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There are no editorial costs. Editors are not paid. There are no authorial costs. Authors are not paid. There are a few copy-editing costs. Copy-editors get paid a few hundred bucks per article. There are a few administrative costs. The administrators get paid huge amounts. There is also no risk - the journals were set up a long time ago, and are the way they are due to inertia.

If you imagine for-profit academic journal publishers (especially Elsevier) as anything other than vicious monopolists defending their entrenched positions via copyright law and extortion of university libraries, then you have the wrong idea.
What? No kickstarter?
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The Nuremberg laws are a prime example of laws that were so intrinsically wrong that disobeying them was a moral imperative.
Concur. This case reminds me of another public case: Randal Schwartz's case. Randal's case was fairly black and white since he did not deny running the password-cracking scripts. He also had a harder time since Intel decided to twist the knife and make an example out of him.
Is it possible to reflow the page, at least in simple cases like 2-column documents? That would be awesome for mobile.
I agree that nuclear (thorium) is an option that should be reserached and developed, as should other nuclear options. But there is no silver bullet in energy. And solar cells are not cheap only because of government subsidies. This has been true for a long time, but the newest generation of solar cells are clearly profitable even without subsidies.

In fact, the next generation of Chinese panels for US customers will only be _expensive_ because of protectionist import tariffs. See http://solartribune.com/2012-05-30-u-s-import-tariffs-could-....
> And basically quit the handset market

There are non-OHA Android products that are successful: The Kindle and Nook, for example. Those happen to be tablets and not phones, but I don't see a fundamental reason for that.

> Isn't that like saying if Compaq wanted to ship BeOS or dual boot machine, it could forgo getting the OEM incentives that Dell, HP etc. received from Microsoft?

Almost, but not quite.

First, Microsoft was an absolute monopoly in the market. Android isn't, but it is true that the main competitor is Apple which doesn't let you use their OS, so Android's position as a licenseable OS is pretty dominant. You could say that's not Android's fault though.

Second, in the Microsoft case, Compaq could ship BeOS but it would then have to lose all of Windows. With Android, if you ship Aliyun then you can still use core Android, but you do get that code later, and you also lose the ability to use the proprietary stuff like the app store and maps and so forth.

I agree these are not necessarily huge differences, there is still something to be said for Google having a tremendous amount of power here and is using it. But it is not quite as bad as things were with Microsoft.
From a purely educational perspective, going to the US doesn't make any sense. You can get the same thing in Europe for about 10 times cheaper. Of course, European universities don't have the marketing budget to compete, so it's not how things appear.

PhD-level education in the US seems to be worth it, because you get more resources than elsewhere in the world. Below that level, an education in the US is either social signaling, or a way to "have a foot in" to be able to work in the US afterwards.
Technically impressive, but what systems can render HTML and JS but not PDF?
This is covered very well (a long with many other neat algorithms) in The Computational Beauty of Nature[1], one of those books I keep coming back to

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/
Just to add to the compatibility list, all examples render perfectly on Opera 12, albeit a bit slow.
Android phones are iPhones that work
It comes down to why he did it.

He did it to, as far as I know, set the information free from the paywall. To release that information so anyone and everyone can access the research we'd already paid for.

A noble cause? yeah I think so.

I don't want to compare it to Ghandi's salt works but the comparison could be made. A stand against artificial restrictions on something that should be free or cheap for all.
That's not what I got. My understanding of the situation was that Google is saying Alibaba can't claim to be Android compatible if they are not. Alibaba is saying they are claiming no such thing, but their marketplace seems to not reflect that claim.

They aren't trying to prevent a competing OS at all.
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> If you believe a law needs to be changed, the way to get it changed is not to start breaking it.

On the contrary, history shows it to be one of the few effective methods.

You're saying that Rosa Parks was wrong when she refused to go to the back of the bus. The underground railroad was wrong for refusing to comply with fugitive slave laws. Ghandi was wrong for breaking the laws imposed by the British.

We live in a civilized society precisely because many people have disobeyed uncivilized laws. It's actually one of the hallmarks of our civilization that we can draw a distinction between what's right and what's legal.
> index only scans will do wonders for append-mostly workloads

Won't updates be actually slower once indexes are added to take advantage of index-only scans?

Another issue that I can see comes not from having the index-only scan feature (which is cool, though belated) but having a query planner intelligent enough to figure out which index to hit - ie query optimization.

