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I'm a Ph.D. student working in theoretical high-energy physics. In this field we don't rely on peer-reviewed journals. Instead, when a researchers wants to "publish" a paper she uploads it to the arXiv, and the paper appears on the site within a day or two. The arXiv is open in the sense that almost anyone can publish there [1]. Researchers in the field catch up on new research by scanning the arXiv daily for interesting papers. No one I know reads peer-reviewed journals. I know that many papers are also published in journals, but I believe this is a formality that has more to do with obtaining grants and such than with actual communication within the community. As far as I know there's no reason to publish in a journal before you become a professor.

The result is similar to the GitHub situation in many ways. Because there are no barriers to publishing, everyone makes up their own mind about which papers are interesting. If your work is relevant, others will build on it and cite you. They will discuss it in their group meeting, and so on. A scientist's reputation is then directly related to the quality of their work, as judged by the community, with no artificial barriers. This means that a self-respecting scientist would not publish a sub-par paper even though it's technicality possible to do so, because that would hurt her reputation.

So it seems to me that the situation in high-energy physics is close to ideal, with respect to ease of publishing and the social aspect of reputation. Having said that, there are certainly aspects of GitHub that I would love to see adopted.

For instance, when several researchers are writing a paper, generally no version control system is employed. Instead, at any point in time the draft is "locked" by one of the collaborators, and only that person can change it. Beyond the obvious inefficiency of this method, note that it is also difficult to track what changes were made in each lock cycle. I use diff for this purpose, but in my experience many scientists in the field aren't aware of such tools. So something that could really help is a simple way to collaborate on papers, just a basic source control system. Also, it must be possible to work on the paper in private within the collaboration, and only publish the end result.

[1] The few barriers that exist are in place to keep out the crackpots, who reduce the signal-to-noise ratio and in that sense resemble spammers.
Or at least submit it as an entirely different AskHN...
Heh - I didn't think a server side SCTP implementation was very interesting if you don't have clients to use it.
Well first Google's ranking system works off of more than just one website, otherwise these SEO link farms would just make one WordPress site and post a thousand of links from there. Google's graph based algorithm is based on many sites.

So even if we do get used for that we wouldn't be a good enough target, but you're right, we can definitely see us possible getting bundled in with other tricks. This issue however has been tackled by hundreds of other sites who also have similar issues, like bots creating accounts and posting comments with links. So the technology for solving this is already there and there are plenty of Thirdparty vendors that provide software to fight this stuff off by doing things like cross-site string matching.

But all in all yes, the fact that someone can post anonymously comes with great technical challenges that we're eager to try and solve.
Do you need exclusive access to your very own scanning multiphoton microscope? Seems like laboratory virtualization would go hand in hand with open source science.
Those were not the droids they were looking for.
Alright, but that is just theory. The reason you'd want a text protocol is so that humans could read it. Once you secure the protocol, you can't read it without a machine to help you.
How is this any different from the wordpress.com homepage, where they highlight some of the better recent wordpress.com blog posts?
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And the bitrate of the advertisements is always very low.
You probably want to add rel="nofollow" to links until the post has been validated/upvoted enough or something.
That is absolutely true, at least in my family. My grandfather ate more calories for breakfast than I do all day. He was thin as a rail, and I'm... not.
> 1) Why does Google feel the need to play favorites?

This has always been the case, why complain now? Soon the source will be released and that'll be the end of it (until the next release and the usual FUD). And I doubt the businessweeks article, they didn't give any proofs, meanwhile android devices are being released every weeks so allow me to doubt.

> 2) Why did Andy Rubin not address the fact that Skyhook Wireless was prevented from doing business with Motorola because it competed with Google's geo-location services?

Android the OS is open source, google apps have never been so. So you expect google to make a free operating that will make manufacturers millions of dollars and on top of that you expect google to offer its apps and web services for free? Google is not santa, it's perfectly fair to ask for conditions in exchange of their apps, if the manufacturers doesn't want them, they can always just ship the OS with their own apps.
No, this is pure conspiracy theory. :-)

The decision to drop "http:// from the display was a UI decision and had nothing to do with the internals. The idea is that the "http:// is just user-confusion. Most users can't spell HTTP, much less know why it is there. Why do we subject our poor users to it? Personally, I don't care.

