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by shiven 12y ago
Audiobook: Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry, by Albert Bernstein Book #1 (Recommended by someone here on HN!) The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth by Don Richard
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by shiven 12y ago
The Kano might be more like getting a set of Lego bricks, back in the day, instead of the (S)NES. Your parent's peers might have said the exact same thing about 'consuming content' reagrding the Nintendo!
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by shiven 12y ago
Playing with encryption is like playing with fire. Much worse actually. There are no partially broken encryption products, only 'not yet broken' and 'broken'. Time and time again, here on HN and elsewhere, people with
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by shiven 12y ago
Either I am failing to grasp what you are saying or you are completely naive about the humongous risk involved in cutting edge science of any kind. This ain't some piddly kickstarter trinket. And exactly what was promised that you didn
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by shiven 12y ago
Actually, PDFy is way, way better ... https://pdf.yt
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by shiven 12y ago
Because google could exist without their content to index... On one hand they whine about Google's power and on the other they want the benefits too? Might as well complain about the enormous power of gravity over us and legislate it
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by shiven 12y ago
The fundamentals of activating APOBECs are being worked out by multiple groups across the world. That said, one phrase you'll always read around the APOBEC3 sub-family of proteins (responsible for the anti-HIV effect), is "double-
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by shiven 12y ago
Great to see APOBECs in the news! My colleagues and I have been working on solving the structures of these proteins for the last 5 years and more. If HNers have any questions, I'll try answering to the best of my knowledge.
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by shiven 12y ago
Nice going! Anything to kill the drudgery of washing clothes. I hope the next such venture is making dishwashers! Together with this, it will help make life less dreary for many folks, mainly women (since this is India we are talking about)
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by shiven 12y ago
The failure, nay the pigheaded refusal, to learn from history. BitCoin is faux money and will likely be recorded as the "Dutch Tulip Bubble" [0] of our times. Intentions and wishful thinking alone are not enough to create revolu
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by shiven 12y ago
The key is trying to work with the grumpy people and reassure them that you're not trying to take their article away from them. In my view, that right there is the problem with Wikipedia. Just because someone puts up content on a &qu
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by shiven 12y ago
Alternatively: http://emacsformacosx.com/ Easy-peasy!!! (But, clearly, not as secure as verifying the sources and compiling yourself.)
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by shiven 12y ago
Since you asked for speculation , I'd say the NSA. Well, why the hell not, eh!
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by shiven 12y ago
Let's not forget the timeless classic by Major General Smedley Butler: War Is A Racket[0]. [0] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
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by shiven 12y ago
Looks closer to BrainFuck[0] than any other language. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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by shiven 12y ago
All I have to say is, Thank you Guardian!!! And, oh, screw this app. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Or any other claimed secure/anonymous app, that does not have the "Moxie Marlinspike seal of approval"(TM)!
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by shiven 12y ago
"she's not feeling well, but is below the temperature threshold established by experts" AND she was in close contact with a known Ebola infected patient? There, now your question is factually complete.
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by shiven 12y ago
My suspicion exactly! The bubble is about to burst. Maybe within 6-12 months? Funding science isn't for the faint of heart (or wallets). There is no easy 'pivot' if the 10mil (minimum) you invested in a non-software start-up
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by shiven 12y ago
What about using nanomaterials as seed/substrate for crystal growth? Design the unit cell to the exact dimensions? Or use the (imperfect) GaN crystals to grow incrementally better crystals over multiple rounds? I work on biomolecular c
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by shiven 12y ago
I'd gladly try that out for personal use! But it is an entirely different manner when your purchase has to be approved by a pyramid of bureaucrats and more importantly, buying things at online auctions (eBay, gasp!) or even otherwise (
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by shiven 12y ago
Or, Zprezto! I like it more than oh-my-zsh, in terms of speed.
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by shiven 12y ago
Flicker. Anything less than 120Hz can give severe eye strain and headaches over long (30-60 min) work sessions. As to the LCD replacements, the anti-aliasing is just not as smooth (yes, I'm being subjective) as on the CRTs. Perhaps,
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by shiven 12y ago
In my X-ray crystallography/structural biology lab we still use CRTs from over a decade old Silicon Graphics systems. They are the only displays that can do a 120Hz horizontal scan, which is darn critical when you are looking at protei
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by shiven 12y ago
Thanks for providing some "hard data" and backing it up with references! It always irks me when people make such armchair-social-economist claims (which IMO, are ultimately only populism driven). As to ISRO: you've made me fe
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by shiven 12y ago
Aaron did what he did knowing the consequences, my best guess is that at some point after he started regretting his decision. So, your "guess" is as good as mine, or any of my fellow armchair analysts on HN? Are you sure Aaron e
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by shiven 12y ago
I think you are grossly underplaying the consequences of that plea deal. Six months (or less) in federal prison would still have him labeled as a "convict" and he would have lost numerous civil rights (voting being one) as a resul
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by shiven 12y ago
Color me skeptic, but this smells just like the previous bait-and-switch to me. Why should we trust Zuckerberg to not pull another all-your-data-are-belong-to-me crap like countless times he did with FB and not f--k user's privacy all
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by shiven 12y ago
Next time I'm visiting the West coast, I'll take you up on that offer!
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by shiven 12y ago
The lipid hypothesis did it. The idea that fat and dietary cholesterol cause obesity and heart disease. That's only half the story though. The factually wrong part (fat in == fat deposited). The other part, that is still factually co
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by shiven 12y ago
Hear, hear! Splendid work so far Adam! For the record, I've liked your work since the days of the first Square video. If I were Roger Ebert, I'd say: "Two thumbs up!". Now, one last question, who do I write to for an aut

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