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Why would people use PC'S when they can hook a keyboard to their ipad and get the same functionality?
I guess it just means ones that people can answer for themselves in this context? Almost the opposite of what it usually means.
The vast majority being 75% ( http://www.csun.edu/~vmd53178/misconceptions.htm )

Which still leaves a quarter of suicides by those not clinically depressed. Hence my argument that generalising depression as the cause of suicide without knowing the individuals involved is a gross generalisation that is in itself offensive to the 25% who are not depressed.

I've known two people reasonably well who committed suicide. One was a family member, the other a good friend. Neither was clinically depressed, or even occasionally so.

Both had attempted to have rational discussions on it in the many months and years before... hence my question: Why is it that we can't seem to have rational discussions on suicide?
I never said it did. We can debate about whether he's innocent or not; what sentence he deserves (if he's guilty); what tactics are ok by the justice dept; whether his activities should be illegal at all; etc, etc, etc.

But the things we do know about what happened, that are not an individuals opinion... we don't get to change those just to make it more convenient to create the narrative we want.
From the outside, JSTOR looks "as bad" as the other academic journal publishers.

They really aren't.

I'm no fan of the copyright cabals and the continued locking away of academic publications from public view. JSTOR is a non-profit that charges relatively low fees to academic reusers for work that is not financially particularly valuable (it's mostly humanities stuff; pharmaceutical companies and technology researchers aren't desperate to read back issues of the British Journal of Philosophy of Science), and they are digitising old, obscure and non-English papers.

They are providing a very valuable service at a reasonable price for academic libraries. The restrictions being placed on the content is just part of the way that academic publishing works. JSTOR have done a bargain with the publishers and scholarly societies because they believe that getting the content scanned and online is more important than making sure there is complete public access to that content.

They are working as best as they can within the constraints of the academic system. If you want to hate on the academic system, the commercial publishers are far more deserving of your ire. The commercial publishers are charging extortionate amounts to academic libraries to sell papers back to the people who wrote them.

Eliminate the bigger for-profit journal publishers and you'll force an economic change on all of academic publishers. The whole system is at fault: don't hate the player, hate the game.
Replacing Office is really the fatal blow, and that's where I wonder when we'll see someone like Dell or HP selling a cheap, business class iMac-like running Android on Arm in an effort to restore margins on high volume business channel sales. The obvious drop-in replacement in that case is Google Apps, and I'm sure Google would be happy to partner with an OEM to develop such a complete device.

The trick there is that the OEM needs to feel like MS won't or can't crush them. The aura of invulnerability of MS has to be broken, and when I look at the extended pratfall that is Windows phone and tablet, I can't help but think that OEM execs are feeling a bit drooly.
> I think the idea is that instead of using the current journal system...professors will post straight to Academia and bypass publishers altogether

This might work in fields where there is more collaboration than competition, such as most of physics, but it won't work in the biomedical sciences. People want and need to publish in high impact, well-established journals. That's just the reality for now.
When I first heard about this I was really excited, but then I realized that if I dropped or lost my phone, my entire environment would be gone. What do you think about that issue?

I think I'd still do it, but I'd really like to have some sort of automatic sync to another hard disk. Maybe when I plug it into my desktop docking station, it would automatically sync everything to the hard disk I have there. That would really be the best of both worlds. (I seem to recall some Ubuntu feature like that, but I don't remember the details.)
Many of Google's digital works aren't freely available, so I'm not sure where you're going with this.
blog author here, feel free to direct any questions into this thread since I'm a Hacker News addict^H^H^H^H^H^Hregular.

Access to various bits of I2C hardware probably limit the usefulness of this specific post to a narrow audience, but I should be writing a lot more about various bits of code I've done to get pure Go talking to linux at a low level -- framebuffer writing via /dev/fb, input handling of mice, touchpads, touchscreens, keyboards, etc via reading /dev/input/*, etc.

(All part of a vague New Years resolution to blog more and get more public code out there, since I've been tinkering on this stuff a lot privately for the past 8 months or so).
>The executives of the institution still get paid...

God forbid. I hear they even pay their other employees.

>I don't know much about JSTOR, but I know the IEEE (for example) can be a good bunch of sharks. In the past, they forced you to hand them your copyright for the privilege of publishing your work in their journals, and proceeded to go after you if you committed the cardinal sin of distributing your own papers through your research website. They also put your work behind a 30$ paywall without, of course, giving you a dime.

I have yet to hear about a similar story with JSTOR, so I'm not sure how that's relevant.
> what phrase is appropriate to describe Saturday’s jaw-dropping reading of 755 at 8 p.m., when all of Beijing looked like an airport smokers’ lounge?