Chrome does not recognize "spdy://" as a protocol scheme, and the UI display changes nothing with respect to how chrome selects protocols.
Ahh indeed, I thought there were 5!=120 ways to order 3M and 2F, but apparently there are only 5!/(2!3!) = 10 ways: {MMMFF,MMFFM,MFFMM,FFMMM,FMMMF,MFMMF,MMFMF,FMMFM,MFMFM,FMFMM}. I made the mistake of thinking you can distinguish between individual males/females.
"helps Mobile Operators defend against disintermediation while increasing ARPU by providing users an unparalleled mobile entertainment experience driving significantly increased content purchases."

Clear enough :)
Oh boy... So many friends of mine went to finance precisely because they didn't like physics...
That "someone" was an investigator for the Air Force (or at least passed as one to the FBI). The document doesn't say the FBI decided it was a matter not worth pursuing, only that the one agent didn't "attempt further evaluation".

It's a curious document for sure.

The American Southwest is the most heavily atomic-bombed place in the world. There was a lot of radiation in the air back then.
Good ideas, but I disagree that you need a Bill Gates to make it happen.

The way this will happen is a grad student hacker who is avoiding working on his thesis will start coding it, and then create a kickstarter asking for support to spend the summer working on it. If she's a credible engineer, she'll get the support easily, and every subsequent kickstarter grant will also be fulfilled and it'll get built.

If you build it (right) they will come.
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He was unclear, really? It sounds to me as though he fully understands the "don't go all out on your first wedding anniversary" concept.
PG ... Ive already got a stable of pretty solid investors and a house in Palo alto ... what do ya say I just give you the equity and you let me go through this cycle without giving me any cash? lol Im just looking for sound advice and a good sounding board
I just took a browse through my copy of SICP and see that the graphics are just diagrams. Crisp and clear diagrams.

They are perfect for conversion to vector format using Inkscape's "Trace Bitmap" feature. Doing this should take you less than a minute per diagram.
That's basically what SPDY is. It has two halves, a framing layer (which is generic), and a definition of how to embed HTTP within that framing layer. In theory, you could use the framing layer for other purposes, but we designed it tailor-made for http.

For the original question - HTTP can only send one request at a time. SPDY can send many all at the same time, avoiding lots of round trips. As a side effect, it sends fewer bytes and packets too. look for the IETF slides for the latest data.
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Breaking into the enterprise market has it's own difficulties as I am sure you are already aware of. Having been directly and indirectly involved in several large IT software purchases I can tell you that more often than not, large purchases/contracts are not made based on features and/or price. They are made 3 levels above you by personal relationships.

That is why you have huge IT shops wasting countless hours dealing with clearcase UCM inadequacies when there are comparable and even better options available for free or cheap.

At the time of purchase the argument given is that the staff required to administer the free software will cost more than the license and support contract but in the end you still end up hiring a full time staff of 14 to manage that clearcase system and blame issues on the hardware.

In the case you can break through the gold-ol-boy sales process with your revolutionary product the cycle for a product costing as little as 20k can be upwards of 18 months and if it is terminated at the zero hour you have literally wasted hundred of man hours chasing a deal that you will not be getting paid for.

To answer the original question, If I where to take on oracle or attempt to make them irrelevant I would be Atlassian software (JIRA/Confluence/etc.). While they are not offering competing products to oracle or IBM they do have the ability to work from the developer upwards to find there way into even the largest enterprises.
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It's interesting that we spend almost as much on sleep aids as we do on energy drinks. I wonder what the distribution is by age.
Yeah, we were planning in using some of StackOverflows reputation based logic as well, so that will help a lot.
He is also an author of the Google Bigtable (http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html) and Chubby (http://labs.google.com/papers/chubby.html) papers.

In university, we had to read one of his earlier papers, Eraser (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.3...).
I, for one, hope Google App Engine starts supporting it ;-)
We are similar, true, but this is the central theme of IW - our sole focus. On wordpress it's kind of up to you to promote it. We're trying to improve what's just a 'feature' on many other sites.
Very, very true. Client-side javascript suffers a debilitating flaw: it's largely used to manipulate the DOM, which is sadly still an ugly task despite over a decades' worth of effort. Provided you can sandbox that part of your code away from the rest, client-side javascript is every bit as palatable as the rest.
> many of the recent HN posts linking to company blogs don't include a link back to the homepage. [...] Don't make me edit out "blog." from the URL by hand.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who has noted this lately. :)

Listen to this advice and follow it!
It was not there an hour ago - I would like to think that I was the impetus, as I saw it right when he posted and immediately replied: https://twitter.com/#!/andrewpbrett/status/56503853184598016
Right, also StackOverFlow, now that I've been reminded by someone in the comments above, Is a perfect example of an open community system where almost anyone can join. So using some of this logic we can control the anonymous madness. I mean we don't want to completely be like 4Chan but...
> My understanding is that you have to use Google's search engine if you want to slap "with Google" on the back of your phone.

