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As a blog post:

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/open-access-a-short-summary/

I've now edited the header of the HN submission to point to this URL.

Thanks for the suggestion --- I should probably have done that initially. My thinking was that I didn't want to put it on my blog, since it's meant specificially for HN. But with a little framing, that issue takes care of itself. And, as you say, the links work a lot better in a blog post.
> Tibet is of course China

Do you guys put Tibet as disputed area on like 90% of the maps in the West? Really?
Yes; they are likely better candidates for commencement speakers.

I wouldn't say rms "isn't a nice person" in this context -- he's just very focused on his cause, and he doesn't take detours or "tone it down" for the sake of avoiding temporary inconvenience to others. It's rare for people to stick to their own principles so studiously (unfortunately, perhaps?), so he even goes out of his way to warn them.

It's not exactly stepping on puppies.
He name checks SEDA in the piece.
What is the point of your post?

Do you agree/disagree that this is a story for HN? I can't tell.
Hm. I don't think that's going to be a problem, it might take me a while to read his work, but that's okay. That said, I'm used to such books and a world rife with war, famine, disease and horrible death.
> And yet, this isn't orthogonal to still keeping it extensible, transparent and open for learning.

They're related. Keeping those things isn't free or easy when most users don't care.

> Everyone is a carpenter in some way. The OS isn't the table, it's the tool.

This is how a programmer thinks; it is exactly tho opposite of what normal people think. Users don't see the os as a tool and have no interest at all in it. The os is the table to them, it launches their apps and that's all they have interest in. They don't want to understand it or tweak it or think of it as a tool.

> "Equals" means to stop treating users like they are generally unable (and unwilling) to learn

But they are generally unable and/or unwilling to learn. You leave me feeling you simply haven't interacted with many normal people. You're talking like most people think like a programmer; they don't.

> I'm not saying you should force people to learn. I'm saying you should give them sane defaults, and the option to learn how to change them if they chose to do so (and ideally, with an easy and obvious way to restore the defaults).

Ubuntu already does this.
Should I leave Austin?
I started Physics grad school this Fall, but I have recently considered dropping out in order to find a job in industry (I'd like to work at a startup). I know this could look really bad to employers, but I just have no motivation to continue my studies

Recently I've been working on a programming project on my own (a sort of video game), as a way to improve my programming skills, and I've been working on it with alot more motivation than studying for my Physics classes. I'm still fairly new to programming so I can't say I'm committed to programming over Physics yet

Anyways, the semester is almost over and I have to make a decision soon as to whether to move back home (Los Angeles) or stay in Austin to find a job. After reading Paul Graham's essays, I think I'm willing to take the risks involved in running my own business, or at least joining someone else's startup.

But my programming skills aren't that great and my statistical analysis software skills aren't either (I've only used SPSS minimally). Also, I have no idea as to what kind of startup I'd like to work for. I'm not interested in Iphone apps, social networking, etc. But analytics seems pretty interesting.

Would I really be missing out on alot of opportunities if I moved back to LA instead of staying here in Austin?
One day soon, RFID will be doing all of this. We won't need cashiers or baggers or the customer to do anything. You'll be told (based on the RFID tags in your basket) what you owe, slide your card, then walk out of the store. It'll be much faster than what we do today.

Bagging the items will be optional, or you can just bag them yourself as you shop.
To me, this is mostly about the way we learn as beginners.

You start as a beginner by reading books, watching experts, taking a class. Even if you start by jumping in and figuring it out, you still get the notion of how you should do it from somewhere. Because there is too much theory to understand at first (be it music, computing or math), you accept dogmas, or theorems or theories and work with them.

Eventually you gain enough confidence to reconsider what you have been taught. When you do come full circle, I think it's mostly because you understand why something is taught the way it is, not necessarily because you were instinctively doing it right at first.
There are two parts to this phenomenon.

1) when have you actually encountered sexism as a man outside some women's club meeting? As a man myself, I only get portrayed as a rapist in the minds of male redditors.

