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Peer review might be broken, but it's not anonymity that will fix it. For the simple reason that we already have double-blind reviews in many fields and the peer reviewing process is not any less broken there.

There are people who are thinking of multiple solutions, one that I think is interesting is the proposition of Open Scholar, dubbed "Independant Peer-Review". I submitted it to HN so we can discuss it without flooding this thread, if it interests HNers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8734271.

In there scheme, the papers are open access from the beginning, the peer reviewing process is open, and reviews are citable. I believe it would encourage better and deeper reviews.

It would also be very nice for young scientists or students who want to apply for a PhD grant to be able to show that they are able to write a comprehensive review of a paper in their field, and that their review was good enough to significantly improve the paper or to be selected by the authors and/or publishers to be released alongside the paper, for instance.
>> "And you also argue that basically providing links should be illegal"

I specifically avoided saying this. By providing those links they 'enabled' downloading of content illegally.
So it seems the problem with the German law was that they created a basic prisoner's dilemma kind of situation. Publishers who tried to get some compensation from Google for appropriating the fruits of their labor were thwarted by defection from those who didn't. It seems the Spanish law was drafted in recognition of this game theoretic problem. If traffic drops for Spanish publishers turn out to remain well below those seen by the Germans, this could become a model for other countries.
Carlsen is Norwegian though they are similarly known for bluntness.
And "enabling" copyright infringement was not illegal in many jurisdictions until the content industry either created case law or lobbied for laws to be altered.
Policy changes he opposes.
Wait wait. You're telling me Sunde is comparable to Snowden and Manning? Wat.
I don't see how this isn't disallowed by AWS term of services and easily identified and disabled by Amazon.

Also I find this funny that the same company that used a rootkit to disallow burning of CDs and also found guilty of using unlicensed software is in the DDoS business.
The P-Code used by some Pascal compilers never was intended to be a fully Pascal VM, rather a porting tool.

Niklaus Wirth idea was to have a portable assembly that he could use to easily bootstrap the compiler.

So porting to a new platform meant:

- setting the output format to P-Code

- compile the compiler

- write a P-Code interpreter without any attention to performance

- use it to run the compiler until the new native backend is done

This was specially important back in the day each OS had as option their own proprietary system programming language or Assembly.

Personally I like this option (using interpreters as porting tool) better than cross-compiling, as you can work directly on the target system, except in embedded platforms case.
Take a look at the works of Mikhail Blagosklonny. His view of aging and hormesis is just what you describe. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249451/

(I'm not endorsing this view - I believe aging is programmed, largely based on the fact that genes for aging have been conserved since the dawn of eukaryotic life, i.e., cells that have a cell nucleus.)
The BBC was already widely known as a producer of quality content before the internet became widely known.
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I feel this is a very important article with a very important message, but I'm just not sure what I can do to help! They have money, guns, political support, media and very powerful, highly emotional rhetoric. The only thing I can do is hack on software, but most people don't care enough about "geeky stuff". I feel that the only way this issues will get resolved is if they get much, much worse first (i.e. high-profile people jailed for what they say, internet controlled China-style, disappearance of middle class, ...).
To Peter Sunde: "We..."? You are a profiteer from illegal intellectual property theft. When my work end up on your past websites, I lose money. With diminshing income from my labor, I lose freedom. Freedom to have a voice, to do what I love, to have access to the Internet/telephones/mail/transport/shelter...

You are scum, not an activist. You have done fuck all but profited from fraudalent adverts.
That comment belongs to reddit with a very high karma count. I LOLed here.
I rather expect causality flows the other way: coding is getting less efficient because hardware is getting faster. Or as the old saying goes, "Intel giveth, and Microsoft taketh away."
So the guy ran a website which greatly increased the chances of him going to jail, while at the same time being hardly the best way to increase his personal wealth (even just switching to a "locker site" would be much more profitable).

It's fine to think it's wrong, but why is that so hard to believe he's sincere, and not just "pretending"?
Tragedy of the Commons is exactly right.
Yes, the genes spread through the gene pool, but then the population goes extinct very quickly because there's a huge population and nothing to eat. This is the most powerful form of group selection, and it was first described by Michael Gilpin, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/663.html
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I seem to be of the age everyone else works on making out with other people. And, a girl told me today that I'm a "lot more of a nerd", and an unlikely to find a girl for the rest of my life.

