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There are three issues here: primary sources, secondary sources, and original research. You said "An encyclopedia is a survey of existing secondary sources". It is not. An encyclopedia also contains references to primary sources, and can also contain new research.

A reference to a primary source would be, for example, a reference to Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" or to Darwin's "On the Origin of Species". An article on the history of evolutionary thought would be remiss if it does not include Darwin's book and instead only referred to books discussing Darwin's work. Like the children's game "telephone", only relying on secondary (and then tertiary, then quaternary) sources can amplify noise.

You then asked about "examples of original research published in the Encyclopedia of Physics". There are two different types of research involved here. One is "original to the field of physics". Physics has a well-established mechanism for publishing and disseminating work, and that is not an encyclopedia.

The other is the research needed to reconcile and synthesize multiple viewpoints into a well-constructed whole. A non-fiction piece for the New Yorker likely entails new research (even an interview is new research), and that's the type of research which goes well with an encyclopedia. Take a look at Wikipedia's entry for "History of the Encyclopædia Britannica" with comments like "40,000-word hagiographic biography of George Washington" and "Dr. Thomas Thomson, who introduced the first usage of chemical symbols in the 1801 supplement". Thomas Young translated the Rosetta Stone and in his WP page is written "[s]ome of Young's conclusions appeared in the famous article "Egypt" he wrote for the 1818 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica."

Or take Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. The entire encyclopedia was written by Asimov, who commented "I alone have done every bit of the necessary research and writing; and without any assistance whatever, not even that of a typist." Right there in the text it says "research."

Do you think these examples of the research which goes into encyclopedia articles aren't actual research? If not, why not? Or are these simply not encyclopedias?

As to "if Britannica is paying"... do you think Harry Houdini, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud, Henry Ford, Leon Trotsky, Arthur Eddington, Lord Kelvin, Humphry Davy, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Malthus, and yes, even Isaac Newton, were contributors to EB mostly because they were being paid for their work? Most certainly not! (How much would Ford's time cost?) From what I've read, other factors were because they wanted to contribute to a collection of knowledge, and because of the prestige.
1 million Chinese download file ..no jail time ..MPAA/RIAA crickets..chirp chirp
What about the page charge? Some of these journals charge the author (or her institution) by the page for papers they accept. They get ya coming and going. Nice racket. Check it out.

http://support.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/252/~/tp...
It was a little bit of a joke with a lot of truth to it. I live in Boston now and wish it were warm like Florida but it is worth having crappy weather for everything else the city has to offer.
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Mentioned earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3596817

https://twitter.com/#!/github

https://status.github.com/

They had to restart mysql, InnoDB was rebuilding if I recall the last status.
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The flaw seems pretty obvious here.

AppStore = lots of "walls/rules", supposed protection, apps have free access to contacts

Market = few "walls/rules", but accessing contacts was a declared and required permission attribute

Apple's walled garden did nothing to prevent apps from freely helping themselves to contacts without user interaction or notification. Android didn't have to curate to solve this problem, they simply implemented it "correctly" at the platform level on the first go.

Frankly, I'm not sure what I think of this criticism of Apple anyway. Where is it declared that your Address Book is absolutely secret information? Windows doesn't protect my Thunderbird contacts, hell, Thunderbird doesn't even try to. Yet I don't blame them for spyware that steals that information. Quite honestly it scares me how much people are totally okay with being dependent on Apple and running to them for protection. It's a losing game this way. There will always be some sort of information, even if acquired via the user or declared permissions, that we won't expect them to want/use/sell. We should be focusing on expecting more "ethical privacy" stances by the companies that write these apps.

(My scare quotes aren't commentary so much as they are me trying to stay neutral. I don't know what is the "right" position on these things, frankly I don't worry about this aspect of my privacy that much, and I'm currently with an Android phone.)

edit: I guess my post changes a bit if it really was against the Apple Developer agreement to do this. I guess I would be miffed that they weren't enforcing and protecting against it.
Yes, that's right. Some journals charge on both ends: they charge academics to submit papers, and they charge academics to read papers.
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Connections don't go through security and the TSA though?
I'm really getting sick of this, i really cant believe we live in a world where someone downloading a file, perhaps unknowingly, can potentially get more jail time than sex offenders and criminals who commit violent crime.
Yep, that's one of advantages living in China. However, The Great Firewall delivers so many problems to me so I'm even considering moving back to russia.
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Yay for jumping right to conspiracy theories without doing any research at all!
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/ocz-goes-ssd-crazy-at-ces...
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it's not quite as transparent, because your browser will prompt you to share your ID with the site whereas cookies just work without the user ever seeing a login form, but yes. browserID is a pretty cool concept and i hope to see it take off.
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I know this is against Apple's M.O., but why does everything have to be dumbed down to fit the needs of the most basic of consumers? Most people are not stupid and you could certainly make the permissions system far more clear and simple with some engineering forethought.

