skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few academic journals have professional editors.

In most cases the journals are edited by the same people who write for them, for free (sometimes there'll be a pittance salary, but it's not enough to quit your day job by any means).

The "incomprehensible gibberish" is, in general, fully comprehensible by their intended audience, which is other academics working in the same field.

Here's how the model works:

1) Academic writes the article, supported by taxpayer funding, or a grant from a foundation, or whatever.
2) Academic submits the article to the journal, where it is peer-reviewed and edited by other academics.
3) None of these academics get paid a cent for their work (other than the aforementioned public funding). In specific, the journal publisher doesn't pay them anything. Some of them even CHARGE the author.
4) The journal publisher then sells the result for hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year.

Nice gig for the publishers. Less so for the academics and the taxpayers.

This model made a certain degree of sense back when journals had to be printed (short print runs are expensive, especially stuff with lots of diagrams, weird equations, foreign languages, etc. as journal articles tend to be), then physically distributed by paper mail to institutions all over the world.

That's no longer the case.
PG: Is trying to sneak unwanted software onto people's computers really something to invest in?
How to steal someone’s watch
They have removed the article:

"We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads."
I will believe it when they start making money available, being an Ontario based business in the GTA owned by a white male non minority not in the middle of the sticks.... youre gonna be out of luck.

I went through no less than 50 funds available for companies in Ontario and didnt qualify for a single one. Yet, if I was in North West Territories and native... I would have millions at my disposal.
Not to mention that a conviction under some of the charges he faced no doubt would have come with punitive terms that would bar him from computer and telecom use for many years beyond his actual sentence as terms of probation. For someone who grew up on the net, for whom much of his social support structure existed through virtual relationships, for whom identity and livelihood are defined by having access to these means of communication--the potential of that must have been a devastating prospect.
So it's a forum, that literally brings nothing new in terms of features?
This is unfortunately true.

Crypto-anarchism is fairly unique though in an important way. It does not require approval and the technologies that are created by self-described crypto-anarchists can (ideally) be used by anybody, not just those who are also interested in self-identifying as something so weird and fringey.

Hell, you can even create technologies that don't even need to be used by the general public for the general public to benefit from them. Firesheep is a fine example of such software; a few years ago most sites were wide open to that attack but after the release of an exploit with a slick interface and some effective publicity, most social networking sites tightened up their ship. Sure, it is questionable what good this really does against a government like the US, but people in other parts of the world surely benefit.

Your parents need never respect, understand, nor even hear of crypto-anarchy in order for it to have a positive effect on the world. It has the potential to do good without requiring ideological buy-in from the masses.
Who's to say that code isn't the tenth iteration? Especially given the context of the discussion...
Agreed, although I believe there a technological and societal reasons why crypto-anarchism could become a reality regardless of populist support.
That is a much better title. The new one provides no context or help. I know it's branch because the URL is right next to the title.
Good suggestion, it's definitely something we are on the fence about. I think "Alias" is better but it also made some of the copy sound a little confusing.
Storing and reading the configuration from Redis will be slower at runtime, but should scale more easily for a large number of hosts and be much more responsive than using Puppet or Chef. I recommend choosing either solution based on the number of hosts and rate of change.
Plea Bargaining and Torture in light of the Aaron Swartz case
And what's more, it's entirely possible to feel that Aaron's actions actually were wrong and yet still feel that the prosecution was overbearing.
Undercover with the neo-Nazis
Go talk to someone who edits academic journals and brace yourself for the rant that follows. Journal submissions are generally poorly organized, full of citation errors, full of grammatical and spelling errors, etc. It is not a case of researchers submitting perfect prose that the editors simply collate into a PDF and call it a day. Moreover, journals serve a valuable advertising/branding function for researchers, essentially putting their brands behind the work. The phrase "A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine" carries a very different weight than "a study posted on some professor's blog".
You can also use a custom DNS resolver with Nginx, and point it to a tool like DNSMasq or PowerDNS [1].

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#resolver
> In a significant majority of cases where fathers
> contest custody, children go with the father.

