skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're just starting reading academic papers, I highly suggest delving into background and seminal papers in the field first, because the terminology in contemporary papers is usually pretty precise and depends on already knowing the field. Typically my workflow looks like:

1. Pick a field.
2. Look on Wikipedia, get a feel for history and seminal papers. Also
cross-reference any summary papers that you might see in ACM/Nature/Science.
3. Flip through a textbook on the topic and see if you can start grokking the
terms. The useful textbooks will probably name more fundamental research
that will serve as good reading.
4. Start digging back in sources. You'll start seeing familiar names pop up,
these are usually the seminal authors in the field, or people who write
really good summary papers.

If you google the topic, and all the papers you find reference "x et al"
in their abstract, you probably want to find that paper.

5. Read from back to front. Skip a little in the middle if pressed for time.
6. Now you can read papers on Nature/arXiv/Google and be well-prepared for the
terminology.

I like to study synchrotrons and particle accelerators in my spare time, so I looked at Wikipedia to find out about the history of the field[1]. This lead me to Courant and Snyder's landmark paper[2] about the basis of strong focusing (how to keep all those particles in a thin ring without gigantic, building-sized magnets). Through some Googling and helpful advice I found a free textbook about accelerators[3], which lead me to the granddaddy of papers, M. Sand's summary of basically everything accelerator related [4].

I think the above approach should work for any field, but the openness of the field will vary a lot. Physics and math typically have large collections of PDFs online, but I'm not sure how good CS or bioengineering is in that regard.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron

[2] http://ab-abp-rlc.web.cern.ch/ab-abp-rlc/AP-literature/Coura...

[3] http://www.fieldp.com/cpa.html

[4] http://slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacreports/reports02/slac-r-1...

edit: formatting
For two reasons: because it has a UX that hasn't changed meaningfully since the mid-1990s (GUI tools for GPG/PGP tend simply to wrap the command line UX), and because it presumes that the only reasonable way to use a tool like GPG is to exert fine-grained control over keys and identity.

Email needs to be encrypted opportunistically, without user intervention. GPG could do this; it could generate semi-ephemeral keys as needed and use key continuity, like OTR, to figure out which keys were kosher for which addresses.

Instead, GPG exposes to its users the metaphor of a "key ring" with different kinds of keys and key signatures. That model works for people like me, who use it to secure corp-to-corp communications where I have very specific and fussy requirements for whose keys I'm interacting with. But it doesn't work for end-users at all.

Someone should write a secure-by-default email client that uses the OpenPGP message format and is compatible with GPG, but that ignores the intended GPG security model entirely.
In ios7 you can control which apps have access to LTE data. Possibly tweaking those settings will help?
The book in the link is almost 10 years old. Perhaps you could mention what you think is a better starting point rather than Hugs?
I'm a self taught programmer as well. Spent several years as a developer or dev lead and then decided to get an MBA. I now own and run an interactive agency (design and dev) shop.

Depending on your focus an MBA is a very broad program, well suited to running a business. My particular focus and program wasn't on high finance it was very focused on the myriad of skills needed to run a business I learned marketing, financial accounting, and operations - heck even shipping logistics in one or two classes each of 3 semesters (I did a night program). Appropriately used an MBA is almost a bootcamp for CEOs. I got a lot of very valuable information. As my small dev shop grows I constantly lean back on some skill or bit of information I picked up from my time in my MBA. Things like being able to project cash flows to know when I can't make payroll to all the science behind effective interviewing. There's a lot that goes into running a business that you can learn in an MBA program.
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Data on patient outcomes for individual healthcare providers is not currently available, but the data at the hospital level is. If a hospital is a Medicare-certified, then it is required to report quality of care metrics including deaths, complications and readmissions.

When researching and comparing doctors, as rschmitty mentions, gather all the relevant publicly-available data such as your state's malpractice claims database, research publications, and quality of associated institutions.

Check out Medicare's Hospital Compare tool to see the quality of care metrics for your local hospitals:
http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

Here is the quality of care dataset that includes over 4,800 US hospitals:
https://data.medicare.gov/Hospital-Compare/Agency-For-Health...
Where?

For me, where is not the question, when is.

My Evernote is full of 'read-later' bookmarks, which I wish I will read one day...
Doesn't the iPad have some way to limit data usage on mobile networks like Android? I can even tell it that certain wifi APs are using mobile data and to conserve bandwidth when connected to them. It works very well, I would imagine Apple has something similar.
Because it can indicate whether someone bought a smartphone or a feature phone with android on it.
Inflation is significantly lower than it was during the middle of the housing bubble. The factors you bring up would need to be distorting the numbers wildly and incredibly in order to make today's inflation levels a proxy for what tech stocks did to retail investors in the 1990s.
>I suspect at the end of six months you'll just find the same poor people, even though technically you've offered them half a year's salary at 30K. //

Isn't this rather like complaining that a hungry person will be hungry next meal-time even if you give them a meal now?
Conferences and surveys. Expect the firsts to contain a lot of noise and the second ones to be quite outdated, so search for the papers in google scholar and surf by back-references.