Well, if your phone comes with Bing and it says "with Google", isn't that kind of lying? Also some phones have been locked on Bing so people couldn't even revert to Google.
Or when you're tasked to do something you've never done before, and your initial thoughts of "I bet y is like x" turn out to be terribly wrong.

Something so seemingly trivial as a different API can make two similar tasks take vastly different amounts of time, especially if you're approaching the second problem with the mindset induced by the first API.
Marsh, do you believe that little people in shiny pants came here in saucers?
I'm thinking about a site where Geophotos is a compelling central feature. Is geophotos just a side feature in Flickr or a central concept?
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Not necessarily. The distributed `coffee` script will automatically compile before running the script. Plus it shows you coffeescript-friendly tracebacks on error.
Very true and there is a very easy way to do this. Be your own boss.

lol
This brings fun memories. Are Google t-shirts still a sought after commodity at Googleplex ?

The way the distribution worked was that a small cabinet used to be replenished by some 50 odd t-shirts at some random time in the week. Those who wanted a t-shirt (definitely all interns, but not sure if it was limited to them alone. More on this shortly) ran a manual poll or a select loop on that cabinet. If the word spread that the cabinet has been replenished there would a mad rush. It was not that the t-shirts were like no other, but the artificial scarcity made it fun to get one. We interns definitely fought for it like a trophy. The more prized ones were the Ts for women. Good gift for your girlfriend. My personal favorite was the Wienberger T. It was not Googly enough to attract unwarranted attention.

The vibe the t-sirts created was quite opposite of "here we all wear Google Ts". It was more like, "I got one and you didn't", a fun competition to humor each other with.

Soon some Googler figured out that one could set up a webcam to monitor that cabinet. The ip address of that cam was publicly distributed. I suspect a fair number of people really wanted these t-shirts because the cam would always clog up on the traffic, to the point of being almost useless. That's a shame because someone wrote an application to compare consecutive frames from that cam so that it will send out a message once it detected a change. Its a bit tricky, you do not want it to trigger whenever someone walked passed that cabinet. Particularly so because it was right on the way to the cafeteria. So one had to average out the frames so that any change that persisted roughly for the amount of time that is required to stuff the cabinet triggered the system but not others. A low-pass filter for t-shirt stuffing.

Not sure if anyone wrote a predictive model to figure out when that t-shirt cabinet will be stuffed. But I would not be surprised if anyone did. The culture inside seemed just right for these kind of things.
You may not need exclusive access to one, which is why a lot of institutions setup "centers" for this type of work (center for visualization, for example). Then multiple people can share the equipment and cost - if you can recruit people with a similar research focus. So, you may not need one exclusively, but you do need one locally available.
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I find myself enjoying the ambiguity more than either of the alternatives. :-)
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What an excellent post. If nothing else, and you're a coder who wants to spend the bare minimum amount of time improving your designs, I highly recommend grabbing "The non-designer's designer book" mentioned in the text.
Even with his clarification, I think the distinction does matter between authentication and authorization, because "who I am?" will result in different answers to "do I have permission?" depending on the context. Location, time, etc. all play a role: I can drink in the bar at 10pm, but maybe not at 2:01am after they close, and probably not in church.
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This doesn't ring true. Epigenetics may take a lot of time, but memetics don't. Social changes can produce sharp changes in diet very quickly. Many epidemics predate 1980, but obesity, by the numbers, does not appear to.
Thanks for the love =).

I agree about funding being an ulterior motive for a hiring committee to look at publication history. In my defense, I brought it about 2/3 of the way through with:

"We need trusted ways to quantify just how useful that API and associated code are to the scientific community, which can be listed on a scientist's profile and utilized by committees making hiring and funding decisions."

Science is constrained by resources, like everything else, but that doesn't mean scientists shouldn't try to optimize what can be done with the resources available.

Also, you imply that good science requires your own experimental data - and bearing associated costs - but that's only true when experimentalists aren't incentivized to share their data.
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Ok, but to what extent do you have to entertain little saucer pilots in shiny pants in order to take this particular document seriously? :)
One issue I see is what branch of science are we talking about? Physics largely seems to have this figured out via arXiv.org, but funding for molecular / biology / medical research is heavily dependent upon publication record. I'm not sure about Computer Science. But my point is when one says "Science" needs X or Y for "Science", no one is speaking the same language.

