YuriNiyazov

Academia.edu | https://academia.edu/openings | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Hybrid, Onsite 2x-3x per week.

We are Academia.edu. Our mission is to accelerate and democratize the world's research because scientific discovery is based on it, and scientific discovery benefits everyone.

With over 180M free registered users and nearly half of the world’s academics using our platform every month, we are in a unique position to disrupt the $25B academic publishing industry. Our users range from researchers, academics, industry professionals and college students, with over 300,000 paying premium subscribers, contributing to a doubling in revenue over the last four years.

Our Stack:

- Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq

- PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

- React + Typescript

- RSpec, Chromatic, Jest, Storybook

- CircleCI, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform

- AWS ecosystem (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, many others)

- You don’t need to know any or all of these, but must be willing to learn!

What you’ll work on

You'll be designing and building systems to make our user base more productive on our platform. Here are some things that we are currently working on:

- A fast and scalable peer review system that identifies and distributes high-quality academic works

- Services that help academic authors understand the impact of their scholarship via text parsing and computation of bibliometrics

- Algorithmic approaches to identification of academic content and disambiguation of authorships in order to make every paper ever written available for free

- A paper recommendation engine that helps users discover the most relevant research

- Search Engine Optimizations to improve the discoverability of our corpus of 50M+ PDFs

Compensation: Base Salary + Equity. Base range: $160,000 - $210,000

Apply at https://academia.edu/openings and also email me at yuri@academia.edu (I'm the VPE) to tell me you applied so I can fast track you.

That seems the correct amount of violent and vindictive.

I found it very applicable at a 2010’s Silicon Valley startup. A lot more things stayed the same than changed, so this is still a deeply applicable book.

I really liked “high output management”

Such a classic. I read it the first time it came out, and I re-read it every time someone links to it. Thanks.

The TCPA is a federal law, right? Do you sue them in federal court for TCPA, and then a separate lawsuit in state court to layer on top the state fines, or this is all somehow combined into one?

Do you have a "how-to" guide?

Academia.edu | https://academia.edu/openings | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Hybrid, Onsite 2x-3x per week.

We are Academia.edu. Our mission is to accelerate and democratize the world's research because scientific discovery is based on it, and scientific discovery benefits everyone.

With over 180M free registered users and nearly half of the world’s academics using our platform every month, we are in a unique position to disrupt the $25B academic publishing industry. Our users range from researchers, academics, industry professionals and college students, with over 300,000 paying premium subscribers, contributing to a doubling in revenue over the last four years.

Our Stack: - Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq

- PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

- React + Typescript

- RSpec, Chromatic, Jest, Storybook

- CircleCI, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform

- AWS ecosystem (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, many others)

- You don’t need to know any or all of these, but must be willing to learn!

What you’ll work on

You'll be designing and building systems to make our user base more productive on our platform. Here are some things that we are currently working on:

- A fast and scalable peer review system that identifies and distributes high-quality academic works

- Services that help academic authors understand the impact of their scholarship via text parsing and computation of bibliometrics

- Algorithmic approaches to identification of academic content and disambiguation of authorships in order to make every paper ever written available for free

- A paper recommendation engine that helps users discover the most relevant research

- Search Engine Optimizations to improve the discoverability of our corpus of 50M+ PDFs

Compensation: Base Salary + Equity. Base range: $160,000 - $210,000

Apply at https://academia.edu/openings and also email me at yuri@academia.edu (I'm the VPE) to tell me you applied so I can fast track you.

I miss that period of time sometimes.

Because AWS wants you to switch to custom pricing with Cloudfront, not serve things out to Cloudflare.

I'm pretty confused about what you are asking. In the original post you made it sound like you don't want to consider CPU and RAM, and in this response, you do.

You could also look at how AWS Lambda does it. They have a standard base configuration, and for that one, you only pay for invocation of a function, and that function has to finish in some period of time before it's killed. If you want more RAM, or more CPU, or same CPU but more time to finish calculation, you pay above the baseline.

Also, it's not obvious to me that the Calculate component cannot be ignored. AWS Redshift Serverless and AWS Athena are all OLAP, and they all operate on a "data scanned" metering model, no CPU or RAM considerations.

Also - I am mostly familiar with AWS, so that's what I am suggesting here. Obviously you and AWS have completely different scalability considerations, so this might not apply at all. But, if you wanted to be competitive, then in the end you'd have to be better than AWS on price, so starting there is not a bad idea, even if in the early days you are doing something different

Take a look at how AWS Aurora does IO metering.

