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I think I understand the point that the photographer is trying to make, but phrasing it as “It cost me $6,612 to take this photo” is leading to a bunch of tangential arguments over that specific number.

The photographer’s beef is with people who want to take his work, use it in their own publications without paying him anything, and then tell him that he should be happy with such a deal because he’s getting free publicity out of it. But this photographer did not get his camera, lenses, computer, etc. for free, and the people who want to use his work are doing it for an enterprise where they expect to be paid, so why should the photographer be the only one holding the bag?

The “$6,612” number is beside the point. A publisher who says “I will pay you one dollar for the right to use that picture” is in a whole different league from one who says “let me use it and I’ll give you credit”, because the “one dollar” fellow is at least respecting the photographer as a fellow businessman.
I mean literally any movie that wasn't made by amateurs supported by another job, or philanthropic donations, or advertising funded.

Its low to pick only the worst bits as a counterargument; it also implies no pro quality TV you like. And that you are willing to screw over people who genuinely do like Selena Gomez and Gilligan's Island and the like, just because you don't.
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That argument is only bullet-proof when all magazines are in exactly that position. But some magazines may well just want to use that picture and try to press the cost of using it.
Her reasons, I think, are as Moglen suggests. She has a false concern for social networking privacy issues that only exists to the extent to which she will not be inconvenienced in any way. She's not willing to indict herself in an article, because her chosen journalistic posture is to present real debates as interesting abstractions rather than as actual moral questions that should have implications on your daily behavior.

You really couldn't be both against apartheid and play Sun City, no matter how much you said you sympathized.
As someone in academic biology, I just want to provide additional support for what roel_v is saying. All of his points are accurate from my personal observations of academia as well.

To further the point, I've worked in both large (rich) and small (poor) universities. At the small universities where access is limited, you just bug the PIs that went to rich universities for grad/post-doc. They hop onto their alumni VPN and can easily get any paper for you.

90% of scientists do not know or care about open science.

I would also state that there is serious stigma against open science. One of my PIs claimed that PLoS wasn't even peer-reviewed (which is false) and that anyone who submitted there was performing career suicide.

This is, sadly, a pervasive viewpoint among many scientists. Especially older and more established PIs.
I would only say that the vast majority of his publications in the last couple of years when he was the corresponding author (i.e. the one making the executive decision), were in open access journals.
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How would you propose he advertise his photos? With really good descriptions?
"And in this article there are not even comparison of this crime (extortionate lending) in Italy with other countries."

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but if you're insinuating that it happens across Europe, then that's not true. The "extortionate lending market' so to say (of the extra-legal kind) is very, very small (to the point of non-existent) in Western European countries, whereas (according to this article and some others I've read) it's a sizable portion of Italy's GDP. That's an unacceptable situation.
I realize the experience I described cost quite a bit, but for some context, our high school was in a blue collar town. We several neighboring high schools in white collar towns, that didn't have what we had (and in fact were sending a few of their students to our school to participate in these classes). Instead they had fancier sports teams and facilities than we did. It was a matter of prioritizing money and energy, not necessarily spending more of it.
So you have commissioned everything you own or use before it was created?
I thought it was good as I found it linked from a University site but I guess it might not be.
10,000 uniques in 10 hours is only 1 unique per 3.6 seconds. It'd be more shocking if it did cause noticeable load.
Looking forward to more people reporting and developing this as an active site helping in reducing corruption
Look at the big picture of the system, not at single transactions. With payment after the fact, artists can optionally use their gut feeling about demand and produce something that they think may sell without having any reputation beforehand. I think that this is essential to entrepreneurship and would hate to see it lost.

Many arguments about piracy don't make sense until you look at the big picture. To someone actively selling software, even the "stolen car" analogy makes sense. If everybody steals cars, you go out of business. If everybody steals software, you go out of business. That in the latter case you "lose $0" doesn't help you pay your bills.
Free markets are the least bad option so far. You tried to make the same point about intrinsic value the Marx, Engels and their followers have been making for the last 150 years.

Rhetoric only gets you so far. It's easy to seize the moral high ground when you don't have to actually implement. It's like me saying "there needs to be a better search engine than Google" and getting mad if someone suggests I build one.