These comments are enough evidence of this. Some have already mentioned arXiv.org, and others Science.io which seems to be specifically targeted at CS. When you add medical research, the needs for these branches is vastly different.
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> Think of it as the Google of airline data.

And now they will be the Google of the Google of airline data.
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"Every Internet service that has a concept of users has to deal with identity."

We have users and customers and we don't care who they are. Customers we care if their money is good.

The idea of validated internet identity for things outside of banking/finance and voting is a complete sham.

These companies screaming for identity know perfectly well they are lying to their customers. What they are really interested in is monitoring people and selling information about their habits to marketers.
You can share them. Many labs do. Indeed, most of these things are probably shared in one way or another.

And you're correct: The trick to encouraging open source science is not to focus on the social networking tech -- that will be ready when you need it -- but to first attack the problem of doing quality lab work on the cheap. That's where the bottleneck is.

The biggest problem with shared facilities is the tragedy of the commons. In engineering -- or machining or woodworking or cooking, for that matter -- you quickly learn the importance of having your own tools. It only takes seconds to ruin a good tool. It only takes seconds to contaminate your cell culture, or your neighbor's cell culture, or an entire room full of your department's laboratory mice.

And mailing your samples off to a distant "virtual" lab is fine if you're studying disposable samples, or inorganic samples, or samples that have been permanently fixed and preserved on a glass slide. But living cells ship poorly even when you're allowed to ship them at all, and animals ship even more poorly than that. So often you've got to live next door to the equipment you're trying to share, and that's still expensive.
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Have you looked @ the startup visa? And let me add that I have an enormous amount of empathy for you...
Your "desk drawer in Tech Square" analogy is apt -- right now our publications are locked in a handful of those drawers, and folks can't even open the drawers unless they've bought keys from Springer/Elsevier/ACS/AIP/ACM/IEEE/etc. And how do we find out what's in the drawers? Searching the databases owned by ISI/Thompson-Reuters and friends, again for a fee.

Sure, a "Github of science" wouldn't turn anyone's basement into a cancer research lab, but it would mean that a lot of researchers at less-affluent universities would finally have full access to the literature of science.
"In this field we don't rely on peer-reviewed journals...papers are also published in journals, but I believe this is a formality that has more to do with obtaining grants and such than with actual communication within the community."

So peer reviewed journals are only important for grants, but your community doesn't rely on peer reviewed journals. Do you not rely on grants? Who funds your work? Do you all work for free, in your spare time?
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Or worse, stream pirated music or movies! Sarcasm aside, I imagine that would be a pretty big issue for them.
Thanks for the perspective. My impression from reading about Grigori Perelman was that almost all papers in arXiv are eventually published in traditional journals, for grant purposes, as alluded to by mechanical_fish. Maybe arXiv just needs to hire Scott Chacon (VP of R&D at GitHub).
Google, Yahoo, and MS have released photos of their servers and datacenters (and like online dating, sometimes the photos hide more than they reveal), not CAD files.
Exactly. The average American's day starts in the kitchen. It then migrates to the seat of a car, then to a comfy chair at a desk, then back to the steering wheel, which, of course, gives way to the kitchen and the dinner table. Then to the sofa and to bed. Rather than what comprises our diets, I'd prefer to see a chart of obesity plotted against the average square feet of an American home during the same period. (The creeping size of homes being a indicator, in many cases, of sprawl and its related side-effects).
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Oil industry should be happy about this... it's still burning petrol, after all. Many other ideas on the drawing board are trying to take petrol out of the equation.
It's sad, most of the InfoWorld reviews only dig into Novice level stuff... nothing as far as real good benchmarks, quirks, things they would change, etc.
Golf, soda, cigarettes, newspapers, and beer. Seriously? I've never felt so disconnected from the typical "American Male", nor have I ever been so proud to feel that disconnected.

Maybe if "soda", "cigarettes", "beer", and "bars" were a bit farther down the list, "gyms" wouldn't need to be so high?

(Who still reads newspapers?)
If anyone is interested in this stuff, there is a classic presentation on this subject Dick Hardt did back in 2005 that really digs into a lot of these different aspects of identity (albeit from an Open Source perspective): http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

It also happens to use the brilliant Lessig Style of presentation, which is always fun to watch.
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