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by masnick 9y ago
Note that they don’t report a confidence interval for the one-person office because it is the baseline for the other rate ratios. (This is generally how the baseline group is identified when reporting ratios in journal articles.)
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Brain implant for restoring sight entering clinical trials(technologyreview.com)
2 points by masnick 9y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 9y ago
This anti-fatigue mat with some special topography made a big difference for me: http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00V3TO9EK
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by masnick 9y ago
In 2012 I was able to get example@ from a major US cable company. A few months later I tried logging in and the account no longer existed.
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United Airlines made passenger abandon mobility device at gate before honeymoon(medium.com)
100 points by masnick 9y ago|26 comments
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by masnick 10y ago
The site is down for me, but you can see the content nicely formatted on GitHub: https://github.com/rougier/from-python-to-numpy For cmd-f: mirror
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2,000 San Francisco MTA computers infected with randsomware(theguardian.com)
4 points by masnick 10y ago|1 comments
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by masnick 10y ago
Here are the options I see: 1. Pay a reasonable amount for a reputable service like FastMail with a good user interface 2. Use a free, reputable service and make your peace with them selling ads off your email (they have to keep the lights
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Visualizing a Job Search Or: How to Find a Job as a Software Engineer(kellysutton.com)
5 points by masnick 10y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 10y ago
Hospital IQ | https://www.hospiq.com | REMOTE | full time We are looking for front-end, back-end, and full stack engineers. We make web-based software to improve hospital operations with data visualization, tools for planning, a
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by masnick 10y ago
That doesn't _explain_ anything. Compare the level of detail to http://www.fastmailstatus.com .
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by masnick 10y ago
One of the reasons I use FastMail ( https://fastmail.com ) for email and calendar rather than Google is that when outages happen, the explain what is going on ( http://www.fastmailstatus.com ). Outages are inevitable, so
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iOS 10 UI concept video(macstories.net)
5 points by masnick 10y ago|0 comments
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Slack raises $200M, valuing the company at $3.8B(bloomberg.com)
4 points by masnick 11y ago|1 comments
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by masnick 11y ago
Is there pricing information anywhere? I couldn't find it.
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Designing a good credit card form(blog.fastmail.com)
5 points by masnick 11y ago|2 comments
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How to stop a DDoS attack(blog.fastmail.com)
11 points by masnick 11y ago|0 comments
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Reverse ACLs – Making IMAP LIST Fast(blog.fastmail.com)
4 points by masnick 11y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 11y ago
I've actually found the search in the web interface to be very fast and pretty good in terms of finding what I'm looking for with >70k messages. When I switched from Gmail a few years ago ( https://masnick.org/20
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Why CardDAV took so long(blog.fastmail.com)
176 points by masnick 11y ago|67 comments
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by masnick 11y ago
This looks great. BTW I don't get all the negativity in the comments about Mac-only tools. A huge number of developers use Macs specifically for well-designed third party software with *nix goodness. I wish other platforms had the same
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by masnick 12y ago
SquareSpace seems to be the big leader in the easy-enough-for-mom website space. To compete, I think you need to really differentiate on features and also somehow indicate you plan to be around for the long term. The reason this is importan
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by masnick 12y ago
The problem is that contact + airborne precautions are the highest level of infection control precautions that hospitals in the US usually do. The blog post I linked to above indicates that there are additional recommendations on top of con
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by masnick 12y ago
This blog post provides some good, straight-forward information about epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and infection control recommendations for Ebola: http://haicontroversies.blogspot.com/2014/07/ebola-hemo
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by masnick 12y ago
Finally. Until now, AFAIK there was no way to get access to some newly published articles digitally without (a) going through their terrible iOS app or (b) going through this weird browser based magazine simulator. Both required a subscript
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Dropcam acquired by Nest/Google(techcrunch.com)
3 points by masnick 12y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 12y ago
I tried them back when they had a promotion several months ago. So many problems. - Their control panel was over plain HTTP (not HTTPS) - Super confusing interface, very difficult to set up, looked like it was held together by chewing gum a
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by masnick 12y ago
If anything, I hope this pressures Dropbox to lower their pricing or add a lower-priced tier. I think they're leaving money on the table with more casual users who would gladly pay $5 for a bit more space, but balk at $10/month fo
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by masnick 12y ago
See the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959829
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by masnick 12y ago
Then why did they let the manuscript go to press without the "this study was reviewed by the University of Somewhere IRB (protocol #XXXX) and was ruled exempt" sentence? I see this enough in papers that it seems pretty standard to

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