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My best strategy for this is to push for more acceptance of pass/fail courses. The main downside is that I find myself having to take better notes for future recommendation letters.

I have waited in the rain for a taxi to stop for me in Manhattan for 20min before a nearby white guy saw me and hailed one for me (and didn't let the bastard leave when he saw me). Accountability is awesome.

Those act like they're doing you a favor. "Our service will show up in an hour window if you call a day in advance, and you'd better be grateful, lesser human" I really fucking hate seperate but "equal" solutions for the disabled, and am grateful as hell I can afford to lyft everywhere I want to go.

But.. but.. it's in PloS One! :)

I see no reason to automatically equate "elderly and disabled" with "poor" (bodega?!). Ubers/Lyfts are not terribly expensive compared to owning and maintaining a car+insurance in the city, especially if only used for shopping and not commuting.

Fun fact: buying out usually means "use grant money to cover hiring an adjunct for a term," not forgoing salary. Adjuncts are cheap (they cost less than a grad student, since they don't get benefits), and a successful research semester tends to make that money back with interest in overhead from the next grant submitted.

- Journals are also often volunteer based, at least in the sciences.

- Publishers really don't do much for spelling/layout. They give you a format to fit in, and then put up an automated system for you to check against.

- Fraud is handled by the community (See: Retraction Watch) much more effectively than by journals.

Many universities actually do have a program to give townfolk library cards, including journal access.

That said, the best way to get a research paper in CS is to check the author or lab's website and, if it's not there, e-mail the first author directly.

That's a perfect way of phrasing why I think reader is the best social network Google ever made. Thank you.

Our research group is looking at this exact question, and it turns out that there are several factors that effect the balance between cost and reliability/longevity in an archive. Paper: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/gupta-mascots14.pdf

Summed up nicely by Alexis Verger on Twitter: "#CRISPRFacts: CRISPR is so powerful it can edit its own history."

"We didn't find anything" is fine for a random journal (there is a saying in academia that everything gets published eventually), but that's not going to get you into Cell, Nature, or Science, or a similarly top-tier venue. That's where the stress lies, and why negative results are pointedly lacking in the literature.

Anecdata: As a wheelchair user and frequent traveler, Uber has never ever failed me, but hailing a cab was nearly impossible (was, because at this point even if uber charged twice what a cab does, I'd still use them every time for the certainty that they'll pick me up).

The key with Ayasdi's work is that they manage to layer the TDA with different ML filters, which does stunningly well for the datasets they like talking about.

I also second the notion to read papers from the Carlsson lab, particularly one of the more application-oriented papers such as this one: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130207/srep01236/pdf/srep012...

I would pay a lot to be able to use ATOMIK as primary input again. Everything since has been strictly worse for me.

Posting for an associate who would like to remain anonymous:

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Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman, and Michael Jordan are the biggest names that come to mind not already mentioned. Also, I follow the work of Sridhar Mahadevan in reinforcement learning.

I'm really looking forward to playing with these; thanks for releasing them, especially since there is so little failure data out there.

Afaict, there is a single checkbox to click ('Allow some non-intrusive advertising') to not see white listed ads. I do not see ads from Google, MS, etc. when it is unselected.

Instead, they provide a reliable service. All the discounts in the world are useless when it's raining and the ramp is stuck, but "no worries, we'll send someone to you in 30 minutes."

  I have a lot of strong opinions about why Uber is a godsend for people with disabilities that still let them get into a car.  It grates on me when people bring up "the disabled" in support of any sort of public transit, when my experience has always been that it may work, or be half assed, and the perspective of the agencies when you ask for change (like, say, design a bus such that everyone gets on the same way, or a train station that only uses elevators (with hidden away backup stairs) such that if they are broken people will care) is to be grateful to have been invited to the party at all.

+bignum. I never minded impossibly proportioned Marvel heroines, but Cerberus put me off of comics for years.

Even if the only difference between Uber and taxis was that Uber seamlessly takes credit cards, that's enough to increase demand vs. walking / public transit for the growing population that doesn't carry cash. Add in that an uber is much more likely to show up when called than a taxi, and all of a sudden it seems worthwhile compared to an airport shuttle or wheedling a ride from a friend. Finally, knowing you can get home after a late night without relying on the uncertainty of the taxi system may make you more likely to go out in the first place, again, increasing demand.

Since a lot of people are running out to download Adblock Plus, you guys might want to contact Google to try and get the spam app "Adblock Plus" from exgam.com removed from the store. Apps typically show up above extensions, so I've already seen several people download the wrong one :/ .

Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin at CMU reconstructed the Camera Lucida, which was a common artists' tool up until the last century, and describe the history of it here: http://neolucida.com/history/lucida-history/

Basically, it's a tiny prism on a stick that projects what is in front of you to your drawing surface.

(disclaimer: I have no financial connection to these guys, but I did buy one of their Neolucidas, and it is a lot of fun)

I'm not about to read through 600 comments to find out if someone has already asked, so apologies in advance, but what is the state of viable dropbox alternatives right now? Through their college promotions and puzzle hunts, I have ~20GB of free storage there (afaik in perpetuity). Is there anything comparable?

I used to feel that way. Then, I realized I had no one to talk to when I saw blatant sexism affect my friends because there were no tenured woman on the faculty whom I knew. I've been lucky that it hasn't hit me, but it's out there and it is insidious.

Also, I'll add another +1 to the people who are saying it's nice to see someone like you. There are questions that it is safer to ask someone who has faced similar struggles in the past. For example, I would love to meet more female professors who have managed to find a balance between family/R01-level research/service.

There was an employee "contest" to e-mail people and let them know, but we're (sadly) pretty insular out here. Make sure to sign up ahead of time to walk or take a lab tour (http://www.salk.edu/stepintodiscovery/exploresalk.php), and please tell your scientifically inclined friends :-) .

Here is the sign up sheet for lab tours during the event. I'll be volunteering there and am happy to talk about computational methods with anyone who is interested.

http://www.salk.edu/stepintodiscovery/exploresalk.php

I'm a computer science postdoc at the Salk Institute. We're having a big public event next Saturday (Walk for Salk) where we're also doing lab tours. Bring your daughter there and I'll give her an extra tour of the computational areas.

(find me at avani@salk.edu)

At many universities grants for the sciences subsidize other university functions. In computer science, at least, you may have to pay your own salary out of your grants after the university has taken their (substantial) cut for keeping the lights on. Also, all of your graduate students and postdocs must be paid out of your grants (if they don't have their own money); the universities won't pay them to do research in your lab, though they will happily claim the IP they generate.