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by McKayDavis 9y ago
This [1] reddit thread has a fitbit graph. https://www.reddit.com/r/Hawaii/comments/7q6hzg/average_card...
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by McKayDavis 9y ago
My super-quick skim of the paper shows that they are indeed using cfDNA. The novelty presented lies in the creation and application of a technique they dub "targeted error correction sequencing" (TEC-Seq). Figure 2 shows the seque
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by McKayDavis 9y ago
As the linked article doesn't name the paper, here's a link to it: Title: Direct detection of early-stage cancers using circulating tumor DNA Link (no paywall): http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/403&#x2
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by McKayDavis 9y ago
I haven't read the referenced study, but I'm sure this is using the same (or very similar) cell free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing techniques currently used clinically for Non Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) to screen for genetic defect
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by McKayDavis 9y ago
Even in 1996 there was discussion [1] about the controversy around lenna.jpg and its decline due to its origins and possible copyright issues. [1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/editor.html
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by McKayDavis 9y ago
Since others are posting their favorite FlexBox resource, I'll post my goto link -- The FlexBox playground by Gabi on Codepen: https://codepen.io/enxaneta/full/adLPwv/ It was the #1 most hearted pen of 2
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by McKayDavis 9y ago
Clever 2 level pun with "Hi" hidden in the Magic Eye <-> Magic-AI.
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
I didn't dive too deep into the bit-wise implementation details, but overall this looks very promising. The first big issue I would have with Posits is the lack of a Not-a-Number (NaN) representation (as indicated on slide 16). NaN val
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
Nikola Tesla was supposedly working on the production and wireless transmission of power -- including a "death beam". After his death, many of his papers were claimed to be missing: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/l
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
> Just as there's nothing wrong with e.g. age-based discrimination, Sure there is, are you familiar with the Age Discrimination in Emloyment Act of 1967 [1]? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
There was a lengthy HN discussion when the article was originally published [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10390822
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
From the article: "Kryptowire took its findings to the United States government. It plans to make its report public as early as Tuesday." Can you share the report yet?
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
> there were rumblings of a class action; Not just rumblings. A recent settlement was reached and consumers who own various models of Whirlpool, Kenmore, or Maytag front-loading washing machines are entitled to numerous clams including
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
Nice, but the rotate controls are a way too sensitive and spin the globe too fast. I recommend you look into arcball rotation [1]. It's perfect for a globe. [1] http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorial/arcball_rotation&#
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
Code-golf anyone? Here's my bash one-liner: pngtopnm puzzle.png | xxd -s14 -p -c3 | uniq -c | awk '{printf "%c", $1}' | xxd -r -p Explanation: pngtopnm converts the image to an uncompressed bytestream
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
In the US, before deregulation FAA Rule 240 [1] covered this scenario. Now the specifics between airlines, but the place to look is the 'Conditions of Carriage' contract that each airline is required to abide by. This Consumerist
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by McKayDavis 10y ago
The linked NYTimes article references 3 exploits dubbed the "Trident Exploit Chain" that are detailed in an excellent Lookout / Citizen Lab writeup [1] discussed on HN 8 days ago [2]. The target is sent an SMS containing a li
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
Yes, 2002 was the last year. Prof. Dave Hanscom ran the HSCI from 1990 to 2002 [1]. I checked the Wayback Machine (archive.org), but unfortunately it doesn't have those pages mirrored. It's very sad that this history seems to be
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
Also of note: Around the same time, University of Utah students created the first ever computer graphics generated picture that looks like its physical model: Marsha Sutherland's (Ivan Sutherland's wife) VW Bug [1]. The VW was han
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
Yes, the UofU High School Ccomputing Institute [1]. I was accepted in '96 but already working a summer job in research park at the time (at a company w/ a commercial NURBS package) and didn't ever build a model. The coolest
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
I'd sell my sub-600 user ID in an instant if there were a market.
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
I'll take this opportunity to point out that Paul Allen is a strong supporter of research to save the ocean's coral reefs. Last June he funded [1] a nearly $4 MM USD 5 yr project for researchers at the Hawaii Institute of Marine B
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
OsiriX [1] is a popular OS X/iOS viewer. 3DSlicer [2] is an excellent alternative that runs on Win/OS X/Linux [1] http://www.osirix-viewer.com [2] http://www.slicer.org
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
I live in Hawaii and last week saw the first confirmed case of Zika virus in the United States in a child born with microcephaly on the Big Island. [1] The mother had recently traveled to Brazil and thankfully neither her nor the baby are i
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
...and in two days it is the 100th anniversary of Einstein's publication of The Field Equations of Gravitation. (The original paper on General Relativity). [1] http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol6-trans/1
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
It's sad to see a company go out of business, but I applaud the owners of Manuals Plus [1] for making such a large donation to the Internet Archive. To provide some more context about what the actual contents of the archive includes, a
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by McKayDavis 11y ago
NextEra (the energy company that recently bought HECO) is looking to do just this. A Sept. 2013 report by them estimates a capital cost of approximately $600 million for a 200 MW cable connect between Maui and Oahu. (source page 8 of [1])
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
Yesterday, Hawaii Gov. David Ige put a temporary hold on construction of the TMT to address concerns by protestors. http://khon2.com/2015/04/07/ige-puts-temporary-hold-on-const...
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Thousands more men have been duped by an international Tinder MITM hack(theverge.com)
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
Pete's post today says he'll be getting Google Fiber to his house (and encrypting everything through Xmission): https://xmission.com/blog/2015/03/24/google-fiber-in-salt-la...

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