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Well in one sense this research is government subsidized, because it's paid for through tuition that is paid for through government-backed student loans. On the other hand, the government recoups that money so the actual subsidy is much smaller than the $575 million figure.

That being said, I think there is one very salient aspect to the whole law review system, which is that it engenders participation by a much broader cross-section of lawyers than is the case in other academic fields. Law reviews publish students and practitioners in addition to professors. You see articles not just about abstract theory, but the mechanics of some new tax provision. Even at big law firms some partners take the time to publish, not just articles but books. This is far better than say CS academia, where most articles are math-wankery that everyone ignores.
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I think that, for CS, this is actually a good thing: "industry" in general tends to be more interested in short-term gain and things which are immediately practical--they are creating the technology of tomorrow. Academics, on the other hand, are not bound by this; they can look into creating the technology of the far future.

Another important difference is that CS research also goes on in industry, resulting in more diversity. There is no fundamental problem underlying the whole field--for every researcher working on things you find useless for industry, there are probably several working on things which are useful.

Finally, this may be due to my university being more pragmatic than some, but most of the research going on that I've heard about is actually immediately practical. The single largest issue a ton of professors seem to be working on is parallelism and distributed computing, which is indubitably extremely important to industry right now. Of course, I could also only be seeing this because most of the professors that teach my classes or that I've talked to are affiliated with similar labs.
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but the parent was offering advice for accessibility to help the member's of the community improve on their projects. Why would you disapprove of that?
Wow! That's really good news!
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His examples aren't even all in law, to make it worse!

For example, he mentions a paper entitled "What Is Wrong With Kamm's and Scanlon's Arguments Against Taurek" from The Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy as an example of ivory-tower lawyering. But this paper is written by Tyler Doggett, a philosophy professor. He isn't even a borderline law/philosophy prof: he doesn't have a law degree (he has a philosophy degree from MIT), and he doesn't teach in a law school (he teaches in UVM's philosophy department). So it's not clear how his publishing output is relevant in any way to law school curricula.

Weirdly sloppy researching/writing. Though it does open a small window onto just how dishonest that type of "quote 'incomprehensible' academic papers to show how out of touch they are" argument often is: the people making it rarely have a good-faith interest in understanding the papers they're citing, and instead quote random things without reading them.
I've just run my own analysis on the HTTP Archive data, and the fragmentation issues are very real. The most popular URL used to load jQuery was:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min...

...and it was used by just 2.7% (945) of the 35,204 pages in the dataset. Note that it's not just version fragmentation - you have to take protocol into account too as browsers cache HTTP and HTTPS separately.

The next most popular was:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min...

...used by 1.3% (460) of pages, followed by:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min...

...used by 0.8% (285) of pages.

At this point there really isn't much of a debate; unless you have evidence to the contrary (e.g. all our visitors come from Facebook, and Facebook use the same version of jQuery as we do) using Google's CDN to load jQuery isn't likely to benefit the majority of your first-time visitors.
That's a great idea for a website. It could be potentially very useful for job seekers in my situation. It would be interesting to hear what companies feedback is on this type of contact.
They have two members, btw 8-)
See also http://pacmanhattan.com/ (a 2004 experiment) and http://cityrace.me/ (signup page - a Warsaw based startup).
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It's best to contact small bloggers (with under 1000 subscribers) who write about a niche. Human rights blogger, for example, and tout how your service aggregates anonymous comments from a Occupy meetup.

It's a bit of ground-work to do, but then startups ain't easy.
Legibility is vastly improved in the readability-powered version (upper-left button).

Your point still stands, of course.
Well not all toys will be liked by all kids. Being 28, I come from one of the first generations to grow up with computers. My life would have been much different without the software I had growing up, no question.

One of the interesting things with tablets is I believe we are seeing more kids and parents playing together with software. In my day, my parents were afraid of the computer. The goal isn't always to entertain the child unsupervised.

Regardless, it would be a shame to see the shady practices of some businesses sabotage this chance for this batch of youngsters.
If I don't run 1000 miles then your advertisements are free
Got a startup or a website? Consider getting an advertisement on my website. I'll tell you why.

You don't have to pay anything for your advertisements on my website until I run 1000 miles, if I even do that. If I don't then advertisements are free.

