skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ummm - I'm not so sure about this ;-)
Nights and Weekends will only get you so far (eventually you have to dive in at the deepend) (and whilst Nights and Weekends will help to develop the business model / product - it certainly won't completely de-risk it - which means you're back into Joel's situation of burn rate....
What you're looking for are called "Open Access" journals. There are a few lists on the web, such as http://www.doaj.org/ . There has been a big push recently for Open Access to scientific data, especially NIH funded studies. I don't know how this is for NSF funded work though. PLoS is the poster child of this movement, but others have been around for longer, such as the BioMed Central (BMC) family of journals.

There are a lot of costs involved in the process of producing a scientific journal: printing, editing, hosting PDFs/supplemental data, etc... These are not insignificant costs. Usually the costs of this are split between the submitter and the subscriber (hence why sometimes articles include a disclaimer that they are an advertisement). Open Access journals will force these costs over to the submitter completely, leaving access to the articles free.
>If you know, or at least strongly suspect, that someone is an FBI informant/provocateur, what are you doing to do - call the FBI?

Why not?
Haven't all of the homegrown terrorism prosecutions involved a highly zealous FBI informant/provocateur?
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I find it to be wrong that somebody leaked classified documents.

I think it's more complicated than that. "Following orders" is not an acceptable defense, and for that reason I think leaking classified documents is not only sometimes justifiable but that it is sometimes an absolute necessity (ie. in the case where classified documents are the only evidence of a crime). Most of the time, though, you're probably right - classified documents should remain secure.

Sites like Wikileaks provide incentive to those with classified information to leak it.

Part of my point in the previous post was that if there is a weak point in an organization, there will be a leak. I think there is enough incentive for information leaks without Wikileaks - I have no source for this but I suspect that the diplomatic cables alone would have been worth millions in the black market before the leak. Wikileaks is actually one of the safest places for this information to go.
Non-profit doesn't mean free. Any money made from journals helps support their core missions.
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Because they can. Peer-review publications are the way people measure the worthiness of academics, so their producers job depend on getting published in prestigious scientific journals, so they put up with it.

The only way this is ever going to chance is if they make the law such that you have to publish in a free to access journal, but since the current mafia has all the money, who do you think has the most lobbyists?
> I'd really, really like to agree with you. Unfortunately, for myself and a lot of others, college is about getting a job. Why did I go to school and get a computer science degree? All of the employers in my area simply expected a B.Sc. in Computer Science or something related before they'd even consider you as a programmer.

It's hard for me to have this conversation with you, because I can't imagine living my life with the end goal of simply finding employment. I'm incapable of going a day without creating something or adjusting something or trying to somehow change myself. So the only jobs I want are the ones that let me make things. And there are always jobs like that available, and they're really easy to find, too: You just hunt down other people that are making things and you ask them what they want you to make.

But I'm still surprised that people have trouble applying for jobs even as programmers. Isn't it relatively easy? You just spend some time making really flashy things, real show-off-y stuff that demonstrates you're more than competent at what you're doing. Write a cocky cover letter that says "I didn't go to college but I'm better at what I'm doing than most college graduates", even if you're not, and then let your work speak for itself. I'm biased also because the year I spent learning Computer Sciences was the easiest year of classes I ever took. I still don't fully grasp why the major seems so demanding for so many students when a lot of the work they have you do is fairly trivial.

> EDIT: I also believe that the necessity of liberal education in college is declining as more information becomes more widely available. Yeah, when you had to go to the university library to look up philosophy and history, liberal arts courses were necessary to make someone a well-rounded person. Today, however, there is such a rich variety of liberal education available for free on the Internet that one can make themselves well rounded without stepping foot inside a formal educational setting.

One can convince himself of his well-roundedness. But there's a difference between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge. Sort of like the parent post to my original one said about not suspecting most liberal arts college students of being willing to put in an effort. I too am suspicious of college students reading "liberal arts subjects" on the Internet and bothering to apply them in any practical way, to test out their ideas for their own.

Having experienced, wise professors guide you through courses of study is a luxury we don't have yet on the Internet.
What's DHS have to do with it? They're not the primary body on immigration and work visas, are they?
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So the first amendment reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I think mostly the framers just wanted to make religion explicit since it was then a contentious issue and always will be.
It's not. Godel is asking, what's the fastest program that can tell if a (first order predicate logic) formula is provable?