If the columns used in WHERE clause do not contain the appropriate columns (particularly for non-clustered indexes), shouldn't index hints be supported to help pick up the relevant index or would we end up with horrible execution plans leading to tablescans?([1] - I see this as a case of devs overriding users)

[1]: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/why-postgresql-doe...
This is happening to an extent with the wide adoption of the Common Core. Unfortunately, at least with regard to math, this curriculum is not better than all of the state versions it's replacing. I'd rather see something like tying funding to evidence that a particular strategy might work.
Well, agree to disagree. I do not think breaking the law, bullying, protesting, etc are good ways to behave.
You might be interested in this other product that does what you're talking about: http://riftlabs.com/kick-overview-betterpics/ (it was also on Kickstarter).

I'm not affiliated with them, but I was super impressed and eagerly await buying a bunch.
Nissan offering 2x $50,000 to fund innovative ideas
This is just nonsense.

I work in enterprise and support/training is vital for maintaining 24/7 support coverage and ensuring that developers have the best knowledge from the vendor.
So you think that because some people are falsely accused - that the law is fallible - that it should be absolutely allowed for children to be exploited for the sake of others sexual titillation; give me a break.
Fine print is below, looks like Nissan will own the rights to anything you submit:

Grant of Usage Rights in Submissions:

By entering your Submission into the Innovation Garage, you grant to Nissan an irrevocable,
perpetual, transferable, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide, license (sub-licensable
through multiple tiers) to (a) use, copy, transmit, distribute, reproduce, modify, create
derivative works, adapt, combine with other ideas or works, publish, translate, publicly perform,
and publicly display your Innovation Garage Submission (or any modification thereto), in
whole or in part, in any format or medium now known or later developed and (b) use (and
permit others to use) your Innovation Garage Submission in any manner and for any purpose
(including, without limitation, commercial purposes) that Nissan deems appropriate in its
sole discretion (including, without limitation, to incorporate your Innovation Garage Submission
or any modification thereto, in whole or in part, into any vehicle, technology, product, or service).
It is Gandhi and not Ghandi.
Why are they prosecuting a man for publicly making available beneficial scientific knowledge that the public have effectively paid for? Is personal gain of a few companies really more important than education, and should it really be enshrined in law?
You sound like Mersault from Camus' The stranger
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I'm very impressed. Can you post some more examples online, some non-technical PDFs for example? I'm curious how well it does 'generic' PDFs (for example magazine layouts).
>the only thing it doesn't handle is the very lowest level network listening.

Which makes it a bit imprecise to call it a web server made with bash (as it requires netcat). I clicked on the title already wondering how would it be possible to open a socket with bash only.
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Wow, glad to see this space heating up with newcomers like Nimbus.io and Ceph at about half the cost per GB. This is huge for storage consumers.

Now there's S3, Rackspace, Google and MS on the "low latency" end. Then there's Amazon Glacier on the very very high latency (hours!) low cost side of the spectrum, with Nimbus.io and Dreamhost in the middle.
Well, the article does note that the documents were 'returned'...

>The indictment alleges that Swartz, at the time a fellow at Harvard University, intended to distribute the documents on peer-to-peer networks. That did not happen, however, and all the documents have been returned to JSTOR.

Should I infer from this that they were found by the swat team in a bag labeled 'Swag'?
I was brought up with somewhat of a southern baptist upbringing. My mother was a baptist and active in the church, as was I as a child, though she was not really very socially conservative. My father believes (when last I checked), but is not so much a supporter of organized religion. My husband falls into this same category.

I, on the other hand, am an atheist. My personal philosophies tend more toward secular humanism. I'm all for taking care of one another, just because it's the right thing to do. I think we have an obligation to one another to do so.

There are some Buddhist teachings that resonate well with me, but that's because they align with my sense of morals and ethics, not any sort of spiritual motivation.
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1) I don't think Aaron made more than six figures from Reddit. Soon after acquisition, he went on walkabout, and then he got canned. He probably got some money, but did not vest most of his share.

So, don't worry - he's poor enough for your pity and support.

2) As to your second line of thought, that we should punish him because he consciously broke the law... I disagree with anyone on this forum who says that Aaron didn't know the potential consequences of his actions, and therefore should not be punished. But I also disagree with you.

This was a victimless crime, and the only ones pursuing it are some relentless G-men. Where is the corporation or person that has been wronged? Who, in the public, wants to pillory Aaron? What did Aaron gain? Do we really need to make an example of him, so this doesn't happen again? Is this really good a use of taxes?

My reaction is just shame and disgust... I mean, really? This brilliant kid is going to jail because of civil disobedience? Just so we can show there is still a book than can be thrown?
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Ballmer trumpets Microsoft's 'epic year'
World Hunger, the Problem Left Behind
Thank you for the correction! Had I also recalled my 3/75 which was replaced by the SS1 I would have remembered the 80 vs the 60.
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That's beyond the scope of pdf2htmlEX.
A Ian Clarke put it: "It is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore dumb laws."

