skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it's not common to have 9 reviews. OSDI 2012 was particularly thorough (my reviews totaled about ~4000 words) I'm more used to 4-6 reviews, around 3000 words or so. SOSP/OSDI is probably the most thorough and competently run conference that I know of in all of academia. This makes sense: they only take about 30 papers (it's restricted not just by quality, but the quality bar goes up as more submissions are made, just to keep it exclusive), it's once a year, and systems researchers sync their lives to the OSDI/SOSP submission cycle. It's the "flagship" systems conference, and a lot of advances are first described as OSDI/SOSP papers. For some perspective, the original MapReduce paper was by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, published in OSDI 2004. Last year's best paper was the description of the Spanner Distributed Database by Google.

Incidentally, I have deanonymized several reviews already. When you go to conferences, and some researcher asks the exact same question and has the exact same opinion as reviewer C, chances are... Sometimes the recognition is mutual as they realize what they just revealed (thankfully that has only resulted in humorous chuckles, at least in my life. But I can see how it can go wrong so easily!)
Your staff will remember this, even if they aren't sharing things directly. Doesn't this just end up using more hours for your customers?
Warning! This title is a total lie! I know it's a lie done intentionally and calculatingly, but most of the time most people don't read past the title and will assume that it's true. I really think this needs to be edited! Even if it 'spoils' the article. Please do this, whoever can!

At the time of writing the posted title here is the same as the article title: "I confess, I wrote the Arsenic DNA paper to expose flaws in peer-review at subscription based journals"
We need to highlight the whole fringe part. Fringe libertarians are no more dangerous than fringe conservatives or fringe liberals.
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"I wish I worked harder" said nobody on their deathbed ever.

There's a difference between working hard as a corporate slave and working hard on something you personally believe in. A big difference the author doesn't seem to understand...
Then that makes you a somewhat bad neighbor.

Did the neighbor promise to give something in return before you began? Because if you start something with no promise of anything in return, then you shouldn't expect more than a thank you. To perform such a favor, then to expect something in return that was not offered reflects badly on you.

Or maybe your analogy doesn't work in this case.
Shaming language doesn't work on me. I'm shameless )))

People say that elementary school teachers are important, but there is no pressure to have more men in that occupation... why?
You mean more pop-ups for updates that could very well be malicious?

Wonderful.
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Anyone who has lived through their 20s understands that 20-somethings are not yet adults and don't quite get how the world works. They'll be forced to live in it with responsibility soon enough. Don't shame them for trying to explore the boundaries and make mistakes along the way. Your path is not the only one.
Seems like an opportunity for an app

(disclaimer: obviously did not do my due diligence and google if there was one first. T minus X seconds in counting until the first 'there already is one' post).
Recent songs that mention Sega:

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> No, the web is all about restricting users. It's baked into several HTTP error codes (403 and 401 off the top of my head). SSL is also rather popular.

This is obtuse. The HTTP and HTML specs provide standards for interoperation. Some modes of operation are forbidden for some users, and the specification provides a way for that to be communicated. It sounds like you're taking a whole-system approach to freedom, which is certainly valid (see the AGPL for a "free" response). But it's orthogonal to the issue at hand, which is interoperability. Any client can still implement the specification.

That said, I'm completely at a loss as to how you believe SSL "restricts users".

> I assume you mean that the browser shouldn't restrict users? Like, if I stream a movie from Netflix, I should be able to also save it locally so I can take parts of it to use in my fair use arts project?

The browser should implement an interoperable standard. That standard should be accessible to everyone. Any browser vendor should be able to, once they have properly implemented the specification, stream a movie from Netflix (this is the very thing that EME makes impossible).

> Sorry. Never going to happen. Forcing this use case that _people want_ off into plugins isn't going to make anything more "free".

This does not have to be reality, no matter what vendors say. There's a reason digital restriction management was forced out of the music space: it's ineffective, it's consumer-hostile, and it hinders innovation. Many of us are mad precisely because the vendors played hardball in their negotiations, and the W3C wimped out. Vendors need the web more than the web needs the vendors, but the W3C didn't take an equally hard line back and we're left with a decision that screws everyone but media companies.

> That's like selling a Roku box that can only play Ted and Youtube videos and saying that it's better because it's totally free, and open, and doesn't restrict its users. Well, sure, that is the best kind of correct. But only because you yanked everything that wasn't free. You didn't actually add any value over the standard Roku box that plays Netflix and Amazon.

The problem is, this decision hinders innovation. It is now much harder for a Roku competitor to exist, because before they can get off the ground they have to comply with byzantine demands of old media companies. "totally free, and open, and doesn't restrict its users" is the future of communication and computing (at least technically, politically is a different story). This decision is mired in the past.

