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The article is only about a fraction of the issue, namely expert witness/report payments. The title is also a bit silly since money (mostly tax payer money in case of academics) is also what makes research possible in the first place.
That being said I think it's really hard to be objective if you get funding from a private source with a certain agenda. There's some people who can pull it off and I have a lot of respect for them but for me it would simply be impossible to say with good consciousness that I wasn't influenced at all.

However government money for research also has issues (I can only talk about how it works in Germany but it's similar in most of Europe). Namely I think the practice of research projects is somewhat questionable. You need to build a consortium of anywhere form 3-10ish partners and write a proposal and hope it gets accepted. This results in 2-4 year projects that are funded. Sounds decent enough at first glance but the devil is in the details. First of all it is not a blind process so I fully expect some institutions/individuals to get more or less autoaccepted due to name recognition alone. I can't say for sure but there's humans involved so anything else would surprise me. That unfortunately adds a political dimension.
As a young academic you (and your professor) rely on a stream of funded projects to keep you employed (there's also non project-money jobs but these get rarer and rarer and are usually limited to 50% employment time) which means that your freedom of research is fairly limited (you can't really publish a paper that isn't related to the project and go to a conference for example) and more importantly there's a constant need to reacquire new funding. If I were to guess people spend anywhere form 20-40% of their time trying to get new projects and not working on the actual projects they have already secured.
And of course this need for project money gives governments a good way of influencing what research is being conducted (which is somewhat opposed to the principle of freedom in research) as only things they offer will get funded.

Lastly, it is surprisingly hard to do research as an individual with no institutional backing if one doesn't happen to have a good chunk of money set aside. Access to pay walled stuff (can be circumvented) and the need to travel to conferences (at least in CS) and depending on your field the need for costly equipment and access to test subjects.
There's some developments in this regard (citizen research) and I hope it'll get easier because I think there's quite a few capable people who'd enjoy spending their free time on research that interests them and publish it when done.
Unfortunately, hard work is not always effective work. When you embark on a journey of learning, it is your own responsiblity to make sure that you learn effectively. Hard work alone does not justify any merits - you have to make it count.
I agree. I already live my life with almost zero advertizing (adblocking + no tv), but I wouldn't mind going from "almost zero" to "absolute zero".

Not so long ago there used to be people here on HN arguing that people actually love ads (patio11 being one of them if I'm not mistaken); those people seem to have disappeared; I wonder what they think about the whole adblocking surge, esp. on iOS.
I wish I knew some good fix to split up research and lecturing. The teaching should be done by people who are good at it and the research by people who are good at that. I suppose there might be some areas where there are just too few people qualified to teach something at the proper level, but I somehow doubt that's true at the undergraduate level.

I remember distinctly which professors of mine were effective at conveying the material and an understanding of it vs. those who were not.
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Genetics plays a role in obesity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_of_obesity

You can also be thin and have a bad diet, and while you may not be obese your internal systems can still be suffering from damage over the long run.

Something that should be noted: Many folks who are poor don't have access to high quality foods. So they can buy soda but not a salad. And what determines what makes those foods cheap or expensive are often driven by industry lobbying. So much so that when there was attempt to tax soda in NYC there was a great deal of money spent to stop that from going into effect.
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> It's a slow evolution of doing the minimum necessary to keep raw html readable as things change

I like it and I've been experimenting with exactly the same thing. However, it's kind of hard for me to not get carried away and start adding a superfluous line CSS here and there. :-)

How do you pull in the comments from multiple sources BTW? Is it a manual process?
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There's a "gender problem" in public relations as well as in mental health counseling professions. The vast majority of professionals in those fields are women. I'm not sure I understand why that "problem" isn't warranting a New York Times story. In a great many PR and Marcom departments there's a very real bias against men. So much ink is being used on the STEM and women issue but oddly such "diversity" isn't quite important when the straight male is consistently marginalized in certain fields. How many straight male hairdressers do you know? How about makeup artists? Male kindergarten teachers? How about straight male fashion buyers or merchandisers or designers? How many men work at the cosmetics counter at Saks Fifth Avenue?

Is there any concept that men and women might actually be different and thus drawn to different interests? Obviously there's crossover and not everyone fits the mold but should we be trying to shoehorn the video game introvert into public relations and the outgoing fashionable social butterfly into particle physics? I don't doubt that there is a gender disparity in many professions, but my honest question is whether it's actually a 'problem.'

