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Upvoted because I think it's a good debate to have, but I'm not impressed with the arguments. Full disclosure: I'm on the board of a big for-profit publisher (SAGE).

There are two main arguments being made:
1) Nothing "open access" should ever be licensed CC-BY NC because it's incompatible with some funding agency mandates and it's just plain against the spirit of OA
2) The fees to publish, which top out at $5,500 are too high

#1 is a perfectly good argument, and one I think I agree with. However, I also believe that AAAS isn't lying when it says they asked their authors and this is what the authors wanted. You'll always be able to find authors who believe in liberal copyright licenses as the way the world should work. And those authors are the vocal ones, the ones making petitions and signing open letters, etc. But the rest (and by rest I mean more like 95%+) either don't care or are legitimately concerned with someone either misappropriating their work or making money off their work (yes, this is kind of ironic given that in academic journals the only entity making money off their work anyway is the publisher). Overall I think there's a solid argument for why the publishers should adopt CC BY, and that the publishers should be making that to their authors. But this isn't a black and white publishers vs authors type of argument.

#2 is just silly. The OP has no idea about the internal cost to AAAS to get this thing up and running. If it's too expensive for the service offered then people won't submit and the market will work like it should and the thing will fail. The graph showing "comparable" OA journals and their much lower fees is misleading. The text explains that there are indeed two other OA journals in the same price bracket, the OA options from Nature and Cell. Science is clearly trying to compete in that bracket, since they have the necessary prestige to do so. The chart showing Science Advances being "off the chart" is ridiculous, because the noted examples of Cell and Nature are also off the chart.

The internal finances for a very high-prestige OA journal (or at least one hoping to be high-prestige) called eLife were recently released, and the numbers show that on average it costs them about $14k per article to run that journal. Doing the type of curation, editing, and peer review that is required for an OA journal trying to be super prestigious is incredibly different than the amount of work required to publish PLOS One or PeerJ or any of the similar competitors.

In my opinion the argument about price just comes off as petty and silly. Launching a high-prestige OA journal is expensive - plain and simple. They're not trying to launch something of the same prestige as PLOS One, they're trying to launch something with similar prestige as Science. That means they can't get away with doing the same base-level methodological peer review that other OA journals do. Complaining about the price just comes off as being entirely out of touch with how expensive that endeavor is.
So computers are fine. Faster is fine. Just not too fast? Because once we pass some sort of arbitrary speed barrier then....what happens exactly?
A major issue with paying more is the scientists themselves. We tend to be a self-righteous group who insist our vow of poverty actually improves our work. And that by increasing our pay you'll tempt us into distraction. It's a horrible loop. We'll gladly fork over half a million for a new scope, but balk at paying the person to use it an extra $1,000 a year.
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> "I'm quite surprised by the blasé attitude the US has to card security."

Currently, if my CC information is stolen, I am not liable for any fraudulent charges. So why would I care?

CC security is for the CC companies and the merchants, not for the consumers. That is why Americans (with the exception of those with Europe Envy or those who are merchants) don't care. There is no reason for them to.

(In past discussions on this, somebody has mentioned that C+P would be beneficial for American consumers because it would mean less confused American tourists in Europe. The typical American does not vacation in Europe very frequently.)
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From the article:

"The final paradox of Finnish education only dawned on me when I received the girls’ school calendars. At first, it looked a little thin. School began at 7:30 every morning and ended at 1 p.m. No lesson appeared to last longer than 45 minutes, after which 15 minutes was given for a break. The Finns appeared to have several names for this down time. Besides “break” there was “lunch,” “long break,” “breakies,” “mini break,” “extracurricular activities” and (my personal favourite) “Golden time.”

The theory is that children learn just as much during unstructured play as they do inside a formal classroom setting – arguably more. The Finnish system flies in the face of the logic that poor student performance can be somehow cured by increasing class time. In Finland, students don’t begin school until the age of 7. The school days are shorter and students are almost never given homework."
25-35 hour work weeks certainly sounds like it should be the norm.

