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It's an awesome book and project. I found about it in Mining the Social Web (another fantastic book)
What you and several other people are missing is Journals don't spam reviewers with random studies. They put some effort into finding an appropriate group of people to review the research which both reduces the reviewer workload and prevents inappropriate people from reviewing things. Also reviewers gain an early look at research appropriate to their field of study, which granted is still mostly junk but far better than random.

I don't think this is going to be hard to replicate, but it's still reasonably expensive to do well for a for a large number of articles, so I suspect open access would require at a minimum a few hundred dollars per submitted article worth of work which can’t exactly be add supported.
While it won't probably kill you, it isn't exactly harmless. It can reemerge as shingles.

There are cases of herpes causing death. For example, in an infant infected by his mohel, and a laboratory researcher killed after exposure to monkey feces. (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056008.htm)
Samsung had some kind of book and video store the last time I checked. I remember they were giving away a bundle of books and films with their tablets.

I'm not sure it's self-evident that outsourcing the manufacturing is better (or worse) than outsourcing the content sales channel. Particularly if, like Samsung, you're building the components too.
>(bidding pi etc), which could also be seen as a bit childish

I thought that was harmless & hilarious. Extorting money is neither. Court cases like this are a solid step backwards for the entire tech industry.
Good book for an intro to NLP. NLTK is a cool library but when is it gonna get Python3 compatible??
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Yes, Joel is very funny, but not in an overbearing, obvious way.

In an old essay on software specs [1] he states: one of the easiest ways to be funny is to be specific when it's not called for

I've noticed that he does this a lot. All the time. Sometimes too much, like in hginit.com, which I did not find that amusing. But most of the time he is spot on.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000033.html
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Cool, but you can get on diaspora via various other public pods without invites or waiting lists. I just signed up at http://diasp.org.
Do screen readers parse CSS in their reading? I would think this would avoid that problem by using the :before pseudo classes rather than injecting it into the dom directly.

edit: fuller thought.
Upverter is nice, but no board layout yet. It's not even quite a minimum viable product for EDA
Quick tip: testing web content for screen readers without a screen reader
This is the same problem I have with this approach. It seems like a cool idea, but I don't want to break accessibility. I think you can get around this using aria and having it skip over that element.

See aria-hidden:

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-hid...

Authors MAY, with caution, use aria-hidden to hide visibly rendered content from assistive technologies only if the act of hiding this content is intended to improve the experience for users of assistive technologies by removing redundant or extraneous content. Authors using aria-hidden to hide visible content from screen readers MUST ensure that identical or equivalent meaning and functionality is exposed to assistive technologies.
An a serious note, google needs to persue Bing and any similar services using it's patent portfolio. It has important ones like Map-Reduce. Once google gets series it won't matter that MS sues, google can extort MS for cash and feed that money to samsung and friends to help them with their royalties.
Hmm. From a quick scan through the screenshots, of the 13 apps reviewed only two use a large image of a microphone in their UI and only one of those is a photo-realistic rendition - the other is much more stylised. So what I get from this is that given complete freedom there are a huge variety of possible UIs, and the chances of Samsung and Apple coming up with the same design independently is near zero. So yes, it's likely that Patrick O’Keefe's VoiceRecord app was a source for Apple, and a raging certainty that Apple's was a source for Samsung.
This looks like it's a problem with job titles but it's really a problem with managing people. The job title is just the symptom.

I have a talk with everyone who works for me in which I say "this is a startup, job titles are flexible, and everybody (including me) will have to revisit their role and title frequently. If you're OK with that, then great. If not, we should talk it through now so everybody's expectations are set."
So it's just like a sprite, but with font files?
The do have a patent for putting products into boxes. http://www.google.com/patents?id=tUzIAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&...
That's exactly the problem with this service: nothing really fits any of your current projects. If none of them fit now, what are the chances they'll have something that fits in a week? A month?

Looking at the list of domains on offer, half of them are 'empty vessel' nonsense words which could quite easily be generated with the same amount of personal effort using something like Wordoid[1]. The other half are nothing more than Monkey Tennis[2], i.e. word pairings thrown out there in the hope that someone else will build a product around it[3].

[1] http://www.wordoid.com/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_tennis
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS1le_8ZhOU&t=1m30s
It's slang for a person from the US. Wikipedia has a page on it if you're interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
This reminds me of this TED talk : http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...