That was quite hurting, but, I think programmers don't usually have girlfriends, do they ? I mean, do you ? Does it distract you from your work ?
personally, the use for bittorrent is long tail, niche software that has become obsolete and is no longer viable commercially and therefore not available.

the idea of the few people that have it being able to share it with the many that may eventually need or want it, is something that the centralised "cloud" based services cannot compete with.

so you may think there's no virtue, but there is in spades. you are blinded by your own piracy.
I wouldn't put Sunde in the same category as Snowden and Manning.

The Pirate Bay isn't some noble cause like the latter two.

It did have a minor effect of disrupting the industry and accelerating the inevitable change in business model for the film and movie industry.
The issue for me is then, where do we draw the line of "enabling" copyright infringement? I'm pretty sure that if certain industries had their way in the 90s, peer2peer communication between regular people would be illegal for "enabling" copyright infringement.

Considering that the US government forbade the export high level encryption, it's not hard to think they would also forbid any peer2peer communication not going though a "certified and approved" server, if the winds had gone that way.

The bottom line is, crimes should be illegal, tools should not be illegal, even if they enable crime. If you have a tool that can ONLY be used for illegal purposes, you might have a good case, but even pirate bay had links to legal content, that got taken down along with the links to the illegal content.
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Well you can always hack on decentralised, encrypted, hidden peer to peer chat, or other open software alternatives of high quality for all the services we use every day and so forth. If media is a problem, work on solutions for anonymous publishing etc.. if the software is good enough (including having a good ui and whatnot), it's less geeky. After all, people adopted BitTorrent, which is quite geeky!
Still too soon, too raw! :) Hopefully the Brits get a team in next time around so I have 2 teams in the running.

The Wahine, while not the worst maritime disaster NZ has ever had is one of the more recent [0].

This video [1] showing a ferry bouncing along gives you a good idea of how rough it can get on the route between Wellington and Picton. I had friends on there one day when several people were hospitalised with broken bones!

[0] http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/wahine-disaster
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUWascqCBe0
Well, if what you are doing is inheritance-heavy, then OOP features will make your code cleaner. It's what OOP is made for. You can do it in Go, but it's not as elegant.
This whole argument disappoints me. Every manufacturer of a DVD or CD Writer has "enabled" illegal copying and potential distribution of copyrighted content. I haven't seen any of those entities reprimanded for their product manufacture.
> CC0 is a public domain declaration

TDIL:
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

That is exactly what Creative Commons declares CC0 to be.
"or better performance"?

I'd like to see some evidence if you have any.

Rust has great performance in general - and I also agree that it is an appealing language - but I haven't heard anyone claim better than C++ performance before. I'd be very dubious of anyone making that claim...
There is no "natural selection" within an individual body, within an individual lifetime. Yes, there are some cells that continue to live and others that continue to die. But the cells are not competing, with the fittest winning out. Rather the whole scheme is orchestrated centrally for the good of the genome (which is the same in every cell).
Web 2.0: making your top-of-the-line i7 desktop feel slower than an 80s mainframe.

But at least you don't have to declare types on the variables! Such productivity!
If you want to have bleeding edge developer software than you may need bleeding edge developer hardware. To clarify, I don't think mainstream applications or even betas should aim at bleeding edge hardware, just that when we plan on making some new piece of software that may take years to build its okay to assume that people in the future will have better computers.
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The comment you're replying to defines both how Sunde's, Snowden's, & Manning's actions are different and provides context for the very limited comparison being made.

If you don't agree, you should just argue your point because your straw man is just pathetic.
And what's the alternative ? The world is not the United States, in most countries of the world, there is simply no legal way to get a movie/tv show on the Internet. I'm not even talking about 3rd world countries here, Netflix (the only service which is good enough to compare to Torrents) just barely arrived in Europe and their list of movies is so poor, it's not even worth talking about it. Torrents are not working only because it's free but because it's the easier/only option in most places.
Where I work, most of the staff have partners - girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives. Just because one girl can't see a girl like her or people she knows being interested in you doesn't mean the end of the world. There are lots of different kinds of people making the world go round. The more different places you go, socialise, interact with people, the more you are likely to meet someone who might be into you.
That's the theory. Turns out, though, that anything that's not really popular is hard to get hold of on TPB. It's usually easier to get hold of obscure content commercially.
You need a way to declare your cluster using some orchestration tool like ansible / CloudFormation. Once you have that it's easy to setup/teardown a whole cluster.