And as another commenter posted earlier, the US Senate prioritizes votes from low-population states.

And "money" is just a store of value. Ultimately it has to be backed by a marketplace that accepts its value.
Thank you! Never thought about these.
But see, researchers just don't care. In biology, you want to publish in Nature, Science or Cell. Barring that, you grab one of the second tiers (Nature Neuroscience, etc). Barring that, you take a third tier like Molec Human Genetics or J Neurosci.

If that paper is closed access, the average research does not give two shits. He just wants his paper in a quality journal that will gain him prestige and career advancement. He is not considering how easily data-miners will access the literature, or if researchers in Bulgaria can access it.

I'm sorry if this sounds terrible (it is), but it is also the truth.

For the record, I'm very pro-open-science. And all "he" can easily be replaced with "she" in this post :)
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I'm also not sure whether it can be called a "classical" quantum computer.

On the other hand, the large corporate and government interest probably means that the devices are at least useful (or promising) for some kinds of computations.

Either that or it's a very, very shrewd con.
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Most of it was within the first two hours :) yeah, I didn't do the math :)
A lot of people at Foxconn have already committed suicide. Why would they be bluffing this time? It's the exact opposite of the boy crying wolf.

Also, by reading this article, aren't you now hearing that "things are so bad in China?" Given the size and importance of Foxconn, this is the equivalent of wildcat strikes at GM or Ford. For all we know there are many small firms that are also abusive, but they don't get the media attention.
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If true - and you'll forgive me if I haven't yet picked my jaw up off the floor - this is the biggest argument for open publishing that I've seen yet. The situation is way worse than I thought.
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> The replacement value is actually much more than that.

While I agree with his main point regarding letting someone use your output "for credit", judging the cost of a photo like this is more than somewhat bogus and makes his argument sound silly (so the people that need to listen to his correct point will just turn off long before they get to it).

The replacement value for a photo has nothing to has very little to do with what it cost to take the photo, or what it would cost the user to have the photo taken especially for them.

Most photos are worthless except to the person who took them. If someone uses your photo without permission you have not lost the photo so it does not need replacing.

What he may have lost is the price he could have commanded for exclusive use of the image, because he can no longer sell/license exclusive use (as it has already been used). So what he would need reimbursing for is the value he could have gained through such licensing (plus any relevant legal and admin fees), not the cost of taking the photo (which might be far a greater amount, or might equally be a far lower one). It is an opportunity cost issue, not a time-and-materials cost issue.

The "cost to make from scratch" argument isn't really valid either: you have to consider supply and demand of the "images for license" market as generating the image from scratch is far from the only alternative option. There may be many photographers out there with similar images at a much cheaper rate - said images may be less perfect for the intended use, but the price/availability difference may make this an acceptable compromise.

Of course he has now set a fixed price for the image If you use it without negotiating a different price then this is what you can expect to have to pay when found. It might be a silly price, but that is the price: take it, leave it, or try negotiate something else - simply taking something for nothing because you disagree on price (the position taken by many people when they try to justify downloading a movie or game from an unofficial source) would not be acceptable.

Your point regarding only publishing the small version of the image publicly is a valid one, and the only way to protect the exclusivity of the larger format image: but this isn't perfect because once the larger format image is out there it is no longer protected because it may be used in a way that allows it to be copied and reused without permission (any contract with an exclusivity clause would need to be carefully worded to make it clear who is responsible for protecting said exclusive use: who (the creator or the licensee) should be responsible for chasing unlicensed users who have taken the image from the licensee's materials? (the source copied from being identified by the watermark you describe)).
I don't know where people get this idea that large banks still run everything on technology hardware that they own - it's just not true in general. As an example, there are organisations like TSYS and First Data out there to which a number of banks outsource some or all of their transaction processing operations, from issuing credit and debit cards through card transaction processing to sending statements out in the post. See http://www.tsys.com/solutions_services/Issuers/index.cfm and http://www.firstdata.com/en_us/products/financial-institutio... to get an idea of what a bank can outsource if it wants to. So what's remarkable about outsourcing email/calendar/etc to Google's cloud when competitors have already outsourced their credit card operation to a cloud run by TSYS?
Well, I can't see any specific advantage on using C/C++ as backend of a plain old CGI API. Personally I'd use PHP or something like that, which integrates tighter with the web server. Using C on CGI is propably not very much faster compared to an optimized PHP environment with precompiled (cached) p-code.