I have a fair amount of familiarity with family law (not a lawyer though) and I have to say this is hard to fathom. To my knowledge fathers have to basically prove gross negligence or substance abuse or other criminal activity by the mother in order to stand a chance of winning physical custody. It is generally presumed that kids are better off with the mother and any father seeking custody needs to prove otherwise. Having better finances usually doesn't factor into the decision AFAIK -- if the father has better finances to support the child, he can do so with child support.
Aaron Swartz & Taryn Simon (2011) - Art/Tech Tag Team
Rhizome Seven on Seven Conference took place on April 14th 2012 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Rhizome's Seven on Seven conference pairs seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenges them to develop something new—be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine—over the course of a single day.
Iirc, there are even official guides or laws about distinguishing an advertorial from content.

In TIME magazine, each page is clearly marked 'advertisement' at the top, and the fonts and styling are typically distinct from normal articles.
More Edward Tufte.
Realize who your core target audience is, what they try to do and make it work effortlessly for them.
python one works fine for me. I tried tar xf on a zip file and it didn't work?
You've raised several points.

I grant that a $19 article may represent subsidization in their system, but argue that they have an ethical obligation derived from their position as a steward to make the components of that price transparent.

It's my understanding that universities pay significant amounts for site licenses and that general public purchases do not subsidize that access.

By perpetuating a watermark or attribution on a public domain work digitized by JSTOR, are we as a society not implicitly granting JSTOR a right on the work which it ought not have? Digitization is a one-time salvage operation. Should we conflate it with copyright through watermarks?

Regarding JSTOR, journals, and non-public-domain works -- that is a private property matter. They ought to be able to charge what the market will bear.
You're basically saying that the ends justify the means. You may believe that (we probably all do, for some ratio of ends:means) but please keep in mind that the legal system does not believe that in general, as that logic has often been perverted in our history.
They're most likely talking about the article's own comment thread, as opposed to discussion across the web.
I wonder how many subscribers and advertising clients threatened (or did) pull their funding of The Atlantic?

The the time I saw it hit front page here, to now hasn't been that long. Must have hurt their bottom line.
Sigh. It is getting very old to see HN comments degenerating into Techdirt/Reddit/Torrentfreak level hyperbole any time a perceived injustice story is in the news and when it involves the US government, the entertainment industry or any other entity that isn't 100% in the "information wants to be free" boat.
To the HN elite (edw519 and tptacek): good on you for commenting on almost every thread, it's gotten you the most 'karma' possible.

Unfortunately, it means that when you jump into a new thread and contravene your other clearly-stated positions, it's a rather transparent attempt to get more attention.

You're not part of Aaron's family, you're not related, and your own words were pretty clear as to what you thought about the guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484.

For the love of all things good, can people who didn't care in the first place about Aaron or his cause stop their fake sympathy now that he is dead? I didn't do anything for him either, but not going to cry any crocodile tears to show everyone how politically aware and smart I am.
I guess everyone can stop hyperventilating.

I subscribe to The Atlantic's Kindle version for (a shockingly cheap) $3 a month. Maybe it's $2? I don't know. I have also subscribed to The New Yorker but always had trouble finishing an issue. Most of the material just didn't resonate with me.

The Atlantic, however, is everything I could want in a rag. I love it, and I'm happy to see them suspend this piece of ill-thought out advertising...
Or the sensibilities of their editorial staff, some of whom may not have even known about it until it went out.

Damage is already done, though.
Hmm good point, I'm taking notes from this one.
Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt
Is Google lying in its own ad?
While unfortunate they ran the ad in the first place, it's worth noting that it was pulled down within 3 hours.
(rewritten to remove snideness)

I know people who edit academic journals, and have published in them myself.

Your claim that editorial costs are what drives journal prices is completely without merit.

Few journals below the level of, say, Nature, have paid staff, and few academics would tolerate major rewrites of their work by an editor anyway.
I've been practicing psychonautics and freeganism.

The problem is, and I believe this applies to equally Buddhism: _Why should we have to go this far?_ I cannot have a polite conversation about psychonautics with most everyone, but if not for the research done into this field, I'd still be suffering from terrible pain and misery.

Most people will not understand mysticism. Telling someone "try mysticism" is about as helpful as "get a job." Hackers being "high risk" makes sense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0XK9yMAxPk, and I think that applies here more so than some philosophical system.