To further separate dev/prod you can create separate VPC (virtual networks) and use IAM (ACL) to limit access. It's also possible to create an AWS account for each developer and keep an eye on the spending with consolidated billing but in practice devs often want to share infrastructure for example when testing out something together.

Downtime sucks, if it happens a lot try investing in a better Internet connection. It's possible to re-use ansible formulas to deploy something locally but usually you'll end up booting machines that themselves need internet to fetch packages / dependencies anyways.
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Actually a lot of people _can_ feel like they are not awesome enough.
Hollywood is just the testbed. If you can transmit Hollywood stuff to the masses without a way for them to stop you, then you can transmit other more important information when the time comes.
The Selfish Gene was a phase in our understanding of evolution. The mainstream now agrees that evolution is a whole lot more complicated than that. It's still true that "group selection" is a dirty word to a majority of evolutionary scientists, but this is shifting pretty fast - much less true than it was 10 years ago. Take a look at the works of David Sloan Wilson. I recommend his book, Unto Others. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674930476
When did stealing other peoples' life work segue from a guilty necessity to a noble cause? I missed that.
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Most of europe anyway. Not so sure about e.g. Asian countries, especially the poorer ones.
BBC iPlayer Global is already available worldwide via a subscription. It started several years ago.

https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/bbc-iplayer-global/id4491306...
They'll change their tune when Android starts losing market share.
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it's a fact not a theory in my experience. your experience differs. big deal, fact is - it works for me - it has virtue, the fact that it didn't work for you does nothing to change that.

also i infer from the immediacy with which you changed from niche obsolete software, to "obscure content" leads me to conclude you are talking about ripping off producers of low volume content who are still in business - again - blinded by your own piracy.
I think the problem is that no one realizes the internet we grew up with and loved is changing fundamentally and we can't be passivist users of the medium anymore.

If you are you're basically saying you're okay with a future where governments regulate which services you can use and ISPs control how fast you can download bits based on whether you're using their sponsored services or not.

Its bullshit but its what's happening. At its core though, I think its a hardware problem. We REALLY need a decentralized networking solution to replace ISPs and DNS and if we don't get it, the road is going to be really hard going. This still doesn't solve the problem of intercontentinal networking, and I have no idea how we could solve that one without some monopoly/govt controlling everything.
Ask HN: What do you do when clients want SLAs?
I work mostly as a developer/consultant, either alongside development teams or developing web apps directly for companies. I enjoy it, and like the variety of the work.

Recently, a number of larger companies have been approaching me for work - either direct or I've been invited to take part as part of a tender process. One thing they all want is SLAs. Providing that for hosting is easy - I refer them to a 3rd party hosting company who can manage everything. Providing that for the app that I develop - that if it stops working I will respond within 2 hours and have it fixed in 4, as they specified in the last case - is not so easy.

There is only one of me, and if I am working on-site for another client, I cannot respond. If I'm on holiday with my partner, I'll be castrated if I have to get up at 11pm and go and do emergency work.

With existing clients I have a 'best efforts' agreement, and I have fixed a few issues while on holiday - but to me a SLA is in a different league.

What would you do? Is there an alternative to expanding to become a team of 3+ programmers?

Obviously the client doesn't want to pay $$$s to retain me/enough to hire a 24/7 support team - they expect it for free as it's what larger development agencies provide as part of the package (and not expensive for them to give the junior developers pagers...)
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> The Pirate Bay isn't some noble cause

Consider it as a litmus test for free speech.

Providing links to pirated content, not even the content itself, can easily be seen as free speech.
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Yeah, that's fair. I guess it's different for software.
There has been some work by the community. A user created an app with a button and a webview using go 1.4beta[0]. I modified it to only be a webview with a Go web server[1]. I also wrote an app for myself in the same manner here[2].

I found the whole android developer ecosystem a bit of a pain to setup, but it works now. The amount of java I have to worry about is quite low, so that's a win for me.

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[0] https://github.com/MarinX/godroid
[1] https://github.com/howeyc/godroid
[2] https://github.com/howeyc/spipedmobile
Interesting.
At home I give this sort of feeling to my son playfully. I go close to his ears and keep talking very slowly but with normal voice like " do you know one thing that...." And give a pause and again slowly taking deep breaths and blowing air... And suddenly I make slightly loud voice.

This whole thing give him experience of thorough tickling and GOOSEBUMPS. That shows how much tickling he felt. It's good fun and kids njoy this connection.