Let's circle back to this:

> Forcing this use case that _people want_ off into plugins isn't going to make anything more "free".

This is exactly what EME does. The digital restriction management "extensions" are plugins. They are binary blobs, tied to specific hardware implementations. This regresses the web back to the "best viewed on Windows in IE 2.3" days, where interoperation is dead and cross-platform compatibility is a hippy dream.

And that's why people are mad at the W3C for no longer representing what the web is supposed to be.
I agree it's real, but I also agree people use it as a cop-out.

I definitely don't see it happening over a short timeframe at a normal job. Only time I got any real burnout, was for my capstone at Uni. I had been working around the clock (up to 80hr weeks) for three months solid.

Sidenote, It was actually kind of a cool experiment. I knew I would burn out; I also knew it was worth it (being my capstone). So I got the experience of attempting to forestall burnout just long enough to make our goals. Was a good experience learning about myself.
Also, burn-out is NOT a rationalization for giving up early. Burn-out is when you should have given up a long time ago, but you keep pushing yourself too hard instead, and then you fall apart and have difficulty functioning as a human being (to say nothing of performing your job).

The article author might have a point or two about a variety of young actors in the workforce, but they're masked by this and other bits of far-too-tidy preachiness. He's full of it.
Who is it that showed up and demanded a reward? I missed that happening.
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cold fusion wasn't a complete career-ender. There are people who do replicate the experiment to probe the phenomenon they discovered.

Their mistake wasn't the paper; it was the press conference.
I didn't make those up to sound edgy, those are all items that I saw when I looked at Silk Road roughly six months ago
I'd argue that assuming you must always know what you're doing next is another kind of foolish.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Someone who values creating things and making an impact will find a way to create things and make an impact, even if that way is not immediately apparent at first. What else are they going to do, sit at home and watch TV?

I have both gaps and overlaps on my resume. I find that the gaps - where I said to myself "I have no idea what I want to do, I'm going to play around with things and keep an eye out for opportunities" - are far more valuable than the overlaps, where a side project became a startup immediately after I quit. I think that's really common for a lot of folks. PayPal was Max Levchin 4th idea (he got out of college and said "I don't want to work for anyone else, I'll play around with stuff until I figure out something to do"), Parse came out of the wreckage of Gamador and Etacts, Paul Buchheit quit Google without something lined up before founding FriendFeed, getting acquired by Facebook, and then ending up at YCombinator, etc.

A lot of people take it to be a sign of confidence and an embrace of vulnerability when you're willing to accept that you don't know what you want to do. Maybe you have something to learn from Loren, too.
Probably due to this...

http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/08/twitter-400-million-round/

http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/08/twitter-400-million-round/

> Sources cited by the Financial Times claim DST has invested $400m for a 5% stake in the company, with US mutual fund T Rowe Price and an internet fund managed by JPMorgan leading a group of other investors.

I doubt Jack put in an equivalent amount to ensure he didn't get diluted:)
While DRM is generally annoying, if the technology exists, it might be interesting to use it for ERM -- being able to prevent copying of documents which are editable in-browser would be potentially a better way to work than the VDI or dedicated hardware used now.
"It doesn’t matter how brilliant you started out or how much faster you exited the gates than everyone else, those who consistently get up every morning and direct their energies along a single path, no matter how boring it may be, will eventually pass you on each of the many roads you haphazardly travel."

So what if they will pass ? I prefer to be left behind and do something I like. Life is not about getting ahead of others, some take joy in getting ahead of others, while some enjoy being left behind but doing their thing.
Interestingly, Google usually shuts down the acquired companies anyway...
Less than 1 year into forcing their users to 'The Cloud' for future updates, Adobe has proven incompetent at protecting our data (and even their own).

I feel particularly bad for the design houses that have entrusted Adobe with their intellectual property because it was supposed to be safe who now have to rethink how safe their assets really are.
Adobe suffers major cyber attack
Congrats on the launch of LeadGeni.us guys! Looks great and is a awesome market fit. Best wishes moving forward!
Every generation since the dawn of humanity has claimed that the one before it is lazy. And what's more what is that noise they call music these days?
Ask HN: When to comment on HN?
Does anyone else avoid commenting when the flow of a thread goes against your point of view, when doing so would just lead to you being downvoted?
I prefer giving reasons why behavior should be corrected as opposed to downvoting and hoping they can divine why they were downvoted (like whoever downvoted my comment with the reason why his comment was bad, I have no clue what they objected to, so they accomplished little.)
Yeah. Also, there's no requirement for the different DRM schemes to support the same codecs or containers or encryption schemes, so potentially they'll have to re-encode all their content for each scheme. It's actually less standardized than pay TV encryption believe it or not!

