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by anateus 12y ago
I don't know if you've seen it before, but you may be enjoy this famous paper in Bioengineering called "Refactoring Bacteriophage T7": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1681472/
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by anateus 12y ago
This critique is important as the idea of "makers" grows, and thus can have the effect the author is describing, i.e. devaluing things that are not "makers" along lines based in cultural associations with traditional rol
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by anateus 12y ago
Here's a paper on PubMed that found soaking reduces oligosaccharide content (that's what gets eaten by your intestinal flora to produce flatunelence) but not nutritional content: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed&
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by anateus 12y ago
This always happens when a scene/subculture hits the mainstream. You could madlibs this article and get a description of every musical genre. It's sad to see what you were so passionate about appear in a diluted form, and external
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by anateus 12y ago
No, it was religious education. I don't know the exact situation in Novgorod at the time, but throughout Europe in urban or near-urban areas it was common for first sons to inherit the family business, while subsequent sons would under
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by anateus 12y ago
Likely the title of the article changed, and the title here should change with it, as it's pretty bad. The new title of the article is "New Twist Found in the Story of Life's Start"
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by anateus 12y ago
Something at the core of a lot of the systemic problems with these "sharing economy"/"p2p market" companies is that they assume workers and sellers are fungible, and are thus in something approximating perfect compe
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by anateus 12y ago
I wish this was true. I think what PG really means is "unpleasant people fail (more often than not)". Not being mean is generally construed to indicate you're kind. But PG didn't title this essay "kind people succee
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by anateus 12y ago
Since he's not an FT employee, it's likely this could fit under the category of work made for hire , but unless his contract explicitly specified this is case, I believe he would retain the copyright: http://en.wikiped
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by anateus 12y ago
Two sentences early on are problematic: "One of the biggest misconceptions about us is that you need to have pre-existing connections to get value from the network. Remarkably, you don’t. " If Sam had said "you need them in S
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by anateus 12y ago
Exactly. This was a protest over a very specific issue, and Uber ended up listening. The article surprisingly doesn't really spin this into generalized pontificating and really talks about this specific grievance at length. HN commente
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by anateus 12y ago
You also turn orange if you eat too many carrots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenosis You turn yellow from jaundice.
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by anateus 12y ago
I posted my comment when those that are now downvoted were at the top, and the link had already been up for 3 hours and was near the top of the homepage. If it had been just a few unfortunate comments on a fresh thread, I would not have bot
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by anateus 12y ago
I haven't seen so much nay-saying on HN in a while. It's like because there's an artistic element this or it's pure-web tech the appreciation of a cool hack and interesting exploration of a technology is completely gone.
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by anateus 12y ago
Try this one: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/
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by anateus 12y ago
No, you're being downvoted because your comment was neither constructive nor civil. While I'm sure the reasons you stated might have been a component of that, if you look at various other threads you will note that a lot of other
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by anateus 12y ago
Just a note that LDA is also used as a common acronym for Latent Dirichlet Allocation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocation
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by anateus 12y ago
They mention their source for notable people was Freebase, which iirc use DBpedia which in turn uses English Wikipedia. This is the source of the bias. I do not know if information from the other Wikipedias is available via Freebase. But I
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by anateus 12y ago
Here's the NVidia one that just happened a few months ago: http://nv.scene.org/2014/about/ The winners were also screened in SF at CODAME.
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by anateus 12y ago
I remember meeting and hanging out with Jason Kelly in Cambridge (several times, I think the first one was at a Grey Thumb meetup, an artificial life themed group), the work on refactoring the T7 bacteriophage really sparked my interest in
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by anateus 12y ago
The link goes to a specific comment, should strip that if possible.
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by anateus 12y ago
The trade-off he has presented can be translated like so: "The overall problem of women not feeling able to come forward to report sexual assault is worse than the overall problem of false accusations by women of sexual assault" I
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by anateus 12y ago
From the AG's announcement (and Uber's announcement promises to abide by this definition): New York’s law against price gouging (General Business Law §396-r), was passed in the winter of 1978-79 in response to escalating heating o
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by anateus 12y ago
Is a (potentially dramatically) smaller set of riders of more evenly distributed financial means strictly better than more riders that skew richer? Egalitarian distribution is in some ways a social good (it's a good antidote to the hed
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by anateus 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
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by anateus 12y ago
Looks good but I think you meant to submit this as a link :/ I wonder if the mods can correct this.
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by anateus 12y ago
While some sort of tokens provided to some exceptional teams might be fun I'm sad to see the Hackathon-As-Competition idea promulgated. The origins of the term are about a collaborative event where the marathon-style combined creates a
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by anateus 12y ago
He probably copy pasted the code from within NodeBox, which is what he's using.
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by anateus 12y ago
The things you listed account for about 10% of the US federal budget [1]. For the other things we pay waaaay more per capita than almost all other OECD nations. [1] http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258
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by anateus 12y ago
imeem was pretty big and embedded when it was shut down unceremoniously by myspace. So that is no protection. I don't think Twitter is likely to do that though.

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