I myself have been royally blasted by our industrial-capitalist complex. Jail, abusive/manipulative family, poor, mother ridden with terminal illness and hospital bills, and quite honestly -- "African American"; even now I no longer can define myself as this term, preferring the term "elf." But even this offsets me socially. The things we have to do to attain happiness and integrity of identity in this country installs a sense of guilt and engenders neurosis. Even to today I have had to swallow racial slurs and comments, just to fit into a cultural system of computer scientists/programmers. I am constantly seeing how rigid and inorganic this ethnic group is; and it is somewhat terrifying. (All I can really defend this point with is: _Have you had to deal with racism on a daily basis? If you cannot say 'yes,' then I cannot truly explain this problem to you. It's similar to the points Colin Powell makes when he recants the GOP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ8ZWWceTL0 -- his points really just set the stage for just how systematically impoverished our country is ethnically).

Often it is simply unfair, and the system is constructed to where one cannot appeal to the sympathies of the majority of the population. Most denizens are prepared to employ defensive tactics like "but at least you can vote!" or "at least you're not in the Congo!", etc. It's simply unhelpful to the dialogue here.
My biggest issue with both of those studies, is that they involve self reports with respect to bystander involvement in an emergency. I can think of few other issues in social psychology in which self reporting is going to be wildly out of touch with reality. The only other area in which I can see self reporting being even further out of turn with reality is the subject of conformity. The biggest factor influencing bystander involvement in an emergency is actual experience or training in handling such emergencies and how to resolve them. If you want bystanders to identify a real rape and have them intervene, then you need to train them to identify the difference between consensual sex and non-consensual sex and then train them on the best course of action to stopping the act in question and reporting it. There are numerous examples of studies in social psychology where people self report that they would do X and when put in that exact situation in an experimental setting actually end up doing Y. Situations where the subject is a bystander are among the most notorious for their disconnect between reality and self-reports.

Any study that measures the real impact of porn is going to involve measuring real incidents of rape witnessed or committed by a statistically significant population or porn viewers. Barring actual incident levels, this is crappy research. Asking questions like "Have you ever witnessed a rape in progress? And if so, did you do anything to report it or stop it?" and comparing those numbers to porn viewing habits would be far more valuable. At least in that case it ceases to be based on self-reports of behavior in hypothetical situations and is instead based on correlation of historical fact with porn habits.

Lastly, and I know this is an ad hominem attack, but judging by John Foubert's other research interests, I'd consider his rape research to be tainted and likely to be skewed in favor of demonstrating correlation where there isn't one or demonstrating correlation which is of no consequence but is sensational. Judging by several of his other published papers, Christianity and Spirituality primary areas of research for him. This puts him among a group of people who are impartial and very likely have an agenda with respect to the issue of pornography. ref:
http://okstate.academia.edu/JohnFoubert

Do you have any research that compares actual incidents of rape and porn?
I think the authors misunderstand the art of teaching in some fundamental ways. While discussing the many obstacles to entering the teaching profession mid-career, for example, they claim that courses on adolescent development or lesson planning are of "questionable value ore relevance to STEM education" and go on to suggest that mastery in one's subject area (in this case, engineering), is equatable to being qualified to teach.

The fact is, one needs to learn how to teach effectively. While having great command over your subject area is certainly important, a deep understanding of child or adolescent development and the tools of the trade (lesson planning, assessment techniques, educational technology) are equally important.
3-D Printing Technology May Bring New Industrial Revolution
Tracking wire/mail fraud (interstate financial fraud, for the most part) was actually their original purpose. When a presidential protection unit was first being put together, the FBI didn't exist yet, so the Secret Service was the only police agency under Federal control, and they got the protection detail as a kind of side job. These days, they're best known as bodyguards, but they still have their original mission to deal with.
Besides the other points made it can prevent usage of const.
For me, external documentation is the absolute worst scenario. It takes me at least 4 times longer to read through and understand code without comments explaining in English what's going on. Here's a real-life example:

// Toggle between Dropdown and Text
if(_protected.fields[field].fieldType() === "Dropdown") {
_protected.fields[field].set("fieldType", "Text");
} else {
_protected.fields[field].set("fieldType", "Dropdown");
}

I think it would take me about 4 seconds to figure out that this code "toggles between Dropdown and Text" if the comment weren't there. Since the comment is there, I can just glance at the code and understand immediately what it does.
Things change quickly.

