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by frisco 12y ago
FYI doing this is a great way to get your mileage balance cancelled if you're a frequent flyer.
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by frisco 12y ago
This post is actually two weeks old, but we never did the "Show HN: We built an API for biological research" we had been thinking of doing so I figured this would still be relevant. We also released a new web app today: https:&#x
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Announcing Transcriptic Platform(transcriptic.com)
42 points by frisco 12y ago|6 comments
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by frisco 12y ago
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend) Menlo Park, CA Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configur
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by frisco 12y ago
Hey, sorry that it came across that way. The ops position is definitely not about looking for a superman to dump a buggy system on. Issues are root-caused and it's a point of culture that we don't see the same bug twice. Another
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by frisco 12y ago
Emerald doesn't really exist yet, and I believe they misrepresent their automation. They've posted a very pretty site with a bunch of mockups. They have a set of workflows that work for their internal antiviral research, but &qu
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by frisco 12y ago
Hey! Founder of Transcriptic here. This is exactly what we are. We're growing quickly and have customers at over a dozen academic institutions now. One of our key issues right now is that biologists aren't programmers and so w
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by frisco 12y ago
This is what my startup is working on! Check out https://www.transcriptic.com . It's still early days and we'd love feedback.
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by frisco 12y ago
Teselagen is cool design software but there's a whole other side of the equation. I don't see any microfluidics in that video, unless one of those reservoir blocks or plates is actually something else? You know that's pretty
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by frisco 12y ago
Considering that Ginkgo Bioworks is a non-drug biotech company, I'd say that the answer to your question is yes.
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10 ways Facebook is actually the devil: an FB data scientist on the WSJ coverage(andrewledvina.com)
4 points by frisco 12y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 12y ago
Your profile says you work at Google... are you saying that the code snippet here is inconsistent with Google's mapreduce?
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by frisco 12y ago
I don't have a good reason to believe that this is real, but if it is the most surprising part to me is the "mapreduce" rule definition in there. As far as I know the only group with a C++ mapreduce implementation called &qu
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by frisco 12y ago
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend) Menlo Park, CA Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configur
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by frisco 12y ago
That's a $1.5M investment up front. Maybe it will make you 10% more efficient, but I have to look at all of the different things I could spend $1.5M on. Hopefully there's something in there for a growing company with an expected
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by frisco 12y ago
I was really sympathetic to the distractions caused by an open plan office. I saw the statistics that people get sick more often. I knew it would be annoying to have it potentially be really loud (or have everyone need to be quiet to keep
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by frisco 12y ago
I could see autonomous UAVs being handled separately; you're right that I'm assuming that "drones" today have pilots ultimately responsible for them, which I think is in reality true. I wouldn't mean for a certifica
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by frisco 12y ago
My understanding is that RC planes have been mostly ignored in the regulations because the community is so small. If quadrotors enable a massive explosion in hobbyist R/C flight it changes the story. The few drones flying right now ar
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by frisco 12y ago
> limit location and altitude of flying Sure - this might be a good example here because any rules the FAA will come out with in this regard will probably require you to be able to read a sectional chart unless you're really in the
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by frisco 12y ago
The reason the FAA is so nervous about commercial operations in general is because in aviation there's nothing more dangerous than saying, "we'll be there by 2:30." It's why the rules for Part 135 (charter) operato
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by frisco 12y ago
I hope that drones end up going through the same channels as traditional aviation - you get a pilot certificate with a drone rating (Drone Quadengine Land?). That would be very cool because it would get the drone operators in the same syst
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by frisco 13y ago
OP here, just saw that. Knew I should have checked Scott's blog before submitting to HN. Or just have asked myself what I was doing before submitting an ArXiv link. :(
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Computational solution to quantum foundational problems(arxiv.org)
30 points by frisco 13y ago|19 comments
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by frisco 13y ago
It's actually the most widely accepted mechanism for "disruptive" innovation. See: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disrupti
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by frisco 13y ago
a) "Plane loses power" isn't that simple. There are multiple different independent "power" systems for different things, each with their own redundancies. Particularly critical systems, like engines, often don&#x2
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by frisco 13y ago
There's lots of data on this. Every accident and incident are logged and analyzed: - https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/reports_aviation.html - http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/month.aspx
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by frisco 13y ago
What are you interested in specifically? I'm a pilot--private, not commercial--and would be happy to explain the basics of airspace and flight rules.
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by frisco 13y ago
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend) Menlo Park, CA Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configur
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by frisco 13y ago
I used to be all about Thrift. I first started using it back in 2008 and thought it was awesome for a long time. While it clearly works for Facebook (and many others), I've always had little problems with it. Connections silently fa
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With $4.1M In The Bank, Transcriptic Wants To Reinvent Scientific Research(techcrunch.com)
3 points by frisco 13y ago|0 comments

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