Imho, you should spend half a day or so going through 20-50 papers, reading abstracts+intros+conclusions to figure out which are the most interesting and select the 2 candidates. Especially at the beginning, focus on good/known authors.

BTW, surveys are also quite interesting papers by themselves.
I've only been here since 99, so I don't yet have the full history. On top of that, my track record is poor -- I have yet to vote for the mayoral winner.

But still, while I know he has his initiatives, I couldn't articulate what McGinn believes in. It just isn't clear to me.
great point. If OP has a science / engineering background he should be using that education to form a reasoned argument with data rather than amplifying the echo chamber with more conjecture
i would also recommend http://pixfirst.com awesome SaaS for photographers it helps photographers sell photos online, they store photos for and you set the price, sends email to client once photos uploaded, you can tag photos and create albums out of those tags so people only see their photos, it is a really interesting startup.
How do you decided on which product to build and the market to target?
I would love more info from you about the project, I've been looking for something interesting lately... Been kinda bored maybe this will help - Thanks!
As a student, you can get heavily discounted rates to most journals.

* For ~300$/year, I receive by mail many journals and
transactions from ACM.
* For ~40$/year, I have access to some of IEEE Xplore.

By far, I find that ACM's papers are more interesting and I'm glad for the 300$ to get the papers in dead tree form. I'm mostly reading about Computer Systems and Artificial Intelligence. For Xplore, I read the Software magazine, it's ok.

Now I'm an undergrad and I don't understand 50% of what's written in those. There's the 50% I can understand which gives me new ideas, new tools or better understanding. For the 50% I don't grok, I know planting the seeds in my brain will eventually lead to analogies and eventual understanding. Surely it can't be bad to read more than less.
I've always had the issue the other way round, but i guess it depends on the market.
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T-Mobile's $70 unlimited everything plan for smartphones includes 2.5 GB of tethering.

So I'm expecting to use the iPad's free 200 MB when I want to do something quickly on the iPad, but use WiFi or tethering for extended browsing.
I recently got a bunch from sillysaurus2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6345990). I personally feel like he has great taste, so he's a pretty good filter for interesting papers.
Without meaning to detract from some of the excellent explanations in this thread, I should add that it sounds like you're approaching this as if it were mostly a technical problem when as far as I can tell it is mostly a social problem. Social problems are harder than coming up with a tool to make it understandable, although I strongly suspect that's also not as easy as you think it is. The failure modes, corner cases, and generally making it robust to someone who Just Doesn't Get it are what kill you, not the happy path of a user who does roughly what they ought.

Setting aside the social problems of explaining cryptography and generating a network effect, most people assume their communications are not worth listening to. "If they want to listen to/read my mom drone on, they're welcome to it!" Or they assume it happens to "someone else."

I'd expect that most people -- rationally and correctly, I might add -- conclude that it's unlikely to happen to them in any way relevant to their experience.

Anything you suggest has to overcome that inertia. Facebook was a value-add. Cryptography's value-add is subjectively nil and possibly negative (whoops laptop stolen lost my keys) if you don't see the benefit in the first place.
“The thought was that well-fed developers could create value better than the stock market.”

And amen to that. I can't believe the quote above was meant to be a snarky comment instead of a blunt dose of realism.
Ethics used to prevent pharmacists from telling patients what was in medication bottles. Norms can change.
I love seeing posts like these! Allez les français!!
Aren't Fab.com's costs dominated by headcount and marketing? Do you understand what I mean by "dominated by inventory and logistics costs"? I mean companies who owned multiple warehouses full of inventory, and who assumed direct responsibility for getting that stuff to customers.
Engineers create products. MBAs create processes.

Startups need the former. Established companies need the latter.

I personally like, and agree with, Guy Kawasaki's formula for pre-money valuation of new companies:

pre-money valuation = ($1M * n_engineers) - ($500k * n_MBAs)
PageBlox (https://www.pageblox.com/) earns about $300 a month and is growing steadily... The hardest part has been SEO and marketing, something I am still quite new at.
I can't speak for Jack, but I can speak to learning both programming skills and business skills.
When you self teach programming, you usually don't end up shipping a product that you're not sure will work. Most of the time, you can try things and the compiler and some basic QA will tell you if it worked. Unless you don't test your implementation at all, you know how well you did when you push your code.

