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by hmahncke 9y ago
Another buried lead: >> It’s something that the owners of all 181 private streets in San Francisco are obliged to do. >> 181?
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by hmahncke 9y ago
This street is immediately to the west, as you come out of the Presidio (Masonic Gate). It looks exactly like an ordinary public street - there's no gate or anything (although there is a sign posted). I once tried to walk in there, to
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by hmahncke 9y ago
honest question: if your code is open source, why would someone pay you for further research? why would you charge for that?
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by hmahncke 9y ago
One possibility is that Dropbox hashes your videos/photos, and compare your hashes to hashes of known shared images obtained from previous prosecutions, and reports matches to police. That's not exactly "snooping through your
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by hmahncke 9y ago
I was involved in designing most of the BrainHQ tasks. They're supposed to make you sweat.
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by hmahncke 9y ago
Mirror: http://www.cetusnews.com/life/How-to-Get-Old-Brains-to-Think...
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by hmahncke 9y ago
Thanks! My comment was more directed at the Bloomberg article and authors, which institutionally see situations like this as a "cost increase" because they don't consider the existing environmental/ health consequences t
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by hmahncke 9y ago
FTFY, Bloomberg: "A shift in China toward less toxic coatings for containers has shifted costs from health care costs for employees to shipping costs for customers"
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by hmahncke 9y ago
You could ask his employer, which said "...while The Information had found a few examples which show that Justin has in the past occasionally dated or flirted with women he met in a professional capacity , let’s be clear: there is no e
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by hmahncke 9y ago
In San Francisco, every downtown office space I've been in has had cleaning service included in the rent and a building manager who looked after fixing minor issues.
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by hmahncke 9y ago
The most amazing thing to me about watching my daughter learn and then become obsessed with Scratch is the community around it. She has dozens of friends in the network, and they organize to build projects together, have contests, manage de
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by hmahncke 9y ago
Here is a recent Cochrane review looking at high quality studies of aerobic exercise and finding no significant effect in the meta-analysis: http://www.cochrane.org/CD005381/DEMENTIA_aerobic-exercise-t...
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by hmahncke 10y ago
Targacept was a biotech company that spun off from RJ Reynolds [1] with the goal of making drugs related to nicotine that would help with schizophrenia and other psychiatric/neurological disorders. They tried really hard, and it didn&#
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by hmahncke 10y ago
>> summons Egyptian fruit bat >>
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by hmahncke 10y ago
Calculords is a truly great game. All the fun of learning arithmetic on your new TI, plus grumpy aliens.
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by hmahncke 10y ago
I like meta-analyses quite well, but the APS article was not a meta-analysis - it was more like a broad review. Here are a few meta-analyses that disagree with the APS article: Computerized Cognitive Training with Older Adults: A Systematic
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by hmahncke 10y ago
The article begins from the premise that psychology has shown that brain training can not cause generalized benefits, and then goes on to review more than 130 peer-reviewed publications, meticulously finding fault with each one, and conclud
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by hmahncke 10y ago
The FMV of common stock should be calculated through a 409a valuation, which should take into account the preferences. The company is supposed to do this on a regular basis, and certainly should have a current 409a a the time of an option g
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by hmahncke 10y ago
There are composition of matter patents that allow you to patent a novel molecule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_matter
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by hmahncke 10y ago
This looks great, and automated revenue recognition straight into Quickbooks is a great feature. Do you have a Braintree integration yet, or soon? The integration section suggests not quite yet...
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A specific type and dose of brain training reduces dementia risk by almost half(statnews.com)
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by hmahncke 10y ago
As I read it, the bug was a minor issue. The bigger issue is the general false positive rate, which isn't a bug exactly, but more like a statistical modeling question - with millions of vocals, what's the appropriate way to charac
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by hmahncke 10y ago
This research article and the arstechnica commentary are examples of exactly the overreach that they aim to criticize. A number of large-scale multi-site randomized controlled trials have shown that specific types of brain training generali
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by hmahncke 10y ago
Reverse Sokal Affair (spoofed physics papers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair
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by hmahncke 10y ago
No one should have a phone on their desk in an open plan office.
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Startups, employees, and arbitration(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by hmahncke 10y ago
>> He used his sister’s breast-cancer markers as an example... her risk may not have changed at all, the variation being the result of natural biological fluctuations and inherent uncertainty in the measurement. >> That natural
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Uber for failure (Shuddle post-mortem)(mashable.com)
2 points by hmahncke 10y ago|0 comments
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by hmahncke 11y ago
You'd think, but Uber and Lyft aren't doing it.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Great service. Sad to see it go. I used it every week. For people asking, another difference between Shuddle and Uber (as I understand Uber) is that you could schedule your Shuddle rides in advance, and be confident a driver would come at t

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