I was there. The truth is, it doesn't just _look_ like an smokers' lounge.
A docking station is almost redundant for most phones and tablets. You can already use bluetooth to attach a keyboard and/or pointing device. All you need now is a way to wirelessly connect to a video display, preferably in a way that supports touch. This can't be far off, with apps like Photobeamer, Apple's constantly improving multimedia sharing between devices, etc.

I'd love to see the day where I can just drop my phone on a wireless charger at home or work and share the screen with a bigger display and other nearby peripherals without needing to invest in one or more docking stations. Who needs more technorubble?
The original argument was that JSTOR is doing the service of digitizing many papers that are out of copyright, but otherwise not available in electronic form. And if it wasn't for them charging access for this, then the work wouldn't be done. I was pointing out that Google is doing the same thing, and NOT charging for access where possible (i.e., the out-of-copyright works).
You guys are vastly oversimplifying this whole thing. The only reason JSTOR gets access to these documents in the first place is because of licensing agreements with the publishers.

You can try and a start a company that gives it all away for free, but you're not going to be given access to any documents or you'll be sued for releasing the ones you don't have rights to.

This is not as simple as "Just throw that stuff up on a Torrent and we're good to go".
I live here, and I have to say this, the air even tastes awful!

It's weirdly interesting to look outside and to see the streets almost empty and the darkened sky at noon.

It was worse from Friday to Saturday, but is still pretty bad. People were warned to stay inside and some schools won't function tomorrow.

According to the weather forecast it will only get better around Wednesday; when it will get a bit windy.
My email is in my profile, drop me a line.

I live and work in London, I lived on the streets for a while, I have a shit family (which I frequently regard as no family)... and ultimately, I have the same plan but constantly deferred as I also seem to have a qualitative view of life and an appreciation for the simple things... I've found peace enough that today is a day worth living and tomorrow worth waking up to. It's years since the bad stuff, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I also am a programmer, have a startup (own company), and if you need to talk to someone who might comprehend, I'll do that. Won't try and talk you out of the plan, because it's my plan too... but there's a lot of reason not to execute the plan today, tomorrow. Take each day like that and you can get a lot from life.

Oh, and startups... I know mine doesn't watch the clock on employee hours, but then I'm busy coding Sunday evening. It's possible to find a stable job that helps you transition through the addictions into stability.
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Yeah they could answer them by themselfs. We are making ChilledLime to help people who can't decide on their own!

(Here is the scenario:
You are at a sports store and you see 3 sneakers you really like but not sure which one you want so.

- You pop open your "ChilledLime" app (it sorta looks like instagram)

- You pick number of sides to your discussion (In this case 3)

- You can simply add the sneakers and then post

- You can also select the camera icon

So you take lets say 3 consecutive shots each for the sneakers.

Then you wait for opinions of the ChilledLime community. )
>I would personally be ready to donate 100$ immediately.

Then you should have no problem paying the fee.
What if I lost my laptop? My laptop might be more expensive, but cos isn't the factor in why I'm more careful with it (as it's insured); I just really don't want to lose my setup. If you're phone becomes more important through elevated use aren't you naturally going to become more protective?
Simple - For a PC, the keyboard is something that is a part of the PC itself. For an iPad, it becomes an accessory and also most probably expensive (a good one). Hence it's not a popular option.

2)The actual applications themselves. Most of the PC users are also developers. So let's say I have to use WAMP to install Wordpress or Drupal on localhost. This becomes a nightmare on an iPad, if not almost impossible.

3)The range of applications for PRODUCERS (content producers). Content is King. And content producers are king-makers. So, tell me how can I do something that I can do with Photoshop (advanced editing, etc.), illustrator, 3d Studio max, etc.

4) Performance - a PC is also a DIY machine. If I want more performance, I add more RAM. If I want to do graphics n stuff, I add a high-performance graphics adapter, If I want more space, I add a 2TB hard-disk. Tell me how will you achieve ANY of these with an iPad. The last time I heard, you couldn't even change the battery, unless you were a service technician of some sort.
I had the misfortune of having a wannabe-politician as prosecutor going after me. She didn't care that I was a first time offender, and she could care less about the destruction to my profession and my ability to support my family. I was lucky enough to have a judge who had the sense to realize what was going on, and a lawyer who, due to the simplicity of the case, didn't bankrupt me.
I'll never forget looking into the prosecutors eyes as she treated me like anything but a human being, and tried to needlessly destroy my life. Had she succeeded in her stated goals, I would have lost my job at a time when I couldn't possibly afford to. My consequences for my infant son and stay-at-home wife gave her zero pause, but thankfully the judge saw me as a human being, and was intelligent enough to conduct an instant cost/benefit analysis for society in her head.

