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by davi 15y ago
I immediately liked the change. I realize now that in addition to evaluating the comments I was reading, I was also evaluating the readership's collective response to the comments. It makes for better reading to only evaluate one thing at a
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by davi 16y ago
A key problem is that the ratio of trainees (graduate students) to tenure track positions is way out of whack. It's a pyramid. I've made this point here in the past, with estimates of the numbers involved: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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Once a Great Flop, Now Sold for Billions(nytimes.com)
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by davi 16y ago
Delete humorous one-liners vigorously, especially ones that get lots of upvotes. Lots of other good suggestions in this thread but I don't see this one. I hope you can turn it around, I've gotten a lot of value from this site.
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by davi 16y ago
I'm hiring a software developer for my group at Janelia Farm Research Campus, in Ashburn, VA. The goal will be to develop workflow for extracting wiring diagrams of neuronal circuits from large-scale serial electron microscopy of brain tiss
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The Human Lake(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by davi 16y ago
because jokes are now accepted on HN and S/N for jokes is frequently low and jokes are frequently divisive and lots of people will give a quick upvote to something that gives them a reward for reading (i.e. makes them laugh) and evaporative
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by davi 16y ago
Thanks for writing up the PR process. Interesting, and potentially useful in the future.
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by davi 16y ago
quick wishlist: - interactive refinement of results as I type - ability to restrict results to only papers that have been commented upon - ability to restrict visibility of my comments to friends/colleagues - ability to get notified if a pa
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Cheating, Incorporated(businessweek.com)
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by davi 16y ago
Interned with Langton at SFI in summer of 1997. Great experience.
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The forger's story(ft.com)
1 points by davi 16y ago|0 comments
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Kasparov on computer+human chess teams(nybooks.com)
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Zimmer's list of words banned from science writing(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by davi 16y ago
Pro users want access to a social network that has gotten huge because it's free. The pro users are nervous because free=fragile. This brings to mind Fred Wilson's recent call for content shifting tools ( http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/01/con
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by davi 16y ago
The only time it's a productivity hit to me is when I'm procrastinating anyway. I wouldn't worry about that. Focus on making the conversation as interesting as you can.
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by davi 16y ago
Thanks very much for the well wishes you guys. I am very much looking forward to that sense of relief. In the coming week or two I will probably post a 'Show HN' of my project (wiring diagrams of neuronal connectivity).
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by davi 16y ago
As it happens, I'm defending my dissertation tomorrow (neuroscience, U.S.) and this post pretty well sums up my sentiment. I particularly agree with the ending: Oh you’re saying I’m a dreamer, and that simply never happens? Well
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7 billion by end of year, 9 billion by 2045(ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
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by davi 16y ago
Interesting how much money there is to be made mining the disposable incomes of adults nostalgic for the pleasures of childhood.
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Shipping containers of Li-ion batteries in the power grid(green.blogs.nytimes.com)
30 points by davi 16y ago|21 comments
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Great talk about MetaFilter by founder Matt Haughey [video](vimeo.com)
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Six Companies That Did Not Survive 2010(nytimes.com)
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by davi 16y ago
Nearly orthogonally great answers from both of you, thanks.
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by davi 16y ago
This is really interesting: certain kinds of features and projects suck until they're good. A steeply sloped sigmoid of suckage. Why did the people working on Instant persevere despite their coworkers' reactions? Was it because they had a c
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On the wings of angels(sanfranmag.com)
1 points by davi 16y ago|0 comments
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The danger of cosmic genius(theatlantic.com)
13 points by davi 16y ago|6 comments
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by davi 16y ago
A strange eddy in the history of ideas.
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A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain (1995)(wired.com)
3 points by davi 16y ago|2 comments
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by davi 16y ago
Don't feed it. Flag it. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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