It is a unique way to advertise, and there's more to it.

Look, I want to create a new open source operating system. One that is practical and useful and runs on servers to power the Internet.

Sounds crazy? I don't friggin care. Sometimes life is fun when you just think big and go for it. Plus working on an operating system like this is what I really want to do.

So what does this have to do with advertising on my website and running 1000 miles?

Well, I am the 1000 mile running man. And enough advertisements on my website will make it possible for me to run the 1000 miles and afterwords work on a new open source operating system full time.

The advertisements, plus the content of the blog sharing the experience of running 1000 miles, will make this interesting enough to attract media and gain readers and traffic, so it is worth it to the advertisers.

If I run the 1000 miles you will get exposed on my website and you will get traffic from my website. If I don't run the 1000 miles then it doesn't cost you anything except a 1 dollar charge on your credit card to validate it if you use the pledge form on the website. But you don't have to use the pledge form, and you don't have to give a credit card number. You can instead just email how much you want to pledge and how you want to pay and your advertisement goes up right away. The pledge form is just the quickest and easiest way.

Check it out:
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About the UPC reselling... he really lucked out. Sounds like that was allowed only due to a contract oversight, and has been prohibited since 2002:

http://www.barcode-us.com/upc/upcResellers.html
I'm a huge fan of CS (I'm spending about 10 hours a day in it right now for my startup) and I like the simplicity of the actual CS documentation.

This is really nice, but a bit too 'deep' or 'tl;dr' for my personal tastes. I was able to learn the basics really quickly and then started writing code and learning more from there as I ran into things I didn't know how to do.

That said, anything to further the learning of CS is great in my book. Nice job.
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Hm, you could pre-fill the page with geotagged tweets.
Then it doesn't look so empty for areas outside SF and more people might consider using it?
The fundamental issue I have. Why do we need lawyers?

This is not a flame, but a serious question: Would it be possible to phrase the law and change the procedures in a way that would obviate lawyers?

In jury trial a lawyer's task is more that of show master to convince the jurors (who are neither trained in law, nor in the matter of the trial) of their client's position.

The other task is help interpreting the law, because it is not phrased in terms that the "common person" would understand.
Looks like the stuff I like to play with:

http://alquerubim.blogspot.com/2010/07/o-vendedor-de-tapetes...

http://alquerubim.blogspot.com/2010/07/visoes-do-camelo.html
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Those problems measure abstract problem solving. People commonly believe that if you can solve problems abstractly then you can apply those solutions to a wide variety of problems, making your ability widely applicable. For this reason people value abstract problem solving.

I've read that experiment has found that people are not good at applying abstract solutions to real world problems. Experience helps them do so, but experience also helps people who aren't good at solving abstract problems.

In other words, abstract problem solving skills are good for little more than solving abstract problems. Nothing wrong with that, but not so useful either.

If you want to solve problems better in a given domain, build experience in that domain.
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USCF blitz chess is played this way. "Real time" chess seems more similar to blitz then standard chess to me, so I think this makes sense.
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Unrelated, but I'd recommend using the same header with links on your welcome page too.
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The indian descents in mauritius, carribean and south africa migrated some 200 years ago. Counting them as indian diaspora is the same as counting the brazilians as the portuguese diaspora!
Which link specifically were you referring to?

I'm thinking that a bunch of the iphone mockups that I've seen end up with the same shared components - toolbars, tab bars, status bars, etc. Those standard components are really the same objects, just in a more hi fidelity fashion.

Also, AFAIK with those tools, once you export, there is no way to keep the wires and mocks in sync, right?

I've experienced times in a consulting shop where both the mocks + wires are being iterated on simultaenously (mostly because the product guy would use omnigraffle where the designer would use photoshop) - leading to mocks + wires that just didn't jive with each other. This created confusion among the dev, design, and product teams about what specifically we were building, leading to increased time to market.
I personally hate when sites make the text narrow. If I want the text narrow, I shrink the browser. (Which I never actually do BTW.)

So to me the advice makes things worse, not better. 60-80 chars per line???? Even my email is wider than that. Go for at least 200.
I'm waiting to receive it on my Kindle through the Send to Kindle button - I'll report back if and when I get it.

