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by shiven 15y ago
ecopoesis, there are laws and then there is the interpretation of those laws, right? you don't have to be lawyer to see that and i am not one. because there exists a law does not mean it is automatically just and 'right'. laws get changed a
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by shiven 15y ago
Fuck Monsanto, and by association, fuck Cloudant. Couldn't have said it better myself. What happened to the "no assholes" policy? Guess it does not matter when dollar signs start floating in the air.
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by shiven 15y ago
The good ol' days! I started programming with BASIC on BBC Micro Model B, in high school, and absolutely loved it. I guess a big reason for igniting my passion were the amazing books that came with it. Huge, glossy pages in full color with
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by shiven 15y ago
This seems to be in the same vein, kayhi : http://www.slideshare.net/ijstokes/wide-search-molecular-rep... Will be used for my next project!
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by shiven 15y ago
Quite right! However, all we have are (imperfect?) versions of a Turing machine to solve the folding problem! Maybe a Lisp machine would do better ;-) At the end of the day, a linear sequence of amino acids has to end up in a three-dimensio
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by shiven 15y ago
Excellent! As a structural biologist, I found the coolest part of the entire approach to be the use of energetically favorable FoldIt model as a staring point for "molecular replacement". I guess, this story highlights quite elegantly the "
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by shiven 15y ago
Udo, I think you are onto something here. An important aspect of going minimalist is getting rid of (so called) superficial possessions. That means, to a large extent, only those who have stuff to get rid of can do so as a part of goin
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by shiven 15y ago
Neither is YOUR FACE We don't write comments like this here. Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934523 Are you genuinely trying to be funny or is this OK coming from you on HN? Sorry if this appears kvetch y , but clearly I need
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by shiven 15y ago
Thanks for clarifying that. I sincerely appreciate your time and attention. However, I am totally confounded by (what appears to me as) the groupthink downvoting going on even now! (that too on my comments that have nothing to do with t
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by shiven 15y ago
That is an excellent point indeed and I agree wholeheartedly with it. Civility is essential to productive discussion anywhere. Just because I found Alex3917's comment utterly ignorant and offensive does not justify my response in the same v
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by shiven 15y ago
I am sorry to hear that, but perhaps you could set an example and explain what was so wrong, instead of merely flagging/down-modding. From my point of view, my comment was of the same tone and direction as the immediate parent. Snarky, insu
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by shiven 15y ago
You made my day!! Alex3917 you are now permanently listed under the birfer/truther/tin-foil-hatter category in my book! You, Sir, are simply HILARIOUS!
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by shiven 15y ago
Thanks Jayant! I'll email you shortly. Cheers!
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by shiven 15y ago
I guess I am late to the party, but I feel I must voice this opinion since Quartzy is listed. Also, comments on the original Quartzy submission are closed ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2744408 ). Must've escaped my notice, being bu
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by shiven 15y ago
It seems like Freshplum is a YC company and what Odio has done clearly puts him over and across the "No Assholes" rule that pg talks about. (I don't know how that correlates contextually, but I feel there should be a connection). Regardless
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by shiven 15y ago
> When the XMRV stuff broke the research community did swing into action. Yes. And did prove conclusively that XMRV is not the cause for CFS. > Scientists haven't decided not to study CFS because someone on the internet hurt their f
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by shiven 15y ago
Don't forget ShiftIt. Completely Free and does everything divvy and SizeUp can do !! A git repo, with latest chages based on https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt/network appears to be here: https://github.com/mehowte/ShiftIt Ve
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by shiven 15y ago
The point at which law becomes a hinderance and not help is when it gets changed or broken. Basically, all you are suggesting is: go find a "citizen" to trap in matrimony in order to be a legal immigrant? The matrimony route is especially r
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by shiven 15y ago
This looks like a decent solution: www.macmagsaver.com I am not affiliated with them in any way. Though, I will be ordering one very soon.
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by shiven 15y ago
Thank you for the clarification, I was unaware of the details you just mentioned. Talking of algorithms, does Readable use something like the Knuth and Plass line break algo used by LaTeX? A Javascript implementation was mentioned a while a
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by shiven 15y ago
I still don't get how/why is this different/better than the firefox readability extension? The commercialized readability was a step back from the bookmarklet, but this firefox extension seems to work as well if not better. Could someone mo
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by shiven 16y ago
Isn't Shen a very similar idea? Bringing functional programming to Javascript. It is expected to be released very soon for Javascript (and Scheme). [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921347 [2]: https://groups.google.com/group/qil
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by shiven 16y ago
I apologize for not making myself clear. My reply was not directed towards the article or your book, I was replying to the immediate parent only. My ire was directed towards the idea that any criticism of global climate change is bunk sim
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by shiven 16y ago
Except that it's not PC. My beef is not with it being PC or nPC. It is about questioning the theorie(s) in a scientific manner with rigorously formulated and educated questions. Otherwise, it is merely politics/BS/political-BS.
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by shiven 16y ago
Are you referring to people who are originally from Singapore or India, or to people from third countries who settle in Singapore or India rather than settling in the United States? The people I know personally, who moved, are mostly from
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by shiven 16y ago
This is true not just for SV but also the biotech/pharma R&D sector. I personally know people who have already moved out of the US to places like Singapore and India, and are doing way better in terms of peace-of-mind, moving ahead with
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by shiven 16y ago
Donated. My way of voting against DMCA in general and SCEA in particular. The disenfranchised can only vote with their dollars, and if they can, they should.
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by shiven 16y ago
A wonderful story that restores my faith in humanity, just a little bit (and reminds me why coming to HN may be worthwhile, despite the nasty bickering it devolves into at times -- it still remains a good filter for finding worthwhile readi
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by shiven 16y ago
Sorry, couldn't help myself!! That approach is just so damn elegant. int((1/math.sqrt(5))*(math.pow(((1+math.sqrt(5))/2),fibonacci)-math.pow(((1-math.sqrt(5))/2),fibonacci))) Reference here: http://mathproofs.blogspot.com/2005/04/nth-term-
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by shiven 16y ago
Seems like I may be the only person to have used a bioinformatics approach to the first problem! bl2seq to the rescue!! I'll explain my approach if anyone seems interested... as I am not sure if posting solutions is acceptable here. Edit: A

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