Maybe you were confused by the 'max', but what he's doing is defining the complexity of the prover by the hardest (max computational time) formula instance for each length n. You still try to handle that maximum difficulty case as efficiently as possible, it just happens to take the longest.
We use closet lights for this at my current startup, but I really like the idea of it automatically updating based on frontmost task. It'd be great if there were a project that provided the software side of this for at least Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS.
She is using wordpress, and many wordpress themes have these sponsored links out of the box. These themes are called sponsored themes and have generated quite a bit of controversy in the past.
And miss all the publicity? Imagine a story of line of "hey we thought it was doing this, but turns out not, so oh well". Not as enticing as "arsenic based life form" is it?
If these costs are forced over to the submitter, the stereotypical "money-ignoring" researcher, those costs will begin the weigh heavily on their shoulders. Without support from their hosting institutions, which means a change in how business is done, those articles might find themselves with small, yet significant price tags. Look at textbooks.
If an open-access journal can become reputable enough, the niche in a field interested in the journal will publish there- period. It doesn't require laws to be passed.
I totally disagree with this article. Some people are naturally better at some things than others. Sure, it helps if you work at something and are focused. But when it comes to doing something of difficulty, some people just "get it" and others... not so much. For example, there are people who get math and those who don't. For the ones who don't it seems that no amount of trying will allow them to understand certain concepts. Based on personal observation.
Did anyone else misread Stratford as "Stanford"?
Thanks for the mirrors.
A fairly detailed (if opinionated) answer to your question is here:

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/02/06/openacc...

The summary is: (1) academics have historically given away their research and reviewing work for free to (revenue seeking) journals and professional associations to get distribution and prestige, (2) this no longer makes sense with the Internet, and (3) academia, journals, and professional associations are in an awkward transition as a result.

In the meantime, just use Google Scholar and hope that you are reading something important enough that someone has possibly violated copyright and posted a version online without a paywall.
Entrapping impressionable people who otherwise have no history of terrorism, let alone a criminal record, has become the go-to weapon for the FBI. Virtually all other terrorism-related arrests made in this country since 9/11 have been made using this tactic.

Serves the FBI right for A) Ruining innocent people's lives, and B) Screwing over the very community that they claim to be partners with.
I wouldn't assume he has health insurance. He's gone through long periods of unemployment.
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Get rid of it 1
Why do the others not count?
It is mostly a clause to keep something like the Church of England (head of state is head of church) from happening in the USA.
So there might be things that might become illegal in general but not illegal within the context of religion?

Why make exceptions in this way?
Not just that learning is good, but that continuous learning is necessary to remain relevant, and to not be a drag on everyone that interacts with you.
But their main purpose is no longer "to make money".
The Bill of Rights does NOT spell out your rights for you. Your rights include EVERYTHING that the Constitution does not explicitly give to the state. The Bill of Rights is just an example listing of rights that the founders felt were most important for a free society.
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For the products of funding by NIH, see PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
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How do you feel about Cocchi Americano instead of Lillet Blanc? I've heard Cocchi is a good substitute for Lillet Blanc, but I've only ever had the Cocchi, so I wouldn't know how it is otherwise. I've also generally used Regan's instead of Angostura Orange..
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They are (USCIS is part of DHS). The INS was dissolved in 2003.
Google Scholar isn't an answer to the free publications question.
Being such a skilled programmer, one would think he could get a loan for a measly 10k and be able to easily pay it back with the kind of salaries we're paid these days...
Yes, but that doesn't stop the government from taking away rights (See: Plessy v. Ferguson/Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia [was needed to stop abridgment of rights], DADT and DOMA, for example.)
I use a description of what I;m iterating over. If it's a list of people, I use 'person'. If the keys are session IDs, I use 'sessionid'. I do this because it's easier for me and I think I'm being nicer to the next person to come along.
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>Based on the system that we live in, everybody tends to benefit, when (in aggregate) everybody looks out for their self-interest.

