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I seriously believe that this -- the fact that you need access to a university library, a research grant, or several thousand dollars worth of discretionary income just to read the primary source materials of the last 70 years of science -- is the reason why so much of the planet is scientifically illiterate.

We ask why the hilarious notion that science is just a species of religion -- a collection of essentially arbitrary dogmas handed down by priests in white coats -- has taken such hold among the populace. But, really, what does the public see of modern science but dogma? The state of the art -- the debate, the argument, the statistical calculations, the brilliant conclusions, the idiotic conclusions, even the raw data itself -- is all locked up behind paywalls and private conferences and university tuitions. 99.5% of the world never sees actual science being done. At best, they do toy science in their classrooms and read prepackaged science-flavored PR in their magazines.

The best the public can hope for is a bunch of documentaries and popularizations, some of which are great. But nearly all of them are second-hand, many of them contain major omissions, mistakes, or distortions, and they feel constrained by their need to maintain their mass audience of businesspeople on planes -- they tend to not publish graphs or, god help us, equations.

Of course, most of the public wouldn't understand Nature even if it became free and open tomorrow. Many of the papers are written in barely-comprehensible jargon. But that's not a coincidence; it's a side effect of allowing journals to evolve into niche publications for a handful of graduate students. Perhaps, in the world where scientific publications are available to anyone to read, journals will slowly evolve toward a standard of writing that allows interested fans to follow along. Or a genre of annotated journal articles might arise.
Disagreeing with him is just one step away from totalitarianism! The government's here and they're installing the 1984-style cameras in my flat right now. Look what you've done!

It's articles like this for which I wish there was a downmod button.
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The threshold is to prevent bots from upvoting stuff. It requires a minimal amount of participation that can easily be achieved by a simple answer or question.
tribal fusion, valueclick, and burst media are ones to consider trying, but they all also require applications.

they have traffic requirments, too, but they're more reasonable than FM, down in the 2000 uniques or 100k pageviews range.
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I like how they call this MVC:

http://www.fluffycat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/Non-OO-MVC/

No. That is called "calling functions".

As an aside, I really hope that nobody who reads this site uses PHP or goes out in search of design patterns to add to their application.
OK, we're well above that so will give those a try. Cheers!
I think his generation is pretty close to this current one. Infinite Jest was the 90s, right? (I've never read it, sadly.)

I feel like the novel is winding down, actually. There's no great proliferation of ideas any more. The last great author I can think of was Beckett; after him, everybody I've read really seems to be struggling to do something new. Even Murakami (who, not counting Wallace, I think is the greatest of the generation) is less innovative than the authors who preceded him.

Is it possible that a novel as a pure-prose medium can be exhausted in terms of ideas? Because I think (and I've written rather extensively about this) that for the novel to go on, it'll have to evolve to match current technology, in the way that Coupland and Danielewski do it. But that means a departure from pure literature, in a way.
Sadly, few people understand the value of freedom.
Only some journals require authors to pay to publish. Nature is not one of those journals, and it's still relatively uncommon.
Forgot to mention that for the privilege you also give up publication rights. So, let's review:

You pay to publish.
They charge outrageous fees for access.
You retain the copyright, they retain the publication rights.

To be fair, I can't imagine their business model is making anyone rich. They pay professional editors and they pump out alot of PR that's good for science. But the original complaint - access on old manuscripts - is very valid.
RE: restrictions on who is able to become a member:

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By the way, I think that the unwavering optimism of you guys is incredibly inspiring. Every time I've talked with you (I emailed a few criticisms a while back), I get nothing but incredible enthusiasm. I think I started out with a pretty negative reaction towards Posterous, because I'm a Tumblr addict, but now I'm rooting for you guys 100%. Keep it up!
That would be an interesting challenge: seeing if you could create a single interface that did all that WELL. As in, figuring out how to interpret a plaintext input and sort it out into categories.
I'm talking about doing mathematics, not just taking down the notation.

Sure, I can type LaTeX too, but once I've typed an equation it still looks like a mess. The structure isn't obvious. It's not intuitively obvious how to eliminate some terms and rearrange it, the way it would be if I were writing it down longhand.
Are you writing quality stuff? Because if so, you shouldn't have much of a problem finding readers.
Marco had one that was pretty scathing back a little while ago. But I'm guessing he's considered to have some bias.
All of those networks will pay low CPMs though, that's the issue. It is blind network stuff, by and large. Low = less than $1 CPM per ad unit.
I feel that as the United States has lost some international status and openly disregarded the UN, the UN has become co-opted by those who have stayed in the game (often China, Russia, and right-wing states). As the UN Human Rights Council gets into defining defaming Islam as against human rights and countries like China start using the UN to quasi-legalize/justify their brutality on basic human rights issues, it just seems like the UN has lost its way.

