earl

63 ms·

301.
by earl 15y ago
Characterizing not wanting a lower middle class lifestyle as wanting "money or lifestyle [sic]" is ridiculous. Working in a wetlab is essentially me making a $80K annual donation to charity, and amongst other things, would turn my student
302.
by earl 15y ago
Wow, that's amazing. I hope the results hold up. My father died of type 2 non hodkins lymphoma in 1997 when I was 17; he was sick for 4 years from two rounds of lymphoma, plus a marrow transplant. Every time I read about advances like thi
303.
by earl 15y ago
What Kiss does is explicitly violating user intent -- ethical people assume that when cookies go away, the user is making a decision. From the paper summary : "The cache cookie method used ETags, and is capable of unique tracking even where
304.
by earl 15y ago
Actually, probably not. Some companies have already been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, sued, and settled. See eg [1]. I'd bet most companies have looked at that and decided not to do anything similar. Note: I'm an actual qua
305.
by earl 15y ago
I don't really believe in the so-called war for tech talent, or at least companies don't act like that. I'm in a bad mood this morning, so let's name names: Facebook: if you live in the bay area, even if you live in SF, they refuse to do a
306.
by earl 15y ago
It's certainly legally permissible to target ads at individuals -- see, eg, retargeting.
307.
by earl 15y ago
Chinese bulk human powered captcha solvers are stupid cheap. $.00139/ea in units of 1k [1] [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475191
308.
by earl 15y ago
There was a techcrunch story a while ago -- my apologies for not having the link -- that basically claimed Google made counteroffers that couldn't be refused to some product managers that Twitter had tried to hire. So I think they're at le
309.
by earl 15y ago
Wow. His workbench is really beautiful http://www.kagenschaefer.com/page6.html I'd almost be afraid to actually use something like that because I'd inevitably dent, scratch, and cut it.
310.
by earl 15y ago
What's even more annoying is amazon damn well does have a large physical presence in CA: a2z: http://a2z.com/ : SF, OC, and San Luis Obispo; A9: near caltrain, and from their page, "As A9 is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Amazo
311.
Please stop with crap resume sites
15 points by earl 15y ago|9 comments
312.
by earl 15y ago
The website is so distracting I couldn't even pay attention to the content. Not only is there a bloody ad in the middle of the first paragraph forcing the text to wrap around the ad, but at most 15% of the above the fold site is actual con
313.
by earl 15y ago
Nostromo specifically said, " not very stimulative. More money would be returned to high income individuals who are more likely to hold onto the extra cash." Which is exactly correct -- poor people spend basically every penny they get beca
314.
by earl 15y ago
People tend not to downgrade, at least in CA because of Prop 13 [1] which, for those of you not familiar with CA politics, more or less freezes housing taxes while you own the home. Thus giving people who have large amounts of housing pric
315.
by earl 15y ago
That's fair, but you know what those professors get? Tenure. ie not getting fired unless they're caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl. And they typically get paid with hard money as stevenbedrick notes.
316.
by earl 15y ago
From the wikipedia article [1] "PCR is used to amplify a specific region of a DNA strand (the DNA target). Most PCR methods typically amplify DNA fragments of up to ~10 kilo base pairs (kb), although some techniques allow for amplification
317.
by earl 15y ago
My experience is while they may be respected, they aren't paid . And I'm not a charity.
318.
by earl 15y ago
That has not been my experience. I spent years working on DNA aligners then in a wetlab building software for confocal laser microscopy. In both locations, the best paid and most highly valued people were the scientists. If you, say, wer
319.
by earl 15y ago
You clearly don't live in nyc. NYC craigslist is covered w/ $20 - $50 guys w/ trucks who show up and move furniture / whatever for the agreed upon price. And there's always cabs. Seriously, it's not a big deal.
320.
by earl 15y ago
This is silly -- mobile furniture or computing hardware sales? Are there really people that can't be arsed to sit down on craigslist and browse their city for a new chair, but instead randomly buy one while walking about the financial dist
321.
by earl 15y ago
Hadoop implements the map reduce api. It is a full software stack that typically is taken to mean: 1 - hadoop proper: java code that implements the MR API; 1a - all the software to allow for job trackers, job retrying, job distribution, re
322.
by earl 15y ago
I'm torn between agreeing that employees should carefully read their options agreement and believing that there are some things in life that are wrong with no grey area and stealing shares people have earned is wrong.
323.
by earl 15y ago
Um, holy shit! Part of the reason I'm a programmer today is I read Zen of Graphics Programming when I was 16 and I just had to get my own bsp tree algorithm working. Thank you.
324.
by earl 15y ago
Could you maybe talk a little more about what the company is doing, either here for via my email? Thanks
325.
by earl 15y ago
The alignment problem and downstream work is at least as hard as sequencing. I worked on a sequencer / aligner software package.
326.
by earl 15y ago
A decade ago, I worked on a DNA sequencer / aligner product. This produced easily 1GB+ raw data files, and they typically exploded by a factor of ten by the time you performed a bunch of cleaning, smoothing, filtering, etc on them. For se
327.
by earl 15y ago
SQL is desperately in need of some updates. For starters, DELETE FROM should never be allowed without a WHERE clause. DBs should simply define that as malformed sql.
328.
by earl 15y ago
-1 for the assumption that government services are less efficient than private. Were you even modestly observant you would know that isn't true, and there are examples floating everywhere (eg Medicare's provisioning of medical services, co
329.
by earl 15y ago
Then you know where to start. Read a good linear algebra text; I'd suggest Strang. He also has lectures online. If you stumble on those, do what I just suggested for whatever you stumble on.
330.
by earl 15y ago
That quote is really stupid. Better would be to say something like the best minds of my generation have decided an optimal strategy is to figure out how to make people click ads or to do financial engineering. Why is that. And then do so

More ›