Sell by saying who you are, not what you do.
This particular implementation uses CSS before: rules. These are likely ignored by (current!) screenreaders.
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Of course they do. They also have access to all of the Android apps, and they build their own retail stores like Apple. But honestly now, what are their chances of reinventing themselves as content distributors, of beating Amazon at its own game?

What I suggest is this: There are people who will but a Kindle just to get the content Amazon has. Amazon’s content is a “killer app” for kindles. Whereas, content is not a killer app for Samsung. If a customer buys a Samsung for other reasons, Samsung can make some extra money selling them some content.

So yeah, Samsung may make a little more than the margin on the tablet, but Samsung is not going to sell more tablets because of its content, and I doubt they will make as much per unit as Amazon, not by a long shot. So I don’t see them having the content to drive market share, and I don’t see them selling enough content to subsidize a price war with Kindle.

JM2C.
Microsoft should consider competing on innovation & tech for a change. Throwing lawyers & FUD at anyone who is beating them is just petty.
I think the "private cloud" concept can be restated as "Big blob of semi-automatically-managed computing resources onto which diverse applications can be easily deployed."

They're basically giving you a way to easily bootstrap your own little EC2 zone.
This is Samsung's modus operandi, perhaps more so than anyone in mobile phones. Have a look back at some of their really gauche imitation of Motorola's stuff years ago.

The difference is that someone has the courage and the money to call them on this shit for once.
FYI: Brandstack.com has better logos. Speaking as a designer & a person who's hired logo designers, as well as somebody who bought a logotype off Brandstack.com. I didn't use the name/identity but used it for my next SaaS, Charm.

That said - most people put too much weight on a name, but it's really important to be sure the name is A) memorable (this doesn't mean weird or unique), B) easy to spell and C) easy to Google.

Names that are weird spellings or made-up words are NOT memorable, basically because they don't fit into a ready-made slot in the readers' head. (Plus if they are hard to spell, you're SOL.)

It's far better to have a memorable name like "Charm" and then append crap to the end of the domain (e.g. CharmHQ.com) to ensure you can grab the domain, than it is to have a short, unique name where you get the regular name.com.

This conclusion is based on my extensive reading of cogsci research about memory, word association, etc.
Only if they didn't reveal that it was a joke at the end of the meeting...
Tegic Communications, which is now a subsidiary of Nuance.

They still sell T9 even today.
I lived on Roosevelt Island for a year. It may not be geographically Manhattan but I it (and other East River islands) is in the jurisdiction of that borough.
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If I could give you a suggestion, as a user who is very much interested in a service like this (both seler/buyer) the filters are pretty much worthless to find a good project.

A mechanism is needed to weed out the listings that reports earnings/traffic which is practically impossible compared to their site age, design, content, functionality, rankings(comcast,alexa,compete)
Yes, but those cases are much, much less worrisome than AIDs in its current state.
FYI, there's an offshoot page that describes a list of projects (ongoing and suggested) that can be undertaken with the natural language toolkit:
http://ourproject.org/moin/projects/nltk/ProjectIdeas
For what it's worth, it is a similar, but not the SAME starburst.

As far as that goes, it's a somewhat overdone design pattern anyway, so you couldn't say if they stole the idea for it from Groupon or any of the million other sites using it.

Aside from that, agreed on pretty much all points.
Thanks for your explanation :) I actually don't find that I am wasting the travel time though. I have no anxiety about going personally, I know once I get there, I can sit down and get to work without thinking about any of the potential problems. In fact, it's a great time for me to think about things.

Going in: what do I absolutely need to do today? What would I like to do? How can I get it all done?

Going out: Did I reach my goals? Why/why not? What are some of the bigger issues I need to keep thinking about while working the day to day?

It's not an insignificant amount of time, but I don't find it wasteful, I easily spend that much time thinking about problems anyways, now I just am commuting at the same time!
Varicella pneumonia? Encephalitis? The virus that causes chicken pox is not harmless.
Petty pays off.
Apple uses its own iOS symbols to invite people to its iPhone 5 event
I find this unsurprising, companies don't resort to court before having a conversation. Even if the conversation is I think you should pay us licensing. The court actions are born out of disagreement.
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They missed one obvious disadvantage - it doesn't work where users force their browser to use a specific font. All I see are letters instead of icons.

