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Surely someone at WSJ is wondering "Hey, this article is doing really well in organic search. Our numbers are up, great job everyone."

The fact that exciting scientific discoveries like this are being presented on WSJ behind a paywall is absurd. Science on the internet is going to be dramatically different in 10 y…

Makes you think about the sheer amount of traffic. Incredible.

That's what I immediately noticed - his grammar and processing speed is pretty slow and steady but his vocabulary is incredible. I mean, he's been studying for what, 2-3 years? I w…

This is incredible. Wish more organizations and institutions took this approach of beautiful and striking science, then perhaps more scientists would start the value other new ways…

Unfortunately, there just aren't many good metrics for future potential scientific value. It's not like you can just give NSA / DARPA / NIH one impact factor, as weird as that soun…

Curious, what do large scale companies in the cloud currently do for this?

You can't really blame them, Kickstarter is composed of artists, not scientists.

Should be noted that the original authors are the founders of the SciFund Challenge, and they've gathered tons of great empirical data.

It's funny that most of the jokes tend to revolve around becoming some sort of super hero. The stranger thing is that no one has pondered the potential cons having the ability to s…

a lengthy discussion over on reddit about this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2e5wry/biohacker...

Sorry, but in this case, it's actually N^x. Even running PCR and gel analysis requires steps where the time is dependent on the number of samples (e.g. pipetting, walking to the ce…

I wonder what the equivalent of MacBasic would be today?

Experiment is working on that. :)

There are probably others much more familiar with cloud infrastructure who can chime in, but the AWS of science and the Heroku of science are two very different challenges, and I f…

The startup equivalent would be "it's easy to build the app, it's hard to get users". Not all apps can yield users, but lowering the bar to launch will certainly yield more opportu…

There's been quite a few efforts in this. See Transcriptic and Emerald Therapeutics ( http://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/ ), while there's the more traditional suppliers for things lik…

Experiment (YC W13) started off as a Show HN, but back then we were called Microryza. It was a very modest thing, and after somehow getting near the top of the front page, we were …