In business decisions, there is no test bed. Your choices play almost exclusively in time, money, and human capital. You can definitely try to self learn in that environment, and many successfully do, but it's a lot easier to screw up to the point where you can't continue.
Unless the one man can physically dominate all the others, this will never happen. Capitalism as we know it requires state-controlled force.

You know what all the evidence says? Lock 20 people in a room, each with a dollar, and nobody will care about the dollars as there's no market to do anything with them. If they have food in the room, they will tend to realize that it's gonna be a terrible mess and have violent conflicts if there's anything far from equal share of the food. Everyone reasonable will gang up on any hoarder. At their core, human groups are actually communist: from-each-by-ability to-each-by-need. Check out the book Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...
https://twitter.com/lh3lh3
https://twitter.com/aphillippy
https://twitter.com/mike_schatz
https://twitter.com/infoecho
https://twitter.com/genetics_blog
https://twitter.com/SahaSurya
https://twitter.com/lexnederbragt
https://twitter.com/pathogenomenick

https://twitter.com/PacBio is also an interesting follow, although it's limited to stuff about their tech
It's a good idea to take a peek regardless. I found an app that I didn't even know was installed, and certainly hadn't run, which was using data in the background (and deleted it)
Around $150-300/mo. with http://testyourvocab.com from Google AdSense. Tells you the size of your English vocabulary. And it was HN which popularized it in the first place!
Still waiting for Verizon's FiOS and it takes forever. Does Google plan to expand Google Fiber to more cities? Their pricing is simply the best when it comes to $ per bandwidth metirc.
The best way to choose a surgeon is to get a personal recommendation from a doctor who is a personal friend. This will at least prevent you from getting the absolute bottom of the barrel.
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I would agree. It's obvious they aren't architected for anything other than all-or-nothing, which I presume they are working to decouple a lot of things at the moment.
Excuse us for trying to cure cancer

That's a total misrepresentation of the complaint. The complaint is that claiming to cure cancer or being close to curing cancer to get some funding hurts the credibility of Science as an institution.

Part of the reason there is so much hype and bullshit is because

How will training the public that Scientists are money-grubbing hucksters who are full of crap help the matter any?

A lack of humility and self-criticism is a huge problem in any discipline, especially one that claims to be the best way to learn the "truth".
There's a continuation to GTA04 in the works: http://neo900.org/
Hey Dan,

I'm selling Wordpress plugins right now with nothing near the same success as you. Do you think it's a market that is too saturated to achieve the level of sales you saw?

I'd also love to hear how you managed to attract the number of users to your website that gave you over $250k in sales? It's something I'm having trouble with right now and any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
How about:

-Building a great product, retaining ownership, and maintaining it for your user base to the best of your ability.

-Building a great product and selling it to someone who you're confident is committing to maintaining the quality of your product, even if they're not the highest bidder.

-Building a great product and selling it to the highest bidder, under pre-agreed terms that let you keep enough control to maintain quality.

People snark at me every time I suggest this. I really don't understand why. Hacker News is brimming with stories of "I'm sad because Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/whatever bought a product/service I love and immediately ruined it/shut it down." I don't think it's unreasonable to wish that a product you use regularly and pay for (whether directly or through advertising views) be maintained in good condition and not gutted. Maybe I'm not cynical enough.
And, in fact, https://lekensteyn.nl/apk-downloader/ says "Beware: apps.evozi.com hosts a version of this extension which contains spyware."
It's not failure to conform. It's refusal to conform solely for the sake of being perceived as unique or different. Being a hipster is a way of saying, "I'm cooler than everyone." That's why it deserves to be mocked.
It also describes Amazon, whose stock has been on a tear.
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1) Most people haven't had a need for it. Till now.
2) Encryption is difficult concept for even technical people.
3) Commercial PGP costs too much. Building a quality PKI system for an organization costs more
4) GPG is a pain to use
5) Encryption has been discouraged by the government, companies and users.
Amit, great to see you're doing well. Your drive made me register as well, and I'm hoping to help someone someday.

Thank you for being so awesome!
if ( $(index).html().match(/^".*"$/) ) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

Gah!
Amazon was funded during the '90s bubble.
Their website states, "Beware: apps.evozi.com hosts a version of this extension which contains spyware. Although they do attribute my fixes for 1.4, there is no link to the GitHub repository. Originally only the GitHub repository was set up, but due to this infected extension, I decided to package my own extension. When linking, please use the Github repository or this page."
Sadly, tulips were not invented during the great tulip mania, either.
You can't make a statement like that in a vacuum and when compared to his opponent he's more than forthcoming and opinionated. Murray doesn't have a single issue other than being the guy who will be even more of a friend to big business than McGinn is.