[This message from the Adverb Defence League]
Rust is pretty much exactly what a lot of people want and need; a high level language with a strong focus on safety and concurrency, while still allowing you to control the lower level details such as memory layout for good performance.
Link to your paper?
What type of content discovery do you mean?

Hacker News + Twitter work pretty well for me.
How An Explainer Video Helped Dropbox Grow from 0 to 100 Million Users
It is suspended now.

> We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads.
It might be worth noting that there are many revisions of The Elements of Typography Style, the latest released only this month (version 4.0).
This is a good post showing me once again how Rails evolved. I am also using rather the so called prime stack and I am wondering that the prime stack is not the default stack. For me it's total obvious to use HAML over ERB and Postgres over MySQL and I don't get why these choices aren't recommended by being default. Even CoffeeScript which has a wide acceptance and adoption is something where no clear opinion arose if it should be in the default stack or not. It offers many benefits but can bring also some heavy implications to your web app (I don't want to start a discussion about CoffeeScript here).

However, I think that Rails is not a good start for beginners in web development. On the one hand it's guiding you very well through its strick conventions and teaching you very good structuring your app (MVC- and OO-wise) but on the other hand all those abstractions and magic make you dumber. Without a big framework like Rails you try to think yourself how to solve a problem like getting the data from A to B. With Rails instead you just have to follow the respective Rails convention and voila you are ready to go. Finally, you learn Rails design patterns and best practices (or conventions) without understanding why you are doing this. And since the default stack is by far not the recommended stack makes it even worse. Because the newbie is in the beginning too afraid to leave the default track. Giving him the option "to just remove one line" to get to his preferred stack is the wrong answer because if there's a default stack people in particular the beginners assume that this must be the right way to do stuff and spent too much time fiddling around with ERB, MySQL, CoffeeScript, etc. Instead it would be better to offer a modular approach like Express, Sinatra, Web.py. I know that I can have the same modularity with Rails too but a beginner gets another message and Rails also wasn't meant being a full stack framework where -- we remember -- "convention is always over configuration" and thus also over modularity.

And even for advanced programmers I believe that Rails' time is over: the monolithic approach is so 2005 and I realize nowadays that I just want to start quickly something without an ORM, Coffee, etc. and decide later if I add those amenities.

Maybe we are facing a new generation of web development where full stack frameworks have no space anymore and David should rethink his Rails approach.
What are the factors affecting the prestige of a journal other than the credentials of the reviewers and the impact of the papers previously submitted?
The Haskell community certainly love their infix non-alphanumeric functions.
It's my bad. I'll update the write up soon to be more clear.
HAProxy 1.5 supports SSL. I've had good luck with it so far.
Interesting, where do you get that number?
I never saw this. Anyone got a pointer to a mirror?
(Tupolev-Bartini law) An ugly plane won't fly.
Here or in an article? We use both in our infrastructure.

Generally I would say that if you're proxying web connections and need caching or the ability to do lots of complicated rewriting on the proxy side, use nginx. If you're proxying database, mail or similar... haproxy. If you don't need any caching or similar, either nginx or haproxy depending on your application.
Al Jazeera sounds so ~foreign~, obviously in cahoots.
Mirror link: http://i.minus.com/iCziY2iQpxWav.jpg

Via: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/16l4b4/the_atlantics_s...
Clearly editorial and sales have misalignment. The good news is that pulling the advertorial shows that the editors are still in charge. The Atlantic would do well to ensure that it remains that way. Quality content is the only way to earn respect in the long run.
But those were simply hobbyist things like the Arduino or Raspberry Pi are today. I find it very hard to believe that anyone in congress reponsible for drafting the CFAA were considering anything other than corporate use of computers, just like it would be hard to imagine congress taking interest in the Arduino or Raspberry Pi today and passing legislation that impacts those and other hobbyist devices and platforms.
Show HN: isortope -- simple, animated JavaScript table sorter
How bad do the finances of a visibly healthy publication have to be, to go down the path of advertorials?

Are things in print media that chafing?

NYT being bankrolled and drip-fed for survival, by a Mexican billionaire is one thing.

I was an avid reader of the Atlantic when David Brooks wrote for it. It was a fine publication back then.

I didn't realize things, lately, had gotten so dire.

This is just appalling.

Why aren't these print guys experimenting with alternate brick-and-mortar distribution models?