Isn't that the basic premise of Game Theory? and more specifically the Nash Equilibrium? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium)
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Ask HN: What will medicine look like in 10 years?
I recently decided to become a doctor and there seems to be a lot of pessimism surrounding the field with the recent government interventions and what-not. But I'm more optimistic and can see technology playing a powerful role in disrupting old systems and creating a new paradigm of personalized-to-the-DNA treatments, tri-quarter-ish diagnosis tools, re-growth of organs and damaged tissues, and integrative medicine (whole-body treat-the-cause instead of the symptom). These things may not come in 10 years, but perhaps some will.

Am I naive and too optimistic? What does HN think about the future of medicine?
My grandfather worked for the same company for forty years. He looked out for the company and it looked out for him. That is missing in today's workplace.
Seems like it, except for cases like the Ft. Hood shootings where the guy actually executed his planned attack.
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I work for a medical association that publishes a top-100 journal (I work on different products, not the journal), and we have ~20 full time staff members internally working on it. Actual delivery of web content is handled by an outside vendor with their own staff. Tack on the declining $ available from advertising, plus ever more onerous pharma restrictions and there is no way that the content could be delivered for free.
This whole event (at the 92nd street Y, no less) sounds like a scene from a Woody Allen movie, in which the protagonist is trying to rise above the comedy genius that made him so famous and is genuinely, if perhaps misguidedly, befuddled when his audience is upset when he doesn't give them any laughs.
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At least according to what I read in http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.p... (which ndaiger linked to earlier), the audience was really not happy about what they saw.

This does not mean that they should not improve their method of getting feedback from the audiences, of course. For example, they might have a staff person report how happy the audience seemed to be, and try to correct for the statistical effect that complainers are more vocal than happy people.

Assuming, of course, that it matters whether you have a happy audience. Maybe that is not the only objective, in which case, say, the artistic value should be also considered. But even then, it is important not to leave the audience dissatisfied.
According to the Wikipedia, Draper was born in 1944, which mean that he ought to be covered by Medicare, which is the federally-run insurance program for individuals over 65. However, as other commenters have noted, even with insurance, it's not uncommon to find out that a particular procedure isn't covered by one's plan, and even very good insurance policies often don't cover costs 100%. For example, very good private insurance policies often only pay 80% of inpatient costs- the other 20% will be billed to the patient. That said, there's usually some sort of upper limit to the patient's financial responsibility, after which the insurance company pays 100%... but that limit can sometimes be in the tens of thousands of dollars, depending on the plan.

Furthermore, many insurance plans will cover a surgical procedure at one rate, but will cover ancillary costs (such as anesthesia, follow-up care, and medications) at a different (often lower) rate. This is all a long-winded way of saying that it is quite common for major medical procedures that are nominally "covered" by one's health insurance to end up costing the patient quite a bit of money when all is said and done. Look at the stats on medical bankruptcies in the US over the last few years- most of those people had insurance, and still ended up screwed.

Also, I'd like to point out that if Draper had been born a few years later (i.e., if he was younger than 65 years old) it seems quite likely that he might not have had any insurance at all. Many older people- especially people whose careers haven't been a stead string of stable corporate jobs, but have instead been independent contractors or otherwise self-employed- find themselves in the position of being 55 or 60 years old and suddenly unable to afford (or even be allowed to purchase) health insurance. Also, there are also quite a few people (especially these days) who are laid off from what had been formerly stable corporate jobs around that age, and find themselves uninsured for the first time in their lives just as their bodies are starting to break down. I know a number of people who celebrated their 65th birthday by going to the doctor for the first time in a few years.
I rarely use i-j-k, I tend to use n-m-r for some reason(possibly because I've been programming with iterator syntax so long, that I always think first of grabbing "thing n" rather than incrementing "counter i.") But on reflection I think this is probably less legible.
It would also be cute to have the terminal bell hooked up to an actual bell.
The internet allows for a much more powerful system than the current journal system, much more powerful than even an open journal system.

Some things I'd like to see in a unified online open system:

* Hyperlinking between papers

* Discussion threads for papers

* Collaborative mark ups of papers, so that difficult papers can be communally dissected and fleshed out, or so that students can work through a paper and provide a mark up to ease the reading for other students

* An ongoing wiki for every subfield, detailing current outstanding problems, papers to read to get up to speed, most recent progress, etc, as well as curating accepted knowledge. Wikis should also be able to be marked up by students, so that difficult material can be broken down and fleshed out for the sake of other students.
Is this really meaningful w/o knowing how many applied from each school and the number of students Stratford turns out compared to the cited Ivy League schools?
I'll second the first commenter.