Edit: The interface between the DRM servers and your backend code isn't standardized either, so content providers still have to do a bunch of DRM-scheme-specific development work. Basically, they standardized just enough to allow sites with DRM to claim they're 100% HTML5, it barely improves interoperability at all.
If they were embracing Python, they would replace PowerShell with Python. :)
There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistaken it for the binary system.
Jack Dorsey only own 4.9% and Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone own less than 1%, they got diluted pretty bad.
The converse also holds true. Just because it isn't published doesn't mean it isn't science. Lots of trade secret processes and such fall under this.
The mechanism for the EME plugins to interact with the browser isn't specified at all last time I looked - it's totally browser-specific.
You could make the same point about murderers, though. If we ignore them we save tax money spent today on investigations, trials, and imprisonment.

The solution should do more good than harm. In the case of victimless crimes like for most marijuana usage the solution is clear. But highly addictive drugs lead to victims other than the user, including the general taxpayers who helped fund their upbringing.
Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest for 300m years
Well, they show you ads based on what they know about you, so if you don't like the ad just give them more information!
Advertising, for one:

With at least $86 million earmarked for ads, Covered California is counting on global marketing firms to get the job done: Weber Shandwick and Ogilvy Public Relations. According to Covered California, ads will appear in multiple languages on TV, radio, newspapers, billboards and social media.

http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/California-could-se...

EDIT: It looks like they also opened 3 call centers, with about 400 operators, with plans for a 4th next month with 150 more.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-california-he...
Looks like they are betting on potential. To be honest, Twitter is so mainstream that it is entirely new medium of news/discovery/conversation just like Radio/TV/Internet. I'm sure they will be extremely profitable company in the future.
That's not burnout. Real burnout is more closer to having to leave software development field for farming, because you can't function as a developer anymore.

Tbh for me the fear of burnout is enough to leave a job. I don't want to hate/ be unable to program anymore.
noted, thanks, makes more sense
...actual libertarianism is a self-assassinating concept as it's normally described and practiced.

No political philosophy is defensible when caricatured to its most extreme positions.

The reason I'm anarchist is not that I've enjoyed my time in Somalia and I'd like the USA to become that, only more temperate. The reason is that the only changes we can make to our polity that could conceivably be good for the people are in an anarchist direction. If the nation commits to anarchism and starts the slow process of making its laws and practices more just and humanist, less total and oppressive, in twenty years I'll probably find that I've become more moderate and open to other directions for societal change. But we're in a hole here. When people advocate that we stop digging and start climbing, it is nonresponsive to point out that the air at 50,000 feet is too thin to breathe.
Ah, but in the case of drugs, we can compare regulated and unregulated markets, both historically and present-day. At one time the market for drugs was unregulated, and the result was a hazard to the public: drugs of unknown strength and purity, false advertising, etc. Today we have points of comparison: black market methamphetamine is produced in an unregulated fashion and tends to make people sick (or at least look very sick), while pharmaceutical methamphetamine comes in regulated dosages and with assurances of its purity; similarly, black market opiates versus prescription opiates.

Even with cars, we can observe the positive effect of safety regulations. The market did not put seat belts and crumple zones into our cars; laws did, and as a result of those laws many peoples lives have been saved.

So if you truly believe in the power of unregulated markets, you need to answer the question of how to deal with people who buy needlessly unsafe drugs. Likewise, what is society supposed to do about needlessly unsafe cars?
We anticipate making capital expenditures
in 2013 of approximately $225 million to
$275 million

Our users create approximately 500 million
Tweets every day

Over 65% of our advertising revenue was
generated from mobile devices in the
three months ended June 30, 2013

our advertising revenue per timeline view
was $0.80

As of June 30, 2013, we had approximately
2,000 full-time employees.

Conspicuously absent in the list of acquisitions is Atebits, Loren Brichter's company, from which Twitter for iPhone was derived.
Yes, France, where you can live the good life as long as you're a white, European Francophone. Immigrants (especially dark-skinned Muslims) need not apply.
Government organizations have never traditionally been concerned with the cost of anything. Startups traditionally are extremely aware of the cost of everything.
See here to see just how much funding they've taken.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Funding
For those of us with limited IPO watching experience, what other companies have gone public with a negative bottom line?

Another question: will the infusion of capital from going public drive them towards profitability? What is there plan to become profitable?
Well good luck to them with the source of Acrobat and PDF reading/writing.

I'd rather obtain minified javascript.
Yeah, I thought it was funny mostly cause FreeBSD Jails and Docker have really a lot of things in common
Will definitely post more after launch, including this press list. We should be covered by a big player tomorrow. :-)

I'd say you need to hit the road really hard, and try to approach entities to which your product would provide real value.