That said, would it not also make more sense to use codepoints within the "Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs" range where possible (http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf), where you'll find things like volume icons, padlocks, pins, etc. These are missing from my font of choice too, of course, but this seems more in keeping to me with the idea of a semantic web page.
Easy to miss: "The recent human trials involved 30 healthy volunteers, where 24 were treated with MVA-B, while the other 6 were treated with a placebo, carried out over a 48 week period."

This test was done on healthy volunteers, not ones with HIV. Although it's promising that 90% of the patients showed an immune response, we don't know how well that immune response translates into therapeutic benefit until it's trialled on HIV-positive patients.
That isn't really the question though. Why do they feel it is a better product? It has much better integration with iTunes (the reason I keep my iPod around?), but that is about the only superior thing I can come up with.
[ I'm sure in Larry's eyes "uppity yankee hipsters" and "uppity brit hipsters" are equivalent ;) ]

I don't think they have a reputation for being awkward with their own customers/partners/etc; they're unashamedly merciless with competitors, and this is well known. In the enterprise sector the two categories often overlap, but then again in those circles being a shark is actually considered a good thing anyway.

At the moment their target is squarely HP, like SAP before them, and this is what it means. It's actually mildly amusing, if you've followed the whole saga with Apotheker living on a plane etc.
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Yeah, they may not have trademarks on these things (neither should they). But Samsung doing things exactly the same way as Apple after Apple doing it is by definition copying.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copy
I worked from home (as a full-time employee of various companies) for 12 years, and I 100% disagree with the point made here and by the various commenters. A huge part of the benefit of working at home is being able to use my time in a way that works as efficiently for me as possible, and that means spending the time of day when I'm sharpest (early morning) working, not taking a shower and getting dressed. I generally took a shower and got dressed around lunchtime, which provided a nice boost from the early afternoon need-a-siesta feeling.

If showering and getting dressed first thing works for you, great, but I get really tired of seeing people dispense that advice as the "right" thing to do.
Samsung is selling a silly amount of smartphones, their sales growth recently is astonishing. Since tablets are fundamentally the same components with a bigger screen, (and again, those components are by and large made by Samsung) I really wouldn't count them out.
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your privacy is your own responsibility, not google's. there are services you can pay for that will erase your online identity and there are programs you can use to ensure you won't have to use them again.
I'm glad you're thinking about your existing users. I don't have a problem with your plan but I would suggest cohort analysis to test different free trial versions. Eric Ries talks about this on his blog and in his book.

Also the sure I was referring to is in a completely different niche.
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I may be misunderstanding the spec, but it looks like you have to be able to set element attributes for this approach to work, which I'm fairly certain you can't set with CSS. And I guess even if you can use JS to set the attributes, there's no way to set them on a pseudo-element anyway.
This is a lovely idea but I'm afraid it's a pipe dream. Boycotts don't change profitable practices. (And there is little enough profit in academic publishing to begin with!) The author's heart is in the right place but his head is in the clouds. Too bad.
Shingles can be very nasty - my mother had it after I had chickenpox. It was across her face and eyes - she was hospitalised and was on morphine for the pain.
Isn't the point of a vaccine to prevent, not cure?

EDIT: thanks guys, but I have enough upvotes. My comment didn't add much to HN. Wasn't actually trying to prove him wrong -- I thought I'd missed something and was asking for clarification.
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What you are arguing, essentially, is Marxism, particularly the Labor Theory of Value. You are saying that the value of this product is solely the value of materials and labor. That value created in the mind of the buyer, or in time-saved, doesn't matter.

Have you ever spent months of manpower and thousands of dollars coming up with a name for your company? I suspect not, otherwise it would be crystal clear what the value of this service is, and what an absolute steal $250 is. Nobody expects $7 for a domain these days. You might as well complain about how land is so expensive, considering it was all claimed for pennies per acre less than 200 years ago.

I don't even care for the logo -- to me it simply provides a demonstration that it's possible to create a decent sounding/looking brand from the name.

As for highway robbery -- well, that's fine if you think that. Again I wonder if you've ever been told that the minimum offer for a domain is 5 figures. You can go ahead and insist on your non-existent right to a $7 registration if you please, but pragmatic people who need to get things done ASAP will recognize this as an incredible offer.

If you do ever offer a product or service, what will you say when your customer insists that your price solely reflect the cost of materials and labor?

EDIT: updated
Contact local merchants by groupon/livingsocial
How did websites like groupon, livingsocial etc. contact the local merchants when they first started the website.
I really don't see that this is a good idea. Icons are by definition graphical, they aren't textual. I can see the draw of having vector icons; but we have other technologies for that.