But maybe I'm naive. Maybe the UN was never meant to live up to its charter or expectations.
The largest journal company, Elsevier, made about 1.5 billion in profit last year, on about 5 billion in revenue. Not bad.
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I tried FM (my site has 800k-1.2m page impressions / month; mainly US traffic) and they said 'come back when you get 1m US uniques. But you're right - they have sites that are definitely smaller.

Where does your traffic come from? How many page impressions per user?

Also worth keeping in mind that FM takes a 50% cut.
$173 per subscriber seems a little high to me.
If its really $1CPM, we're better off sticking to Google Adsense where we can get higher than $1 eCPM.
Yeah, some of the most annoying aspects of other sites is sifting through the banal "discussions" which are typically just echo chambers of inside jokes and blowhards congratulating each other.

You can have mini discussions on an answer through the comments though, which is nice.
I agree. I think beta should mean "Not all functionality is complete" as opposed to "Not all functionality is working". There is no excuse to release buggy software. None.
It's $1CPM at best. The range is sort of 40c - 70c, from memory. They talk big but it's just distressed inventory, nothing targeted.
sending out the calculator to Indraneel this week!
I'm not sure what field you're in, but I'm very certain Nature does charge some fees (e.g. color) if there's not page charges. Here from their website:

£700 for the first color figure, £250 for each thereafter.

http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/submissions/final/forms...

On each of my papers - in very reputable neuroscience journals - we've paid publication costs and fees at about $1000 per paper. And color was essential in each.
Wow - link? Are they publicly traded?
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> You can hunt deer on foot, you know. I've never done this myself, but as long as you keep your attention on one and pursue it, you can exhaust it

Yes, but doing this looks nothing like going for a jog, if you watch footage of it. There's a lot of brisk hiking and some sprinting. There's a lot of stopping to examine track signs.

The article seems to equate running with jogging and I really don't think there's a good case that people are well adapted to distance jogging. There are zero ethnographic examples of people having any occasion to go out for a five or ten mile run. They walk fast and sprint.
Agreed, though I'm sure Best Buy will be able to market the product much better than it is currently - and to hoards of people who probably use iTunes and don't know of any unlimited subscription options unless they happen to have caught a Rhapsody commercial and had their interest piqued.
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Nice. What's the source on this?
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From the FAQ: What is "The Smalltalk for those who can type" supposed to mean?

It is a pun on the usage of a text editor (and thus using the keyboard more, and the mouse less) to write programs for GNU Smalltalk, which sets it different from other Smalltalk.
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I dug this out of Reed-Elsevier's last financial report, for a book I'm writing. Reed-Elsevier is Elsevier's parent company, and is publicly traded. I don't have the reference immediately to hand (found it several months back), but I started with Google. It took me quite a bit of time to track down.
Sorry, Michael Faraday you don't have the relevant experience or degree so you can't have access to that information.

Huh? You mean you attended _free_ lectures by Sir Humphrey Davy and then went on to become one of the greatest scientists of all time.

Wow. Those were the days.
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I am looking for a co-founder(s) for my innovative start-up in the online tickets sector. Please contact alexander@ticketfeed.com for further details.
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Trillions worth of wealth are going poof all over the world. That's the supply diminishing.

Governments are also trying hard to inflate, which will drive rates up.
This is a bit of a meta comment, but I find this sort of response to feedback to be counterproductive. Don't defend/justify the way the system works or why it works the way it does. Read between the lines and find a way to satisfy the customer.
Well, all of the founds are pretty heavy MS based; same with their audiences. I believe that joelonsoftware's .NET questions group was going to shutdown and forward all the users to here too.

I did find some decent Non-Windows questions in there, but there could be more.
Just talked to a Blackrock guy today. Something really interesting that I didn't know is that Blackrock does not invest on their own behalf. He said this is why their CEO, Larry Fink, is often quoted as stating: "We do not take on balance sheet risk".

