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Let’s hypothesize that I have the magical ability to open a connection to any web server, and that every key press I make on my keyboard will be sent to the remote computer. I want to get the Google homepage, so I connect to one of their many web servers.

If the server spoke English, I might type:

Hello!  Please give me the content located at the path /
on the domain www.google.com.
I'm using the Chrome web browser, version 26.
I would like to receive the content as HTML,
zipped to save bandwidth,

Dear Sir Alan,

My partner Steph and I run a successful scientific software business from our house in Saffron Walden. We have a son who is approaching his first birthday. We are both Cambridge-educated scientists. We are appalled by the prospect of the UK withdrawing from the EU, and want to implore you to do anything in your power to help prevent it.

As I understand it, parliament must ultimately decide on whether to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty in order to initiate withdrawal.

My first request is that you vote against withdrawal and against triggering of Article 50. Reasons for doing so are abundant. To highlight a few:

The world economy has clearly judged that Brexit would be a terrible idea. The pound has tanked, many British companies have lost unprecedented market capitalisation, and the Bank of England is having to resort to devaluing the pound in order to try to stabilise markets. Financial firms are already starting to move thousands of staff overseas.
Other EU leaders have ma

NOTE: this is an archive of my response to Tom Griffin of Wiley's email to the Liblicense listserv
claiming that Wiley do not create fake DOIs.
My response is below, in case it does not pass moderation at the original list.

Tom's email: http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;8d87a4a7.1606

edit: My email response has appeared on the listserv: http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;5e950629.1606

installing Node.js

Whatever operating system you use, you'll need to install Node.js. We recommend doing this using nvm - the node version manager. Your machine should come with at least one of curl or wget. You can use either to install nvm:

curl version:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.30.1/install.sh | bash

Making an Electron app and want to embed a database? Here's a table to help you choose the right database software.

Work in progress

Project	Language	Flat file?	In memory?	Full-text search?	Maturity	Embedded size	Dependencies
NeDB	Javascript	Yes	Always	No	High	Low	Simple
Lunr	Javascript	No	Yes	Yes	High	Tiny	None
Search-index	Javascript
Sqlite3	C	Yes	No	Yes (fts extens

	# if you try to install dat on a digitalocean droplet you usually get an error like:
	# sh: 1: prebuild: Permission denied
	#
	# this is caused by several intersecting facts:
	# - digitalocean droplets, by default, only expose a root user for login
	# - most node setup methods will create a node install that isn't owned by root
	# - npm uses an 'undefined' user for installation
	#
	# and is solved in the following way:
	# - taking root ownership of the node install and library install directory tree (with `chown`)

	var fs = require('fs')

	var unified = require('unified')
	var parseHTML = require('rehype-parse')
	var visit = require('unist-util-visit')
	var findAfter = require('unist-util-find-after')

	var file = '/Users/rds45/.sciencefair/data/elife_dws2/articles/01096/elife-01096-v1.xml'

	var getBody = function () {

	#!/bin/sh

	wget \
	--header "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36" \
	--verbose \
	--save-cookies cookies.txt \
	--keep-session-cookies \
	--content-disposition \
	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/$1/pdf \
	-O `echo "$1" \| tr '/' '☍'`.pdf

	{
	"keyField": "$.identifier[?(@.type === 'pmcid')].id",
	"indexMap": {
	"title": true,
	"author[*].surname": true,
	"year": false
	}
	}

	#!/usr/bin/env node

	// this script optimises the eupmc metadata for inclusion in a full-text
	// search index.

	var Transform = require("stream").Transform
	var util = require("util")

	var natural = require('natural')
	var tokenize = (new natural.TreebankWordTokenizer()).tokenize