Maybe you SHOULD know something about smartphones before you use them. It would certainly make users safer.
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"fly" to a less convenient airport?
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yes, it was definitely more balanced.

I missed a newline before the sentence beginning with 'my opinion is'.

Although, in his last example around one time pads, he points out that even in an area where the colour of bits really matters to programmers/cryptographers (whether or randomly generated numbers are in fact random), it is not actually possible for us to do determine wether they are random just by looking at them.

In the second to last paragraph he says the following:

"I think it's time for computer people to take Colour more seriously - if only so that we can better explain to the lawyers why they must give up their dream of enforcing Colour inside Friend Computer, where Colour does not and cannot exist."
The Queen does not approve of such shenanigans. The peasants should know that by now.
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As I understand it copyright violation is a purely civil matter unless it's down as part of trade, when it becomes criminal. That is, it's illegal, but you're not going to face arrest or criminal trial unless you're making money from copyright violations.

I'd be interested to know what law they reckon someone who merely downloads (or even someone file-sharing) a file could be prosecuted under.
you got to admit, the recording makes it like a fairy tale, i've done crashing parties (just for the free booze) and will do it in the future!
About the fabled RDF...

I've attended some Apple keynotes. My first one, I was expecting to be mesmerized. Alas, Jobs was ok. Nailed the demo, said what he was going to say, nothing more, and then left the stage. A real pro. Grade 'A', but not life changing.

I've seen RDF. Ever watch a charismatic evangelic Christian minister in action? A motivational speaker? A politician with the gift on the stump?

Reading the early stories of RDF, I have the impression the RDF (charm, seduction) referred to a one-on-one phenomenon.

As for public appearances, what distinguished Jobs from his peers is execution. Sorry fellas, but most of us geeks are introverts and shouldn't be giving demos. And sales pukes who make pitches are too often clearly full of crap.

Further, most tech pitches that I've seen required why too much suspension of disbelief. Jobs @ Apple always had a clear vision he was selling. I didn't always buy in (too bad for me). But it was never like he was pulling a con.
Seriously? The first think you think of is "conspiracy"?

Less jumping to conclusions, please.
Guys, someone is pulling Internet's leg and right now I assure you that the pastebin post author is laughing his head off that its on HN

Can we kind of bury this
It seems for me like this would be an great new market for Google: they know research and they know how to automate the process so the subscription price can be kept ridiculously low.
Bringing knowledge/an approach from outside the "channel" gives you a distinctive viewpoint. That distinctiveness is the building block of personality and brand identity, and those are things that cause you to stand out from the pack.
One problem is that you’re delivering all the content to the mobile device anyway.
"The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists"

How can UK police (or SOCA, or whoever) claim that before trial? When that notice was put on the site, the "individuals behind this website" (another loaded term right there, geez) had only been arrested. Trial hadn't even begun yet.

Without knowing UK laws - aren't these solid grounds for a libel and slander claim?
Ah, but which perspective? One can't sell non-apples, and 'a stroll through the insane asylum demonstrates that faith proves nothing'.

Perlis, epigram 39: "Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."
I could see this as a useful tool to create "skim" and "full text" versions of content, especially reference material.
> In my mind, the discussion of second/nanosecond is unimportant

I disagree. The second/nanosecond discussion illustrates the scale of the difference. I can understand the difference between a few seconds and a few years (just about), and it puts it into perspective.

> "fetches from (non-SSD) disk are very slow and waste a lot of time."

Saying "It's very slow" isn't very helpful. I want perspective. Also the point is that the time is perhaps not wasted is an interesting one.

The original analogy is intelligent, (accurate?) and puts this into perspective for developers (and potential SSD customers!).
Definitely, this is at the top of my todo list.
It uses Anycast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
Britain, Australia, Japan and Switzerland each have four coins in circulation with greater value than the US quarter. The Eurozone has three. It's hard to find a highly developed country that doesn't have at least one higher-value coin.

It seems weird that the interests of cotton growers, bill printers and strip clubs seem to outweigh the interests of the rest of the US.
Anonymous isn't a group, it is a meme, and so it doesn't make sense to say that someone could be impersonating anonymous.