Edit: Okay got it - was really easy to setup with the Readability button. Flipping though the book - the pictures at the start are fine, links open up the browser correct, the prose portion is nicely formatted. The code snippets are, sadly, pretty unreadable. Using the default font most of the lines wrap and it becomes a mess (compounded by coffeescript indentations). Things were a bit better on the Kindle Fire - but that's essentially a tablet browser and I would just go directly to the website vs having it sent as a document.
Don't trust this g-wan thing.

There is no source code for this thing and I wouldn't trust it even if I only had to serve "hello world" HTML type examples in a classroom environment.

The guy behind that project also has an ego bigger than this planet we're on right now.

STAY AWAY from g-wan.
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"But the Texas Forensic Science Commission panel heading the inquiry also found insufficient evidence to prove that state Deputy Fire Marshal Manuel Vasquez and Corsicana Assistant Fire Chief Douglas Fogg were negligent or guilty of misconduct in their arson work."

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That's very interesting. I reckon I might have benifited from your tutelage at some point. I am definitely going to use HN as a resource for job seeking. Appreciate the feedback. How are you enjoying life in LA?
Why not describe YC as more of a nonlinear amplifier? In this case nonlinear effects (feedback loops, etc) may have to be considered. (For example, potential applicants see that they are very unlike successful YC applicants, and so decide not to apply.) A related thought is, what if trustworthiness is inherently genetic? We know that YC uses videos to screen for trustworthiness and research suggests that trustworthiness genes can be picked up from behavioral and physical cues. http://blog.united-academics.org/2710/do-you-have-the-trustw... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19344725

Yet another related thought: PG once quoted Caesar as not trusting thin men. This idea may have scientific basis: dietary fats stimulate oxytocin production. http://paleohacks.com/questions/56261/dietary-fats-reduce-ca... http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/people-instinctively-kn...

This stuff is related because it's important to ask whether a meritocracy should necessarily discount the single-generation advantages of genes.

Disclaimer: I am skinny and have the AG variant.
how do you let person X across the street know your site exists?

Go across the street and tell them about it. Not everyone will sign up and its a slow and painful process, but this is the best way to get to know your users and their needs early on. Ideally you should have iterated the idea before touching a single line of code or design with a group of interested people who not only like the idea or what you're saying but would have been committed to trying it out and actually offering feedback on whether or not the idea is something they would be interested in.

I'll assume the above was never done and you guys went ahead and got the site build out anyway. The best alternative is to reach out to the people around you (like your neighbors directly), as well as communities online that relate to the sort of problem you're aiming to solve (hopefully there is a problem you're solving and not just a solution). Blogs, forums, competing sites, etc... The trick is not to be intrusive and try to offer a compelling solution and get feedback.

is it possible to get publicity and write ups if you don't have funding or famous entrepreneurs at the helm of your project?

Yes but this is not a long term strategy to retain or attract the right set of users needed to get the site up and running. Early on, it is better to get a few users on board during the beta who absolutely loves your product and is willing to grind through it and give you feedback than a bunch of people who half heartedly like your site.

Hope that helps.
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You're evidently too young to remember when AT&T had a government granted monopoly. Suffice it to say that it was not an era that was known for innovation and value.
I'd say the data backs my statement with the exception of Norway, but yes, especially high in Sweden and Finland.
Cool, they're not using Flash for this one. One step at a time I guess.
This reminds me of kunfuchess, which has the same gameplay. I'm not sure if that's still around.
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I'm genuinely curious to know what is the sweet spot for these admin interfaces and Hobo for that matter?

I find prototyping plenty fast with vanilla Rails, a few backend plugins, and Twitter Bootstrap. And on the far end of the scale, my experience is that larger projects require an amount of customization that does not easily fit into the auto-admin paradigm.
Remembering board configurations is not a key competency of chess grandmasters - the board is usually right in front of you, after all. It's perfectly consistent for chess grandmasters to be both above average in working memory and also have long-term memory encodings optimized for meaningful board positions (but not random positions).
"Take a really expensive technology and pull it down to a price point that is affordable". That's what he did with the iPad too.
Couldn't agree with you more. As long as the frontend works and appears fast to the end user, you'll most likely have the time to play around with the backend before you have to worry about optimizing and scaling.
"If medical schools took the same approach, they’d be filled with professors who had never set foot in a hospital."

