skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These clauses are aggressively anti-librarian, and unfortunately librarians don't have a choice but to subscribe at whatever price. Academic papers don't exist in a competitive marketplace; once a non-open access paper is published it's considered part of the permanent academic literature, which academics are professionally required to read and cite. Yet each paper is only available from the publisher that owns its copyright.

It's no wonder why Elsevier draws such ire from the librarian community... an analogy would be if a company legally disallowed its employees from discussing their salaries with anyone, in order to reduce the information available when any other employee negotiates a salary or raise.

And even though David Tempest argues that the main reason for these clauses is to maintain price differentiation between countries, I'd guess that this policy is equally designed to convince small but well-funded US research institutes to keep their non-discount subscriptions, while giving relatively steep discounts to large accounts like the UC system that have negotiating power due to their size.

Fundamentally, the ecosystem of subscription journals is full of non-market dynamics and requires extensive legal management (think NDAs, copyright transfer agreements, DMCA takedowns and copyright infringement enforcement). On the other hand, the rise of Open Access journals has produced a healthy competitive market, where authors can choose where to publish based on a variety of factors including cost, quality of peer review, user-friendly submission tools, and prestige of the journal brand. Plus, copyright is largely a non-issue for open access: authors keep their copyright and there's no cost to the publisher for enforcing against infringement.

I think the more market-driven nature of OA, plus the obvious desire to have publicly-funded research be publicly available, will compound its growth and cause it to eventually overtake the subscription journal model.
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This is about the font size I read most stuff on the web at, so I guess I agree. The font on most sites is too small for me, so I browser-zoom them in 1-3 stops.

As long as browser zoom works, though, I don't think it's a huge deal if people have preferences for larger or smaller fonts. Firefox, at least, even remembers your zoom level between visits to the same site. What really annoys me is that browser zoom breaks some sites. I'd recommend testing your site at one or two zoom levels in and out and see if the results are at least vaguely usable.
This is like pet names but pointless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petname
Why I still contribute to StackOverflow
How about campaign finance reform? At the moment it's like "one dollar, one vote".

There's also the issue that becoming a politician takes money, free time and a degree from somewhere where the College Republicans/Democrats have a really active chapter. I have no idea how to fix this problem.
The worst part is the judges reasoning. From the NY Times article [1]:

>In his opinion, Judge Edward R. Korman of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York found that the plaintiffs did not have standing for their lawsuit because such searches occur so rarely that “there is not a substantial risk that their electronic devices will be subject to a search or seizure without reasonable suspicion.”

>Even if the plaintiffs did have standing, Judge Korman found that they would lose on the merits of the case, ruling that the government does not need reasonable suspicion to examine or confiscate a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other device at the border.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/business/judge-upholds-us-...

edit: I find this reasoning quite similar to the recent ruling in NSA surveillance of "[You wouldn't have known about it without the Snowden leak, so you don't have standing since Congress did not intent for you to know about surveillance]".
R.I.P Latvia.
http://www.unc.edu/~nielsen/soci708/module2/Science_math_gen...

Specifically in the U.S. asian women score better in math than asian men.

"I'm curious to here what countries those are, because I suspect the countries that women test better in math will be the same countries that spend a disproportionate amount of time and money trying to improve women's math scores."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_gaps_in_mathematics_and_...

You'll note Sweden is approaching parity between men and women in math and they are consistently ranked #1 in the world in terms of gender equality. Is it really ridiculous to suggest that gender differences would be minimized in a more equal society?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-learning-brain/20121...
Oh those are pretty neat. Imagine if your motherboard was in there with your drives? That would be so convenient.
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I might be missing something, but I completely don't get this idea, especially with the examples provided by the author. I have two major concerns:

> Bind searches to domain names, eg "food in chicago" => f02970848a63988965aa40cd368ffcf9046209ca.com

This IMO is bad, and goes in completely wrong direction. We've invented search engines to have such phrases not bound to a particular domain. Who would handle the "#://food in chicago" domain? Would it be Google? Bing? Yelp? Local restaurant chain? Or maybe some scammers? And who would maintain the completely different website "#://food in Chicago", and why "#://Food in Chicago" wants to silently install me some malware?

The reason searching for such phrases makes sense, while having them as domains does not, is that things like "food in chicago" are poorly defined, fuzzy concepts. It would feel weird to change one letter in a query, or replace word "food" with, eg. "something to eat", and see completely different website. Moreover, major search engines are more or less egalitarian wrt. buisnesses. Yes, there's the whole SEO thing, but you can't get full control of what food joints are listed near your location just because you've managed to get the register first. I can (and do) trust listings from Google; they have both incentives and track record of being fair. I will never trust listings from random-autogenerated-squat-scam-business-site.