This severely limits balance sheet risk and although it doesn't make them bullet proof or anything, it certainly makes me feel better about their chances. Additionally, although this strategy hurt them in the short term, it seems to be working in the long term.
Nature (and most journals, so far as I know) charge for colour figures, but they don't have page charges. I just ran through a list of ten well-known physics journals, all from different publishers, and none has page charges, suggesting it's pretty uncommon. Most will charge for colour figures, though, and several request (but do not require) a contribution to publication costs. I've never paid that contribution.
I think Duncan Riley is in over his head on this one. His argument is basically that if we permit organized rating of web sites, that governments will use the system to stifle unpopular opinion. That's a reasonable theory but I think it breaks down when you realize Google has been rating the value of web sites for years, and so have other entities with arguably a net positive effect. What Tim Berners-Lee is proposing is a tool, run by a bunch of what he considers to be credible organizations, and while we may worry they won't do a good job I don't think it's clear that the cure is worse than the disease.
Yup. The reason for this is that the site usage has been ramped up with private invites etc. The makers are well-known.net pundits, so the people that have been following thier activity and signing up are too.

Now they're ready to let the general public in, so if you want your favourite environment/tool/language represented, get on in there. If you don't want to get in there, stop complaining.
Wow, that's a courageous thought.
"With your argument, why have school at all, why not let kids learn everything by themselves."

That's not my argument. I want schools to focus on critical skills, especially during early childhood. Handwriting, today, isn't one of them. Teach kids to type. Penmanship can come later, like typing today. Invert the priorites to match real world demands. Kids are already typing and using computers any ways.

I don't ever remember taking notes in elementary school. Assignments were handed out and completed. They could just as easily be emailed out and typed in. Problem is, the kids are probably more computer literate than most teachers.
I'm told Physics is very different. They're also moving quickly away from peer-review, right? We just had a discussion on that. There are alot of costs in the review process (time and effort). If you decide to sample more broadly across disciplines, I'd be very interested in the results.
I am looking for a co-founder(s) for my innovative start-up in the online tickets sector.

No you're not. If you're looking for people to work on your startup, you're looking for employees.

Co-founders are people who co-found a company with you. Co-founders help decide the early direction of a company. Co-founders are owners of a company.

You've already decided what sector the company is going to be operating in ("online tickets"), what the company is going to be called ("ticketfeed"), something about how the company is going to operate (if you haven't, what justification do you have for calling it "innovative"?), and you've fallen into the bad-CEO trap of calling it "your" company.

If you really want co-founders, you probably meant to write something along the lines of "I am looking for co-founders, ideally people interested in online tickets because I have some ideas for that sector."
Isn't Springer-Verlag a part of that publishing empire?
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It was just an observation, not a complaint :)
I'm not about to suggest that the super crazy big collider thingie is going to end the world but it sounds like Sir Tim wants to censor information.

The MPAA is reviled as is every censorship organization. The web grew b/c it wasn't censored. Now another pointy headed intellectual wants to tell us what we can and can't see on line.

Witness Russia, China and Eastern Europe where people were told what they can and cannot see online. How is Sir Tim's proposal different? Because he's targeting Christians and anti super duper collider kooks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
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The competition from the break up of AT&T led to a lot of innovation and price reductions. A lot high tech jobs were created and it was one of the sparks for the .com boom.

An odd thing to remember is that regulation stipulated that local phone companies could keep their monopoly as long as they didn't enter the long distance market.

So you ended up with long distance rates cheaper then local rates. It was a lot cheaper to talk to someone on the other end of the country then to someone down the street.

After the initial scattering AT&T has been coalescing together again, like the liquid terminator.

Competition is important but much more important is startup cost. How hard it is to enter a market plays a huge role in how competitive that market is. How many established competitors there are matters as well, but surprisingly not as much.

Then again if you think about it a little it is not that surprising.

Government regulation of the spectrum and the expense of digging ditches to lay fiber combine to make starting your own telco. VERY expensive.

As a libertarian here's my $0.02. Either the government should get out of regulation all together. And then I can start an ISP/Cable company/Phone company for the price of a few WiFi antennas and some servers to run Asterisk and MythTV.

Or the government can go the other way and regulate fiber too, and make it like bridges, paid for by the tax payer, free to use by everyone. I don't really want to see the Feds do that, but I love it when small towns do it, and I hate it when the local monopoly telco. sues them.
No, I am simply looking for people looking to join my startup i.e the startup I represent.
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I normally don't click TC links, and I normally don't agree with Arrington, but this is 100% spot on.