> "C programs are suspectible to memory corruption." (tptacek)

Yes, they are, because in C you can do memory corruption, in many other languages you can't (even if you'd want to).
But where do these corruptions most likely occur, when speaking in context of web applications? Yes, in I/O and string operations. And all these can be mitigated with somehow "safe" classes - by these I mean not a home-brew string-class, but something like STL (which has proven stability).

However, is memory corruption the only security risk? In my opinion, an average C/C++ programmer creates more secure code than an average PHP programmer - just because a C programmer is used to the intrinsic security issues, while the PHP coder won't produce an buffer overflow by not validating input, but leaves eg. XSS or SQL injection holes.

Writing a web application in C without preparing for safe I/O & string operations is as bad as writing dirty script code in PHP/Perl/Ruby/...

At my company we've written a really big web application (a hosting control panel) completely in C/C++, but for other reasons than execution speed: the runtime dependencies of a sellable web application are pure horror. Neverending CPAN-depencencies in Perl, incompatible function changes in PHP, and so on. With a monolithic app (web server & application logic all-in-one) you just need a libc - that's all. Easy to roll out, and thus easy to sell. :)
The 16/32 limit on paracetamol (US: acetaminophen) purchases over the counter is there because paracetamol is highly hepatotoxic and in fact kills more people (through liver failure) every year in the UK than any other drug except alcohol or tobacco.

Obviously it's a bit different for you as you're receiving it under medical supervision for a chronic condition, but imposing that cap on ad-hoc purchases cut the death rate (by both pre-planned suicides and idiots who didn't take the health warnings on the label seriously) by around 20-25%.

(Personally, speaking as an ex-pharmacist, I avoid the stuff.)
This is useful for testing out a stack that works without having to research, install and compare libraries. I've been planning on doing something similar to this for my next project and this script an others like it are going to be extremely useful.
Come on... Camorra, 'Ndrangheta and Mafia are not the same thing.

Does it really matter? Isn't it more like you can see them as different branches of The Mafia, merely distinguishable from one another by their operation area (inside Italy)? The fact that Italian economy (and government, or society as a whole? But this would be another discussion!) is highly infiltrated by The Mafia (either active, by protection money or via loan-sharking, i.e.) and that an economic crises is a gift from heaven for them (there's a lot of black money to be laundered, in one way or the other), there's no need to distinguish between the different groups, IMHO.

I don't say that these groups and implications are an Italian singularity, but in Italy the implications for the Economy are maybe the worst (at least in the Western world). Or maybe I'm just naive?
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I read that a long long time ago - but I'll have a think and see if I can recall where it was.

I'd agree that a larger team effectively mitigates risks around individuals not fitting in or decision-making being stymied, but in my own personal experience I've definitely preferred, due to a perception of maximising by own personal productivity, that 3 or 4 was best. That is, of course, completely subjective!
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Interesting article, but coming from a personal experience of having worked for a large CPG corporation, it's shown me that once a company is scaled to a certain size, employing small working groups outside the usual corporate hierarchy becomes an utter nightmare. Internally, the small working groups I've encountered start weighing the making of small and big decisions equally since they began to
believe that any decision they made carried a reputational risk for them within the co context, and in the end any efficiency we had hoped to be gained, was ultimately lost.
I'm not sure myself, but is a perfect market the same as a liquid market? Don't you need complete price transparency for that?
Coq is not turing-complete, but IMHO, completeness is overrated :)

I was trying to point that the "more powerful" criteria is pretty subjective.

The OP said "more powerful than the alternatives", that usually means "runs in the JVM"... and AFAIK, Jaskell or CAL are far from mature.
wrong. This photograph WAS not free. For you. As for me, I've just seen it, read some of your text underneath, and moved on.

