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Practically speaking, none I can think of. But I completely disagree that the networking aspect has no benefit.

At least in my discipline, authors either retain copyright to their manuscript and can disseminate that freely, or they are able to personally disseminate the final published artic…

One guidance for the ethical side are the guidelines agreed upon by professional associations. I can't think of any that condone copyright infringement.

So why not email the corresponding author? I have yet to not get (or give) a manuscript that way. From my own perspective, each time I respond I'm possibly getting another citation…

If they want to seriously engage regulated industries like finance, medical, energy, etc., they need to. As it stands now, an association with them is suspect.

Silicon Valley and YC don't exactly have a stellar reputation for ethical behavior. Having a "pirate website" at the top of the news page doesn't exactly change that perception. I …

I find this is generally a poor place for hardware-related startups. Places to check (and network with)—I'd try checking in with your university's tech transfer office: they might …

I'm not a big FTIR person, but at least for Raman, laser power is far less important than the linewidth (and you definitely don't need a pulsed laser) and the rest of the optical e…

If you consider it functional, Common Lisp is still used by some very large and established companies: the Lisp HUG mailing list (LispWorks) will frequently have email signatures f…

The right way to do that would be with FTIR or Raman spectroscopy, and this sensor is capable of neither. At best, this is an ersatz replacement for the tunable filter on a hypersp…

Aren't recreational drones limited by a 400ft ceiling?

Why are concurrent GCs rare?

I agree, the choice of programming language is one of the less important parts of the SDLC. In the case of Rust for SC work, as the linked article alludes to, what doesn't make sen…

I go by what I thought was the accepted definition, which is a failure or error presenting a risk for temporary or permanent harm to people. Financial risk like data loss would fal…

The Cartoon Guide to Physics might be what you're looking for.

> Rust’s strengths are Clojure’s weaknesses, and vice-versa. Rust isn’t as expressive or interoperable, and its concurrency story isn’t as complete. That said, it’s much better for…

Funny you mentioning L4... based on the HN title, my first thought/hope was someone got seL4 running with the NetBSD userland.

If you're going to use the backlight it's a worthwhile upgrade. Otherwise, not sure.

Yeah, I wasn't clear on the versions. At night, I have to use level 7 on the backlight for comfortable reading without any other lights on. It's noticeably blue to my eyes at that …

Yawn. I upgraded from a Paperwhite 1 to a Voyage because I thought the screen and haptic buttons would be improvements. I can barely see a difference in the screen quality when I'm…