Amusing, because med schools are filled with professors who have never practiced. They're called PhDs, and account for a huge majority of faculty at medical schools. That's why doctors have to do residency and medical rotations.
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the demo website seems to be down at my end ..
Hey krausejj, you could pledge for a cheap advertisement on http://1000milerunningman.com

The ad will be free unless I actually do run the 1000 miles, which depends on if I get enough sponsors/advertisers.

But if I do run the 1000 miles, your ad will be worth it. With the traffic I will get and how the advertisements are featured on the website, you will get traffic.
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I've registered but after clicking the "and bang!" button I get nothing.

I also noticed that tabbing between the username field causes a delay. Probably to do with the username availability check.
I didn't think these were journalists writing; Hambrick and Meinz were involved in some of these studies, if you google for them.

> Once you're in the top 10% in terms of IQ, it's really just about hard work!

Did we read the same article? IQ still matters past the top 10%!

> The remarkable finding of their study is that, compared with the participants who were “only” in the 99.1 percentile for intellectual ability at age 12, those who were in the 99.9 percentile — the profoundly gifted — were between three and five times more likely to go on to earn a doctorate, secure a patent, publish an article in a scientific journal or publish a literary work.

That is, a 0.8% difference in percentile ranking increased the specified output by 300-500%. Now what do you think a 10% percentile ranking difference would imply?
One reason is because it is what I and my partner know. Another reason is that it has good existing tool support. I'm not fully convinced that I want to return to the world of VIM and the command line compiler ala Scala. Instead I'll work with Eclipse and Tomcat. Finally, I'm not yet convinced that I should really jump on the hipster band wagon. Node and Mongo are a really great pair for something's, but I don't know if I want to base my entire future on it. Java is an established platform running apps requiring more performance than mine. To go to a language because it "scales" better according to the most recent hive think seems silly.
I'll add that on my Kindle Fire, the code snippets were quite readable when turning into landscape mode.

Not sure if the e-ink Kindles switch to landscape mode as easily.
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The problem with that is it would require human intervention to grade. That's really not what this whole venture is about.

Although it would be cool to organize a showcase of such projects spontaneously!
Do you feel similarly unenlightened about using the term "the f-word", or is that easier to understand than using f*ck?
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Thanks. I will look into what more I can do tomorrow with the Readability and Kindle documentation, maybe some tweaks to CSS or something.
This is all great advice. It's nice to hear some feedback from IT guys who have recently been job hunting in the Bay Area.
Then the messages won't be anonymous anymore, but not a bad way to start seeding the location comments (maybe strip-off the twitter Id).
> Just good design.

From a SEO standpoint, it would make more sense to have them all hosted at stanford.edu/someclass, since the classes would then benefit from the "trust-factor" of the root domain. You'll notice that most of Google's web properties are hosted at google.com/something and not something.google.com or a separate domain, presumably for the same reason.
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Pretty cool. I always thought fractals looked like Cthulhu. Also the part where Cthulhu is said to be a cosmic entity and bring subconscious anxiety to humans. Reminds me of fractals in math class.
A 50% response rate is promising. Perhaps the most infuriating aspect of job hunting thus far is the lack of feedback from job applications. Espcially on the big job search sites. As a result of the comments from you guys I am definitely going to change tack. It seems like targeting startups here in the area is the way to go.
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Since you seem to be targeting local discussions it may help to get local newspapers involved. Local newspapers pretty much live off of people in their community doing potentially big things.

As nreece said, contacting tech bloggers is a really good way to get started. Here is a really good article detailing some ideas http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/how-i-pitched-te...
Great advice guys. Thanks a million.
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what I'm longing for is a good G-code generator that is affordable, runs on my Linux or OSX, can generate toolpaths for milling as well as 3D printing and can work with files from Sketchup.

(Most makers I know don't use Windows and I think there is a huge opportunity for a polished product that will run on either Linux or OSX)
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It still doesn't state if I can plug in a USB stick and watch a movie from that (usb host mode). 16GB is very limited, and only the LTE version is available with 32GB.
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This review would have been on CrunchGear, but all CG content now goes on the main TC homepage?