Though these videos gave me tingle, I didn't get goosebumps. But still it's good feel esp around my right ear and neck.
And, a girl told me today that I'm a "lot more of a nerd", and an unlikely to find a girl for the rest of my life.

That's a terrible thing for her to have said. Ignore that. It's just not true that programmers don't have girlfriends/boyfriends/husbands/wives.
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There's video on the developer's website that provides somewhat of a demo.

https://my.workflow.is
Stealing? Do we really need to rehash the old theft vs. copyright infringement argument?
I don't think that would be considered good Go code. It's no shorter than writing out the 3-part for loop, and it is probably slower.
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Yes, but with more DIY options - 'Share Availability' is interesting, which loops through calendar invites on a specified day and grabs start and end times
It's not a hardware problem, it's a convenience problem. People like that there's somebody else worrying about this. They are willing to do almost anything it takes so they don't have to worry about issues of basic infrastructure.

We already do this with water, electricity, and other infrastructure. Anything it takes as long as I can get water/power/trash-taken-out just by flipping a switch and paying a bill.

We, as a society, do not want to think about this. As long as the internet is there when we open a laptop or a phone, we don't care how it got there.
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There's a tax in some countries over blank CD/DVD exactly for that reason, enabling illegal copying. It is a crazy world, anything is possible.

Edit: found a link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
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But look at other examples.

JavaScript became ECMAScript, where ECMA is there to define standards, but still there are a couple of big players from certain companies and still they do Dart, which is mostly a Google thing and is a direct competitor to ECMAScript.. well, ECMAScript 6 at least. Even though it's not a bad language one can see a lot of company interest there.

And when you look at Go you see that it is controlled by people who work for Google, but don't exactly depend on them. I think it's more a language of Ken Thompson or Rob Pike than Google.

What do you think about Rust? It's affiliated with Mozilla, but Mozilla is (also) a Foundation and Rust is not a Mozilla Product like Firefox, where it often is really hard to get your changes in. There are a lot of people who got interested, even outside of Mozilla and at least to me it appears that they have influence.

And the last thing is what matters. Microsoft has huge interest on controlling C#, Visual Basic .Net, etc., because their income is related to data. They create the major platform for it, get income via selling the OS, the IDEs, etc.

If you look at Go then that doesn't seem to be the case. Google's main benefit (tell me if I am wrong!) appears to be being able to replace C++ and Python where neither seems to fit for one reason or another. If you look at the state of both the Android version now and Google App Engine then Google doesn't show huge interest into using it for money.

Of course that is only now and maybe this changes, but it doesn't look like it for now.

My personal opinion is that Dart was more to worry, also because of the approach being similar to Microsoft, when they create a standard (be it for documents or a language) and then create their incompatible extension or are always ahead of the others, because of their strong involvement. I really don't see that with Go.

Another thing that is slightly related to go is NaCl (Native Client, not the crypto library), being Google's version of ActiveX. But that's more because it of course is a target platform for Go, not a thing that's wrong with the language. Else you'd also have to worry about C.
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The man choosed to do what he did, but when they were heavily fined I already felt an obligation to pay a part of it, as I was a regular user before that. About the future of the web and other larger social questions, I find it hard to believe.. when it's mostly movies and tv shows (even though there was some hard to find vintage content on it sometimes). Lastly, as for anything, when technology N is unavailable, we go back to N-1. We won't stream the latest show from the other side of the planet right from peers in real time but well.
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As ESR said in his essay "How to become a hacker" programmers are great spouse material. Ignore this dumb bitch. And by the way at my workplace all of my colleagues are involved in a romantic partnership including me. So don't worry.
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I think you're really stretching it there.

Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas using one's body and property to anyone who is willing to receive them.

Not sharing hashcodes to copyrighted works over the internet.
I know you can, i've explicitly talked about struct inheritance in my comment, as well as manually defining functions for the new type. Yet, this is a weird construct if all you want to do is class inheritance. You have to deal with questions like "do i want to define the func on my type, or on a pointer to that type", or "how do i call "super"", how do i extend the constructor for that new type, etc..

All those questions do have answers in golang. But you have to learn new patterns in order to do an extremely basic and common thing in OOP, once again, without much immediate apparent benefit.
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I can't seem to see the benefits of this, considering a regular 4TB HDD seems to go for ~$140-150[1].

I could understand if speeds were similar or prices or way lower compared to a traditional HDD, but is it really worth the extra SATA connector you'd gain?

Besides, I'd personally take the risk of loosing 4TB at once instead of 8.

1. http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=22-236-604