2) It's generally considered less offensive to make fun of the people in charge, for obvious reasons. By and large, men still run the country. Politicians, bankers, and judges are all overwhelmingly male. Make fun of a man in a commercial for being stupid? It's funny because the CEO of the advertising is almost certainly a man. Make fun of a woman for being stupid? It's less funny because as recently as when our parents were growing up we actually did make such commercials, except we meant it and actively excluded women from the workforce. We're not far enough removed from "math is hard" Barbie dolls to find humor in poking fun at the intelligence of women. Too soon.
Well written post. I guess a lot of people don't understand the contexts under which node.js is useful. They treat it like a magic solution that will cure all their scaling issues. Node.js is useful for I/O bound apps which are not CPU intensive because then your event loop is nothing but a "manager" which manages multiple incoming requests, and hooks them upto the I/O in an asynchronous manner and when the I/O finishes, sends the result back. For such use cases, node.js is very efficient and scales well (in the sense that with just one node.js process, you can handle many requests).
If you're going to spread FUD, then you must prove these very strong claims that you are making. Hand-waving dissent away and pretending that you've proven your point is doing no one favors, especially not the people here who may be mislead into believing that you know what you're talking about.

I cannot emphasize this enough: you have the burden of proof, and so far you have completely failed to live up to it.

EDIT: Though, to clarify, I do agree that we don't need 300 million people to monitor 300 million people. That's not the part I'm contesting.
Well depends on the purpose. For general tasks it's really vastly superior to most other languages.

I personally don't like some things about the syntax but that's just my personal opinion :)
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Programming contests [1] can a fun and challenging diversion.

1. http://aichallenge.org/
I think the self-service lines vs. serviced lines is a bad example. When I'm in a serviced line, I'm basically left to do nothing, while the cashier scans my items. The cashier is unnecessary, because I'm already there. There are two people to do the job of one person.

Now, interestingly, I really shouldn't be there. The cost of shopping for groceries on a whole is _very_ expensive, time wise. I would rather sit at home (or do something else productive) than walk around the grocery store and wait in lines for 45-75 minutes.

However, I still don't use grocery services, and I know very few people per capita willing to let others shop for their groceries, even though many of them bring home over $75 an hour. Why is this?
Most serious traders recognize that "providing liquidity" is a huge joke for the bumpkins. Don't give the banks that kind of credit: even in the best of times, with fractional reserve lending, they are government-sponsored ponzi schemes.

On the other hand, are you sure that silicon valley is driving net material progress? Is Facebook adding or detracting from our material wealth. Would a drug with significant side-effects that swept through the world be a good thing or a bad thing? Are the jobs that are being lost to increasing automation being replaced by better jobs? Or worse ones?

Personally, I am quite ambivalent and confused on these topics, and certainly skeptical of pat answers on either side.
Nope, we have tables that fill the open spaces. These are first come, first served are available for tutors, project works or studying, or just general reading space.
It may be a rumor. It may even be false. But it is not unfounded.
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You need to talk with publishers. Find out what their pain is (might be this - I don't know)
Back in the early 90's (in the US) I had a friend who was a college student from China. In the common area of her dorm there was a huge wall-size Rand-McNally map of the world. We were looking it over.

"There's China" I said. "And there's Taiwan."

"You know Taiwan is really not that big." she said.

"What do you mean?"

"Map makers show it larger than it really is in order to exaggerate its importance."

I was a little weirded out by that idea. This girl was pretty intelligent, she seemed to know some math and logical thinking. She was in the process of becoming a CPA.

For better or worse I responded with practical analysis: "How would that even work? You and I could go buy maps right now for navigating ships and airplanes, those would have to be accurate in order to function. We could compare them to this one and if they are noticeably different we could complain and the company that made the map would lose face. Why would Rand-McNally give a shit about the political importance of Taiwan anyway, enough to risk their own credibility?"

"They just do. All map makers do this." She would not be convinced.
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To reiterate what nandemo said, the difference in material conditions between working at my previous megacorp and a body shop was epsilon. (Stability aside.) My old job was the kind of place you'd want to source a son-in-law from, though.
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It seems like there is little tactical payoff in doing this, as large, foreign militaries would already have detailed, accurate maps covering the whole world, China included. I bet this is an internal-resistance oriented policy.
I would expect a designer to know just enough to design for the web but shouldn't go full blown into what is absolute and relative,how to get to get a container to stretch with floating divs inside, what a variable is, or an if else statement.

People really should stick to what they are good at and stop being jack of all trades. There are way too many people claiming to be deselopers out there and I have only seen a handful that are decent.
I spent a year living in a building with a french winebar in the cellar.

I became really good friends with the owner and since I was working freelance from home I would often go down in the afternoon and get a glass of wine.