For example we also found partnerships to be a great distribution channel. We approach them by showing how much value our product can bring to their service (e.g. http://andreipotorac.roon.io/from-blogvio-with-love - this is the real deal). So far it worked great with the ones we approached! This means thousands of potential users so far!

On the other hand, we help them with user acquisition since we're a platform that integrates well with publishing tools.

So:

1. Partnerships

2. Press

3. Sites above

This is the order you should use when building you distribution strategy.
If you get your baby an android phone, at least you can use the Locate function to find out where you left them...
If you can effectively monetize those 215 million users, then the sky's the limit. The user base doesn't need to grow as much as the profitability needs to grow. Comparing Twitter numbers with Facebook numbers isn't very helpful. They're different products. Larger numbers of users doesn't necessary mean more profit. A metric not mentioned in this article is engagement. "Active" users isn't very helpful when discussing the potential profitability on a per user basis. The engagement as well as the signal-to-noise makes a big difference. For example, what's the rate of return on a Facebook ad versus a Twitter ad? What are the CTRs? What are CPMs? What's the operating expense? What's the profit growth rate? There are dozens of things that go into an equation before one can say Twitter has a "growth" problem. Profits don't follow linearly with an increase of users.
I find it interesting how low their revenue is. With Twitter being so popular, you'd think they'd be above 1 billion in revenue.

Goes to show you how hard it is to monetize some products.
because Jack developed twitter during employment at Odeo, which was the company of Evan Williams and Noah Glass. Eventually they would spin it out. I think 4.9% is a fair stake (when you are not risking everything to make an idea work but rather rely on your current employer to build things up with you).
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If the jury didn't agree that the prior art was clear, then the prior art obviously was not clear. So really you're just saying that you don't agree with the jury.

You also seem to be saying that Samsung should be allowed to abuse the court process as a way to steal secrets because Apple sued them, even though Apple won the case.

I'm sorry, but you are defending Samsung.
Sorry dude, I did mean 6. :/
Anything made resembling reimplementation of Adobe's stuff by anyone who sees this will be tainted. It would most likely leave not the individual developer open to legal actions but the entire group and project they were working with would be at risk.

You would have to be something of an idiot to look at this if you intend to have anyone ever look at anything you code in the future.
IOW, a race to the bottom. Lowest common-denominator business.
> I'm not really sure why "peer-review" is so lofty a concept anyway.

I agree. Will someone tell pg to turn off the upvotes?
If you have to distribute the key to the client (dvd player, browser, etc) isnt it just a matter of time before the key is discovered and the content can decrypted at will?

How does this standard prevent that?
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It appears that the offering price has been censored from this document:

To the extent that the underwriters sell more than shares
of common stock, the underwriters have the option to purchase up
to an additional shares from Twitter at the initial public
offering price less the underwriting discount.

probably due to whatever act allowed Twitter to file without public scrutiny up-front.
This is something promising: http://www.peerageofscience.org/
That's a cool claim, do you have a source that isn't from mises.org?

Tell me more about functioning markets and how they can only be prevented by government force.
Maker of the most insecure end-user software in human history gets hacked. Karma, it is a bitch.
>>>> They don't have a monopoly.

This is pretty debatable considering the options which are currently available to consumers. Yes, they have some competition, but it's hardly putting a dent in their bottom line.

It's comparable to the New York Yankees playing in a Juco league. Sure they have "Competition" in the form of other teams, but are those teams really in their league? No.
Dogma-driven development
because it's the easy thing to do it's the path of least resistance. It's the cheapest.

Thinking that innovation is enough is a little bit naïve, you need more than innovation to get market space, ask Archos for details about that. Quick got a place in the sun with the very innovative position of selling hamburgers cheaply, end result: Burger King left the country crushed in the war between Mc Donald's and Quick, but innovation is zero on the hamburger front.
It's been posited that people would live on average to 200 just from unnatural causes of death (accidents, etc.)

The way to live forever is to not die of something first. Aging is merely a combination of natural processes we're only slowly getting a firm handle on.

The primary fundamental aging mechanism that we're showing promise for is telomere shortening. Essentially, the mitochondria in our cells have DNA that slowly and steadily degrades, much like your car guzzling more and more gas to go the same distance as it ages. There is an enzyme called telomerase that repairs this damage, and it is showing promise in animal trials. If it works in humans and comes out in a pill, I'd expect lifespans to go up by about 30-40 years.

To become immune to natural causes of death, I'd say we're looking at 200 more years. Living to the age of 10,000, perhaps 100.