Even if Apple used a completely random method for approving apps (you have a 74.2% chance of approval, regardless of quality or content) people would still develop for the platform, because the barrier to entry is relatively low, and the potential rewards are high.

Compare to what Duke students do for basketball tickets: http://www.duiki.com/wiki/Krzyzewskiville
tribal fusion can and will more than $1 CPM, depending on the site and category and such. i know that for a fact. can't speak to the other sites, don't have enough experience.
What is "basic scientific research?" I think it is a relatively new idea that science be pursued for science itself. Most of it has very practical applications. When astronomers study the motion of heavenly bodies wasn't there a motive to keep time more accurately?

Pure research is only funded for its tangible benefits to society. That's why private research is more successful.
Laws like this will just push everyone into using Tor. There will always be one country that doesn't sign this, and that's where the Tor nodes will live. (And AFAIK, running a Tor node in the US isn't a legal liability right now -- common carrier and all that.)

Of course, I suppose that country could be removed from the Internet, but I think the world governments are too incompetent for that to happen. Another option is for the UN to make a lot of fake Tor nodes, but I have a feeling those will be blacklisted in about 30 seconds after their creation.

You can't regulate the Internet -- stop trying.
Don't defend/justify the way the system works or why it works the way it does. Read between the lines and find a way to satisfy the customer.

That might be good advice if the customer contacts you one-on-one. But when the customer posts their complaint to a message board that's read by thousands of third parties, it's helpful to put up an explanation of why the system was designed the way it was. Otherwise I, who have never used the service and am just skimming this thread, might come away with the wrong impression.

It's important to avoid getting into a flamewar with your customers, but pointing out the rationale behind your design decisions isn't necessarily offensive. Yes, it's not what the complainer really wants to see, but it is what I, the silent reader of the thread, want to see. And people like me outnumber the original complainer N to 1.
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The stuff I've always liked is usually really obvious. For example, if it's complex tree code, you don't have to spend a lot of time digging into the details; what the code is trying to do is obvious by its steps. Clean, clear, simple and consistent. Boring is an unfair categorization. I meant it in terms of not being clever, but it is really an attribute of the observer, not the code.

The best test I think is in how fast you can make a meaningful change to the code, without having ever seen it or studied it before. In a practical sense, that is the only metric that matters anyways. We write this stuff, so we can maintain it and keep it running. It's not the first version that matters, it's the whole life span.
How do discussions between the founders and VCs about these sorts of issues usually go down? Is it lawyers to lawyers or does everyone tend to get involved?
Not sure where you heard that - physics hasn't yet moved much away from peer review. I personally think it will, but it hasn't actually happened.
That answer is wrong too because Beautiful Soup also exists for Ruby: http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/
No, Springer-Verlag is a separate journal publisher.
You might outnumber them, but you may be less vital. A person that takes the time to write is a potential evangelist.

And you'd better be pretty confident about 'N'. Threads like this and readers like yourself may provide a short term boost or bust, but communicative visitors can broadcast the message off-line for months to come.

I think you'd agree that we should aim higher (much, much higher), than just avoiding getting into a flame war.
Giving it an edgy style is one thing. Giving birth to an incoherent and pointless rant is another. In this case, I'm afraid you failed and did the second one.
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We were a bunch of neuroscientists shooting the breeze at MIT.

I'm curious why Physics is different then. Like I said, I've always encountered some publication costs. Without grants, those costs are non-trivial.
'...usually my answer is on the first page'

The founders intend that eventually the answer you're looking for will show up as a stackoverflow.com question in the first page of Google results. They get more advertising revenue, the purported benefits to their users are:

* You don't have to pay or even register to use the site (unlike Experts Exchange).

* If an answer goes out of date (e.g. it only applies to the beta version) it can be updated.

* You can always add your own comments (not all blogs allow comments).

* If you manage to solve some tricky problem yourself, you can easily publish the information to help others (not everyone has their own blog).
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Might it be cynical to think that calling someone a co-founder after the event is a way of getting them to work for nothing? Of course if the idea is a good one and the share allocation to the new recruits is substantial then maybe...
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Another acquisition that is most likely going to fail. They usually do. I love reading the empirical academic studies on them.

Edit: Changed "going" to "most likely going". I'm not an oracle although it would be fun.
spend some time and test them all out. see what gets you the best rate.
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You can pay someone nothing and give them more stock than the founders have, and it won't make them a co-founder. :-)