I'm curious.. is it efficiency or focus or what that makes the less hours enough.
Basically the same here. I have both debit and credit cards are from the same bank. National id is a bit more contentious here but generally the two cards are about the same. With the caveat of much lower daily withdrawal limits on the debit (think 300).
jampoole is the original poster of the thread you're commenting on.
Marketing people are always claiming something is new and revolutionary.
It had no serious effect on me. If anything, it made it easier because of the perceived importance, but not in any serious way. The name "bear stearns" was provocative enough.
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Interesting that there is an old style drafting board behind Dyson in the video. About a robot "high tech" vacuum cleaner. Hard to believe that company in particular uses a manual drawing process or why anyone would use that as a prop either.
Time. I can eye ball the charges and know 100%. I need to add code that'll do the same and I don't have the time right now. For the few charges we get, it's easier to quickly refund than to write the code. It's something I will eventually write code to automate.
US government has a CTO? Moldbug has advocated[1] turning the USG into a corporation for some time now. Not the first prophet to be called a kook at first.

[1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/04/formali...
Even if I'm completely wrong and you're completely right, this level of discourse is simply not acceptable.
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points of view aren't all equally valid. Example: any pov about something that can be factually checked.
But FIX _is_ going away in US equities as all of the major exchanges have adopted native binary protocols. We still have to deal with it in other asset classes, but I (as a developer) am not really happy about it. FIX/FAST is a massive pain in the ass relative to simple binary protocols.
>In Finland, students aren’t subjected to standardized tests

This is incorrect, but seems to be repeated in most of these articles about the Finnish education system.

>nor is it possible to fail a grade.

I don't know about the current state of affairs, but at least it was possible to "fail a grade", even if it was really rare.

>In Finland, teaching is a highly prestigious profession, equivalent to medicine or law.

I'd say that is exaggerated.

>The school days are shorter and students are almost never given homework.

I'd say homework is more frequent than that.
I have an Acer c720, and use Ubuntu 14.04 using Crouton, and I primarily use it to remotely access virtual machines, and the occasional light web development. (Crouton allows you to switch into the chroot and back to ChromeOS using a very simple hotkey, it makes for a great experience).

I haven't even touched my i5 Thinkpad since I bought it two weeks ago, and at about $180, it's truly a steal.
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Thanks! This is helpful feedback. It's true that our current home page pitch doesn't heavily emphasize the social connections, which does lead to some of the questions you've asked, and we can do better on that. Most lending does indeed come from people you either know in real life or friends-of-friends, and that's how our marketing is typically focused, which is why most people have not expressed too much concern about identity issues and the specific nature of collections arbitration, etc.

I am curious--for the types of borrowers we have (typically young with a pretty empty credit history outside of a large student loan), are you interested in seeing the credit report because you think small variations in that number will be meaningful? Or is it more to have more confidence that there's not some huge blemish on it? Part of our hypothesis is that in terms of the former, the range these numbers fall in for these people are not that meaningful to lenders in terms of evaluating risk levels. But it's true that if someone's score was 300 points lower than you expected it to be, that would be worth knowing, and there might be a way to set a minimum credit score or something else private we could do to help build that confidence without simply publishing their whole credit report for the world to see, which some borrowers might resist.

We're adding SSL as soon as this batch closes. I'm confident we can get to a decent spot on SEO with a little more growth, but it's certainly possible that won't work and we'll change the name.

Thanks again for the thoughts!
Fortran found its way into finance because it was the programming language taught to engineers in school. (These were real engineers -- software engineers hadn't been invented yet.) If you hired them to build computer systems you got systems in Fortran unless you specified otherwise.
> meanwhile, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States#G.... has a great list of numerous government programs and funds that have dispensed billions of dollars into network infrastructure in the US

The only projects on that list that have distributed significant money are funded by the Universal Service Fund. That money doesn't come from general taxation, it comes from a specific tax on the telecom industry. Imagine if the government levied a 15% tax on smartphone sales and spent that money to subsidize telephones for the poor. Could you then turn around and say "Apple and Samsung are getting massive government subsidies?" That's basically what you're doing when you point to USF and say public money went into the telecom networks.

Moreover, this debate is mostly about cable, which has historically been a different sphere from "telecom" (i.e. the phone system). The networks we're talking about, Comcast's, TWC's, etc, are cable networks built with private money after deregulation in the 1990's.

> So you see the World Wide Web as an equivalent to the Android Play Store?