Until you can actually stop USERS from benefiting from someone ELSE doing the same thing with your work, your work very much IS free.
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Prices vary wildly. IEEE starts at $5695 per 350 downloads per year [1]. ACM membership + library access is a very reasonable $200 [2]. I can't find an all-access subscription for Springer but individual journals range from 100 EUR to 20000 EUR per year [3]. JSTOR only sells subscriptions to academic institutes and libraries [4] but you can buy 14 days access to a single article for $10+ [5].

[1] http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/subs...

[2] http://www.acm.org/membership/dues

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The Preface does mention that it is a draft in progress and even asks for feedback.

The author even goes so far as to note that the drawings are copyrighted and he would love to find someone who can help him with originals. Maybe that is someone on HN?
Kind of. Let's not forget that most wedding photographers explicitly own the rights to the photos they take of your wedding, and have print and digital packages they explicitly push both to you and to your friends and family as part of their offering. Some wedding photographers don't even offer the digital pictures as part of their base packages.
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Ask HN: Effective communication methods with remote employees.
We have a startup in Germany, which should work with their employees remotely. It's a startup, doing online paid services for foreigners willing to come to Germany. We have employees for each country, native speakers, and it's very hard to find all of them in one city to be able to work in an office space. Therefore we can only work remotely. But we can't communicate, solve problems properly and effective online. We hired some of them from their country, thousands kms distance from Germany. When we hire, we must explain the workflow which is very hard explaining it online. We used:

Trello
Skype
Mobile tel
Complex explanations are drawn in Photoshop(!!!) sent via emails

None of them were useful and everytime when I hire someone I try to fly there and explain the work etc. Can you please list your favorite tools communicating your remote employees. This thread can also be used as a reference for others having remote employees or freelancers.
Wow. If everyone could copy whatever car they wanted for free, that would be a good thing. Since everyone would already have a car, car salesmen would go out of business. That's exactly what should happen.
I don’t know about the business of photography, but in the SF/fantasy world, there are a significant number of publications that pay at least the SFWA/HWA minimum of 5¢ per word: http://www.ralan.com/m.pro.htm
Sure wish I could still flag submissions.

As maggit points out, (exactly as I did 228 days ago[1]) D-Wave has a long, long history of writing press releases that sound very interesting; then completely failing to follow them up.

An Arxiv preprint is a step up from a press release, but it's still not a peer reviewed paper. I haven't read it, nor do I know enough number theory to comment intelligently on its contents, but judging from D-Wave's past history of behavior, this paper is almost certainly fraudulent.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This is not extraordinary evidence.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2593323
That's the point ; there's a whole system behind (grants, career advancement) that depends on "journal prestige"; that mechanism is based on "prestige factors" that were built decades or centuries ago. It's a self-reinforcing circle, authors-> journals -> author prestige that doesn't even have to do with the quality of review (i believe all well known journals are equally good at reviewing science, what differentiates them is politics, and a careful selection of what subjects they publish). I 'd go as far as to say that this model is an impediment to science since most articles don't publish their research data (or simulation code) along with the articles. [And i must say that biologists and other life scientists seem really attached to that old model, unlike physics or maths].

Taking a step back you have to ask: Why are these publishing companies given such power by governments and universities (the power to determine grants and promotions). Why don't governments and universities instead actively promote open science? I argue that the benefits will be greater if we switch, but it's gonna take a quantum leap that's currently unlikely due to inertial forces.

Another thing is that when research article text is as open as a blog post text, you can create aggregators, get scientists to work in online communities. In the past i tried to start maybe something like that, but not having the content to search for is making it almost a non-starter (if interested check out http://pubcentral.net or http://noteplz.com)
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If you're calling Ruby "blub" in comparison to JavaScript, I think you completely missed the point of what blub was supposed to be in pg's original essay.

On the contrary, you seem to be acting like a blub programmer looking up the power continuum and failing to understand the importance of Tennent's correspondance principle. You fail to see the importance of function(){ ... }() being equivalent to ...

Meanwhile, I look at JavaScript and go "how can anyone get anything done when 'this' is a painful violation of correspondance?"
I'm surprised it took Wordpress so long, as I imagine they would/will suffer dearly under SOPA
Have you tried Google hangouts? We've been pretty happy with its screen-share (Hangouts with extras).

Also we use redmine as a wiki+issue tracker with git integration. An almost github like setup :)
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