And I would add: if people didn't ignore dumb laws society would crawl to a halt and collapse.
But from what I've heard, their tests are more focused on demonstrating learning. The standardized tests I took (here in the US) were laughably easy and not always connected to actually learning anything.
I like it. Not that I want my entire house to be purple and green but they mentioned something about changing the light color when receiving a notification. I'm thinking it would be cool to have the light on my desk turn to red when Pingdom reports one of my websites offline. Or to have the lights flash red when my security cameras report motion.
If you like 37signals that much, you should take their advice and learn one very important skill: writing.

Not trying to be toxic, but that post is so badly written it hurt my eyes before I was able to grok the actual content…
Thank you. I think you made a good point - by not charging I may be actually making people skeptical. We even have a vibrant developer community on bots and extensions, but it's barely known (shit, I realized that it's not even mentioned on the top page). I'll have to come up with some turnaround ideas.
That is true but in the early years Sun was not a 'good' licensor since they seems to compete with anyone who tried to build one. Fujitsu was a success story and arguably made better high end SPARC chips than Sun did. ARM Holdings on the other hand doesn't make any hardware at all so they are completely motivated to have their licensees be successful.
> looked forward to meeting him

If the feds get their way you'll know exactly where to find him for the next 35 years.
I personally find that trying to optimize too much leaves me stuck in crummy local maxima. By the time you're attempting to use mathematics and modeling to determine the maximum return for happiness, you've lost sight of the bigger picture.
I had it in my wishlist for a while. You just made me buy it.
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Furthermore: http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/

(hey Rune!)
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Tried reading it again, ignoring the glaring typos and I'm now sure the content has nothing to do with the title. It's a quick/incomplete overview of Basecamp, with little information on how it does actually benefit startups.

PS: I'm a startup co-founder, we use Basecamp profusely and we love it.
From the prosecution's vantage point --- and please stop for a minute and consider that perspective even though there's no chance you'll agree with it --- this was not a victimless crime.

As the prosecution sees it, Aaron broke into a service and took information that JSTOR charges 5 figures for access to with the intent of putting it on a file sharing network and thus destroying the commercial value of that information. If you read the indictment, the prosecution's vantage point seems to show that Aaron did this with the intention of destroying the commercial value of the information, because he opposes the commercialization† of that kind of information.

The prosecution's charge is that Aaron deliberately set out to harm an organization because they were incompatible with his own ideology.

† JSTOR is a nonprofit but you get the drift
He would've got more donations had he put the papers he downloaded online sooner, rather than get busted with 4 million. A journalleaks site would be much more useful than wikileaks.
I don't know about the GPU, my impression was that it was competitive (the single-channel memory interface probably doesn't help), but otherwise that's spot on. It really seemed to be a design whose main goal was to have the most cores for marketing purposes.

And of course they launched on a process that was just about to become obsolete, and haven't been able to do a shrink. Not sure why, though. Complications with the companion core? Just NVidia's general inability to get 28nm to work?

(Commercially it didn't help that they were unable to get access to a competitive LTE modem. That meant there was no shot at the US phone market. But that's not particularly a failing of NVidia, everyone but Qualcomm has that problem.)
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I think you're being a little overly pedantic.
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I put that restriction because it's the only country I know how sending/receiving money works. (and the taxes I'll have to pay). Also, I'm always around and I could help personally.
> Personally I've decided that life is absolutely meaningless

but then!

> I wouldn't risk your life or hurt yourself to figure this out

why not? life IS meaningless after all, unless you're trying to imply that there is something more important than life...?
They own "a" right, not "the rights". At any rate, it means that they can implement any submitted idea without compensation or award to any person.

The idiocy with this agreement is that it says "fully paid", and without any renumeration actually getting paid to you, that test fails. Irrespective of that idiocy, even if "fully paid" is struck, it's irrevocable, so you could find yourself losing AND in a lawsuit with Nissan over the priority of rights, yours versus theirs.
There is virtually no chance Swartz is going to spend time in prison. People convicted of far more malicious computer frauds have spent minimal (and sometimes no) time in prison.

Swartz, on the other hand, is a young, successful first-time offender.

I know it makes the story a lot more boring to talk about when the only consequences are financial and reputational, but consider that perhaps when you talk about Swartz spending "35 years" in federal prison, you are being ghoulish.
In Australia where in many ways it felt like we were second-hand consumers of UK rave/dnb culture, the "digital" was a big part of that experience in the early 90s.

Think of all the newsgroups, mailing lists and blogs. Think hyperreal.org and the community around all that.

