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SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
6 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 1 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea to make attribution anonymous but changeable, reducing fear of reputation damage.
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Like any community site there is a serious chicken and egg problem. Even more so in academia where there is a very engrained sense that research and discussion should happen…
jpallen on HN
Simple interface design.
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I know nothing about the science/research community that would be helpful to add - but I really like the direction you're going with the design. Simple interface for content that…
pauldisneyiv on HN
Useful for finding data and papers without expensive sources.
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Kudos on this. Great to see a good place to find this type of data, specially since other sources like Nature are very expensive.
checoivan on HN
Objections
Arxiv subcategories are needed since the full feed is too broad.
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You really need to subdivide all the arxiv sub-disciplines. Noone's going to look at the full arxiv output, there's just too much unrelated stuff for whatever you're looking for.
lutorm on HN
Breaking into non-CS academia will be difficult.
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very interesting. Outside of computer science, it will be very difficult to break through existing academic structures, but if you can find a (responsible and efficient) way to…
dsebrow on HN
Chicken and egg problem of getting users to join.
From 2 comments
Like any community site there is a serious chicken and egg problem. Even more so in academia where there is a very engrained sense that research and discussion should happen…
jpallen on HNI really want to see some technology mojo pumped into academia. I've spent a fare amount of time thinking about it, so here's an idea dump for you. * A markup feature for people…
TheEzEzz on HN
Requests
Paper markup and annotation features.
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I really want to see some technology mojo pumped into academia. I've spent a fare amount of time thinking about it, so here's an idea dump for you. * A markup feature for people…
TheEzEzz on HN
Rating system for reviewers and manuscript quality.
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I've worked on some medical publications, and you would need a very good rating system. There are all sorts of low-quality manuscripts that uninformed consumers might cling to if…
dsebrow on HN
Tooltips explaining featured paper topic acronyms.
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Just a minor suggestion: I'd add a tooltip for the Featured Papers' topics/categories. The big two letter acronyms took me a second to decipher before I noticed they're all…
karlmdavis on HN
Questions
Have you seen colab or arxiv-based alternatives?
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Is this your project? Have you seen colab[1]? [1] https://github.com/caseywstark/colab [2] http://colabscience.com/
izak30 on HNYou do know about arxiv.org, right? This is the de facto place for preprints in all of the fields that I know of, and is pretty much removing the need for publications…
saucerful on HN
Will people eventually host their own content instead of using middlemen?
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Will there be time when everybody keeps his stuff at his own site and all of these "communities", aggregators, middlemen die out?
pixcavator on HN
Alternatives named
Colab
From 1 comment
Is this your project? Have you seen colab[1]? [1] https://github.com/caseywstark/colab [2] http://colabscience.com/
izak30 on HN
arXiv
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You do know about arxiv.org, right? This is the de facto place for preprints in all of the fields that I know of, and is pretty much removing the need for publications…
saucerful on HN
Voxcharta
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Have you seen http://voxcharta.org/? It does some of what you say. It's mainly focused on being a tool for intradepartment discussions right now.
lutorm on HN
Mendeley
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You could also hook into the Mendeley API. See http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/
revorad on HN
openprotocols.net
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I think openprotocols.net is doing something along these lines, I remember seeing them mentioned here on HN. Yep: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2191105
kvh on HN