I seriously doubt that any of this is unique to a few prosecutors. At the end of the day, their incentives are not for the social good. Individually, they want a flawless record as a victor, costs to their victims be damned.
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Same here.. I'd definitely like to buy Stevan a beer to find out whats happened.

In meantime I raise my glass (again [1]) for all his great work on Moose and hope that p5-mop does make it into Perl core and/or he manages to make Moe a success.

[1] - http://stevan-little.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/moose-100-is-rel...
johngalt didn't mention a mouse, you did. I think when we get larger touchscreens the mouse may indeed become obsolete. (I'm looking forward to it; I never had any love for that form of input.) But a keyboard will continue to be useful for anyone who has to write more than 2 paragraphs in a sitting. That's most office workers. Also, a reporter, marketer, investor or designer (to name a few example non-code jobs) can hardly do their work on a 3 to 4 inch screen.
But large businesses represents less than 50% of the GDP (of either the U.S. or Europe).

Contrarily to popular belief the real backbone of the economy is not "corporate america". They're just very vocal.

Think of it this way: BlackBerry was still ruling king in the corporate world (with some companies buying thousands of BlackBerries at once for their employees) and yet everybody knew the writing was on the wall: nothing would stop the iPhone and Android. What's the result now? Employees are crying to use their iPhone and Android phones at work and so they're allowed to.

I'm sure, say, corporate America is still high on Excel and Powerpoint and Exchange... But that is not exactly helping Microsoft deal with the fact that year-to-year sales of PCs worlwide have dropped 3.5% from 2011 to 2012 while, meanwhile, smartphones and tablets sales have skyrocketed.
I guess I'm late to this? It hits the sorry page and then redirects to another project.
Things are easier now thanks to academia.edu (which lets you add papers to your research profile), but a fair number of researchers I know of don't even have a personal website.

Also, having worked on websites to do with research projects, I can say there is unfortunately often a hell of a lot of red tape in getting anything going. One website hasn't been officially changed since 2003 despite a dev wordpress site being made in 2009 as they aren't allowed to change it over until all the department groups names are verified … and they keep changing do to restructuring!
This is about making a virtue out of necessity. There is no way a small player launching a native SDK now can attract enough developers to not look like a total joke beside Android and iOS (or even Windows Phone).

Mozilla controls and understands the vital parts of their platform, their rendering engine and JS VM, they can concentrate their work on making them performant enough to compete and making sure that the long run will come sooner rather than later.

So yeah, I'm impressed by them having a narrow focus and playing to their strengths rather than making something that is just like Android, only with no apps.
>By sharing shortened links on twitter, you're not dealing with one man-in-the-middle, but two: Your own shortening service and Twitter's t.co shortener.

does Twitter shorten links that have already been shortened? Seems strange
Her draconian bullying of Aaron Swartz led to his death. He positive contributions to the world vastly outweigh hers. Her actions are morally unacceptable. Her actions are unworthy of America and the State of Massachusetts. She is a monument to the suppression of freedom. She is a monster. She must step down or be fired.
He's replying to a comment that said their help line was taken down. That's not a technology problem, and I fail to see how an engineer or computer science grad would have better tackled that issue.
That seems exceedingly clever -- too clever. I'd make some of that functionality a named function and call it from my callback. It took me way too long to figure out what your code did.
Got some hijackers who want to get the traffic for themselfs.

UPDATE: Fixed it.
Got rid of the hackers!
"Just a hot headline. Nothing will happen."

By that logic wouldn't we all still be using series S40 Nokia phones and Windows laptop?
You know what would (probably) really be a tribute to Aaron Swartz?

Run a Tor exit node in an academic network that is blessed by JSTOR, Springer, etc.

Make a website that surveys which exit nodes are in these blessed networks and turns any URL for a paywall into a rendering using that exit node to access the paywall.

Let professors, students, and staff stand with Aaron by running exit nodes that are configured to only connect to paywalls on their systems.
I've been doing this on and off, and encouraging some colleagues to do so as well. You can't mass-upload a ton of articles without attracting unwanted attention, but you can throw up a few interesting articles in unsecured directories. People do it accidentally all the time (Google Scholar finds lots of stuff from course wikis and accidentally open directory listings and such), so you could do it "accidentally" as well.

It's also a minor way to have some influence on what gets read and cited. A lot of academics have a favorite classic paper they feel is unjustly underappreciated in their field. Why not put it online? Getting the paper into Citeseer and Google Scholar, where someone might stumble across it, is a small way to help promote underappreciated work. An underappreciated paper nobody can find is going to stay underappreciated!
One reason is that some journals require you to transfer copyright to them as a condition for publication. Usually, the journals then license the paper back to the corresponding author for limited personal distribution, but sometimes it may be the case that posting your research on your website would be a violation of copyright.