If girls (or boys) are being denied their passion because of discrimination, then yes, absolutely, but if we're just sitting around complaining because more boys like computers and more girls like public relations, then it seems like a silly thing to worry about. More girls like to play with dolls and more boys like to play with sticks and pretend they're laser guns. That's a fact. If a girl wants to play with a laser gun stick (or a boy with dolkls,) then I'm all for it, but just achieving diversity just to please some statistian or some gender studies professor is to deny that biology does, in fact have an influence on behavior and choices. I know that in some feminist circles, that idea is blasphemous, but reality doesn't really care about what some adjunct professor thinks.

Trying to "feminize" computers or make it less "nerdy" (i.e. Changing the Code Therefore I am shirt) is ridiculous and actually insulting. There are plenty of girls that like Star Wars, "nerdy" things and math and science. Just because that type of girl is a minority doesn't mean there's some kind of conspiracy.
Both nations were signatories to Paris convention at the time, although IANAL to tell if that particular product was covered.
> A was male, 21 years old, a stoner and business school drop-out with a portfolio consisting of a Java tower defense game.

> B was female, 30 years old, with several years experience doing QA on computer peripheral drivers who had re-trained herself as a web developer and had a Rails StackOverflow clone and a Meteor KhanAcademy clone for her portfolio.

> A got offered a six-figure full time position.

> B got offered an internship.

Yeah, sorry but that is a lie
Is stoicism having a cultural moment?

I rather think that modern western culture is about as un-Stoic as it has been at any point since... sometime before Stoicism was invented, and that any explicit endorsement of Stoicism you may find among the remaining sane people is purely a reaction to that.

Stoicism teaches that suffering and misfortune are part of life, and that wisdom comes from learning to deal with this fact. Modern-day Oprah culture teaches that you are a beautiful and unique person and that any suffering or misfortune you may encounter is something that you should probably sue somebody about.
surprisingly not in the list...
This is an absurd comment. If my grandma shows me the menu out the front of her favourite restaurant, she should be arrested for peddling advertising? She is doing unpaid advertising for the restaurant.

Advertising is an emotive subject for the HN crowd. Many of the start up can't really survive without resorting to advertising. Most of the ShowHN posts, blogs, tweets etc are some form of advertising. Should these be banned as well?
The federal reserve study seems a little suspect. Not saying it is, but it's curious that it just happened to be 51% of the papers that were deficient. And, their methodology kind of glossed over their sampling strategy.

I wish the science community had better methods for documenting the entire scientific process and timeline. We live in an era where everyone has access to computers, but research results are still offered as paper documents. This provides a lot of opportunity to 'fudge the numbers' - to re-write the hypothesis and/or methodology to fit the intended outcome.

Wouldn't it be much better if research results were stored in standardized file format that showed an unalterable timeline of all activity?
What about http://experiment.com/curebatten?

Still, big science does not equal good science. In most cases, the opposite is true. I find it's such a huge stereotype, even within research, that scientists forget about the creative, entrepreneurial, or hustling spirit of doing science that they default to pointing to have's and have-not's. "He has a big grant, so I how can I compete", and that zero-sum attitude is so counter productive.

> an inherently good thing

Yes, I vehemently believe it's a good thing. If we ever approach the levels of science literacy needed to create the adverse effects you're hinting at, then that would be fantastic. And, not knowing what's worth funding isn't a citizen's fault, that's on the scientist. If scientists were more vocal about their work, new opportunities, and big challenges, then of course the public would be able to identify what's worth funding. This is because communicating science is inherently a good thing, and when done well, it can motivate people to learn new things or act differently. Look at what pointing a bomb at the direction of the moon did in the 60s.

With respect to the problem in the article, these regulators and policy-makers need a big rocket to point at a single direction. When people are disconnected with what's out there, then there's no context for when science gets taken for a ride with a different agenda.
Oracle JDK has full support for C2 and hard float on ARM 64. That code is not in OpenJDK. Red Hat is working on C1 in OpenJDK for Java 9.
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If they control the browser chrome (UIWebView, Chromium, or whatever)— YES. jQuery is mostly for cross-compatibility these days, if you're on an evergreen platform there are many simpler and more performant libraries, or just write plain Javascript.
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Why would it be a clone, and why would it perceive itself as a clone, considering that it is made of up the original matter and in the original configuration? I would assume that a technology sufficiently powerful enough to re-assemble disintegrated matter into something as complex as a brain would also keep the state identical to it's original form as well. Assuming that thoughts and perceptions are completely physical, and the brain is the same state as before, there is no reason for it to experience a jolt or anything else that indicates something special occurred.
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This sounds like a very strange system to me. Where I graduated (and I believe in most of Europe) the university has to have allocated the full funding for the entire PhD for a student before that student is admitted. So the university cannot afford to run a scheme like you describe, which is good since that sounds to me like a borderline predatory system.
This little story taught me so much about programming I had forgotten! Great job!
You need not look to fiction in order to be completely terrified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Transhumanist_Associati...
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What are the religious leanings of statup founders and workers? More liberal? Much more liberal?
I like the general idea of this, but I'm bothered by the "slippery slope" effect this might cause.

