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by anateus 15y ago
Bay area and LA drivers are very different. LA driving is more similar to Tel Aviv driving, if you want a taste of home :) Bay area drivers have this weird sense of "lane ownership". They don't change lanes... and they don't let anyone come
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by anateus 15y ago
Good luck. A small comment: "precision speed" is a slightly misleading term, especially when combined with a percentage measurement."Mouse speed" or "Movement speed" or just "Precision" are best? If the latter, then you can just invert the
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by anateus 15y ago
Well, percentages aren't even "correct" unless you're saying "percent of total number of points on the front page". Since that total is non-constant, the percentages are almost meaningless. If suddenly someone posts a PG essay, which gets l
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by anateus 15y ago
Treemaps are fantastic for showing hierarchical + quantitative information in a single view (with at least another axis thrown in if you add coloring the boxes in). This view, however, is about as useful as using a pie chart--perhaps the in
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The Patent Pledge(paulgraham.com)
618 points by anateus 15y ago|194 comments
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by anateus 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman
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by anateus 15y ago
They're using MediaNet ( http://www.mndigital.com/ ) as their primary content/license provider, so they're likely fine esp if they comply with takedown notices of user-uploaded content.
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by anateus 15y ago
Not usually. The way that generally works is this: - You get some competent cells ("competent" means "able to accept external DNA" there are different ways you can make different cells competent) - You place plasmids (circular DNA strands)
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by anateus 15y ago
Congrats on shipping Tito! (This is Mike Katsevman btw :>)
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by anateus 15y ago
I'll summarize how this would be used for those new to biotech: - You buy some primers which are basically chunks of nucleic acid that match whatever gene you want to look at. - You put DNA you've extracted together with these primers into
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by anateus 15y ago
Software, jpegs, and mp3s are digital versions of things the law has seen before (well, software not quite, which is why there are still some controversies regarding it). What you wrote reminds me of the anti-spam service that attaches an X
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by anateus 15y ago
The proper modern term is busticati .
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by anateus 15y ago
Any Ham Radio enthusiasts know if anything is coming out of Syria on that channel? Unlike Egypt, this has turned into a torrid brew of sectarian violence superimposed over the political strife. The minority Alawites (of whom the Assad famil
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From Toilet Seats to $1 Billion: Lessons from Brian Chesky(startupsopensourced.com)
77 points by anateus 15y ago|12 comments
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by anateus 15y ago
Buried is in this longish comment is a particular suggestion I really like: You can only vote while you you can't see scores. If you toggle "show scores" you lose your ability to vote in that thread forever. This eliminates the snowball iss
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by anateus 15y ago
Try http://www.scribd.com/
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by anateus 15y ago
Looks like an extended version of the ultralight trike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_trike
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by anateus 15y ago
Although not nearly as fast-paced and cinematic, the kinda-badly-written Permutation City by Greg Egan does a much more thorough job of exploring uploading and simulation, imho. Morgan is a wee bit oversimplifying certain aspects, in partic
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by anateus 15y ago
Really killer for things like providing access to Airbnb guests without having to be there.
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by anateus 15y ago
PyCharm's been the only thing that made me leave Vim for any length of time. It's not about having it all in one place, it's the attention to detail and the little conveniences that are everywhere. Whereas in general purpose editors I'm mos
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by anateus 15y ago
Several of these seem to be "a clever thing about my field" rather than a Reboot Keyphrase such as the one Feynman provided. I particularly enjoyed Steven Strogatz's phrase which attempts to encapsulate calculus and thus impart the mathemat
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by anateus 16y ago
I think a poll isn't the best way to decide this issue. After all the problem you're trying to fix is the greater number of low-quality comment, i.e. those who provide low-quality comments outnumber those who provide high-quality comments.
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by anateus 16y ago
I think it gives the site a feel more like MetaFilter. Exactly as you say, your impetus to post is stripped of the karma motivation, and becomes more purely affected by actually wanting to make a contribution.
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by anateus 16y ago
But think about how products are positioned. I think his comparison with the 50s is a bit simplistic, but think about a product advertisement from those times: "This is the widget OF THE FUTURE!". It would be presented very differently now,
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by anateus 16y ago
They were in the YC session that just ended.
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by anateus 16y ago
there's also a pool on the roof
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by anateus 16y ago
I'd have linked directly to the article only, but the Wikipedia page includes discussion and further references.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by anateus 16y ago|2 comments
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by anateus 16y ago
It also looks like twitter switched to Old Twitter. Temporary? I was always an apologist for New Twitter (it adds features! most people don't leave it open!) but after New Twitter for a few months being dunked back into OT feels so much bet
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by anateus 16y ago
It's actually a little weird. When you wake up with a normal alarm clock there's usually a sharp delineation between asleep and awake. With the WakeMate since it gets you during near-awakeness you feel as though you've already been waking u

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