Most people voting for Murray are war on cars mouth breathers who have no idea just how little was spent on bike lanes compared to roads.
I am having difficulty correlating your tech stuff with the other bits. In the 60s they wrote all their apps in COBOL and ran them on mainframes, was that because they were crazy? No, it's because that is just what people did then. I was working in that space at the time, our flagship sites were written in C++ (NSAPI) and that was a totally reasonable thing to do...
While as a Bostonian I would love gigabit, I do think that fighting crime remains a substantial priority in this city. It's not totally backwards, but there's room to improve.

Indeed, I generally think that there are many priorities a mayoral candidate for this city should have, and alas, super-speed internet access is not at the top of that list. Gigabit is a problem ranking far under crime, poverty, and infrastructural issues in Boston.
The Google File System makes NSA's hack blatantly illegal and they know it
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I'm currently participating in a Startup Weekend in Saratoga Spring, NY and could use a little help.

If you play the League of Legends video game and can spare a couple of minutes, I'd be very grateful if you could complete our short (6 question) survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teamote
Price inflation, yes. But the monetary base has expanded dramatically so that the price deflation from deleveraging is completely cancelled out by it.

It's inflation defined as the expansion of the monetary base that the OP is talking about.
Oh, you're talking about persistent rootkit. I was talking about making a one-off backup of your phone, then returning it to your shelf.
I make around $600 per month on http://www.binpress.com. I sell 6 software components for iOS. Most of them were component that I had already developed for other projects. I just tidied them up and made them available for purchase. The income's very passive - max 2 hours a week. Here's a link to my profile: http://www.binpress.com/profile/ben-smiley/14290
Pdf is very good at reproducibility at the printer.
clicky: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teamote
I'm confused, why wouldn't they just tax whatever replaces Comcast? Maybe your argument is that the government has an overall interest in maintaining a monopoly, since monopolies raise prices, and under a fixed tax rate, that means more revenue for government.
I disagree with the generalization of this post.

If there is anything I've learned in my career at multiple startups, it's this: credentials have little-to-zero effect on success.

The fact that a person might have an MBA, or a PhD, or a commercial driver's license (I hired an awesome dev who had one of these), has zero correlation to success or failure.

In my experience, what matters is the person, not the label.
Nice. This would be great as a mobile app as well. Also you need to fix your dns configuration, can't access via http://betactful.com
In the case of 16-bit Windows, this would have been particularly difficult to foresee. Even when Windows 3.0 shipped, it was still planned that OS/2 would be the 32-bit successor to Windows, so there was no 32-bit Windows target even on the roadmap.

(According to the book Showstopper!, when Microsoft ditched OS/2, they created Win32 by taking the OS/2 API and fixing any divergences from Win16 to make it look as compatible as possible.)
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I thought the same, but I don't miss it. It makes the computer much lighter it seems too, and very thin.. but not too thin where it feels flimsy or anything.
You can block individual apps from using the cellular connection, or block cellular data entirely. Unfortunately, there's no way to configure this stuff for WiFi access points that I know of.

Edit: I know it's impolite to complain about downvotes, but I'm genuinely curious. This comment is currently at 0 points, even though I just stated something completely factual without any loaded language whatsoever. What's the deal?
It cost much more to operate a tech startup in the 1990s than it does today, and, having started one, it cost much more to get an offering to market. Capital costs were higher, development cycles were longer, headcount was greater. So when you look at the prevalence of startups in both the market and in popular culture in the 1990s, you have to understand that they represented significantly more invested dollars than today's startups do.
Exactly. The very nature of the tools used to advance and succeed in politics are anathema to doing good science.

Treating science like you treat politics or marketing is akin to going to war in the name of Jesus or Gandhi.
Always charge and set your price high unless your running a freemium model. Its much easier to lower your price than raise it. And if your customers pay and are upset you can always refund them.
I agree, but there's little downside when it's free. If you use this and they cut it off a few years later, you've lost nothing.
I guess in 2007 everybody thought that the housing market will never ever collapse and the raise will continue forever. People, it won't.

And neither will this growth.

It has nothing to do with the size of the market or the number of potential users. Hey, if you say it like this, in 2000 were a lot more potential users than today, because of less people on the internet.
Thought this might be a useful addition to the discussion about "is the tech market in a bubble?"

If you're going to talk about how over/under/fairly valued these companies are, it seems necessary to me to ask questions about their competitive position.

The snapchat valuation seems lofty (and I wouldn't defend it) but I could see it as reasonable if an investor believes that they have a reasonable chance of continuing to cement their competitive advantage. They are stealing market share among youth from facebook, and could extend that into a relatively meaningful and durable business once they begin to advertise.

Note that Facebook has begun effectively monetizing its mobile users: it's possible. This is probably not the right space to launch into some detailed work on Snapchat, but I doubt the valuation is driven by "lol IDK" idiocy on the part of the group backing them.