For an example, here's the transfer form for the American Chemical Societies journals: http://pubs.acs.org/page/copyright/journals/index.html (the ACS has historically been one of the bigger roadblocks, along with Elsevier, to more OpenAccess reform).
I definitely agree that having the same OS on your phone and desktop has a lot of potential.

But calling Win8 'amazing' on the desktop is a bit too much. It's about the same as Win7, with faster boot times and those kind-of-out-of-place Metro apps.

On a tablet, or on a laptop with a touch screen, on the other hand, then it is not bad after you get used to it.
It's still not as available as grabbing a piece of paper when nobody is watching.
I'm testing the waters with a Windows 8 phone, which I bought after unintentionally checking it out while looking for a new Android to replace my old one. I did due diligence and checked online reviews first, which unanimously recommended not buying it because there weren't enough apps and it was too heavy (Nokia Lumia 920). But I was struck by how overwhelmingly owners of the phone in the comments loved it. It's only been a few weeks, but I don't regret it. I might even consider getting a Windows 8 tablet with a keyboard case, I find the interface so intriguing.
I admire your courage!

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Game engines are more and more being developed to support mobile and traditional profiles, so they write to opengl, not directX.

Game engines have long supported OpenGL. Mobile profiles are now more common, but if your argument is that DirectX is no longer relevant because of OpenGL -- this arguably would have happened a long time ago. Game engines were probably some of the first to support the OpenGL (even before DX and D3D became relevant).

I fully expect initiatives like Shield, Ouya, and Steambox to take away huge chunks of the market from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

Steambox stands a chance if they do exclusives on their platform of things like HalfLife and Portal.

Shield doesn't look particularly more inviting than the PSVita. I think the dedicated portable game device is probably dead.

Ouya -- breakout success for them would be getting 1% of the market. Which they may get. It'll be niche at best.

I will let you know right now what can totally change the tide in gaming... Oculus Rift (and VR headset in general). Seems easier to pull off then the MS Illumiroom and would provide a more immersive scenario. If a platform can pull this off at a reasonable pricepoint ($99/headset max) -- I predict they win.
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Yes, it was threatened. Not convicted or sentenced. Not held up on appeal, much less tested in court in the first place.
I was there last week, and still can't believe how bad it is. How can China allow this level of pollution? It is not the cars, but the coal that is doing it to the city. I hope China can find a way to create energy and produce goods without such bad pollution. Beijing, and China, would be a much better place to live it only had clean air to breath on a regular basis. Here is to clean energy!
From what I've heard, the main issue with OS X is with Chinese input. MS seems to do a much better job there.

I haven't tried writing in Chinese in a Mac though, so I can't say much there. But on Windows it works quite nicely (from the point of view of a foreigner trying to learn the language).
Aaron Swartz's family condemns MIT and US government after his death
Voice recognition and predictive text have progressed very well. Despite the challenges posed by group settings, there are plenty of people who would turn to dictation if it freed them from the tyranny of the keyboard ("You want me to type 2 paragraphs? By hand?").
I assume you mean "our business" = tech, programming, web, etc. but lots more people in nearly all businesses write a lot of text in the course of their day.

For example, marketing, communications, senior executives in almost every industry, sales ... these people write a lot of text in email or document form every day.
I'm (very) annoyed that I had to link the account to Facebook. I tried clicking "skip this" (or equivalent) but that link didn't work.
They asked the libraries. The analogy would be complete if Google had gone into the libraries uninvited and started scanning.
Oh, I see - you're clicking "Continue", which simply revives your character. If you want a hard reset, as in starting from scratch (deleting your tasks and restoring your tokens), which is discouraged really, you have to click "Reset" from the account dropdown top-right.
Thanks so much, really appreciated.
Every third image skipped back to the first when trying to use the right-arrow.

And the next image was missing half the time.

I did not make it to the end.
Is it all just from vehicles? Quick fix would be subsidised electric vehicles.
Thanks for the reply, but I already made it clear that I don't agree with how the case was handled. My only objection us that the analogy has a pretty big hole.
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Why help one specific of billion people escape from hell? Sounds a bit intolerant.

The only lasting solution is to fix the hell.
That and Manhattan wages for their staff.
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Be careful with JS numbers
I had the privilege of seeing Salopek announce the project at the Knight Civic Media conference, and based on his presentation I can tell you that he is not taking this lightly. This isn't a project that he decided to do on a whim without evaluating the risks. This is a very well-planned, calculated project that desires to not only be fascinating, but also to make a statement on journalism itself. He won't compromise the integrity of it. Of course, there will be people aiding him along the way out of necessity (translators, guides, etc), but I guarantee you there won't be a helicopter or truck involved.
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