The music itself may not have spread digitally as we saw from the mid-90s onwards, but discussion of the music certainly did.
If you don't get enough responses here, you could always try offering this to any popular open-source project on Github.
The prosecution's perspective is warped by incentives - we should never care about how prosecutors feel or think - they are just tools of the people. Prosecutors need convictions, promotions, and press to succeed at their jobs. At this point, it's not JSTOR who wants this case prosecuted, it's just government agents. And they are just going through the motions.

It may be up to a jury to do the right thing - they stand a better change of being unbiased, thankfully for Aaron.
I wish someone would make a KickStarter for legal stuff.

I've seen enough of these that it could be a real business. (Ex: help pay for a defense against some government intrusion, or RIAA overreaching, or to bring a case to challenge an unconstitutional statute, or to overturn a dumb pantent, or whatever).

It could even evolve into a platform for the political moneybomb we've seen before. (A bounty for the first person to introduce some bill, for example: patent reform.)
I've seen the same thing. I really never could get into LinkedIn. I have an account and I rarely if ever use it. I don't see how it's social. That is to say, if it's about making connections in terms of career opportunities then I can use Facebook or Twitter to do that though I'll admit it's not exactly the same experience but still doable. The problem, for me at least, is that I'm not constantly looking to make career changes or network in those terms as often as I'd socialize on another social network. Much of my professional connections come from doing business with people offline and in person meetings. For me, LinkedIn is good for when someone meets you for a second then looks me up later on LinkedIn to sell me something or connect in a way that usually feels forced and spammy.

But that's my personal experience. I have a handful of friends who take it seriously and say its quite helpful for networking so maybe my experience is not normal. I'm curious about others. Has LinkedIn served the purpose it set out to serve? I also wonder if your location matters. For instance if you're in the SV area I'm betting people are more likely to use it more often and find it useful but what about those in other parts of the country/world? I'm in Chicago, the third largest city in the US (should be number 2 but LA seems to include its suburbs as part of the city for some reason), and I just described my experience with it. Is that typical for people outside the Valley or is my experience just atypical?
Ask HN: Product launch strategy? 
Is there a tried and tested software product launch strategy? Are there people for hire who work with startups on this?

I've read those hack the press posts, but there's got to be more to it than just the press. Right?
Intel demos 7Gbps wireless docking
It's to counter the needless and destructive megapixel race in phones. Until they get their claws on something truly gamechanging like Pureview they need to train their customers to talk about camera quality, not megapixellage.
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I'm going to post this because I genuinely hope to get some feedback ....

I absolutely hate the saying "you only regret the things you didn't do when you die not the things you did". Really? I suspect some aids victims regret things they did. I'm guessing meth addicts also regret somethings they did. I don't see how this cliche helps you decide what to do and what to avoid.

For a less dramatic example my father recommends choosing a high paying job that is not so interesting over a more risky job that's more fun. His experience is he took the a risky job, though whether it was fun or not I don't know, the risk didn't pan out. Now he's 69 and driving a delivery truck because he can't afford to retire.

It would be nice to hear more failure stories to contrast with success stories
Firefox and IE on Windows.
Didn't he write a blog post about having "fuck you money" a few years ago? I can't find it now.
It's true I'm overloading the term. Originally we were talking about DRM as an excuse for piracy; my point was that the inconvenience and restriction is all over the market, not just on an album.

That particular case was years ago, and the only time we've brushed with the RIAA. We're a very small operation and didn't bother to get lawyers involved. Paying royalties wasn't something we'd consider as the work is only superficially related to the original (by my reckoning), riding the line between parody and fundamental re-interpretation. I feel the IP test for such works is unethically restrictive and greedy.
I think the most interesting aspect of this case is that JSTOR is not pressing any sort of civil charges. In fact, they said Aaron's actions urged them to expedite something they were planning on doing anyways.

For this reason I am happy to help how I can
Apart from when you're on red hat or a derived distro, where the command would need to be "#!/bin/env bash"...
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How about ddshttpd (http://dd-sh.intercal.org.uk/web-server/)? A web server written using only sh(1), dd(1), and echo(1). It even supports running server side scripts ("ddsh-bin") and setting content type based on file extension.

I'm somewhat saddened to see that they don't own dd.sh domain anymore. It was at least twice as cute as no.de is :)
The conclusion that life is meaningless, is meaningless as well. That means you can live life however you want, without bearing much importance to that conclusion.
Would anyone care to explain roughly what it does?
In practice, modern phone SoCs are fast enough for most purposes. It's not like the 4S (or even the half-again-as-fast 4) are slow. A great improvement won't really make too much difference to most users. Smartphone cameras, on the other hand, are still somewhat lacking and an improvement will benefit most users substantially.