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by araneae 15y ago
Theory 5: Hackers are always on their devices so they experience the effects of inappropriate light at night to a greater extent.
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by araneae 15y ago
IDEs all the way! I started with Matlab, which was a super gentle way to start. Then I moved to Java+ Eclipse. Now I mostly use geany (linux TextMate). I'm not quite at vi level yet :).
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by araneae 15y ago
I took classes my senior year in college. I started out with a class crosslisted in bio/engineering that used Matlab to interact with a circuit we built. The instructor included a lot of basic code for each project that we just had to impro
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by araneae 15y ago
Interesting perspective, but it does ignore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_selection . It's possible that a certain amount of variation in the population is kept around through evolutionary processes. On the whole, though, I do agr
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HTML hexadecimal colors that are also English words(spacefem.livejournal.com)
2 points by araneae 15y ago|1 comments
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by araneae 15y ago
Well there's a difference between giving money and running an organization. Using money intelligently is more important than just donating it.
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by araneae 15y ago
Indeed. Personally I respect Bill Gates a lot more. He basically spends all his time working on his charity nowadays; he really couldn't care less about the future of his company. Jobs is good for Apple, but I think Gates is better for the
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by araneae 15y ago
I suppose talking is a social skill. But eliminating stuttering is a rather tangible goal to works towards. Being well liked among your coworkers and enjoying their company instead of dreading it everyday is a little bit too ineffable to wo
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by araneae 15y ago
Not if it's a fault that can't be changed, or at least not easily. I'm short, too, and I've learned to accept that, just as I've learned to accept the fact that some of my friends have more people posting "happy birthday" on their wall than
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by araneae 15y ago
To be fair, the Toyota thing was a grand experiment in human psychology as well.
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by araneae 15y ago
> yet employers often find that people filling these roles with poor people skills are still employable. This needs to stop. I’m of the opinion that every position is customer-facing. Well fuck me, then. I'm sorry, it's already hard eno
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by araneae 15y ago
I'm self taught and I'm pretty terrible. The kids who went to school with me but majored in C.S. are pretty rockstar and work at Google et al.
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by araneae 15y ago
This is the database one: http://www.db-class.org/
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Ask HN: Interviewer/advising tips for undergraduate interviewees?
3 points by araneae 15y ago|2 comments
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by araneae 15y ago
To whoever asked "What do you think about this site? http://news.ycombinator.com you are probably going to get a lot of women answering that question that read HN already. FYI.
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by araneae 15y ago
Well that guy from Wired that test drove the self- driving car with the sensors actually did crash the car the first time he tried to use it to parallel park... At any rate, the analogy is weak. Testing partners for HIV only makes sense if
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by araneae 15y ago
The problem with epidemiology is that it's complex, and I mean that in a technical sense. For instance, there's evidence that slowing the speed of an epidemic can result in a higher number of total infected. I'm not at all saying this is b
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by araneae 15y ago
No one thinks you are. The problem is that there is a very real possibility that someone who would go to a bar and test their partner there would then proceed to have unprotected sex instead of using a condom. A test could give them a false
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by araneae 15y ago
Yup, I'm sure. The Nature article says it's an ELISA test. http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.2408.... ELISA is an antibody test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISA The 100% detection refers to the detection of the a
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by araneae 15y ago
We don't need a cheap ELISA test here- it's already pretty cheap. What we need is a cheap molecular test, which can detect HIV during early stage infection, when people who are HIV positive are 40 times more likely to transmit the disease.
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by araneae 15y ago
40 TIMES more infectious. To emphasize how important this is. Some researchers estimate up to 1/2 of new infections are from people who would test negative in this test.
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by araneae 15y ago
The problem is that it could give you false confidence. A person who is recently infected will show up negative in this test. If you have unprotected sex with them, you are 4,000% more likely to get HIV from them than you are a person who t
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by araneae 15y ago
No, no no! Already up to 1/2 of new HIV infections are from people who would test negative in this test; early stage infections. This is because people who have been newly infected are about 4,000% more likely to transmit infection than tho
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by araneae 15y ago
It actually is a public health issue. Officials often make decisions on what treatments are available to what groups based on their effects on public health. For instance, vaccination or lack there of of certain demographics, when to begin
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by araneae 15y ago
Thanks for playing this role on HN. I've responding to people on engadget to this effect; it really worries me that there are so many comments like "no more condoms for me!" The irony is that such a technology could easily worse the epidemi
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by araneae 15y ago
An additional piece of information- you're approximately 4,000% more likely to transmit HIV during this early stage infection because of this high viral load. Some research estimates as much as 50% of all new infections come from people in
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by araneae 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Library_of_Science It's difficult, but it's already working. PLoS journals are actually quite reputable, currently.
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by araneae 15y ago
"Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to The Pirate Bay" Is it any surprise that the fed is attacking torrent sites? Even a tech news site puts incorrect titles on its news articles. He didn't upload papers to the Pirate Bay, he uploaded
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by araneae 15y ago
This is a false dichotomy. If you like what you can do with a computer, then you like computers, even if there are aspects of computing you do not like. No one expects a person to like absolutely everything about computing, or to never ge
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by araneae 15y ago
My webhost has SSH access, it just doesn't give me root. It offers RoR through CPanel, which I just assumed would work, but I haven't tried using it so I don't really know. But I take your point, a VPS is really the best thing. I just can't

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