I learned a lot about wine, but the most important things were the following.

Wine experts don't judge the quality of the wine but the quality of what the wine is supposed to taste like based on it's appellation controléé http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%E2%80%99Origine_C...

Those criterias are the "objective" criteria and those are the ones uses to judge a wine by. The particular taste of the wine is less interesting (i.e. the experience that normal people would have of the wine)

Being a wine expert does not mean that you know good from bad wine but that you know what any given wine 1) smelled like (cherry, toast bread with butter, apple etc). The owner had a set of 100 little bottles each with it's own smell.

You would be surprised how hard it it to pin point the correct word of the smell of one of those bottles, even if you recognize the taste.

Once in a while I would be involved in some of the wine tastings and see him and his friends guess if not the exact wine then the actual zip code.

One of the most important things he taught me was to find the balance of your food and your wine.

It's one of the things I have found most enriching of my culinary life. That and the ability to smell (not taste) whether a wine have cork (impresses the girls and gives you an advantage in any business dinner)
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I smell a troll.
>>> Also, putting your first number in scientific notation helps put this in perspective: 2.2 x 10^12 . Seven orders of magnitude. Close to 15 000 0000 times as much. <<<

Hm, I made a big mistake in that comment. I should have added that we have access to this much, but the real catch is energy and how we are currently limited to tapping into it and the total resource we can access is X.

Thank you so much for pointing this out.

>>> it mostly just requires more energy <<<

Yeah as I argued in another comment, that really is the unmentioned catch over here. I should have elaborated upon that in the parent. Sorry.

Even if most of humanity doesn't reach that level of consumption, we will need to start unlocking some of this resource sooner or later. What really worries me is the amount of energy we need to unlock all of this water locked away in glaciers, ice caps and so on and then actually manage to process and distribute it for final use.

That's a really interesting but hard engineering problem.

>>> Technology which is clearly within our reach would allow the earth to support trillions of humans -- admittedly at a more crowded level than I would prefer. :) <<<

Can you please elaborate more?
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I know AppSupmo started by Noah Kagen are looking for Python Developers in the Austin Area.
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Y'know, no one here is saying that you shouldn't receive the same accolades as Shifra for stopping a talk in the middle and calling out the speaker for making a sexist joke about men.

When that happens, post about it. But until then, this comment does nothing but derail the conversation.
Requiring legitimate incorporation in a foreign country in order to do business there (typically through partnership with a domestic firm) is also not unique to China or map making.
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FUD about what? What those experiments show is that by deviously setting up certain expectations, you can manipulate people into being deceived by their senses. Even if they are experts in the use of their senses.

The experiments do not show that there is no difference between wines; let alone no difference between red and white wines.
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Here's an open-ended question for all of you. I saw the recent thread on the main page about "honeypot" submissions, including a comment by pg, the site founder, that the quality of comments on Hacker News has declined. What can I do about that? What can we all do about that? What voluntary cooperation can we engage in as users of Hacker News to make HN a more useful, friendly, and informative online community? I invite open discussion of this issue here, with any and all suggestions welcome, including suggestions directed specifically to my own online behavior.

One suggestion I have made before is actively to upvote comments that either 1) ask for follow-ups with more details or facts to clarify or back-up a parent comment's statements, or 2) provide asked-for details or facts (especially with links to reliable online sources or citations to dead-tree reliable sources). I also like to silently upvote comments in which users are polite and say "please" or "thank you," as a measure to promote civility. What else is good to upvote? How else besides upvoting good comments and asking follow-up questions can each user here promote better comments?

Thank you for any ideas you share here. And many thanks, of course, to the dozens of users here whose posts and comments make HN a valuable community to me and to other users.
Why don't you just tell me why you think the Mac is safer despite empirical evidence the says otherwise?

That'd probably be quicker than me trying to explain to you why the Mac is worthless target. (Actually a no explanation is typically needed for that since the market share numbers don't lie. I just think you're being extremely obstinate at this point, so there's no way you'll see that. You might as well attempt to prove _your_ point to me since there's obviously no way you'll accept _my_ point.)
Well, you know, I live in Chine since 8 years and, in some ways, there is a profound influence of the "American way of life", mostly through the channel of Holywood movies. The matter could be worse: Chinese have the weight on their side, they can't change so fast as to lose their identity, but still, they have an idea of what should be an happy life that is formatted by these f* movies (really hate then, sorry). For instance, they think everyone should ought to live in an appartement in a tower, own a car, drink canned soda, eat industrial food cooked in microwave, have only one overprotected child, work in suits, go shopping each Saturday, watch baseball on a gigantic TV on Sundays, etc.