A NPO just needs to reinvest profits towards whatever its mission is...

I work for a non-profit medical association, and there is every bit as much of a concern about turning a profit on our products, its just where the profits end up that is different.

Heck, we're even getting xmas bonuses. 5% Base salary + $1,000.
I struggle with brevity. :-)
I enjoyed meeting Scoble. The guy was really sick during this interview and still managed to come out and meet with me. He clearly cares about his work and is passionate about technology.
You're taking this too literally. Remember, the Bill of Rights was a political compromise to get more people to vote in favor the US Constitution.

The US was, and is, a deeply religious country, and a significant number of people who emigrated to the then-colonies did so in part or in whole to escape religious persecution from their homeland. While freedom of speech probably encompasses freedom of worship, the extra explicitness was added just to reinforce that the concern was being addressed.

And, to be perfectly honest, I have full confidence that any lawyer worth his salt could argue that religious belief is not speech, per se, but rather bluh bluh bluh and therefore not covered. At the very least, without that explicit clause you could probably create a state church and have other religions be second-class citizens, as long as they are tolerated to a certain extent. By explicitly forbidding a state church, they prevent the first-among-equals conundrum from becoming institutional.
In physics and math, a lot of the the intellectual/ academic "action" (a combination of the sharing of results + acclamation by peers (for tenure and promotion)) has moved to preprint servers, specifically http://arxiv.org. Instead of the closed peer review process, what happens is that your scientific peers either start citing you publically or they rip you to shreds publically -- just as good for judging a result as three anonymous (and usually old and set in their ways) reviewers.

This move really pisses off the big publishing houses/ copyright owners like Wiley, but whenever they blather about anonymous peer review what they are really saying is "we make a lot of money off this process -- don't take it away".

The problem with systems like arxiv -- and the reason why all academics don't go there in droves -- is that acedemia promotes people and the govt gives grants based on a formula: sum(journal_prestige .* number_articles). Take away the current system and there is no way to evaluate anybody.

What about via their intellectual merit, you ask? You can prove things in the experimental sciences and math, but in the humanities and the social "sciences" (ack!), there is no objective criteria for evaluating whether a potential hire is either "good" or "not so good" except the above formula. What makes it worse, is that in the social sciences, nobody ever reads papers unless their advisor or one of their advisor's friends wrote it, so if you are on a hiring committee outside your field, you don't know shit about most potential hires (except sum(prestige .* count))

As for the cost -- the internet makes it basically free -- all you have to do is host a bunch of pdf's and have a search function. Fairly trivial for a linux enabled programmer in a university. It is the sociology of it all that prevents the move to open articles.

One of the contradictions, though, to the evaluation argument above is that academics increase in value with each citation, so it hurts an academic to put barriers in front of her papers. Academics almost NEVER make royalties, btw.

(The linked article makes many of the same points.)

A lot of hot academics just put pdf's of their articles on their personal website anyway.
I agree with you. To me it seems naive to say there is no talent. If humans can play music because our DNA allows us to do so while monkeys can't do the same, why is not possible that the DNA responsible for this varies slightly from person to person making some people better than others? I said music, but the same applies to reflexes in soccer or planning ahead in chess.
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Nice. Gonna brush up the resume a little bit and then apply for Junior IT Support Specialist. I mean, I know this is HN but the guys who know almost everything else besides programming are very often ignored completely here.

How about competent beta testers, or sysadmins like someone else said here?
I would prefer the courts respect the 9th and 10th amendment, reverse a bunch of rulings on the "Commerce Clause", and try to remember what limited government really is.
It doesn't seem particularly beneficial to the community to fade out posts simply because a few more people disagree with them than agree with them. Unless you're simply trying to encourage group think, I guess.
Agreed. Intelligence does not equal financial success. Here's a story the WSJ ran on Mr. Draper in 2007: http://on.wsj.com/ckUc6D
You've got some great ideas, but some of them are stymied by academic ego. For example, in peer review, reviews are generally unnamed. A discussion thread based system can suffer from what peer review did - people refuse to comment negatively with an attached name.

A great example of moving in this direction is the recent P=NP discussion that happened largely on Dick Lipton's blog (http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/a-proof-that-p-is-n...).