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Geneticists Begin Tests of an Internet for DNA(technologyreview.com)
1 points by Blahah 12y ago|0 comments
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CIA interrogations report sparks prosecution calls(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Blahah 12y ago|0 comments
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by Blahah 12y ago
This is the existing system. It would be extremely rare for someone to be asked to review without having already published.
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by Blahah 12y ago
Binomial nomenclature has a very strict syntax: - first word is capitalised - second word is all lowercase - entire phrase is italicised if possible Embarrassing for a scientific magazine to get it wrong thrice (once in the title "Ho
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by Blahah 12y ago
That's completely irrelevant. The problem is that he wore a shirt that sexualises women in a televised major scientific event. Millions of people saw the video, and the image he projected was that he's more interested in sex than
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by Blahah 12y ago
Diverse, as long as you respect your colleagues. Wearing a t-shirt with scantily clad women (or men) on it is not acceptable in any workplace. Just like watching porn is not appropriate in the workplace. There is no end in sight for indepen
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by Blahah 12y ago
Nothing to do with attacking science and everything to do with making diverse members of the science community feel welcome.
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by Blahah 12y ago
When the Oxford Nanopore MinION comes out of the early access trials, you will actually be able to do this for a cost of somewhere around $1000.
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by Blahah 12y ago
Hah, I didn't consider that! I expect that GCHQ happily share the data with the NSA so they don't need to get it from direct taps. So I think it's more likely they were who they claimed to be.
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by Blahah 12y ago
As an undergrad I had a job working as a ecologist for the Highways Agency in the UK. My job was to perform endangered species surveys and supervise roadworks sites to make sure they didn't cause (too much) ecological damage. One job I
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by Blahah 12y ago
Changes that included disabling a browser security policy - not something it's reasonable for Inbox to request its users to do.
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by Blahah 12y ago
If you mean biological viruses, it's not just possible, it's certain. In the two seconds it took you to read this, hundreds or thousands of viruses appeared that didn't exist before. Mutation happens at a very high rate, and
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The Open Science Peer Review Oath(f1000research.com)
2 points by Blahah 12y ago|0 comments
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by Blahah 12y ago
HAL has everything under control.
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by Blahah 12y ago
Money comes from the same place it always did: funders (usually the public purse). The difference is in the OA model the cost of publishing is included in grants, rather than through libraries and other routes.
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by Blahah 12y ago
You can basically ignore any life advice you're being given on this thread - you've got your head screwed on better than anyone here. Keep doing what you're doing; you're doing it all right. I'm not in SF, but if yo
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by Blahah 12y ago
Those are mostly just using foobar as an example path in documentation.
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by Blahah 12y ago
Yup, we'll definitely do one for BioJulia - but we've got a way to go before we reach that stage :)
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by Blahah 12y ago
Nice paper guys. Any plan to get something peer-reviewed? It would be useful for motivating biologists. Anyone interested in using Julia for bioinformatics is invited to contribute to, or follow the progress of, the BioJulia project: https
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by Blahah 12y ago
Yes. We're trying to build the toolset so that the end product is not predetermined, but that we empower people to make whatever they can imagine. In about 6 months time it should be relatively easy to implement your idea on top of wha
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by Blahah 12y ago
I've been developing the stack for The ContentMine ( http://contentmine.org ). In the next month or so, we will start scraping the entire scientific literature as it is published each day, and processing it through our '
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by Blahah 12y ago
I got a different impression from the title: that this is a report of the first day of the (dramatically named) Microsoft Incident. In this interpretation, which is confirmed by OP's comment [0], the title matches the content. 0: http
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by Blahah 12y ago
Who cares? It's no different to accepting Euros but getting dollars in your bank account. The point is that they allow users to spend bitcoins (or Euros).
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by Blahah 12y ago
Nobody is being forced to accept the money, and therefore nobody is being forced to interact with bitcoin. The money is there if they want to claim it. If not, no problem, they can just ignore it in which case it doesn't affect them.
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by Blahah 12y ago
Probably referring to Nassim Nicholas Taleb [0], who puts emphasis on the importance of random, rare events. 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
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by Blahah 12y ago
I personally dislike puzzles (of the toy/jigsaw variety), riddles, and so on. But I love solving problems when programming. A programming problem abstracted to a word problem is no longer fun - you've taken away half the toolset I
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by Blahah 12y ago
Note that HN user SimHacker did the original port of Sim City to unix, and maintains the micropolis open source version. His blog: http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/
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by Blahah 12y ago
I doubt it has improved much - in general if I report a crime to the police I don't expect it to be solved. The reason for reporting is that it is the first step in initiating most civil means of compensation (insurance, company cancel
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by Blahah 12y ago
1. Report the incident to the police. Right now. 2. Report it to the VPS provider. Explain that you've reported it to the police. Ask for their cooperation in investigating the problem. You do not have to pay. If they try to force you
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by Blahah 12y ago
Copyright cannot apply to facts, like the entity relation "paper X cited paper Y". So this is not a copyright issue. However, publishers maintain databases of citations to which they sell access. Such databases are protected under

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