Right now, the proposal is to strictly timebox the experiments and to implement procedures that discourage participants from relying on the experimental features.

However, timebox or not, what this framework does is to put in place a system for granting API access based on privilege. Once this system is standardized and accepted, what keeps it from being abused?

At the simplest, certain experiments could be extended for "infinite" time at the request of big-name participiants if the features are particularly valuable. One of the browser vendors could decide to open up registration for everyone but keep the new feature permanently registration-only.
In the most extreme case, this could cause an "app-storisation" of the web.

Another point that might cause trouble is the current distinction by origin (and not, say, top-level browsing context). Participiants could "smuggle features out of the lab" by building a JS library with a hidden iframe and selling/offering it to third-parties of their choosing.
We have some like that in italy as well and they are not that bad. They are not on public spaces so they might be at least regulated. Milano train station has some

However there also are bans on billboard along highways for safety reasons and on some old buildings for decency. That didn't stop renovators working on the Duomo side to make an huge billboard out of their scaffolding, however.
Kind of sad about this.
I'm surprised by the dearth of companies with manufactured products, especially since this is an international list. All I see are the 6 listed as "hardware" + SpaceX.

Edit: plus Trendy and Theranos and probably a few more from the other categories.
Though, I haven't heard of approximately 95% of the companies listed...
I'm not quite sure what your point is. Or I know what your point is but I'm not sure how it's related to discussion of ad-based vs paid because it's true for both, ad-based as well as paid.
But why should we force that "interest." If girls don't want to do it, why should we be "encouraging" it. We should encourage everyone to follow their passion and talents regardless of what those might be.
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Ask HN: How to save comments that I upvote?
Do I need a minimum karma or something to have upvoted comments save into:

https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=userid&comments=t

For me nothing shows up at the above url
Until they succeeds to persuade AWS/GCE/Azure to sell ARM backed instances, they will be taken seriously.
I think that where ARM could have a lot to offer is in distributing storage and compute more evenly... for distributed bigtable or cassandra-like storage, it could make a lot of sense to pair 16-32gb of fast ssd storage to a 4-8 core ARM node... With the amount of I/O bound data per compute node reduced, and lower cost per node, this could yeild much better results than the big boxes for distributed databases.

For many other chores, I'm not sure if it makes as much sense... but that's juse my $.02 on the issue. I still think it's a pretty cool option, but not sure how well it works for a lot of different areas.
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"It's really a kind of liberal tyranny that is not only sweeping this country but it seems at least the western world. It strikes me as a kind of lower class hacking order / squabbling and anger"

Yeah..No. It's just rantings of someone steeped deeply in one extreme of a the political spectrum.
Thought I was going to like the ad-free, but it turns out I actually like the 'before' shots better. Maybe there's a happy medium?
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Delphi was a pile of steaming crud. I have programmed in worse environments: Visual Basic would be one, but Delphi was seriously painful. All the modernity of Pascal with the safety of C. Layered over... what? 5 or 6 generations of the system, all of which behave differently. Some of which still works - but you'll never know until you try it and find why that wasn't the way to go. shudder
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Do you know any open source projects that aim to solve any of the most important social challenges of our days - poverty, water access, immigration issues, endangered species monitoring and control, etc..?

Or has software/open source development been completely detached and uninterested with these kind of problems?
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Although this copy gives no indication of it, the article is over a year old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250759.
In the recent AMA Sama mentioned this:
step1. Initially it is better to start with self studying
step2. Once you are at a certain level, find a good mentor to learn from

Based on above, I think you should delay joining school etc and complete step1 first
Clearly VCs are underfunding advertising backed companies.

Based on the past 150 years of so of history, ad-supported companies have consistently delivered excellent returns. First the newspaper empires, then TV, then Internet.
Please explain!
"Here is an email I wrote to my students in the Fall of 2013 that went viral, and was read by more than 1 million people."