I agree that non-credible claims under the Anonymous meme should be hidden here if they don't have a significant enough following to be newsworthy - the use of a particular meme does not automatically make something newsworthy.
But at the end of the day, you share your time on earth for only a brief moment with the rest of us. Is it possible that you derive more value sharing the film consumption experience and discourse with your friends and peers than some crusade against Hollywood? At what point would you rather see a movie with a girl, your family, or your friends after work rather than reject the opportunity to feel like you're contributing to Hollywood's demise.
Teh internets iz serious biznez.
I think it pretty obvious ChuckMcM was telling a humorous anecdote to support a point, rather than objectively evaluating the ages of various professions.
ive been unable to get Craigslist's phone-token thing to call my VOIP DID without throwig errors. title there and here is misleading, i need a username/pasword to login to both VOIP and EMail accounts to fiddle with all of CL's post-approval stuff. it feels positively mid-90s
I filed my first bug report on Sunday, 3 days ago. I got a response today.

I've been a registered Apple Developer for about a year.
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Trivial? No, not at all. Not in the slightest.
I can't imagine library.nu being legally screwed. There's a remarkable amount of nonsense in that filing. I cannot conceive most of it standing up if the library.nu admin gets decent lawyers. Judging from that article and my very loose sense of copyright law, I imagine they'll have a strong defense on the basis of being neither particularly profitable nor profit-oriented. It's a well known fact that IP and copyright don't exist if you have a reason to try enforcing them. It's just bullying that sometimes works. Copyright law cares only about profitability and profit-oriented when it comes time to decide whether it will screw you over, or screw you over and also screw your pets and grandmother as well.
That's because they're not "makers", as someone pointed in the thread, PG has an essay titled Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule :

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
It's like the OS X Summarize service, but on a webpage :)
The java interop is very verbose and kind of ugly (next to "pure" clojure code anyway) so many clojure wrappers or reimplmentations for existing Java libraries exist. So yes, sometimes it's as simple as extending the wrapper to expose the part of the underlying Java library you need, but other times there are fundamental issues with the design of the library that prevent it from being useful in a multi-threaded multi-user server environment (instancing etc).
I'll have to double-check. The problem is still reproducible on the (albeit limited) PasswordMaker online version:

http://passwordmaker.org/passwordmaker.html
"To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved
bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of
sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down."

What does taking down the internet have to do with that mission statement?
I think you can sleep it off in the back seat only as long as you aren't in control of the keys (for a very loose definition of "control"). If the engine is off, and if you unlock the doors with keyless entry, and then throw the keys away (perhaps somewhere in the bushes where you can perhaps find them later), then I think it's possible to sleep it off. Try it out and let me know if it works. ;)

BTW, I live in Sweden. You don't drink even a glass of wine for dinner and plan to drive that night. On the other hand, there's great mass transit so less need to drive if you want to drink. It's also fine to drink beer in public, unlike several places I've lived in the US.
That just goes to show entrepreneurs are a minority on this site. Just a bunch of posers trying to earn geek cred.

"If you aren't an entrepreneur on HN, you are a lame poser"? Sounds like someone has a superiority complex.
That's really clever. I would like to read news articles written like this: you just click on the parts you want elaborate on.
>It was "I want to develop my own style, here's what I've done to that end. I've had some success, but here's how I struggled with taking it to the next level. What do you suggest, as someone who's accomplished this?"

Connecting thought from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywu7Vu8Hko0

Quote, not verbatim: "Roadblocks are there to stop people who don't want it badly enough."

Questions like...

> "Oh Teller! I want to be a great magician just like you!"

> "What are 10 things an aspiring magician should do?"

> "Dear Teller, would you mind sending me information you find relevant or letting me pick your brain over coffee?"

... are indications of people who don't want it badly enough. They are infatuated with the fabulous end product, but not infatuated enough to really dive into it. The advice to "prod and demonstrate the failure/successes of your prodding before asking for advice" is not a heuristic against laziness - rather, it's meant to find out the depth of passion in the inquirer. Putting effort into an infatuation elevates it from a passing delightful thought into a serious, long-term passion. People who have chased life-long passions like to help those who aim to do the same.
Has anyone actually ever used this service to any productive end? I never saw the appeal (and don't understand how it got there in the first place), but maybe it's extremely useful to some niche category of users.
Well, the idea of leveraging the power and pragmatism of the JVM using a nice functional language is certainly appealing, and the moments in which it does work it's really nice. Not to mention the pragmatic and mostly idiot-proof approach to state and concurrency is awesome.

