There are a fair number of studies exploring the usage of P2P distribution of scholarly articles.

One issue that would need to be satisfactorily (and simply) dealt with is trust that the copy you have is the authoritative copy of record.
This and window, middle, aisle ordered boarding have an obvious fault: it will breakup groups. This will cause confusion and stress, especially for families.
Only just realised Eircom has blocked access to TPB in Ireland at the request of the 4 major record labels. The fact that this HN post is tangential to the issue of music piracy annoys me. Another step closer to censorship.
I work from home and its depressing sometimes, but it could be my job, its pretty boring.

Maybe I have weak self-control but it takes more then 8 hours to get 7 hours of work done from home at least.
JSTOR papers put on TPB