That's a very strong statement for a mathematician to make. I wonder how he can prove that 1 million people "read" it.
Has the author swapped collectors and emitters in the first paragraph?

e: actually several times throughout the text it seems.
Why is this comment getting downvoted? I'd say of all the recommendations in this thread, getting out into nature is by far the most sensible.

I second this advice.
Facebook is a publicly traded company. "Unicorns" are private companies valued at over $1 billion.
I think that tethering the storage to the compute nodes would work better.. 16-32GB on the same board with the arm chip, in clusters per nU, per rack ... Reducing the bottlenecks from data storage to the processor. In this kind of scenario widely distributed databases could be a much better fit in ARM than in x86 based servers.

Imagine how fast Cassandra or something similar could run if your filtering nodes ran with the data, and much more widely distributed than typical... it could literally be a night and day difference in the amount of data that can be processed in a rack.
> sex appeal

Actually, it's the other way around. Granting agency budgets are so constrained that funders are looking for heuristics to de-risk their funding decisions.
One of those two perks sounds immensely adorable! =)
I don't see the value in that. Funds are fungible, as Colbert so aptly pointed out in his exposé of state lotteries
It's called a bad trip. I think you've figured that out.
You could argue that when you wake up in the morning it's a new you anyway.
Why? It's pretty hard to build defensible margins on hardware. GoPro is the last company I can think of that did it and they have plenty of challengers.
That's clearly bullying. The article describes things that I would have thought are really benign:

Over and over, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor — art and nature posters, coffee makers, plants and general-interest magazines.

The researchers also found that cultural stereotypes about computer scientists strongly influenced young women’s desire to take classes in the field. At a young age, girls already hold stereotypes of computer scientists as socially isolated young men whose genius is the result of genetics rather than hard work. Given that many girls are indoctrinated to believe that they should be feminine and modest about their abilities, as well as brought up to assume that girls are not innately gifted at science or math, it is not surprising that so few can see themselves as successful computer scientists.

In another experiment, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues arranged for female undergraduates to talk to an actor pretending to be a computer science major. If the actor wore a T-shirt that said “I CODE THEREFORE I AM” and claimed to enjoy video games, the students expressed less interest in studying computer science than if the actor wore a solid shirt and claimed to enjoy hanging out with friends — even if the T-shirt-clad actor was another woman.

Such superficial stereotypes might seem laughably outdated. And yet, studies show that the public’s image of a scientist hasn’t changed since the 1950s. And such stereotypes do have a basis in reality. Who could fail to notice that only one of the eight people awarded Nobel Prizes in science or medicine last week was a woman?

If this is accurate, then the idea that women simply like other things, like rewqfdsa proposes should get more merit.

If that turns out to be the core of the problem, then there may be nothing for people in STEM to do. Because we could be the most welcoming and inclusive bunch but the majority of us are going to turn women off by decorating our walls with Star Wars/Trek posters, reading sci-fi, wearing nerdy T-Shirts and playing video games.
> I'm going to argue that direct public funding is the best way, and by that I mean the historical analogy of direct patronage or crowdfunding research today (e.g. experiment.com).

Sadly, you'll be hard-pressed to do direct public funding in anything that is not publicly-attractive. You'll get a gazillion bazillion dollars for research on canabinoids, and barely a dime on some boring ray-bending materials research problem that will eventually turn out to be easy to integrate on an organic substrate, opening the way for silicon-on-organic optoelectronic devices.

The "average citizen or constituent" has a level of scientific education that would prove at least as, if not more toxic than commercial interests. The current (absolutely terrible!) grant funding model is indeed too technical for the "average citizen or constituent"; a frickin' k-12 textbook is too technical for the average citizen, of course high-level research is too technical! That's why it's high-level!

> If you were motivated to go out and seek an answer for yourself, then perhaps you'd be less likely to lean on witnesses, testimony, or experts that you don't understand.

That's how we ended up with the anti-vaccines craze. People are motivated to go out and seek an answer for themselves, but they're also lazy and seek comforting answers.
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> to get rid of them again is really obnoxious

I've recently taking to switching off Javascript for just this reason. The Chrome extension "Quick Javascript Switcher" does it on a site-by-site basis. No more interstitials, cookie-warning crap, etc.
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Taking percentage share of profits from device sales is not the only way to make a dent in Apple's profits. Profits are not a constant.

What would Apple's profits be if Android did not exist? I believe they would be much higher just as Microsoft's profits would be much higher if Linux didn't exist.

But it's a counterfactual question. So we will never know for sure.