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by JunkDNA 12y ago
This page has a nice, succinct definition of how the various kinds of mutations can contribute to influenza changes. In short, a percentage difference isn't that informative. It matters greatly what is actually different: http:&#x2F
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
As a member of an academic institution, it is very likely his research had to go before the institutional review board that governs how to conduct research in an ethical manner. IRB's are far from perfect, but they are charged with wei
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I was a little critical of Sam Altman's post awhile back about investing in defensive biotech ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6890060 ). Reading this, I think I may have been a bit too harsh.
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US Scientists Resurrect Deadly 1918 Flu (newscientist.com)
4 points by JunkDNA 12y ago|1 comments
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Also, have some faith in the rest of us to correct a situation where someone is getting unfairly downvoted. I frequently upvote people who are unfairly being beaten up.
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Typically, you want to supply the container with a mount point that is outside the container. This way, if the container is replaced, your data isn't impacted.
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
In the case of medical devices, this is squarely in the FDA's wheelhouse in the USA. The FDA likely lacks the people with appropriate expertise to evaluate these kinds of safety issues because their traditional focus has been on the mo
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
If the information is covered under HIPAA Apple will have to be compliant with US federal regulations regarding the security of personal health data. They can't just willy-nilly make the data available to whomever they want. I'm n
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
This is one of those cases where (having not used one) I sincerely hope the Oculus Rift can bring something more to the experience compared to what we have now. What you can't get from your computer screen is the scale of it all. You
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Making Electricity from Air(dilbert.com)
2 points by JunkDNA 12y ago|1 comments
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Like most of you, this article caused multiple PR-early warning detectors to fire in my head. It's unfortunate because there is a useful kernel to keep in mind here. If there's one thing you can bet on in computing, it's that
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
See previous HN discussion (360 points, 1,744 days ago) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743860
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
What would be exciting is if the bases had properties that made them amenable to easy read operations using non biological means. Currently it takes 1 - 3 days fort a DNA sequencer to read what is effectively a few gigabytes of data in a hu
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Of couse, if you can model or compute the human brain, then none of us has free will since we are merely chemical reactions and the product of environmental inputs at that point.
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Unfortunately, it was not all the gradual, "smooth" downward progression of slowly coming to terms that one might imagine. Cancer is a cruel, cruel roller coaster ride. He responded to chemo + radiation really well and in the Augu
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I was fresh out of college. I had just landed my dream job. I was living at home making really good money so I could get myself on my feet and pay down college debt. My dad was a runner and healthy as can be. He was diagnosed with pancreati
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Don't believe the standard trope that pharma prefers treatments vs. cures. I worked in oncology R&D in big pharma. Every single person there from management on down sincerely believed the drug candidates they were identifying and w
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
What makes you think they would be cheaper?
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Please don't keep it to yourself! What is this privacy-protecting search engine that you've been using that is immune to US or other intelligence agencies' snooping?
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
Because now you're introducing an interface when previously you had shared objects all on the server in a single codebase. For example, let's say my JavaScript client works with a "User" object delivered via REST API fro
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I've been slowly coming to this realization myself lately, I thought our situation was just outside the mainstream of what most people work on, but maybe not. Our team builds data-intensive biomedical web applications (open source proj
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
>This is how the internet is designed, and you can already do this today. In my case, I host my own dns, email, and my own webpages, locally on my home connection. You just have to be willing to learn, and willing to do. Once you've
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by JunkDNA 12y ago
I'm sure the author is a nice guy. It is hard to put yourself out there like he has done. That said, when you put your name on something and put it in the public space, you have to be prepared for people to write these kinds of thing
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I would actually really like to see a lengthy investigative journalism piece that looks at all the factors that go into the costs of internet access around the world. I hear lots of hand-wavey stuff all the time about how Japan or Singapore
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Makes me nostalgic for the early days of WIRED. This article was one of the best. It blew me away when I read it the first time-- so much so, I read it twice just for the sheer enjoyment of it.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I'm working on a book right now and I struggle with the syntax highlighting part with Scrivener. Overall, I really like Scrivener, but it seems really hard to integrate proper syntax highlighting and code formatting in an efficient man
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Thanks, I missed that on my initial read somehow.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This stuff isn't done in a vacuum by compliance offices. It's done with guidance from HHS. HIPAA has a lot of stuff that is not clearly defined. As a result, it's important to be keeping with the spirit of the rule or HHS wil
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
There is another loophole that is admittedly unlikely (and the post doesn't go into any details on what the actual records contain). If these records were somehow scrubbed of HIPAA identifiers, then it would in fact not be a HIPAA viol
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I for one am not totally convinced by all the hype around electric vehicles. Battery capacity has never in the past been able to make gigantic leaps. It has always been slow incremental year-over-year progress. Nothing seems to indicate th

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