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by pak 10y ago
This is a very interesting little point, that consumer electronics (especially ports) have little physical safeguards to prevent errors—e.g., you can plug USB2 into USB3 for backward compatibility, but not vice versa, for the B plug; ungrou
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Phuby, a Ruby gem that wraps PHP in a loving embrace(github.com)
1 points by pak 10y ago|0 comments
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by pak 10y ago
The problem is you're arguing against a totally different position than where Geekette and myself are coming from. Let's go back to the first lines of the OP: "What are the ingredients of a good relationship? Trust? Communica
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by pak 10y ago
Geekette's concerns are really only validated by the references you give. They have a sample size of 28 and 36 smell recipients, respectively (all likely bored undergrads), which seems hardly representative of all cultures and human be
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by pak 10y ago
The gawker domain might have triggered a few genuine flags, but I found that odd too.
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by pak 10y ago
Welcome to the rebirth of the "right-click blocking" scripts. Please, take a trip with me down memory lane, to the glorious days of DHTML in 1998, when there were serious attempts to use JavaScript to "prevent people from ste
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by pak 11y ago
You are probably talking about the comments for this article: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/03/02/sci-hub-and-th... I agree, some of the opinions tossed around by incumbents in the industry are mind
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What if we had a great standard library in JavaScript?(medium.com)
2 points by pak 11y ago|0 comments
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by pak 11y ago
Say what you will about us, but Ruby people get to have the most fun. hops on hipster hashrocket and tribbles off into the sunset
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by pak 11y ago
That's not what I'm getting at. If M. genitalium really has only 470 genes by whatever counting scheme we've chosen, then the claim that "each cell of JCVI-syn3.0 contains just 473 genes, fewer than any other independe
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by pak 11y ago
This article is self-contradictory. In the second caption: "Each cell of JCVI-syn3.0 contains just 473 genes, fewer than any other independent organism." In the main text: "In a 1995 Science paper, Venter’s team sequenced the
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by pak 11y ago
You're probably thinking of this paper by Jon Karr et al.: "A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype" http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(12)00776-3
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by pak 11y ago
For what it's worth, these exact same questions do show up on board exams, so it's not like medical students don't ever learn this information. What is a bit sad is that data analysis and quantitative skills continue to be de
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by pak 11y ago
You would be surprised how oversimplified most economic models are, particularly those taken as gospel. For instance, I won't deny that there are certain situations in which supply and demand curves are predictive (we all know how com
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by pak 11y ago
Providing a git repo is so many orders of magnitude better than the usual "source code available upon request" throwaway line that I'd hesitate to complain about it. You'd be surprised how many people in non-CS fields s
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by pak 11y ago
For this trial, the placebo and treatment groups are both composed of healthy volunteers that are exposed to a controlled amount of an attenuated dengue virus (called rDEN2Δ30). All groups in the trial are told the risks of exposure to the
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by pak 11y ago
> doesn't the quote from the original article refer to the testing model itself Yes, it does, precisely because the trial is about a human challenge model that uses an attenuated virus. It may or may not be representative of efficac
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by pak 11y ago
You're right, I meant hospitalizations; I goofed.
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by pak 11y ago
While I am of course a huge fan of NIAID and vaccine development against dengue, and I believe that a vaccine that works against dengue will probably be found within our lifetimes and prevent millions of hospitalizations (EDIT: not deaths,
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How Algolia tackled the relevance problem of search engines(blog.algolia.com)
3 points by pak 11y ago|1 comments
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by pak 11y ago
Interesting. I had no idea you submitted that one. HN seems to be increasingly stochastic these days. When this post fell off the new page last night, I thought it was doomed. Then, it suddenly revived this morning. I did trim the strange
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What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable(medium.com)
266 points by pak 11y ago|204 comments
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by pak 11y ago
Promoting the use of newer versions is a little nice, but you will rue the day you deploy to production and it automatically pulls some flaky new package version that you didn't have a chance to test locally.
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by pak 11y ago
Agree, isn't the difference between method #1 and method #2 precisely the reason that Bundler has a distinction between Gemfile and Gemfile.lock? http://bundler.io/v1.3/rationale.html Programmers want to handle an
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by pak 11y ago
Thanks for all the hard work you guys put in! Seriously, I'm hoping for the best. Glad you're thinking about numpy too.
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by pak 11y ago
Is this the remaining major hurdle toward getting mega-libraries like SciPy, pandas, and BioPython to work? Or will the C API in PyPy always be less performant than CPython? If more people start using PyPy for ad-hoc data analysis, it coul
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by pak 11y ago
Wasn't there substantial controversy over gcc optimizing away certain code that tried to check for integer overflows? Check out this infamous thread: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30475 ...it gets p
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by pak 11y ago
There are certain languages that are good for a first-time programmer. R, despite being one of the first languages a budding "data scientist" might want to use, is probably not one of them for the many reasons given, among them: -
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React Look: advanced, dynamic component styling for React (+Native)(github.com)
1 points by pak 11y ago|0 comments
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by pak 11y ago
For an idea of what some of the backlash about the NEJM editorial looks like, simply check Twitter for #researchparasites: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23researchparasites -- and for a quicker version, some of the most inf

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