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A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big Data(youtube.com)
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
It should be noted that this appears to be a highly accurate insulin pump. That's a far cry from an artificial pancreas. If you have the death sentence known as "pancreatic cancer" you can't get your pancreas removed and
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
The person who forwarded it to the customer clearly messed up, but (to paraphrase Steve Jobs) somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons for screwups stop mattering. In general, you should always write email assuming that everyone w
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I think you picked some poor choices for examples. I work in healthcare and I can assure you that the future is increasingly going to depend on mobile devices. Doctors in many places have been lugging laptops and crappy Windows XP tablets a
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I wonder what this would look like if you normalized the number of points to the total number of HN users. There is a huge bias here toward newer stories.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This is fascinating but unsurprising given all the things that have come out lately with regard to epigenetics. If your mental model of DNA involves some image of a pristine blueprint that is followed with clockwork-like precision in the ex
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This to me is the most pernicious thing about this whole surveillance business. The mere presence of a comprehensive surveillance apparatus, even when you don't live in a totalitarian state when jack booted thugs pay you a visit to &qu
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Microsoft could sit behind their Office/Windows/Exchange moat and lob millions of dollars of cruise missiles at them for a decade until they could get it figured out. A competitor who has nothing to lose and a huge source of pro
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I see where you are coming from, but I think you're getting mired in some of the details of the talk that perhaps rub you the wrong way and are therefore missing the larger point. Brett in all his talks is saying the same thing: take a
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
The only place that Dr. Offit has a credibility problem is with those who choose to ignore the mountain of scientific evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
>Beautiful examples in theory, but blown out of the water in practice I will admit that this work was largely done 10 years ago, so it's certainly a bit outdated. I will also concede that the current state of affairs in antimicrobia
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Whenever I read about findings like this, I'm reminded of just how much our requirement that microbes need to grow on a piece of glass distorts our view of them. If we could observe them as easily as animals in the wild, that would ope
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
There are a great many biologists and bioinformaticians who don't "get" phylogenetics. Please, please don't be one of them. I worked with some world class evolutionary biologists in the drug industry early in my career a
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I will second this. I grew up in an old row-home in a town not far from Philadelphia. I have very vivid memories of laying on my bed at night sweating, box fan in the window set to "High" and just roasting. My father was in sales
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Yes, here's the relevant discussion from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6018064
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
There was that recent PR article that made the rounds here last week from some company allegedly developing an evacuated tube based system that was written in a way to imply they were working on Musk's idea. I would not at all be surpr
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Fair enough, I stand corrected.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I'm not sure the cynicism is warranted. Dan does a bunch of native iOS development. He's got more experience than the vast majority of people who read this site. This isn't some random brogrammer writing a post about JavaScri
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Dan is too humble when giving his credentials in this article. Reading the comments already, it seems some may be unaware that his first claim to fame was VisiCalc: the software from which all modern day spreadsheets are direct descendants.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This article almost willfully leaves out a pretty crucial detail: the living wage only applies to businesses that have non-union employees. So let's be clear what this is: it's an effort to give union-run stores a labor advantage
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
As with most things involving the 1st amendment right to free speech, you get a mixed blessing. Letting the KKK run around in their garb troweling their bigotry by the metric ton has generally not been a 'win' for me either. But b
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Seems like at a minimum, if you are doing your own random number generator, you should have a test harness that runs the chi squared test and compare against a known good random number source. I wonder how many other automated tests one cou
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I have to admit I've been increasingly concerned that something about this is not adding up as well. I can't precisely put my finger on it. The link to wikileaks gives me pause and the more recent stuff about foreign spying which,
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I'm not clear what your laundry list of things has to do with application development on a local developer's machine (the problem Vagrant is trying to solve). Is there some new way of development where developers never run on loca
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Thanks for that post, I think the point I was making was slightly different. I'm arguing that with web programming you lack the end to end control you might have in a closed system. You depend on all sorts of input from users, your dat
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
One thing I've only come to appreciate during my professional development is that there are huge differences in the kinds of software people write and what's good in one scenario isn't necessarily good in another. A lot of pe
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
If you are the sort of person who is surprised by this, you need to get out from under the rock you live under. This is what any self-respecting intelligence gathering organization is going to say. Not revealing whether or not information e
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Why You Should Demand More Surveillance — Of Your Health Records(commonhealth.wbur.org)
1 points by JunkDNA 13y ago|0 comments
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Just to close the loop on this thread, this summary by Zack Kohane is pretty spot on: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/06/more-surveillance-healt...
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There is a fundamental problem with opening up so-called anonymized data: usually the best, highest detail data can't be properly anonymized. Take fitbit data. You'd think that would safely be anonymous. But all I have to do is tw

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