All of these sites stopped working for me a while ago with a "This site can’t provide a secure connectionarchive.ph uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" error message. Both Chrome and Safari.

For "not too tech savvy" clients, we take over the operations as well. How is this code deployed exactly? If they have their ops team, you should be talking to the ops team. If they don't, you should be asking them how will they be handling ops, and if they don't know what ops is, you should be explaining them what ops is, demonstrating that you can do it, and charging them for it.

Ok.

So, who at the corporation did you actually get a refusal from? Did you manage to get a resolution in front of the board somehow?

Maybe paste some more. The giant definition of Transfer is fine, and then it says “you can’t transfer unless it’s according to the rules of this section”

So what are the rules of the section? The definition is not the rules.

No, if I understand right of first refusal correctly, it works like this:

You have a buyer. You present to the company that you have a buyer (eg, contract + check deposited in escrow).

The company either has to buy the equity from you (at same or better price, depending on how the contract is written) or they have to let the sale to the other buyer go through.

What's the exact language in the agreement? is it a "Right of First Refusal" ? Something else?

thx, til.

s/Zyrtec/"Your favorite anti-allergy medication combination that remains non-drowsy in large doses"

s/Tylenol/"Your favorite pain medication combination that doesn't kill your liver in large doses"

This is going to sound like a sarcastic joke, but I’m totally serious.

A proper founder that is YC caliber would take an elephantine dose of Zyrtec and Tylenol to ensure that a one-time opportunity doesn’t slip away, because you can’t always reschedule “in the real world”

And that’s why 10 minutes is enough.

It’s a good data point in the sense that chances are, people that started doing that early are good. That doesn’t mean that the people that didn’t are bad. You’d be missing a large population of good coders if you use that data point as a high bit in decision making.

Equal to all other founders, vesting across 4 years, one year cliff.

The act of peer review is a relevant source of cost because at least at some publishers, the cost of shepherding a paper through peer review (not the actual peer review, but the process of peer review management - the costs of which I've already broken down elsewhere in the thread, and they are measured in hundreds of dollars of employee time) is borne by the publisher, not by the unpaid editors or the unpaid reviewers.

We passed the point of rational debate a long time ago. Now it's just a part of people's identities that "I believe that academic publishers are leeches"

I'm not even sure why my experience as an author matters. As I said in the very beginning of this giant thread, I work in the industry. Most of the systems I've encountered or heard about are not the beautiful automated platforms critics imagine them to be; and I am not even talking about technical intervention.

I've been an author, and just once; never a reviewer or editor. It was with PLOSOne which is different and, though a lot cheaper, is still $2000.

As an author, I exchanged multiple emails with employees of PLOS even before it was submitted to peer review (or reached the editor desk) because the automated process of submitting my paper to the system crashed and required intervention. And mine was N=1, and it still broke. It's not "Google-quality engineering", if you know what I mean. So, all this "oh, that's just an automated system" just does not hold water.

Now, my turn to insinuate. Have you ever written a multi-step workflow management software system that coordinates thirty email threads? If yes, how much human involvement from the operators of that multi-step workflow is needed? And if not a whole lot, do you work at a "cool" VC-funded modern firm, or at a company that got started with servers in a datacenter in the 1990s?

As I've already pasted elsewhere, you can apply to a publisher that pays its editors at https://www.mdpi.com/editors

I am pretty sure we very quickly in this discussion jumped from "what the state of the industry is" to "what the state of the industry ought to be", a very common debate failure point. I am just telling you what the case is. When you say you don't believe me, you don't present an argument that demolishes my case and says why I am wrong, you are just telling me that the industry is not doing what it could be doing. But what you originally asked me is "I mean, I'm interested to know. I peer review for a few journals and I never make a dime, so where does all the money go?"

I told you exactly where the money goes. You are entitled to an opinion that it's a bad way to spend the money, and that's fine. I happen to think that it's a suboptimal way to spend the money as well. But your question of "where does all the money go?" has been answered properly.

For greater detail, see my responses at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657217

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657036

I don't know specifically about Springer and Elsevier. From elsewhere in this thread, I learned that they expect the editors to do all the work recruiting reviewers and do it for free. I don't support that model. For publishers that assign internal staff that get paid a salary to help Editors recruit reviewers, it is far from unreasonable to spend $3K recruiting reviewers for 15 papers, even while the actual work of reviewing is unpaid.

Thanks!

I've now read https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle and am curious how exactly I've claimed that; I am sure you are correct but it's not obvious to me.