Which brings me to the second point,

> Good domain names are pretty scarce. It's a source of frustration for anyone who has ever tried to buy a domain.

Yes, they are, and the primary source of frustration is that they are mostly taken by various squatters and other scums of the Internet. What will happen is that, the moment there's any real possibility such hash-domain scheme is introduced, all those evil people and companies will take all the domains like "#://microsoft", "#://android" and "#://insert any popular keyword or phrase here" in order to sell them back to real businesses for boatloads of money. And then we'll be back to square one, with maybe a little bigger domain space than we have right now. Bad people win, good people loose and nothing changed.

So, again, the concepts behind this idea elude me.
Wow you are right about that.

just did it on another blog.wordpress.com. How come? On Skype's blog I can access /author/7 or /author/ian but I can't do it on another blog, I get "Oops".
You mean primarily the ones at the lower end of the spectrum who due to globalization are rapidly converging on the salaries of higher end countries?

Or are you talking about a subset of developed/g8 nations?
eurozone is a subset of the EU, so free trade and open borders were already there, this is "just" the euro.
A TXT DNS entry could identify the unhashed text, eg:

@ TXT "v=sha1reverse; food in chicago"

The browser could look this up, verify it, and display "#:// food in chicago" in the location instead of the hashed domain name.
Pipes freezing in an apartment in Paris? That is what sounds highly improbable.

And about the windows, well she probably shut the windows when she left (not sure how it's called in English actually? closing the wooden things that cover the windows).

Accidents do happen, but an unoccupied apartment that has not had a water problem or a broken window in 70 years? I don't see a problem, especially in such a non-hostile environment.
Wow I didn't know the law even talks about Do-Not-Track. It's a distraction posing as a solution. The time spent talking about Do-Not-Track could be spent on useful things such as contributing to torbrowser.
I doubt that's something Facebook would ever do as it would remove the point behind "Timeline", which goes all the way back to when the user was born.
National security will always be the number 1 priority with the kind of neighbour Latvia has.
THC is already legal in pill form with a prescription. Again as I've stated, there are zero successful clinical trials (in the USA or anywhere else) that show smoking marijuana is beneficial. Standard scientific proof requires clinical trials.
Stop spamming up this thread without even reading the damn protocol. The whitepaper is a whopping 12 pages and very explicitly states the mechanism used to prevent this kind of spamming. The post rate is throttled against the blockchain rate where "If a new Block k is produced every 10 minutes this limits the mean post rate of new users, for life, to a maximum of 288 posts/day. Average."

It's cool if you don't understand any of this, but you should try to stick to commenting on things you actually understand.
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Is there really any significant social pressure to make a new years resolution?

I more see it as an option to make decisions at the same time as others, which some might find useful for reasons I will describe later in this post.

You describe the service as an option to make those that succeed look good/get attention, and those that fail look bad (publicly).

You probably intended this as a complaint, but to me it seems like a more neutral thing, if words with more neutral connotations were used.

Some people might have trouble staying with their decisions if they just made the decision, at some random time.
Announcing their decision creates an additional incentive for them to succeed, which I reckon for some people is enough to push them past the edge into success.

Creating disincentives for oneself for things that seem appealing in the short term is a valid course of action to help one make preferred decisions.

People are not perfectly rational. Knowing this helps them plan things to avoid making poor decisions.

Having it at new years is nice for aesthetic reasons, and having a designated day for it makes people more comfortable announcing their decision, and also solves the problem of people putting things off. Some people will repeatedly decide "oh, I'll do it next month/week."

With new years, there's a definitive day, where its harder to delay it. (of course, one can say "oh, I'll do it next new years.", but that's kind of a ways away, which makes it less likely)

Generally, new years resolutions are an option, not anything people are socially forced into, from my experience.

Note that I am only a high school student, so I may be less aware of affects of social things, or other things one learns abouth through life experience.
Google shuts down Bump (and Flock)
Latvia has been a member of the EU since 2004 (which entails all you mention), and now it joined the Eurozone as well, and will use euro as its currency.
In this particular case, it's not that big of a deal. As I understand it, this is an in-memory format that does not outlive program execution. One can safely assume that, even if CVS still exists in 40 years, no one will be using a 40-year-old version of this program by then.
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>> "I was just idly wondering today whether I could easily delete all my posts from high school (full of angst about calculus and bus rides)."