The World Wide Web is just a set of protocols that runs mostly on private networks. It's a platform owned by the companies that own those private networks.
The headline is somewhat misleading -- this is a basis for federated IM, like xmpp. It's not truly distributed, the way something like tox.im is.
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The GC will not update a pointer once it is converted to the type uintptr. It becomes invisible to the precise collector, so the uintptr acts as an id value.
It's really not fair to call single cores Pentiums, I had the dual-core Pentium D once upon a time and the Core 2 was a huge improvement. We're now 4 generations on from the Pentium.
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That wasn't regulation, was it? It was originally a government project that they then opened up. There wasn't any regulation preventing private equivalents, and indeed there were quite a few private computer networks with similar capabilities. They all failed once the internet opened up, because the government-sponsored, government-run network was ultimately much superior.
The advantage that Python or Perl has over Ruby is that they are included by default with most major Linux distros. I don't think (I may be wrong) that Ruby is. This might hurt adoption somewhat.
You realise that in the UK, an address is completely specified by house number and postcode? Nine characters max.
That's right, you cannot dereference the pointer from C. If you want to use allocated memory from both C and Go, you'll need to allocate it in C.
I have a quad-core tower with 12GB of RAM and an SSD, that primarily runs a Windows 8 and Xubuntu VM. Performance over the local network almost feels like bare-metal.

I don't use Chrome Remote Desktop though, just VNC or Vmware Shared access through Crouton on my Chromebook.
The uintptr version of the pointer is not moved by the GC, so it acts as a stable identifier.
Yeah. And of course, implementing it well matters, because someone with an actual team and money is certain to want to eat your lunch.
I must admit I never read the school book definition of the word - so yeah, maybe I'm not understanding meritocracy.

To me it means: The words/opinion of person with the most expertise on a certain topic should have the most weight in a discussion/decision.

In that sense I don't care about gender, skin color, religion, etc. as long as the person knows what he/she is talking about. So I don't see how it would be opposed to diversity or inclusiveness.
Trees are a renewable resource.

Saying that books destroy trees is like saying that hamburgers destroy cows.

We farm them specifically for the purpose of using them. If there were no books, we'd have less trees, not more.
working on it, hopefully next week will be published on the site.
I think viewing it as a pure good is the odd view. Most people recognize that, A. It's impossible (who is doing the evaluating?), B. That it leads to a single vision/set of experiences dominating, C. That it ultimately leads to dissatisfaction amongst the majority.
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Sure, but if you shut out people you'll never find out if they're valid or not.
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Thanks digitalbase. That's exactly the info I was interested in.
It's a good idea, but very buggy on an iPhone 5s in Chrome.

One of the best implementations I've seen on mobile is the craigslist image viewer. Ex http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/cto/4620247868.html

- the image drags with your finger, rather than sliding after you make a gesture.
- while dragging sideways, the image moves but not the page
- while dragging up/down, the page moves but not the image
- a counter at the top shows that there are multiple images
I agree, it is an emotional decision but it's also not really fair to expect a change in life expectancy throughout 15 years of government, the majority of which was a lib/lab coalition.

Still:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-26681098

It'd be nice to back that with cause and effect, but it seems it's untrue that there's been no change.
No doubt promoting happiness in the development community is a worthy goal, but there is a lot of variety in what makes different software developers happy, and inevitably their priorities will sometimes conflict.

For example, the principle that a programming language should be optimised for the programmer and not the computer seems reasonable. However, what if a programmer works on projects where performance matters, and we haven’t figured out how to implement certain language features in an efficient way yet? It may be true that under some conditions saving a programmer time is more valuable than shaving a few seconds off at run-time, but there are many situations where this is not the case.

More subtly, programming languages that are easy to parse, that represent their source code in a well-structured way, and that have clean semantics are friendly to tool developers. I imagine many programmers are happier with a language that has good refactoring, debugging, profiling and testing tools available, and which plays nicely with their favourite editor, diff and version control systems, and code review tools. Again, there might be a trade-off between adding a new language feature, which in itself might be useful for the programmer, and keeping the language simpler or more cleanly structured, which might encourage effective automation and tooling.
Yeah I also thought it was about Medium, even after reading it and coming back here.

I was wondering why Medium is suddenly so gung ho about security.
Read books on various design patterns and architectures, until you start seeing patterns whenever you look at code.

Just try to see which context the stuff is supposed to execute under, what problems it solves - from there the code is easy.
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With all due respect, I find declarations like

> Math is an end in itself; if you want to help the world that should be on your own time.

the marks of an idealist who doesn't do math "for a living." I am a mathematician. I've been doing it for years. You argue for a purity that is naive and counterproductive.