I know people are probably going to tell me an "SVG sprite" isn't possible, but I still maintain that abusing fonts and text like this is a bad idea, even if it does bag you cool CSS3 animations.
Sorry, am feeling very verbose the last few days. That's a great way to go too :-D
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Not just terrible, but an abomination that is holding back information and technology progress.

The whole patent war thing will have to go downhill a while before it all blows in their face.
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Yes, and there's something to be said for "launch now, iterate later". A "good enough" domain/logotype is sufficient for an MVP.
I have been working for home for nearly a decade now. At first, with some pressure, I tried to keep regular business hours and really struggled with that. I would quickly burn out and seek some other activity to relieve the strain. At the end of the day, my overall productivity was low. I will note that my productivity when I worked in an office was not much better, for much the same reasons.

After some trial and error I started to realize that shorter stints of work spread over the entire day lead to much greater results. I now start work around 11AM, deal with emails/first morning problems, take a lunch break at noon, then put in around four hours of solid work in the afternoon. I relax throughout the evening and then go back to work for the last 3-4 hours before bed. I am now able to put in a far more productive number of hours and my output has increased significantly.

With that, I have to disagree with a lot of the points in the article. Home is not the office. You need to change your work habits to fit into your new place of work, not try to make your home fit your work habits. In my experience, trying to move your office into your house is bound to fail. Change the way your work, however, and your potential for greatness exceeds that of working in the office.
My father is an infectious disease specialist who has spent the last 30 or so years working on HIV in research, patient treatment, and education. The following thought comes from my casual conversations with him, and probably does not represent his professional opinion. It certainly does not reflect his specific thoughts in regards to this trial, as we haven't yet discussed it.

The progress in treating HIV since it first entered the popular psyche has been significant. It is no longer a death sentence in the developed world, and those infected with HIV - who get treatment and adhere to that treatment - can live long and relatively normal lives.

The real problem is in the developing world, and amongst populations in the developed world that cannot or will not seek/adhere to treatment. Treatment is sufficiently advanced that, while further developments of a vaccine are unbelievably exciting, they are not necessarily a game-changer in terms of worldwide infection. We have a long way to go in terms of beating this virus. Theoretically, we could follow the same route as with [edit: smallpox], unifying and mobilizing the world to isolate and then eradicate pockets of the disease, but this is a much larger effort than the one taking place in the lab, and is a question of government & administration, rather than medicine.

Edit: Bringing it up from a comment I made below, here is a relevant TED Talk on stopping pandemics: http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pande...
Another three letter word - EGO - combined with delusion will get you all kinds of fancy titles.

My rule of thumb is that a business of less than 7 people should have 1 "Manager" (not CEO, President, etc), and everyone else should be an employee (plus additional reasonable titles such as co-founder, etc). As the business grows and more people are brought onboard you can start handing out titles.

This might not work in every situation, but it's a good starting point.
How many times of monthly profit you are willing to pay for a site, that doesn't need any maintenance? But with only 'search traffic risk'(the possibility of search traffic drop/increase due to algorithm changes by search engines)
Correct. Phase 1 is where they check to see if the vaccine is safe. Considering the history of HIV Vaccines, it's way too early to get excited.
Sorry to hear that about your mother. I hope everything turned out okay.
Well, it's a great idea but it doesn't really work in FF 4.0.1 :(
Except that he was at Microsoft less than three years...
Many in the scientific community claim there is no evidence HIV is actually causing AIDS. Hence, even if this is a successful vaccine, there is no guarantee it will protect from AIDS.
Around 1 in 4 or 5 women in the UK have herpes. I think the stats are similar for the US. It's still a problem, but most people suffer little from having it. It still has a stigma attached to it, hence why people don't admit to it, which makes me think the comparison with HIV is a fairly good comparison.
Yes, that is the point - somewhat ironically missed by the "easy to miss" comment's owner.
> The others are a matter of form following function.

No they're not. There are a billion possible shapes for a USB power adapter for instance, getting within 1% of an exact match is not a coincidence.
He/she made a shirt
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Thunderbolt is awesome, but I'm really not about to drop $1000 on a monitor.

When someone else produces a normal spec monitor with a thunderbolt connector that includes a usb hub (the audio card and speakers are nice, but definitely not required), and at a reasonable price, I'll be all over it. A docking station for the mac, FINALLY!
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