Although I agree with your feature request why does it matter to you that that stuff is there? I enjoy going back through my timeline (maybe once a year or so) and seeing old things. There may be a few things that make me cringe but there's nothing so embarrassing that it would have any effect on me currently should anyone else see it.
The concepts that eluded you were so eloquently explained at the bottom: "This is just for fun! A proof of concept."
I agree that we need new solutions that are distinct from the existing power structures. The idea of voting for "representatives" seems completely absurd when almost everyone is "connected" now - we could build systems which allow us to vote on issues directly, rather than people - and using distributed, anonymous cryptographic protocols with public ledgers, we could be sure there is no vote fraud. I'd envision a system where you can decide exactly how your tax money is distributed too, rather than a single central power structure, so we could literally put our money where our mouths are.

The big elephant is the existing tax system though. Alternative structures will never have anywhere near the resources governments have, and the government will always retain power for as long as it has the perceived legitimacy to tax by force. A new model would not be able to trump the government unless it makes the government seem illegitimate, or obsolete, to the point where people consciously decide where to put their money.

Pay-as-you-earn schemes are perhaps one of the biggest obstacles. Most earners have no control of where their money goes, so can not consciously object to state power without potentially losing their jobs and livelihoods. Most people would live on the breadline than take such risks, which is really the purpose of the welfare state - to ensure than the poverty threshold is just high enough for the majority of people to cope - because any lower would activate the switch people have, where they overcome that fear and say "enough".

Cryptocurrencies are very interesting, but I think we need to have stronger anonymity in transactions, and in the means of connecting into the network (via meshnets, or whatnot). This is the potential Achilles heel for the state, which is why they are building such vast surveillance and censorship platforms to try and prevent these from ever taking off.

Of course, we always have the problem that the existing government can simply declare any new structure we create as "illegal," with some poor propaganda spread through their MSM mouthpieces to justify those decisions, which will be effective while the majority of the population remains a bunch of gullible sycophants. Unless there is a big change in perception, and soon, it's more likely we'll have a bloody revolution, or boot stamping on our faces.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
They've also had their currency pegged to the Euro since 2005 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechani...), so in a sense their currency has already for years been treated commercially as merely an alias unit for the Euro, like one converts lbs and kg at a fixed rate. The main difference with actually adopting the Euro is: 1) harder to change your mind later, since un-adopting the Euro is harder than abandoning a currency peg; and 2) easier for tourists and cross-border business, since the need for currency conversion & the associated fees is removed. It might also simplify cross-border business accounting, since you'd no longer have assets & liabilities in different currencies (even if pegged ones), though I know less about that.

Denmark is in a similar situation: the Danish crown is pegged to the Euro since 1999, so in practice Denmark has no real scope for independent monetary policy. Public opinion is still against joining the Euro for a mixture of nationalistic reasons (people like the currency as a symbol of sovereignty) and value put on having an exit option if things get too dicey (one exit option is to peg to the Swedish crown instead; another is to fully float).
Agree, it's a good idea that, unfortunately, deals too much with big fishes (in private and gov sector)
It just means highly potent, pro grown weed that is suitable for medical use. The expression comes from all those California legal grows who produce AAA weed as compared to shake/brickweed junk you get on the street
PG only suffers from trust/naivete in dealing with reporters. Here are some ways to avoid the tricks reporters play on those they interview:

1. Keep the interview short and stick to the script. This is what Laura Bush does better than almost anybody. Don't give reporters any "gotcha's" to their tricky line of questions.

2. If possible, do the inteview by email, not phone, videochat or in person. This way, you can give a considered response to their questions, which is what folks like PG excel at.

PG is not a professional interview giver. It shows.

And I'm no PG fan boy. I think his Startup = Growth article is flat out misleading w/r/t startups that start from a base of one user or one cent in revenue (to take extreme examples) and then say a startup is growing if it has 5% weekly growth.
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If it stops people leaving Facebook like the parent suggests it sounds like something they should build. If people are leaving your service because of one of your major product features you have a problem.
Landlords in France do not have the right to enter an apartment they rent (with a few exceptions that were not applicable here).
Is this the martial arts referee?
This. It creates a very unpleasant atmosphere when you comment on someone's posting history in a negative way, which is not relevant to the topic.

We should be able to debate a topic without bringing in other people's motivations or character.
The biggest problem would be the binary loader. OS X uses the Mach-O executable format, as opposed to the ELF format used in other unixes. There is a project to get Mach-O binaries to be usable under other unixes,, but it looks to be a ways off still -- http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling
It doesn't matter what DNS servers I specify; Shaw intercepts all DNS requests. I can even make up a nonexistent DNS server as long as it's internet-routable, and will get a valid response from Shaw. This works, for example:

dig @www.facebook.com news.ycombinator.com
I don't think whitepages has every name and phone number ever created
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...

I had some definite ideas, some of which were good, and some of which were not so good.

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Wrong again! It's an interesting concept but only an ok idea that has no real world application given its limitations.
Which neighbor?