They can't believe it when I tell them I am living in a cheap courtyard house, rides a bike to work, never drinks soda, eat home cooked food, never watches TV, know nothing about baseball, climbs mountains on the week-end. In fact, it is the way their parent and grand-parents lives (eg. my neighbors) and the younger generation don't want that, they want the "American way", the supposed "comfort". Maybe a personal taste, but I think Chinese way is better, for me, my family and even for the little big blue ball floating in the universe.

Don't get me wrong: I know US citizen do not live like described, and I tell my friends and colleagues as much as I can. But the problematic part is, again, those f* Hollywood movies that have too much worldwide influence. (I therefore welcome any other influence, Mangas, Bollywood, Hong-Kong kungfu, anything else is better.)
All of these Apps are small, focused and free...

Loving LiveReload, Mou and Launch Effect.
I think they are rushing to keep up with the mainstream OSes and are skirting the details in the process.
How maps look like depend on a whole bunch of other factors like the projection they use etc. Thus simply overlaying the maps and say, hey, this is distorted, is simply unfounded. It's very likely that Google maps etc may be adopting different projection systems so the users can have smooth using experience zooming in and out, and panning across the global without feeling the earth is round.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection
Just before people get all excited, to clarify, the great pyramids have 4 sides that are visible and 1 side that faces the ground. Not 5 sides that are visible.
I'm a stay-at-home dad living in a rather patriarchal area (rural Utah). Women look at me funny when I take my kid to the park or the grocery store. I've heard comments about my inability to change a diaper, and they were serious.
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Actually, Ruby used to follows the "unstable odd, stable even" versioning scheme but they seems to quit doing that since 1.9.1 (since both 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 are declared stable[1])

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I saw the line you edited out. I hope that means there was some minor mis-communication because as far as I can tell, we're on the same side of the fence!
If we don't use science and continuous integration methods to find errors we are no better off than illegal foreclosure firms. We must hold ourselves to a higher standard.
May be it is time for conference organizers to explicitly make it clear that sexist, racist etc behavior won't be tolerated. If one makes an inappropriate joke on the stage, ban that person for the next 1-2 years from the conference or something.

This should apply equally to both men AND women (and transgender etc). People are naive, if they think only men make sexist jokes.

However, if someone apologizes for stupid behavior, I don't see a point in continuously making noise about his/her behavior, even after the apology. This only adds noise, and doesn't contribute anything.
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Anecdata: I have a very complicated return due to self employment while overseas, and it takes 3 solid days.

Of course, most of the compliance burden is on tax professionals working for business.
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No miscommunication (that I'm aware of). It just seemed extraneous -- beating a dead horse. I'm the sort of person who "would have written a shorter letter, but didn't have that much time". So, yeah, I sometimes go back and snip a little. No big.
It could simply be a map projection issue - where the traffic data projection is slightly off by an order of 1000 meters. This datum shift could be easily fixed by Google.
I didn't see a place to add comments on his article page.

In general, this reminds me a lot of architectures designed for embedded systems today (which are how software was designed for PC's in the early days).

The huge up side is performance the huge down side is that it completely ignores the significance of what a relational database offers to the company as a whole.

We need to be looking at ways to make SQL databases faster, not at ways to avoid its use.
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Interesting that you think RFID will detect which items you owe but that you will still have to swipe a physical card to pay. How would RFID accurately distinguish your products from another customer's? What about fruits and vegetables, or other items either untagged or charged by weight?
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Is there anyplace where I could watch the entire recording of it? There are just some fragments at Justin.tv.
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I think an economist would tell you it is human irrationality. However, I think there are a few factors - a big one is that a change is as good as a rest. Doing 40 hours development and 10 hours running errands is a nicer balance than 50 hours development, and probably with similar productivity. There's an overhead to hiring help too - setup and management. You're also becoming more removed from everyday life. That might be a benefit or a drawback.

That said, I recently hired a servant to take care of all those things that I don't like to do (I live in a low-wage country). Shopping, Cleaning, Laundry etc. About $400 a month, although it could be a lot less. Wouldn't go back.
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