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by frisco 11y ago
There is no Académie française for English - the borders of our language are fuzzy and based on drifting actual usage. Or, in other words, English dictionaries are a lot like open source: based on running code and rough consensus. OED ju
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by frisco 11y ago
This idea is usually called the "failed simulation effect" in evaluating high school/college/grad school applications: http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/05/28/the-art-of-activity-in...
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by frisco 11y ago
You don't even need anything built yet - it can just be an idea! Of course, having users or growth makes you a stronger applicant, but you can apply with literally anything or nothing.
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by frisco 11y ago
SEC rules make retroactively changing this complicated; it's not Coinbase's fault.
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by frisco 11y ago
> We are living in the generation that will be most remembered, not for the Internet, but for the transition off fossil fuels. Bold claim. If that transition goes well and we address the climate issues, I think it's more likely we&#
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by frisco 11y ago
> The landing fees alone would probably make it nonviable for small charters Lufthansa and American Airlines would probably pay smaller fees for landing a 747 than you would landing a 2 seater Cessna. Not true at all. Landing fees are us
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by frisco 11y ago
99.99% of airports are public use. Not just big ones either: there are only about ~200 airports in the US serviced by airlines, but there are thousands of small airports you go can land a Cessna at mostly for free. But that's not real
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by frisco 11y ago
The original link should be used here.
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by frisco 11y ago
To put this in perspective, that's several engineering hires worth of equity at that stage on average.
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by frisco 11y ago
Maybe I'm reading something wrong here, but I think this actually substantially complicates the YC decision calculus. YC today is an overwhelmingly good proposition and so I do think they can add this without turning any off, but this
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by frisco 11y ago
It feels a lot like A Dark Room [0]. I remember ADR was open source, I wonder if it's built on or inspired by that. [0] http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
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Transcriptic (YC W15), a robotic cloud laboratory for biotech, is hiring(jobs.lever.co)
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Jury Clears Kleiner Perkins of Wrongdoing in Ellen Pao Case(recode.net)
5 points by frisco 12y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 12y ago
Well, this comment is a big improvement over how it was a few years ago when we first started and everyone thought the whole idea was clearly impossible. We went from being impossible to trivial! Progress!
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Cloud-Based Bio Lab Transcriptic (YC W15) Lands $8.5M in Series A Funding(techcrunch.com)
41 points by frisco 12y ago|4 comments
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by frisco 12y ago
> Moreover, really old equipment is still in use and new equipment isn't likely to be 'designed for autoprotocol' for a while. How do you think managing instrument communication is going to work? This is obviously a big is
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Show HN: The Autoprotocol Language Standard for Biology(autoprotocol.org)
54 points by frisco 12y ago|17 comments
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The Autoprotocol Language Standard for Biology(transcriptic.com)
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Transcriptic, a robotic cloud biology lab, is hiring scientists and engineers
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Transcriptic, a robotic cloud biology lab, is hiring scientists and engineers
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by frisco 12y ago
It's a little M&M flow sorter! They even kind of look like cells. If you really want your mind to be blown, go read about flow cytometers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_cytometry#Fluorescence-act... Fluo
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Transcriptic, a robotic cloud laboratory, is looking for software engineers
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by frisco 12y ago
I think the opposite is actually true: you get better data when you don't feel the samples. This is a highly unpopular view right now but I have to wonder what's going on when things like Amgen getting 11% reproducibility of found
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by frisco 12y ago
1. Right now we're only doing analysis (no sorting). Eventually we'll develop an interactive UI where you'll be able to eg draw gates and get feedback in real time but right now it's just setting up analyzer runs fed by
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by frisco 12y ago
Hey, I'm the founder of Transcriptic. We're pretty excited about this. Happy to answer any questions!
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by frisco 12y ago
Their website appears to be a fork of https://github.com/Polymer/docs with just some content changed and the "antha" repo itself appears to be a thin fork of go-lang. Compare: - https://github.com
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by frisco 12y ago
We do not have a strain library that's generally available across customers. That's organization-specific IP. Strains (which we'd call a type of "resource") are usually sent in by the customer, created from scratch
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by frisco 12y ago
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend) Menlo Park, CA; https://www.transcriptic.com/ Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by han
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by frisco 12y ago
I've never really understood these comments. As someone who's founded two VC-backed companies and raised millions of dollars I have to tell you that the parts that bother me really aren't "working tirelessly and thankle
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by frisco 12y ago
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend) Menlo Park, CA; https://www.transcriptic.com/ Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by han

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