Mathematicians have all sorts of motivations to do mathematics. Intrinsic beauty is certainly primary, but in order to continue in this job that doesn't pay all that well and requires sacrifices our families don't understand, we've needed to come to some terms with our roles in the world. We've needed to justify our apparent uselessness, because some of us in conscience can't be useless people and can't morally continue to do pure math if it is indeed contributing nothing of value to the world. Doing math (or writing music, or making art) for the sole purity of thought, the simple beauty of it, is allowed only to people with a certain sort of psychological and financial privilege. I was not raised with that privilege.

The intrinsic beauty of math and the fact that it's a contribution to the world are not in contradiction. Bach wrote beautiful music that has changed the way we hear and the way we think, changed the path of human civilization. He did it for a paycheck. He did it for the audiences who would hear it then. He did it for the beauty. People who write programming languages because they want more beauty in programming do it for themselves and others. If Bach's music wasn't shared, if Ruby just sat hidden on a hard drive, neither of them would have made a lick of difference in the world and I would argue they'd have no value. Mathematics exists without and beyond us. Our discoveries, and the way they're shared, are what make them valuable to human life.

I do math because I desire to better the world: not by ending child abuse, but by discovering and then sharing the beauty of new mathematics. That's why we write papers, you know -- not just for jobs and tenure. Sharing has its own benefits, as in encountering the ideas of others we are sparked into new inspiration.

Move beyond the political and charitable in thinking about how one might better the world. Many software developers are interested in bettering the world and are doing it through their work, even if it's not an app for water in Africa. Can you so readily dismiss all of them? or is it ok because software development is a dirty business that contrasts with that pure garden of mathematics?
Thomas DiLorenzo is indeed an economist who holds that view, but my impression is that the view is relatively unusual and not widely shared in the profession.
I agree, with some reservations.

>> I have to fill gazillions of fields, I have to go through various kinds of pre-interview processes, like this last one - its an automatic video interviewing system, that records my answers using some pre-recorded videos as questions. Cool system, technically, but I will have to spend hours on this thing.

If a potential employer doesn't respect your time during the interview phase, I'd be hard pressed to believe that they would respect your time and boundaries as an employee.

>> Obviously if I apply for the job, I am interested in the subject and interested in the company and willing to learn if anything beyond my knowledge appears. No need for cover letters.

This really isn't obvious, a lot of the time.

As someone who hired another developer recently, I estimate that 1/4 of resumes that came in had zero relevant experience, and I'd wager that MUCH less than 1/4 of the total candidates bothered to do any research on the company at all.

A lot of the "song and dance" of the hiring process really is necessary. Employers just need to remember to respect the time of the candidates.
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But you watched the full video, didn't you?
... thought about building a mobile femtocell attached to a helium baloon, so if you find yourself (playing Ingress) in a dead spot, perhaps the femtocell in the baloon 10 to 30 meters above you could help out?
Imagine if you took a look at all the incompatible implementations of 1970's and 1980's C and blamed them for not being compatible, and created a fork called "ANSI C".

That'd totally suck, wouldn't it?
That's a much more reasonable proposal than the prior suggestions of a strict no-Go-pointers-into-C rule, and it'll keep most interfaces working. Some C packages such as qml will still need to change as they allow custom types to travel through C and back into Go, and these pointers may move, but that's certainly not the common case.
+1 on the best presentation I have seen on the subject. I'd like to download it.

How can I get this as a .pdf without submitting myself to social network analysis by Slideshare? I think that's too rich a price to pay for the privilege of downloading a file from a hosting company.
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What's the use-case for passing a pointer to C that can't be de-referenced?
Yeah I think the headlines are trying to bait us. I felt like Ikea was poking fun at the digital vs physical world. The ad style was definitely lifted from Apple but the "specs" approach could be any new device "No lag! Each page loads instantaneously via tactile touch" or whatever. Quite good.
I'm no legal expert, but I'm pretty sure this is the same legal system that dolled out $1,920,000 to a non-wealthy individual for sharing some Gloria Estefan songs. Justice?
I would rather have people who have actual experience with technology than some lawyer with good connections who can barely use a computer.
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Does it solve the problem of spontaneous seeding & seamless organic discovery of these conversations?
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