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by jkimmel 13y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware that this was permitted in the UK. Here in the US, under-18's often aren't allowed on the premises of a drinking establishment at all, so the OP does raise a point depending on the location of the
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by jkimmel 13y ago
Did someone flip the street signs on me? I live in downtown Orlando and love the atmosphere. Plenty of meetups, cheap rent in and around the skyline, great nightlife, tons of big name concerts and great local shows every night of the week.
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by jkimmel 13y ago
> "Seven years after it was founded, the company with a catchy name had more than 2,000 employees" This sticks out to me more than anything else in the article. I had no idea Twitter had such a massive headcount. Does anyone ha
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by jkimmel 13y ago
Your point regarding anonymity is highly valid, and I appreciate that you bring it up. There is actually a concept I'm rather fond of that seeks to address this, usually referred to as peer-reviewed peer review [1]. Essentially, anonym
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by jkimmel 13y ago
Nitpick, but I think "went to work for Google, too." is supposed to say, "went to work for Yahoo!, too." On a related note, JBQ leaving really left a sour taste in my mouth. I remember him being a constant and positive f
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by jkimmel 13y ago
Reminds me of my old Motorola Atrix [1]. It had a laptop docking shell that booted a restricted version of Ubuntu alongside an instance of Android. It was totally cool, and everyone that saw it was amazed. However, actual usage was another
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by jkimmel 13y ago
I wish I could find a well compiled list of facts & sources like this along with every news article. Great work, thanks for sharing.
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by jkimmel 13y ago
I too would love to see a write up of some sort. Now that, that sounds like flattery.
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by jkimmel 13y ago
This is one of the most insightful things I've read about the interconnectedness of different professions and the overall economy in recent memory. I'm currently at a crossroads of decision, wondering much as the author about the most meani
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Ask HN: Is asking an early startup to intern Doing It Wrong?
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by jkimmel 14y ago
I too had to load the Google cache. Here it is in case the site doesn't come back online soon. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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by jkimmel 14y ago
Drug relevant basis here is defined by whether or not the color of one's skin alters the efficacy of a particular drug. Sickle-cell anemia is perpetuated by a trait that appears with strong correlation to the traits that create dark skin pi
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by jkimmel 14y ago
This is a valid point. While I won't dive into the qualms that stem from pharma companies funding and subsequently selectively choosing their trials, the case with BiDil is particularly curious [1]. When BiDil was patented, studies were car
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by jkimmel 14y ago
As an aside, the evergreening process has taken on frightening new faces in recent years. Drugs have been repatented with the same formula for 'new' purposes. Case in point is BiDil, an active ingredient repatented for race-specific use in
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by jkimmel 14y ago
I found these papers through a link trail beginning with a HuffPo article further down the page, but I'm directly linking them here due to relevance. There seem to be multiple studies indicating that 'neonic' pesticides are responsible for
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by jkimmel 14y ago
I enjoy this analog, and it works very well from a purely developer/intel analyst perspective. It seems to me that the key difference here would be that no one is harmed by overuse of SSL, whereas over classification of information can have
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by jkimmel 14y ago
It's great that this study has gotten so much attention in the general press (NPR story, prominent placement in Cell Stem Cell). Given the forum though, I'd like to point out that the idea that glia are of equal (or greater) importance to
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by jkimmel 14y ago
Entirely an informational note, but the manhole-covers question actually originated at Microsoft if I recall correctly. There are several references to it around the web, and at least one primary source confirmation by an interviewer that h
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by jkimmel 14y ago
This is one of the best ways I've come across to inoffensively ask these probing questions. Thank you.
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As far as the Flynn effect is concerned, it's possible that the benefits of general increases in public health (to which the Flynn effect is oft attributed, though somewhat more controversially in recent years) negated the effects of lead o
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by jkimmel 14y ago
While patents on genetic sequences have some tricky specifications (you have to patent "non-standard" biological uses), I know Celera holds a number of patents related to the Human Genome Project. From what I recall in general biology, Cele
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by jkimmel 14y ago
Ah, thank you very much. A google for "Naris" (as it is spelled in the RT article) isn't very helpful. Your logic is definitely sound. It's just mind boggling to me that anyone could possibly be logging everything thrown through every port.
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by jkimmel 14y ago
I'm curious as to the technical specifications of the supposed Naris device. I don't doubt that the US government can obtain the email logs of most citizens, but would it truly occur in this manner? Binney seems to describe a single unit co
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by jkimmel 14y ago
As an aside, I've noticed many of the factors and symptoms you note in members of any sufficiently large corporation. Perhaps in a microcosm of society, the frictions necessary to create psychological tension are amplified with respect to t
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by jkimmel 14y ago
IQ tests have long been criticized by a variety of groups. At the end of the day, it merely measures your ability to perform well on tests that are similar to an IQ test. Traditionally, this set was populated with academic tests, so the IQ
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by jkimmel 14y ago
Internally, Google Engineers work "by dessert" [1], the version numbers are decided by someone further down the product pipeline. With an instance like this, the developers most likely made a number of updates to the same branch of the OS (
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by jkimmel 14y ago
I think it's interesting to note the number of professions that may already fulfill a "data science" role, just with a different title. I worked a job where my primary role was data analysis: parsing data with Unix commands, feeding it to c
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by jkimmel 14y ago
By no means was I trying to say that professors aren't well rewarded, if that's how I came across, I didn't communicate very effectively. My point was mainly that there aren't very many of those high paying positions relative to the number
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by jkimmel 14y ago
As a biologist, I'm going to have to object. No matter what level of talent and competence you have, there are very few opportunities in this field to make a nice living. You're pretty much relegated to becoming a tenured professor (good lu
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by jkimmel 14y ago
Yes and no. Given the kind of volume Knight purchased during the faulty trades, it could be difficult to offload that many shares on the open market in a timely manner. Maybe those stocks are hot Monday, maybe they're not. Knight needs capi

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