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by natejenkins 13y ago
Hey Paul, I found another small typo: "but if we raise a few hundred thousand we can hire a one or two smart friends" Should be: "but if we raise a few hundred thousand we can hire one or two smart friends" Thanks again
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by natejenkins 13y ago
I should say that I don't think college sports should exist in their current form at all. However, coaches making millions of dollars while players make nothing leaves a bad feeling in my stomach. If college sports were not about maki
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by natejenkins 13y ago
And this is without paying the athletes, who should be earning their market value. Students walk around campus wearing their favorite player's jersey and said player gets nothing more than a scholarship out of the deal. I'm howev
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by natejenkins 13y ago
What can I say? Naming is hard. We initially thought to ourselves, "Spreading science should be fun and intuitive, like an STD. And it should be hard to get rid of." Thus Authorea was born. Have you tried our pdf exporter to ch
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by natejenkins 13y ago
Hey, I'm working on a similar project for scientific writing. You can find the link in my profile along with my email. We have had success with large collaborations working on it, 15 authors should not be a problem. Check it out and f
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by natejenkins 13y ago
"If possible, look into patenting key components of your software – this offers more protection than copyright. More on that here." While I agree that having your site copied verbatim sucks, I don't think contributing to the
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by natejenkins 13y ago
One of my favorite podcasts, This American Life, has two excellent episodes concerning patents: Part 1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w... Part 2: http://www.thisameric
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by natejenkins 13y ago
I am working on a startup addressing this exact problem. Docker sounds really exciting although I haven't played much with it yet. Limmeau's concern below is a valid one. With the popularity of cloud computing centered around V
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by natejenkins 13y ago
First off, very cool! Nice work. If multiple developers can modify files at the same time, how do you handle merge conflicts when syncing?
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by natejenkins 13y ago
'We are also very much focused on what is in the best interest of the entrepreneur. You might ask "how can taking $2mm for 20% be better than taking $5mm for 20%?" and you'd be right asking that question. The answer is y
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by natejenkins 13y ago
The relevant link is here: https://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com Not sure how long it has been down for but I became aware of this about a half an hour ago.
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Bootstrap CDN is down
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by natejenkins 13y ago
I can see the usefulness of being able to hold your mock-up in your hand, but doesn't the WhitePad rotate when you try to draw on it? Would be nice to have a very thin non-slip pad on the back of it. It also would be very nice to be able
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by natejenkins 13y ago
We ( https://www.authorea.com ) are trying to be a small part of the solution. The question becomes "How do you incentivize researchers to publish in open science/open data journals?" Giving the possibility of a modern article (only works
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by natejenkins 13y ago
Awesome stuff, thanks. Your second point could explain some of the mysterious non-updates that I've seen from time-to-time when using faye with long-polling behind nginx.
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by natejenkins 13y ago
Is there a reason why a proper websocket connection along with the client pinging the server is preferable over long-polling?
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by natejenkins 14y ago
At first glance I thought, 'I already have vagrant'. After watching the lightning talk my only thought is, 'Want!' Looks awesome and crazy fast. Great work. github id: natejenkins
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by natejenkins 14y ago
Maybe you should check us out: www.authorea.com We're pseudo-realtime by design, so you only will see collaborators' edits once they are saved. You will see which section or paragraph they are working on, but they have exclusive editing-ri
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by natejenkins 14y ago
not yet (sorry), but it's on the list.
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by natejenkins 14y ago
good eye, thanks!
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by natejenkins 14y ago
Hey, thanks for the comments. It is true that your research lab gave you MS Word for free, but that doesn't mean someone didn't have to pay for it in order to give it to you. I personally don't like the experience of writing articles in W
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by natejenkins 14y ago
It uses the sandbox feature for an iframe in html5. It doesn't seem to be supported yet in Firefox. Although if it is I'm sure someone will correct me.
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by natejenkins 14y ago
Our goal is to reinvent the article online. One thing that really needs to change is that figures need to come to life. While there are a few ways too accomplish this, one is by using javascript libraries such as d3.js to render dynamic im
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by natejenkins 14y ago
IPython looks amazing. I haven't personally used it yet but it appears to bring most of the Mathematica-notebook goodness over to the python community. The one thing it is lacking, which is admittedly pretty hard to implement, is Mathemat
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by natejenkins 14y ago
We're also trying to make the easy things easy, whether in Latex or Markdown. Drag-and-drop figures is one example. Support for citations directly from ADS is another. Out of curiosity, can I ask what field you are in?
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by natejenkins 14y ago
No apologies needed. The timing is pretty good, we were going to do it in two weeks or so. We've been working on this for about a year now and for the first 8 or 9 months I was telling people that it was usable but not useful. I think it
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by natejenkins 14y ago
The speed definitely needs to be worked on. We were planning on a "Show HN" post once we had modified the architecture a bit. It's all on a single server right now. Sorry about the sluggishness.
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by natejenkins 14y ago
Hey, thanks for the compliment! Much appreciated. If you look at a figure in an article, for example https://www.authorea.com/483 , you'll notice that the figure reference has been pulled out of the latex source. We did that so that in t
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by natejenkins 14y ago
Hi, Authorea co-founder here. A bit surprised to see us on the front page. 1. Full access to the git repository will be added soon. It wasn't our main concern initially as we wanted it to be easy to work on articles for an academic resea
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by natejenkins 14y ago
While there are clearly bad ideas, Facebook for robots is probably one, there are lots and lots of great ideas. I always tell people my 'real' startup idea is time travel, but I'm still working on the implementation. Often these great idea

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