I guess I don't mean exceptions encountered at runtime, btw. I mean more like syntax errors during development. The Clojure compiler does not yet provide useful error messages or other information like line numbers in most cases when you have a bizarre paren-balancing issue or something.
With Congressional involvement this disturbance has now been upgraded to a Category 4 Shitstorm.
It occurs to me, you could submit a feature request to Amazon... "while reading, type CTRL+5 to go forward 5 pages, ALT+5 to go back" or something like that.

Of course this would be cumbersome on the keyboardless models, but they are designed purely for novellas et al anyways.
Should not be surprised, we don't have real democracy after all.
This is basically why I pay money for Amazon e-books.
This keyboard has removable keycaps and a fully-programmable controller, so you can make this as usable as you want it to be.
I could be wrong in this case, but I believe that is what the "Back" key is for.
The Boston Globe's home page (http://bostonglobe.com/) does something similar with columns.
Prior art doesn't prohibit someone from patenting the idea ... I rather suspect not too many patent examiners peek inside source code or the interfaces of indie apps to check for prior art, and if a behemoth company is going to patent someone's prior art, it's not as if they're going to submit evidence that disproves their claim.

In short, even if it is prior art, it might still be patented, and some poor shmoe down the road is going to have to research, find, and successfully enter as evidence the prior art. They might just choose to settle instead.

Not playing can still suck.
The key word being 'potentially.' Sex offenders and violent criminals can potentially go to jail for life. While the maximum penalty for this offense seems quite excessive to me, I can't really blame the police for simply quoting the statutory provisions. For one thing, there's a basic idea in criminal justice that people should be made aware of the risks they are running, known as constructive notice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_notice
it doesnt matter where, once i tell people i wont sign NDAs or work on closed-source code, theyre no longer interested.

i'm sticking with boston though, at least it has seasons
I only count three Australian coins: the 20¢ isn't yet worth more than a US quarter though it's getting disturbingly close.
You could, for starters, install a Scandinavian dictionary and learn to read pronunciation guides. Assuming the author uses common, and not extravagant invented, names.

If memory serves, highlighting the word brings up not only the definition, but the pronunciation guide. And, even if it doesn't, it isn't much of a pain to click through to the dictionary.
And yet, if you can wait three years for the first wooden
boat, it can often be at the head of a convoy which will
keep you busy for many thousands of years, sometimes even
orders of magnitude more if you take a minute to request
that another convoy sets out.
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I was going to make a point about random access of one bit vs. sequential access of large portions of data, but the comment from google+ above summed it up perfectly.

Thanks for posting. A very insightful analogy, really putting things into perspective.
Patrick Mckenzie has mentioned this a few times: hackers put links onto the web disproportionately more than the general population, so you should try to attract their attention, even though they're not your target market.
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I'm not really arguing about whether $30k was too much or too little. That's beside the point.

The point is that it shouldn't cost every comedian who wants to follow Louis CK's lead $30k to setup their own site. It would be a total waste of time and money, not to mention limit the number of people capable of emulating him.

Think about why Shopify, Weebly, Blogger, Wordpress exist. Every person who wanted an online store or web site of any kind used to have to pay people thousands of dollars to get a custom one made.
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I don't imagine this would be applied to news articles or blog posts. I could see this applied to, say, instructions or travel directions...
Thanks for your reply. I hope Ivy Bridge and Windows 8 can improve on that somewhat, or possibly better bootcamp drivers!
No. They can know on the basis that the files are hosted for download but that the site operators have made no revenue payments or signed contracts with the publisher/distributor of the media in question. The UK does not have the same kind of common carrier provisions in Telco law that exist in the US.

Edit: downvote away, but I didn't write the law, I'm just telling you how it operates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010#Sectio... The government is considering alternatives: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/hargreaves.htm
Other airports aren't there only competition. I know a number of people who will drive up to ten hours rather than fly.
There really is no other way to describe Isaacson's characterization of the relationship between NeXTStep and Mac OS X: It's false. OS X was not Mac OS with a kernel transplant — it was an evolution of NeXTStep with some accommodations for Mac users and developers. This is why you could get OpenStep programs running with little more than a recompile, but Mac programs that hadn't specifically been designed with compatibility in mind had to run in an OS 9 VM. The Finder is the most significant carry-over from OS 9 to OS X, but the OS X version was a Carbon program written completely from scratch to mimic the behavior of the OS 9 Finder because the OS was so fundamentally different. Meanwhile, NeXT's Mail, TextEdit and Preview chugged along just fine (not to mention third-party OpenStep apps like OmniWeb and Create).
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